So true! This is why the Urbanist Coalition put forward our proposal to rethink IZ in Portland, ME. www.urbanistportland.me/policy/a-bet...

This building is less than 20 years old. This is the result of the elevator oligopoly fighting against acceptance of global standards. I promise SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE in the world makes this part! You just can’t use it in America because the companies want to bill you to replace the whole elevator

Advice from Vancouver about how to make a successful pedestrian street. Minneapolis might want to learn a few things…

"In a review of key claims by the documentary, ABC News found that the majority of the scientific observations made in 'An Inconvenient Truth' have come to fruition or are on track to in the years to come."

Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

6 months ago I got tired of my smartwatch always doing exactly everything except telling me the time of day. So I fished out my old analog Swiss Army watch, my prized possession in middle school, popped a new battery in, could not be happier.

The price of housing is set by supply and demand. The only way to reduce rents and home prices in high-demand cities is to build a lot of new homes. Rent control only slows down price increases for incumbent tenants. It does not reduce prices for newcomers or people who want to move.

It’s honestly insane to watch American conservatives pretend that the energy transition just is not happening. Batteries are bridging the gap in California. Many countries in Europe get the majority of their power from wind and solar. It’s just… here.

The Upper Harbor park in Mpls has this same potential hazard… something that looks fun to climb but can be deadly.

Spring is here, so this is going to become a full time Creeping Bellflower hate account. Kill your hellflowers. Tell your friends.

REMINDER: ICE is still quite active in Minneapolis. They’re just not blasting it on the news. From a friend on the ground in Minneapolis:

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

I mean, you don't really need a translator

You don’t have to be a Jeopardy champ to know that a lot more housing, and in particular affordable housing, needs to be build. But it doesn’t hurt to be a Jeopardy champ.

Our public schools were the epicenter of ICE’s occupation of our city. Now we must renew our commitment to our students by investing in them! But our Mayor is more focused on lobbying the State for money for a cop rec center. Why can’t Frey lobby the state for MPS? racketmn.com/after-the-ic...

Love the Lake Loop concept here. And I've been saying it for 20 years, but what this city needs is a Euro-style playground where parents could sit in a nearby cafe with a coffee or a beer so they can chat while their kids play.

oh my god maybe it really is the phones

12. So I’ll keep calling for more badly needed density, more change, but always #DensityDoneWell. Listening/learning, smart design, multi-modal, with livable amenities. Let’s keep talking about #NIMBY & #YIMBY. But let’s DEFINITELY not leave out my favourite, QUALITY IN MY BACKYARD #QIMBY. Thanks.

No Kings #TwinCities

In Los Angeles, it is easier to stop housing than to build it. That has to change. We must create a culture of yes to new housing: affordable housing, market-rate housing, social housing, and shelters. You can see the full plan on my website.  Here are some highlights:

12.7M acres of solar is is about 82% of the solar required to decarbonize the US in the Net Zero America E+ scenario (there's wind and existing nuclear and stuff in there too, but that's the solar portion). Or we can have 5% of our gasoline displaced.

It’s day 113 of the ICE occupation of MN. ICE activity has been lower, but the needs of our community in recovery are incredibly high. Families are job hunting, learning to live without an abducted bread winner, and trying to find their feet. Please give as you can at StandWithMinnesota.com

Man, the effects of the ICE occupation are vast and ongoing. A family I am helping, like so many others, is trying to figure out how to rebuild their lives. Trying to make rent, needing to find work, adjusting to an existence without family members. There may be less ICE but these are huge wounds.

Enough with the FALSE CHOICE between increasing infill density or increasing the urban tree canopy. BOTH are not only possible, but absolutely necessary. Good design is the key. The real design challenge isn’t building density or the space needed for trees… it’s the space we still surrender to cars.

How can this go on for another 3 years?

In Minneapolis, Minnesota, over 20 armed ICE goons detained a 50-year-old veteran who was in a state of distress at gunpoint.

ICE presence in South Minneapolis has been weirdly heavy the last few days. Chased out an ICE car again today and there were many others. The one I found accidentally revealed himself in hilarious fashion: I’m driving by and his secret police lights come on for a second. Whoops! Confirmed ICE plates

Hello from South Minneapolis. ICE is still here. Today they were parked in an alley two block away from my house. A few pedestrians and a commuter stopped by, and confirmed that this was an agent. Naturally I went for a walk on a spring day. And he drove past, hightailing out of our neighborhood

EXCLUSIVE: Surveillance video obtained by an activist shows Liam Conejo Ramos and his father being taken to a detention center in Texas via a Delta Airlines flight, the morning after ICE allegedly used the boy as bait. gillianbrockell.com/video-proves...

Glad I have boys in scouting so they can go camping and learn life skills.

Russia: With mobile internet blocked in many parts of Moscow for a week now, Russians are imagining their dystopian totalitarian future with Max, an FSB phone app that is increasingly becoming mandatory for regular life, like paying utilities and attending school/college.

It's day 101 of the ICE occupation of MN. ICE is still here. Today there were multiple abductions just outside Minneapolis, and a persistent ICE presence in downtown. (They were so illegally parked that tow trucks showed up - please enjoy these videos)

Yeah this definitely happened today. At my daughter’s school. Fuck ICE.

Stop me if you've heard this one before. Trump admin did a massive unconstitutional surge of secret police, claimed it was about fraud, and wrecked the local US Attorney's Office in the process. And now they're really struggling to prosecute actual fraud. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

This govt inflicted a nightmare on the people of MN, and for what? Now they inflict a worse nightmare on the people of Iran, and again, for what?

My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.

Congrats to Rep. @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social and family, who biked to the hospital last week and came back with baby Hans. Here's what she told me about the ride:

Reminder that the ICE surge in Chicago - a city five times bigger than Minneapolis - was 300 agents. So this is still unprecedented.

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

Meanwhile in Minnesota, Homan's style of occupation has taken hold.

This is a terrific article and worth a read for people outside the area who are interested in stuff that MN has been doing to resist ICE. Gift link: racketmn.com/yes-that-man...

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

The “drawdown” that didn’t happen.

They declared war on us because we are the truest blue blue state—didn't vote for Reagan. They think they have nothing to lose. They're killing us, hunting our kids, trying to jail all of our top politicians (Walz, Frey, Her, Ellison all under DOJ investigation, more) This is MAGA civil war.

It’s day 85 of the ICE occupation of MN. We keep saying it’s not over - and this is why. Despite the messages in press conferences, there are still almost 1000 ICE agents here.

Every accusation is an admission, as usual. Every one.

While everybody’s online for SOTU, please consider taking a moment to support this incredible effort to feed folks in the Twin Cities. The work (that doesn’t just feed vegans, that’s just the organizing entity!) is more important than ever. The need isn’t decreasing, and your support is a lifeline.

When normal people discover how America’s quasi-privatized building code is developed. Process was “unique”, did not analyze impact on end users, its costs, or constructability. “If I had done something like this during my career I’d be fired.” www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...

My kids thought the hot dog eating competition was pretty funny