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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 8h

Tomorrow is the Chicago Marathon. Good luck to all the runners this weekend

Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 23h

Reminder to never forgive the plumbers union for poisoning generations of Chicagoans with lead because their greed kept the city to mandate lead pipes and union labor.

Also, never forgive the NIMBYs who refuse to streamline newer + safer housing options that aren’t as old as dinosaurs

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 23h

Remember being told to “turn off the faucet when brushing your teeth” to save the planet?

Thankfully that’s a pretty meaningless action! Because in Chicago we are now told to run our sinks for 5 minutes before drinking water each morning to flush out the lead in our century-old-homes’ pipes

Tweet from @dustindrury

in the 90s it was
reduce, reuse, recycle
turn off lights & conserve electricity turn off the faucet when brushing your teeth eat less meat & carpool
in the 2020s it's
consumeeeeeeeee & don't think about the consequences
4:26 PM • 10/9/25 • 430K Views

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 1d

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 1d

Planet Money just posted a video about FILTERING (the “more luxury housing = more affordable homes” paradox)

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 8d

I’m so struck by this video. A regular day in Logan Square in front of a grocery store and ICE pulls up and tear gassed people. Funston Elementary School is right across the street as well. This is a major corridor in Logan Sq. No concern for human safety

Video from: www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 8d

Please enjoy.

States I’d live in. The only ones that I’d absolutely live in are IL, WI, MT, MD, DC

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 9d

G3 warning just posted by NOAA SWPC due to ongoing enhanced conditions (wind speed ~700 km/s and ~10 nT with mostly negative Bz). More substorms are possible tonight with extended auroral visibility to the central U.S. Stay tuned!

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 9d

To be fair I did leave the lakefront right before a second, stronger substorm emerged 😭

Tommy Horn
@TommyHornWX1
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Looks like I spoke to soon! A second substorm hit even better than the first one!

Pics of Aurora

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 9d

Your family is so lucky!

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 9d

I’m still in disbelief that I was able to catch these 4 magnificent displays over Lake Michigan from within Chicago city limits. You will never get me to stop talking about these moments!

2024-05-10
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2024-10-07 (!!!)
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Aurora to the east with super bright and vibrant pink and green

Aurora to the east with cloudy yellow, green, and red

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 9d

In case any Chicagoans felt FOMO about the northern lights recently, I’ll admit I saw nothing the last 2 nights.

Urban aurora chasing: win some, lose most!

Night sky from lakefront with light cloud cover and no aurora

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 9d

Chicagoans: your alderman can now choose to “opt-in” for more new housing (accessory dwelling units) in their entire ward, like Ald. Fuentes did.

Want more housing in your neighborhood? Call your alderman and tell them to opt in the entire ward ASAP or they’ll lose your vote.

Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 9d

Ald. Fuentes plans to "opt in" the entire 26th Ward to allow accessory dwelling units! 🎉

Without opt-in: 31% of 26th Ward allows ADUs
With opt-in: 💯

Thanks to Ald. Fuentes, thousands of additional homeowners in Humboldt Park, Logan Square, and Hermosa will be able to build an ADU as-of-right. 🏘️

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 10d

So many good quotes in this podcast

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Steven @stevevance.net · 10d

we need so many more 26-year-olds like @drakefor10.bsky.social running for public office

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

“So being technically oriented myself as an engineer and also being a huge extrovert, loving people, loving to learn broadly and understand a lot of different things, this is the best way I feel like I can be of service. So the choice to enter public service came from falling in love with a Chicago, having something that gave me a motivation and a reason to want to serve, to want to be a steward of something bigger than my own life, and then seeing a capacity that I could actually be substantially different from what's been normal in Chicago. So I've gotten involved in volunteering with Abundant Housing Illinois, which is Chicago's awesome chapter of YIMBY Action.”

From Infill: A YIMBY Podcast: How One Gen Z Leader Wants to Use YIMBYism to Save Chicago, Sep 26, 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/infill-a-yimby-podcast/id1153837092?i=1000728570231&r=226
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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 10d

Northern Lights over Lake Erie happening now! 8:30pm EDT. Camera visible only for the most part

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 11d

Seriously, if someone values high pay per hour with only a few years training, job security for 30+ years, the potential to travel at will, and the feeling you’re contributing to a better world, training as an electrician isn’t a bad strategy.

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 11d

Bummed I missed this substorm last night! Looked like pretty good conditions at the lakefront according to these pictures seen on Twitter

Twitter user @travelerkitty seeing northern lights on Chicago lakefront - there are pillars of red as well as a lower band of green

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 11d

Take a screenshot of the headline. Use it as the background and stitch together a few clips.

Tips:
-Talk clearly but informally
-use good lighting
-try to keep it under a minute

Bonus:
-include context in the first 10 seconds
-engagement bait is (unfortunately) very effective

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 11d

I post TikTok videos every few months. I’m not an expert, but I can very confidently say this:

You can almost guarantee over 10k views if you just film yourself summarizing a recent article about a subject you’re passionate about.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 12d

Any Chicago legislators who are not trying to increase housing production do not deserve to win their next election

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 12d

When the supply of available homes goes down relative to demand, prices increase. This is one of the best established findings in housing policy, and policymakers who don't center this aren't going to fix the housing crisis.

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Nick for Illinois @nickforillinois.bsky.social · 12d

“I have known Nick since he was an organizer with Indivisible and I’ve seen his commitment to community up close,” said @lenifor48th.bsky.social. “The State Senate needs leaders like Nick who will fight hard, listen to diverse populations, and organize alongside them every step of the way.”

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 13d

Trump’s tariffs and inflation are shutting down investment in a new building in Milwaukee, the city that hosted his RNC

The issues don't come down to engineering or construction headaches as one might assume, but instead finances. Developer Neutral has put out a statement explaining that current US tariffs, along with broader inflation issues in the construction industry, have increased costs to the point that it's no longer feasible to continue.

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 13d

This is a fitting paragraph to end the article with.

Kathy Fern, whose lived in Edgebrook since 1999, said she didn't think Wednesday's crowd was representative of the entire neighborhood.

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 13d

I hope somebody appreciates this gift I just received from a friend who went to a LIHTC conference

Shirt with a cartoon house with text “zoned and ready to party”

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