hmmm DCTA, lets see how this turns, my plan of starting to do monthly ridership reports got more interesting

Work session has started if y'all want to watch along dentontx.new.swagit.com/events/42747

So it turns out I have chosen a good time to get to posting, So City of Denton residents please come out to city council and support Councilwoman Suzi Rhumohr for main City of Denton representative to the DCTA board, especially if you rely on DCTA to get around.

Testing 1 2 3 testing 1 2 3, Hey this is Liam, I am the friend that Kristine handed this account off too, sorry about not posting for months. Family medical issues popped and I have to be a care giver for a while. I will need to be for a few more months but I will posting more often going forward.

i know writers who use subtext

Kristine here, I've just handed this account off to a friend, but I still have a few articles to get out of my system. Here's one: medium.com/@dtxtransitp...

Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.

Reading about corporate lobbying against child labor laws in the 1920s and it's the same shit, they never change. It's socialism. It will destroy business. Leave it up to the states. Parents know better than politicians.

Hey y'all. I'm moving this week. When the national elections came down last year it started a timer for me. I love Denton, I love the folks here. I've massively enjoyed being involved here in the ways I have, and I can brag quite a bit about all the things I've participated in. (1/n)

its remarkable that left of center epople can see clearly that firearms, in spite of a constitutional right, are dangerous and need to be regulated further than they are but some of them get super confused about cars, as if they are not dangerous and as if we have a constitutional right to drive

here’s a crazy statistic: more people work for the MTA (~70K employees) than are coal miners in the entire country (~42K)

hell it's not even an *elite* backlash, lots and lots of people who aren't very rich or powerful were complaining because their burrito taxi driver was getting paid better

In April, Coinbase announced changes to its user agreement that added two clauses limiting class action lawsuits and requiring lawsuits to be filed in New York. The changes apply to disputes initiated after May 15. On May 14, Coinbase disclosed a data breach.

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

thinking that the housing crisis is just “greed” completely fails to explain why housing costs in different cities move in different directions. why have Austin’s housing costs plummeted while NYC’s keep rising? did landlords in Austin decide to be less greedy? no, the city built a ton of housing

I think we should spend less time worrying about how affordable brand new homes are and more time worrying about how affordable existing older homes are.

Protesters interrupted the hearing on Medicaid cuts today

anti-“transplant” politics really should be excised from the left. it’s just woke-washing xenophobia. we should build cities for everyone and welcome people who want to move, whether it be for economic opportunities, good schools, civil rights, or any other reason.

Alrighty. Election results are getting canvassed and winners are getting sworn in. Nothing too exciting here: 2 incumbents won unopposed, 1 won opposed, And 2 minor charter amendments passed. The big one is in June, to do the D3 runoff winner

as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.

Hey anybody local want to take over this account? I'm moving at the end of the month to a place that has human rights.

it’s cool how we are redoing a Soviet style planned economy but instead of getting really smart people to actually study the inputs of production and demand levels (which still failed!) it’s just a senile boomer yelling out random numbers

Paris: 94 % of journeys are public transport, bike, foot. The number of car journeys: halved. Far fewer traffic fatalities, improved air quality, declining CO2. What impresses me is that people here are led towards a better future against great odds - while in Germany clocks are running backwards.

Consolidated corporate power is bad but it’s not why your rent is high.

Dawg we're so up

It’s actually the best amenity out there. Literally better than tripling the square feet of your place imo

crazy that an influx of dense infill housing can lower prices and make homeownership more attainable

I am going to need one month, 4 therapy sessions, and at least 5 beers to process whatever the hell is happening in this twitter thread

Y'all it is ELECTION DAY. see the quoted thread for voting tips and my recommendations

Put another way, when there are lots of vacant apartments, landlords have to compete with each other to attract tenants. When there are few vacant apartments, tenants compete for them. It'd be pretty extraordinary if this relationship did *not* generally hold.

I have in general become way less tolerant of ‘crunchy’ bullshit since ascension of people like RFK jr. to actual power. Sorry but the obnoxious Reddit science and logic guys were right, you should be scorned for believing objectively wrong things about consequential issues.

Holy shit y'all. Anyways, go vote! Last day of early voting is today until 7PM. Saturday you have to go to your specific polling location, which you can find on vote Denton.

By extension, enhancing transit service can be a powerful Vision Zero strategy. Better transit —> More riders & fewer car trips —> Fewer crash deaths

Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the book "Administrative Burdens" and it's just objectively untrue that no one will face "unnecessary burdens" b/c *non-citizens almost never vote! *About 20M citizens don't have access to citizenship documents SAVE solves a non-problem by burdening American citizens.

sprawl is an unmitigated environmental, social, and economic disaster it is no longer affordable (especially when you add in transportation and time) sprawl is driving climate change. literally. and it is a ponzi scheme - unable to fund maintenance and replacement costs

Single family zoning has always been about excluding poorer people from wealthy neighborhoods.

Not a single time in this article glorifying the need for sprawl to address the US's affordable housing crisis is there a mention of the vast transportation costs of sprawling living patterns. Nor is there mention of the fact that sprawl is directly linked to disinvestment in urban cores.

For whatever reason, American planning and building codes mandate short, wide buildings that cover much of the lot. Personally I think this makes for less pleasant buildings and neighborhoods than European codes, which allow for taller, skinnier buildings with more open space.

Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.

Visiting my sister in SD. Her neighbors are mostly LGBT seniors. Was chatting one of them up and they talked about how difficult it is living in SD on a fixed income. Sounds bad, but they should rest easy knowing their city is laser focused on killing the wildly successful lower income ADU program

Car based mobility is expensive on a good day, but it's very expensive on a bad day. What's the over/under on damages from this fairly minor crash? Between car damage, first responder costs, and medical, maybe $30,000?

“We need to reverse our trade deficit with China” *finger on the monkey’s paw curls* “Wait why are we making a bunch of stuff we can’t afford to be sent to other countries”

Unitarians go hard.

IM SORRY, WHAT???

NEW: The US oil & gas industry cheered Trump’s rise and gave tens of millions to his campaign. Now TWO of the president’s centerpiece policies — higher tariffs and more OPEC drilling — are absolutely shattering the sector. The damage below the hood is extensive: heatmap.news/energy/tarif...