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Marian
@marianliou.bsky.social
· Nov 13
here looking for red and purple state unicorn-conspirators:
🦄 AAPI suburban social practice artists and cultural workers
🦄 AAPI suburban community development practitioners
🦄 BIPOC state DOT and MPO changemakers
🦄 AAPI suburban social practice artists and cultural workers
🦄 AAPI suburban community development practitioners
🦄 BIPOC state DOT and MPO changemakers
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Y'all — As a journalist covering global health and environmental disparities, I've lived in Atlanta car-free since 2018 because that is the easiest way to put my money where my mouth is!
I am organizing a half-marathon length bike ride to support my newsroom, and I'd love for you to be my sponsor:
I am organizing a half-marathon length bike ride to support my newsroom, and I'd love for you to be my sponsor:
November 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Y'all — As a journalist covering global health and environmental disparities, I've lived in Atlanta car-free since 2018 because that is the easiest way to put my money where my mouth is!
I am organizing a half-marathon length bike ride to support my newsroom, and I'd love for you to be my sponsor:
I am organizing a half-marathon length bike ride to support my newsroom, and I'd love for you to be my sponsor:
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It’s pronounced cyclist.
October 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
It’s pronounced cyclist.
“A populace that has a better understanding of the world around it is a populace that is much harder to rule by fear.”
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
October 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
“A populace that has a better understanding of the world around it is a populace that is much harder to rule by fear.”
“The problem with soft executive landings designed to allow good people to depart the stage with grace is that the public sees through them and distrusts the people left to take the organization forward.” @ajc.com www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: MARTA must bring in new leadership and stop misleading the public
The MARTA board did the public a disservice by misleading metro Atlanta residents about the circumstances surrounding the departure of former CEO Collie Greenwood.
www.ajc.com
July 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
“The problem with soft executive landings designed to allow good people to depart the stage with grace is that the public sees through them and distrusts the people left to take the organization forward.” @ajc.com www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
stay safe today, stay hydrated, and melt ice
Nezza singing the Spanish version of the National Anthem, "El Pendón Estrellado", at Dodgers Stadium last night in LA. Singing it in defiance of the organization after they ordered her to sing it ONLY in English.
#LosAngeles #LA #Baseball #Nezza #Awesome #California #MusicSky
#LosAngeles #LA #Baseball #Nezza #Awesome #California #MusicSky
July 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
stay safe today, stay hydrated, and melt ice
So happy and proud to have attended @rohitforatlanta.bsky.social’s campaign launch in his childhood home.
I believe in Rohit bc he’s fought for and with so many of us for positive, systemic change. Atlanta needs will and integrity, joined to a different vision. Join me; support rohitforatlanta.com
I believe in Rohit bc he’s fought for and with so many of us for positive, systemic change. Atlanta needs will and integrity, joined to a different vision. Join me; support rohitforatlanta.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
So happy and proud to have attended @rohitforatlanta.bsky.social’s campaign launch in his childhood home.
I believe in Rohit bc he’s fought for and with so many of us for positive, systemic change. Atlanta needs will and integrity, joined to a different vision. Join me; support rohitforatlanta.com
I believe in Rohit bc he’s fought for and with so many of us for positive, systemic change. Atlanta needs will and integrity, joined to a different vision. Join me; support rohitforatlanta.com
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On the anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first of a series of increasingly stringent exclusion laws that not only banned the Chinese but also became a blueprint for racially-charged US immigration policy that persists to this day - sharing a poem from Angel Island.
May 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
On the anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first of a series of increasingly stringent exclusion laws that not only banned the Chinese but also became a blueprint for racially-charged US immigration policy that persists to this day - sharing a poem from Angel Island.
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Funny how "pragmatism" only ever involves moving right though. Like progressive politics are a luxury to be cut from the budget when times are tough, rather than an actual winning strategy to earn support.
April 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Funny how "pragmatism" only ever involves moving right though. Like progressive politics are a luxury to be cut from the budget when times are tough, rather than an actual winning strategy to earn support.
