"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.

El Cerrito’s Citywide Garage Sale is this Saturday from 9 am - 3 pm. It’s one of my favorite city events - a great opportunity to meet neighbors, and to get rid of things or find new treasures. Pick up a map at Community or Recycling Center or City Hall. Details: www.elcerrito.gov/943/Citywide...

If only America could build social housing for people instead of for cars

Commentary of the week: Rev. Gordon Gibson on why Tennessee's redistricting is offensive. "My personal cost was serving seven days of a five day jail sentence in Selma, Alabama, a month before Bloody Sunday in March 1965. . . But others paid much higher cost."

I love this story, take heart & fight back (HT @digby56.bsky.social) boltsmag.org/california-i...

I want to get into bike packing. Someone convince me I don’t need this bike. I could carry 120lbs of cargo, not that I would ever need that much… omniumcargo.com/shop/product...

I mean, I bet a pizza and groceries would be pretty good while bike packing. This guy got me thinking along these lines: bikepacking.com/news/erik-bi...

This, the US Supreme Court has explained to us, is what it looks like to finally live in a land free of racial discrimination. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u... South Carolina is 26% black. Louisiana is 33%. Mississippi is 37%.

Probably the most carbrain thing I've ever seen. The LIA posted a video of a woman in a wheelchair having trouble crossing the bike lane, because it's completely full of illegally double parked cars. And they blame the bike lane.

The Washington Post is just so profoundly embarrassing now

Ask Jeeves has officially shut down on May 1, 2026, ending its 25-year run

Filtered streets creating low traffic neighbourhoods are nothing new in south London ... here's a victorian-era watercolour of wood bollards restricting entry to Merton Park's Church Path, and the same view today with smarter metal bollards. www.google.com/maps/@51.410...

“In 2025 — yes, after the games — Parisians approved another referendum to pedestrianize and plant 500 additional streets, removing another 10% of Paris's on-street parking; about more 10K spots…no one calls these car-free streets, rather, they're rues-jardin— literally, garden streets.” #UrbanTruth

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

I demonstrated two things today: that driving faster increases the risk that someone will die and that, after the pandemic, people started driving like bigger assholes. Gift link: www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

San Francisco political knowers, explain to me why a (presumably Wiener-supportive) PAC is sliming Saikat Chakrabarti so hard but leaving Connie Chan alone (as far as I can tell), he's a distant second at best, I'd wager a very distant third

Save the date! We’re offering tests rides of several of our electric cargo bikes at this event! Free & all are welcome.

In Seattle's Pike Place Market, vendors claimed that removing cars would cripple them. Nope. Sales actually rose. Remember: Studies show that biz owners consistently exaggerate how many customers drive and undercount those who walk, bike, or ride transit. Info: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Actress Uma Thurman running errands in the big city Happy #BicycleBirthday, Uma! April 29, 1970

expansion and reform of the supreme court has to be a litmus test moving forward, every candidate must be asked and must go on the record in support

"Broken bones, back and head injuries, concussions, and much worse," the toll of speeding crashes in NYC is huge, says Dr. Mitchell Katz in the @nydailynews.com "This is preventable harm." "ISA tech can target and preempt super speeders." Albany must act www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/25/a...

DHS is trying to send > 350K TPS holders to Haiti. Current State Dept advisory urges no travel to Haiti for any reason. If you do go, State advises, best to prepare a will & leave DNA samples & dental records in case your family later needs to “identify your remains.” ... 1/3

A report from the Dept. of Transportation shows that city drivers who receive at least two moving violations tickets per year are 40 times more likely to cause a crash that results in death or serious injury than drivers who never receive a moving violation. Officer Giovansanti is off their chart.

Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...

Cle Elum to Ellensburg on the Palouse to Cascades Trail ✅ It’s incredibly windy today as forecast. Rather than ride the torturefest to Cle Elum or sit around feeling sorry for myself at my hotel I decided to get creative: I took a bus to Cle Elum and rode *back* with the wind as a *tailwind*.

