DJ Alderman

🏳️‍⚧️ ⚧️ they/them.
Urban planner, organizer, teacher, musician.
I probably argued with you at a party.
Chicago over everything.
Opinions are my own.

[DJ Alderman @mxmareralph]

July 29 marked 20 years of sobriety for me. I didn't get sober or start going to 12-step meetings because I wanted to - I just could not stay alive if I kept drinking and using drugs but was absolutely incapable of stopping on my own. I could never have imagined the life I have

[Josh Raby @JoshRaby]

Trump has ruined the last decade of our lives and I long for the psychic release of his eventual exit from this plane, but, goddamnit, “he’s making everyone around him wear shoes that don’t fit” is such an inspired character detail. Like I’m mad at how fucking good a bit that is.

[lomikriel @lomikriel]

"We have been here for nine months,” wrote the 9-year-old. “Please get us out.”

"I miss my bear," the 5-year-old said.

In letters & drawings, the longest-held family at the Dilley ICE detention center describe it as "slowly killing us on the inside."

https://t.co/ZwLuMWb1Al

[Sunrise Movement 🌅 @sunrisemvmt]

AIPAC has now spent over $15 million in four Chicago House races.

IL-02: $3,243,974.70
IL-07: $3,204,623.23
IL-08: $3,777,239.68
IL-09: $5,404,175.65

They know the AIPAC name is toxic, so they're using front groups like "Elect Chicago Women" and "Affordable Chicago Now!"

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

Real heads will remember back in 2019 when @nprmusic told me I couldn’t write for them anymore (after 11 years!) because Tucker Carlson yelled at me on his show and they decided I’m “too political.”

The last piece they commissioned from me? A pre-write obituary for Ozzy Osborne.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Judge sentences ex-officer in Breonna Taylor raid to nearly 3 years in prison, declining DOJ request of no prison time.

[Housing 4 All is Hot @ahouse4all]

The mayor keeps posting 'before & after' pics of cleared tents but never any follow ups on the ppl who used to live there. Did they get housing/rehab/medical help? How did they end up there? Do we only care about hiding homelessness, not solving it? I think the answer is clear 😟

[Brian Goldstone @brian_goldstone]

NEW: Nearly *HALF* of all U.S. workers now earn less than the hourly wage needed to afford a modest one-bedroom apartment.

When I say the term "working homeless" is no longer a contradiction in America, this is exactly why.

[Criminalsimpsons @Criminalsimpson]

What’s your favorite Simpsons pamphlet, magazine, or book?

[Brian Goldstone @brian_goldstone]

While writing THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US, what I wanted most was for readers to feel the fury I carried during my reporting—the outrage, the horror at what this country forces our neighbors to endure.

This @curaffairs review captures exactly what I hoped the book would convey:

[Alexander McCoy @AlexanderMcCoy4]

The opinion that “violated Times social media standards”:

[Gavin Mueller @gavinmuellerphd]

once you realize every NYT story is, at bottom, about ivy league college admissions, you will understand everything

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Poll: Did our party's old guard this past week spend more time attacking @ZohranKMamdani or the Trump bill that is the largest Medicaid cut in history?

[Waleed Shahid 🪬 @_waleedshahid]

NEW: Analysis by @_vaibhavvijay_ and I on broadcast media coverage of @ZohranKMamdani this past week.

https://t.co/1MjZ3ejRk4

[Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan]

There will soon be a new army of secret police and you should not delude yourself that they will never turn their gaze towards you.
https://t.co/Ytmd07w66G

[Jimmy King @Jimmyking35]

Good morning Philadelphia. Dont cross the picket line. Dont use city dumping sites. Put pressure on the city until they pay sanitation workers the money they deserve. When you see all the trash piled up remember it’s because the Mayor decided to line her friends pockets instead

[Rick Paulas @rick_paulas]

What are some of your everyday Eric Adams quotes? “Make haters your waiters” is a stone-cold classic, as is “in NYC you can see everything from 9/11 to someone opening up a business,” but I personally get a lot of use out of “first stop is always Istanbul.”

[DJ Alderman @mxmareralph]

This concludes my coverage of today's meeting for @CHIdocumenters.

[DJ Alderman @mxmareralph]

Hello, I'm Mare. I'll be live-reporting today's Metropolitan Water Reclamation Board @MWRDGC meeting for #CHIdocumenters
@CHIdocumenters

@city_bureau

[DJ Alderman @mxmareralph]

For more information on today's meeting, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, and upcoming events, visit: https://t.co/3CUlVWSnYG

[DJ Alderman @mxmareralph]

With no new business to be introduced, President Steele asks if there is a motion to adjourn. Comm. Corral Sepúlveda motions to adjourn, with Vice President Flynn seconding. With seven yeas, the motion carries and the meeting adjourns at 10:58 am.

[DJ Alderman @mxmareralph]

Vice President Flynn also states that her office will be participating in Plastic Free July, noting that everyone can decrease their reliance on single-use plastics like water bottles.