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Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 19h

Bipartisan efforts by senators and representatives are rescinding the proposed Trump cuts to science funding and even boosting funds for basic research.

Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science

www.nytimes.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s retreat on climate cooperation comes as the United States’ main rival on the world stage, China, has come to dominate the clean energy technologies of the future.

Trump Pulls Out of Global Climate Treaty

www.nytimes.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 2d

A one-time, 5% emergency billionaire tax. That’s it. And yet they whine.

Tech titans divided over whether to pay billionaire tax or flee California

State residents worth more than $1bn could face one-off, 5% tax to help fund education, food assistance and healthcare

www.theguardian.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 3d

Car brain on alcohol

Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 3d

Call me old-fashioned, but following evidence-based policy on reducing alcohol limits to reduce "killing off" pedestrians and other road users seems pretty sensible.

It's not actually obligatory to drink booze in a pub, plenty of modern non-alcoholic options.

Also let's improve walking routes!

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, all this 👇

The Best Thing About Giving Up Your Car? According to Commuters, It’s Almost Everything

The cost of living is skyrocketing and time is at a premium, and that's why more and more people are taking a look at car-light and car-free lifestyles.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 3d

Call me old-fashioned, but following evidence-based policy on reducing alcohol limits to reduce "killing off" pedestrians and other road users seems pretty sensible.

It's not actually obligatory to drink booze in a pub, plenty of modern non-alcoholic options.

Also let's improve walking routes!

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 3d

Climate-heating emissions from aviation could be slashed in half – without reducing passenger journeys – by getting rid of premium seats, ensuring flights are near full and using the most efficient aircraft, according to analysis

Revealed: how aviation emissions could be halved without cutting journeys

Exclusive: Getting rid of premium seats, ensuring flights are near full and using efficient aircraft could slash CO2, analysis suggests

www.theguardian.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 4d

Yay tap to pay!

COTA riders can now use credit, debit cards to pay, transfer on buses

COTA riders will now be able to pay with a wide variety of electronic payment methods.

www.dispatch.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 5d

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In Person Live Event! | Life After Cars with Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon

This January, the hosts of the acclaimed podcast The War on Cars, Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon, will join us for a live discussion about their new book, Life After Cars. This engaging conversation w...

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Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 5d

Columbus! Get tickets now for the live, in-person appearance of Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon from The War on Cars before it is sold out. Link in the thread

Advertisement for Sarah Goodyear and Dog Gordon from The War on Cars appearance in Columbus Ohio, Wexner Center for the Arts, January 27, 6:30pm

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 5d

Congestion pricing works. Again.

Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed. (Gift Article)

How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.

www.nytimes.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 6d

Deep budget cuts and massive firing sprees shrank emergency response agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), considered a global crown jewel for climate science.

‘The perfect storm’: Trump has left the US less prepared for natural disasters, experts say

Emergency managers say the US president has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters

www.theguardian.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 7d

💯! South High Street is a menace due to its width and high vehicle speeds. This isolates the Brewery District from German Village.

“For starters, both South High Street and South Front Street need traffic calming measures implemented immediately.”

Let's Make The Brewery District Great Again - Columbus Underground

The Short North, Franklinton, Olde Towne East, German Village... these neighborhoods that ring Downtown Columbus have all shown signs of improvement over the past decade or two. The Brewery District o...

columbusunderground.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 8d

Enabling self-driving vehicles is an army of unseen, low paid workers in developing countries who manually label imagery to train the AI

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...

Opinion | Self-Driving Cars Can’t See Without Their Eyes

www.nytimes.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 10d

‘In 2025, divisions have sadly deepened. At a time when humanity is faced with immense global challenges, we have been pushed further into boxes of “us v them”.’

A polycrisis has shattered our world this year. But with care, we can put it back together | Elif Shafak

The challenges and strains have been almost too much to take. But in 2025, words of depth and courage have been an antidote to numbness, says novelist and political scientist, Elif Shafak

www.theguardian.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 11d

Uncertainty about funding and graduate programs means scientists are lowering their horizons

The Trump Administration’s Most Paralyzing Blow to Science

Cuts to research may have spoiled the country’s appetite for bold exploration.

www.theatlantic.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 12d

Got to admire his sense of style and symbolism!

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/n...

Mamdani Will Be Sworn In at Abandoned Subway Station Beneath City Hall

www.nytimes.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 14d

The proposal calls for California residents worth more than $1 billion to be taxed the equivalent of 5 percent of their assets. 5%! They’ll still be fabulously wealthy.

A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving

www.nytimes.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 17d

So few of the streets in Columbus are safe for bicycling

New Map Shows Need for Safer Streets in Central Ohio - Columbus Underground

In the process of writing Columbus in 50 Maps (available at your local bookstore!), myself and my co-author, cartographer Vicky Johnson-Dahl, came up with lots of ideas for maps that didn’t end up in ...

columbusunderground.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 18d

It is worth pointing out once again that High St near the OSU campus in Columbus had protected bike lanes in 1986; something that is apparently impossible today. See screenshot in the thread.

www.columbusnavigator.com/1986-columbu...

This 1986 Footage from OSU's Campus Is Absolutely Wild

10/10 for the people watching alone.

www.columbusnavigator.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 18d

Another example of cars as brittle technologies

The Huge Problem Waymo Didn’t See Coming

A blackout in San Francisco revealed a new way for robotaxis to go wrong.

www.theatlantic.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 18d

We are creating brittle technologies in an era that calls for robustness and resilience

After Power Outage, San Francisco Wonders: Can Robot Taxis Handle a Big Earthquake?

www.nytimes.com

Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 18d

The fact that I was made to watch an ad for an SUV before accessing this (terrifying and enlightening) video says so much about so much.

Screenshot of YouTube ad showing a large car (according to the ad, a Chery TIGGO 8) driving through the countryside

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19d

SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how huge SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in our cities, and the absolutely INSANE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by #NotJustBikes. Then please share it as much as you can.

These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

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Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 19d

Future historians, if there are any, will look and say “why did they slit their own throats?”

Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast

www.nytimes.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 21d

The climate is breaking down

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 22d

With a dozen crazy events like this now happening every day
I almost admire the discipline it takes for corp news & white liberals to still, even as we cross 1.5C warming,
pretend we’re not in a real time global emergency.

Radar image showing a tornado warning in Hawaii.

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 22d

With a dozen crazy events like this now happening every day
I almost admire the discipline it takes for corp news & white liberals to still, even as we cross 1.5C warming,
pretend we’re not in a real time global emergency.

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 22d

Local buses provided 10.6 million trips across the US on the average day in 2024 which is more than four times the number of people who fly in the US every day.

With Mamdani, the Humble Bus Gets Its Due

Enthusiasm for NYC’s mayor-elect may reflect a little-understood reality about the essential role of buses. Still, making them faster won’t be easy.

www.bloomberg.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 22d

Trump is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) despite the many benefits it provides for American families and businesses.

www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

www.forbes.com

Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 22d

NCAR is the premier weather and climate center in the world, collecting and analyzing data on severe events such as fires, floods and hurricanes. America will lose its scientific leadership on weather and climate research, and American families will be less safe in the future.

Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center

www.nytimes.com

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