Expedition Works
@expeditionworks.bsky.social
Led by Randy Plemel, we’re a service, experience, environments, and systems design consultancy. We focus on resident engagement and livable communities.
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A perfectly ordinary idea in urban planning — being able to walk to everyday places — has been twisted into something that sounds dystopian.
This isn’t about conspiracies. It’s about how we talk about cities, trust, and freedom.
jwp.news/the-most-bor...
This isn’t about conspiracies. It’s about how we talk about cities, trust, and freedom.
jwp.news/the-most-bor...
The Most Boring Idea That Somehow Became Dangerous
You should be able to get to the things you need — groceries, school, a park, a doctor, maybe a bar — within a short walk or bike ride. That’s it. No force fields. No checkpoints. No microchips. Ju…
jwp.news
February 2, 2026 at 3:45 PM
A perfectly ordinary idea in urban planning — being able to walk to everyday places — has been twisted into something that sounds dystopian.
This isn’t about conspiracies. It’s about how we talk about cities, trust, and freedom.
jwp.news/the-most-bor...
This isn’t about conspiracies. It’s about how we talk about cities, trust, and freedom.
jwp.news/the-most-bor...
Why do people agree to on the record interviews with Isaac Chotiner? He’s very good, and his subjects alway (always) look horrible. Either he has some mysterious distortion fields or people think they can win here.
BREAKING: You aren’t better than @ichotiner.bsky.social
BREAKING: You aren’t better than @ichotiner.bsky.social
Absolutely brutal interview
February 2, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Why do people agree to on the record interviews with Isaac Chotiner? He’s very good, and his subjects alway (always) look horrible. Either he has some mysterious distortion fields or people think they can win here.
BREAKING: You aren’t better than @ichotiner.bsky.social
BREAKING: You aren’t better than @ichotiner.bsky.social
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ICE was granted $75 Billion in last year’s Big Bullshit Bill. Yes, billion, with a B! The current funding bill would provide ADDITIONAL discretionary funding for this agency that they don’t need. How are Republicans not being pinned down and forced to answer what these funds would actually fund? 🤷♂️
February 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM
ICE was granted $75 Billion in last year’s Big Bullshit Bill. Yes, billion, with a B! The current funding bill would provide ADDITIONAL discretionary funding for this agency that they don’t need. How are Republicans not being pinned down and forced to answer what these funds would actually fund? 🤷♂️
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The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 2:09 PM
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
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this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 29, 2026 at 12:44 AM
this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough
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It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.
this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 29, 2026 at 12:54 AM
It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.
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An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 AM
An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
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I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.
lpeproject.org
January 28, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
🚧 WHAT IS A BOLLARD, REALLY?
Is it a planter? A post? A blunt urban force field?
Welcome to the world of Protectus bolus—NYC’s most quietly aggressive street furniture.
🧱Concrete, 🪨granite, 🧯metal, or 🌿planted, these fixtures do more than mark space—they defend it.
Is it a planter? A post? A blunt urban force field?
Welcome to the world of Protectus bolus—NYC’s most quietly aggressive street furniture.
🧱Concrete, 🪨granite, 🧯metal, or 🌿planted, these fixtures do more than mark space—they defend it.
The Bollard - Typology City
Massive pieces of rock, concrete, steel, or other durable materials deployed to demarcate pedestrian zones, secure perimeters, and intercept vehicles.
typology.city
January 28, 2026 at 3:59 PM
🚧 WHAT IS A BOLLARD, REALLY?
Is it a planter? A post? A blunt urban force field?
Welcome to the world of Protectus bolus—NYC’s most quietly aggressive street furniture.
🧱Concrete, 🪨granite, 🧯metal, or 🌿planted, these fixtures do more than mark space—they defend it.
Is it a planter? A post? A blunt urban force field?
Welcome to the world of Protectus bolus—NYC’s most quietly aggressive street furniture.
🧱Concrete, 🪨granite, 🧯metal, or 🌿planted, these fixtures do more than mark space—they defend it.
