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✨Argumentative Antithetical Dream Girl ✨

Chicago

Joined September 2012

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@mollyfleck

Molly

1 month

✨I'm excited to announce the addition of a Lincoln Park edition to the Kidical Mass roster this summer!✨ We're playing around with a mix of Saturdays & Sundays to see what works best, & plan to explore lots of great LP destinations. Hope to see you there! @ChiFamilyBiking

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4 months

Because nothing is impossible and libraries are amazing community resources that can be anything we want them to be, here's a thread of playgrounds inside of libraries all around the world. Spokane, Washington

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When I was 13, multiple adults paid me to regularly babysit their children.

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1 year

people complaining about kids no longer going outside or riding bikes is because if you try to be a normal parent, other psycho helicopter parents will call the cops on you

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11 months

The Taylors Lautner, like attorneys general

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Taylor Lautner and his wife Taylor Lautner at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Kansas City.

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10 months

This is what cyclists and pedestrians are talking about. We’re not making it up. It happens all the time. Drivers feel entitled to get to their destinations as quickly as possible, and they will threaten the lives of anyone who even momentarily slows them down. Enough.

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After walking for less than a minute legally on the crosswalk a driver tried to run over pedestrians on the sidewalk while another driver tried to run us over

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A driver almost hit my husband in a crosswalk today & then they walked into a shop at the same time. My husband said, "You almost hit me back there," & the driver screamed at him, followed him around the store, & threatened to call the cops. Why do cars make people like this?

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2 years

I regret to inform you that Amsterdam lives up to the hype and I will never shut up about it.

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2 years

Anyone have any recommendations for Amsterdam? So far my plan is to rent a bike and weep uncontrollably every time I ride it on good infrastructure.

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11 months

America could never

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11 months

Between this and the governor doing a Jell-O shot someone tossed him from the crowd, I think it’s safe to say that Illinois elected officials won Pride this year.

@Giannoulias

Alexi Giannoulias

11 months

Thank you Illinois for making me so proud to live here and work for you! #Pride2023 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 (Jordan’s got soaked 🌧️🌧️)

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1 year

@lingerie_addict My laundry being line-dried in Chicago in February

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4 months

I am once again begging the city to open indoor playgrounds at public libraries. My child needs somewhere to burn off energy without getting frostbite, and all the private indoor trampoline parks and such are SO expensive.

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@AdeleScalia Everyone is talking about waking up early to work out, but the actual craziest part of this schedule is twice-a-day hockey practice, including a private lesson at 6:30am, for kids in elementary school.

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@Eric_Erins I will never understand the point of straight-out-of-college consultants. They don't know anything yet!

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1 year

@clhubes I just joined Costco, and I am mystified by it. It took me 10 minutes to figure out how to get a Diet Pepsi to drink while I was shopping the other day, and then I got in trouble for queueing wrong at the checkout.

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2 years

@clhubes According to Instagram, the newest trend among people with too much money is TWO kitchen islands.

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11 months

Update on “Chicago is big in Japan” news: My sushi chef told me he respects Michael Jordan more than God.

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2 years

I can't stop laughing at Darren Bailey moving into the Hancock Building so that he can "immerse [himself] in the culture." My brother in Christ, you live above a Cheesecake Factory.

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2 years

@kordeilogy And then it cuts to 5 minutes of ads after 1 song.

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11 months

My 3yo just spent 3 weeks with his grandparents in the suburbs. He apparently asked his grandmother one day why they couldn’t walk anywhere and where all their stores were. 😂

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4 months

Did you know you can charter a CTA train and throw a party on board?!? I have a new life goal.

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1 year

@andreagrimes If your parent requires 24/7 care and you are unable to provide it, there are 2 and only 2 options: 1) a live-in care facility; or 2) hire home aides. Unpaid labor from your extended family with caretaking commitments of their own is not on the list.

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5 months

I have reached the pinnacle of parenthood, and it’s just everyday life in Barcelona.

