Reposted by Raising Uptownryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16ha “banana republic” is precisely when the political system is dominated by overweening corporate interests 351534255
Reposted by Raising Uptownjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic” 19269201084
Reposted by Raising UptownWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026When wellness invades the environmental movement. 75514
Reposted by Raising UptownJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending 502913789
Reposted by Raising UptownDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Chicago Pope from the top rope! 331153
Reposted by Raising UptownCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026AI is for people who consider the Muzak version of Blurred Lines they hear in the waiting room at the dentist a bop. This guy could not have illustrated AI stans any better. Incurious idiots who can't handle normal life and have no taste or soul. 1825923
Reposted by Raising UptownArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 178124672672
Reposted by Raising Uptownautumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ 1233878755
Reposted by Raising UptownW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think one of the undercurrents of our fractured political reality is that basically everyone has come to realize that the people who rule the world do not possess any particularly impressive level of intelligence or capability 1783033669
Reposted by Raising UptownJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’ve been saying for a while, someone needs to estimate the net cost of millions of people having to spend a chunk of every day worrying about what the insane president has done or will do. 7686158
Reposted by Raising UptownJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity. 1253240511
Reposted by Raising UptownSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21275812504
Reposted by Raising UptownBarry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Harvest Moon rising behind Chicago Harbor Lighthouse on Saturday evening in Chicago. 261485271
Reposted by Raising Uptownjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot” 640106131978
Reposted by Raising UptownInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is all right-wing politics is now, a guy who's killed tens of thousands of children complaining about podcasters 22965565
Reposted by Raising UptownMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza. May peace be our future. 180126912235
Reposted by Raising UptownAlex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 22/09/2026i think we've getting closer and closer to the tipping point where oil extraction becomes a strictly ideological project — persisting mainly because it's a necessary plank in the maintenance of brutal hierarchies — more so than a profit-making venture per se 1042099
Reposted by Raising UptownChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public. 141284544
Reposted by Raising UptownProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2026ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”propublica.orgEctopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ... 6019761057
Reposted by Raising UptownBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 11/09/2026DOGE is still running the show: The Bureau of Land Management gave its state directors *3 days* to list public lands that could be turned over to Big Tech to build AI hyperscalers, after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum met with Amazon CEO Andrew Jassywashingtonsun.comInside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public LandsThe Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department’s land. 23561415
Reposted by Raising UptownTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The largest theft of labor in human history is an unprecedented enclosure of the thought work cultivated in the near miraculous shared achievement of the internet that is being strip-mined in parallel with the trillion dollar data center build out meant to make full use of that violent extraction. 13411
Reposted by Raising UptownTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Surveying the AI ‘moment,’ Nathalie Maréchal says "the kooks are now in power, and they are using that power to dismantle the institutions designed to keep the rest of us safe, healthy, and free."buff.lyWhat Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AINathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs? 05336
Reposted by Raising UptownZach Everson @zacheverson.com · 18/09/2026“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.” Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331) 441100293
Reposted by Raising UptownStreetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org · 16/09/2026Block Club: "Automated Ticketing For Bike, Bus Lane Blockers Should Be Expanded Citywide, Alders Say."blockclubchicago.orgAutomated Ticketing For Bike, Bus Lane Blockers Should Be Expanded Citywide, Alders SayExpanding and making permanent the Smart Streets pilot program — which uses cameras on city vehicles and buses to ticket drivers blocking bus and bike lanes — should be a priority this fall, 20-plus a... 0304
Reposted by Raising UptownBill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I dunno, if I were talking to a group of elementary school kids, I’d want to hear about things like their favorite colors or books. (I’m sure they have a favorite Pigeon book.) “How have you guys been using the slop app?” is probably the last thing I’d ever think to ask a kid. 145579
Reposted by Raising UptownDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026For these guys, it was never about illegal immigration, it was never about cultural assimilation. You can be born in America, drinking beer as you cheer on the Longhorns, but its not enough if you are not white. 48787213
Reposted by Raising UptownAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It’s all identity politics, but since it’s largely white identity politics it’s fine and doesn’t count. It’s not something communist like police shouldn’t be able to get away with murder bsky.app/profile/chri... 91301209
Reposted by Raising UptownSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Sinclair Lewis, FTW! "His humor was the sly cynicism of a country store." 23547147
Reposted by Raising UptownJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/09/2026So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes. 14639421375
Reposted by Raising UptownDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Just further enshrining the canonical conservative belief that being called racist is worse than being racist. 502653465
Reposted by Raising UptownBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The Post-Christian Right 83610
Reposted by Raising Uptownlumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Every one of these flights is several counts of Conspiracy to Violate Rights and probably a bunch of other federal crimes, and everyone involved needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent. 091
Reposted by Raising UptownPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Imagine if you just gave mathematicians 22 million dollars 141597359
Reposted by Raising UptownKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The creepy weird billionaire dork who funds a worldwide white supremacist movement, runs a CSAM website and destroyed our government thinks that there must be some kind of grand (((Jewish-funded))) conspiracy to make people hate him. Sure, man. Sure. 921442327
Reposted by Raising UptownBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Protect trans kids. 6996881827
Reposted by Raising UptownTrevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...techcrunch.comOpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunchThere is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem. 391331459
Reposted by Raising UptownStreetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org · 08/09/2026Sweatin’ with the alders: As Bike the Drive highlights the perks of a less car-centric shoreline, Ald. Vasquez and Ald. Manaa-Hoppenworth discuss the future of DLSD. chi.streetsblog.org/2026/09/08/s... 1307
Reposted by Raising UptownDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026Always a good time to remind ourselves that the US Confederacy was, even judged in historical context, evil -- a pathetic, morally repellant movement led by some the smarmiest narcissists ever known. It had no redeeming features & should forever be regarded with disgust & contempt.washingtonpost.comTrump officials strip military language criticizing Confederate memorialA new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery. 281449366
Reposted by Raising UptownBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026I've been Black long enough to have at least some built-in 'yup, people be racist, and yet we move' defense systems But ngl shit can still sometimes be...jarring! Like seeing this, openly and shamelessly, and knowing Gorsuch had him in his chambers, and that he helps pick federal judges. Sickening! 933045677
Reposted by Raising UptownChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...theintercept.comThe U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.” 22661792174
Reposted by Raising UptownDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I don't usually give credit to Trump. But you have to admire the degree to which he found absolutely the worst, least qualified, most dangerous people possible to fill his cabinet and other senior administration positions. It can't have been easy. 63952183
Reposted by Raising Uptownjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026and what makes them less qualified? well, don’t you see that they are black people and women (and sometimes black women!)? 452598437
Reposted by Raising UptownPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026He says if his kids went to public school they could be "killed by a gang of third world miscreants that want to scalp a white kid," and this happens in "every public school." This is the racist bilge conservatives imbibe every day, day after day after day. 3241689