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@nwchifiets.bsky.social
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Salty AF. Safe streets & sound climate policy = social justice. Enjoy biking, travel, beer and cats. Content likely to randomly touch on all of the above. All content is my personal opinion. She/Her.

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Raccoons Hourly @raccoonhourly.bsky.social · 2h
An adorable raccoon.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 2h
Meanwhile, disgraced former Gov Andrew Cuomo just bought a multi-million dollar mansion in the Hamptons after saying he'd move to Florida if Mamdani won. pagesix.com/2026/09/30/l... Promises made. Promises broken. Andrew Cuomo.
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Andrew Cuomo buys $9 million-plus estate in the Hamptons with tennis court, pool, gym and wine cellar
The former 2025 NYC mayoral candidate has been a fixture in the Hamptons in the past.
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 17h
Now that 5% of parking revenues are earmarked for city pensions, Finance Committee Chair Pat Dowell (3rd) says it "makes sense to do an escalator" for parking rates that have been frozen since 2022, and consider charging even higher rates for out-of-town motorists.
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Chicago parking rate hikes should be tied to inflation, and out-of-towners should pay more, Ald. Dowell says
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 6h
Saw this in London, and I love it. The bike hanger securely stores six bikes, using a single curbside parking spot. Huge help for those who can’t keep a bike in their home!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 6h
When job growth was 5-10x this per month under Joe Biden, we were having a nonstop National Conversation™️ about the imminent recession & being told that only the unemployed cared about jobs, but everyone cared about inflation.
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 5h
NotifyChicago: 95th St bridge street & sidewalk closed today until 2:30pm. Seek alternate routes. chicago.apparmor.com/notification...
The Blues Brothers jumping the 95th St bridge
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Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 5h
The fallacy of the climate movement's electric car advocacy is belief it's faster to get people into EVs than into walkable homes where they can drive less. The reality is it's probably ten times faster to build homes in walkable neighborhoods than to convince people to buy electric cars.
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Alex Nitkin @alexnitkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tax-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: 🧵
A graphic saying, "If No TIFs Existed, Your Tax Bill Could be $1,130 Lower"
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NWChiFiets @nwchifiets.bsky.social · 2h
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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 5h
Update:
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Driver accused of killing 2 people on e-bikes in Wilson turns himself in, denied release
According to the Wilson Police Department, Collin McLaughlin, 22, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder on Wednesday in the deaths of 49-year-old Jason Williams and 42-year-old Charise D...
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 4h
This is the driving record of a guy accused of killing two cyclists. There is no reason this person should have had a license. Ah well, except for the fact that his relatives are cops.
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Chicagoans Who Bike @chiwho.bike · 6h
We were in Minneapolis for a few days on vacation, but couldn't help filming some of their amazing curb-level bikeways - better than almost anything we've seen elsewhere! How is your city doing on bike infrastructure?
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 6h
You experience a lot of awful, reckless driving just by existing around drivers, but there's nothing like the terror of taking a rideshare and getting 25 minutes of the concentrated reckless driver experience
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 6h
"Like so many things in the Trump era, you can thank .. John Roberts for this entire mess. Had the worst chief justice in history not overseen the wholesale degradation & kneecapping of the lower courts, we wouldn’t be here. Just as much as Todd Blanche, Roberts owns this.." Important read:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
CNBC on the September jobs report: "A bit of a disappointment. Expecting 90,000, comes in at 29,000. And we see two month revisions down 60,000 ... average hourly earnings -- this is a big miss. Big, big miss. We were expecting up three tenth. This comes in at one tenth."
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 7h
The U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division accused the UCLA School of Law of discriminating against white and Asian students in its admissions process in a letter sent to the school's counsel.
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UCLA Law Is Latest DOJ Target Over Race Bias In Admissions - Law360
The U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division accused the UCLA School of Law of discriminating against white and Asian students in its admissions process in a letter sent to the school's counsel Thursday, following multiple other similar letters that the DOJ sent to other higher-education institutions.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 9h
Sen. Thom Tillis privately told Trump he wouldn’t tolerate his “bullshit” — and that if Trump had ever directly threatened him with a primary challenge, he’d have “immediately told you to fuck yourself” and announced his retirement. The texts, obtained by Playbook, will appear in his upcoming book.
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Brianinja @brianinja.bsky.social · 9h
My safe streets group registered for trunk or treat last year and we brought my bike trailer instead. If there's an event, use it to your benefit!
A trunk or treat parking lot, but it's a bike trailer decorated as a monster with a table and candy.
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Cargo Bike Ben @cargobikeben.bsky.social · 9h
What the actual fuck? These need banning immediately before someone is killed or seriously injured by someone fucking around with these while driving.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13h
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put her vision for the city like this: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 9h
Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?
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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News
A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 8h
ICYMI: In a loss for voters, three South Carolina restrictions on voter assistance will remain in effect for the midterms. The decision could affect the nearly 15% of South Carolinians who identify as having a disability: demdock.com/4xTu5Ef
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NWChiFiets @nwchifiets.bsky.social · 8h
Ugh I hate this Golf Mill Ford AI jingle.
