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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A little bit of whimsy along a curbside bike lane in London. I love these tulips!

green plastic bike lane post with purple plastic tulip on top.

Row of bike lane posts with red and pink and orange plastic tulips on top.

Cyclist in curbside bike lane on city street.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*rejoins The App Known For Making People Sad And Anxious* "hmm why am I feeling sad and anxious"

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some of my fellow leftists need to reckon with the fact that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won on urbanism and good governance as much as he did on socialism. Both urbanists and the DSA owe their roots to the sewer socialists. We agree far more than we disagree.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The ideal republican voter

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And of course, Villegas, whose entire brand is going against the mayor, voted in favor.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ashland Avenue's natural state

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Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org · 23/09/2026

@suntimes.bsky.social LTTE: "Bravo to Sam Kovnar and Eddie Lehwald of the @nwnachicago.org for facilitating some return to sanity and hospitality in reinstalling seating at city bus stops." chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-t...

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Lake. Big Lake. @lakebiglake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Letter to the editor supporting @srkovnar.bsky.social ‘s bus stop benches.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

They do not care if I am killed. It truly is that simple. They would rather not be bothered. I am an inconvenience, and I would be less of an inconvenience if I was a ghost bike on the side of Milwaukee Avenue instead of a person riding to work.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You might also have to close the Albany Ave entrance, but I don't think it would be necessary. Most people use a GPS nowadays and I think a GPS would just tell you to go around rather than make four turns.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You could make Humboldt Park 10x nicer and less noisy by closing this tiny stretch of Humboldt Blvd. Access to all of the existing parking lots is maintained, but you completely eliminate cut through traffic and redirect cars around the park, not straight through the center.

Map with a small stretch of Humboldt Blvd circled in black, just south of North Avenue.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is happening in SF too! Anarchy is the way. sfbabc.org

sfbabc.org

SFBA Bench Collective

The San Francisco Bay Area Bench Collective

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Give me paper and a clipboard, I'll have a hundred signatures by the end of the week

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We live in an electoral system, the value is in showing politicians that they won't get voted out if they make things better.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What aspects of BRT would be implemented if such a ballot measure were to pass? Signal priority, bus lanes, bus bulbs, offboard payment...? I think narrowing down a minimum list of features that satisfy "being BRT" would be suuuper helpful given how often things get called "BRT" that aren't really.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Need to make driving more inconvenient

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Also if you're giving up on undoing car dependency in literal Chicago then just throw in the towel at that point, I have no idea how you reach the conclusion that half of America's fourth largest city is unsalvageable...

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My brain is breaking trying to categorize this line of thinking. Not-In-Their-Back-Yard? NITBY?

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

hey David Crowley, see how easy it is?

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Reposted with the correct date this time lol

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

How is it possible that every day, the YouTube app is broken in a new, unique, inconvenient way And not like obscure backend stuff, but the UI. The stuff that theoretically shouldn't be changing. Does Google even employ any developers anymore

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 20/08/2026

Crazy that we have a democratic committeeperson running for alder, on a platform of NIMBYism against public restrooms near transit Vote LaSpata if you like public bathrooms!

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Brower mayoral campaign when 👀

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Hard not to see it as deliberately stoking outrage.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Lost control" might be generous considering how Villegas insists on using this meeting format, which encourages grandstanding and shouting matches. (CDOT does not normally use this format for exactly that reason.)

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Kalen Luciano @kalenfor44.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Dine Out on Broadway is coming to Lakeview this weekend! We used to have it every other weekend, but now it’s only once a month. When I’m alderman, I’ll make it more frequent and expand open streets to other places in the ward.

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 14/08/2026

2758 N. Mozart St - under review by @daniellaspata.bsky.social If you are a 1st ward resident, please send a note of support to zoning@the1stward.com blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/14/4...

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Kalen Luciano @kalenfor44.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If we build more homes without protecting the people living in them, it’s game over.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's not part of Crowley's plan.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There is no "inclusive AI economy" while AI is controlled by cartoonishly-evil billionaires.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What about in the meantime while they try to get strong regulation forced through a Republican-controlled assembly? A moratorium until regulation is enacted needs to be a part of the plan.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A few more years and Social Security will be old enough to run for congress!

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Francesca Hong came within less than a percentage point of your candidate. You glaze his mediocre takes at your own peril. Moratorium for one year while we put the regulations in place should be the bare minimum.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

He does as the worm commands

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There is no similar accountability structure backing Crowley. I want him to win, and I hope he clarifies his stance on this, but we're all looking around at each other like "who's gonna tell him". And the answer is, nobody.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If Hong had a political blunder like this, she'd be getting calls from every DSA chapter in the state. Not from its members, but from the chapters that were running her ground game. That's why DSA's endorsement means something.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you are a liberal scratching your head trying to understand why some Hong supporters are nervous about Crowley, this is why. When a candidate runs with #DSA backing, they are agreeing to be part of the accountability structure that aggressively bottom-up groups like DSA chapters provide.

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Sam Kovnar @srkovnar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Btw, you should watch the whole clip if you haven't: youtu.be/uinazUYqqPc?... There is no reason you can't both ban new datacenters while also regulating existing ones. Creating that false choice means that Crowley kinda wants more datacenters.