“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.

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

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)

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Yep, exactly

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?

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

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.

It wouldn’t be hard to rebuild the walkway to connect Ogilvie with the green line Clinton stop
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Please do not use any software function that requires you to upload your ID whenever humanly possible.

It’s very cool that a judge has to ask the department of justice “is it really wise to defer to the president if he’s deranged and everyone around him is lying to him?”

From Facebook anyone lose some U-Lock keys on the 606

I’d be very interested to see updated polling numbers on mayor Johnson.