Sierra Club endorses Katie Cashman for Minneapolis City Council Ward 7! @katiecashman.bsky.social

Seems like a driver hit this traffic barrel even though it was wearing reflective hi-vis. Maybe all this victim-blaming is a bunch of nonsense? 🙃 The reality is that it's the engineers and the completely made up design guidelines they treat as gospel that are the biggest problem.

Why people are dying: -Speeding isn't well regulated -People are driving impaired/distracted -Vehicle size is dangerously bloated -Roads are designed poorly -Legal system has failed vulnerable road users -Establishment tries to shift blame to victims My tip to bikers & walkers—tell NPR to fuck off

Forgot one: “Demand that your local leaders build complete networks of sidewalks and protected bike lanes.”

I wrote about one man's quest to not have to ride in pitch black darkness through South Minneapolis. Modern day Don Quixote here, except the windmills are lampposts stripped of copper. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

It's incredible that the cost of living crisis focuses almost entirely on housing and groceries while totally ignoring the money pit of forced car dependency. It almost seems the media is forbidden from discussing transportation costs. Might have something to do with those ubiquitous car ads.

ACAB includes the townie cop who told me it's too dangerous to ride bikes to school with my kid. I asked him why and he said because of all the cars. Maybe he should spend his time making them slow down instead of chastising us for not driving.

This random, rusty drainpipe has a better sense of national politics than most congressional Democrats (and realistically is probably more useful). The calls for impeachment should be coming loudly and constantly. @citizensimpeachment.com

My favorite moment at tonight's dinner was when @chriswarcraft.bsky.social asked how many people in a room of 150+ hardcore Dem voters and volunteers approved of the job @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov were doing, and no one raised a hand.

"Bicycles were accommodated."

Can confirm it is quite beautiful out there right now.

Just another piece of crash debris. It's so crazy to me how people will crash their cars and then just leave huge chunks of them behind, including their license plate! Even when there are emergency responders there, everyone will still just leave what amounts to a bunch of plastic litter behind.

Brendan Carr is limiting free speech the right way. by Ezra Klein

This is what crossings in front of schools should look like. Raised crossing, short crossing distance, 20mph speed limit, close street trees for calming, protected bike lane, two-way road narrows to a pinch point / cars have to slow down and take turns.

Paging @nerd4cities.bsky.social who had thoughts about this while visiting Minneapolis.

Hello Lyndale Ave South community. Opponents of a safer design for Lyndale are generating a ton of emails (via action network), many from outside Minneapolis, to city council members in support of the no bike lane option. You may want to get busy contacting your council members.

Potholes & poor road conditions are generally the most effective traffic calming measures we have in Saint Paul. Every time public works "improves" a road speeds go up noticeably because they don't install any real traffic calming in the process & stick with overly wide lanes (engineer brain).

It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Gave up waiting for an affordable EV car, and instead got an affordable ecargo bike. We needed affordable EV cars 20 years ago, we can't wait longer for the people in power to get their shit straight. Good affordable ecargo bikes are here now, and are actually better for urban transport anyway!

Education is the enemy of fascism.

Narrator: both of them continued to be the absolute most pathetic "leaders" possible and did nothing at all.

I'll bet you can fill in the blanks on this one.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

What a fun time today at the @bikemn.bsky.social Twin Cities Bike Tour! So many fun people & rode some new-to-me trails. Between the 41 miles of the ride + the trip there and home, I was going to be about 10 miles short of a metric century, so I tacked some extra on at the end to hit that mark 😜

Honestly the main bike thoroughfare in Minneapolis not having lights for years at night should probably be a much bigger scandal than it seems to be.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

When life gives you lemons.... Make a pop-up separated bike lane!

I didn't re-home my entire platform to Bluesky because of politics. I walked away from Twitter because I think Elon Musk is a horrible human being and I didn't want to contribute anything to something he owns. It's that simple.

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it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient

Sometimes when I end up interacting with some of the old school "bike advocates", I'm in no way surprised that cycling in the US is in the state it is. Stereotypes are often based on some level of truth, and the arrogance and gatekeeping of some of these guys sure is something to behold.

“Yingling Fan, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, said Midway’s orientation around cars, despite good transit connections, is holding it back.”

Stopped to admire the @mplsalex.bsky.social hero light along the Midtown Greenway tonight. Only functional light for most/maybe all of this stretch. Pretty impressive how one man with a $25 light has so far bested the entirety of Mpls and StP's city staff. Please take note @seankershaw.bsky.social

Charlie Kirk was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader. But he was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader in the right way. by Ezra Klein

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

Some @thewaroncars.bsky.social sticker spotting last weekend in Evanston!

If liberals like Ezra are saying that someone who called for Gay people to be stoned, trans people to be lynched, Black people to accept police violence and women to obey did politics "the right way", that is in some respects more alarming that the bloviation of the far right. Bend that knee, Ezra.

the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously

Democrats consistently condemn political violence. Republicans do not. It's completely lopsided not both sided

More of these folks need to check out the awesome new @metrotransitmn.bsky.social Gold Line!

No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...

My feed is almost entirely people condemning violence and telling others not to celebrate this.

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.