For the youngs, in case you’ve not heard of Shane McGowan and The Pogues youtu.be/gsXEGvX_ksI
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For the youngs, in case you’ve not heard of Shane McGowan and The Pogues youtu.be/gsXEGvX_ksI
True! The civil war is not over!
overheard on campus: “bro i didn’t even bring my car this year we got free BART! it’s just not worth it” and then their friends were talking about how easy it is to transfer at macarthur 😎
Racism doesn't pay the bills.
What they are doing now is incredibly bad. It does not detract from that to also say the FBI ruined many lives and ended quite a few. For example, they assassinated Fred Hampton. I think that’s bad. Both things can be true
I watched the whole thing. I’m going to be charitable and say this woman is our opponent. I’ll save “enemy” for the outright fascists.
🧵*8/27/2025 thread of noncooperation* Day Two of this new thing I'm trying: Posting a daily thread of acts of noncooperation/noncompliance/resistance by individuals, communities, or institutions. Shit's bad. But we remain who we are.
If you live in California and believe in building more housing, please call your assembly member and ask them to vote "yes" on SB 79! I did it on Friday and it takes < 1 minute Enter your address here to get their phone number: streetsforall.org/sb79
Yeah she seemed very offended about that and my god if land use is her primary job as a council member then LA is more corrupt than I even imagined…
This looks defensive to me. I’d hate to meet the thing it was defending itself against!
We have been at war for over a decade and if you have not been fighting the real enemy, then you have been wrong.
Just be careful with your acceleration monster. Thanks!
Well, planning is good. It’s not like there’s constant camping along the way.
Also, @warrenjwells.bsky.social did the ride west -> east
As for bikes, we rented from a shop in Cumberland that brought them to DC, and picked them up in Pittsburgh. They were Trek crossovers and in good condition. Brought our own pannies. 1 key thing: think through where to buy food, as there are stretches where you would need to veer far off for food.
We did it in the opposite direction, but if I did it again, I would do the Pitt to DC direction. There are campsites along the way enough to do that throughout, as I recall, even though we did need to camp on a lawn across from the Y in Cumberland, MD. That said, we did stay in AirBnBs twice. 1/x
Also, I was around during Reagan. This is far worse than that. Also, we are still digging out from under that malign era. “Didn’t kill us” is an awful goddam standard.
Which is why Heinrich was so mad the other day about aging hippies coming out to protest!
Good piece of rhetoric, and one senses he means it.
Do they ever ask themselves what is wrong with them? I ask myself what is wrong with them, for sure.
Well, 27 million copies is certainly more than a feeling….
This my dude
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
At least in the western US, this is a problem driven largely by low-density sprawl development and car dependence. Time to say YES to infill housing development @asmmiabonta.bsky.social !
When Bernie first ran, I took a good look at him. Thought about his potential presidency. Then I firmly declined.
No to idea number one. No, no, no.
My housing politics is firmly rooted in our moral duty to welcome immigrants and refugees into our communities. Fulfilling that obligation requires actually building homes so these people can find places to live.
Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee comes out in support of SB 79! “SB 79 provides essential statewide standards and tools to ensure that all communities do their part in addressing California's housing shortage, while advancing our shared climate and equity goals.”
Dear Sean, They only care about power. - me
Those mistakes were admitted fairly quickly and the people who were honest and admitted them were then attacked by the right wing as being inconsistent, even liars, hypocrites, and worse, for having both made the mistakes and admitting them. So, no.
Wealthy people will always have the nicest housing available. If you fail to build new housing, you are forcing poor people to compete with wealthier people for that existing stock. That is not working out for folks.
George Conway, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social !
What if you get stuck on one of those overlong flights to South Sudan or Libya or El Salvador? Do you talk to the people running the place you’re being kept? Or what?
He’s still dangerous
I want access to Bushrod! Currently I go up Telegraph instead but mostly don't go. In Germany it's very common for pedestrians to be able to cross the street without negotiation, there's just more traffic signal phases enabling this and the whole cycle takes longer. Is there a term of art for this?
