Jordan
@walkablecityboy.bsky.social
Walk/rollable cities and public transit. Tax the rich, triple the bus frequency and build affordable housing. Fund resources, not punishment. He/him. Montréal
Government shutdown in the US should immediately trigger new elections for the house and senate
October 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Government shutdown in the US should immediately trigger new elections for the house and senate
It’s time for Canada also to end anti-circumvention laws that don’t allow the reverse engineering American tech. Canada was forced into these laws with the threat of tariffs. Trump put the tarrifs on anyways so now there is no reason to keep these harmful laws doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall!
What the Eurostack is missing.
doctorow.medium.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It’s time for Canada also to end anti-circumvention laws that don’t allow the reverse engineering American tech. Canada was forced into these laws with the threat of tariffs. Trump put the tarrifs on anyways so now there is no reason to keep these harmful laws doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
Just bought a copy of Life After Cars by @douggordon.bsky.social and @sarahgoodyear.bsky.social for my mom as a Christmas present. I find I get too worked up when talking about cars to communicate as effectively as I want. But with the book you can get it all across with Doug and Sarah’s help!
October 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Just bought a copy of Life After Cars by @douggordon.bsky.social and @sarahgoodyear.bsky.social for my mom as a Christmas present. I find I get too worked up when talking about cars to communicate as effectively as I want. But with the book you can get it all across with Doug and Sarah’s help!
I want the New York City congestion charge to keep increasing until there’s no longer a problem with the subway every time I ride it
October 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I want the New York City congestion charge to keep increasing until there’s no longer a problem with the subway every time I ride it
Money for the rich and for cops. Austerity and jail for the rest of us. Thanks liberals
1000 new RCMP officers promised. Once again Mark Carney implements right wing policies pushing the conservatives further right in theirs
October 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Money for the rich and for cops. Austerity and jail for the rest of us. Thanks liberals
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New billboard in town 👀
October 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
New billboard in town 👀
We should charge people a congestion tax for driving to the airport. At just $5 it would raise hundreds of millions at LAX alone and could fund incredible public transit to and from the airport.
October 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
We should charge people a congestion tax for driving to the airport. At just $5 it would raise hundreds of millions at LAX alone and could fund incredible public transit to and from the airport.
All I want is a nice car free street to live on where I don’t have to breath dirty car exhaust, listen to loud car noises, or worry about my family and me getting hit by a driver.
this is actually my great frustration of walking around in new york.
I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.
September 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
All I want is a nice car free street to live on where I don’t have to breath dirty car exhaust, listen to loud car noises, or worry about my family and me getting hit by a driver.
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ICYMI
Montreal was once so car-centric they were allowed in parks while bikes were banned due to "safety concerns"
Since then, Montreal's become the North American leader in active transit, while San Francisco appears to be retreating
Latest @sfchronicle.com
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Montreal was once so car-centric they were allowed in parks while bikes were banned due to "safety concerns"
Since then, Montreal's become the North American leader in active transit, while San Francisco appears to be retreating
Latest @sfchronicle.com
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
What Montreal can teach San Francisco about cars and urban renewal
OPINION: “My hometown is a good example of how an urban center can remake itself when it reconsiders the role of cars as the primary means of getting around,” Taylor C. Noakes writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ICYMI
Montreal was once so car-centric they were allowed in parks while bikes were banned due to "safety concerns"
Since then, Montreal's become the North American leader in active transit, while San Francisco appears to be retreating
Latest @sfchronicle.com
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Montreal was once so car-centric they were allowed in parks while bikes were banned due to "safety concerns"
Since then, Montreal's become the North American leader in active transit, while San Francisco appears to be retreating
Latest @sfchronicle.com
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
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SB-79 HAS PASSED THE SENATE AND IS ON ITS WAY TO THE GOVERNOR’S DESK
September 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
SB-79 HAS PASSED THE SENATE AND IS ON ITS WAY TO THE GOVERNOR’S DESK
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The most impactful housing bill in California history is on the 1 yard line. It has passed the assembly and the senate vote is TODAY!
