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24.06.2025 19:29
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following… got lots of thoughts on that app 🙊
i knew that new orleans is cool but i didn’t know that it’s “ride in 100 year old streetcars that are 1 of 2 moving national historical landmarks” cool
got to new orleans early today, so had a bit of time to hack this together - @ire.org IRE 2025 conference custom schedule app :) you can filter + create your own itinerary that will save locally on your device. apadejski-24.github.io/ire-2025-sch...
searched for ire posts, did not disappoint. my little guy also wanted to come with
we also published a guide to chicago + suburbs farmers markets! love guides season 🌞🌻 chicago.suntimes.com/food-drink/2...
published something fun last week 👀 curated guide to chicago summer concerts!
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anyone know what this is about? saw one on my gate and all around my NW chicago neighborhood
holy… didn’t even think about that. as someone who grew up in the balkans in early 2000s, it’s coming full circle 👁️👄👁️ milkas are once again a luxury
tune in at 7pm central 😇
& let’s not forget it’s nonviolent, despite numerous attempts by the govt to incite aggression. the people, led by the student activists, checked each other to ensure peace. i can’t explain how healing it is to see a national identity transform so radically during my (relatively short) lifetime
in a country of 6.7 million…
still waiting on full count - the highest reliable estimate i saw was 325k on streets of Belgrade. by far the largest turnout in Serbia capital’s history. in awe
This is how both the first and second red scares began: deporting legal permanent residents for nothing other than their (also legal) political beliefs
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#ICYMI: We previously reported on Illinois’ “no-schoolers,” children pulled from public school who receive almost no education in homeschool.
One 9-year-old told authorities he was beaten and denied food once his parents decided to be his teachers.
the taxes paid then factor into the deficit number - but do not act as revenue. it’s more of a marker of how much the govt has invested vs. taxes not yet collected from the private sector.
to clarify the loop (simplified for brevity)
1) congress appropriates money for xyz
2) federal reserve “transfers” $ to commercial banks. (i.e. with a keystroke $ is made)
3) commercial banks transfer $ to xyz agency
4) xyz employees use this $ to purchase goods and pay their taxes
lastly, the federal government is the largest employer in the US. federal wages set the prices for talent for the rest of the market. if we eliminate the govt as the biggest employer, it leaves us even more exposed to the mercy (greed) of oligarch billionaires.
so what DOGE is doing isn’t about “saving money” but rather aimed to destroy any element of a social net that exists. the government doesn’t need money - they need OUR labor. the US dollar has no value without its people.
the saddest thing about this is the idea they’re cutting government spending. the american government is not a household - they have a sovereign fiat currency monopoly - they spend first and tax second. our (federal) taxes don’t pay for shit. it’s just the ticket price to the american economy.
this is the mindset we should start from - to transform the internet back into a public good. open source, design for the commons
we’ve gotten so stuck drinking the big social kool aid it’s hard to see other possibilities…
like where do we even start when most of product design in the past decade has been about A/B testing buttons to maximize sales and dark pattern loops 🤡
not buying for a day won’t do much… however - a nationwide rent strike could really make an impact, especially as blackrock is the biggest landlord.
scrolling through bluesky trying to find a voice of reason (my mom)
From a story we published earlier this week on @wbez.org:
We collected ~100 years worth of rent data to find that for thousands of low and middle income renters, Chicago now is likely the most unaffordable its been in nearly a century w/ @popkulturekills.bsky.social
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that’s the exact question i had when we started the story - so i made this tool to get answers - although we don’t have unit level data, it marks areas where the median rent < 30% of entered pre-tax income, 1930-2022. *desktop works best, mobile updates coming soon www.wbez.org/interactive/...
New in @injusticewatch.org today: my colleague @danhinkel.bsky.social takes a hard look at the track record of the nation's most prolific conviction integrity unit
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thank you jess! we miss you 🫶🏻
can we tax their jets tho
& we made a map viz tool that lets you play around with the data + download it. huge shoutout to the @wbez.org data team for this labor of love! @amyqin.bsky.social @justinmyers.net
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