OpenSchoolsChicago

Angrier than I want to be. CPS parent. Trying hard to still believe in public education. Anti-mandates, anti-passports, pro kids' rights.

[Theo Wold @RealTheoWold]

So let me get this straight: Spencer Pratt was ahead of third-place finisher Nithya Raman by ten points on election night and all of the late mail-in ballot drops benefitted one person and one person only, putting Nithya Raman ahead of him.

In a state, mind you, that does not require voter ID, sends a mail-in ballot to all registered voters, allows ballot harvesting, takes weeks to tell you the results, and is blocking the feds from conducting an audit of the voter rolls.

And if you question the integrity of this process, it's only because you're a conspiracy theorist!

[OpenSchoolsChicago @ChicagoOpen]

@nithyavraman How do you sleep at night? Fraud.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) needs to tell his voters to check their ballot status and file a complaint if it hasn't been received yet.

MANY people who voted for Spencer are finding out their ballots haven't been received.

You can check ballot status here: https://t.co/h6ftjTv9Ry

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

Here is:

the single most shocking piece of evidence in the entirety of the November 3, 2020 election:

Statistically impossible:

“They were all in sequence. These are absentee ballots and mail-in ballots. They cannot be in sequence—2232 cannot have 2233 next to it—because they are mailed in and come in all different numbers.”

[aussie17 @_aussie17]

🚨🚨
World-renowned oncologist Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, testifying in the US Senate:
COVID mRNA vaccines are linked to cancer mechanisms.
Pay attention!
This isn’t social media or the lying mass media, it’s the US Senate.
Lying to Congress = federal crime + jail time.
@weldeiry

[Jimmy Falk5 @JimmyFalk_55]

@mazemoore A woman explains how she lost her husband after he took the COVID-19 VACCINE...😞

[MAZE @mazemoore]

This is one of the more important videos I’ve made.

Never forget this evil.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Democrats do anything they want with other people’s money. Illinois Park District Director used a Taxpayer Credit card to pay for her Daughter’s Prom Helicopter!

[OpenSchoolsChicago @ChicagoOpen]

@WGNNews @CFlores_tv After 16 years in CPS, thrilled to be graduating out. We actually had a good run for awhile

[Neo @Realneo101]

DON’T LOOK AWAY.

The Islamic regime is planning to hang Saghar Gholami simply because she protested in the January uprising in Iran.

This girl is only 19.
Share her name before they kill her.

[Kentucky Girl @Notwokenow]

Nick Fuentes was an agitator in Charlottesville and an instigator on J6.

He has now admitted that he is a Democrat.

Do you get it? It was all staged.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚨 DAVE CHAPPELLE: “Every day the news cycling is more appalling than the last day, and this doesn't seem like it's ever going to end. Every week I learn some new word, like Strait of Hormuz … This is intolerable. It's insufferable what's happening right now.”

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

Want to talk about political violence?

Karen Diamond was murdered in Boulder Colorado by a pro-Palestinian man who screamed "free Palestine" while burning her alive with a Molotov cocktail.

Most Americans don't even know this happened.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Average homicide suspect:

Chicago, Illinois: 12 prior arrests
Washington DC: 11 prior arrests
Baltimore, MD: 9 prior arrests

These are the cities I was able to pull up data on, but it's likely the same story everywhere

WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP. The liberal judge who released a Chicago criminal only to go kill a police officer — is the SAME judge who oversaw 3 years of his cases

Now the same judge is presiding over the criminal’s case again

IMPEACH THIS JUDGE!

Hold them liable!

[OpenSchoolsChicago @ChicagoOpen]

@Bubblebathgirl He is pretending crime has no victims. And that means there is no such thing as crime.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

She’s excited to see a Muslim head of state address Congress.

[☘️𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕪 𝕄𝕔𝔾𝕖𝕖‎ @LuckyMcGee]

My favorite part of King Charles appearing before Congress was the part where all the liberals who refused to stand or applaud for Angel Moms or a kid with cancer, and who constantly scream “NO KINGS!” give a 3 minute standing ovation for a literal king. 🙃

What a bunch of disingenuous hypocrites.

[OpenSchoolsChicago @ChicagoOpen]

@Libs_OfChicago Tired of defining everything by race. Exhausting

[OpenSchoolsChicago @ChicagoOpen]

What say you, @cta @ChicagosMayor

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

BART spent $90 million on new fare gates. They're recovering about $10 million a year in fares.

That's a 9-year payback on paper. The actual return hit in six months.

Embarcadero station went from 112 hours of corrective maintenance in the six months before installation to 2 hours after. Daly City saved 109. Balboa Park saved 75. Across the system, 961 hours of cleanup work disappeared. Corrective maintenance is the term BART uses for graffiti, heavy soiling, vandalism, the damage that needs a crew not a janitor. At several stations it dropped to zero.

Crime fell 41% year over year. Riders who reported seeing fare evasion on their trip dropped from 22% to 10%. Citations issued by BART police went from 2,200 in January to under 1,000 in July, because there was nothing to cite.

The gates were a filtering project disguised as a revenue project.

Old BART gates were waist-high orange fins designed in the 1970s. You could hop them in under a second. That made the station effectively a public space, and the rider mix reflected that. The new gates are 72 inches of polycarbonate with 3D sensors that detect tailgating. You either pay or you don't enter. Once you don't enter, you also don't smoke on the platform, sleep in the elevator, or harass other riders.

BART tried hiring more police for years. Blitz operations at high-traffic stations. Increased patrols. Dedicated transit cops. None of it moved the numbers the way six feet of polycarbonate did.

The $10 million in recovered fares is the smallest line in the return. Fare revenue used to cover 70% of BART operations. After the pandemic it collapsed to 22%. The gates won't fix that gap directly. They fix the precondition for fixing it: a system that office workers, families, and tourists are willing to use again. Ridership growth at stations with new gates outpaced ungated ones before the rollout finished.

A $400 million annual deficit is heading to voters in November as a sales tax measure. Voters don't approve sales taxes for transit agencies they don't feel safe in. The $90 million on gates is buying BART the right to ask the public for more money.

That's the real return on six feet of polycarbonate.