Finally, this is a question of car dominance. The white flight freeway (24) is the original sin (here, at least) but the minimal remedy we need will require counting heads, not just engines, in how to apportion time for people to travel without excessive risk. Are you ready to support that?
And that actually turns out to be a lot of people, despite how inhospitable it is here. Why not give those on foot and on bikes time to cross without these conflicts? There’s a thriving neighborhood on one side of this, and a major hospital on the other. We need a way to get around safely!
I stood on this corner with an eyewitness to the tragedy and went step-by-step through this tragic incident and the below is correct: there is no moment in the light cycle when people on foot or on bikes can cross without conflicts with turning vehicles. So people cannot avoid taking risks.
Completely embarrassing for the supposed wealthiest nation in the world. www.phillymag.com/news/2025/08...
Not only should there be no ICE, there should be no DHS. This Bush-era invention was clocked as fash back then, and we were right.
What the actual fuck is our country doing? What are WE doing?
Munger on the job right away. Are dems already campaigning?
Some collaborators and I were doing an evening rush hour traffic count (to argue with our DOT), and the impatience + carelessness = menace formula was on abundant display. Especially against peds just trying to cross with the light. Shocking, every single time.
People walking and biking get shamed for wearing headphones. Meanwhile, drivers sit inside sealed metal cabins with 12-speaker sound systems, fully isolated from the world and no one questions it, even as they operate 2-ton machines through crowded cities.
And weirdly, those caverns will cast horrific shadows on all local zucchini gardens.
Yes.
Oakland has over 30 traffic fatalities every year, and hundreds of serious injuries. Every one was caused by a vehicle in motion. The greater the speed, the greater the danger.
Progress is good!
On Saturday a driver hit and killed women in her 50s as she was biking across 51st at Shattuck 😢 Our hearts go out to her life cut short as she was doing something as simple as riding her bike, and we extend our deepest sympathies to her family and friends www.oakrapidresponse.org/posts/bicycl...
You know we wouldn’t need to gerrymander our maps if we just built some fucking housing the past 40 years…just sayin’ you want to solve this more permanently make it easy to live in blue states and stop pricing everyone out
Clear and obvious HIPAA violation. 100% against the law.
A big deal. Rest in peace
You can keep thinking that, and being surprised, or you can try to think ahead about what the strategy is. Does it matter whether it’s him or one of his people?
Twelve thousand, two hundred, eleven. Children.
Presumably in the “bullshit” category, as defined by Harry Frankfurter. No concern for the truth whatsoever
Building more housing close to the center of the city is necessary and should continue until demand drops substantially. Also, only barely related to mode share.
Another needless tragedy blows up many lives by ending one.
It's going to come down to doorknocking and turnout from the working class portions of the ward. If you have time, energy, and a desire for a more progessive Minneapolis leadership - Cashman needs you. Don't let conservatives like Shaffer define the next four years of council.
Also, carpooling can be an option.
But you do have *a* housing problem in Santa Cruz County. You don’t build enough, dense enough, housing. Prices are through the roof, and resource use per household is completely out of scale. Multi-family housing types could really help there.
He hates Black women leaders. And he targets them because he thinks they won’t be as well-defended as others. It’s up to us to prove him wrong every time.
It sounds like yet another conspiracy theory. People can act badly, and we can fight them, without a grand conspiracy theory.
What he actually insisted upon is following the pre-defined rules which resulted in Allied being chosen. And not just choosing for some random personal reasons. Part of why we tolerate process is that it’s a way to defeat the alternative method.
I was at the meeting where this blew up. Staff tried to follow a defined process and arrived at a result. Then Council members blew it up. The rank pressure tactics and lobbying should be consistently discouraged by everyone, staff and political. We have work to do!
And yet, a few US places have managed it. Not many, not large. It can be done, we just don’t choose to.
You want us to vote for this but you manipulate the map for your own personal benefit first?
