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Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Delaney Hall hunger strikers and their families are still asking for help with everything from legal bills to groceries. Verified fundraisers in the thread
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Fuck Tucker Carlson, fuck his apology tour, and fuck anything he says.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Hungarian prime minister-to-be Péter Magyar
Photo of a man in a blue windbreaker standing with a wooden e-bike in what appears to be a park setting. Other people are in the background and on the side of the freame.
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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"My experience of driving less has reminded me that when we can, it’s worth questioning our habits and resisting the instinct to do what is most comfortable – because what’s comfortable doesn’t necessarily make us feel happy or free." www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more
Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off from the seasons and nature
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
From the back seat of the car, when asked if she likes to take the car or the bike to go places: "The bike.... Remember when the road was digged up and I could ride my bike on the road!? I can't anymore because the cars might run me over."
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Chicago, Bike Grid Now! @bikegridnow.org · 23/03/2026
HUGE NEWS. We have a state bill; SB3478 - SCA1. Under the bill, CMAP will develop a blueprint for a bike and pedestrian-prioritized street network including 450 miles of safe, slow streets in Chicago and surrounding communities. WE NEED YOU TO SUBMIT WITNESS SLIPS. ilga.gov/Senate/heari... (1/3)
Bike Grid Now Applauds Introduction of Landmark Legislation to Advance Regional Safe Cycling Network

Chicago, Bike Grid Now! is pleased to announce the introduction of new state legislation to lay the groundwork for a comprehensive regional bike grid. The bill SB3478, introduced by Illinois State Senator Mike Simmons (IL-07), amends the Illinois Highway Code to direct the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) to develop a blueprint for a bike and pedestrian-prioritized street network including 450 miles of safe, slow streets in Chicago with additional infrastructure in bordering municipalities.
The proposed Safe Cycling Network Plan would prioritize connections between community areas, retail corridors, major attractions, institutions, as well as existing and planned infrastructure to create a cohesive system for all ages and abilities across 10% of city streets and neighboring suburbs. Under the proposed framework, at least 35% of the network would be located in community areas experiencing economic hardship,1 with additional prioritization given to high-crash corridors and areas lacking existing safe streets infrastructure.
“We know how dangerous and inequitable a patchwork system is,” said Bike Grid Now organizer Nik Hunder. “Fragmentation means cyclists, pedestrians, and people on scooters or other micromobility devices are forced to navigate life-threatening gaps in protective road treatments that are not equitably distributed economically and racially across the city. It’s time to make our streets safer for all Chicagoans – not just those in the most privileged and politically responsive neighborhoods.”
The benefi ts also reach across the state. Safer city roads drive state-wide economic growth, advance environmental goals, boost tourism, and decrease costs associated with traffi c crashes and deaths. State legislators leading on this issue understand that strategic investment in urban infrastructure is a life-saving measure that supports the intere…
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 24/02/2026
The only sane response is to throw snowballs back WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
City transportation official opts for white line and signage instead of gate to keep their baby off the stairs.
baby near staircase with no baby sign and white line in front of stairs.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 26/01/2026
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
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Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 25/01/2026
So NOW can we have that conversation that the United States having the world's largest carceral state, the most (and most heavily armed) cops, the most prisoners, and the most cages, has never been about safety and always been about institutional racism and suppressing dissent?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/01/2026
Flash flooding, very cold and unsettled weather expected across Palestine, according to the Meteorological Department.
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Displaced people in Gaza brace for harsh weather warning in flimsy tents
Flash flooding, very cold and unsettled weather expected across Palestine, according to the Meteorological Department.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/11/2025
Logan Square, you're alright
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
What's the best use of rocks as a climate solution? Is it grinding them up and spreading them on fields, or is it throwing them at billionaires? Let's go to this meeting and decide.
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Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 25/10/2025
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
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Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 10/10/2025
Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing
Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This is the 2nd anniversary of the start of a genocide that made Gaza the most dangerous place on earth for children— that has raised a mirror to the rot at the core of our world. Never has it been clearer that none of us are free until Palestine is free. inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
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On Parenthood and Genocide
A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.
Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
there's no such thing as "transgender ideology." the only ppl who think that's even a thing are the far right & conspiracy theorists. & given that Gr0ypers have been feuding w/Kirk in recent months, sounds like something one of them might engrave on a bullet... juliaserano.medium.com/gender-ideol...
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“Gender Ideology” Is a Conspiracy Theory
In a recent essay, The Cass Review, WPATH Files, and the Perpetual Debate over Gender-Affirming Care, I made the case that “gender…
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
Average nitrogen dioxide concentration in Paris has fallen significantlyHer proposals have faced pushback — from right-leaning politicians, a car owners’ association and suburban commuters, who say that targeting cars makes their lives more difficult.

