drew hanson
@pedview.bsky.social
varied interests, 1st generation college grad, dad, independent, older than I look, views are my own
Cities used to annex Villages in Wisconsin. Look up the history of Menekaunee—today a neighborhood that was a Village until it was annexed by Marinette—or Elmside, formerly a Village that was annexed by Madison.
This is such a shit show. This place needs to be annexed like yesterday. Lofti now talking about accusations she had made against staff that they cut off her mic at one point.
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Cities used to annex Villages in Wisconsin. Look up the history of Menekaunee—today a neighborhood that was a Village until it was annexed by Marinette—or Elmside, formerly a Village that was annexed by Madison.
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Just don't buy 'em at Target or Walmart, or from Amazon.
Make your holidays a little brighter, buy Union-Made!
December 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Just don't buy 'em at Target or Walmart, or from Amazon.
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Walking with other people who are grieving a loss is one way to ease some of the pain and feel less alone. n.pr/4iW5b13
The 'magic' of walking with grief
Walking with other people who are grieving a loss is one way to ease some of the pain and feel less alone.
n.pr
December 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Walking with other people who are grieving a loss is one way to ease some of the pain and feel less alone. n.pr/4iW5b13
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Wisconsin’s Environmental Funding Cuts Among Nation’s Largest
Wisconsin’s Environmental Funding Cuts Among Nation’s Largest
Report finds state funding for DNR has dropped 29% since 2010 when accounting for inflation.
urbanmilwaukee.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Wisconsin’s Environmental Funding Cuts Among Nation’s Largest
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"Despite the Trump administration’s alarming trajectory on public lands in 2025, the future is far from certain. Protecting public lands remains deeply popular, and more people than ever are demonstrating with their precious free time how much they value these lands."
#publiclands
#publiclands
A Historically Bad Year for Public Lands Under President Trump
The Trump administration’s attacks on parks and public lands broke records in 2025, but they also met intense public opposition.
www.americanprogress.org
December 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"Despite the Trump administration’s alarming trajectory on public lands in 2025, the future is far from certain. Protecting public lands remains deeply popular, and more people than ever are demonstrating with their precious free time how much they value these lands."
#publiclands
#publiclands
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Trump’s America.
Mubashir is a 20-year-old Minneapolis resident and a U.S. citizen. ICE assaulted him and grabbed him off the street anyway.
Cruelty and incompetence, and an unlawful detention. A kidnapping. ICE gets to do this with zero accountability.
1/2
Mubashir is a 20-year-old Minneapolis resident and a U.S. citizen. ICE assaulted him and grabbed him off the street anyway.
Cruelty and incompetence, and an unlawful detention. A kidnapping. ICE gets to do this with zero accountability.
1/2
December 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Trump’s America.
Mubashir is a 20-year-old Minneapolis resident and a U.S. citizen. ICE assaulted him and grabbed him off the street anyway.
Cruelty and incompetence, and an unlawful detention. A kidnapping. ICE gets to do this with zero accountability.
1/2
Mubashir is a 20-year-old Minneapolis resident and a U.S. citizen. ICE assaulted him and grabbed him off the street anyway.
Cruelty and incompetence, and an unlawful detention. A kidnapping. ICE gets to do this with zero accountability.
1/2
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This week Mongabay speaks with Senator @russfeingold.bsky.social about conservation & the climate
As chair of the Campaign for Nature, Feingold emphasizes that nature is essential for a healthy society, despite what figures like Bill Gates have recently argued
Hear his good thoughts here:
As chair of the Campaign for Nature, Feingold emphasizes that nature is essential for a healthy society, despite what figures like Bill Gates have recently argued
Hear his good thoughts here:
Governments must prioritize nature protection, former US senator Russ Feingold says
Bill Gates recently claimed that protecting nature or improving human health is an either-or choice, but former national leaders like Russ Feingold, a retired U.S. senator, and Mary Robinson, former I...
news.mongabay.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This week Mongabay speaks with Senator @russfeingold.bsky.social about conservation & the climate
As chair of the Campaign for Nature, Feingold emphasizes that nature is essential for a healthy society, despite what figures like Bill Gates have recently argued
Hear his good thoughts here:
As chair of the Campaign for Nature, Feingold emphasizes that nature is essential for a healthy society, despite what figures like Bill Gates have recently argued
Hear his good thoughts here:
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@wisconsinwatch.org checks just how much state funding of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has been reduced.
December 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
@wisconsinwatch.org checks just how much state funding of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has been reduced.
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We don’t need to overthink induced demand to do something about it.
"Build for cars, and you’ll get more driving; build for transit or biking, and you’ll get more of those too."
Read my latest piece from SSTI.
"Build for cars, and you’ll get more driving; build for transit or biking, and you’ll get more of those too."
Read my latest piece from SSTI.
