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Transportation Engineer. Hopeful for a better future where we take the climate crisis seriously, regulate wealth inequality, and create a truly equitable and democratic society.
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This is who is in charge of our govt due to the Trump Musk coup

It is frightening to see a man who LOVES TO TARGET people for hate attacks he doesn’t like to have access to our most personal financial information.

Come back next year for their oil rig exhibits and clear-cut camping spaces

Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?

"American history is not a steady march toward greater equality, democracy and individual rights. America’s commitment to these liberal values has competed with an alternative set of illiberal values that hold that full American citizenship should be limited by race, ethnicity, gender and class." 🗃️

This crosses all industries. The chaos is really hard to describe. It is all so harmful and short sighted.

That the lawsuits are not, and will never be, against the companies with white men over-represented in leadership and senior positions tells us all that we need to understand about the motives here…

There is a reason they want to eliminate regulatory protections for all of us.

When you see the whole project as an oligarchy grift campaign, it makes more sense.

Thinking a lot of the role of recording dissent, of the role of bearing witness. My mind goes to Sotomayor's Trump immunity dissent. "The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law."

“During the interview Noem acknowledged President had given Musk full access to sensitive data about Americans.” “The information that he has is looking at programs not focusing on personal data,” Noem said Nothing to worry about! Elon Musk never lies, right?! www.thedailybeast.com/you-are-the-...

Affirmatively stating that you are a racist is no longer a fireable offense. But supporting workplace diversity is.

Segregationists' handiwork

Authoritarian leaders view history as profoundly threatening. 🗃️ www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

Trump is stealing your tax dollars and giving them to Elon Musk

“81% of rural counties had more deaths than births between 2019 & 2023. Trump won many rural voters during his last two presidential campaigns with his populist economic message” 2025 Trump- prioritize grants to communities w/ higher birth rates 🤔🤥🫣 www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

Today I left a message at Mike Lee’s office asking his staff to follow up with DC public works to improve trash collection since they want to run our city. I also asked them to reflect on the absurdity of congress managing city services. I encourage all DC residents to call his office! @51st.news

“There is no academic literature justifying using these two conditions to consider where a national government should invest transportation dollars” www.ajc.com/news/atlanta...

“No one ever thought that this would happen. I thought that the administration was going after violent criminals, but these people are innocent, honest, hardworking people.” I expect this will be a frequent quote in the next two years. www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

The Musk minions who are stealing all our government data and placing sensitive information about all of us in unknown hands are worried that someone might target *them*

See you this afternoon! Bring your questions!

It says a lot about the United States and our politics, that it is considered “divisive” to eliminate tax exempt status from organizations that glorify traitors to the United States virginiamercury.com/briefs/house...

From inside the Flyers practice rink…it is clear, the @wshcapitals.bsky.social are never far from the Flyers minds! @rmnb.bsky.social

US public universities are the envy of the world and are our greatest comparative advantage. It’s astounding how little that’s appreciated by politicians who want to defund them because they’re woke. The University of Wisconsin is ranked higher than the Sorbonne. University of Illinois outranks LSE.

This is fantastic. We need all cities to do this. Don't we all want clean air and a livable planet?

Great article, David!

People have been asking for safe streets for generations…this school zone was *improved* in future years by WIDENING the road to 4 lanes! Thankfully a recent road diet made it safer…70 years later!

The Big Oil misinformation campaign (led by Exxon) really took off in the 1980s. One of the saddest podcast I have ever listened to was Drilled drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Shared streets in the USA have looked radically different in some communities! Here is Northfork, West Virginia in 1946. Photo by Russell Lee

I think the time has come for this book! The heroes are out there now!

“Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.” A worrisome sign as media companies and tech leaders start lining up to bend the knee to Trump | Editorial www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

It is completely wild that this was Harvard Square in the 1970s. Our society was so convinced making parking abundant was key to a city’s economy, we wrecked the public realm!

2026 election preview of the right wingnut woke war on America tour where they shout “they are putting litter boxes on sewer trucks for people who identify as cats”?? @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @theonion.com

👏👏👏👏The MBTA Communities law is working. Instead of fighting it, Lexington was 1st town to pass zoning to comply with the law in 2023. In 2024, “nearly 1,000 new apartments and condos are in the pipeline” www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/03/b...

Classic move: authoritarianism is about undoing checks and regulations that prevent elites' ability to plunder societies and treat people as assets to exploit.

Mexico’s president is 💯 “We do not produce weapons, we do not consume the synthetic drugs. Unfortunately we have the people who are being killed by crime that is responding to the demand in your country,”

I am with truth and reality! “There is truth and there are lies. There is reality and there is fantasy. Right now truth and reality have an inadequate constituency to affect public policy. But there is no center. None at all.”

MAGA idiocracy or purposeful destruction? “Kennedy, Jr.; Gaetz; Musk; Ramaswamy; Hegseth; Gabbard are perfect instruments. These proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, & the rest of us to suffer”