Brian McCammack @mccammack.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Perhaps the only reason in the world to ever hope for a Republican President 000
Reposted by Brian McCammackBeverly Tweetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Major League teams that existed the last time the White Sox clinched a playoff series at home: • Boston Americans • Boston Beaneaters • Brooklyn Superbas • Cleveland Naps • New York Highlanders • St. Louis Browns 74814
Brian McCammack @mccammack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026How many Texas voters is Ken Paxton hoping to reach in Chicago with these TV ads?!? Make. It. Stop. 030
Brian McCammack @mccammack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026OMG this is the worst umpiring I’ve seen all postseason 000
Brian McCammack @mccammack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Huge that so many of these walks getting the Sox into jams have come with 2 out 000
Reposted by Brian McCammackAlex Nitkin @alexnitkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tax-increment financing is opaque and complicated, arguably by design. So last year, we had an idea: what if we could show the actual impact of TIFs on all of our tax bills? Today, we've published the result: 🧵 1145
Reposted by Brian McCammackGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...prospect.orgThe City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American ProspectIn Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation. 192240792
Brian McCammack @mccammack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’ve had the pleasure of reading Noah’s work and it is top-notch environmental history. Check it out! 010
Brian McCammack @mccammack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026OMGGGGGGG I hadn’t thought about this in ages, but can confirm the flying toasters are still burrowed somewhere deep in my brain 042
Brian McCammack @mccammack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Um did Davis Martin spill nacho cheese all over his jersey or something? What’s with the generic #21 tonight? 100
Reposted by Brian McCammackChicagoans Who Bike @chiwho.bike · 11/09/2026We are so excited to announce the launch of a brand new tool for getting engaged with biking in Chicago - our new ward biking map! It'll show you bike routes in your ward, which ones were built this latest aldermanic term, and more. Let's break it down 🧵chiwho.bikeWard Map | Chicagoans Who BikeA photo project documenting the stories of the wide variety of Chicagoans who bike around the city 912654
Brian McCammack @mccammack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Haha holy shit, walk by this place all the time, and now I know I’m not the only one who refers to this as “the house that fish built” or similar 160
Reposted by Brian McCammackjayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I’m excited to finally see this collaboration with @postcolsandwich.bsky.social in print in this Plant Humanities volume! We researched and wrote our dissertations together, and we’re sharing space with writers I admire like Sumana Roy, Judith Carney, Romita Ray, Gary Paul Nahban, and Yota Batsaki. 062
Reposted by Brian McCammackSecond Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026In case you were wondering how far into the dystopia we are in America 02210
Reposted by Brian McCammackChicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 05/09/2026The stadium would sit alongside the Chicago River stretching from Roosevelt Road in the North to 18th Street in the South, and bordered with the river on its east side and Canal Street to its West. The company currently has the land under contract.chicago.suntimes.comNew Sox Park? Future owner announces proposal for riverside stadium at 'The Railyards' 5388
Reposted by Brian McCammackMike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 05/09/2026not lost on a lot of us that someone got ejected from a game because of a hat that wasn’t violating any MLB rules while multiple Giants earlier this year did violate written MLB rules pertaining to uniforms and were allowed to stay in the game (and received zero discipline from the league later) 11608159
Brian McCammack @mccammack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026No joke I’ve waited more than a month for two books. Stay tuned! 010
Reposted by Brian McCammackDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Signs that you might be living in an authoritarian state 283158992
Brian McCammack @mccammack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Hopleaf fo sho. Lobo pretty good for pizza. My 9yo loves Lady Gregory and it does the job 030
Reposted by Brian McCammackViktor Köves @viktorkoves.com · 04/09/2026Here's one of the reasons I'm building out a ward by ward bike lane map - so you can see how many miles were built in an alder's last term. In Ward 43, Ald. Knudsen? Just 1 mile of bike lane was built since 2023! In Ward 40, under Ald. Vasquez? Nearly 7 miles were built! 105510
Reposted by Brian McCammackOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026fun part if you ask me: higher ed institutions in secular democracies are the closest approximation of a 'marketplace of ideas' as you are likely to find this side of a global revolution and a lot of people who claim to like that idea do not seem to love its results 251755361
Reposted by Brian McCammackCZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Think of this like a mass shooting at a senior center, or your grandparents’ favorite social venue. Because everything in Organ Pipe grows very slowly. This is a massacre of the ancients. 1013458
Brian McCammack @mccammack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is not the sick burn you think it is dipshit 000
Reposted by Brian McCammackPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This man is a fucking monster who limped away from Chicago's mayor's office because he'd become unelectable after closing 50 schools and half of our city's publicly funded mental health care clinics, and covering up the fact that Chicago cops murdered a teenager. Stop whitewashing his ass! 273453907
Reposted by Brian McCammackAudra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A heads' up that at least one university press is doing this, in violation of the infringement clause. Check your contracts, write to your publisher, and upload your documentation to the settlement administrator's site. 36935
Reposted by Brian McCammackOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026""What did he study? “Philosophy and theology. A teacher in high school said, there’s no money in that, and I said: ‘Sir, that’s disrespectful. That’s insulting, because not everybody’s about money.’" he's one of us!theguardian.com‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr THe grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight? 704447692
Reposted by Brian McCammackChicago Collections @chicollections.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This is a must watch, laying out what's at stake. And we call bullshit on this statement "These closures address the growing volume of underutilized space resulting from the federal government's transition to electronic recordkeeping." A fraction of the materials are digitized. 03218
Reposted by Brian McCammackLaurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026every outlet that runs a glossy profile on Rahm should have to do a similar level of coverage of police violence in Chicago and the long term outcomes of the school closures 4447
Reposted by Brian McCammackMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined. 34895824675
Reposted by Brian McCammackRobert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026My latest story for WBEZ's Curious City: Why is the island in Washington Park behind a locked gate? (Also look for it in the Curious City podcast feed.)wbez.orgWhy is the island in Washington Park behind a locked gate?Bynum Island once bustled with park activity, but over the years, the playground fell into disrepair and the land wasn’t maintained. 15312
Reposted by Brian McCammackDave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026ICE continues to be active in Chicago. Community members in Little Village recorded ICE in the area of 26th & Drake this morning, and photos shared online show a masked fed chasing someone down an alley off Leland and Ashland in Ravenswood. Reports of activity in Bronzeville, Bridgeport, Hermosa. 15941
Reposted by Brian McCammackDrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Trump: I am renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. Seneca Nation, citing 1794 treaty signed by George Washington: Not so fast, Orange Man. thehill.com/homenews/adm...thehill.comSeneca Nation requests reversal on ‘Lake America’ executive orderSeneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca called Friday for President Trump to rescind his order to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” citing a 225-year-old treaty between Native Americans and t… 411229454
Brian McCammack @mccammack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Also, perhaps obviously, love the bike advocacy of @mikesimmonsil.bsky.social ! 010
Brian McCammack @mccammack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Legit bike lane on Sheridan, at least between Juneway and South Blvd, would be dope! Took my 9 yo up there this week for the first time and she definitely got a little freaked out! 130
Reposted by Brian McCammackMatthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A bridge from Pratt across the North Shore Channel to the bike trail? Extending Evanston's Dodge Ave. bike lane south onto California? Protected bike lanes on Sheridan? Those are some of the things the group talked about last night on a bike tour of the border (story below) 3265
Brian McCammack @mccammack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Now THIS is why I’m still halfway on social media 010
