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That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
@warren.senate.gov pointing out where the #Fraud #Waste and #Abuse actually takes place. #Donnie2Dolls and his family.
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump is preparing to deploy National Guard troops in the state over the governor’s repeated objections. Pritzker also warned Trump will soon launch large-scale immigration raids in Chicago. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
New US version of 'Guns, Germs, and Steel'? Leading causes of death for children, guns, virus/cancer, and traffic crashes. Brought to you by lack of action by GOP, now blocking funding for research in all of these areas.
Yes, policy, code, regulations, political will, all needed to change the #Paradigm and make it inviting for people to use active transportation and transit. Good on Columbus for moving in this direction. Hopefully close enough to schools, and safe infrastructure, for kids to walk/bike to school.
Also, data that can be used in support of enacting regulation requiring automakers to install #IntelligentSpeedAssist? @ntsbnewsroom.bsky.social
Seems like an appropriate warning sign to add to the others I have observed in the local neighborhoods I bike through with my granddaughters.
It's that time of year again, welcome back to school kiddos! This week we're going to address Toronto's back to school/micro mobility campaign & ask that they direct all available resources at dangerous drivers who cause hundreds of serious injuries & deaths each year in TO. đź“· @tomflood.bsky.social
My congressional representative just sent out a newsletter about his recent townhall. He basically complained about people reacting negatively to his voting record, like voting for the Huge Ugly Bill. If he doesn't like this type of reaction he could stop #Gaslighting Ohio voters.
Will they create #Places4People with #MultiModal transportation options or continue with current car centric focus? #SmartLandUsePlanning @strongtowns.org @thewaroncars.bsky.social
Yes, #Places4People #Places4Kids #SafeStreets4All#Play #IndependentMobility and not priority to movement of cars/trucks #ChildSafeTraffic #MultiModalNormativity not #Motonormativity
So the Governor of Ohio sent members of the Ohio NG to DC to pickup trash and spread mulch? Where is the national emergency? #Fraud #Waste #Abuse @daviddewitt.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social
Yes, and we need to provide #TransportationLiteracy #MobilityEducation for kids, and opportunities to bike/walk, so that they are more comfortable trying different transportation modes and start to move away from #Motonormativity. #Options #MultiModal #Discovery #Curiousity #Social #Resilience
Bikes don’t work for every person & every trip, just as cars don’t work for every person & every trip. Our communities are better when individuals have the freedom to choose from multiple safe, efficient modes of travel. 2/2
Yes, and over 30 percent of the population can't, don't want to, or should not, be driving and need other options such as transit/active transportation. #ParadigmShiftNeeded #SafeStreets4All #Places4People 'When Driving is Not an Option', @nondriver.bsky.social
So #Donnie2Dolls is now concerned about the CDC? If so, why did he appoint #RoadKillBobby as the Sec of HHS?
More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents. https://to.pbs.org/46d1uiJ
I made a 6 min video showing what it’s like for a 6 year old to bike for a day in some of DC’s protected bike lanes. 15 mile ride and 9 PBLs Part 1:
Yes, the hard part is overcoming #Motonormativity to be able to influence necessary change. #ParadigmShift
A brilliant post from Prof Timothy Snyder for Labor Day. A snippet: "The death that Trump and Vance prefer, and cause, and need is indirect and passive-aggressive: by destroying government functionality, the generate unnecessary suffering, which they then blame on migrants and African Americans."
BBC reporting on Gaza www.bbc.com/news/article...
Cincinnati man finds way to travel around the country without using a car/truck. Active transportation is great for your mental health. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
Share this with your red state friends and family. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
The type of thing that happens when your congressman votes for a Huge Ugly Bill and then tries to gaslight you. www.cincinnati.com/videos/news/...
Lol, #Donnie2Dolls is trying rebrand the Huge Ugly Bill so he can gaslight more Americans.
The reason you see my granddaughter's bike on the back of my cargo bike is that we need to get across an intersection of a 4 lane 55 mph state road, without signalization, safely. On the other side she hopped on her bike and took off biking. I can't get ODOT to install a signal/lower speed limit.
Yes, so start a #BikeBus, join a bike bus, or just bike to school with your child, or grandchild. I had a great bike ride to school yesterday with my granddaughter and her dad. #IntergenerationalMobility #Social #Active #Fun #Mental #Physical #Psychological #Health #WellBeing
So #Donnie2Dolls is going to fire a qualified CDC Director who was confirmed by the Senate, and is keeping an unqualified Sec of HHS?
When can we get streaming access to MSNBC that is not through a major cable outlet?
What is #Donnie2Dolls doing talking to all of these DC tourists? Wasting taxpayer funding to give all of theses folks and all expense paid vacation to DC? How nice.
