"the secretary of defense did insider trading on a war he was about to start" what the fuck are we doing here, honestly

Need HEB to have electric car charging and not just gas plsssss ⚡️

Trans lives > nostalgic feels.

ai feature implementation strategy is essentially “how annoying can we make the ui” so people accidently hit ai features so these companies can brag about how “highly used” ai features are internally

This is important as more of us take up single stair reform and others that bring out the fire department. We can build stronger neighborhoods and buy the appropriate equipment to keep them safe. These are mutually SUPPORTIVE goals!

We don’t talk enough about the fact that Whataburger got drastically worse after their acquisition by BDT Partners in 2019 Like… always running seriously late, food is almost always delivered incorrectly or cold, dining rooms are busted, service is poor

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

In honor of today’s No Kings rallies: Tracy Chapman - “Talkin' Bout A Revolution” www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv8F...

Trump: "We have a thing called a war, or as they would rather say, a military operation. It's for legal reasons. Because as a military operation, I don't need any approvals. As a war you're supposed to get approval from Congress. Something like that. So I call it a military operation."

No one does it like Austin!

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

I’ve been sitting on this news for a minute, but happy to finally announce that I’m joining the @texansforhousing.bsky.social team as their new Communications & Advocacy Director, starting Monday! 🤠 Indulge me in a little sappy and hopeful thread...

Newly-elected Mayor of Paris Emmanuel Grégoire @egregoire.bsky.social rides toward City Hall on Vélib bike-share, waving to applauding Parisians after his election victory. Important messaging as he succeeds @annehidalgo.bsky.social as leader for the next era of better city-building for people.

Trump makes it clear to News Nation he’s holding TSA/DHS funding to get his “SAVE” (Republicans) voter suppression bill passed — including some anti-trans stuff He then doubled down and posted about it TLDR: So thank Trump for the long airport lines

Excited to talk Single Stair reform with the awesome folks from @abundanthousingil.bsky.social. its going to be a great discussion 🙌

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

We've had enough of the censorship at Texas A&M. Sign the petition to demand that the Board of Regents end their policy of auditing syllabi & canceling courses that mention race or gender. The policy prevents faculty from teaching openly & students from learning freely. Sign & share⬇️

The New York Times bringing the energy we need in responding to people being killed by drivers... in 1924. (h/t @thewaroncars.bsky.social's excellent new-ish book)

Austin is doing what most cities dream of: bringing down rents. We reckoned with our NIMBYism (with all its classist-racist ends), scaled up our environmentalism to recognize the broader harms of sprawl on ecology + climate, and built strong coalitions to advocate for rapid, substantive change.

The US is one of the most urbanised countries in the world. For 80% of the population, if you have to drive miles to buy groceries, it's not because you live in a big country or a big city; it's because government & the auto lobby put a highway outside your house instead of letting there be a shop.

San Francisco is so funny bc the parts that feel like NYC here have me like 😐 meanwhile the parts back home that feel like NYC have me like 🤩 (Basically SF’s neighborhoods are soooo pretty)

White supremacist groypers in charge of DHS Twitter. The present and future of the GOP.

I’m in San Francisco for #AAG2026! Any other geographers here? Looking forward to a week of learning together! ♥️🗺️

The problem with narcissists who are given this kind and scale of power is that they do inhabit their own world — and the rest of us don’t. While the Iran “military operation” might be “over” for Trump, the rest of the world will continue to live in the fallout while he moves on.

Mamdani ties 5th century resistance of St. Patrick against Romans to Irish fight against British colonialism to Irish discrimination in US to Irish building US labor unions to Ireland being first EEC country to support a Palestinian State. Just a master class in political education.

This, the NATO post, lifting Russian oil sanctions, etc. He has to be compromised, right? It’s Putin’s dream scenario.

The Rosedale school rezoning will be going before the Zoning & Platting Commission this Tuesday NIMBYs are asking the City to block the rezoning while they fight the School District in court to enforce language in the racist 1938 deed restriction. AISD needs the rezoning to close their budget gap.

This is how some of y’all look on S Congress btw

The Trump doctrine.

“A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century. We’re in the 21st.”— Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. No matter what happens in the Paris election in 4 days, the world’s cities owe @annehidalgo.bsky.social a huge debt of gratitude. The boldest, most inspiring mayor I’ve seen.

STUDY: “Bicycle lanes reduce GHG emissions as effectively as highways create them.” “Investing in networks of protected bicycle lanes has significant potential to reduce GHG emissions, lower transport costs, prevent road fatalities, & improve quality of life for people in cities around the globe.”

So if anybody -- state attorneys general, Democratic politicians, sentient beings -- doesn't understand why Paramount Skydance's takeover of Warner Bros./CNN is a huge problem, Pete Hegseth is here to explain it to you. Stop the propaganda. Block this merger.

the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."

US multifamily housing is less livable, less affordable, and less accessible than peer countries - and this is by choice. we need better codes. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I absolutely think we need to talk about this @t4america.bsky.social. Expanding, even maintaining, urban and suburbs highways is incompatible with reducing car dependency and creating true mobility freedom for nondrivers.

We should actually not make our fascist tyrant’s choices more palatable. Democrats who support this do not know what it means to resist. But they’re somehow also not even attuned to the electoral opportunities that rising gas prices open. Nonsense proposal no matter how you view it.

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

Housing champion. Trans rights defender. Class warrior. We’re going to win Texas in November by running a focused, progressive, solutions-forward campaign.

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.) This is an atrocity.

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

Going to the symphony in Austin is always an experience. Last night, for example, an enthusiastic audience member gave a resounding “YEEHAW!” after one of the more intense movements in Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra. I am not joking! 🗣️🤠😂

Every couple of months or so, someone puts out a piece of bad social science meant to undermine the case for more housing. For Roosevelt Institute, I wrote a blog post responding to the two most recent specimens. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/there-i...

Jasmine Crockett is a star and I can guarantee she's not done fighting! Congratulations to James Talarico! Lets turn Texas blue!!! Cornyn and Paxton both stink.

LET’S FLIP TABLES, TEXAS!

How does a city's "hum" affect the neighbors we don’t see? 🦉🦊 From disrupted bird songs to survival challenges, noise is an ecological issue. Watch our latest deep dive here: https://youtu.be/YpnXQFjxR88?si=v1FsAbB67gokVt3Z Building cities of urban calm. #UrbanCalm #NoMoreNoise #Ecology #Toro

Attacking people makes them far less defensive, hostile, and reactionary, duh, it's just human psychology. *checks PSY101 notes* Wait.

if nothing else I am glad non-Texan discourse about TX-Sen primaries will be over

Transpo folks! 🚲 I'm studying changes in non-automobile street infrastructure that have gradually hardened over time (ex: bike lanes developing from nothing ➡️ paint ➡️ flexposts ➡️ physical barriers). Do you have any examples? Pedestrian plazas, bike lanes, bus lanes, other projects done or in dev?