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1 year

Women are more likely to take transit than men. Women are more likely to walk to work than men. Women drive less than men. Men cause more fatal car crashes than women, but women are more likely to be injured or killed in a crash. Safe streets advocacy is feminist advocacy.

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Charlotte Gill

@CharlotteCGill

1 year

It’s no coincidence that young men are some of the biggest advocates of killing off the car industry. They’re mostly fit and healthy; they can’t envisage otherwise. They can’t imagine being a mum carting around children nor the woman trying to get home without a taxi at night.

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2 years

2 weeks ago, I took a train 360 miles from Bordeaux to Paris. There are about 20 trains a day to choose from. It takes 2 hours. This weekend, I drove 280 miles from Chicago to Detroit. It takes 5 hours. There are 2 trains a day to choose from. Both take longer than driving. 😩

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5 months

@JarettSays The best part about this was how genuinely confused the presenters and audience members were at first.

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10 months

I rode my bike to the Beyoncé concert at Soldier Field last night, and I'll never go to Soldier Field any other way. Beyoncé finished her show at midnight on the dot, and I was home in Lincoln Park at 12:38.

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I’m really, really tired of cars continuously rolling at me the entire time I’m in the crosswalk. Just stop! It’s not any faster to keep rolling! All you’re doing is making pedestrians feel unsafe!

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2 years

CHICAGO PEOPLE: Go look at the forecast for next week. Trust me.

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2 years

“I need a car because what if it’s raining and I need to move a 55-inch TV?”

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2 years

Today is the day I became a Real Chicagoan.

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4 months

@Crabbygrrl Have you heard of this thing called the library? They have lots of free programming for seniors.

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2 years

Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by Ticketmaster two days in a row #TSxCapitalOne

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1 year

This is the real reason why you should advocate for raised crosswalks in your neighborhood.

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11 months

There are a lot of extremely impressive things about Japanese trains, but there’s one thing that has blown me away and that could be implemented tomorrow in every city for very little money: better wayfinding. 🧵

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4 months

The problem and the solution

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10 months

My most delusional belief is that I am simply smarter and stronger than a tornado by virtue of being Midwestern.

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6 months

Imagine if, as a driver, roads often ended suddenly and you were expected to share space with freight trains. Imagine it did this at every single intersection and also the freight trains routinely jumped their tracks. This is what it's like riding a bike in most of North America.

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Peter Flax

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"Cyclists can't decide whether they want to behave like a car or a pedestrian and just choose whichever is most convenient to them." I would like to nominate this chestnut as the dumbest thing that people repeatedly complain about bike riders.

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@Alison_Rose @clhubes Ha, same. The richest kid at my public HS had an extremely modest lake house and went to Hilton Head for spring break every year. We all thought she was balling. My mind was blown when I went to college and met legitimately rich people.

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10 months

The case for raised crosswalks

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4 months

@missmulrooney I have a solution for you: "Ok, I'll play, but only if we take turns."

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4 months

Monterey, Mexico

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4 months

Double Bay Library, Sydney, Australia

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1 year

Today was the day I finally yelled at the entire train car to take off their backpacks.

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1 year

@lingerie_addict Like, she’s 33! That is not old!

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11 months

@MediumSizeMeech “She’s not looking where she’s going!” As opposed to you, who stepped into the middle of a bike lane and was surprised to encounter someone riding a bike?

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1 year

I love that it's 37 degrees and sunny today, and lots of Chicagoans have decided that's warm enough to ditch their coat. We are a delusional people.

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4 months

Tampines Regional Library, Singapore

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1 year

@KetuAlbrecht Sydney has entered the chat.

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2 months

I hope that the defeat of Bring Chicago Home will be a wake-up call for Mayor Johnson’s administration. I want him to succeed, but he and his team are not putting in the work to show that they’re trustworthy and competent. This was a big chance to do that, and they blew it.

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Nashville Public Main Library, Nashville, TN

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Barrington Area Library, Barrington, IL

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9 months

Had the pleasure of riding down Chicago’s best bike lane this morning. One whole block of perfection, never to be replicated!

