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I make things, including bike rides, state housing laws, bread, and trouble. Quality varies with rainfall, political winds, and tire pressure. Run comms at @cayimby for the love of cities.
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Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Paul Varry dreamed of a cycling revolution. Then a man intentionally drove his SUV into the separated bike lane in Paris and murdered Paul.

This story about David Brooks is one of the most brutal takedowns I’ve ever read. By the late Tony Judt

Watch for a Tesla stock price bump from Elon killing the regulators who preparing to stop him from killing people with his deadly cars.

Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...

“Road safety is a crisis that has gone on far too long. No road deaths are necessary or acceptable. Yet it is also much more than that. Safe and sustainable mobility can power a better future for us all.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Serious question: Do you think Trump and Elon would be doing all this stuff if they knew Democrats were as heavily armed as the Republican base? We do not talk nearly enough about how Democrats’ ideological opposition to guns has made us easy targets for fascists.

All the stupid and illegal stuff that the Trump administration is doing is just making China stronger. We’ll all be speaking Chinese soon and I can teach you.

Ever ask yourself why so many climate scientists are also cyclists?

‘Venture capital is killing more value than it creates,' author and tech activist Catherine Bracy argues in a new book, World Eaters. Silicon Valley needs to focus more on solving real-world problems and less on fast profit, she says.

A lot of folks encouraged me to come to this website because the other one was filled with right-wing fascists, but seems this site is just filled with left-wing fascists. I think we need to just accept that we’re at war with a red-brown alliance and the website you use to fight it is immaterial.

This smug gleeful piece revels in scolding the dumb libs for being cringe and caring about things. It welcomes fascist Trump’s Ukrainian surrender and insists resisting against fascist Putin is impossible. People with seething contempt for EU liberals but resigned acceptance of fascism are fascist.

“Millions are driving 50 miles each way to work. … It can be the only way to reach affordable housing. “I often hear: ‘That’s American culture. Everyone prefers to drive. That’s how it got this way.‘ “This story is historically wrong. It serves as an excuse to do nothing about the status quo.”

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be *legislators* right now. We need them to be *politicians.* There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

Smart @alonlevy.bsky.social post on why building code reform is important, but zoning reform is more urgent for getting family size apartments. Seattle allows six-story single-stair buildings, but they’re mostly full of studios: pedestrianobservations.com/2025/02/21/y...

No room for apologists for the Confederacy, even if it’s an accident. Great thread.

When do we talk about the war we’re in?

You can not prevent the rise of far-right/fascist politics while maintaining a large, massively-subsidized domestic car industry. It is not possible. We will never learn.

Do you think someone is printing I BOUGHT THIS WHEN IT WAS CLEAR TEN YEARS AGO ELON MUSK WAS A FRAUD AND A SOCIOPATH bumper stickers to put on my Nissan Leaf?

Spoiler: The glue is failing in freezing weather. Because they used glue on the Cybertruck.

PORTLAND: let's go fuck up Elon Musk's money this weekend! Meet me at the Tesla store on 4330 S Macadam Ave at 11 am on Saturday. We have to let our neighbors know that spending even a single dollar with Tesla is unacceptable. No cars, no service, no charging, period. We're done. #TeslaTakedown

genuinely glad some liberals are catching onto this, i know this article is a behemoth but i strongly recommend ctrl f-ing workers world party and reading that and the PSL section, these ghouls cuddle up to fascists too libcom.org/article/inve...

"it is a party's job to earn your vote" rather than "participating in the government of a republic is a citizen's duty" is just decadence.

We are slow walking into a massive disaster. Portland's housing shortage stands to get exponentially worse without significant reforms and initiative to build more housing. graph via slideshow to city ecdev committee www.portland.gov/sites/defaul... (h/t eagle eye @maccoinnich.bsky.social)

There was nothing more predictable than the U.S. government sabotaging electric cars as soon as Republicans regained power. The climate movement deluded itself into believing industrial policy benefiting red states would end this. It is a category error about the nature of the car industry …

So with the purge of military brass, Putin has won his war against the U.S., it’s clear he has massive leverage over both Trump & Elon to extent they both know he’d come for them if they disobey. The Republican party is an enemy of the state, and we’re in a civil war. When do we admit it.

The DC Attorney General is suing 3 dangerous Maryland drivers, and we support this. If you're a Maryland driver who doesn't want to pay camera tickets in DC, all you gotta do is: stop at stop signs, stop at red lights, obey the speed limit. (Or only walk/bike/take transit in DC. That works too.)

Let’s be honest. We really needed this. #4Nations #CanadaWins

In many ways it's fitting that the showdown between monarchy and democracy ends up being over NYC congestion pricing. Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space. The cameras are staying on!

The #TeslaTakedown movement needs art! Specifically, we need art that will trigger a fear response. We need to send the message that we see through Tesla's fraud, and that we have no alternative but to keep attacking the company and its stock to effect change. That it only gets worse from here.

looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing

Donald Trump’s Putinization of America My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...