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Lena G R

@lenagr.bsky.social
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Chicagoan for sustainability, cultural diversity, & queer rights. She/her/hers 🚲🐶🌳🌻🌈🌊🍻🚉🏕️♻️

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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 5h
We're about to hear a load of B.S. about bipartisanship, affordability, and energy. All in service of AI tech, energy, & finance. Not people. We will hear little to nothing about the harms this bill will cause to the West's public lands, waters and wildlife, and communities. Presser at 12:30 ET.
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Heinrich, Lee, Capito and Whitehouse Press Conference to Discuss Bipartisan Permitting Reform Deal
YouTube video by Senate Energy Dems
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Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com · 29/09/2026
Tonight (9/29) at Clarendon Park from 5:30-7p. The Park District wants to create additional rules for e-bikes in its parks as allowed by the new micrmobility bill. I expect they may be tighter than the bill passed. Come tell them to leave e-bikes alone. www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/micromobilit...
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Micromobility in the Parks
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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Somewhere in Evanston perhaps? @evanstontransit.bsky.social
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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do TERFs live in a world without ukuleles and modeling clay? A world without sunsets and Mondrians? No lectures on estorerica to watch, no psychedelic soul albums to listen to. How discouraging that must be, to spend one's life screaming at the sun.
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
First CTA board meeting of the NITA era was this morning! I kinda commandeered another's thread to live-tweet some of the conversation, so I'm sharing here for easy reference lol Highlights: ridership is growing, esp on weekends, frequent buses are helping, & there's hunger for dedicated bus lanes
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Bike Lane Uprising @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At the request of Juan's family, please join us for a ghost bike installation & vigil this Saturday at the crash site. Juan Martin Márquez was killed biking to work last Monday by a hit and run, & the driver who is still at large.
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I got to read my little book and sip my little coffee and watch the little leaves fall outside the window and not deal with traffic and it was great. We NITA give more people more options to take transit ;)
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Traffic violence is rampant. Drivers are smashing into buildings and killing pedestrians & cyclists, while the police have abdicated any responsibility. They kept just the racism and decided that the enforcement that helped keep people safe wasn’t their job anymore
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Baby turtles hatched on my block today! #turtChi
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Latinos are the economic engine of the city" and we have been critical to Chicago's growth & vibrancy for generations. Happy hispanic heritage month & Fuck ICE blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/17/b...
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Belmont Cragin Now Chicago's Largest Latino Neighborhood As Enclaves Like Little Village Change
Researchers found the city's Latino population is key to the city's economy and growth and now lives outside traditionally majority-Latino neighborhoods.
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Today’s the new Metra & Pace board meetings! Meet your new suburban transit leadership Metra here: metrarr.granicus.com/player/event...
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Board Meetings: CRD at 9:00 AM l NIRCRC at 9:15 AM
Live and Recorded Public meetings of Board Meetings: CRD at 9:00 AM l NIRCRC at 9:15 AM for Metra Railroad
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a good piece from @jeva.bsky.social but has a glaring omission: the role of tech & energy elites—amplified by centrist “Abundance” & “Ecomodern” funders & think tanks—very purposefully attacking progressive environmental NGOs to marginalize our power & influence.
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Americans Still Love the Environment
Heatmap’s latest poll adds urgency to one of the biggest questions facing the climate: Can the environmental movement come back?
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What the absolute fucking fuck
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
GOP party of death
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
