Emily
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Bikes are transportation and recreation. Working in renewable energy. We have to imagine a better world before we can build it. she/her allweeksend.neocities.org
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If you were chilly riding in to work this morning, it might be a good day to check out my guide for dressing for the weather on a bike. My site also has a printable template for keeping notes on what you wore and how it felt if you want to create your own! allweeksend.neocities.org/Guide
How to Dress for the Weather on a Bike
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🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!
#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."
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Windy Pop Weekender is this Saturday and Sunday! Get your tickets!

Weekend passes $50 with code “SWEATERWEATHER” and single days $27 with “CARDIGAN”

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I suspect a lot of them know officers personally and either have never interacted with the system or have only done so in the context of asking a friend for help.
I wonder how many of the conservative police boosters have ever tried to file a police report or needed them to do the basics of their job. I don't know anyone who has ever had a good experience with the police doing the bare minimum of their job when they need them too
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“When we are in the majority we’ll have a kindler gentler machine gun hand. Rest assured.”

Dude. No. When you are in the majority your job is to defund and abolish.
This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...
Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening
There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.
newrepublic.com
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Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.
Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"
If I may, I think the preferred alternative is making infrastructure changes (like road diets & modal filters) & preventive policy changes (like registration costs that scale with vehicle size) but totally agree the current result of that argument is to let drivers do whatever (or increase policing)
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I actually hate the framing of commuting by bike as “saving CO2”, because it assumes the default way to commute is solo in a car.
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The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight
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here's the video embed.

I've been anxious about racial solidarity in an environment where republicans are eager to divide & conquer minority communities through antagonism on labor, crime, immigration, housing etc and it gives me a lot of hope to see guys out there unafraid to do/say what is right.
Video is gone now, odd.
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Chicago: Avondale! 60618! A neighbor has created a community altar at the Shell station on the south east corner of Belmont and Milwaukee - a memorial to human rights and victims of ICE. I added to it and you should too. Let's make it massive and impossible to miss. Bring your offerings.
A community altar by a Shell gas station on the south east corner of Belmont and Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago. Signs read: "Stop Ice Abductions" and "Stop Terrorizing our Communities. Abolish ICE!" There are also candles, and various offerings, as well as sidewalk chalk. A detail of altar offerings - dolls, a stuffed frog holding a "Send ICE Home!" sign, and candles - some lit.
A pair of flyers inspired by those used by Chicago contractors who are often undocumented - both insulting ICE in various ways. Memorial candles and a sign reading "We remember our neighbors, kidnapped by ICE at this gas station on Wednesday, October 8, 2025" hand written in black marker on blue paper.
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Smart crowd control would be liaising with protesters, explaining why following some ground rules like not blocking vehicles would hurt Trump’s case and giving them a chance to police themselves.

But cops are very, very stupid when it comes to protests and/or wanna see violence.
They’re saying in court that the military isn’t needed cuz local and state cops can handle the protests and that they are just being inflamed by the feds.
If you’re interested in more, can you clarify what part is confusing? Are you not clear on the original intention of TX/Trump, the lawsuit to try to stop them, or the court rulings so far or all of it?
National guard aren’t full-time soldiers, so they normally have other jobs and only do national guard stuff when on specific orders. This ruling means they stay activated and “on duty” and can stay in Illinois, but they’re not allowed to actually do anything. Hope that helps?
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still in the market for a remote backend/data/etc engineering role! I've got a weird history running through academic cs and ml/cv research to adtech and big corp distributed systems work; primarily JVM/python + spark recently but I'm open to anything! please reach out if you think I'm a fit
my resume - too long to alt text
On the bright side, it seems my block is getting new sidewalks.
Yesterday morning I had a tiny (8oz) maple latte at Casa Cactus and I’m still thinking about it. It was so cute and they topped it with some fancy salt (smoked?) and it was such a little delight.
Currently it’s jackhammers and concrete saws, still somehow quieter than the horns earlier.
I really hate that the best strategy we have to get people to move their cars for construction is to honk really loud and repeatedly. It’s annoying to me but I really feel for anyone who works odd hours or has babies.
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It wouldn’t be hard to rebuild the walkway to connect Ogilvie with the green line Clinton stop
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Passengers walk between the Ogilvie platform and the Cta Clinton green line station in a protected tunnel with red carpeting and fluorescent lights, windows overlook the Metra tracks in the background Sketch of the “northwest passage” connection between the Cta Clinton station and the Chicago and northwestern station (today Ogilvie) showing a covered walkway above the street level at Lake wrap around to the platform level on the east side of Clinton