"Once you factor in New York’s relatively low number of auto accidents per capita — because so many people take public transit, which is much safer — it becomes clear that New York has a lower rate of violent death than almost anywhere else in America." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/notes-on-n...

Avid cyclist can't believe your "soft kid" going to school needs bike lanes, "they probably can't even climb Tourmalet." creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord

Strong Towns Chicago deployed my location crash report dashboard 🤝 @strongtownschicago.bsky.social Use this to generate crash reports for intersections, corridors, or your own ward. Best experienced on desktop 🗺️ www.strongtownschicago.org/chicago-cras...

“Survey after survey has shown that business owners overestimate how many customers drive to their stores vs walking or biking. In a 2012 Los Angeles study, more than half of the store owners on the bike-laned part of the boulevard thought most of their customers drove. The actual number was 15%.”

Christofascism on the move

This goes so hard

Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.

The pent up demand for a better life is humongous.

the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me

The results of Musk’s chainsaw.

A new low in New Jersey road safety, when a driver gets a beat-down for stopping to let a pedestrian safely use a crosswalk.. www.nj.com/ocean/2025/1...

This guy thinks he’s only 50% illegally parked.

"(Lyft’s new CEO) said he didn’t quite know enough about Lyft’s bike- and scooter-sharing services to comment on their future, but he said the idea is to take 'people who get introduced to Lyft through a bike ride and figure out a way to get them over to our rideshare side.'" It is the future now.

His wife says they were refusing to properly treat his diabetes. The facility where he died is a private prison.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Great to see for Carter Hart.

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

put another way, is Vegas PD so naïve that they’d believe nonsense claims fed to them by the Apartheid-addled conman? fuelarc.com/cars/las-veg...

Russell Vought is Chuck Colson 2.0, wielding a political hatchet and serving the Lord not serially but simultaneously. Why choose? My latest. newrepublic.com/article/2044...

The socialist train nerd version of the Grant Park 2008 victory celebration.

The US invented the solar panel & wind turbine, notes @billmckibben.bsky.social: "We could have owned these technologies, & instead we’ve just ceded them to our theoretical main rival... I don’t think there’s been an act of national self-sabotage quite like this." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles. When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies. This is outrageous.

Just rode @milwaukeeavbike.bsky.social from Logan Sq to Fullerton, and was forced into traffic again. Drivers lack empathy for the danger they put us in, but they can at least experience the same inconvenience. Time to shut it down? #bikechi @betterstreetschicago.org @aldermanlaspata.bsky.social

Ah yes. Prior tenants famously control rent prices for subsequent tenants.

China is getting rid of retractable door handles, while the EU is getting rid of essential controls hidden in touch screen menus. The world is healing. ♥️

The bollard hasn’t moved a single inch. Total domination. #WorldBollardAssociation

RFK Jr.’s changes to the vaccination schedule will kill thousands of American children. But my liberal neighbors handed out apples and raisins on Halloween. I have never felt more politically homeless.

This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

Flex posts protect cars, not cyclists. Or pedestrians.

In 1932, FDR was elected with 57.4% of the vote. He brought us the New Deal. In 1964, LBJ was elected with 61.1% of the vote. He brough us the Great Society. In 2025, Trump was elected with 49.8% of the vote. He's attempting to destroy everything FDR & LBJ built. The rest is commentary.

The next time someone says, "Oh, I'm just going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit, what's the big deal?" you should show them this

“New York City’s syndromic surveillance system, which collects information about every patient who visits an emergency room, reported 9,857 visits for “influenza-like illness” last week. That was higher than in the worst weeks of the 2017-18 or 2024-25 flu seasons, both ranked as “high severity”

Beautiful winter woods outside Chicago. Like bike lanes, the woods are still a good place to be in winter.

They always make this threat and it never materializes. Here's the New York Post fear mongering about the wealthy leaving NYC under de Blasio. Look around. Does New York have fewer millionaires and billionaires than in 2014?

Quilen Blackwell, whose nonprofit Southside Blooms transforms vacant lots on Chicago’s South Side into flower farms that employ at-risk young people, is the 2025 CNN Hero of the Year. https://to.wttw.com/48UA8zn

I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.

I don’t know how I missed this, but every tech person should get this instinctively. What do we do when network traffic is overwhelming our systems? We block the source. Shouldn’t cities do the same?

GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.

You know how Americans are surprised to learn that gun deaths are rare in most other countries, pedestrian-centered cities are normal, or everybody else uses metric? That, but discovering that the rest of the world moved to EVs.

Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...

“Like prime, but with human beings”

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

They say he got that dawg in him #vanityplate #onlyvans #carspotting #carsky #weirdcarbs

Where have I seen this before, oh right.

“Pineda-Mesa said he was first sent to west suburban Broadview, where he described being placed in a room with more than 200 men and having nowhere to sleep.”

As the war in Ukraine drags on and U.S. policies shift, many Ukrainians “are stranded,” says a Chicago immigration attorney. “‘They’re saying, ‘We didn't violate the law, we came here to be protected, and now, we're treated as though we did something wrong.’”

When you find yourself in Aurora, be sure to pay your respects to Goff.

Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when