To be clear, the #WARonWALKING is a big tent that includes the war on safe and efficient urban biking, on workable and well connected public transit, on all ages and abilities accessibility, and more. It’s a war against better cities with more real options, and a war for car dependency. #UrbanTruth
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Got ghosted by a 49X at rush hour so this 49 is crowded
Lots of people sit and stand on a Cta western bus
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New @nitachicago.bsky.social board meeting now! Politicians giving celebratory speeches: Rep Buckner references civil rights fights for bus freedom, Chicago CPZ says easy to have ideas but hard to make real, IDOT Biagi says we now have transit in all 102 IL counties! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFnw...
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NITA Board of Directors Meeting: September 10, 2026
YouTube video by NITA Board Meetings
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026
the legislative and cultural attacks on trans people started the SECOND the christian right needed to pivot from gay marriage post-obergefell. it’s an op and none of it stands up to a critical reading that incorporates the known science about transition
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How Trans Kids Became Political Targets
Opponents of LGBTQ+ rights began shifting their focus away from marriage equality after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 landmark decision in Obergefell v.
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Truck into pipeline 😬 @carintobuilding.bsky.social www.wpr.org/news/enbridg...
A screenshot quote from the article reads Enbridge estimates around 31,000 barrels, or 1.3 million gallons, of natural gas liquids containing mainly propane and butane vaporized into the atmosphere after a subcontractor’s unoccupied truck rolled onto an excavation site, striking the pipeline on sitan road near Saxon.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Welcome aboard NITA! We’re so glad to have ya
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Happy Birthday: Don't Miss the Party Train
Alt: Happy Birthday: Don't Miss the Party Train
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 01/09/2026
New York’s congestion pricing program has resulted in a statistically significant reduction in travel times for EMS vehicles
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Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services
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NCS Enjoyer @fixingnorthamerica.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Happy NITA day everyone!
You there boy, what day is it?
Why, it’s NITA day, sir!
Then I haven’t missed it!
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Andrew @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Every single article about solar power and battery tech is like "We put solar panels on the Hellmouth and the Hellmouth is now reciting poetry and smells like peppermint and teaching young orphaned birds how to fly. Also we can power a small city block."
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Mississippi River mavens been cross-dressing for ages 💅
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Learn more about a key #climate solution next week on Sept 10 ⚡️🔋 Energy Storage 101: What is it and why does it matter for my community?” www.mobilize.us/greenlightac...
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Energy Storage 101: What is it and why does it matter for my community? · Greenlight Action
Join the Illinois Environmental Council, Union of Concerned Scientists, Citizens Climate Lobby, Faith in Place, Greenlight America, and Sierra Club for a virtual session that will cover what energy st...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I never would have predicted that cutting 20% of the staff at the federal agency that makes sure our food is safe would result in a bunch of our food being declared unsafe.
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League of American Bicyclists @bikeleague.org · 27/08/2026
ACTION ALERT 🚨 Right now, the Senate is considering adding language to the transportation reauthorization bill to restrict bike lanes. Tell Congress: funding for bike safety projects MUST continue! Take action: action.bikeleague.org/page/101946/...
Action alert graphic. A man holds a sign next to a bike lane that says "Everyone deserves safe streets!" Below the image is white text on a black background: "Tell congress: Funding for Bike Safety Projects MUST Continue! bikeleague.org/action-center"Action alert graphic. White text on a black background: "Congress Must Save America's Bike Lanes
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy erased the data that shows bike lanes reduce crashes and don’t cause congestion. Then he asked Congress to defund all bike lanes — and even remove bike lanes from busy roads.