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2 years

@iSmashFizzle When I am Empress of the Universe, it will be automatic prison time for: -painting original wood trim -removing or covering original hardwood floors (death penalty for covering them with vinyl that looks like wood) -taking out original decorative or stained glass windows

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8 months

Sir Patrick Stewart, welcome to @TheWarOnCars .

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5 months

@slucy Americans on vacation: Paris was so lovely! We walked everywhere and took the Metro, and it was so clean and quiet! Vive la France! Americans home from vacation: Traffic is a nightmare, and it's all the fault of these new bike lanes!

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1 year

A lady in a Jeep almost just ran over my 3-year-old in the crosswalk at a 4-way stop in front of an elementary school and a park. We were in the crosswalk the whole time, and she just…didn’t stop. I’m so tired of this.

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Al Mankhool Public Library, Dubai, UAE

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3 months

I love when people say I'm making up my stories about close calls with drivers because I have so many of them. I'm not making them up; I just walk and bike a lot. This is what life is like when you primarily get around a city outside of a car.

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4 months

Coming soon to the Central Branch of the Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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4 months

And a shout out to my hometown of Fort Wayne, IN (Allen County Public Library, which is wisely not on Twitter), which has a 2-story "underwater" playground with real fish tanks in the Main Branch!

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11 months

Counterpoint: everywhere should be accessible by public transit.

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6 months

A new-to-Chicago mom w/2 young kids stopped me as I was unlocking my cargo bike. “Excuse me, do you cycle around Chicago w/kids? How do you like it?” “I do! I love it! It’s the best way to get around with small kids.” “So the drivers are pretty respectful then?” “No.”

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6 months

Men on the internet told me this was impossible.

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1 year

How hard is it to turn your head and look in both directions?

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Leavitt Palmer

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1 year

Technically the driver did stop.

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Cecil B. Moore Library, Philadelphia, PA

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Chicago suburbanites: Where am I gonna park at the new Bears stadium?!?1? Other countries: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Grand Forks Public Library, Grand Forks, ND

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1 year

There's nothing more Lincoln Park than a wealthy CEO buying his retired neighbor's historic home in a historic district for $2 million and tearing it down despite community outcry so that his family can have a bigger yard less than 1 block from a park.

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Demolition of historic Lincoln Park home under way after lost preservation fight

A local real estate titan received a permit from the city’s Department of Buildings to wreck and remove a historic Lincoln Park home built soon after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, ending a …

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3 months

Chicagoans are built different.

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2 months

This is one of the things I find most frustrating about conversations around safe streets w/my neighbors. They'll pay for private security and talk about how scared they feel, but they don't even register cars as the main threat they face every day. It's invisible to most people.

@SeattleBikeDad

Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧

@SeattleBikeDad

2 months

About the perception of safety: I walked downtown yesterday, at some places you see poverty and homelessness but nobody tries to kill you, then you walk in a “nice”neighborhood and drivers in SUVs would be ready run you over to arrive few seconds earlier at the next traffic light

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4 months

Just talked to my mom, who reminded me that my hometown’s main library branch has not one but two indoor playgrounds AND a new 2,600 square foot interactive children’s learning center open 7 days a week and until 8pm Monday thru Thursday. 😍

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4 months

I am once again begging the city to open indoor playgrounds at public libraries. My child needs somewhere to burn off energy without getting frostbite, and all the private indoor trampoline parks and such are SO expensive.

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1 year

I am perplexed and low-key offended by the colleague who was in Chicago for one night for work and ate at Noodles and Company.

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1 year

Today I learned that installing one single curb bump-out costs $50,000.

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11 months

@clhubes My youngest brother once saw a family photo taken before he was born and said, "That's when I was dead."

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Kaukana Public Library, Kaukana, WI

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2 years

@KendraWrites @kendrahurleynyc Unfortunately, America doesn’t care about kids in any way that matters. Healthcare, education, poverty reduction, traffic safety… none of it is a priority.

