Alli DeJong
@allidejong.bsky.social
climate, adaptation, decision analysis, flood risk, insurance, resilience, BCAs. planning & policy jack of all trades at the Water Institute. (personal account)
also sports, birds, हिंदी, cities, etc.
chicago via new orleans via chicago
also sports, birds, हिंदी, cities, etc.
chicago via new orleans via chicago
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Alli DeJong
@allidejong.bsky.social
· Nov 6
ESTRAGON: I can't go on like this.
VLADIMIR: That’s what you think.
VLADIMIR: That’s what you think.
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I am on my knees begging climate people and energy people and housing people to just this once pass the puck to where they are skating to, not where they are at. This is the fight, here. The whole game is physical infrastructure. It is car-enforcing land use all the way down.
Texas and Florida are considering similar legislation. Any other examples? What a wild time for transportation planning
Why Are Many States Trying to Ban Cities From Slowing Down Drivers? — Streetsblog USA
Texas could soon become the latest state to ban its cities from reclaiming lane space from drivers — and now that Trump is in office, some fear that more will follow.
usa.streetsblog.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I am on my knees begging climate people and energy people and housing people to just this once pass the puck to where they are skating to, not where they are at. This is the fight, here. The whole game is physical infrastructure. It is car-enforcing land use all the way down.
yeah because it was an eviction raid
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
November 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
yeah because it was an eviction raid
awake! on a plane
November 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
awake! on a plane
Disgusting pig of a man
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Disgusting pig of a man
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If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.
eliminate the transit account. sure. the “make everything worse” agenda continues
Trump admin Is attempting to massive cut federal transit funds, seeking to:
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit
These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit
These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
POLITICO Pro: Trump administration proposals seek to eliminate transit funding
DOT recently sent two proposals to the White House budget office seeking to pare back transit money.
subscriber.politicopro.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
eliminate the transit account. sure. the “make everything worse” agenda continues
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From a statement from faith leaders at Broadview this morning:
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
November 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
From a statement from faith leaders at Broadview this morning:
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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How about this: NO
NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
prospect.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
How about this: NO
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“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
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what do you expect them to do? be loud? disruptive? shutdown the government and hold out until an all time unpopular president and his thin majorities are forced to act? be serious now, grow up.
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
what do you expect them to do? be loud? disruptive? shutdown the government and hold out until an all time unpopular president and his thin majorities are forced to act? be serious now, grow up.
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As I have said before, the broader silence on the ethnic pogrom of terror across this country is one of those things you can’t help noticing from the loudest special boy politics knowers on here.
Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari of Arizona’s 3rd District describes the “horrific conditions” she witnessed inside the Eloy ICE Detention Center near Phoenix — including a leukemia patient “vomiting blood,” detained in February and forced to wait eight months before finally seeing an oncologist...
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
As I have said before, the broader silence on the ethnic pogrom of terror across this country is one of those things you can’t help noticing from the loudest special boy politics knowers on here.
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🚨🚨🚨STRIKE ALERT in NOLA. GET ON THE LINE 📣 I want to know that the hospital I’m going to is focused on nurse retention. Isn’t that what we all want?!? We stand with @nationalnurses.bsky.social
A strike is a last resort but University Medical Center is refusing to recruit and retain experienced nurses.
We’re tired of the revolving door policy that puts profits ahead of patient care. ✊
www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/new-or...
We’re tired of the revolving door policy that puts profits ahead of patient care. ✊
www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/new-or...
New Orleans nurses prepare for three-day strike for nurse retention starting Nov. 11
Nurses at University Medical Center New Orleans in Louisiana will hold a strike for three days starting Nov. 11 to protest the refusal of the hospital’s owner and operator, LCMC Health, to address con...
www.nationalnursesunited.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
🚨🚨🚨STRIKE ALERT in NOLA. GET ON THE LINE 📣 I want to know that the hospital I’m going to is focused on nurse retention. Isn’t that what we all want?!? We stand with @nationalnurses.bsky.social
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Some of you learned about the Edmund Fitzgerald from the song. Some of us learned about it from our parents while we played the classic Great Lakes board game “Cargo” where you had to route plan bringing iron ore from Duluth to Cleveland
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Some of you learned about the Edmund Fitzgerald from the song. Some of us learned about it from our parents while we played the classic Great Lakes board game “Cargo” where you had to route plan bringing iron ore from Duluth to Cleveland
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
Tariffs on pasta. Come ON
Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves — The Wall Street Journal
Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied
apple.news
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Tariffs on pasta. Come ON
There’s also the little matter of the violent pogroms being carried out by lawless thugs, with record funding, who answer only to Stephen Miller and are showing every day that they are not bound by any court
Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
There’s also the little matter of the violent pogroms being carried out by lawless thugs, with record funding, who answer only to Stephen Miller and are showing every day that they are not bound by any court
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Democratic organizers did our fucking part. We gave Democrats a clean sweep on Tuesday so Chuck Schumer have leverage to negotiate.
Instead, either because of malice or sheer fucking incompetence, he is letting his caucus fold like fucking cowards.
Instead, either because of malice or sheer fucking incompetence, he is letting his caucus fold like fucking cowards.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Democratic organizers did our fucking part. We gave Democrats a clean sweep on Tuesday so Chuck Schumer have leverage to negotiate.
Instead, either because of malice or sheer fucking incompetence, he is letting his caucus fold like fucking cowards.
Instead, either because of malice or sheer fucking incompetence, he is letting his caucus fold like fucking cowards.
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i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is
Chicagoans fighting to the hilt for our neighbors for weeks on end and this is the support we get from the “party”? it’s despicable
Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.
November 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Chicagoans fighting to the hilt for our neighbors for weeks on end and this is the support we get from the “party”? it’s despicable
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Yeah it seems like the best political move is to give into this guy
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Yeah it seems like the best political move is to give into this guy
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This is, essentially, a stealth repeal of Obamacare
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This is, essentially, a stealth repeal of Obamacare
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No one wants to manage an account. That’s a whole job: Account Manager.
November 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
No one wants to manage an account. That’s a whole job: Account Manager.