a group of people in the audience of council chambers scrolling on their phones
Tonight at the Davis city council meeting multiple city staff just scrolling on their phones while the rest of us heard from several close friends of the student who was killed in a collision with a car - hit from behind by a driver while biking on campus last week. Such indifference.
I'm so jealous.
Lime, Spin, etc are fine but SO expensive. We need a more affordable bike share system in Minneapolis.
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Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.
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The UC Davis Academic Senate adopted our resolution for a Climate Change Literacy GE requirement!!! Second UC to do so!! Plenty of details on implementation to iron out, but grateful to the many colleagues who support efforts to teach all #Aggies about their Climate Future. @ucdavis.bsky.social
Help Matthew Cover Emergency Surgery Costs
If, and only if, it would NOT at all be a financial hardship, and you find what I do valuable ⤵️
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[ ROUND 1 RESULTS ]
Starting with Region 2 this time...
+ Fort Collins beat Oakland 174-10 and is now facing off Davis in the 2nd round
+ Davis beat Salt lake city 63-24
+ San Jose beat Calgary 52-4 and is now facing off against Alameda in the 2nd round.
+ Alameda beat UofC Davis 79-0
Cont'd
“The [Copenhagen] modal split in 1970 was about 10% biking. But then we got the oil crisis…So that was the changing point and now there’s more than a 30% bike modal split.”
We can change our cities. Because of the high price of gas, or just because it’s clearly the smart thing to do. #UrbanTruth
Writing away surrounded by American robins and cedar waxwings all morning, feasting on berries. #backyard_birding
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Today we won.
A U.S. District Court ruled that the administration violated federal law when it secretly convened a group of climate contrarians to produce a thoroughly debunked report to overturn the Endangerment Finding.
The science still matters. We won't stop.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...
"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires.
Anyone can sign the petition — link below!
so will UC Davis and city of Davis now be two separate entries for March Madness? They are after all one (dys)functional network of bike lanes. Asking for a friend...
As an American urbanist, here the top 5 things I hope we can learn from Germany:
#5 Bollards at corners to protect pedestrians
#4 Raised crosswalks with cobble on either side
#3 S-Bahn & U-Bahn system thinking
#2 Public seating in plazas (even in the rain!)
#1 Denazification
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
E-bikes are an amazing transportation tool. Especially in urban places. We should make them more accessible along with building safe bike infrastructure. Go after the illegal bikes/electric motorcycles and don't forget about those cars that actually kill almost 40,000 Americans a year.
🔴 NEW: Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads
www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/a...
📝 @ellen-ormesher.bsky.social
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.
He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.
At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.
Wael died on Friday at age 30.
ICE caused his death.
They didn’t get to say goodbye.
Jesus.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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After lying about this baby they gassed and almost killed in their own neighborhood, DHS deleted their post
This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
what a wasted opportunity, invest in bringing back the ebike rebates. They are affordable, efficient, make more sense for half of all our trips that are under 3 miles and don't cost 12-15k annually to households. Oh, and they are not involved in collisions that kill 40,000+ Americans every year.
Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...
Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
A group of people gathered around a fire pit eating 'oliebollen' to celebrate the end of 2025.
Made a bucket full of batter to bake Dutch 'Oliebollen', which we enjoyed in style with traditional Dutch weather. Happy New Year, best wishes for 2026!
and they were full, took 5-10 minutes for the platform to clear when 2 trains arrived simultaneously. Most friction on the entire trip was escalator capacity at the point of arrival ;-)
I took it from Shanghai to Beijing, 1200 km, 4.5 hours, 46 daily trains on just that stretch. Smooth and fast. Airports and HS rail terminals in side by side terminals for convenient transfers.
