Mel🌹
@htmmel.bsky.social
it/she • DSA Partisan • Chicago • IT girlie
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@mikeduncan.bsky.social The Later Byrd Years
thinking more about this: it is highly ironic that at the same time that it serves as a test case for the "unitary executive," this administration is all but being led by two subordinate officials with no immediate political accountability.
December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
@mikeduncan.bsky.social The Later Byrd Years
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Taking "rapid" out of "rapid transit." Over 20% of @chicagocta.bsky.social usable rail length is classified as being in a slow zone. Capital funding is next big transit challenge to tackle. Accelerating I-290 (Eisenhower/Congress) roadway/transit project addresses ~1/4 of the slow zone trackage.
The T’s dedication to slow zone removal has led to pretty dramatic ridership improvements. It’s a model that should be emulated elsewhere.
Picture unrelated
Picture unrelated
December 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Taking "rapid" out of "rapid transit." Over 20% of @chicagocta.bsky.social usable rail length is classified as being in a slow zone. Capital funding is next big transit challenge to tackle. Accelerating I-290 (Eisenhower/Congress) roadway/transit project addresses ~1/4 of the slow zone trackage.
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Northwestern University offered bland reassurance to trans students and faculty after signing a deal with the Trump administration that sacrificed them for restored funding.
More here from the peerless @valorievandieman.bsky.social:
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
More here from the peerless @valorievandieman.bsky.social:
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Northwestern Folds to Pressure, Betraying Trans Students — Assigned
Leading Off: Northwestern University reached an agreement with the Department of Education on Friday to restore federal funding which would remove virtually all protections for transgender students an...
www.assignedmedia.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Northwestern University offered bland reassurance to trans students and faculty after signing a deal with the Trump administration that sacrificed them for restored funding.
More here from the peerless @valorievandieman.bsky.social:
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
More here from the peerless @valorievandieman.bsky.social:
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Wards should be geographic local subdivisions for city services with no legislative function and aldermen should represent population-based districts with no executive function
November 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Wards should be geographic local subdivisions for city services with no legislative function and aldermen should represent population-based districts with no executive function
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Made it to Chicago with our train looking straight out of Snowpiercer
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Made it to Chicago with our train looking straight out of Snowpiercer
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All eyes on the Honduran elections.
Trump endorsed Tito Asfura and will pardon a member of his party, narco-dictator Juan Orlando Hernandez, extradited to the US in 2022 for working w/ El Chapo. JOH was elected in 2017 in an election deemed fraudulent by international observers and even the US DOJ.
Trump endorsed Tito Asfura and will pardon a member of his party, narco-dictator Juan Orlando Hernandez, extradited to the US in 2022 for working w/ El Chapo. JOH was elected in 2017 in an election deemed fraudulent by international observers and even the US DOJ.
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
All eyes on the Honduran elections.
Trump endorsed Tito Asfura and will pardon a member of his party, narco-dictator Juan Orlando Hernandez, extradited to the US in 2022 for working w/ El Chapo. JOH was elected in 2017 in an election deemed fraudulent by international observers and even the US DOJ.
Trump endorsed Tito Asfura and will pardon a member of his party, narco-dictator Juan Orlando Hernandez, extradited to the US in 2022 for working w/ El Chapo. JOH was elected in 2017 in an election deemed fraudulent by international observers and even the US DOJ.
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Complaining about taxes with my gold brooch
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Complaining about taxes with my gold brooch
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top notch mascottin'
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
top notch mascottin'
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CPC Deputy Chair @repilhan.bsky.social & Whip @chuygarcia.house.gov on Sunday’s elections in Honduras: “We call on all parties—including the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans—to stop flagrantly interfering in the elections and instead respect Honduran democracy.”
November 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
CPC Deputy Chair @repilhan.bsky.social & Whip @chuygarcia.house.gov on Sunday’s elections in Honduras: “We call on all parties—including the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans—to stop flagrantly interfering in the elections and instead respect Honduran democracy.”
Exactly! It’s where I started hormones, where I met trans people for the first time, and did trans activism. Mizzou’s LGBTQ center meant the world to me when I was there
Feels really significant that the Trump admin is making a concerted effort to force colleges to undo policies that made campus safe and accessible for trans people, because for so many trans people college is the first place they ever get to be themselves.
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Exactly! It’s where I started hormones, where I met trans people for the first time, and did trans activism. Mizzou’s LGBTQ center meant the world to me when I was there
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the anti-war candidate
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
the anti-war candidate
Fuck yeah
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fuck yeah
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Socialist Party of America's platform in 1912 called for abolition of pardon power altogether.
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Socialist Party of America's platform in 1912 called for abolition of pardon power altogether.
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The Christkindlmarkt thing is so funny top to bottom. America so starved for vibrant public spaces and events that this winter craft fair gets Disneyland-level regional demand, and this is seen as a problem to be solved with cops and security
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The Christkindlmarkt thing is so funny top to bottom. America so starved for vibrant public spaces and events that this winter craft fair gets Disneyland-level regional demand, and this is seen as a problem to be solved with cops and security
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Ferguson: "This community, long subject to environmental injustice, deserved access to the truth..if given the choice, I would do it again as city officials must be held to the highest standards of transparency and accountability in serving its most vulnerable of citizens.”
Heck yeah.
Heck yeah.
NEW: The Chicago Board of Ethics fined ex-Inspector General Joe Ferguson $5,000 for violating the city’s ethics law by divulging a confidential report that found officials could have stopped a plume of dust from enveloping Little Village when crews demolished a former power plant. @wttw.bsky.social
Former Inspector General Joe Ferguson Fined $5K for Revealing Botched Little Village Smokestack Implosion Could Have Been Prevented
Inspector General Joseph Ferguson, who paid the $5,000 fine, said that while he was disappointed by the board's decision, he had no regrets about his decision to divulge the confidential report.
news.wttw.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Ferguson: "This community, long subject to environmental injustice, deserved access to the truth..if given the choice, I would do it again as city officials must be held to the highest standards of transparency and accountability in serving its most vulnerable of citizens.”
Heck yeah.
Heck yeah.
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Happy thanksgiving USA Americans
November 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Happy thanksgiving USA Americans
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he teaches us well
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM
he teaches us well
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Chicago Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez has filed FEC paperwork to run for Congress in IL-04 as an independent, for the seat Chuy García is vacating. To even make the ballot he’ll need a massive number of signatures, I've heard at least 11,000.
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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So cool
I completed my final count. Out of 10,511 bus stops, I found that 4,360 (41%) of them could be removed to align with national best practices of 1/4 mile spacing. Long-form explainer article and an interactive map are forthcoming. Green dots are removed stops, black are kept stops.
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
So cool
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I am not so sure what a 'brick' is; but I am thinking it is okay because I want to build my life with you. If you are the bricks then I will be the roof and protect you from storms.
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I am not so sure what a 'brick' is; but I am thinking it is okay because I want to build my life with you. If you are the bricks then I will be the roof and protect you from storms.