🚌 Fast buses.
🏙️ Green social housing.
⚡ Public utilities.
What do these all have in common? They’re part of a winning strategy to make life more affordable while cutting pollution. Read @cplusc.bsky.social ’ s Working Class Climate Agenda for the details: stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org
"We consider ourselves a city-shaping company... We create cities and then, as a utility facility, we add the stations and the railways to connect them one with another" — president of Tokyu Corporation
Okay CTA. This is a good sign.
Much better at Boston than LA today...
Metro Mapper LA Daily #25 (Medium) 🟥🟥🟨🟨🟩
Metro Mapper Boston Daily #25 (Medium)
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🚇 metromapper.net
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Metro Mapper Boston Daily #24 (Medium)
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🚇 metromapper.net
Oof, @orenbj.bsky.social just tanked my productivity.
Metro Mapper LA Daily #24 (Medium)
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🚇 metromapper.net
LAX automated people mover on elevated track with control tower and theme building in background
LAX APM testing
We need to keep making the connections between transportation infrastructure and public health.
sph.washington.edu/news-events/...
Turning 50 today has us feeling a bit nostalgic. 🥹🤎
It’s been an honor of a lifetime being America’s Metro system. 🚇🚍🚐 Here’s to the next 50 years! 🥳
Big news for the Red Line Extension in Chicago, which the Trump Administration has been trying to de-fund on completely spurious grounds.
We're now 428 days into the 2nd Trump admin, which hasn't funded a single new transit line & which has attempted to de-fund 3 lines www.urban.org/urban-wire/r...
Qatar Airways 787 with orange engine covers being towed along a taxiway with the snowy Alps in the background
Qatar Airways 787 parked in front of various Swiss planes
Qatar Airways 787 (tail number A7-BHG) towed into long-term parking at ZRH
Introducing Osmix, our new high-performance OpenStreetMap toolkit for TypeScript that can read, query, merge, and transform OSM PBFs in the browser
Try it for yourself at osmix.dev
Join me and the people who bring you the “No Kings” march for this webinar on stopping 21st century American concentration camps. I’m honored to help introduce Andrea Pitzer, author of “One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps.” RSVP here for this March 5 mass call.
We're sharing a new browser-first toolkit for working with #OpenStreetMap tomorrow afternoon. Even if you missed the registration for #OpenThePaths 2026, stay tuned for more details and recordings of the sessions.
Have you noticed how navigation apps include walking & waiting for public transit, but excludes parking & walking for driving? After being late a few times 😅, we finally did. We got curious: what if these apps account for parking?
Screenshot of MBTA Go app, showing Route 1 outbound departures at Massachusetts Ave @ Dana St
Upcoming Route 1 departures:
🙂 1 min
🙂 2 min
🙂 3 min
🙃 27 min (likely cancelled)
😡 32 min
#MBTA
#BusBunching
God Bless America: proceeds to name every country on the continent. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
A train approaches the Ashland Green/Pink station on elevated tracks through a cityscape at sunset.
friendly reminder that post 5 pm sunsets are officially back 🌆
Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
CAL FIRE’s thoughts are with the people and firefighters in Chile as catastrophic wildfires continue to burn across central and southern regions, forcing more than 50,000 people to evacuate and killing at least 18 people.
#ChileWildfires #WildfireResponse
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FRITZ EMMANUEL LESLY MIOT, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 25-cv-02471 (ACR) V. DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: "America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions." More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington's vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take.? eSec Noem I just met with the President. I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies. Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom-not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS. WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE. 6:52 PM - Dec 1, 2025 - 13.2M Views ' Letter from George Washington to Joshua Holmes (December 2, 1783). 2 Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl.) 1110 n.91. But see supra n.l.
So says the official responsible for overseeing the TPS program. And one of those (her word) "damn" countries is Haiti. Relevant here, three days before making the above post, Secretary Noem announced she would terminate Haiti's TPS designation as of February 3, 2026. See 90 Fed. Reg. 54733 (Nov. 28, 2025) (Termination). Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, "killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies." They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer's disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) 1 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. 1 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. | 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. 9| 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. 9|5. They claim that Secretary Noem's decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law. Plaintiffs seek to stay the Secretary's decision under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending the outcome of this litigation. See Dkt. 81 (§ 705 Mot.). To decide their motion, the Court considers first whether it has jurisdiction. It does. See Part II. It then considers: whether Plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits; whether they will be irreparably harmed absent a stay; and whether a merged balance of the equities and public interest analysis favors a stay. See Part III. Each element favors Plaintiffs. See Parts IV, V, and VI.
Finally, the balance of equities and public interest favor a stay. The Government does not cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things— in the public interest is not one of them. For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705, Dkt. 81.
BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Almost daily protests at the New England ICE field office: fixice.org/protests1000...
#ICEout
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I’ve been fascinated by the story of the 1st Minnesota since I first heard it. I wrote this to connect some dots that feel like they point in the same direction, even if they start 160 years apart.
andrewowen.bandcamp.com/track/first-...
Would be an interesting time for the Catholic Church in the US to resuscitate the idea of the Vicariate of Solidarty, the department the Chilean wing of the church established to contend with Pinochet's abuses. They were critical record keepers of all that happened.
elpais.com/chile/2026-0...
1/ They did it again. More ADS-B spoofing drawing images in ADS-B Exchange. x.com/TheIntelFrog...
Two Rice University freshmen created a website mapping ICE incidents
ricethresher.org/article/fres...
Steam rising from the Chicago River on a cold morning L train approaching Lake St bridge on the left, skyline in the background
Steam rising from the Chicago River on a cold morning
A transformer is painted with the image of Liam Ramos in his blue bunny hat at the corner of Vin Scully and Stadium Way outside of Dodger Stadium.
Corner of Vin Scully and Stadium Way, Dodger Stadium.