This is a great point. Cities will spend years telling you they can't use k-rail to keep bicyclists safe, and then they'll quietly deploy a quarter mile of it to disperse a homeless encampment. bsky.app/profile/left...

The Berkeley traffic diverter: As peasants in the Dark Ages looked upon the Roman aqueducts arching above, today's engineers can only gaze in wonderment at the awesome works of their forebears. This mysterious technology, once thrown up with ease and abandon, is wholly lost to modernity.

Transportation historian Peter Norton doesn't buy into the robotaxi hullabaloo: "What robot cars are promising is the next generation of car dependency." In @bloomberg.com, my lengthy conversation with @norton.bsky.social

"You may also need to recover road capacity from other purposes to support driving." The Trump administration urges governors and mayors to take away bus lanes, bike lanes and sidewalks to support more driving. No kidding - straight from USDOT head Sean Duffy to every gov and mayor in America

North Van is choosing more parking over sidewalks for kids to walk to school safely. Shameful. And also completely counterproductive. (1/3) 🧵 www.nsnews.com/local-news/c...

It's a little hard to fit everything into news stories like this but something I wanted to spell out - Prof Yasuyuki Aono was an *incredibly* dedicated person, by all accounts, who brought us the now-famous cherry blossom climate indicator. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

" #Boston City Councilors Sharon Durkan and Henry Santana are introducing a proposed amendment to Boston’s zoning code to eliminate minimum off-street parking requirements for new housing in the city – a key step towards making housing more affordable, especially for lower-income households..."

"In 2023 alone, Boston’s planning agency approved 69...proposals that included enough off-street car storage for up to 8,053 additional cars into the city – enough to fill all eight lanes of the Southeast Expressway (I-93) with bumper-to-bumper traffic from the Neponset River to downtown Boston."

With a day off a week that averages at some 95 miles per day, through the year. She also gave talks about the benefits of cycling to audiences throughout the UK, often after a day in the saddle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_... HT @coolbikeart1.bsky.social

Weird way to couch this

The data are consistently clear: Converting Great Highway into Sunset Dunes Park resulted in one of SF's most popular parks, with little or no downsides to traffic or road safety compared to pre-COVID www.kqed.org/news/1207923...

Today Donald Trump lashed out at every major MAGA influencer because they won’t continue to support him even though he’s a pedophile rapist warmonger.

Some early bicycles. Many early bicycles! a 🧵 of all my pics from a visit (a while ago, not there any more) to a bicycle exhibition at Trois-Rivières Musée Pop (museum of popular culture).

In other words, the war is one more reason to support opposition candidates, to organize, and to protest. May Day is the next big chance for Americans to do so. (14/14) indivisible.org/events/may-d...

With this settlement the US is worse off in every way than it was before the war; Iran is strengthened by the huge new tolls in the Straits of Hormuz, paid by the whole world. (1/14)

Had an absolute blast in downtown Fairfax. Took two ferries & a glorious 35-minute bike ride and felt transported in a Marin County town that values activist, art and community. And the town's history is soooo wild. My @sfchronicle.com story ⛴️ 🚴‍♂️ 💯 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, biking in New York City. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

An illegal electric motorcycle injured a Hastings woman. Media keeps calling it an e-bike. That mistake has real consequences. Learn what we're doing about it ⤵️⤵️⤵️ www.bikemn.org/media-keeps-...

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

I don't know of any Somali-Americans who've wiped away half a trillion dollars in market capitalization with one 20-minute speech.

Pour one out for this piece. Thanks for nothing, Pam!

Just remember, if you are loyal to Donald Trump and debase yourself and perjure yourself and make yourself complicit in many many horrible crimes against humanity for his sake, Donald Trump will be fiercely loyal to you until it is slightly inconvenient for him.

If the war in Iran is about anything, its about defeating a theocratic regime that does not respect liberal values