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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 3h

Candidates for Chicago school board president get real about taming bureaucracy (or not) in their responses to disability justice org Access Living's questionnaire on ADA and special education. board-rule.ghost.io/chicago-scho...

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Chicago School Board Prez Candidates on Special Education

Plus, school funding is based on property taxes, not enrollment. So let's stop telling scary stories about declining birth rates.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 6h

The FOIA Bakery has an op-ed in today's issue of Board Rule where we argue that annual stories about declining enrollment at CPS are actually about white fear

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Chicago School Board Prez Candidates on Special Education

Plus, school funding is based on property taxes, not enrollment. So let's stop telling scary stories about declining birth rates.

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

pretty excited to print these in the risograph studio this week 🪿

a designed image to be a notepad sheet of paper with a blue background, white goose with yellow beaks and black eyes

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i am making more of these to bring with us to our next art in the park pop-up screenprinting stay tuned, details tk 🏵️

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

we now have a volunteer program so i am making pocket notebooks to give our volunteers featured on these notebook covers are risographed CTA school tripper bus routes from 1977

a picture of two folded and standing upright notebook covers, one in orange and one in green with the words, who is this convenient for

a cat tail peeking out in front of them

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

todos necesitamos aire puro 🏵️

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we made art in the park with people today and it was a blast i didn't get to hear about anyone's obsession with squirrels but we did hear about transit, CPS, bathroom access, MAT Asphalt, softball game details and showed a lot of kids how to screenprint catch us next time, it's fun!

a string tied up with marigold screenprints clipped and drying on colorful paper

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

everything in Chicago is great and should be adored so in the spirit of this, it's now called New York Math

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it is CPS Board day and we did file transportation State Complaints today because CPS still doesn't think correctly about student assignment and movement but I didn't come here to talk about that i came here to say that we're going to be making art in McKinley Park this weekend and you are invited!

a picture of marigolds in pink, orange, red and yellow on green stems

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

taking notes for myself, outstanding FOIAs and FOIA lawsuits Agency: Office of Emergency Management and Communications Total FOIAs: 93 Outstanding FOIAs: 2 Open FOIA Lawsuits: 1 Closed (and won) FOIA Lawsuits: 4 FOIA at the Public Access Counselor: 1

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Historian: The cup can teach you a lot of things that you do not want to know

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

alderman sigcho lopez shows up to the cps board meeting to yell about TIF funding, he wants to create a new TIF, it would siphon money away from CPS SEIU demands the City close TIFs so that Black and brown women are not laid off the demands matter and one more place we can see byron the misogynist

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

i am looking at the CTA customer survey satisfaction results and will slowly read through this slide deck as i finish a grant application i might start from the end of this slide deck because that's where they put the demographics of respondents this survey was not open to the public

cta branded slide deck, 2025 fall biannual survey results

released in march 2026

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

when we do FOIA workshops with people, those of us who are meant to be subordinate objects don't say tax the rich we say eat the rich get it right

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R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The FDA has confirmed that the only safe thing left to eat is The Rich. With Duck sauce.

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

i just got an email from the Office of Public Safety Administration acknowledging a FOIA that i filed on May 16, 2023 they want to know if i still want the records

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Where men are treated as strangers with relative indifference to one another, women are regarded as “open persons” in public spaces and are subjected to both nonverbal, verbal, and physical forms of street harassment." when the technocrats plan transit they often leave this part out

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

why are you trying to use your computer

a brown tabby cat on a desk positioned over the keyboard and a computer screen in the background, both are unusable because he is blocking access to both

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

i love it when i get a message from someone and they use exclamation points because then i get to use them back ❕

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

i am working on a grant application while i also do work to pay bills and also review FOIAs and i don't think i stopped to say but we were recently awarded a grant for the work we're doing on bathroom access and honestly yay 🎈

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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Irene Scheinmann (Iraqi, 1933-2023). Lunar Vistas (1985, etching).

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Some of you think "good trouble" means politely reminding folks in power, via established communication channels, that they might possibly maybe be making a mistake. It is very weird behavior. Anyway now I need an untitled goose shirt that says "goose trouble" and also a drink.

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Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 20/08/2026

Yeah, that account jumped into the school closing debate on the side of the Trib.

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

i anticipated the block from the very reactionary, very white transit social media social club i know why transit planners and experts don't survey Others

if your solution is "just tax the rich", great, I'm all in, and I can tell you the best way to take Amtrak to the statehouse to do some lobbying. In the meantime though, we have ways to make our system better tomorrow, and some of us need to focus on that while the movement changes the world.