Community boards aren’t glamorous and they aren’t as powerful as people assume. Apply to join a community board to show up where the leverage is, understanding how decisions actually get shaped, and use your position to push for more homes, safer streets, and a city that works for more people.
January 27, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Community boards aren’t glamorous and they aren’t as powerful as people assume. Apply to join a community board to show up where the leverage is, understanding how decisions actually get shaped, and use your position to push for more homes, safer streets, and a city that works for more people.
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“We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower.”
“With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.”
Via @wired.com and @vermontgmg.bsky.social
“With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.”
Via @wired.com and @vermontgmg.bsky.social
We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower
With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.
www.wired.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:18 PM
“We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower.”
“With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.”
Via @wired.com and @vermontgmg.bsky.social
“With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.”
Via @wired.com and @vermontgmg.bsky.social
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Police mistakes happen, and they're big news.
But if you think about a scenario in which US Government is proven to be lying about killing its own people, that would be one of the biggest news stories of the century.
And it's happening.
And it's not being reported as what it is.
But if you think about a scenario in which US Government is proven to be lying about killing its own people, that would be one of the biggest news stories of the century.
And it's happening.
And it's not being reported as what it is.
January 25, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Police mistakes happen, and they're big news.
But if you think about a scenario in which US Government is proven to be lying about killing its own people, that would be one of the biggest news stories of the century.
And it's happening.
And it's not being reported as what it is.
But if you think about a scenario in which US Government is proven to be lying about killing its own people, that would be one of the biggest news stories of the century.
And it's happening.
And it's not being reported as what it is.
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I’m old enough to remember when the right wing in the United States insisted that gun rights “trumped” everything else, so having an unused legal gun wasn’t a reason for immigration officers to murder you.
Also, that the reason for those gun rights was to protect from an out-of-control government.
Also, that the reason for those gun rights was to protect from an out-of-control government.
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 AM
I’m old enough to remember when the right wing in the United States insisted that gun rights “trumped” everything else, so having an unused legal gun wasn’t a reason for immigration officers to murder you.
Also, that the reason for those gun rights was to protect from an out-of-control government.
Also, that the reason for those gun rights was to protect from an out-of-control government.
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Lately, more neighborhood debates blame “transplants” for everything that feels different or worse. The word sounds descriptive. It isn’t. It quietly assigns blame and treats time lived as legitimacy.
January 23, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Lately, more neighborhood debates blame “transplants” for everything that feels different or worse. The word sounds descriptive. It isn’t. It quietly assigns blame and treats time lived as legitimacy.
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All the evidence one would need to impeach both Rubio and Noem was just posted to the AAUP v. Rubio docket. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
January 23, 2026 at 11:38 AM
All the evidence one would need to impeach both Rubio and Noem was just posted to the AAUP v. Rubio docket. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Tell me what’s false about this statement?
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
January 22, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Tell me what’s false about this statement?
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When we restore democracy and swiftly prosecute every member of this fascist administration, which we have to or tyranny is just on hold again, I hope other countries can help us catch and detain the cockroaches as they attempt to flee prosecution by leaving the US.
January 22, 2026 at 3:55 AM
When we restore democracy and swiftly prosecute every member of this fascist administration, which we have to or tyranny is just on hold again, I hope other countries can help us catch and detain the cockroaches as they attempt to flee prosecution by leaving the US.
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This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
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If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
This is due to Republicans and Brett Kavanaugh.
How much more in your face can it be?
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
January 17, 2026 at 10:24 PM
This is due to Republicans and Brett Kavanaugh.
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The thing that really makes Minneapolis different, other than the fact that they straight up murdered someone, is that they've dropped all pretense that this is just about immigration. The state has declared war on its own people, or at least those people who live in cities.
January 14, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The thing that really makes Minneapolis different, other than the fact that they straight up murdered someone, is that they've dropped all pretense that this is just about immigration. The state has declared war on its own people, or at least those people who live in cities.
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Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers
“We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.”
(Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)
“We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.”
(Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)
January 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers
“We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.”
(Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)
“We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.”
(Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)