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Every Black life deserves safety, dignity, and to live without the constant threat of gun violence. #WearOrange 🧡

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

#WearOrange was started by the friends and family of Hadiya Pendleton to honor her after she was shot and killed. Today, we wear orange—the color hunters wear in the woods to protect themselves—to remember Hadiya and the nearly 46,000 Americans who are killed with guns every year. 🧡

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

No other peer nation allows gun violence to steal so many children’s lives. On National Gun Violence Awareness Day, we #WearOrange because every child deserves to be safe—at school, at home, everywhere. Why do you wear orange?

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

One of my favorite things about biking for transportation is that you get to go to some beautiful places sometimes just by running an errand.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

One of the people injured in the attack today on a group of Israeli hostage demonstrators in Boulder was an elderly woman who survived the holocaust: coloradosun.com/2025/06/01/b... #copolitics

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Most Jews have been banging on the table for the last 19 months that this could happen. Enough is enough. Non-Jews need to clearly speak out against the blatant and growing rot of antisemitism that’s fueling despicable acts like what we saw today in Boulder.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

It makes me sad that Denver is valuing aesthetics over safety. Blaming people not coming to downtown Denver on flex posts in bike lanes is so far out of touch with reality. Studies show that protected bike lanes are a net positive for businesses. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J99n...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

It’s possible to have safe bike lanes that are also beautiful.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

We should not accept this as "normal."

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

DBL meetup tomorrow/Wed night on the patio at Champagne Tiger. Join us! #BackTheFax

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Re-upping this in light of CPR suing the Trump administration over funding. "Accountability reporting has always posed a threat to tyrants, including the tyrants in power today."

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

A member of the facilities team at the middle school I work at was tragically killed in a hit and run last week. He was 27. His brother is a colleague of mine and this has obviously devastated their family. Please consider supporting them during this time. gofund.me/20ab2ab5

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

An Australian woman legally visiting her US Army Lt. husband in Hawaii was treated like a criminal by US immigration staff. She was thrown in federal prison overnight without food, and then placed on a plane back to Australia the next day with no explanation. www.news.com.au/travel/trave...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

After a week when my wife’s coworkers was killed while walking in a hit & run, choosing visuals over safety feels pretty disgusting. “the city is ditching flex posts to give that downtown area a better look and to make sure pedestrians can see into store windows from across the street.”

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

“Jada Webb, a high schooler who catches the bus at Howard every day to get to school, visibly cringed when she looked across Federal Blvd. “It’s a little scary. Sometimes it’s okay, but most of the time it kind of freaks me out,”“ bucketlistcommunitycafe.com/federal-blvd...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

A Lake Middle School facilities team member was killed while walking in a hit and run on Sunday Morning. www.9news.com/article/news...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Blake Street was an amazing protected bike lane. I’m sad and angry to see the city tearing parts of it up for aesthetic reasons. It is now less safe than it used to be. Here is a video of what it uses to look like with @activetowns.bsky.social youtu.be/oUBdpYJtlBA?...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

submitted 17 days ago • 152 comments

Dammit, DOTI is at it again. This time removing flex posts along an arterial protected bike lane. This goes against their own Bikeway Design Manual which says posts should be every 20 feet. This department is hell bent on going backwards. Before and after pictures below.

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

I love this idea. This should be a national movement. Pun very much intended.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

"Some National Weather Service offices, including Jackson, no longer have overnight staff from midnight to 7AM. All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed. There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..." www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...

submitted 19 days ago • 1260 comments

“There’s at least five schools in Denver that have had bike buses launch in the last two years. Unlike traditional school buses operated by the district, they’re run almost entirely by parents.” #BikeBus www.rmpbs.org/blogs/outdoo...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

West Colfax Avenue during the Colfax Marathon is the car free street you didn’t know you needed today. Car free streets are the best. #StreetsAreForPeople

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Sun Valley Night Market kicking off under the Colfax Viaduct tonight. Live music, roller skating, food trucks, and vendors.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s errands on the bike: -Grocery shopping -Taking kids to swim lessons -Hand delivering daughter’s birthday invites because she wanted to give them to her friends in person

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Was in ATL this week and got to check out the Beltline Trail. It’s an incredible example of what a vibrant community space can be when you mix a trail with walkable neighborhoods, housing, along with neighborhood shops and restaurants.

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

Seeing older kids biking down the sidewalk on residential streets is a telltale sign that bike infrastructure isn’t comfortable enough. We need more diverters on our neighborhood bikeways so that all ages and abilities feel safe biking.

submitted 25 days ago • 9 comments

In St. Louis, seventh grader Evander Page walks or bikes to school. But he can’t count on drivers to slow down or stop for him. He and other pupils collected 1,300 signatures from drivers pledging to stop at stop signs. Rachel Lippmann of St Louis Public Radio reports. www.stlpr.org/education/20...

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

The Cherry Creek Trail is the crown jewell of biking infrastructure in Denver. When you build high comfort safe places to ride, people will use them.

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

Gotta love bike friendly Colorado 🚲❤️

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments