I am so here for this. It needs to be said. You don’t get to opt out of your obligations to protect your neighbors from fascism.

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I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

Bill to Exempt L.A. from Housing Density Near-Transit Bill Heads to the Senate Housing Committee Tomorrow - Streetsblog California L.A. Metro and many Southern California city leaders are pushing for SB 1361, which would essentially carve L.A. County out from last year's pro-transit-oriented housing legislation SB 79

Stop me if you've heard this, but I feel strongly that suburban cities that want tax dollars for transit but don't want the housing that makes transit fiscally sustainable should get zero tax dollars.

Not just for transit, but in general.

Bankrupt moochers, IMO cal.streetsblog.org/2026/04/20/b...

70 powerful Bay Area men were accused of sexual misconduct. What happened next? Since 2010, scores of prominent local men have faced allegations ranging from sexual harassment to rape. Most have returned to the highest echelons of public life.

Harassing has so little long-term effect: "We found that 76% of the men we reviewed are professionally active, 41% are in the same or an elevated role since the allegations were made public"
I'm glad someone is keeping track so industries hold people accountable
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"I've been radicalized on bicycle and pedestrian safety."

CA Assemblymember @buffywicks.bsky.social at yesterday's transportation committee.

You love to hear it! 👏🏻👏🏻

there is literally one proven policy to reduce traffic congestion long-term.

it’s congestion pricing. and Trump just spent a whole year trying to illegally scrap it in New York City

Before (1970) / After (2026) the former expressway along the Seine in the center of Paris, now a pedestrianized zone for about ten years.

climate arson

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

ah yes, personal freedom, that thing that is always present IN THE MILITARY

One of the worst parts of being young is that you can't know what you don't know, and if someone tells you, it doesn't sound real to you, because it hasn't *been* real to you yet. Source: The Past. Which you don't have yet, when you're young

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek), with the handle @magyarpeterMP. The post reads: "Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then — on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office." At the bottom, the timestamp reads "3:04 AM • Apr 21, 2026" alongside "19.9K Views".

Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.

As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

Parking minimums are a "gift" to car dealerships and oil companies, locking in onerous car dependency.

I think the widespread resurgence of eugenics among Republicans still remains an under-covered story

Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.

A two-story height limit for transit-oriented development in the nation’s 2nd biggest city. Bravo, Los Angeles.

Climate Change Concern Near Its High Point in U.S. The 44% of U.S. adults who currently worry "a great deal" about climate change or global warming is near its 46% high point from 2020.

US elites decided, like a school of fish, that climate concern is old, boring, "woke," square, not hip & popular any more. As usual, it was based almost entirely on internal elite dynamics. It had nothing to do with the actual public, which is more concerned than ever.

or even, close school streets to cars entirely. We can all be Paris.

Even crash deaths are insufficient for immediate safety improvements at an intersection. Instead, municipalities will do years of traffic studies before they will lower speed limits, add stop signs, add lights, or reduce lanes. These departments are prioritizing "traffic flow" over human lives.

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.

WE Pay for

What If Cities Onboarded Residents Like Employers Onboard Employees? Authored by Aaron Hurst, Founder and CEO of the US Chamber of Connection I have hosted dozens of dinners in my home in Seattle over the past few years, bringing together people across backgrounds and…

A simple way to expand toward transit/biking trips in your city: Offer new arrivals a welcome package including a transit pass and free bikeshare trips. 

These are the moments when people form new travel habits, so it's a great time for nudges!

I've been introducing my teens to Patrick O'Brian, but really didn't need this real-world relevance, thanks

How are people with visual impairments supposed to cross the street? The walk sign chirps audibly to cue people who can't see well. It is on the person with the greatest capacity to cause harm to exercise the greatest care.

If this were an ebike, the community would be really upset.

Wimbledon finally ended the practice of referring to women by their husband's name in 2022

Evonne Goolagong who won in 1980 was credited as "Mrs. R. Cawley" and in 1981 Chris Evert was credited as "Mrs. J.M. Lloyd" (among many other misnamings)

Don't make me nostalgic for Orly Taitz

There’s no way for-profit incarceration ends well for society.