Doug Gordon
@brooklynspoke.bsky.social
“A jovial guy from Brooklyn trying to prod society in a better direction.” Co-host, The War on Cars podcast. Runner, Disney parks fan (he/him)
Our new book, "Life After Cars" is out from Thesis / Penguin Random House.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com
Our new book, "Life After Cars" is out from Thesis / Penguin Random House.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com
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Doug Gordon
@brooklynspoke.bsky.social
· Apr 22
Coming October 21st...
"Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile."
A new book about how cars ruin everything and what we can do to fight back.
Pre-order here: www.lifeaftercars.com
"Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile."
A new book about how cars ruin everything and what we can do to fight back.
Pre-order here: www.lifeaftercars.com
Some news!
I am really excited about this! I'm biased, but I think we wrote a very good book. I can't wait to get it into your hands.
I am really excited about this! I'm biased, but I think we wrote a very good book. I can't wait to get it into your hands.
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Every major free speech org has said the IHRA definition suppresses constitutionally protected speech. Every major human rights group has said it suppresses legitimate advocacy. The scandal is that Adams adopted the definition, not that Mamdani rejected it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...
Inside Mamdani’s Decision to Revoke Executive Orders That Backed Israel
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Every major free speech org has said the IHRA definition suppresses constitutionally protected speech. Every major human rights group has said it suppresses legitimate advocacy. The scandal is that Adams adopted the definition, not that Mamdani rejected it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...
As @billmckibben.bsky.social wrote about the need to transition to solar and other renewables as quickly as possible, "it’s going to be hard to figure out how to fight wars over sunshine."
billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...
No country has ever been invaded for its renewable energy reserves.
The sooner we switch off oil and gas, the better.
The sooner we switch off oil and gas, the better.
January 4, 2026 at 3:57 PM
As @billmckibben.bsky.social wrote about the need to transition to solar and other renewables as quickly as possible, "it’s going to be hard to figure out how to fight wars over sunshine."
billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...
Maybe he used to be better at hiding it, but Rubio is dripping with condescension and contempt these days. He's gotten a taste of being totally unaccountable and really likes it.
BRENNAN: You're describing the regime as still in place. I'm confused why the Trump admin only arrested Maduro. The chief thug who controls the police & has $25m price on his head is still in place
RUBIO: You're confused?
B: They are still in power
R: You're gonna go in & suck up 5 more people?
RUBIO: You're confused?
B: They are still in power
R: You're gonna go in & suck up 5 more people?
January 4, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Maybe he used to be better at hiding it, but Rubio is dripping with condescension and contempt these days. He's gotten a taste of being totally unaccountable and really likes it.
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Check out our interview with @jblumgart.bsky.social about Life After Cars!
Our whole society is based on car ownership. Is it even possible to change that?
Cars are essential to American life. They’re also toxic for the environment, humans, and society, these authors say.
www.inquirer.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Check out our interview with @jblumgart.bsky.social about Life After Cars!
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
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Maybe the leaders of the Democratic Party were so resentful of him because they knew he was so much better at doing their job?
The mayor of New York City is doing more than the senate and house minority leaders
Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York City, called President Trump on Saturday to personally object to strikes the U.S. had conducted in Venezuela and to the capture of its leader, Nicolás Maduro. Mamdani accused Trump of violating international law.
January 4, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Maybe the leaders of the Democratic Party were so resentful of him because they knew he was so much better at doing their job?
Instead of Booker calling for Congressional Republicans to vote for impeachment due to Trump’s illegal war, he’s saying “there are still three years left of this administration” while listing even more of Trump’s impeachable offensives!
January 4, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Instead of Booker calling for Congressional Republicans to vote for impeachment due to Trump’s illegal war, he’s saying “there are still three years left of this administration” while listing even more of Trump’s impeachable offensives!
Local advocacy is more important than ever. It's overwhelming to think about how to fix [motions to everything] but I can make it safer for seniors to cross the street, for kids to bike to school, for people to have places to meet in public space... all of which build and strengthen our democracy.
Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
January 4, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Local advocacy is more important than ever. It's overwhelming to think about how to fix [motions to everything] but I can make it safer for seniors to cross the street, for kids to bike to school, for people to have places to meet in public space... all of which build and strengthen our democracy.
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Full piece. I won’t hold my breath for any sort of mea culpa from the editorial boards or the likes of Daniel Bessner.
www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad
American politics has become so insane that being reasonable feels like a malady, and MAGA agrees.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Full piece. I won’t hold my breath for any sort of mea culpa from the editorial boards or the likes of Daniel Bessner.
www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
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In the vein of posts today from @billmckibben.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @volts.wtf @brooklynspoke.bsky.social and many others about how we can fight back against the forever wars by embracing a vision of a world where oil becomes irrelevant, I offer the following:
There has never been a moment when ending the oil industry has been more urgent or important. Here is a thread of seven tools that can help.
Brief, readable 2-pagers, and a 30-page overview from @michealpodgers.bsky.social at @clicabedu.bsky.social.
Brief, readable 2-pagers, and a 30-page overview from @michealpodgers.bsky.social at @clicabedu.bsky.social.
