We deserve a bus system that serves us and doesn't leave anyone behind. KC Bus Riders Union launching soon... 🔜🚌 Follow along @kcbusriders.bsky.social kcbusriders.neocities.org

"Every dollar spent settling lawsuits for [KCPD officer] Blayne Newton’s violence is a dollar stolen from mental health services, from housing, from education, from the material conditions that actually produce safety. @kcdefender.bsky.social kansascitydefender.com/justice/kcpd...

Last night I met a lovely older women who lives in my neighborhood. We had a wonderful conversation as we rode the streetcar & walked to the library for a lecture. Had I take any other form of transportation I would not have met her. I now know a new neighbor & made a new connection. Transit rocks

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I was in Valencia Spain in 2019 for the Las Falles festival and I will never forget this this display of tiny dicked Franco, Stalin, Hitler and Trump. It was such a good reminder that these men are nothing special. They were later set on fire as were all the sculptures around town as they do.

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Today's 'A Call to Build a Better World' event is live on YouTube. Join us! www.youtube.com/live/5CNZ-MY...

Employment review for year #26 done and in the bag. I officially Exceed Expectations! 🎉🎉🎉

This is huge for KC. So happy Senator Maggie Nurrenbern spoke up and fought to keep Hall off this board. We need more scrutiny of KC Police Board members, especially for ones who want to be rubber stamps for anything KCPD does. Hall would have been one such rubber stamp!

I can't help but think a fully protected bike lane could have helped prevent this driver from crashing into this building. It also goes to show you just how little protection flex post offer a person using the bicycle lanes. Had someone been using this lane at the time, they would likely be dead.

This is why Urbanist talk as much about having walkable/bikeable communities. It's eyes on the streets. Jane Jacobs advocates that the key to safe cities is more eyes on the street. In car dependent communities people are spread out, takes them longer to come together and harder to organize.

The first half of this ad is probably the clearest description of America today that I've seen.

It's nice seeing the hardscapes being installed along SW Blvd for the new multi-use pedestrian-bicycle path. This should make riding a bicycle or walking much safer and more pleasant. Currently it's like riding a bicycle on a highway. Not fun

Fascinating research on how often and for what reasons female economists are interrupted while presenting their work. Obviously this has applications outside economics. Nice to see actual hard data backing this up, instead of being gaslit about how it's all in our minds.

I needed some protection for my camera lens in my backpack so made a quick camera wrap out of spare fabric. I think it came out pretty good. Two pieces of fabric, a liner of fleece and some Velcro. I need to make two more now!

International migration is the the main reason my home town in Missouri is still a town with with a decent population and businesses. The vast majority of people opening businesses are recent migrants. The only one opening grocery stores or restaurants are migrants! Immigration saves small towns!

Now is a great time to write your Congressional representative to let them know that you support the Magnus White Cyclist Safety Act @thewhiteline.bsky.social has a great tool to help you write a letter here: twl-letter-writer.web.app

We all become disabled at some point in our life, sometimes permanently , sometimes only temporarily, but I hate this so much! Life is already hard enough when you live with a disability, having able bodied people "gaming" the system is just disgusting.

George Washington Carver, is one of the greatest Americans to ever live. Born a slave, fought for his own education and went on to become one of the most influential and important scientist America has every had. His national monument is well worth the visit! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

Another day and another driver crashes into a building in KC 4 days after the last crash and 12 since the crash before that. Why can't drivers see buildings? If buildings aren't safe, do you think other drivers, pedestrians or bicycle riders are?

Had my annual eye exam today & I'm very happy to report that my detached retina has fully settled back into place, & looks the best it has looked in 6+ years. I do have quite a bit more "floaters" due to the detachment of the inner eye gel & retina. The Gel was what was pulling my retina away.

Be sure to call Terry and Ryan to let them know Kansas City doesn't want concentration camps here or anywhere!

The police wonder why citizens don't trust them. Case in point, local police chief had their feelings hurt and decided to us the resources of the police and city against said citizen, and zero police officers chose to stand up and say no! There are no good cops if they stay quite!

