“If I have to give up something in order to balance that scale, that’s OK.... I don’t collect sports cars to hurl them into 405 traffic.” Lots of tensions in here but still a great read www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

OH MY FUCKING GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. TRAINS! WE NEED TRAINS NOT JETSONS-ASS ROBOT-CAR DEATH MACHINES

Quite the look for Uber to be so opposed to *checks notes* a bill about improving rider safety that they're threatening to leave the state entirely. coloradosun.com/2025/04/23/u...

Punishable by fine = legal for a price

A little wild to see a spot we rented in Boulder featured in this piece by @boulderrl.bsky.social about the number of older & smaller homes being torn down and replaced by McMansions. boulderreportinglab.org/2025/04/06/b...

The thing about ACT UP, as Sarah Schulman notes, is that there wasn’t time for protracted disagreements over strategy; people were dying of AIDS left and right. SO, if some folks want to do X strategy for a protest but you wanted to do Y, ACT UP’s approach was to say “you do X and I’ll do Y.”

@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.

Hey, @michaelbennet.bsky.social, I expect you to be in line for this, and I expect you to drag Hick’s butt along with you. Use this to start making amends for approving Rubio. Dude, fix your mistakes with work.

He’s telling you who he is everyday.

So important to note that the threats of arrest and even deportation *to a country not your own* are designed to force students to self-deport, meaning that they’ll never even have the chance of getting their day in court. Hard to overstate how shocking this is

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Because the quake struck during Friday prayers during Ramadan, we can likely expect an especially heavy toll for Muslim people in Myanmar. Mostly damage was done to large buildings, like places of worship.

Two recent headlines out of CU Boulder. 🙄

"There might be fewer empty parking lots in Denver's future."

Is Walk Score white score? Deconstructing a walkability algorithm in the context of racial capitalism with @annalivia.bsky.social & Frechette (Journal of Race, Ethnicity & the City) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Let's rethink walkability=proximity and place rankings amid racialized inequity

Men are shifting right because Republicans are making their lives worse and telling them to blame women and immigrants. Democrats should be pointing out this *extremely obvious* dynamic, not trying to peddle a lighter version of the same narrative.

The Schumer solution to the Trump-Musk wrecking ball is to avoid doing anything that would stop the ongoing damage but to insist that Democrats get some of the blame for it moving forward. Genius.

Today's Siena College poll shows a dramatic turnaround from a December poll. Now, more NYC residents think that congestion pricing should stick around compared to those who want Trump to end the life-changing policy. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/03/10/s...

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

We should all be so fortunate, when our meter runs out of time, to leave behind a group of reformers dedicated to continuing our work parkingreform.org/donald-shoup/

very weird stuff from DOT, prioritizing spending in areas with "marriage and birth rates higher than the national average" www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

ICYMI: Crash data indicates that congestion pricing is keeping more New Yorkers safe.

In the 19th century, birthright citizenship was a democratizing principle, opening the body politic to new generations. And it is the principle by which we have lived until today.

"If you see someone on the streets this weekend, please help get them to shelter. The subzero temps will be deadly." #boulder

Kudos to Angus Thuermer Jr. for this well-written story wyofile.com/supreme-cour...

Shoutout to Kathryn McConnell and @koslov.bsky.social for putting together a very useful primer on managed retreat as a response to wildfire risk, a topic that deserves much more serious thought and attention than it's getting at the moment

"How ironic that it may be capitalism and not politics that changes the nature of growth in this American city."

Climate change requires transformation, or it will transform us completely in ways that we have no control over at all. There are no 'get out of suffering' passes on this ship - and rich countries need to do their share to change first - including our citizens.

Can’t get enough of these congestion pricing anecdotes via @dodai.bsky.social nytimes.com/2025/01/11/nyregion/new-york-congestion-pricing-reaction.html

“I see a difference, definitely,” said Tony, who has spent 18 years as a bus operator for the MTA. “There have been no delays the entire week, and when I look to my left and right down the avenues I can see all the way down – I’ve never seen it like that.” nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/10/m...

Taking the bus always makes my hour+ commute better than driving alone, and that's especially true in winter weather. Shout-out to the Transfort driver who handled the snowy roads from Fort Collins to Boulder with ease this AM!

when you are perched on a bicycle moving amongst cars you see shit like this *all the time*

If you think cyclists or zombie phone staring pedestrians are distracted you do not want to see what drivers have been up to in their cars the last century.

“Reconsider this word ‘balance.’ Let’s say, for argument’s sake, your goal is balance. Picture a 100-yard dash where you’ve given the car a 90-yard head start. Even if your goal is balance, by definition u have to prioritize the other modes even to just catch up.” — Still key in @usa.streetsblog.org

Schools moving to a four day week is a tax on women, as women are more likely to provide child care. Moves toward a four day school week, like return to office mandates, that will harm women much more than men in the workforce. Which, for too many, is the point. www.startribune.com/a-four-day-s...

A while back the great people at the Journal of Social History asked me to write a piece about agency and environmental history as part of a retrospective on Walter Johnson’s tremendous article. It’s now live in the world in case you need a nerd-read #envhist #envhum academic.oup.com/jsh/advance-...

For a long time I’ve been thinking about why we are so terrified a child will regret a gender transition. This essay ended up being not just about gender but about all of our identities, how they shape us and, crucially, how we shape ourselves. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/o...

We conclude that when wealthier, Whiter communities slow down the clean energy transition, they are extending the lifetime of polluting infrastructure in lower income communities and communities of color. We call this dynamic "energy privilege." ideas.repec.org/p/cen/wpaper...