An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car. Our car culture summed up in one video.

The road has long been tumultuous for Latinos in places like California, as a site where the private space of the automobile and the public space of the street meet. @drgenacarpio.bsky.social on CA car insurance and the cultural history of race, redlining, and risk assessment.

To be fair, discerning the difference between the Onion and #UKCarCulture requires constant vigilance.

Low speeds save lives; asking for higher speeds is a pro-death position, especially for your children and elderly family.

In Birmingham, car owners are begged not to idle their engines outside schools. In Paris, meanwhile, hundreds of school streets have been pedestrianized.

Imagine what your city might be like if you had a mayor who behaved like this.

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Sure, but this might mean that those who possess the private property of cars might end up having to share some of the public space or our roads. And surely such an infringement on liberty, just to improve safety and dignity for those who don't even own a car, must be prevented at all costs.

In light of the clear evidence that introducing reasonable speed limits means less people killed and seriously injured, politicians threatening to reverse these improvements should be worried about getting sued for knowingly putting people in harm's way.

Brilliant effort from the Circle the City riders last night. 🌧💨 It was chucking it down and blowing a gale, but that didn’t stop them pedalling on. 💪 #CircleTheCity #KeepPedalling #TogetherWeRide #RainOrShine

This is grim & dangerous over reach. This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent. Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Not a single Greta hater could do what she has done, face what she's faced, bear abuse and humiliation at the hands of the most psychotic and genocidal army. They haven't an ounce of her bravery and that's what drives them crazy. Free Greta, free Palestine🇵🇸

My takeaway from One Battle After Another is that it's time for one of the great filmmakers to tackle Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead.

Andor, season 2, episode 8

Also: How is this anything other than a police escort? What conclusion can the people of Birmingham - including the great many of us feeling intimidated by the politics these particular flag deployments represent - draw here beyond police support for well-funded, xenophobic nationalism?

People from all walks of life — including many British Jews — are protesting against your government’s complicity in genocide and standing in solidarity with Palestine. Conflating Israel’s genocide in Gaza with British Jews is deeply inappropriate and dangerous. Shame on you.

Thank you, @zackpolanski.bsky.social, for your badly needed leadership in this awful moment. Labour's attempts to use this despicable attack to further their ambitions and agendas marks another low. Please send your very best to run in Birmingham Ladywood when the time comes.

I wrote a short piece for the Observer on the attacks in Manchester. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

“With police accompanying them” Yep.

For example: my daughter has a bus pass and travels from Ladywood to Smethwick to school. But she has figured out that this 30 minute bus ride is also - you guessed it! - a 30 minute walk. #UKCarCulture is Birmingham public transport's biggest problem.

Transport for West Midlands has a survey going around entitled "Have you ever experienced problems on the buses in the West Midlands?" It covers a great many topics, but ignores the biggest problem: bus travel in Birmingham is often a miserable experience because the bus just sits in car traffic.

Still not sure why I cycle Ladypool Rd - even with scooters & delivery riders it feels unsafe. We’ve seen awareness with the Bahu Trust, the teenage pedestrian thrown into the air & most recently a 22yo killed at Stratford/Ladypool This road is crying out for pedestrianisation #SafeStreetsNow

As it should be, and as I would expect. Public expressions of solidarity with the people of Palestine are very much venues for expression of our outrage and anguish at the despicable attack against the Jewish community in Manchester.

What do innocent Jewish people in Britain have to do with genocidal war-crimes in Palestine? Who is making this connection?

This book would be a great introduction to the GDR and its significance - for students, say - but in the way it so skillfully weaves themes and events, it's also a great read for those of us who already know bits and pieces of the story of East Germany.

The area of Manchester where the horrific antisemitic attack took place is one of the few in the UK where Jewish & Muslim ppl both live in large numbers. We must learn from & follow how these communities support each other, as we condemn the attack & send love & solidarity to Jews across the UK

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Reminded today of the shooting at the shul in Halle, Germany, on Yom Kippur 2019, almost to the day six years ago.

A reminder about tomorrow's #CircleTheCity. Leaving from Victoria Square at 6 PM. All welcome, very much including relatively inexperienced cyclists who want to try out a low key group ride. It'll probably be dark by the time we finish, so bring lights!

I have watched his bit and the bit after Kuenssberg asks the question about 20 times and my ribs hurt. Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.

there are simply no words to describe the grief of this happening on yom kippur.

The real fascism is here. And we need to figure out how to support folks who are resisting in places like Chicago where the hammer is falling hardest.

Looks like an absolutely awful, horrific attack.

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

"To stand with Palestine, then, is not merely an act of solidarity with a remote and unconnected struggle somewhere far away; it is a stance against the broader structures of domination that sustain exploitation and oppression at home and abroad" (83).

All 3. Basic decency demands we support an alternative. And right now, that's @greenparty.org.uk.

Labour: Reform migrant policy is "racist" and "immoral." Also Labour: No more "golden ticket" for these "asylum shoppers."

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

Imagine a UK where the government cares about public transport, or cycling infrastructure, or education, disability benefits, or really anything good as much as it cares about ensuring more and more of our public space is occupied by these things.

When you see cities and police handing out hi-viz, remember that they are not helping, they are simply removing the responsibility from themselves and placing it directly on those they should be protecting.

"It's the billionaires in suits, in the yachts and private jets."

Well deserved. A great read with so many insights, and more timely by the day.

It’s less ‘countering Reform’ and more like Reform cosplay. Reminds me of Cameron opening doors for Euroscepticism in his party’s mainstream and then being surprised when he couldn’t win referendum campaign to stay in Europe. Just bad strategy.

Love this thread.

Meanwhile, literally billions of our pounds being spent on a massive new tunnel through the Thames for car owners and big bailouts for the companies that will fill that tunnel, clog our towns and cities, and threaten pedestrians and cyclists with Land Rovers.

“Private car use also exacerbates inequity, with most of the benefits accruing to car users and most of the harms falling on others, particularly the most disadvantaged.”

This graphic, given the people responsible for it and everything it represents, is perhaps the purest distillation of the politics of our times. Impossible to sum up the values of the people who own everything more perfectly than this.

Surprised they didn't chant "four more years" like Democrats did when people voiced their opposition to genocide.