Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

this is literally never not accurate

OMG. The site is literally called the Dunning Kruger Times.

The dramatic repudiation of Trump this week wrecks a number of absurd narratives the media has pushed lately. In the runup to the election, NYT pieces kept telling us Dems were overly obsessed with attacking Trump. That dumb idea now lies in ruins. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2027...

BREAKING: Detroit elects new mayor, announces plan to ban cars from downtown

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

After Houston removed an LGBTQ+ Pride crosswalk in Montrose, residents responded in color. “It’s something that people out there need,” artist Nicky Davis said. “They need to know that the community of Houston accepts everyone.” ✍🏻 Gwen Howerton bit.ly/43Nw7JX

Even in stories that ostensibly cover voter dissatisfaction with the GOP, our press is incapable of communicating that the GOP is lying when claiming to care about affordability.

she's running for reelection btw

Since he’s crawled back into the limelight amid Trump’s crackdown on left-wing groups, here’s my 2019 profile of Andy Ngo. He’s an anti-antifa propagandist who has a history of whitewashing violent fascist groups, particularly in Portland. jewishcurrents.org/the-making-o...

“The Mamdani administration will allocate $20 million per year to ensure that every school can have an Open Street. This money will support additional programming, operational support, and maintenance to ensure each child has access to clean, safe, and fun space—every day.”

We're doomed

It's wild that there is a perfect solution to the problem of "neighborhood bikeway crossing an arterial," but it's only used in ~two cities in the US, and one hasn't installed a new one since the Reagan administration.

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

Without comment:

Turns out, it wasn't about the drainage.

We all want the same thing. Creative developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

What perfect album came out when you were 16?

2026 DCI challenge: a show about gerrymandering

I'm embarrassed by our current city administration and council members. Do better

"A bicycle is a beautiful contraption in the way that it connects to your body, moves at a speed which offers wind and requires only the strength of your body to operate. At the time, my body was realizing it lacked the ability to contain my soul as my soul was designed."

“The truth is, every North American city could be doing this... And if we’re serious about making cycling a safe, reliable, everyday form of transportation, we have to.” momentummag.com/nyc-bike-par...

andrew cuomo is emblematic of everything people despise about the democratic party and zohran is everything people want in politics, he represents hope for a better world

i am begging you to primary the do-nothing party leadership so i don't have to clip their videos anymore. free me of this curse

Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott looks like a formidable opponent in 2026. This East Texas farmer thinks he can beat the odds: "I've been fighting my whole life." www.chron.com/politics/art...

Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice

we're due for some good news one of these days

if you live in the houston area you should know this: trump is quietly shuttering the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions grist.org/energy/trump...

love a senator imploring regular citizens to fight back against tyranny. dawg you spent the last twenty years giving machine guns and tanks to traffic cops this is like pushing your toddler into the ring with ivan drago

Houston, we’ve got a problem—and it’s not the potholes. Welcome to Disaster City, where the only plan seems to be hoping the storm never comes. Last year, the city dropped $1.5B to settle the firefighters’ pay parity fight. Last week, HPD got nearly $1B in raises.

Consistently, @techdirt.com headlines just so well capture the reality of our times. This, from @karlbode.com: 'Trump Using Pointless, Shitty Tariffs To Bully Countries Into Coddling Elon Musk's Starlink.' Welcome to the Golden Age, baby! www.techdirt.com/2025/05/09/t...

According to Ghent Deputy Mayor Filip Watteeuw, “The best cycling plan is a car plan.” When Ghent cut car traffic, cycling flourished.

Kurt Vonnegut man

Whose house?

ACTION ALERT: Feedback needed on 30th Street redesign options in Boulder, CO mailchi.mp/communitycyc... HT @communitycycles.bsky.social 👇

"I picked this up on marketplace for 250 bucks...pretty sweet deal right?"

"We must work to overcome objections to bringing our bikes indoors with us in public places, and petition loudly for policy changes and indoor bike parking options where that could be feasible and appropriate."

I’ve been saying this since the first YIMBY conference in 2016 and Luca is absolutely correct. If you’re working on housing abundance and you’re not part of @parkingreform.org then you should figure out why not.

“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 walkable streets.

I'm no graphic designer but I think this does the trick, sending 100 copies of this to my local print shop tomorrow morning and putting them in my backpack docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In the UK, auto insurance prices dropped 16% in a year. A big reason: Lower urban speed limits Industry analyst: "Areas where 20mph zones have been introduced result in lower levels of claim frequency – a key factor in the cost of car insurance."

Thank you everyone for helping me crowdsource this info— here’s the article I included it in! www.romper.com/parenting/sc...

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

Bike shop life be like