Right now is your last chance to call your state senator and tell them to support building more housing near transit!
cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
Right now is your last chance to call your state senator and tell them to support building more housing near transit!
cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
September 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The most impactful housing bill in California history is on the 1 yard line. It has passed the assembly and the senate vote is TODAY!
Right now is your last chance to call your state senator and tell them to support building more housing near transit!
cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
Right now is your last chance to call your state senator and tell them to support building more housing near transit!
cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
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PASSED THE ASSEMBLY - SB 79 (WIENER) will build a ton more housing near transit!!!
September 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY - SB 79 (WIENER) will build a ton more housing near transit!!!
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The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it.
Contemptible & pathetic.
Contemptible & pathetic.
September 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it.
Contemptible & pathetic.
Contemptible & pathetic.
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Traveling on an electric train at the moment wondering about the thought process behind “let’s not invest in rail but put people in inefficient individual metal boxes that are parked 90% of the time.”
September 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Traveling on an electric train at the moment wondering about the thought process behind “let’s not invest in rail but put people in inefficient individual metal boxes that are parked 90% of the time.”
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cars and cats kill billions more
Scoop: The Trump administration appears to be considering a move to label wind farms as intentionally harming migratory birds, a classification that would in the eyes of some legal experts label *any* project illegal.
It would definitely be fought in court if pursued. @heatmap.news
It would definitely be fought in court if pursued. @heatmap.news
Birds Could Be the Anti-Wind Trump Card
How the Migratory Bird Treaty Act could become the administration’s ultimate weapon against wind farms.
heatmap.news
August 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
cars and cats kill billions more
They weren’t “involved in a crash”, they are the victims of a dangerous driver. I swear you could be laying in your bed and a driver could crash through your wall and the media would use linguistic gymnastics find a way to somehow make you partially responsible for it
Food reviewers NinaUnrated and Patrick Blackwood were involved in a crash while filming.
August 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
They weren’t “involved in a crash”, they are the victims of a dangerous driver. I swear you could be laying in your bed and a driver could crash through your wall and the media would use linguistic gymnastics find a way to somehow make you partially responsible for it
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Large numbers of Americans remain interested in expanding #health insurance coverage and containing #healthcare spending. In a new report, Urban researchers outline steps that would build on the #ACA—without a big federal price tag.
Explore the findings.
Explore the findings.
Building on the Affordable Care Act to Achieve Universal Coverage
In this report, we propose eight incremental reforms that would expand upon the Affordable Care Act. For each of the eight steps, we introduce policies that would increase insurance coverage, improve affordability, and contain health care costs.
urbn.is
August 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Large numbers of Americans remain interested in expanding #health insurance coverage and containing #healthcare spending. In a new report, Urban researchers outline steps that would build on the #ACA—without a big federal price tag.
Explore the findings.
Explore the findings.
You could find the most brilliant professor at any top university, but if they hadn’t been transit and safe streets pilled yet, they would look you in the eye with a straight face and tell you that e-bikes are somehow more dangerous than cars. This issue breaks everyone’s brains.
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
August 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
You could find the most brilliant professor at any top university, but if they hadn’t been transit and safe streets pilled yet, they would look you in the eye with a straight face and tell you that e-bikes are somehow more dangerous than cars. This issue breaks everyone’s brains.
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The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship.
That's just a true statement about the world!
That's just a true statement about the world!
July 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship.
That's just a true statement about the world!
That's just a true statement about the world!
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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Noem let those girls die with search and rescue teams sitting on their hands waiting for authorization
Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns.
He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network
www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...
He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network
www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...
FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response | CNN Politics
The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.
www.cnn.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Noem let those girls die with search and rescue teams sitting on their hands waiting for authorization
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Hopefully, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy can stop sobbing uncontrollably about a teenager on the C train who was watching TikTok without earbuds and devote a little of his attention to the near constant disaster that is air travel these days.
this is about as mad as you’re going to see a pilot on an intercom after they almost got directed into another plane on approach. also the reveal of what kind of plane almost slammed into them is a jaw-dropper
July 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Hopefully, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy can stop sobbing uncontrollably about a teenager on the C train who was watching TikTok without earbuds and devote a little of his attention to the near constant disaster that is air travel these days.
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The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
July 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...