“No other invention combines the useful with the pleasant as closely as the bicycle.” - Adam Opel (1837-1895), founder of Adam Opel AG, which originally produced sewing machines and bicycles, and later automobiles
There’s math for density around transit service. I can’t recite it, but I’ve heard it discussed by transit planners. So maybe the same for this? Something like the number of people within a five to ten minute walk, but there’s lots of variables…
I don’t know them, so maybe it a bot, fully cross-signified…
Not so drunk they didn’t put on their seatbelt at least…
Well, it becomes very clear that they represent at the other end of the spectrum from maga.
Did you read their bio?
I built a wooden box and bolted it on my back rack. Fits a grocery bag. Carries bungies, some cord, and various. I use the front rack for overflow and tie down
Any street tree needs several years of tending for success, just to put that in there. But yes!
Also, and perhaps I am alone in this, the early 60’s Volvo 122S
The 2002, especially in maroon, one of my favorite vintage machines. I have no modern favorites.
If the recitation below is correct (I have no reason to doubt it), this kind of violent retaliation against an activist, *because* she is a critic, crosses the line into state warfare against citizens. What else to call it?
There’s a DHS check point a block away from my apartment and I cannot express how horrifying it is to no longer feel like I am free to leave my building and be sure I’ll be returning later that day.
Dude has a Grade-A Cold Stare
Who was it who always ended their game show by reminding folks to get their pets spayed and neutered. He’s gone but maybe pick that one up too?
Oh many years ago now! She’s an adult and living in the other side of the country now!
This resonates for me! My daughter had a heck of a time with getting water on her face *while bathing*, and it took a long time before washing her hair didn’t make her panic. Again, serious effort on her part to merely tolerate the ordinary, and it was a big deal!
I really can't stand it when other people want to use the world-class amenity that I chose (and could afford) to live next to! Who are all these "people"? Why do they keep coming to my local park? Why am I not in control of this public resource? (also, chaos? Really?) sfstandard.com/2025/08/15/g...
I’m glad they are doing this, but I can’t help but notice that this is a sudden ramp up in energy that they have not shown for threats that the electeds themselves have not faced. I welcome the fight, but please include fighting this hard for marginalized groups.
We have got to stop quoting laws to men with swords.
It’s a great sharing of information every month!
Closed for how long, do you think? I’m planning a group ride on 9/14 going through there… I guess I’ll route around this…
Man, he just took off. And just stayed ahead of those guys with seeming comfort. Gotta wonder how they finally got him.
Stop blaming the victim. What Yonah is referring to is structural. E.g., in the Bay Area, the fragmentation of the metropolitan area into small cities, almost all which are hard-zoned SFH, guarantees that very few renters are even allowed to serve. Same is true in LA metro, and many other places!
This is true 72 ways from Sunday in the Bay Area. MTC, ABAG, BCDC, etc etc etc
The video is priceless. This dude is BRAVE. And he’s a good runner…
Over 80% of CEQA lawsuits are filed against in-fill housing projects. The IPCC rated all potential strategies to fight climate change and *in-fill housing development* was number 1. Number One. The very first one. High-cost housing markets are causing blue states to lose seats to red states.
Did they even have a rational path to 10,000? Or did they just pull that out of the air?
This clearly demonstrates that those darn bicyclists need to obey all the traffic laws!
And you’ll have earned it! ;-)
Slightly Diminish a Band: The Affection Pistols Pudgy Little Fingers Group of Four The Slip and Fall
I don’t find this photo convincing. Did Alfred ride? Or just pose?
Congrats to @bikewalkalameda.bsky.social on the new Grand St cycletrack in Alameda, looking shiny! This was one of 2023's “3 protected bikeway approvals in one day”. The others were Oakland 14th St, now in construction, & Emeryville 40th St, starting later this year. bikeeastbay.org/three-protec...
Yeah, for sure they also wouldn’t grant the President overly broad immunity or roll back the voting rights act or any number of other things we are just so darn sure won’t happen.