But last month, Parisians voted in a referendum to turn an additional 500 streets over to pedestrians. A year earlier, Paris had moved to sharply increase parking fees for SUVs, forcing drivers to pay three times more than they would for smaller cars. The city has also turned a bank of the Seine from a busy artery into a pedestrian zone and banned most car traffic from the shopping boulevard of Rue de Rivoli.

Carlos Moreno, a professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a former adviser to the city, said the French capital has developed “an urban policy based on well-being.”
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The thing to understand about Chicago is that the people who live here love this fucking city, and we will defend it. Always.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/07/2025
I really hope complex life has formed elsewhere in the universe and that it worked out better than it has on earth
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/06/2025
On this day more than 50 years ago, Sylvia Rivera climbed onto a stage to advocate for incarcerated trans people at a Pride rally and demanded trans inclusion in the fight for rights. Hearing her speech is important 50 years later. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Why You Need to Hear the Speech That Sylvia Rivera Wasn’t Allowed To Give
Sylvia Rivera was met with jeers and boos at one of the very first Pride Parades on this day in 1973. Here’s why that matters now.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 22/06/2025
If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.
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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Iran S04 E06
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Free ebooks from @haymarketbooks.org, including Border and Rule by @harshawalia.bsky.social, which is one of the most important books I've ever read. Download and read, fam.
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Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 06/06/2025
In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children
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Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead in a car accident.

Gastonia, N.C., police charged the parents with involuntary manslaughter charges after allowing the victim and his brother to walk home alone from a nearby grocery store.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Some books to read this summer if you haven't yet: No Shortcuts by Jane McAlevey Abolish Rent by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis Saving Our Own Lives by Shira Hassan Deep Care by Angela Hume Mutual Aid by Dean Spade Let This Radicalize You by me and Mariame Kaba (Yes, I'm including our book)
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Leia BlueSkywalker @blueskye2025.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
To consider: It's a choice to use the word "accuser" over "victim," a choice in the message you're sending. It's one you may not even realize you're making, but you make it nonetheless.
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 14/04/2025
If we taxed billionaires out of existence and used that money to make sure everyone has what they need, those former billionaires would still be very rich. But they don't want to be “very rich.” They want to be “insanely, unimaginably rich." And now we can’t afford anything.
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Retired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I cannot overstate the importance of reading books, particularly novels by respected authors, for critical thinking skills and reading comprehension. If the big gun novelists don't interest you, start small and work your way up. Or read whatever interests you. Just read. Or listen. It's all books.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Chappell Roan, welcome to The War on Cars.
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If you, too, want to add "We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition" to your cart, it's 40% off at @haymarketbooks.org right now!! ❤️ www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2446-w... Caregiving is a central of movement-building in this moment--and always.
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We Grow the World Together
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
“The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.” — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (p. 55, 1962) h/t J.S. Park
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It will be easy to fall into a pattern of dunking & reacting in these times. Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime & it is not enough. Refuse to abandon vulnerable people. Build a rebellious culture of care. If you need help, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book to assist you.
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Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care a book by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Harsha Walia, et al.
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building powe...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/01/2025
BREAKING: A Gaza ceasefire agreement is due to go into effect on Sunday, potentially bringing an end to the nearly 16 months of genocidal violence.
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Gaza Ceasefire Deal Announced After 466 Days of Genocide and 46,000 Dead
The deal is slated to begin on Sunday, Qatar’s prime minister said, beginning with a 6-week cessation of hostilities.
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Hope @hoothoothope.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
MLK Day ride! Bring some hand warmers...
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