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Love people, drink good coffee, and bike everywhere. I care a lot about cities (and 🎢s) | HIV+ | fighting for better streets @betterstreetschicago.org | My posts are mine

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 46m
Only northbound AND doesn’t go north of Wacker lmfao
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 4h
In our latest for @unraveledpress.com, @peoplesfabric.bsky.social and I tracked months of ICE using Chicago police parking lots, in defiance of a mayoral executive order barring immigration enforcement operations in city-owned lots. Some of these incidents happened in full view of CPD officers:
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In plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operations
Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 28/09/2026
The Google Earth images of Rafah are just… Holy hell, the total devastation is abundantly clear.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 26/09/2026
Not short enough.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 25/09/2026
Mother Nature said Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Alder Andre Vasquez, Political Account @andrefor40th.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today, I, along with @daniellaspata.bsky.social and an overwhelming number of our colleagues, introduced the expansion of the Smart Streets pilot! When this passes, the map with be citywide, and it will be an ongoing program, not a pilot! We will also partner with the Mayor’s office to budget it out
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To be fair, this is exactly what people said about Uber and Lyft. And there have been studies about how much more people drive when they don't have to worry about parking on one or both ends of their trip. There's little reason to think driverless cars won't lead to an explosion in VMT in cities.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 23/09/2026
One clarification is this article makes it seem like the contract extension has already been done, but this is a proposed contract extension that was introduced to City Council today. It will need to be voted on and approved in both the Committee on Pedestrian & Traffic Safety then full council.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oy. In a world where most US cities have barely scratched the surface of what bikes and transit can do — and where the federal government is actively hostile to such projects — we're a long way from driverless cars being a nice little "missing middle" of urban mobility.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 23/09/2026
At City Hall and a landlord providing public comment just had the nerve to refer to the Protecting Renters Oridnance as Trumpian....
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Better Government Association @bettergov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: Which Chicago city departments stayed within budget? 💵 Most stayed within budget in 2025. 💵 One big exception: Chicago Police Department, which outspent its nearly $2 billion budget by roughly $146 million.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 22/09/2026
Worth repeating that CTA is not the barrier to bus priority in Chicago, they are very much in favor. We need Mayor Johnson, CDOT, and alders to make it a priority!
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Director Alvarez asks what you'd do if you could do something bold to improve transit? CTA answers dedicated bus lanes, we're way behind our peer municipalities. A bold goal of 100-150 miles of dedicated lanes would be transformative. Ridership #s showing people want to ride the bus! 🚌👏
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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is apartheid.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran’s cowardice and complicity means his entire tour has fallen apart as all of his opening acts AND his tour band have withdrawn from the remaining tour dates. As it should be. He could have taken a stand, but he instead decided to lie and claim he’s “apolitical” to try and save his tour.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 14/09/2026
Free Palestine. 🇵🇸
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 13/09/2026
A thread actually worth your time. ⬇️
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12/09/2026
Happening now in the Chicago suburb of Franklin Park: Community members have gathered to commemorate the 1-year anniversary of the death of local resident Silverio Villegas González, whom an as-yet unidentified ICE agent shot and killed on this block at the start of "Operation Midway Blitz."
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In the NITA era we need to shoot higher than “RETVRN” but sometimes there is stuff that we “forgot” how to do, or more accurately stuff we still know how to do but no one was held accountable for keeping it going. NITA can’t do everything, but there’s low-hanging fruit already on the ground.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 10/09/2026
Apparently there were some board members who came into today not knowing that there was an ED vacancy, despite it being extremely public knowledge, with official press releases and everything.
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NITA Chicago @nitachicago.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
After more than 20 years at the agency, including 12 as Executive Director, Leanne Redden is retiring as RTA transitions to NITA. nita.illinois.gov/about-rta/pr... During her time leading the RTA, Leanne secured historic transit funding and helped lay the groundwork for the NITA Act.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 02/09/2026
We really live on one of the most idiotic timelines.
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I want to reiterate something I saw someone else say: the Democratic Party leadership has not told its voters what exactly their plan is, after getting one or both Houses in November. What exactly, specifically, do they intend to do? Even given a razor-thin lead, what do they intend to *try*?
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 31/08/2026
NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 28/08/2026
Planned by who? What is the mechanism? How will the planning process be accountable? What engagement has been done in bordering communities to decide what their “grid” should look like and to get suburban buy-in? Who takes ownership of the results and how are they actionable?
