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@chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social

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Rogers Park YIMBY Socialist. Internally displaced southern queer refugee. All my homies hate landlords, car dependency, and exclusionary housing policy. Housing policy is community, environmental policy, transit policy, and (anti-) segregation policy

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · Jun 19

Hey everyone! I'm new to Chicago, just moved up from the south because they are becoming less and less fans of transgender people. Down south I did a ton of YIMBY, transit, community defense, and anti-Moms For Liberty stuff & live blogged govt meetings. Looking to do the same here!

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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: Photos from the Sept. 19 protests that included Kat Abughazaleh being thrown to the ground by ICE agents and multiple others, including Abughazaleh, Daniel Biss and Bushra Amiwala being tear gassed appear in the government's response to Illinois' lawsuit blocking Ntl. Guard

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 1h

Fellas you ever let the owner of the "surely this computer program won't encourage a child to kill itself" company write an article about how important it is to let children have clinical access to the "this computer program encouraged a child to kill itself" program

Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 1h

Wow this article sucks, let's go check the author's professional bio, surely they wouldn't have any conflicts of interest that aren't listed in the Chicago Sun Times author bio....

Dr. Amber W. Childs is a licensed clinical psychologist and associate professor of psychiatry in the Yale School of Medicine, and is a member of the medical staff at Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital (YNHPH). Childs is the co-founder and director of the Getting Racism Out of our Work (GROW) Initiative, co-founder of the Yale Measurement-Based Care Collaborative and founder of M-Select, a comprehensive digital mental health solution for youth at YSM. Childs successfully commercialized M-Select in 2024,

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 6h

Got an alert that the #22 was getting rerouted at Addison due to an obstruction and I said "oh the cubs must've won" and I was right!!

Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 10h

I am now a devotee of "if one train is so full boarding/deboarding has slowed it that the second train has caught up, board the second train"

Related, why on gods green earth was the redline northbound so full?

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Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org · 6h

Watching, waiting, commiserating. At today's CTA board meeting, director Roberto Requejo weighed in on Trump's blockade of Red Line Extension grant. He said he appreciates that what CTA is dealing with "is not normal." 😬
chi.streetsblog.org/2025/10/08/a...

@chicagocta.bsky.social @yonahfreemark.com

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 6h

If a kid ever did this on my school bus I would've written them up and called their parents as a wellness check

Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 6h

I see why she's your *ex* wife

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 10h

Bad photo but like. This sends me every time

Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 10h

Right hand to god riding the redline is the only way I ever learn anything about the cubs play schedule

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 10h

On a Wednesday??? I don't understand sports.

Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 10h

Someone in train car is eating a prepackaged ramen noodle. Just biting into the uncooked ramen.

I think this is the least safe I have ever felt on the CTA. something is unspeakably wrong here.

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 10h

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 12h

I'm sure I've heard your real name many times and I have precisely no idea what it is

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 12h

My evergreen one is "landlord opposes allowing competition by upzoning"

Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 13h

The important thing to remember is he has an economics PhD and any time he is talking about anything else he's just Some Guy.

But unfortunately he's Some Guy with a lot of subscribers.

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LetsGoGetSomeBBQnGetBusy @grippysockgoblin.bsky.social · 17h

Well that’s interesting.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 17h

Chicago Ald. Gregory Mitchell oversees the 7th Ward, which is home to the South Shore apartment building at the center of last week’s ICE raid.

He didn’t sign the letter.

Mitchell has not yet publicly issued a statement on the raid.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/so-a...

So, about that letter of support for Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes: 13 alderpeople didn’t sign it • The TRiiBE

The letter describes what the agents did to Fuentes as an “abuse of power.” Mayor Brandon Johnson, City Clerk, Anna Valencia and City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin also signed it.

thetriibe.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 1d

Great, can you force us to add housing and also do something about ICE terrorizing our communities thank you sir

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row

Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

www.choosechicago.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

wait it's possible to move from pilot studies to permanent implementation of basic income? please tell everyone except Andrew Yang about this

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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lucaisharsh @lucaisharsh.bsky.social · 2d

I'm shifting from keeping my options open to active job search mode. If you know anyone who needs a copywriter, lmk

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 2d

I am definitely not crying right now man this fucking sucks.

Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 2d

Oh boy apparently the DMV downtown and the secretary of states website are just straight up wrong and I could've transferred my CDL rather than having to retake the entire CDL process.

Very very very cool.

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 2d

I hate how I can say "It's really weird how fascist steak 'n shake has gotten" and have people know what I'm talking about and it's a normal thing to say and what the hell is wrong with our country

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