We don’t need to overthink induced demand to act on it
The concept of induced demand is now widely recognized in transportation. But we often treat it as a technical modeling issue rather than a basic principle of how people respond to the world around th...
ssti.us
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
We don’t need to overthink induced demand to do something about it.
"Build for cars, and you’ll get more driving; build for transit or biking, and you’ll get more of those too."
Read my latest piece from SSTI.
"Build for cars, and you’ll get more driving; build for transit or biking, and you’ll get more of those too."
Read my latest piece from SSTI.
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I read a piece recently that is a year or two old about how Japan spent decades trying to build elder care robots. What was meant to replace workers (or missing workers) at scale is still nothing more than a curiosity.
Care is the holy grail of automation. Because we need it to survive, but it's too labor-intensive to be profitable, even as it gets more expensive. And because we could make it a public good, but only by raising taxes on billionaires.
So, be *very* skeptical when they claim AI can replace care.
So, be *very* skeptical when they claim AI can replace care.
December 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I read a piece recently that is a year or two old about how Japan spent decades trying to build elder care robots. What was meant to replace workers (or missing workers) at scale is still nothing more than a curiosity.
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Promising research on a plastic alternative for food packaging. 🌎
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/11/this...
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/11/this...
This 3-ingredient film made from food waste may actually beat regular plastic packaging?
The next-gen bioplastic invention surpassed the abilities of some conventional plastic packaging in repelling water and oxygen.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Promising research on a plastic alternative for food packaging. 🌎
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/11/this...
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/11/this...
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"It is energy-dense, can be stored and transported in liquid form, and — crucially — many ship engines can be converted to run on it. Global giants like Maersk and CMA CGM are already operating methanol-powered container vessels." 🌎 reasonstobecheerful.world/city-turning...
The City That Turns Human Waste into Clean Fuel
Sewage is a massive untapped source of green methanol, perfect for powering ships. One German city is producing it with every flush.
reasonstobecheerful.world
December 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"It is energy-dense, can be stored and transported in liquid form, and — crucially — many ship engines can be converted to run on it. Global giants like Maersk and CMA CGM are already operating methanol-powered container vessels." 🌎 reasonstobecheerful.world/city-turning...
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One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
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Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Everyone thinks wisconsin is about beer and cheese but it's actually about wild rice and cranberry.
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Everyone thinks wisconsin is about beer and cheese but it's actually about wild rice and cranberry.
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It's that time of year when Americans set up quaint, walkable Christmas villages in their living rooms, dreaming of living in such a cozy place.
Meanwhile, they'll show up to city council meetings to fiercely oppose any plan that would actually build that kind of car-lite community in real life.
Meanwhile, they'll show up to city council meetings to fiercely oppose any plan that would actually build that kind of car-lite community in real life.
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
It's that time of year when Americans set up quaint, walkable Christmas villages in their living rooms, dreaming of living in such a cozy place.
Meanwhile, they'll show up to city council meetings to fiercely oppose any plan that would actually build that kind of car-lite community in real life.
Meanwhile, they'll show up to city council meetings to fiercely oppose any plan that would actually build that kind of car-lite community in real life.
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imagine thinking that unregulated capitalism is good for the spirit. just imagine that shit.
For context:
"Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream." -- Ronald Reagan
"Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream." -- Ronald Reagan
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
imagine thinking that unregulated capitalism is good for the spirit. just imagine that shit.
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If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
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The Mississippi cuts through a bedrock ridge here in a relatively narrow gorge. The last place it flows over bedrock is just downstream at the even narrower Thebes Gap, which formed only in the Late Pleistocene.
The fabled Tower Rock walkway has defied expectations and emerged from the Mississippi River's depths, triggering worries among water experts.
'Once in a lifetime' tourist destination back for 4th year in a row, thanks to chronically low Mississippi River
The fabled Tower Rock walkway has defied expectations and emerged from the Mississippi River's depths, triggering worries among water experts.
www.kare11.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The Mississippi cuts through a bedrock ridge here in a relatively narrow gorge. The last place it flows over bedrock is just downstream at the even narrower Thebes Gap, which formed only in the Late Pleistocene.
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“Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being… Over my years in politics and business, I have found one thing to be universally true: The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.”
JB Pritzker
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
@jbpritzker.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/ifin...
#KindnessMatters
JB Pritzker
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
@jbpritzker.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/ifin...
#KindnessMatters
May 3, 2025 at 6:11 AM
“Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being… Over my years in politics and business, I have found one thing to be universally true: The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.”
JB Pritzker
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
@jbpritzker.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/ifin...
#KindnessMatters
JB Pritzker
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
@jbpritzker.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/ifin...
#KindnessMatters
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
More sidewalks AND more walking trails
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.
www.fastcompany.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
More sidewalks AND more walking trails
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Assembly Committee Deadlocks on Future of Stewardship Program
Assembly Committee Deadlocks on Future of Stewardship Program
Proposal advances to full Assembly with no recommendation.
urbanmilwaukee.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Assembly Committee Deadlocks on Future of Stewardship Program