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Paul Ong of @knowledgeluskin.bsky.social discusses the history of Asian enclaves in Stockton and the effects of the Crosstown Freeway bisecting them on the California Highways: Route by Route podcast: caroutebyroute.org/2024/11/09/c... @cahwyguy.bsky.social
CA RxR 3.03: Route 4: Stockton – California Highways: Route by Route
caroutebyroute.org
February 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Paul Ong of @knowledgeluskin.bsky.social discusses the history of Asian enclaves in Stockton and the effects of the Crosstown Freeway bisecting them on the California Highways: Route by Route podcast: caroutebyroute.org/2024/11/09/c... @cahwyguy.bsky.social
“Ultimately, it seems, Hester Street’s financial model was sustainable only as long as the organization could find an executive director who would throw themself into the role in an unsustainable way.” 🎯 @oscarthinks.bsky.social
In August 2024, New York City’s community development luminary Hester Street announced that it was sunsetting after more than two decades. What went wrong?
nextcity.org/features/the...
nextcity.org/features/the...
Inside the Rise and Fall of Hester Street
In August 2024, New York City's community development luminary Hester Street announced that it was sunsetting after more than two decades. What went wrong?
nextcity.org
January 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Ultimately, it seems, Hester Street’s financial model was sustainable only as long as the organization could find an executive director who would throw themself into the role in an unsustainable way.” 🎯 @oscarthinks.bsky.social
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“Rights only have power in so far as people know about them & enforce them. It really is where the rubber meets the road.”
Kathy Ou reports on a new CA bill that could offer a lifeline to immigrant entrepreneurs resisting gentrification in LA's Chinatown:
prismreports.org/2025/01/02/s...
Kathy Ou reports on a new CA bill that could offer a lifeline to immigrant entrepreneurs resisting gentrification in LA's Chinatown:
prismreports.org/2025/01/02/s...
For small businesses in LA’s Chinatown, tenant law could be a lifeline
California’s Commercial Tenant Protection Act is the first of its kind to protect small business owners, including in LA’s Chinatown
prismreports.org
January 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“Rights only have power in so far as people know about them & enforce them. It really is where the rubber meets the road.”
Kathy Ou reports on a new CA bill that could offer a lifeline to immigrant entrepreneurs resisting gentrification in LA's Chinatown:
prismreports.org/2025/01/02/s...
Kathy Ou reports on a new CA bill that could offer a lifeline to immigrant entrepreneurs resisting gentrification in LA's Chinatown:
prismreports.org/2025/01/02/s...
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I think this is my underrated pet issue, that american transportation and roads and city planning is making us sick and unhealthy with aggregate more expensive healthcare outcomes
This happened to me when I went in for a routine checkup in Vegas. I told them I didn’t have a car and I just walk and bike everywhere, and they (1) looked at me like I was crazy and (2) told me I’m in the 99th percentile of non-sedentary behavior
At a routine medical appt, staff asked what I do for exercise.
Me: “Mostly I bike or walk for transportation when possible.”
Them: “Most people laugh when I ask that question. You’re doing good.”
Bike/ped infrastructure is #HealthyInfrastructure.
www.transportation.gov/mission/heal...
Me: “Mostly I bike or walk for transportation when possible.”
Them: “Most people laugh when I ask that question. You’re doing good.”
Bike/ped infrastructure is #HealthyInfrastructure.
www.transportation.gov/mission/heal...
December 21, 2024 at 5:24 PM
I think this is my underrated pet issue, that american transportation and roads and city planning is making us sick and unhealthy with aggregate more expensive healthcare outcomes
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This tells a little *too much* truth. Atlanta has a powerful creative, progressive culture that is stifled at almost every single turn.
Atlanta was the future once.
Now it's on the precipice of being just another city - with a Shake Shack and Sweetgreen for all.
Atlanta was the future once.
Now it's on the precipice of being just another city - with a Shake Shack and Sweetgreen for all.
Is Atlanta cooked? It sure feels that way sometimes.
If we wanna thrive, we must nurture the makers and push back against the takers.