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

a friend sent me an article about Clare Housing expanding, we used to volunteer at Clare Housing and it is such a great place we would show up and chill with people and make dinner and eat together, a real morale booster for all

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40 years into mission, Clare Housing expands – MyNortheaster.com

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'll dissect this and then go back and explain why I've been thinking about this tax the rich, from the left, only works as a strategy if you believe in your own moral code and think it can't be overwhelmed which is why I've literally never said tax the rich, it doesn't make any sense to me and

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

some good gossip one of these "reporters" tried to talk me down about a white guy he knows in lake forest who was in charge of transportation routing at CPS that guy was doing a bang up job ensuring kids with disabilities didn't get to school and i was working to force CPS into a new procurement

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

there's a certain kind of non-profit that's really interested in press but it doesn't translate to creating pressure for positive material change on the ground and i think i have typically operated opposite to that, preferring positive material change and maybe press catches up

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

waiting for a zwon tag to show up here

a picture of a building with vertical tags on it, downtown Chicago

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

this year, we will take a deep look at how chicago public schools assigns kids with disabilities to school over the last 5 years, we've had to look at IF kids with disabilities get to school and we still also have to monitor that the taxpayer dollar comes into direct conflict with a disabled kid

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

as the school closure moratorium comes to an end, school board candidates will be asked how they will assign resources to kids in the district i think it's really important that we think about it as resource allocation to students and not how we have typically thought of it

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

i am going through free/reduced lunch counts for school districts and libraries in relation to their federal funding for services for my pay the bills job even in places where lunch is free universally, this data still has to be collected i am simultaneously reading CPS magnet school grant and...

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 20/08/2026

This guy's thread is actually an object lesson in why NT parents of disabled kids are not reliable allies: many of them, like this guy, focus the conversation not on the impact on their child and what their child needs, but on the impact their child's disability had ON THEM.

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

she's still there, walking from union station

a very up close picture of the Sears Tower from across the street on the block

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sunburst candy colored sparkle baby @thejuliakitchen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This exact thing happened to me on the Blue Line.

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

someone sent me to LinkedIn for due diligence and it's such a weird place, it shouldn't exist

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

we were stopped by a woman tonight who just had to take our pictures because we were so cute and then proceeded to tell us how she has a crush on Superintendent Snelling and can't say i had that on my bingo card for the night

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I love the commitment jazz has to checking on your people

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Nowcowan @nowcowan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Got in a stopped train car at EOL & dude was shouting the most misogynistic awful things to ea of the few, mostly women waiting for train to go. Terrifying! Saw Metro police on platform & jumped out to grab & notify. They basically laughed at me Got in another car, jam packed. Ppl just didn’t help

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

i have some fun #FOIA to go through but i think it will have to wait until next week when kids are back in school each year seems to have a theme and this year's is shaping up to be how we assign kids to school, cluster programs at schools and blasting open little pockets of power {misused}

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Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

the browns new stadium joining park 571 among the ranks of shitty buildings that look evil pole barns

the boathouse at park 571. it looks like shit

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

there was a bucket toss at the zine fest this weekend and i nailed it six for six babyyyyyyyy

a bucket toss set up with 6 buckets on the ground

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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yes, and, to be totally honest, I have appreciated women and children transit cars in Mexico, and I want transit systems in my home country to hold themselves to a higher standard. I don't want segregated cars, I want a transit system that is safe for everyone in all modes.

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

a small break in the action because a transit planning friend sent me this to thank me for a lot of work i have been doing on student transportation the fares will be 75 cents all day, all year in both systems a HUGE improvement!

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K-12 students now able to ride CTA system, Pace buses for 75 cents

Students in elementary school and high school who use Pace buses and the Chicago Transit Authority system to get to school are now able to ride either system for 75 cents.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

LOVE women’s sections on public transport. From Calcutta buses to Cairo metro, they made me, as a young single woman, able to navigate my beloved cities with complete ease. Normalize this!

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

i have a combined meeting today with 8 major library systems and one of our agenda items is to talk through the FCC's public comment period on clawing back internet in libraries and schools the clerk who posted the public commenting period set it to end in october 2626 and i think that's great

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Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

“Saving democracy” is not the same thing as saving people.

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

working on a new project ✶✶✶✶

a picture with repeating chicago star design

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