✅ It’s a good thing that CTA is ending its private security contract, and local news is not sharing with you the full picture.

Cartoon Earth and CTA logo characters high fiving with text saying I rode the CTA on Earth Day.

Earth Day 🤝 Riding public transit

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Show your support for the BUILD Plan! Gov. Pritzker's housing reform package is being heard in a subject matter hearing this Thursday (4/23). You can show your support for this legislation by filing a 'witness slip' in favor of six bills.

Scan or follow the link → If you already have an account, sign in first and navigate to the hearing page. https://ilga.gov/Senate/hearings/details/3072/22865/createwitnessslip

Add your contact information. → For Firm/Business or Agency: "Self, I support the BUILD Package" → For Title: "Self"

the Illinois Senate will have their first hearing about BUILD on Thursday and I'm looking for a few good Illinoisans to submit their first "witness slip" in the next 36 hours

Open this page and follow the instructions in this thread:
bit.ly/BUILDWitness...

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Please add #SB3187 to the list of Proponent bills when you fill this out

The guards were useless, they just stood in groups staring at their phones. This week there is a noticeable increase in CPD doing the same as the guard service. This morning on Belmont blue, old fat CPD were congregated at the bottom of the stairs in everyone’s way.

This is a great segment, keep them coming!

Exterior of Unabridged Bookstore in Chicago, IL

A sticker and paper foldout promoting the Chicagoland Indie Bookstore Day Crawl

Independent Bookstore Day '26 is ONE WEEK AWAY!

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Sitting on the train moving while they pump the brakes.

Not check your six when launching a snot rocket

Chicago traffic

This always cheers me up on a Friday!

I’m helping Pat Tomasulo of WGN TV and WGN Morning News to raise money to end Trigeninal Neuralgia. This is a one of kind offer. Click here for details or text using the info on the photo. my.onecause.com/event/organi...

Are Roundabouts Faster Than Four-Way Stops? YouTube video by Myth Busted

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I'm starting to see lots more covered and defaced plates, so do I have to come out of #CriminalMischief retirement? I think so!

PHOTOS: 'Operation Dildo Blitz' Sees Protesters Wield Sex Toys Outside ICE Facility In Broadview Saturday's demonstration was part of a series of sex toy friendly protests against federal immigration enforcement, with protesters in Broadview deploying 350 dildos at the rally.

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“If they can automatically enroll men into the draft at 18, they can automatically register Americans to vote at 18.

Ask yourself why they won’t”
Josh H.

Empty CTA bus

0800, 77 West on Belmont, got my own bus to the Blue Line

Public transit deserves to be celebrated and valued, and needs it's stories told! That's something Nora Leerhsen mentioned during a recent conversation with @thewaroncars.bsky.social at an event hosted by @betterstreetschicago.org!

How do you celebrate transit?

Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear sitting aside acting CTA president Nora Leerhsen, with the cta logo projected in the background

A crowd of people clapping in an auditorium

The Funny You Should Care improv troupe waving excitedly on stage

Kyle Lucas of Better Streets Chicago in front of a slide showing the Life After Cars book, better streets chicago logo, and The War On Cars logo

Better Streets Chicago put on a fantastic show this past Saturday, featuring @thewaroncars.bsky.social hosts Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon giving us some Chicago history and interviewing acting CTA President Nora Leerhsen, and comedy group Funny You Should Care giving us great sketch comedy!

BFF Bikes— Careers

If anyone is looking for a bike job in Chicago BFF Bikes is hiring www.bffbikes.com/careers

CBS News used my dashboard to show that this wasn’t an “accident”, but a common occurrence at this intersection.

When will CDOT make it stop?

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Bicyclist dead, woman critical after SW Side hit-and-run Police are searching for the driver responsible for a hit-and-run crash that left a bicyclist dead and a 22-year-oild woman critically injured early Sunday in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the c…

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18-year-old Damian Gomez’s mom says he was a happy young man who loved his family and was trying to help her out by delivering food at the time of the crash.

Gomez’s family said he graduated high school less than a year ago and had ambitions and things he couldn’t wait to accomplish.

I agree! She has a great attitude and vision for what public transit is and could be. If she ran for mayor with her messaging from last night I would vote for her. I was in the cheap seats, but enjoyed the show and the ride.

Breaking apart the forced unity of sex and gender, while increasing the scope of liveable lives, needs to be a central goal of feminism and other forms of social justice activism. This is important for everybody, especially, but not exclusively, for trans people.

-Susan Stryker, Transgender History

Well, a ton of them voted for him...

Converting everything, my 34 mile round trip would make me $385/ month on a 22 work day month! Not a bad return for 2.5 hours a day!

Are you ready for the Final Four today? I-L-L!