It's one thing to be given permission by your government to be hateful, cruel, bigoted, and selfish. It's quite another to accept that permission.

Once again, I invite you to imagine the unceasing howls of outrage from Fox News if Obama had done this.

New York City is the most perfectly "American" place in the nation, just one wave of newcomers after another, gradually building up the culture, one remarkable cultural collision after another. MAGA chuds hate NYC not because it's awful but because it disproves every lie they tell about immigration

I can’t stop thinking about this bike line I rode on along the waterfront in Seattle. I almost cried.

THANK you, KTLA

This administration chooses to ignore reality. Meanwhile, enjoy your cage match spectacle on the WH lawn, everyone.

Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...

Renewables are winning, despite the petro-heads running the state.

Mamdani's NYC: 1st Ave has traffic lights synched with cycling (= legal car) speeds. NYPD no longer just ignores 311 pings about illegally parked cars. No more parked cars within 20ft of Lafayette & Bleecker intersection. … Improving NYC, one tiny, logical step at a time. Thanks, @mayor.nyc.gov

Nothing says “dying civilization” like gladiator fights at the capitol for the emperor’s amusement.

Tax billionaires out of existence. Personally, I think that there should be a 110% tax on all wealth/earnings over £100 million.

Nobody should even have multiple billions. Eat the rich

Elon Musk’s $1.2 trillion in wealth is roughly equal to the entire amount all levels of government in the US spent on capital investment for transit & rail for the entire period from 1956–2023 ($1.3 trillion).

There should be no such thing as a trillionaire

Why does Gavin Newsom hate transit? subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Abolish ICE

Riding my bike through a quiet residential area yesterday (on my way to give a bike lesson to a teen) when a Te$la driver pulled a dangerous stunt to cut me off because he couldn’t slow down for 5 seconds. Spare me the claim that EVs are the answer to our transportation problems.

This is the dangerous rhetoric that leads to pogroms, concentration camps, and genocide.

trump is running up the national credit card and soon we're gonna be hearing about how dems have no choice but to "tighten our belts." so i thank @sereneblossom.gay for this exercise in working through *just how much* money we could raise by cutting out all the bullshit the rich use to dodge taxes

while back, real bike lanes were proposed in a Denver n'hood and locals who liked it showed up for meetings. We were all acutely aware that we could show up consistently, but if city gov had one meeting dominated by haters, that'd be the one they'd present as definitive and shelve the whole thing.

Let’s find out who radicalized this terrorist and lock them up, too.

Bergum's BS about offshore wind farms being a national security issue is absurd & absolute gaslighting. If your military hasn't solved for wind farms in preventing attacks you fuckin deserve to be attacked. Yes the US military has solved for wind farms years ago. Wind turbines don't kill whales. JFC

Denial about the housing crisis, denial about the energy crisis, denial about the climate crisis, denial about the crisis of democracy... blue state leadership asleep at the wheel on every major issue

I shall watch this with interest. There's no way to get 60% of kids actively travelling to school without disrupting current patterns of car-based mobility. This includes making all urban streets safer, not just those right outside schools www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There’s more than enough money in America to have everything we want from bike lanes to universal healthcare . We literally just have to stop prioritizing funding war and terrorizing BIPOC communities.

It's amazing how many posts and stories like this you see. E-bikes are revolutionizing transportation, enabling people to go more places without cars, and there's an all-out assault to kill them.

It would serve them right.

We're used to conservatives claiming people protesting ICE (and getting gassed and beaten and killed for it) are violent mobs. Now HERE's a REAL violent mob - sicced on brown people by Hitler-saluting Elon Musk - and they've been downgraded by the Prestige Press to "protestors." It's too obvious.

Once again, LA is in denial about its housing crisis.

Turns out immigrants were keeping us afloat. How about we cut Social Security benefits of racist MAGA xenophobes? FAFO

Renewables will win

The bike ride and “die-in” in memory of fallen Complete Streets Planner Riley O’Neil was a life-affirming event. "No more people should die in the streets because their lives are not valued as much as driver convenience," said one organizer. @bikegridnow.org @chicritmass.bsky.social

I ♥️ NY

New York City just reported its lowest murder rate in recorded history www.amny.com/news/may-202...

mike johnson is legitimately in the running for single worst speaker in the history of the house

The power brokers behind the Texas GOP.

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

Good infrastructure changes who gets to be a "cyclist".

Yooooo remember a couple years ago when those three LA city council members were caught on tape saying a ton of insanely racist stuff and conspiring to gerrymander another council member’s district? That other council member was Nithya Raman. The voting bloc they were trying to split? Renters.

Deaths like this are preventable with safer street design, but we must be willing to prioritize public safety over driver convenience and parking.

Hat tip to election workers who make sure votes are counted.

"Oh but I've been hearing the economy is good!!“ No, actually you've been hearing that the economy was good under Biden and that it has been surprisingly resilient up until now despite the damage Trump is clearly doing and that the misery index no longer tracks closely to sentiment after 2021.

for reference and comparison: conservatively, the United States spent two-thirds of that figure in the *first week* of the war on Iran. it's genuinely difficult to overstate how many world-historical own goals US politics has accumulated over the past few decades

Like the "surprise reversal" of the hole in ozone layer and the "false alarm" of Y2K. The lesson, as always, is that we can fix, or at least greatly diminish, almost any problem. If we actually want to.

Super cool that the grandfather I grew up in a house with,who wouldn't even talk about his time in France during WWII because of the horrors, fought for a country whose defense secretary is now IRL Hitlerposting from Normandy on the anniversary of D-Day.

This is only a hard question if you have no intention of following the rule of law.

Maybe the post-Reagan GOP was never really about “fiscal responsibility” but rather about who was worthy of government largesse.

We don’t often get NYT column reprints, but I was very glad to see this from @jamellebouie.net in today’s print StarTribune. Really strong piece warning of the dangers of Dems just trying to go back to “normal” after Trump. It’s among Bouie’s best (which is saying something)

“Every $1300 New York invested in new bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 added year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents.” Among many other benefits, bike-lanes are a really smart public health investment. #CityMakingMath www.reuters.com/article/busi...

It seems like identifiable members of the Supreme Court actively helping one political party to choose its voters to maximal electoral advantage should be a bigger scandal