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1 year

If Chicago wants to revive Michigan Avenue, this would be the easiest way to start.

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1 year

Les Champs-Élysées piétons aujourd’hui, comme chaque premier dimanche du mois.

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3 months

Chicago: There is a climate emergency and we must take drastic action on those responsible for escalating it! Also Chicago: Over the last 5 years, transit service has been cut while bike and pedestrian fatalities have increased, and we don’t have a plan to deal with any of it.

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Brett Chase

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BREAKING: Chicago sues five giant oil companies, accusing them of climate-related destruction and for alleged fraudulent actions. The suit follows similar actions in New York, Los Angeles and other cities.

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1 year

This is like how my mom always tells people I live in “downtown Chicago” when I live in Lincoln Park. For people who live outside of the city, everything within the city limits is “downtown.”

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Gregory Royal Pratt

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Paul Vallas said he rode the CTA “downtown” to Wrigley Field. Hmm

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4 months

This was the bike rack at my gym last weekend. Just admit that you’re softer than a bunch of literal children.

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@emilykmay Maybe don't throw a gender reveal party if you're going to have big feelings about it. Just be like me and cry a little bit by yourself in the bathroom at work after your doctor's office calls you with the news.

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“Chicago! That’s where I live!”

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2 months

It should actually be illegal to build grocery stores without housing on top in American cities.

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The greatest real estate pitch in human history.

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2 years

A driver nearly hit me on my commute home bc she used the bike lane to go around a car turning left, but then it turned out she couldn’t go anywhere bc the light was red anyway. I’m so tired of drivers putting my life at risk bc they’re impatient.

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NLL Children's Library, Riga, Latvia

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We really do need classes on crowded train etiquette for young professionals who commute on the brown line. We left tons of people on the platform in freezing weather with 10 min headways bc everyone refuses to sit in empty seats or move to the middle.

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@Joseph_Fasano_ I recently had the thought while looking at my 3-year-old that there will come a day I will carry him for the last time, and the thought of it briefly knocked the wind out of me.

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Shelley Milner Children's Library, Edmonton, AB, Canada

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2 years

I got close-passed less than a foot away from my bike with my 2-year-old on the back on the way home from the grocery store, all so the guy could get to a red light 3 seconds faster. I really don’t think drivers understand how terrifying that feels.

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For anyone interested in Chicago history or public housing, I can’t recommend this book enough. A la The Warmth of Other Suns, @ben_austen weaves together personal resident stories with more journalistic reporting on the history of Cabrini-Green. Very thought-provoking.

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Roanoke Public Library, Roanoke, VA

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My sister recently moved from Manhattan back home to Fort Wayne with our parents for a little while. She's trying to figure out how to get downtown for work without a car, and her options are: ride a bike for an hour or take an Uber. There is literally no transit option. 💀

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1 year

This city is facing an epidemic of men who don’t take their backpacks off on crowded trains.

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3 months

How do we get drivers to stop doing this every single evening? They’re lined up, waiting for the light at the next intersection to turn green. Nobody ever stays behind the stop bar til the intersection is clear; they just pile into the intersection and across the crosswalks.

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Marion Public Library, Marion, IA

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Summit County Library, Colorado

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1 year

@LAmag Oh, *she* is fighting for *her* life? What about the lives of the two children she brutally and thoughtlessly killed? What about the lives of their parents and loved ones, who will never be the same? Hopefully, she spends the rest of her life in prison thinking about those boys.

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@1followernodad It is so weird! What procedure these days requires people to be in the hospital for 2 whole weeks? My dad just had a pretty hardcore back surgery last week, and he was home after about 48 hours.

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@RichmondRCMP The pedestrian is in a marked crosswalk with the right-of-way after pushing a button that activated flashing lights. The driver is starring at the floor and then his phone while ignoring his surroundings. How are these equivalent?

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In the age of Google Maps and drones, is it really necessary to have a helicopter circling over my house every morning at 6am to report on traffic on the Kennedy?

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