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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 6h

One advantage to Illinois is our only competitive elections are in the March primary. (School board excepted)

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 6h

The GOP message is just “Look! Transgender!”, huh?

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 6h

Possibly the worst part of the Sox playing Cleveland is having to see Ohio political ads.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 6h

I rip on Oak Park, but I did have an experience a couple years ago where I was eating outside at the Potbelly on Lake and an old white guy was walking past with his friend pointing up and saying “see those new towers, those generate property taxes that let us have nice things here!”

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 7h

They don’t know the Tigers had a better run differential than either of these teams.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 14h

My kids started singing the Liberty Bibberty jingle, which is actually worse than gambling.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My wife insists I mute the commercials between innings, and I can’t argue against that rule.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And ending prerogative and building public/subsidized housing won’t touch the greatest areas of school segregation, the west and south sides that are the greatest victims of disinvestment.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You think that alone would do it? That’s like raising the water level by pissing in the ocean, and the city is struggling badly to actually build any type of affordable housing without serious cost overruns. Again, your initial post to jump in here was about “busing” is that part of your solution?

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So again, I’ll ask you a third time: how should Chicago address this?

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Economically, this is, in fact true. And you personally (if your profile is any indication) live in the part of the city that had the greatest economic benefit to that segregation, so spare me the indignant performance of feeling bad about that.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Show me where I’m “defending” it, and be specific. Again, what is your plan to address it in Chicago? No one is going to give you karma for acting offended? There have been multiple examples of desegregation attempts here over the last couple decades, to mixed results.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So what would your plan be? Go on…

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I mean, Daley the Elder prevented a ton of white flight here by convincing the federal government to look the other way over Chicago NOT busing, if we’re honest about this city’s history.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Because I’m hardly an Ohio expert, but some of the best high schools in this city are majority black. They are just SE or have SE programs… something the authors of the original piece want to roll back in the name of equity.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Credit to Ariel and Block Club for actually looking into the one sale that had apparently happened under this ordinance… and it was not by a tenant org, but by a couple who already had the means to buy the building at market rate themselves. So yeah… big stretch to credit the law here.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So sounds like you are just going to use that as an excuse not to take individual action, I guess. Tell me, did the school you attended have an application?

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ok, but would mean that all mascots are furries? Does that include Southpaw? Bennie the Bull? I need to know the philosophical and theological rules here.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So what school did you choose for your family, Ms. Lakeview in profile pic?

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Eventually the pendulum will swing back in their favor. Seems inevitable.

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Ruben Tisch @rubentisch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You are just wrong. This is glorious. This is soccer in America and it's wonderful.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I mean, you jumped into the thread to call for busing while living in a city that’s less than 7% black, so yeah I’m going to point that out.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Though one of the more diverse parts of Seattle… so there’s that. 🤷‍♂️

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well… are they? Look, you’re welcome to disclose whatever you’d like if you’d like to have this discussion. But a quick search of your profile says you haven’t lived here in decades and now reside in the lab of bad progressive policy that is Seattle.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well I can tell you that I give you plenty of (Latino majority) options around here that would be more than happy to have the enrollment. If you truly want to send your white or Asian kid to a predominantly black or Latino school that is very much a thing you can do.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Any choice-based system is going to suffer a bit from the problem for less-involved parents. Really the only families attending my current zoned school are the ones who aren’t paying much attention to it. But anyone advocating for limiting choice isn’t going to stay in office long.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mayoral control is honestly what I’d prefer, even considering the disaster that is our current mayor.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well there’s nothing stopping you from sending your own kids to a predominantly Black/Latino school to start to fight back against that segregation. God knows said schools have room. So much of these discussions involve people insisting *other* families be the ones to make that happen.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well, what made them desirable in the first place?

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I mean, if you have a system that can manage this coherently, go for it, but I don’t see a coherent system in what you’re proposing. You’re just making a system where the most desirable schools simply become lottery magnets. No one that’s any more fair.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So we will be playing the lottery next year in order to get ourselves into a decent school next year. That’s my goal. CPS hasn’t done a good job managing the schools in my neighborhood.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

…students who enrolled there. The school has lost and additional 100 students since. The principal has since left and the head of the future parents group who complained that they were losing students to magnets got her kids into a neighborhood school in Lincoln Park.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m zoned to a seriously underenrolled school that only remains open because of hubris on the part of the city’s education activists. We toured years ago and the place was barely one classroom/grade. The principal fully admitted low enrollment was negatively affecting the options for the…

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It sounds like a boon for private schools and you’re ignoring second order effects. NYC tried banning individual school “friends of” donations. It simply caused donations to dry up.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In theory you can choice into any neighborhood school here. I imagine that no different in LA. Seats are finite in any situation. Your “solution” doesn’t account for the fact there are only so many classrooms in the Hawthornes and the Burleys of the world.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That’s not any different than our choice system here. It’s the finite number of spots that are the problems.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

that’s also true here. Test-in schools are the exception, but there are only a very small number of them at the elementary level.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And actually looking back, I think we talked about it a while ago but never finished the conversation.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So I’ve seen you and Miriam make this argument before, but what’s your alternative solution? Something that resembles NYC’s middle school lottery?

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like I said, there are plenty of ever so progressive people here in Logan. Not so many who are willing to sign their kid up as the school that only enrolled 14 kindergartners last year.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That said, In do love riding Cortland now that it’s closed, potholes excepted.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean, there’s a plan in the works to build a bike/pedestrian bridge a couple hundred feet away. (And given what a clusterfuck Cortland has been, it’ll probably be done before Cortland opens to cars anyway)

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean, if people honestly believe that underenrolled schools aren’t actually an issue, I’m happy to ask who will volunteer to enroll their own children into said schools.

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someone affiliated with Raise Your Hand on the former bird website once was arguing with me that moving from mayoral control to an elected board would make CPS decisions “less political”. I think about that a lot.

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Mike Anderson @vumander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mike Tomlin got an MLS stadium before the Revs did

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Living in this fractured political moment, I’m just glad that we have bipartisan consensus that all problems at the VA can be solved with more paperwork.

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