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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 11h

Here's the TOTAL budgets of some other agencies that are being cut so the Admin can send $20B your tax dollars to their ideological friends:

- EPA (clean air and water): $9.1B

- NOAA (weather forecasts, warn if hurricane coming): $6.8B

- DOE EERE (energy efficiency & renewable energy): $3.4B

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Laur-eeeeee😱 (spooky scream) @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · Sep 6

stand for the flag / kneel for the cross

The flag of the City of Chicago with three white stripes, two light blue stripes, and four red six pointed stars in the middle

The Chicago municipal device in black and white, a shape of the letter Y inside a circle, with a wave pattern inside it

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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 12h

Not as powerful as cans of soup, depending on the volume, but in the right hands. 📚

American Library Association poster against censorship Books are weapons in the war of ideas.

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 13h

It wouldn’t be hard to rebuild the walkway to connect Ogilvie with the green line Clinton stop
RETVRN

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

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 16h

Ain’t that the truth

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www.jsonline.com/story/sports...

Brewers Express-themed Amtrak takes fans from Milwaukee to Chicago for NLDS Game 3

The 8:05 a.m. Oct. 8 Amtrak Hiawatha train was decked out in blue and yellow, with mascots onboard, to transport Brewers fans to Wrigley Field.

www.jsonline.com

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 1d

lol all those stairs!
Good thing my 73-year-old mother-in-law, who lives on the 7th floor of a high-rise in Chicago, is built like a horse otherwise she’d never get home!

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 1d

My mom’s been a #fiberartist in the neighborhood for decades so it’s really exciting to see such a community now flourishing all around. You can check out her art next weekend at the west loop arts fair!

www.lourdesguerrero.com/exhibitions

www.westloopartexpos.com

Lourdes Guerrero smiles as she points to a tapestry on display in a Michigan art gallery

Lourdes demonstrates as she finishes off a weaving project to a group

Lourdes’ gallery and new bike rack from the street

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 1d

And the newest on the stretch is Inclement Craft! Just this week I discovered they do yarn dyeing, craft nights, and spinning workshops! East of Elston, just west of Kimball at Bernard

Inclement fine fibers and handcrafts Indigo club. Learn to dye like a pro! Every month you’ll learn a new resist dyeing technique (think tie dye, but more specific) as well as the history and chemistry that goes into one of the world’s oldest and most important dyeing traditions. All materials provided and no experience necessary! Just bring yourself, and wear something you don’t mind getting a little messy in. Smiley-face

Stitch n bitch @ night. Come stich! Come bitch! We’ll bring the wine and tea, you bring your hottest gossip and your latest project to our new space at 3436 W Irving park rd. See you there, bitches!

Spindle support: a monthly social spinning group (with experienced support on hand). Got a spindle? Got a wheel? Been a minute? Come get back into spinning and meet new fiber friends in a chill and welcoming environment :)

BYOS bring your own shirt. Your new favorite fiber arts shindig! Bring your own shirt, yarn, fabric, etc. to dye in our community indigo vat! We’ll have dye-able stuff available as well

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 1d

Across the highway, check out the professional artist’s work on display, fiber among other arts, at Stola Contemporary Art Gallery between Ridgeway and Hamlin, next to the new hot dog place

stolacontemporary.com

Crowds of people mingle and look at artwork on the walls at Stola art gallery in Chicago

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 1d

Down the road, just west of the blue line stop in Old Irving is the Chicago Weaving School at Keeler. Learn to weave in this dope mid-century pink tile building on the corner

www.chicagoweavingschool.com

Google street view image of the Chicago weaving school in a pink tile building on the corner with maroon tile striped accents

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 1d

Starting on the west end of our tour: The Bloomin spindle yarn shop in Portage Park is at Long Ave, just east of Central Ave and the park. They carry locally-dyed yarn and host events and classes too

www.thebloominspindle.com

Brightly colored array of yarn skeins wrapped in shiny paper at the Bloomin spindle yarn shop in Chicago’s portage park

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago’s Irving park road is becoming a real hub of fiber arts these days! #knitting #weaving #spinning #dyeing studios, galleries, and more. When the world is full of horrors we need community & the arts more than ever. Check out some of these new spots

Map of Chicago’s Irving park road on the northwest side shows a dot near kimball on the east end and a dot on long to the west, with the route 80 bus connecting them.

View of the author beginning to knit from a white ball of yarn in front of a green woven table cloth and a coffee mug

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 1d

Fortunately the city is (finally!) installing the long-promised set of stationary public stationary monitors, which should have data available to the public sometime next year.
www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...

www.chicago.gov

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Even this last time around they didn't lower it as much as public health experts and environmental advocates wanted, but it is still better.
elpc.org/blog/stronge...

Stronger Soot Standards would Protect more Chicagoans | Environmental Law & Policy Center

Air quality monitoring data highlights communities that are overlooked by current PM2.5 standards, ELPC calls on EPA to improve air protections.

elpc.org

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Audrey Wennink @awennink.bsky.social · 2d

The transit reform bill gives communities more tools to shape their communities around their transit stations. We need more people living and working near transit so more people can ride it. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/o...

Juan Sebastian Arias: Transit reform bill strengthens local decision-making on development

This is not about taking control away from communities. It is about giving them more tools to shape growth around transit.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 2d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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🏳️‍🌈🚲Cole🚄🐶 @regimepup.bsky.social · 2d

There are 284.6 million registered cars in the US alone. I don’t think it is worth talking about something that has 0.17% of the impact.

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 2d

Ventra would be a good easy way to reach a lot of riders across the spectrum

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 2d

Metra and Pace haven’t even activated their audiences with community meetings like CTA. I think Chicago lawmakers and their constituents know more of what’s at stake, but suburbanites keep painting this as a Brandon Johnson problem, like this email does. Which is BS!
It’s an everybody problem!

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Audrey Wennink @awennink.bsky.social · 2d

The Chicago suburbs need better transit too! Let's get transit governance reform and funding done during October veto session. open.substack.com/pub/citythat...

The Suburban Case for Transit Reform

Trips don’t end at the city limits, so why do our transit agencies?

open.substack.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

To be clear, ADF cooked up a case with fake facts, distorted medical research and fabricated harms to be able to gain the constitutional right to torture LGBTQ children.

That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.

slate.com

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been able to do it between Washington & Monroe blue line stops before, when I forgot something in the office and needed to run back up

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 2d

At the same station at least, but you can get on a different one. Not helpful if you’re at the end of the line, but it can be helpful in the loop where you can often walk to the next stop

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 3d

We have ample research showing not only that conversion therapy DOES NOT WORK, but that it DOES DO HARM. This isn't just a question of whether it's effective; the bans are there to protect youth who cannot personally consent to the treatment from the documented harm. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Conversion practices linked to depression, PTSD and suicide thoughts in LGBTQIA+ adults

Programs designed to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity are linked to depression, PTSD and suicidality in a Stanford Medicine-led study of more than 4,000 participants.

med.stanford.edu

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