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Kate Lowe (she/hers)
@kateontransport.bsky.social
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Mobility justice/transportation equity/urban planning and policy. Chicago!!! Proud union member (UIC United Faculty). Day job @ @uiccuppa.bsky.social

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Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social · Jan 8
We describe the very important equity project of the Red Line Extension that will bring important benefits to the majority Black South Side but explain that future time benefits do not fully repair harms from decades of waiting. We draw from 132 interviews on the far South Side of Chicago.
urbanstudiesjournal.com Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · Jan 8
🌍 NEW in Special Issue "Urban Transport as a Social Construct"

✍️ @kateontransport.bsky.social, @ansonstewart.com & G. Purifoye examine people’s experiences of #transit in #Chicago, including waiting and transfers, and how they connect to other parts of their lives.

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#UrbanStudies

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Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org · 9h
Ald. Ramirez is a progressive, more CTU- and Brandon-friendly than her detractors. Urban Center has done mass texts and sent press releases to TV stations in support of the anti-Archer project / anti-Ramirez rallies. So this isn't about blue collar vs. elites. It's centrists vs. progressives. (9/X)

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The Lever @levernews.com · 11h
NEW: The “centrist” Abundance think tank pushing Democrats toward deregulation is run by a registered corporate lobbyist for OpenAI, Larry Ellison’s Oracle, and a crypto think tank.

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Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social · 2d
Congratulations to UPPSA for organizing an amazing firm crawl! Grateful to be @uiccuppa.bsky.social faculty and work with these amazing leaders.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d
The underfunding of social infrastructure has also led the philanthropic/nonprofit sector in the US to grow to fill in the gaps. And while supporting that sector might seem like a way for privileged people to do good with their money, it gives privileged people huge power over that sector, as well.

Reposted by Raúl Pacheco-Vega

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Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social · 4d
I feel for junior scholars who need reviewers and publications! Yet peer review has fundamental problems: accelerating (unpaid) labor demands & output standards, with the potential for arbitrariness and rejection of innovative work link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social · 4d
Thanks for posting. It's a reality check (amid the other academics in the file release) for academia.

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Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social · 4d
I think I may feel similarly?... I am troubled but can imagine wise folks suggesting this is not surprising?

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Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social · 4d
Wow. When the apology might be even more problematic than the original (problematic) comment.

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Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social · 6d
Satisfying read...I'm tired of the conventional wisdom that the left needs to moderate to win as the right shifts further into fascism. This piece explains that centrism no longer means winning (and can feel like pandering).

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele, Archon Fung , and 10 more

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d
This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it.

Spread this one far and wide.
How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
www.bostonreview.net

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 7d
California's Teamsters call for Waymo ban, saying driverless cars threaten safety and jobs
California's Teamsters call for Waymo ban, saying driverless cars threaten safety and jobs
After a self-driving Waymo taxi struck a child near a Santa Monica elementary school last month, Teamsters California is pushing to suspend the company's operating license in the state.
www.latimes.com

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 7d
We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

Reposted by Juan Cole, Brian Keegan, Kate Lowe

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 9d
hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism

Reposted by Steve Peers, Smith, Victor Pickard , and 3 more

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 10d
The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution.

This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American.

They must be released immediately.

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Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social · 10d
Mood. Earrings and bonus stickers and whistles from www.pvdcollective.org

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 10d
This is from Georgia Fort’s video.

DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”

Reposted by Nicole Guenther Discenza, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Kate Lowe

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10d
In 2021 I was telling people in my field of art history to stop legitimizing the use of image recognition, to stop applying for grants to use AI in identifying the subjects of portraiture bc this was what such work was being used to further. All this was obvious. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...
When AI gets attention for recovering lost works of art, it makes the technology sound a lot less scary than when it garners headlines for creating deep fakes that falsify politicians’ speech or for using facial recognition for authoritarian surveillance.

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 11d
ICE doesn’t share its violent incidents with the public. So here’s our list. prospect.org/2026/01/29/i...
A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect
ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.
prospect.org

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Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social · 11d
Not jazzed to see sustainable transport leader Rep Buckner propose pilot AV legislation in Illinois: ilga.gov/Legislation/...

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 11d
ICE activity has been ramping up in Chicagoland again this month.

The city's northwest side rapid respsonse team is reporting 2 people taken this morning from Chicago's heavily Latine Humboldt Park neighborhood, and advising that agents may still be in the area.
A community warning, in English, of federal agents kidnapping 2 people in Humboldt Park, near the intersection of Lawndale and W. Augusta, on the morning of 1/29/2025. A community warning, in Spanish, of federal agents kidnapping 2 people in Humboldt Park, near the intersection of Lawndale and W. Augusta, on the morning of 1/29/2025.

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Sophia Lebowitz @sophlebo.bsky.social · 11d
A new sociological study from Hunter College researchers found that delivery workers are more likely to ride safely, and that protected bike lanes make all cyclists more rule-abiding.
Delivery Workers Are the Safest Cyclists On the Road, Study Finds - Streetsblog New York City
A new study from sociology researchers at Hunter College embraces e-bikes.
nyc.streetsblog.org

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The Verge @theverge.com · 11d
Waymo robotaxi hits a child near a school, causing minor injuries
Waymo robotaxi hits a child near a school, causing minor injuries
NHTSA is opening an investigation.
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Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social · 12d
We should not be detaining people! Of course, risking their deaths by denying care make the situation more extreme but we are pouring money into an unjust system (while many make $ off of it). Minor reforms are insufficient.
durbin.senate.gov Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 14d
Oversight of immigration detention, especially medical care, urgently needs reform.

When human beings are in the government’s custody, we are responsible for them.

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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 12d
Call for abstract submissions to Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work! Bring your best critical and abolitionist scholarship to questions about money and power

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NEW from Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work! Submit your abstracts for a Special Issue on Money and Power in Social Work Research. Many thanks to Terri Friedline for bringing this idea to APSW…...
NEW from Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work! Submit your abstracts for a Special Issue on Money and Power in Social Work Research. Many thanks to Terri Friedline for bringing this idea to APSW ...
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 13d
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Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads

www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
Meta Is Blocking Users From Sharing Website Listing ICE Agents
Users of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.
www.wired.com

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 14d
The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.”

The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 14d
Oversight of immigration detention, especially medical care, urgently needs reform.

When human beings are in the government’s custody, we are responsible for them.

Reposted by Heather Boushey, Juliet B. Schor, Susan Strasser , and 3 more

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 16d
Not one more cent for DHS and ICE. We have the power to end this.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 16d
OMG. "DHS said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Update from Devon Lum
www.nytimes.com

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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 19d
bravo @democracyforward.org & @aft.org.

and shame on all the universities that dismantled their legally secure and morally just diversity, equity and inclusion programs becuase Trump sent them an angry letter.

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