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Chicago, Bike Grid Now! @bikegridnow.org · 01/10/2026
We're hosting a concert with local bands from 3-7p on The People’s Bridge™ (Cortland) in support of the permanent pedestrianization and continuation of bicycle access. The concert is free. Tipping the bands is strongly encouraged. 📍 Cortland Bridge (1420 W Cortland) ⏰ Sunday, October 18th, 3-7p
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NWChiFiets @nwchifiets.bsky.social · 19h
An 81W left the Jefferson Park station at 7:40. Five of us are waiting for the next bus at 8:12. This lack of frequency is atrocious.
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Jennifer Messner @occasionallyzen.bsky.social · 19h
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Democracy Dies in Cowardice @savedemocracy25.bsky.social · 19h
Great source of independent news now free thru the mid-terms….
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Drenched yet again.
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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 20h
It’s so neat the admin wants a consolidate all our personal identifying information across different parts of the government/ private companies so it’s not a matter of IF your data gets stolen/leaked it’s WHEN!
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 20h
The RNC is asking Nebraska’s Supreme Court to strip voting rights from Americans abroad whose parents vote in the state — even though its own lawyer admitted the law affects a few dozen voters, at most: demdock.com/4AK6pow
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
4 years ago, Trump Judge Kathryn Mizelle vacated Biden’s airplane mask mandate: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Now, Trump Judge Kathryn Mizelle says vacating rules is likely unconstitutional: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... I wonder what changed! Grab 1: Then Grab 2: Now
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23h
A interactive video AI model has been developed which its makers claim passed the Turing Test 48% of the time. (I watched the sample video, and it was impressive, which is disturbing.)
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Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.
48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex Al video.
It's the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
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Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social · 22h
This morning while divvying to work downtown, because of an unfortunate accident, DLSD going north was at a standstill for miles. I saw a slew of CTA busses trapped with the masses. Imagine. If we had a dedicated bus lane on DLSD?
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Why would she go to a frat house" is a tacit admission that frat houses are filled with rapists. Maybe the frat houses should work on not being filled with rapists.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I see people victim-blame and try to logic-out the Cornell 7 rape case. "Why would she go into the frat house? Why would she drink?" etc. It's easier than thinking about how many men have done similar things to women, and whether men *they personally know* have harassed or assaulted women.
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Boomer on boomer car crashes are increasingly typical in Berkeley. It's largely who is doing both the hitting, and in many cases, the being hit.
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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why we ride on the left edge of bike lanes. begging traffic engineers to get tape measures
truck door inches from my handlebars while im in bike lane
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Subverting democracy isn't new to John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett. All three were on George W. Bush's "Florida Recount Team," which lay the groundwork for stopping vote counting in Florida—and Bush v. Gore, the politically-motivated SCOTUS decision that gave Bush the election.
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NWChiFiets @nwchifiets.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The house is not wearing hi viz & failed to look both ways. We should regulate houses. www.facebook.com/nadignewspap...
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chicagolove.bsky.social @chicagolove.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@chi.streetsblog.org @bikegridnow.org Ald Nugent is determined to remove the new lanes in North Park by NEIU in Ward 39
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 01/10/2026
While I hate relentless self-promotion, I also like being able to eat, so a reminder that my book came out this summer and you might want to pick it up if you like thinking about attitudes around grief in a culture where people are scared of things they don't understand and can't fix.
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All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...
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Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · 01/10/2026
Early voting for Chicago residents begins today at the downtown supersite and 69 W. Washington. Don’t forget to check your judges before you vote. buff.ly/jpBxfAa
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Cook County November 2026 Judicial Election Guide
Injustice Watch's guide to the November 2026 Cook County judicial elections.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Trump administration has resumed border wall construction in Big Bend National Park after waiving 31 environmental laws for the project.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lawyers are on the front lines of the fight to protect our democracy. Right now, @wetheaction.bsky.social is recruiting lawyers who are willing to volunteer their time to defend voting rights. Join them: wetheaction.us/guide
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Reuters @reuters.com · 01/10/2026
Social media harms democracy by spreading rumors, survey shows reut.rs/4hXMZVO
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Social media harms democracy by spreading rumors, survey shows
A growing number of people think social media manipulates and divides people and harms democracy, Pew Research Center said ​on Thursday, echoing rising concern and tighter scrutiny across ‌the world.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
White House drops CNN from the press pool covering President Trump's trip to Texas and Oklahoma, a move that comes after a federal judge blocked the administration's effort to more tightly control the media outlets that have access to the president. www.washingtonsun.com/media/w...
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White House Drops CNN From Trump’s Travel Press Pool Again
The move comes after a federal judge blocked the administration’s effort to more tightly control the media outlets that have access to the president.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sharing a bit of background about the "Broadview Six" case as we wait for this afternoon's hearing. I'll start with our "what to know" primer from this summer, published one month after the case fell apart. chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
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What to know about the 'Broadview Six' scandal rocking Chicago's federal courthouse
High-profile cases are collapsing, judges want answers, and defense attorneys are calling for an investigation — and the possible prosecution — of Chicago’s top federal law enforcement official. Here'...
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