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: “No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
Part of #Donnie2Dolls #RoadKillDude and the oligarch administration #MakeAmericansSickAgain campaign?
RFK Jr. cast for lead in new version of 'Idiocracy'? #MakeAmericansSickerAgain
Yes, bikes can put a smile on your face, and every kid in the US should have #Access to a bike. #Fun #Active #Social #BikeEd in school, #BalanceBikes #TrafficGardens #BikeBus #IndependentMobility #Independence #MultiModalCitizens
New: After a Tesla driver using Autopilot plowed into a Florida couple in 2019, killing a 22-year-old woman, crucial data detailing how the wreck unfolded was missing, unable to be located for years. A hacker found it and Tesla said in court it had been on its own servers all along. wapo.st/46dCoQI
Good question
This was actually said by the always vacationing #WeirdJD?
So you are saying the Vivek is a bag of hot air?
More reasons to get kids on bikes. H/T Maya Goldstein, HUB Cycling, BC, "Encouraging a child or youth to travel actively for school trips increases their social integration and improves their chances to live longer and happier.", greencommunitiescanada.org/why-does-wal...
There’s a widespread myth that Americans hate traffic cameras. It’s simply not true. On the contrary, researchers have consistently found that Americans broadly support using automatic enforcement to curb crashes. And for good reason: It works. Me, in Bloomberg 🧵
In another addition of 'AVs not ready for primetime'.
So the new action by GOP, in addition to thoughts and prayers, is to keep flags at half-staff all year long?
In less than a week, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers.
Yes, a beautiful day for biking to school with the granddaughter. I could not believe some people choose to drop their kids off by car in this weather. Though, there were about 20 bikes in the bike racks.
Quinnipiac poll | 8/21-8/25 RV President Trump approval Disapprove 55% (+1) Approve 37% (-3) (Shift since July poll) poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
Yes, was very impressed with the new infrastructure designs when visiting DC during the NACTO Conference. Of course, I am always impressed with the 2nd grade bike education in school program, traffic gardens, and balance bikes, that DCPS uses for #MobilityEducation
ODOT might say that we could bike the sidewalk up a steep hill for .5 mile, past several conflict points, wait on crossing light, avoid drivers turning ROR, and then bike back down the hill .5 mile while passing several conflict points, or they could just add a signal and lower the speed limit.
Great check out bike ride to school with granddaughter and her dad this morning. Checking out the route for future #BikeBus. Granddaughter started off on cargo bike so that we can safely cross the intersection of the 55 mph 4 lane road that has no signalization. Then she biked 3.5 miles to school.
Constituent: You need to take your head out of Trump’s ass.
It's a fair point.
So my Gazelle and Rad #eBikes are resilient. Can't say the same for my Stellantis Fiat Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid Plug-in. It was back in repair shop for three weeks again in June/July, fixed, warning light, back in for repair three weeks later, fixed, now going back again after warning light.
Constituent: “You talked about abuses in Medicare & Medicaid… so why did the President pardon someone who defrauded Medicaid for $1.3 BILLION?” Silence. 🦗
Gregory Washington, George Mason University’s first Black president, will not be apologizing over diversity initiatives he's pursued since his hiring in 2020. Washington's lawyer says the Trump administration conducted an incomplete and haphazard investigation full of "gross mischaracterizations."
Influencers love unpasteurized milk—and so does the H5N1 virus.
BREAKING: Award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested after wearing a T-shirt reading 'Genocide in Palestine, time to take action' Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning
Aren't actions by the gerrymandered GOP General Assembly also a part of this problem?
Time for more #SchoolStreets
Yes, there needs to be more robust discussion at every level, and automated vehicles not ready for primetime should not be tested out on vulnerable road users.
New at the DOJ, The Department of Retribution, modeled on autocratic governments, and coming to a place near you soon.
When/where do we get more information about this new DOJ Department of Retribution?
🚨$1,000,000/day That’s what Trump’s militarization of DC is costing taxpayers. All while he slashes Veterans’ benefits, healthcare, housing, and food aid. His police state comes with a hefty bill, and YOU'RE paying it. MORE: theintercept.com/2025/08/20/t...
🚨Trump is threatening to send the “regular military” — Army and Marines — into US cities, with Chicago “probably next.” Make no mistake: This isn’t about safety. It’s about control. Using our Troops as political weapons erodes trust in the military and betrays the Constitution he swore to defend.
Sunny out and temps and humidity have dropped so great day for a bike ride to the donut shop with daughter and granddaughters. Always interesting being the only ones showing up by bike. Need a #ParadigmShift to get more #Bikeable #Walkable #Suburbs
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Great photo of the NG R&R Tourism Program. #Donnie2Dolls sending folks from other states to big cities, that produce most of the US GDP, to foster an appreciation of the diversity and strength of city residents. What a great benefit for the NG.
