I feel like the abolition of parking requirements is a really instructive example of why developers often aren't all that useful for identifying pro-growth reform. 🧵

I've noticed this happening more frequently lately. AI removes the friction by making shit up. Do not trust the AI overviews.

It's been pretty incredible to witness all the growth in Utrecht. The skyline is full of construction cranes. Constantly iterating on designs and improving infrastructure. I do not miss owning a car.

It's never too late to learn how to ride a bike!

This is what democracy looks like in #Amsterdam during the #NoTyrantsNL protest! Thanks again to @brentfinnegan.bsky.social for this amazing video, and to all of our speakers - scheduled and impromptu - for your inspirational messages of hope and solidarity! @indivisible.org #NoKings

despite being concentrated in ameria’s largest cities, america’s media is terminally car-brained

Israel & Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. to attack Iran. Netanyahu killed 72,000 people in Gaza, mostly women & children. Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship that allows no opposition. These are the leaders who want to bring “freedom” to Iran? Does anyone really believe that?

Our No Tyrants protest on March 28 in Amsterdam is officially on the @indivisible.org map! Anyone in the Netherlands or elsewhere in Europe who wants to join us can sign up here: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Opposing the AI data center takeover isn't about being "anti-technology." It's about opposing a handful of billionaires using up our power and water, raising our electric bills, all while laying off human employees and hoarding all the profits. inthesetimes.com/article/capi...

There is no "middle position" on stopping the authoritarian coup in the US. Fascist enablers like Schumer must be removed from their positions of power.

Nations don’t “aid” cities. Cities are the economic engines of nations. Giving cities back money they generate is not only fair and appropriate, it’s smart and necessary. No nation can prosper, or even survive, if it’s attacking its cities. Period.

Is someone you once respected or supported in the Epstein files? It's okay to disown those people. I used to read Noam Chomsky. He's in the files. I won't defend him. The people that chose to associate with that cabal are not good people. It was a choice, and this was the only appropriate answer 👇

The hypocrisy in the response from the right regarding Pretti makes sense when you understand Wilhoit's law: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

I've been buzzed by cars and trucks many times, regardless of Virginia's 3-foot rule (VA Code § 46.2-839). Unless there is video evidence and police actually follow up on it, these rules are unenforceable anyway. Concrete protected bike lanes enforce themselves.

In 1987 there was just one photo. That’s all it took.

Harrisonburg is in the final round of the Strongest Town Contest. Last chance to vote! www.strongesttown.com #strongesttown

"Emissions from cycling can be more than 30x lower for each trip than driving a fossil fuel car, and about 10x lower than driving an electric one."

Some pictures break your heart. Harrisonburg, Virginia #handsoff

#handsoff rally in #Harrisonburg today. It's a good start. Americans will need to learn from others how to grow, escalate, and sustain anti-authoritarian movements in order to push back the ongoing coup in the US.

This isn't a tax hike. The rich could absorb the cost of tariffs if they wanted to. Instead, they're going to raise prices and pass the cost on to us. This is a price hike.

Happened in the United States of America because she spoke out against genocide.

Harrisonburg deserves and needs your Strongest Town votes! It’s a great community committed to a broad range of housing and quality of life initiatives!

Harrisonburg won the first two rounds of the @strongtowns.org Strongest Town Contest, and we're competing in Round 3 this week. www.strongesttown.com

Car infrastructure is a barrier to civic engagement.

No one seems to be asking the question: In the event of rolling blackouts or brownouts, who will be prioritized by the power companies to keep the power on? Data centers or local residents.

A new CDC report shows that pedestrian deaths fell across the rich world 2013-2022 -- but not in the USA. Americans were 50% more likely to die walking in 2022 than they would have been in 2013. By 2022, the US was more deadly for pedestrians than all other countries studied.

Bit sick of watching pundits who’d rather eat glass than interview a leftist organizer complain about how the US has less centralized resistance to national authoritarianism than a country with one big city and a population of 9.5 million who all live in an area smaller than Michigan

American cities know how to design safe and equitable streets. The problem is, they generally choose not to.

"If countries that have long claimed to believe in an international rules-based order truly believe in human rights and international law, it’s time for them to break with the United States." www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...

Self-driving cars aren't the answer.

Trump is stealing from us to enrich his cronies in the most transparent possible way

It is possible for lots of people to live close together comfortably, with a high quality of life. But it's not possible if they all have cars.

Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.

In case there was any doubt. The American oligarchy and the Russian oligarchy are united. Can We the People, the 99 Percent unite against the billionaires? Can we leave space for people who were lied to and believed in the lies? We can either unite against the oligarchs or wither away in our silos.

In a very literal sense, a generation of victorious Americans came home from a world of destroyed cities and thought it would be clever to destroy their own.

Under Trump and Musk, America will fall behind every nation in terms of economic success, academic research, scientific breakthroughs, and more. But we'll still be a world leader in traffic deaths.

This movie gave me nightmares as a kid. Every once in a blue moon, those nightmares still resurface.

We pay taxes. We want them used to employ people, help people, and give back essential rights such as education and healthcare to our country. We do not want OUR hard earned money gate kept and hoarded by out of touch billionaires and a delusional political cult.

One thing the US failed to address in any sort of meaningful way over the past 4 years: The housing crisis. Young and even middle-age people are increasingly cut out of homebuying. Situation likely to worsen in coming 4 years with tariffs, deportation of immigrants, & high interest rates.

We need more of this energy in the US right now. Cities telling the feds to come and take it.

It’s official: the Trump administration wants to kill California’s high-speed rail project, and there’s little question Elon Musk pushed them in that direction. @awalkerinla.bsky.social breaks down today’s announcement and the opposition that tried to drown it out.

I've been a planning commissioner for 8 years and the way our sidewalks get built (or don't) is maddening. This is a much more sensible approach.

Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations is reporting that the US DOT has paused the approvals of changes to regional short-term transportation plans (STIPs). Unclear why DOT is requiring general counsel review of STIP amendments. This could delay investment in projects nationwide.

Interesting that people jump to asking "is it safe to fly?" but not "is it safe to drive?" A single plane crash burns into the collective psyche for weeks or months. Meanwhile, the 100+ daily traffic deaths in the US barely register. The brain chooses spectacle over routine.

I try to never be more than 99.5% certain that I'm right about something. A subscriber challenged my claim that Harrisonburg isn't a contender for @strongtowns.org Strongest Town Competition. I'm reconsidering my position.

This is a prime example of the arrogance of space of cars in our cities, pushing active transportation into the tightly squeezed margins, leading to bike/pedestrian conflicts. This isn't a bike/ped problem. This is a car problem.

I don't think most of us understand the realignment taking place in American politics right now. We need to stop referring to Republicans as conservatives. Unfortunately there are only two parties: a conservative party and a reactionary party, and the GOP ain't the conservative one anymore.

This is about allowing our city to evolve and adapt (as it was able to do in the past) so that Harrisonburg can become financially resilient, affordable to residents, and car ownership is not a requirement to have a decent standard of living.

I liked the book Jennifer Government because it was fictional satire.