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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 2h

Fields Sisters undefeated: racism comes before race.

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 4h

"Ta-Nehisi Coates, in Palestine, May 2023, observes black Israeli soldiers "lording their power over Palestinians, many of whom would, in America, have been seen as 'white'. This reminds him "of something [he has] long known: that race is a species of power and nothing else."

(h/t Jeremy Bushnell)

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 2h

Finally got something out of my head that's been there a while: A capsule history of the mid-density Chicago apartment building daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/the-life-dea...

The life, death, and rebirth of moderate-density apartment buildings in Chicago

The pantheon of Chicago architecture tends to cluster at either end of the density spectrum. In one corner you have the trophy commercial skyscrapers; in the other you have icons of domesticity, the b...

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 8h

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 8h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 10h

A bus is only just as efficient up to a certain ridership

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 10h

Obama era

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Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 13h

Chicagoans: Attend this virtual Rapid Response training on Wed 10/14 at 4pm to learn how to help protect our neighbors during this occupation. zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom ...

zoom.us

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 12h

That said, street-running rail with its own dedicated lanes (in Minneapolis, etc) has been quite successful, and I think would be great on western/Ashland/Cicero/etc

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 12h

The streetcar era really was a missed opportunity

Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Just wow.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Budget cut means D.C. Streetcar will shut down in March

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) stripped funding for the doomed streetcar service from future budgets.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is an armed gang, and they’re only going to get worse. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | The Chicago raids send a worrying signal about the ideal ICE agents in Trump's America

The agency is on a hiring spree. But we know what that kind of breakneck expansion of the workforce can result in because we’ve seen it before.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

The conventions of political reporting today are not well equipped to handle this concerted use of pretexts for instrumental purposes and the bottomless bad faith they employ. Grasping the industrial-scale deception at the core of MAGA politics is essential. 6/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 1d

Why underwhelming in la?

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 1d

What is this from?

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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 1d

hot damn look at that density discontinuity for the south and east sides of Bangalore

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 1d

My neighborhood. Sick.

Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 2d

An extremely rough day for Edgewater in Chicago. ICE activity near schools. People kidnapped while working in yards, standing on hiring corners. So many rapid responders biking, walking, driving, whistles around necks, trying to protect their neighbors, but up against such well-funded forces.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Manly men brutalize, terrorize a teen girl

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 2d

Appears the Trump admin’s reduction in force has hit housing hard this evening.

Reports that all CDFI fund staff have been let go. HUD appears to have lost 442 staff.

Yet another federal cut that will make providing affordable housing in the US all the more challenging.

Reports that all staff of CDFI Fund have been let go

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, mostly on the north lakefront

Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting, 4+1s in Chicago (a very similar typology) were built between 1961 and 1971, similarly prompted by an increase in parking reqs and then specifically targeted by a zoning change to be prohibited

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 3d

What period were dingbats built over?

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Dark Bedroom Enjoyer 7’4” 520 lb @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 3d

In fact the depreciation tax benefits were so good their dingbats could be operated and rented at cost - the depreciation *was* the profit.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 5d

I can't stop thinking about this. We're pursuing zero fire risk in multifam, while tolerating much more in single-fam. People respond by building and living in single-fam, where they're exposed to not only one of the highest fire death risks in the developed world, but also TONS more car crash risk

Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 5d

Love this new report on buildings' relative fire safety from @alexhrwtz.bsky.social and Pew colleagues.

www.pew.org/en/research-...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.