Hey folks, please read this - I agree with it 100%. I'd been considering writing something very similar but now I likely won't* because Scott already said it so well. (* well technically he borrowed some of my words, with permission, from a reddit comment. So in a way, I did help write this...)

This is just heartbreaking. Demand better.

Was trying to define what makes Minneapolis unique today while I was discussing with my wife whether to go to the LOTI pencil sharpening, when I got distracted by a station wagon with a canoe twined to the roof and nearly tripped over a pig on a leash. Anyway, haven’t quite put my finger on it yet

“‘When transit is frequent, reliable, and affordable, it does more than move people from one place to another. It gives people freedom. It gives families choices,’ Wilson said in rolling out the proposal.”

Happy Pride month to the whole LGBTQNJ+ rainbow!

We have our first #A2Council candidate answers! See images for a sneak preview of their answers. To hear back from more candidates, we need to tell them how much housing matters to us. Your voice matters more than you might realize! Make yourself heard: moreneighborsa2.org/2026election

On this morning's commute, I saw so many people riding bikes for transportation, not recreation. They were all using the bike lanes. Bike parking was busy. This week, local Facebook groups are having a meltdown about bike infrastructure. They say nobody uses it. Get outside, people! #A2Council

#A2Council this thread 🎯 a current crop of mayor/council candidates and their supporters.

This primary season, we asked #A2Council candidates to tell us their positions on housing. You can help by nudging them toward completing the questionnaire. And tell them how important housing is to your vote this year! Go to moreneighborsa2.org/2026Election to get involved!

“The Highway Lobby spends millions to make sure we spend billions.” — Union of Concerned Scientists. Their profit, your cost. Pleased to support @ucs.org in sharing/boosting their important new article below, with our newest @urbantruth.bsky.social poster. #UrbanTruth

Donald Trump promised the war in Iran would end with unconditional surrender. But he never said which country would do the surrendering.

thank you to everyone who sent this to me

America should embrace the ornamented box. The form is exemplified by this lovely residential hotel in #Watsonville. It's a simple five-story box with 100 car-free homes and terra-cotta ornament. Locals love it with a fondness not seen for the dull, sterile façades of its modernist counterparts.

Make the data center a public sex forest

#a2council A brief history of Burns Park not liking things 🧵

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I’ve heard it said that #a2council hasn’t done enough for affordable housing. I leave this here (from the Ann Arbor Housing Commission) for your consideration.

🧵New buildings aren't supposed to fit the character of their neighborhood #a2council

They're not going to stop with trans. They've realized that they can get away with just about anything if they claim to be protecting "the children." If they roll back gay marriage, they won't stop there either. There is no fucking accommodating these people, they must be defeated & marginalized.

#a2council 🧵 A brief history of Ann Arbor isn't a small town anymore

My four-year-old was reading MLive when he asked me gravely, “daddy why did the Maynard St. McDonald's close in 1995?” When I told him, “Mayor Taylor sent a protected bike lane made out of liquid metal back in time to terminate another cherished local business,” he started crying. #a2council

Ohio courts blocked their gerrymander and Republicans just ignored them

*whispers* it's working Rents are falling and concessions are increasing because of the vast increase in rental supply in 2024. Let's keep it up, #A2Council! www.apartments.org/wp-content/m...

And that most "real estate reporting" aims to reinforce this.

Conventional journalism norms: showing "bias" is bad, but obviously it's good when highways get widened and bad when housing prices go down.

The MI House Budget just released their budget. It has the lowest support for transit EVER, despite rising costs. This could mean less buses in all 83 of Michigan's counties. We need to stop this. Please, talk to your legislators via the link below. secure.everyaction.c...

Opinion | House of Chimney Cakes, where I never shopped, is closing its bakery downtown, where I never visit. Sources note their rent increased by 50% in two years, but I know it's actually closing because of the bike lanes on 4th Ave, which do not exist. #a2council

It's not enough that they push these biased pieces to attack the trans community and enable the far right campaign that strips us of our rights, they have to be feted for it too. Absolutely pathetic.

Wow, the NYT really campaigned hard to get Azeen Ghorayshi a Pullitzer for her transphobic reporting and podcast. She didn't get it but was a finalist for it despite several trans subjects of her reporting and their families speaking out about they felt betrayed by her coverage and framing.

The demand for anti-yimby scholarship has outstripped supply that meets academic standards/norms. Thus a black market fills the void...

Trump's war-on-a-whim in Iran, which threatens to throw the world economy into recession (and kill a lot of people), is running at about $1.5 billion per *day*.

Now that this process is complete, some Ann Arborites seem to be expressing dismay and even anger that these signs were removed. People are wild. #a2council

Damning: "Fatality rates [among Vision Zero cities] were not significantly lower when controlling for the advantages of higher density and higher income." findingspress.org/article/1559...

If you're a Michigander, don't let these NIMBYs win—get involved with Abundant Housing Michigan: abundanthousingmi.org

The MPO that covers Detroit and Ann Arbor is opposing a package of YIMBY bills that (among other things) legalizes ADUs and reduces parking requirements partly on the basis that they risk "exposing residents to E.coli..." Truly bizarre taxpayer-funded lobbying.

Wild how people will just go on the internet and tell everyone that they're not able to competently pilot a motor vehicle #a2council

Good news, everybody! Thanks to the incredible technological advances of the past few years, weak-ass centrist Democrats no longer have to do the hard creative work of imagining a fictional Long Island family to justify their spinelessness and mediocrity. Now, they can have an LLM do it for them!

Every time my town tries to put in sidewalks on a school route, the wealthy landowners who live nearby put up a huge fight. They say it’s about trees, or parking, or that somehow the sidewalk will be less safe (true story), but always the actual underlying principle is “fuck them kids.” #a2council

Just want to highlight re the importance of Dems pursuing things like impeachment. People want electeds who will fight for them--even in battles they know they're likely to lose. Republicans fight for everything and will risk losing because a hard fight is ammo for next time.

"Of course I'm sorry about [crash deaths] but [not very much]." "Of course I'm all for [bus lanes, bike lanes, sidewalks, public transportation] but [actually I oppose them]." bsky.app/profile/actf...

Strange that we never see guardrails or highway onramps designed as completely dysfunctional public art projects.

“Massive blind spot” indeed

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

🧵 If you're wondering why pro-housing types are still salty about #A2Council 's hard cap on 3 units per parcel in residential zones is because it destroys the potential for programs like Portland's Residential Infill Program (that is adding units while new multifamily construction cratered)

Brand new homes, built this year, west of I-205, for sale around $400k is a remarkable accomplishment. So much more to do, but i think it’s an underreported story how much RIP has been critical for getting new homes online in Portland while big multifamily construction is still largely on pause

Congress could use some more subway riders! I'm ready to fight in Washington for the federal funding that NYC's transit system so desperately needs.

A brief history of there isn't enough parking in Ann Arbor #a2council 🧵 (I hope @paulisci.bsky.social doesn't mind that I am stealing his bit)

THIS www.chronicle.com/article/no-t...