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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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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Boooo! It’s not too late to rescind this and go for an actual urbanist candidate like Kalen
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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think this is so wrong. Mamdani trusts that anyone who approves of the job he is doing, can see the clear contrast between him and the bumbling old man next to him. frankly he’s is the only democratic politician who can manipulate trump effectively
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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
++ joining in to say heat pumps have gotten SO much better! My mom heats her entire house with them in cold Michigan without a problem, and it’s way more comfortable than her old furnace
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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Incredibly important
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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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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Weird, because here in cold ass Michigan they work just fine
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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!
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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 · 18/04/2026
Biking is the best way to see this city!!
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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Has he articulated why he is actually against it? This is so weird. We need more housing and making that area more vibrant (even if there could be improvements) is such a no brainer for me compared to what’s there now.
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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...
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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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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
They gotta go fr
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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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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
YESYESYESYES
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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I was thinking this exactly during his speech. I will never forget seeing this in 2020 and immediately stanning
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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Had such a blast with this movie ugh
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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Spanish tourism poster, 1965
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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Really appreciate this whole thread, thanks for your work!
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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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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Girl Mamdani is the story of the night. Read the room.
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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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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The most enthusiastic chant in Chicago today near me was “eat the rich” lol
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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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Jack Teener @teenerj.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Go blue 🫡
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