I cannot stress this enough: going and doing something like this is a far better use of your time than arguing online about a primary campaign in a state/district where you don't even live. I'll be doing it again myself soon!

On the merits it's really hard to argue that there's a better city policy than congestion pricing

Loved teaching @thebartlettucl.bsky.social students this term, and have blogged about my seminar series, Planetary Infrastructures, here samgrinsell.hcommons.org/2025/12/10/p... #history #ArchitecturalHistory #infrastructure #geography #anthropology #EnvHums #teaching #environment

States can abide by original recs. New York has that policy in place and Illinois just passed legislation to allow that. See about getting similar plans in place in your state. #MedSky 🩺 www.nprillinois.org/health-harve...

1/Quick thoughts of implications of US National Security Strategy for Europe -- weaponized interdependence meets nationalist international. The US will use its tools (economic, technology, and financial dominance) to press for far right agenda. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

@philiprocco.bsky.social (Marquette University), Jay Rickabaugh (North Carolina State), and @jen-nelles.bsky.social (Oxford Brookes School) discuss state and national partnerships during an atypical federal office in this @washingtonmonthly.com op-ed. Read the piece. ⤵️

Iran's president is reviving plans to move the capital amid a severe water crisis. But Iranian water policy experts say relocating government offices won't solve the core problem: decades of treating finite water resources as unlimited. buff.ly/p7loved

"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter." Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

We could have this in NYC! Support the SUNNY Act! www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Farewell and good luck to Rick Cotton as he moves on from the Port Authority. As my coauthor says, he was a steadying hand and innovator at the authority during his tenure. www.nj.com/news/2025/11...

Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem. Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...

SATURDAY AFTERNOON! BROOKLYN, NEW YORK! @anyonecomics.bsky.social Yours truly will be there as part of a STELLAR group of comic book creators against ICE. www.comicsbeat.com/anyone-comic...

"Fast and free!" That's what Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani promised to make #NYC 's city bus service. What kind of impact has free transit had in other cities? #Montpellier , #France is the largest city in Europe to make transit (5 tram lines, 41 bus lines) free for residents... 🧵

Lots of very good ideas in here for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about what it might look like to have a tech policy agenda aligned with human rights principles.

I almost forgot the best thing about November! But it’s not too late to enjoy the #30DayMapChallenge

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

At just 34 years old, Zohran Mamdani culminated a meteoric political rise Tuesday by scoring a decisive victory in a polarizing mayoral election. He will become the youngest mayor in over a century, the first Muslim to lead New York City. buff.ly/7kOwKhb

you can win without billionaires supporting you you can win without party leadership endorsing you you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

Check out our Top 5 Most Read Articles up to 1st November 2025 journals.sagepub.com/action/showM... Each of these 5 articles are open access 🔓 Others in the list include 'History of the Ports' by Sarah Palmer and 'SS Albatross: An unfortunate Steamship' by James P. Delgado #maritimehistory

Well, the framing of this line of questioning as ‘why would voters risk Trump’s ire by choosing you’ is whack. But yet another example of someone asking what a leader would do when faced with an unreliable (and possibly vindictive) federal gov’t cc @philrocco.bsky.social

This is wild to me. But we will probably see a lot more like it as climate challenges intensify. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Right now in NYC, this Hands Off NYC call is about to start. Please sign up and join RIGHT NOW. mobilize.us/s/iM7bij/r

The local activists and organizers who were the beating heart of No Kings Day are continuing to lead the fight on the ground in your community. Check out our map to see what groups are near you and get in touch with your local organizers: indivisible.org/groups

Buttigieg: This is about political revenge. The president has been very clear about that. And the really dangerous thing is the revenge is on you—on ordinary Americans and commuters who depend on these tunnels.

Really provocative, interesting argument from @wertwhile.bsky.social on what it would look like to really regulate the platforms. www.theargumentmag.com/p/treat-big-...

"Research has shown that, inside some companies, workers begin to see their colleagues who use generative AI as less creative, even less trustworthy."

Mason is shell shocked that Trump commutes Santos! He thinks #Trump is so corrupt! But he is abt to be euthanized as a puppy betrayed by his humans and has only 43 reposts which is a death sentence to these pups! Come on guys! I need your help! Pls help me save his life! REPOST HIM! #dogsofbluesky

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

The US edition of The City of Our Dreaming is available for sale. Use the discount code in the image!

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

If anyone is interested in going far away from civilization for whatever reason, here’s a job in Antarctica. jobs.antarctica.gov.au/jobs-in-anta... 🧪🦑🌎

Here lies my productivity

The new federal government is setting its sights on a stronger, more resilient Canada—and the key to getting there is homegrown innovation. How? Find out at Universities Canada presents The Walrus Talks Innovation Nation. 🎟 WalrusTalksInnovationNation.e... #InnovationNation #InnovateCanada

💥 It’s Banned Books Week! Penguin Random House is not afraid, does not bend the knee! www.linkedin.com/posts/pengui...

To clarify: you currently do not need to say WHY or HOW you qualify for each vaccine if you schedule online at a CVS or a Walgreens. You just tick a box and they trust you. The pharmacist administering the shot won’t ask either You can get 3-4 vaccines at once

Wow! Nearly 1000 followers already. We are blown away. 🎉 We’re launching on Tuesday and we’d love your support. Sign up here for free to receive our new biweekly newsletter. Or join us as a paying member of the Nerve community. 🙏 thenerve.news

New Online 1st Commentary “Time, temporality, and the dialectic of infrastructure-led urbanization–urbanism” by Jean-Paul D. Addie doi.org/10.1177/2043...

This article about Madrid’s metro system has some great insights about how its growth was quick, cheap, and of good quality. They identified 4 key points that made it possible and successful. Great read. worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...

People and planet, not billionaires!! #MakeBillionairesPay 🌍 Thousands are gathered for the Make Billionaires Pay March in Manhattan! Join us in front Billionaires Row to make billionaires pay! 🔥🔥🔥 #ClimateCrisis #NewYork #Manhattan #SocialJustice #ClimateAction

Not seeing much on here about this but protests have been happening ahead of the UN meetings next week. The one in NYC today was significant: apnews.com/article/new-...

🚨 ATTN PA VOTERS‼️ Today is a great day to check your voter registration. Deadline to register is 10/20/25 🚨Vote YES to retain the Democratic Justices on the PA Supreme Court: Christine Donohue Kevin Dougherty David Wecht 🚨PHILLY: Please re-elect DA LARRY KRASNER www.pa.gov/agencies/vot...

Here are the eight disciplines. TRAM-Bowling is funny but I think my favorite is TRAM-Curling.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

In @warontherocks.bsky.social @zenel25.bsky.social & I argue that Beijing may have strategic aims for port investments, but #SOE, provincial, & host-country goals & rivalries keep things complicated & not guaranteed. States retain #sovereign power to steer & control what happens tinyurl.com/4ratufkz

New content for the Mission-oriented Policy Special Issue: Enhancing environmental sustainability: the impact of mission-oriented innovation policies on green innovation and patent trends Felix Kurz doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

The ecological cold war: This is far and away the most important essay you will read this week. A staggeringly incisive and commanding thesis for how the 21st century will shake out.