Now, Congress may be listening: the Senate is considering adding language to the transportation reauthorization bill that would restrict what kinds of roads could have bike lanes on them at all. 

We need everyone in Congress to hear us clearly: bike lanes save lives and bicyclists have a right to ride on the roads and get home safely. 

Tell your elected representatives: vote NO on any transportation reauthorization bill that would restrict the ability of federal funding to be used on bike safety projects. bikeleague.org/action-center"
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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Researchers in Chicago tracked neighborhood-level tree canopy over two decades and discovered something startling: “Each year-to-year percent increase in canopy was associated with around a 10 percent reduction in mortality." Keeping mature trees alive can help keep people alive -and cooler, too.
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Climate: Saving Old Trees Might Save Lives
We know that trees are good for cities. A new study finds that mature trees are especially good.
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Damn that is incredible
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is really cute 🥰
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🇲🇽🎉🌎
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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
DID YOU KNOW: Immigration is a very good thing, and we should be facilitating it on a massive scale.
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Community meeting for the new municipal bus station is underway. Most of the comments/questions have been productive and forward thinking 🚍
People sit in rows of chairs in a tall community space, with several people on stage giving a presentation.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
if avoiding an AI future constitutes a ‘generational L’ then christ just let me take the L www.patreon.com/raxkingisdea...
If an Al future is what I'm getting left behind from, then Christ, just leave me behind.
A girl can only pivot so much, hoss, and I hung up my pivotin' boots some time ago. I don't make videos even though that was supposedly the future of writing ten years ago — I mean, I guess I do, but they're little banjo practice videos for my friends, not expressions of a desperate careerist impulse. I use social media with the attention-crazed dopesickness of an addict, not the care and forethought of a professional, as any cursory read of my posts will confirm. I'm a writer by trade — a creative, as you might say — and here you are, running a business you don't even understand into the ground, deskilling my trade and expecting a thank you when you explain how you're doing it. If I don't devalue myself the way you continually devalue me, you warn, l'll be left behind. Okay, says I! Quit making it my problem and go! The dust you leave me in will settle, and in the meantime, I will keep doing my work in much the way I've done it since | first became literate.
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Growing up in the flatlands of Chicago, I thought bridges counted as hills, and goddamn do we have some fine bridges
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Omg I was just at the Illinois railway museum last week and it was sooo cool
Big train wheels dwarf visitors to the Illinois railway museumAn interurban sleeping train car from Peoria sits next to a Skokie swift train from decades later, with an informative plaque between themPassengers ride an old Elgin aurora interurban train around the museum grounds while a conductor collects ticketsOne of Chicago’s first streetcars is at the museum, painted yellow. This cutie was pulled by horses!
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Morherfuckers
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State Smart Transportation Initiative @innovativedot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
75% of Americans support having bike lanes where they live and 33% want more. The support comes as the U.S. DOT redirects $1.73 billion from cycling improvements to city streets. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US push to defund ‘DEI bike lanes’ will make roads less safe, advocates say
Trump administration boasts of cutting $1.73bn already allocated for cycling improvements to city streets
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Whhyyyyyy am I still in town this weekend? Fuck the air and water show, such an assault on the senses, glorification of violence, and waste of resources. There’s such a wonderful breeze outside today, its finally not raining, and I have to keep the damn windows shut😭
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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
a thread of Chicago bikes for a pal having a rough week Mayor Daley on a tandem bike at Odgen Park in 1956
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Michele Reeves @rethinkplaces.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Start enforcing anti-trust laws, especially Robinson-Patman. Most people don’t know that stopping enforcement of this one law is what decimated local grocery. Just one of a zillion ways rich people and monopolies are ruining America by destroying one small business at a time.
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Restoring Fair Competition in Grocery Retailing
A path to ending food deserts, reviving local grocery stores, and lowering prices.
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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sharing this one because we don't read enough about what's happening in the lives of trans people - this is thorough and tragic.
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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)
Is Kansas just the beginning?
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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Chicago Transit Authority’s board of directors approved an array of new efforts aimed at aiding passengers who need shelter or healthcare, as well as new crisis and community violence intervention programs.
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CTA Board Approves Slate of Social Service Outreach Efforts Focused on Violence Intervention, Homelessness
The Chicago Transit Authority’s board of directors approved an array of new efforts aimed at aiding passengers who need shelter or healthcare, as well as new crisis and community violence intervention...
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Rail Passengers Association @railpassengers.org · 12/08/2026
Sean Jeans-Gail, Rail Passengers VP of Government Affairs & Policy, gets you caught up on the "dirty" surface transportation funding extension passed by the Senate last week and what it means for the IIJA's advanced appropriations. twp.ai/E5FDT5
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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My intern painted this sweet card as a thank you for the summer, what an adorable depiction of the Metra electric along Lake Michigan! 🛤️❤️🌊
Water color painting of Chicago’s Metra electric line along the Lake Michigan shore on a bright sunny day
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