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 27/08/2026
I’ve seen some commentary around Zohran recently in comparison with other electeds and folks talking about his upbringing meaning he’s better media-trained than what we’re used to. But I actually find his style to be the antithesis of media-trained. He just talks like a fucking person lol.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 26/08/2026
I think we should build a gondola to O’Hare.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 26/08/2026
“What do you think about the O’Hare Flyer proposal?” I think the business community was *totally* MIA during last year’s transit funding crisis and has repeatedly over the past two decades proposed failed transportation ideas and instead should listen to people who have better transportation ideas.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 25/08/2026
Being a little more like Dolly everyday would be an honorable way to live one's life. More than a legend and icon, she lived her life with goodness and love. ❤️‍🩹
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I think that Dolly Parton was, for a lot of people, an ambassador of the "good" values people think of about the South: kindness, hospitality, can-do spirit, sharp and witty and down to earth. I think for a segment of people, too, she was theantithesis of a lot of noxious masculine country stuff.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 25/08/2026
Dear god no why 😭
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 24/08/2026
Major Mamdani L Hey @brandon4chicago.bsky.social I know a project that you could 1-up him on if you’d only stop telling transportation advocates that we need to compromise — when our position IS the compromise. Make DLSD a transit boulevard, not an expressway.
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Better Streets Chicago @betterstreetschicago.org · 24/08/2026
What if we made the conscious choice to give ourselves the space every day? Not just on special occasions, but to choose ourselves over cars every day.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 23/08/2026
Restroom keys should be abolished, especially for food establishments. No, I do not want to touch the sticky spoon or whatever kitchen utensils you’ve strung it to that Jimmy before me gave back to you without washing his hands and that you hung up and returned to work without washing yours either.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 22/08/2026
As a child of a pastor I will *never* be able to overcome my distrust of pastors, especially those in progressive spaces who utilize their position as a shield.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 20/08/2026
There has to be a gas leak in the editorial board room.
Just as Michael J. McMurray, Chicago's commissioner of aviation, strikes us as one of the most capable and respected members of Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration, so Sean P. Duffy, Donald Trump's Secretary of Transportation, fills that role in Donald
Trump's motley crew.
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We might have FINALLY met our match… #WorldBollardAssociation
One of the biggest dogs in the world pulls a tiny bollard almost out the ground.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 20/08/2026
That's a real rough burn when the average Twitter user these days is a Nazi. Does Chicago need a troll for a mayor? Guess we'll never find out!
A tweet from @liamstantonchi says "Bluesky, IRL"

His tweet is quoting another from @_CharlesPreston reading "Damn. Mayor Johnson just pissed off an entire room of South Shore residents, South Chicago residents, organizers, and activists" with a video of a crowd of people in an auditorium with organizers and Brandon Johnson on a stage with a projected image saying "Community Over Quantum"
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Democrats this month flipped two school boards that had been drawing a ton of attention for ultraconservative policies. One in Florida. One in Tennessee. One in a county Trump won by 18, the other in a county he won by 20.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 18/08/2026
trixie mattel remixing the theme song to little house on the prairie has me absolutely 💀
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 17/08/2026
Hakeem Jeffries is an enemy to the American people.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 17/08/2026
lol isn’t Bulwark actual Republicans.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 15/08/2026
When the quantum site was first being announced, I remember some making the case to me that this was a historic investment in the community and somehow couldn’t or wouldn’t see the cracks forming in public sentiment. Now, we’re at the point of MBJ being booed out of a room of South Shore residents.
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Charles Preston (@_CharlesPreston) on X
Damn. Mayor Johnson just pissed off an entire room of South Shore residents, South Chicago residents, organizers, and activists.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I just watched a Waymo, with people inside, drive through a police barricade for a street festival. And the police couldn’t do anything about it. The Waymo wouldn’t stop. Safety first, amirite????
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 15/08/2026
Maybe Chicago leftists aren’t being taken seriously right now because one second they’ll shout from the rooftops about reform as co-optation to suppress revolution and the next they’ll call you a narcissist for daring to criticize Brandon Johnson. Pick a lane, hun 🥴
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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Alrighty I am at the ad hoc NITA meeting, a bit late. Public comment on safety - @itskylelucas.com is warning that standing up a new police force may be so expensive that the RTA cannot meet its mandate to get better service, and that NITA should try other, cheaper, approaches first
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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 12/08/2026
Another day, another shelf cloud sweeps into Chicago #ILwx #WXsky
A thunderstorm approaches Chicago as seen by a shelf cloud behind the Chicago skyline. Looking southwest from Navy Pier
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 12/08/2026
All I herd was "congestion pricing is paying for it" We need congestion pricing in Chicago – and we MUST ensure it is used solely to invest in transit, pedestrian, and cycling infrastructure. With the worst traffic in the nation, imagine what we could do!
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