@pypark.bsky.social
Reposted
School has been cancelled tomorrow and Friday across the city of Minneapolis, because our federal government has made it unsafe for children here.
January 8, 2026 at 3:07 AM
School has been cancelled tomorrow and Friday across the city of Minneapolis, because our federal government has made it unsafe for children here.
Reposted
Donald Trump sent more money to bail out Argentina than it would have cost to extend the ACA tax credits for just 1 year.
I don't plan to let anyone forget it.
I don't plan to let anyone forget it.
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Donald Trump sent more money to bail out Argentina than it would have cost to extend the ACA tax credits for just 1 year.
I don't plan to let anyone forget it.
I don't plan to let anyone forget it.
Reposted
Thx @cnn.com for telling Joy and Sam’s story! A great example how transit connects the community & can really impact people in so many ways. Really appreciate seeing our amazing @wmata.com staff get the attention they deserve. Pls pass this one along ❤️
www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/u...
She was a bus driver who answered questions from a curious 5th grader. A decade later, they reconnected — as colleagues | CNN
Though Sam Mencimer didn’t know it at the time, all those moments with his favorite bus driver, Joy Kenley – the never-ending questions, the bus depot tour – would have a lasting impact on his life.
www.cnn.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Thx @cnn.com for telling Joy and Sam’s story! A great example how transit connects the community & can really impact people in so many ways. Really appreciate seeing our amazing @wmata.com staff get the attention they deserve. Pls pass this one along ❤️
www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/u...
Reposted
Went to Indivisible Baltimore County's rally against County Exec Kathy Klausmeier's MOU with the ICE/DHS
There were many good speakers, but as a former Catholic, this struck me
"It is faithless and cowardly not to be political" - Rev. John S. Ballenger from Woodbrook Baptist Church
There were many good speakers, but as a former Catholic, this struck me
"It is faithless and cowardly not to be political" - Rev. John S. Ballenger from Woodbrook Baptist Church
November 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Went to Indivisible Baltimore County's rally against County Exec Kathy Klausmeier's MOU with the ICE/DHS
There were many good speakers, but as a former Catholic, this struck me
"It is faithless and cowardly not to be political" - Rev. John S. Ballenger from Woodbrook Baptist Church
There were many good speakers, but as a former Catholic, this struck me
"It is faithless and cowardly not to be political" - Rev. John S. Ballenger from Woodbrook Baptist Church
Reposted
Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy
Reposted
Reposted
Light Rail is back at Penn Station on Sunday!
June 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Light Rail is back at Penn Station on Sunday!
Reposted
I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
June 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
Reposted
They built *training facilities* for just these scenarios and had people opposed to them doing so shot and/or charged as terrorists.
June 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
They built *training facilities* for just these scenarios and had people opposed to them doing so shot and/or charged as terrorists.
Reposted
Repair. Reconnect. Rebuild. That will be the work of the next years. Counter destruction with repair, wherever and whenever you can, on whatever scale is available to you.
May 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Repair. Reconnect. Rebuild. That will be the work of the next years. Counter destruction with repair, wherever and whenever you can, on whatever scale is available to you.
Reposted
WA’s new Shared Streets Law (SB 5595), signed May 18, lets cities set 10 mph limits and give pedestrians full street access, first in the U.S. to do so. Cars must yield to bikes, and bikes to walkers. Inspired by European “woonerfs,” it starts July 27.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/19/g...
www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/19/g...
Governor Signs Washington’s First-in-the-Nation Shared Streets Law - The Urbanist
# Cities in Washington will have the legal authority to create shared streets, which feature much lower speed limits and put pedestrians first, under Senate Bill 5595. Governor Bob Ferguson signed the...
www.theurbanist.org
May 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
WA’s new Shared Streets Law (SB 5595), signed May 18, lets cities set 10 mph limits and give pedestrians full street access, first in the U.S. to do so. Cars must yield to bikes, and bikes to walkers. Inspired by European “woonerfs,” it starts July 27.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/19/g...
www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/19/g...
Reposted
For @defector.com, I wrote about the impoverishment of "Abundance," a book with no interest in conservation and whose disciples are in desperate need of a land ethic.
"This is a vision of America’s future that has hardly a word to say about forests, oceans, fresh water, ecosystems, or wild animals—about anything that isn’t made by and for humans." defector.com/an-abundance...
An Abundance Of Concrete | Defector
Reliable sources tell me that you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover. Until you actually read the thing, though, it’s the only data you have to go on. So here’s what I first noticed about Ab...
defector.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
For @defector.com, I wrote about the impoverishment of "Abundance," a book with no interest in conservation and whose disciples are in desperate need of a land ethic.