Transportation 101 Policy Guides - Climate Cabinet Education
Transportation 101 Policy Guides by Climate Cabinet Education: practical, accessible guides on transit planning, active mobility & multimodal policy for climate action.
climatecabineteducation.org
January 4, 2026 at 1:18 AM
In the vein of posts today from @billmckibben.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @volts.wtf @brooklynspoke.bsky.social and many others about how we can fight back against the forever wars by embracing a vision of a world where oil becomes irrelevant, I offer the following:
"...if you’re for peace and democracy, then a solar panel is a valuable tool (and a valuable symbol, a peace sign for our age). Every one that goes up incrementally reduces the attractiveness of the oil that underlies so much conflict and tyranny." Via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become
1
They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:12 AM
"...if you’re for peace and democracy, then a solar panel is a valuable tool (and a valuable symbol, a peace sign for our age). Every one that goes up incrementally reduces the attractiveness of the oil that underlies so much conflict and tyranny." Via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Depending on how long Trump drags this out or how many other countries he decides to illegally invade we might also be in store for someone in 2028 saying, "Can't change horses in midstream."
Eagerly awaiting the first time a pundit says it’s inappropriate to criticize the president because we’re at war
Veteran New York Times national security reporter David Sanger says what Trump is describing in Venezuela is an "American occupation."
January 3, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Depending on how long Trump drags this out or how many other countries he decides to illegally invade we might also be in store for someone in 2028 saying, "Can't change horses in midstream."
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It's actually important that, to the extent you are able, you stop using oil
January 3, 2026 at 3:13 PM
It's actually important that, to the extent you are able, you stop using oil
The mayor says something really important about something that's bugged me for a long time: that we force grieving families to relive their trauma over and over again as they lobby elected officials asking them to do the right thing. I am so glad to hear him say those days are over.
"I'm so sorry that we could not have done this earlier...to have saved the loved ones in your life. But I thank you fopr the work that you have done...to ensure that this pain not be felt by others who call this same city home." — Mayor Mamdani at McGuinness Blvd. presser youtube.com/shorts/uwAYI...
Mayor Mamdani commits to ending traffic violence across NYC on third day in office #safestreets
YouTube video by Streetsblog NYC
youtube.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 PM
The mayor says something really important about something that's bugged me for a long time: that we force grieving families to relive their trauma over and over again as they lobby elected officials asking them to do the right thing. I am so glad to hear him say those days are over.
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The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.
A Criminal Empire
The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream
www.forever-wars.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM
The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.
Senator @aoc.bsky.social can’t come fast enough.
Asked about the possibility of impeachment, Schumer says "we hope that we can have support from our Republican colleagues to put a brake on this long before it gets that far"
January 3, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Senator @aoc.bsky.social can’t come fast enough.
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Mamdani & transportation commissioner Mike Flynn announcing (with a big neighborhood turnout) that the half-done McGuinness Blvd *road diet* will be completed this spring as soon as weather permits
January 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Mamdani & transportation commissioner Mike Flynn announcing (with a big neighborhood turnout) that the half-done McGuinness Blvd *road diet* will be completed this spring as soon as weather permits
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Trump just said what it is all about.
The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.
The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.
January 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Trump just said what it is all about.
The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.
The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.
If all Mayor Mamdani and Flynn do for the next few weeks is dust off canceled or watered down Adams-era bike projects we’ll be headed in the right direction. This is great news.
We’re waiting for the mayor at the McGuinness press conference. Meanwhile, DOT commissioner Mike Flynn has been handed, and put on, a make McGuinness safe — support which we never saw from the Adams administration.
January 3, 2026 at 7:35 PM
If all Mayor Mamdani and Flynn do for the next few weeks is dust off canceled or watered down Adams-era bike projects we’ll be headed in the right direction. This is great news.
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it’s all illegal and impeachable
January 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM
it’s all illegal and impeachable
If only there were some example of the US illegally invading a country, overwhelming it with "shock and awe," quickly declaring "mission accomplished," and then things turning to shit. Oh well.
all these fucks are like bro you don't understand how precise this operation was bro no one's ever done this bro it was epic, expecting us to be like oh well in that case
January 3, 2026 at 5:11 PM
If only there were some example of the US illegally invading a country, overwhelming it with "shock and awe," quickly declaring "mission accomplished," and then things turning to shit. Oh well.
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if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
Not even the biggest thing wrong here, but remember when it was some sort of issue for the Right that Obama used a teleprompter? Trump can't even look up from his printed notes.
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
January 3, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Not even the biggest thing wrong here, but remember when it was some sort of issue for the Right that Obama used a teleprompter? Trump can't even look up from his printed notes.
I'm no expert, but an unregulated betting market based on events people can know about ahead of time seems like a bad idea!
January 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I'm no expert, but an unregulated betting market based on events people can know about ahead of time seems like a bad idea!
Might be a year from now or a decade from now but it's hard not to worry how all of this blows back against the United States in more ways than just other nations tsk tsking us or not buying our bourbon and soybeans.
January 3, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Might be a year from now or a decade from now but it's hard not to worry how all of this blows back against the United States in more ways than just other nations tsk tsking us or not buying our bourbon and soybeans.