Dustin Michels
@dustinmichels.bsky.social
MA of Urban Planning student at Tufts // Programmer interested in cities, sustainability, mapping // Happiest when traveling by bike. 💻 🌿🚲
Somerville, MA 🌎
Somerville, MA 🌎
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It really is the best election map. Thank you, Center for Urban Research @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social!
www.urbanresearchmaps.org/electioncomp...
www.urbanresearchmaps.org/electioncomp...
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It really is the best election map. Thank you, Center for Urban Research @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social!
www.urbanresearchmaps.org/electioncomp...
www.urbanresearchmaps.org/electioncomp...
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The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.
This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...
September 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.
Spent the day at NE Transportation Camp! @transpocampne.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Spent the day at NE Transportation Camp! @transpocampne.bsky.social
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I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
September 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Two weeks after Grok declared its admiration for Hitler, Trump is cracking down on *checks notes* ... woke AI
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump's order to block 'woke' AI in government encourages tech giants to censor their chatbots
Tech companies selling AI to the federal government now face a new challenge: proving their chatbots aren't "woke."
apnews.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Two weeks after Grok declared its admiration for Hitler, Trump is cracking down on *checks notes* ... woke AI
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
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“The effects of congestion pricing have been near-miraculous. Traffic is down by 10%, and some months maybe 12% or 13%, which leads to much faster journeys. The number of cars entering Manhattan has gone down considerably. And that also has meant that car noise complaints are down by 70%.”
Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success
So why on earth did it take so long to start?
www.economist.com
July 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
“The effects of congestion pricing have been near-miraculous. Traffic is down by 10%, and some months maybe 12% or 13%, which leads to much faster journeys. The number of cars entering Manhattan has gone down considerably. And that also has meant that car noise complaints are down by 70%.”
June #CriticalMass ride in Boston 🚴🚴♀️
June 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
June #CriticalMass ride in Boston 🚴🚴♀️
Exuberant optimism! Unapologetically progressive platform! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/n...
June 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Exuberant optimism! Unapologetically progressive platform! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/n...
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Minneapolis, we need these. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
(Spotted in D.C. today.)
(Spotted in D.C. today.)
June 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Minneapolis, we need these. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
(Spotted in D.C. today.)
(Spotted in D.C. today.)
So delighted I got to pilot a musician this morning 🎷🚲
Can you haul a brass band on bikes to accompany your #BikeBus to school? For the third time, yes.
Big thanks to all our volunteers and musicians!
Big thanks to all our volunteers and musicians!
June 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So delighted I got to pilot a musician this morning 🎷🚲
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Los Angeles, 2025
📸 afpphoto
📸 afpphoto
June 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Los Angeles, 2025
📸 afpphoto
📸 afpphoto
Obama when he’s auditioning to be the new guitarist for the Grateful Dead: “Uhh, let me be Weir”
May 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Obama when he’s auditioning to be the new guitarist for the Grateful Dead: “Uhh, let me be Weir”
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i’m getting van hollen pilled
Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?"
Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
April 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
i’m getting van hollen pilled
From my friend’s refrigerator:
April 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
From my friend’s refrigerator:
Cancel Amazon Prime, get off X, breakup with Meta, ditch your Tesla... we must stop funding our homegrown plutocrats 💰
March 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Cancel Amazon Prime, get off X, breakup with Meta, ditch your Tesla... we must stop funding our homegrown plutocrats 💰
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An Idaho teacher is in a standoff with her own school district after officials ordered her to remove classroom signs, including one that reads, “Everyone is welcome here.”
Teacher ordered to remove signs from classroom, including one saying ‘Everyone is welcome here’
“There are only two opinions on this sign: Everyone is welcome here, or not everyone is welcome here,” argues Sarah Inama, a sixth-grade history teacher.
nbcnews.to
March 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
An Idaho teacher is in a standoff with her own school district after officials ordered her to remove classroom signs, including one that reads, “Everyone is welcome here.”
Here is some real sensible stuff you’ll find in the northern German city of Kiel, where I’m currently staying. 1) Bike priority streets
March 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Here is some real sensible stuff you’ll find in the northern German city of Kiel, where I’m currently staying. 1) Bike priority streets
Yeah! Why would I possibly want the gov researching diseases and inspecting food?
Great use of tax dollars. Maximum efficiency.
Top US health agency makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its employees
Most of the 80,000 federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and administering Medicare and Medicaid under the auspices of the Health and Human Services Department were ema...
apnews.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Yeah! Why would I possibly want the gov researching diseases and inspecting food?
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HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.
(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
March 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.
(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
Elon Musk is a Nazi
January 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Elon Musk is a Nazi
Facebook sucks 👎
In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees
January 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Facebook sucks 👎
“$43 million for the McGrath Boulevard Project in Somerville, which will reconnect neighborhoods bifurcated by McGrath Highway by replacing the viaduct with new street-level bike and pedestrian infrastructure, providing safe access to schools, jobs, parks…” 🎉🎉
Massachusetts receives more than $102 million for infrastructure projects
The grants include funding for McGrath Highway in Somerville, station improvements at JFK/UMass in Boston and electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
www.wcvb.com
January 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“$43 million for the McGrath Boulevard Project in Somerville, which will reconnect neighborhoods bifurcated by McGrath Highway by replacing the viaduct with new street-level bike and pedestrian infrastructure, providing safe access to schools, jobs, parks…” 🎉🎉
They want Musk to do America what he already did to Twitter. Gut it, brazenly take away guard rails that were (turns out) carefully erected over time for specific reasons… turn it into an infinity more sleazy and stupid place… all while insisting it’s better than ever.
November 13, 2024 at 4:33 PM
They want Musk to do America what he already did to Twitter. Gut it, brazenly take away guard rails that were (turns out) carefully erected over time for specific reasons… turn it into an infinity more sleazy and stupid place… all while insisting it’s better than ever.
This ep of War on Cars does a great job of communicating why transit advocates feel so betrayed by Gov. Kathy Hochul abruptly abandoning congestion pricing in NYC: spotify.link/HAoLHHjbiKb
Kathy Hochul's Congestion Pricing Flip-Flop Fiasco
Listen to this episode from The War on Cars on Spotify. In this emergency episode, we discuss New York State Governor Kathy Hochul's 11th-hour decision to "indefinitely suspend" congestion pricing, th...
spotify.link
June 9, 2024 at 6:14 PM
This ep of War on Cars does a great job of communicating why transit advocates feel so betrayed by Gov. Kathy Hochul abruptly abandoning congestion pricing in NYC: spotify.link/HAoLHHjbiKb