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Jack Teener

@teenerj.bsky.social
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Ann Arbor native in Chicago, just a guy trying to boost walkable cities and decarbonized buildings. 🏳️‍🌈

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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pedestrianize now!
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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Chicago can't tax its way out of a structural deficit, but it just might be able to build its way out. Here's one example: There's been a slew of recent residential redevelopment on Western Ave south of the 606. The projects I highlighted generated 10x as much prop tax in 2025 than in 2009.
Two aerial images of Western Ave between North Ave and Bloomingdale Ave. One image was taken in 2009, and the other was taken in 2025. Seven properties have been highlighted on each map, which were all redeveloped between 2009 and 2025.A chart showing the total billed property tax by year for the seven properties on Western Ave between North Ave and Bloomingdale Ave highlighted on the previous image.
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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
DEGROWTH DON DOES IT AGAIN
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Joe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Tributes to the Dupont Circle tree knocked over by the storm
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 08/09/2026
To inform a research proposal to the Department of Energy, my collaborators and I want to learn about how people select and purchase heating and cooling equipment for their homes. We'd appreciate any/all responses to this survey we created, which takes 5-10 minutes to fill out. Thank you!
tally.so
Quick HVAC Purchasing Survey
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/05/2026
NEW: Immigrants Detained in Chicago Military-Style Raid Seek Millions in Damages New accounts from 17 men, women and children who have filed formal claims after being detained in a late-night raid paint a violent and terrifying portrait of the federal agents’ actions.
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Immigrants Detained in Chicago Military-Style Raid Seek Millions in Damages
New accounts from 17 men, women and children taken in a midnight raid paint a violent, terrifying portrait of the federal agents’ alleged actions. These descriptions form the basis of claims filed thi...
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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Stumbled upon a plant sale this weekend. Left with more than I can handle
Picture of a park with a sign reading “welcome to the plant sale”
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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We are NOT BUILDING ENOUGH HOUSING. See attached thread for action items ⬇️
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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 13/04/2026
“If you see rents that are going down, they’re in markets like Nashville and Austin where they built a ton of product,” said Curt Bailey, president of Related Midwest. “That’s really the only way to keep rents down.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Chicago’s Surging Rents Dent Its Cheap Big City Image
Alan Lev spent almost four decades building apartments exclusively in Chicago, until new requirements for affordable housing, unpredictable taxes and stagnant population drove him south.
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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 13/04/2026
If people in Illinois want to help fix this, they can start by sending a letter to their state legislators in support of the BUILD plan that would allow 4 flats by right on Chicago lots, single stair, courtyards, ADUs and more! actionnetwork.org/letters/pass...
actionnetwork.org
Pass the BUILD Plan!
Illinois is facing a growing housing affordability crisis and we won’t solve it without building more homes. The BUILD Plan (HB 5626; SB 4060, 4061, 4062, 4063, 4064, and 4071) is a comprehensive pa...
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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The Salt River Project (SRP) election in Arizona may turn out to be one of the most important utility elections in America this year. And almost nobody outside Arizona is paying attention. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
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Early results in contentious SRP election expected this afternoon
Salt River Project worked late into the night to tally ballots in the utility election, officials said.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Wow. “NASA's EPIC camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth. This view shows the fully illuminated ‘dark side’ of the moon never visible from Earth.” www.planetary.org/space-images...
Moon in between the camera and the Earth, dark side visible.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/04/2026
While Trump has railed against drugs coming into the U.S., his DOJ has declined to prosecute nearly 5,000 federal drug cases, including trafficking and money laundering — 45% higher than the average of the prior three new administrations.
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Planted bulbs for the first time in the fall. Can hardly contain my joy seeing them pop up 🌷
A bounty of Lebanon Squill emerging from the soil
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Chrystal O’Keefe @chrystalok.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
All day, every day. Transphobes are not welcome here.
A still from Twin Peaks featuring David Duchovny as the character Denise and David Lynch as Agent Cole. The text reads: And when you became Denise, I told all of your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die.
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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
No kings in Tubac, Arizona 🇺🇸
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies. www.ft.com/content/ac77...
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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Legend
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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Mayor Brandon Johnson debuts our new Chicago Snowplow “Abolish Ice” 🪏🧊 Video from ABC7’s livestream
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 22/03/2026
Currently on France TV, the new mayor of Paris Grégoire celebrating his victory by biking around on a bike share. He’s now taking an interview while riding.
New Paris mayor biking around in celebration
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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The Bourne Identity (2002) / The Hidalgo Legacy (2026)
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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Spanish tourism poster, 1965
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
#BREAKING U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago is entering a preliminary injunction governing the use of force against protesters and journalists.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
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Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 05/11/2025
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
guy said, “Do you like Marx?”

I said, “I haven’t met him.”

Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”

“Wow, what happened?”

“No, no, he died long ago.”

I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” 

“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” 

I said, “Sounds amazing.”

I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

BS: The FBI.

MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,
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אסתי | esti @estibass.com · 25/06/2025
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
Zohran standing amidst a crowd in winter clothing
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
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Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon
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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s: "I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/10/2025
Fantastic column by Frank Rich (?!) on the NYC mayoral race.
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Zohran Mamdani, the Power Breaker
Why the Democratic Party, the New York Times, and the donor class got Zohran Mamdani so wrong.
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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 16/10/2025
The ordinances that will increase the zoned housing capacity on Broadway by over 15,000 homes just passed city council on a voice vote! Congrats @leniann.bsky.social!!!
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The far right has been looking for a reason to commit mass political violence and it’s extremely important to unite around the principle that all political violence in America is unthinkable and unacceptable.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I'm going to say this as many times as it's necessary: you shouldn't kill your political opponents
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The administration plans to attack public festivities in Chicago around Mexican Independence Day (which may include this weekend's parade in Pilsen or related activities) because they want to attack folks in settings where people will try to protect and hold onto community members.
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Protect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net · 21/08/2025
in 4 weeks, Chicago City Council will vote on whether to end the ban on ADUs citywide. sign this petition (once!) in support of allowing ADUs citywide, please – actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...
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Support ADUs citywide in Chicago
What's going on? Currently, Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) are only legal in five pilot areas in Chicago, which were established May 1, 2022. Since the pilot areas were established, 106 permits tota...
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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Wolf Alice
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Ganz killing it here, combining a critical methodological perspective on how polling is done with fundamental political theory about what politics is & what it involves:
Should we castigate the public for a lack of imagination or common sense? No, the blame lies with lazy politicians and their craven advisers. The approach of issue polling and then building a campaign around it completely ignores the human faculties of judgement and imagination. It assumes that when people hear a question and answer it, they all mean the same thing and that thing reflects a shared empirical reality. They don’t, and it doesn’t. Everyone has very different images in their mind. The key is to put the right images in their mind, hopefully, good, inspiring, grand, and virtuous ones. Politicians need to go back to basics, to the oldest political skill: rhetoric, that is the art of combining reason with imagery that moves the emotions.
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Kevin Erdmann @kevinerdmann.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
FRED is the world's greatest collection of graphical economic data, as long as you know the database query code like you're on a 1996 Bloomberg terminal and you possess godlike skills at guessing at the location of lines between intermittent clues of their paths.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
We should be putting a gargantuan amount of money into solar and storage. War economy levels. It should be free to have a guy from the government solar your house up. Electricity should basically cost nothing.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
he's right and he's right to say it
screenshot of a Facebook post by Corey Robin, which says: "By the way, did you all notice how Zohran made affordability a central issue of his campaign without selling out trans kids or shitting on immigrants? Might be some lessons there. Just a thought."
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
david hogg off the top rope on the other site
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The same establishment that is spending millions to destroy Zohran will say in a few months that we need to spend millions on polling and testing to win back young people. Open your god damn eyes- it's free.
Adam Carlson @admcrlsn •3h
The final three days of early voting were the youngest of the entire period.
47% of early voters are age 18-44. x.com/ gothamist/stat...
Early Voting By Age Group
(Raw Votes Cast)
Age Group
Days 1-4
Days 5-6
Days 7-9
Total (Days 1-9)
18-24
8,487
4,941
13,096
26,524
25-34
29,557
15,620
45,195
90,372
35-44
20,591
10,365
31,488
62,444
45-54
14,438
7,411
23,252
45,101
55-64
19,159
10,548
27,079
56,786
65-74
23,131
14,055
24,861
62,047
75+
16,071
10,346
15,483
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Early Voting By Age Group (Share of Early Electorate)


Age Group
Days 1-4
Days 5-6
Days 7-9
Total (Days 1-9)
18-24
6.5%
6.7%
7.3%
6.9%
25-34
22.5%
21.3%
25.0%
23.5%
35-44
15.7%
14.1%
17.4%
16.2%
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 06/06/2025
A new Carrier home heat pump is designed for cold (and hot) climates: "The new product is also claimed to operate “reliably” at -30 C (-22 F) and to achieve 100% heating capacity at -17 C (1 F), with full cooling capacity being achievable at 50 C (122 F)." www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/05/c... 🔌💡
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Carrier debuts residential heat pump for cold climates
The U.S. heating specialist said its new heat pump system can operate "reliably" at -30 C and achieve 100% heating capacity at -17 C, with full cooling capacity being achievable at 50 C.
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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Spring wildflowers 🌱
Columbine amidst a wildflower patch
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
“I guess I’m canvass-pilled.” And you can be too: zohranfornyc.com/events
thecity.nyc
Can Zohran Mamdani’s Volunteer Army Pull Off the Upset?
His campaign boasts 29,000 door-knockers. Can their passion translate to the polls like it did with fellow Queens progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
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JB 🐻✨🍉🪩 @jbfromdc.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
happy pride month to them
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Bruno @brunoinma.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
happy pride month to them
Albert Goldman (Nathan Lane) and Armand Goldman (Robin Williams) in Mike Nichols classic “The Birdcage”
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value. There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.
@realDonaldTrump

I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!



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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.
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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Dust storm hit real quick, I could feel it in my throat
Man looking over a big lake, with a large cloud of dust shrouding the sky from visibility.
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