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Last night, Illinois’ legislature passed a law, SB2111, which will fund a major expansion of service for the Chicago region’s transit systems, thanks to new revenue sources.

The law also takes a major step forward in coordination between agencies.

Since the “ceasefire,” Israeli military has killed more than 100 Palestinians, including a 9 year old Palestinian child in the West Bank, shooting him in the head.

Netanyahu’s new strikes in Gaza killed 104 Palestinians, including 46 children.

This is genocide.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/israel-exe...

After a luxury building in East New York flopped, the city is taking advantage of a new program to fill it with formerly homeless families who have hard-to-use housing vouchers. via @patrickspauster.com: citylimits.org/this-buildin...

i’m increasingly convinced that many people in d.c. are just suffering from x dot com brain rot

I’ve been wanting to go back and re-listen to my audio recording of a 2023 Vision Zero Cities Conference panel and pull out anything else that was interesting.

I finally got around to doing that. And turns out, there was a lot more worth sharing.

bikeportland.org/2025/10/29/p...

Important question. Have a forthcoming piece with a tax lawyer to delve into that in more detail.

Important question. Have a forthcoming piece with a tax lawyer to delve into that in more detail.

It is the moral, ethical, and yes legally right for Democratic States and Cities to engage in Soft Secession by withholding federal taxes. This would not violate the Supremacy Clause, has immense precedent in US history, & the time to act is NOW.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/blue-state...

Mike Johnson claims that Biden's pardons are "invalid on their face. I used to be a constitutional litigator. I would love to take this case and go into the court and make that way to set the precedent. You can't allow a president to check out and have unelected people making massive decisions."