LLM, are the stupidest and most expensive tool for doing what could be done by existing tech at a fraction of the cost, unless the job is searching millions of documents/records to identify patterns, the it's actually pretty good. /1

I love the bicycling community. By and large they are progressive, open and accepting. On any given ride rich, poor, black,white, queer/trans, straight all ride together. No one really gives a shit what you do for a job, what your religion is etc, we are all just playing bikes together.

For those objecting to comparisons between Germany then & the U.S. now: “About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments.”

Proudly have not set foot in a Target in over a year and won't any time soon and you can too

He's a transphobic opportunist willing to be chummy with MAGA and throw anyone under the bus to advance his career. No thanks!

It's a new month, which means new needs and new budgets. Please consider donating something to this mutual aid group or one in your town!

In Missouri, We don't call him Senator Schitt for nothing. His staff won't answer phones, he's used security to deny constituents access to his offices and is just an all around cheerleader for Fascism.

Do not let your outrage and your learning stop with ICE. Develop an understanding of the connections between federal repression and local policing, between repressive bureaucracies at home and abroad, between the actors who profit on it in 50 languages, etc.

Does anyone following me want to help out Sean by knitting him a Melt The ICE hat? Reply or contact him directly and thank you!

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

KC Rides for Alex and Minnesota tomorrow!

It's been 5 days and the city still hasn't cleared city owned sidewalks along Gilham Park, or the multi use section of the Trolley Track, or the bike lanes on Rock Hill Rd etc etc. Maybe the city could lead by example!

A big overflow turnout at @ The DUB to knit the Red Melt The ICE resistance hats and build community. So many happy people sharing tables and meeting new people while teaching each other new skills. Trump kills communities! We The People build them together!

Kansas City isn't typically known for being a protest city, but that is changing! Kansas City is turning out and not standing by!

Kansas City turned out in the hundreds for two anti ICE protests today. One general protest the WWI museum and a march against Platform Ventures, an investment firm willing to sell ICE a warehouse (that received tax incentives to build) to be converted into a concentration camp.

@kcur.org does a great job detailing the history of Jaywalking, how it got it's start right here in Kansas City and I hope in the second installment they talk about how Kansas City is leading the charge to decriminalize Jaywalking and the advocates pushing to make KC a safer place for all.

I am weary of companies employing disaster capitalism & your empathy to get you to shop at their store by offering 10% proceeds going to xyz cause for one day. if companies actually cared, they would be offer 10% daily to charities & wouldn't need to tell you about it or advertise via social media

I feel completely abandoned as a Missouri resident by my Federal elected leaders. My two MAGA Senators won't even answer their phones. My representative Democratic Rep still hasn't signed on to Impeachment of Noem, and the Democratic leadership is still playing with a 1950's rule book.

ilhan omar said last night it’s about retribution and intimidating us into submission, not about immigration. she talked about citizens hiding because what’s happening in the streets here is like the countries they fled and her family hid, then fled. but where can you go from the US now?

Nothing says "we are the bad guys" like literally converting warehouses into concentration camps!

New book read Is a 15 minute city obtainable? Is a 15 minute city a goal we should aspire to or is it just a gimmick? Let's find out!

Eight days since posting about a motorist crashing into the In-A-Tub building another motorist crashes into another building. fox4kc.com/news/driver-... watch the video, that driver is driving very fast, in wintery condition. Nearly drives all the way though the other side. Insane

I've been amazed at how the parking situation has changed in River Market & Downtown since charging for on-street parking. In RM the streets would be full & often would hear how there was no parking. Now finding parking is easy to find, but cost. Where did all those cars go? Parking Garages!

increasing home values are fundamentally incompatible with housing affordability!

My latest in post or audio form: "...we ALL have more influence in one or two topic areas than we realize. What if we all tapped our unique joys and took even a teeny step to build upon and leverage that?" andrealearned.substack.com/p/dont-disco... #Climate #SocialImpact #democracy #Communications