#WeirdJD apparently skipped high school history class, or was asleep. Try the Google machine dude. WWII #UnconditionalSurrender of Germany and Japan.
Ghislaine Maxwell is a convicted sex trafficker convicted of heinous crimes against minors. #Donnie2Dolls is trying gaslight a nation and protect himself.
So #Donnie2Dolls is very good at #ConceptsOfAPlan but not very good at making deals? #PutinPunksTrump
This is another Duffy telling us he doesn't know anything about traffic safety without actually saying it moment.
Welcome to Texas, The Asphalt State
This new NG tourism benefit is interesting. So far this year NG troops have been tourist in LA and DC. Next up Chicago? Who knew that #Donnie2Dolls was so interested in getting Americans to visit our cities?
Release the #TrumpEpsteinFiles #TrumpDeepState
It is always a wonderful day when you can talk about ways to help get more kids biking. My wife and I had a great time at the Tri State Trails Tour de Crown Expo repping the @bikeleague.org and the Early Childhood Mobility Coalition. #BalanceBikes #TrafficGardens #BikeEd and #BikeBus
Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse has served in the Air Force and military intelligence for nearly 35 years. He's been leading the Defense Intelligence Agency for the past 18 months. He made the mistake of telling the truth about Trump's strikes on Iran, and Hegseth fired him. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
Why do these tourists need to be armed?
Barely a half-year into Trump's second term, a handful of senior White House aides are already heading for the exits.
A new day, and another stop on the #Donnie2Dolls retribution tour. #AbuseOfPower
Maybe she should read the US Constitution?
JD Vance is no champion of the working class. He is explicitly owned by the elite, and the Big Beautiful Bill is his gift to them.
So what #Donnie2Dolls really means is 'I need to grift more money from the fossil fuel industry'?
Lol, so 'Faux News' chyron states that businesses are fleeing the largest consumer economy in the US, yeah, sure.
Yes, this is a great addition to work by @ianwalker.bsky.social on #Motonormativity
The NG tourists look like they are having a good time exploring the nations capital.
Meanwhile in Europe, "The AI Act is a European regulation on artificial intelligence (AI) – the first comprehensive regulation on AI by a major regulator anywhere. The Act assigns applications of AI to three risk categories.", artificialintelligenceact.eu
How is the #eBike lending initiative in Maine libraries working out? www.bikemaine.org/library-e-bi...
The kind of thing that happens when you have NG tourists driving #DangerousByDesign vehicles in the city instead of using transit?
Yes, if this moves forward it will be a failure of leadership
WTH? This should be a lead story on the local news. 'Member of local law enforcement threatens citizen with bodily harm'. Not acceptable by any means, regardless of transportation mode. #Motonormativity
Yes, and kids bike and need places where they can safely bike. www.wcpo.com/news/local-n...
The neighborhoods want local businesses like bakery, coffee shop, bookstore, place to sit and chat, while children play. Township apparently wants car friendly stuff. Neighborhoods have good mix of different generations. We definitely need #Places4People and a way to safely cross the state road.
Thanks for share. Yes, pretty much the kind of information I have shared with the ODOT District Supervisor. I have provided excellent research articles about creating safe infrastructure for active transportation, but to no avail. Seem to be some land use issues as well regarding future development.
Wrestling with this issue this year as my route to bike to school with my granddaughter takes us across a four lane 55 mph state road running between two suburban neighborhoods. Can't get the speed reduced, can't get a signal, can't get traffic calming. Barriers to children's #IndependentMobility
Spot on. This year the Ohio GOP failed to approve 25k to support passenger rail in Ohio, while giving away 600M for a new football stadium in Cleveland. columbusunderground.com/ohio-senate-...
Spread the word about #TrumpEpsteinCoverup
'Killed by a Traffic Engineer', @wesmars.bsky.social and @davidzipper.bsky.social, good topic for an upcoming podcast. Part of the justification my district transportation folks give for not lowering speed limit from 55 mph to 45 mph on state road through suburban neighborhoods. #SpeedKills
#Motonormativity and #PersonalPodSyndrome at work here. You must stay out of my way, unless you are in a car, and then I will still be upset. Reminds me of a chat I had with a pickup driver at 6 am one morning who close passed me in the neighborhood while I was biking around a parked car at 20 mph.
So #Donnie2Dolls has a 'concept of a plan', again, to provide security for Ukraine? Just like he vowed to release the #TrumpEpsteinFiles. Not worth much. #ChangingGoalPosts
USSR vibes in Oklahoma?
Overcoming #Motonormativity is possible in the US