Kyle Stapleton is here today with How I'd Fix Atlanta's powerful Season Three finale:
how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/how-kyle-sta...
If we wanna thrive, we must nurture the makers and push back against the takers.
Kyle Stapleton is here today with How I'd Fix Atlanta's powerful Season Three finale:
how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/how-kyle-sta...
How Kyle Stapleton Would Fix Atlanta
Good morning. Happy Thursday. A few quick programming notes:
1. How I’d Fix Atlanta was recently featured on Rose Scott’s legendary WABE show, Closer Look! What an honor.
2. We're no longer on Twit...
how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io
December 20, 2024 at 1:30 AM
This tells a little *too much* truth. Atlanta has a powerful creative, progressive culture that is stifled at almost every single turn.
Atlanta was the future once.
Now it's on the precipice of being just another city - with a Shake Shack and Sweetgreen for all.
Atlanta was the future once.
Now it's on the precipice of being just another city - with a Shake Shack and Sweetgreen for all.
Tressie McMillan Cottom on “the perverse nature of our moral economy,” including housing and transportation: “We have set up a system of interlocking ninth circles of hell for all of our basic needs.”
We in the NPIC working on these issues should have this clarity. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...
We in the NPIC working on these issues should have this clarity. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...
Opinion | Three Columnists Wrestle With the Lionizing of Luigi Mangione (Gift Article)
What other kind of company inspires this sort of hatred?
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Tressie McMillan Cottom on “the perverse nature of our moral economy,” including housing and transportation: “We have set up a system of interlocking ninth circles of hell for all of our basic needs.”
We in the NPIC working on these issues should have this clarity. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...
We in the NPIC working on these issues should have this clarity. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...
all the urbanists feverishly reposting the menswear guy on walkability and zoning, let’s see that same energy when it comes to his posts about immigrants and refugees in cities 💛
If we want better fashion culture in the US, we have to lower the cost of housing and commercial real estate, support independent craftspeople, build denser neighborhoods, improve walkability, and get rid of overly restrictive zoning laws. Let kook culture thrive.
November 27, 2024 at 4:28 PM
all the urbanists feverishly reposting the menswear guy on walkability and zoning, let’s see that same energy when it comes to his posts about immigrants and refugees in cities 💛
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For Dwell I got to talk to a bunch of amazing researchers about why we continue to build in high climate-risk areas, and the ways we might consider some type of ethical built future under threat. www.dwell.com/article/why-...
Why Do We Keep Developing in Climate Disaster Zones?
Affordable real estate in the Sun Belt continues to attract buyers under a false sense of security. For experts, the burning question is how—or if—we can build housing ethically in at-risk areas.
www.dwell.com
November 18, 2024 at 1:06 AM
For Dwell I got to talk to a bunch of amazing researchers about why we continue to build in high climate-risk areas, and the ways we might consider some type of ethical built future under threat. www.dwell.com/article/why-...
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Great piece on Rachel Bok's interurban research: The Problem with Mass-Produced 'Urban Solutions' via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2024/11...
The Problem with Mass-Produced ‘Urban Solutions’ | The Tyee
Geographer Rachel Bok investigates the deep-pocketed players setting the agenda for the future of cities.
thetyee.ca
November 15, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Great piece on Rachel Bok's interurban research: The Problem with Mass-Produced 'Urban Solutions' via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2024/11...
here looking for red and purple state unicorn-conspirators:
🦄 AAPI suburban social practice artists and cultural workers
🦄 AAPI suburban community development practitioners
🦄 BIPOC state DOT and MPO changemakers
🦄 AAPI suburban social practice artists and cultural workers
🦄 AAPI suburban community development practitioners
🦄 BIPOC state DOT and MPO changemakers
November 13, 2024 at 1:41 PM
here looking for red and purple state unicorn-conspirators:
🦄 AAPI suburban social practice artists and cultural workers
🦄 AAPI suburban community development practitioners
🦄 BIPOC state DOT and MPO changemakers
🦄 AAPI suburban social practice artists and cultural workers
🦄 AAPI suburban community development practitioners
🦄 BIPOC state DOT and MPO changemakers