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"Despite the backlash, we found that Slow Zones double foot traffic and attract people from a wider range of neighborhoods into one particular place." Dr. Arianna Salazar-Miranda 👇 medium.com/reimagining-...

The Paris regional rail network overlaid on Houston to scale

This took 19 months. 19 months in which they all facilitated a genocide.

The cops are defunding your communities and some of you get furious at abolitionists who have been pointing this out for decades.

if white people have black fatigue from hearing a few Black people complain about racism then what type of exhaustion should Black people have for the centuries of racialized violence?

Akin to Sara Ahmed's phrasing: When you expose a problem you pose a problem.

deporting black and brown immigrants who have committed no crimes while flying in on a charter plane fake white refugees. it was never about "too many immigrants" and always about which ones they deemed acceptable, which was the racist, colonial, white ones.

It’s the 80th Anniversary of VE Day! Here’s to beating back Fascism (now more than ever, please)!

“Transit advocates are taking to the streets every week to warn riders. They say the cuts are as bad as transit agencies say they are, and they are not empty threats. ‘There is a crisis we're facing,’ said Kyle Lucas of Better Streets Chicago. ‘It is as bad as they are saying.’"

Thank you #weseeyou 🇵🇸🍉🇰🇷 #GazaHolocaust #auspol #SouthKorea #Humanity #LIFE #StopStarvingChildren #auspolitics #Zionistterrorism

Good morning! It’s a perfect day to realize that the politics you’re used to are gone and never coming back so you can either think about what you want the future to look like and try to build toward that or keep trying to wishcast the country back to 1998 and be part of the problem.

Misogyny is terrorism & should be globally classified as such & misogynists should be classified as terrorists.

KILL RACISM

We need a leftist Andrew Tate. We need a leftist Fox News. We need a casino where you don't gamble and they give you free money. I refuse to understand the ecosystem I'm in the center of and I will not leave or modify my behavior. We need leftist McNuggets

I am an urbanist because I think everyone deserves the luxury of being able to Walk To The Store

for the people in the driver's seat of the right wing cultural movement, an end to "DEI" always meant doing things like sending free money to a white lady who called a child the n word. sorry if you thought it was about a slightly annoying HR webinar you once had to watch or whatever.

dark money is funding this faux centrist propaganda org called Common Ground Collective. it's likely funded by heavy rightwing interests to push Chicago right. they want "common ground" with fascists? not in my city. they need to be eliminated ASAP. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/02/g...

every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease