Every political discussion in Ann Arbor feels like this. #a2council

🧵 Living in Michigan, if a political issue seems frustratingly impossible to advance, you can almost always find the roots in policies motivated by racial and economic segregation. When you scrape back the "housing theory of everything" you find racism and classism under the hood.

Residential protectionism reigns, only "major streets" will get upzoned. Sadly the unwashed masses won't get gas fireplaces either. Tho I do low-key love the idea that #a2council might protect Burns Park from upzoning only for the state to do an end-around and eliminate lot size restrictions.

Get in loser, we're doing the cancel culture panic again www.public.news/p/end-the-wi...

Ann Arbor AF, the podcast helping folks in and around Ann Arbor get informed about local politics and then get involved on issues like housing, transportation, and community safety, is back for 2026! Find us wherever you get your podcasts, or on our website, annarboraf.com #a2council

As a city with named plows, we should definitely also do this #a2council blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/23/c...

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

Sure your local library is great but does it have a Kigurumi groundhog named Akako G Shins

Can't fuckin' believe I'm doing this but here goes: Twitter is a mind prison, a true jail of career advancement. I stopped posting on there and within months I became the CEO of The Onion and I'm not kidding. Went back on last year, felt worse, then left again.

You can explain a lot of the shift towards blatant transphobia by the centrist political class from them remaining on Twitter after Elon bought it. It's one of his singular missions to destroy the trans community to get back at his daughter Vivian. nymag.com/intelligence...

Here's what far too many people don't understand: even if "the cost of developing software is going to zero", well ... code isn't an asset, it's a liability. If you're building something for more than one-time-use then it's a lot of work to keep it running, secure, etc. a.k.a. "free as in puppy"

It's pretty gratifying to see a local planning official take up this point and run with it! www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

Last night, after #a2council City Planning Commission finally voted to adopt the new Comprehensive Land Use Plan, @danieladams.bsky.social delivered a 12-minute barnstormer of a speech. Everyone should watch the whole thing at www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEGc... I'll put a few choice excerpts below (🧵)

Ann Arbor + Ypsi friends, TheRide is seeking folks to participate in focus groups in a couple weeks. Sign up at www.surveymonkey.com/r/AAATAfocus... cc #a2council

www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb... democratic socialist riunning explicitly on the rights of landed gentry to encase the city in amber what is wrong with this picture

The idea that someone who gets around with a $2000 piece of equipment is "elitist" while someone who uses a $30,000+ piece of equipment that costs hundreds of dollars per month to operate is "normal" is quite the brainwashing.

RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson There are going to be a lot of tributes to his activism, so I'm choosing to remember how much he crushed hosting SNL

Welcome to the club! Our local AI sloperator also claims to "speak for the trees," like a mirror universe Lorax.

Love you, Detroit. ⛽️

Today the inevitable happened - I locked up my ebike before realizing I'd left my keys at home. But thanks to The Ride it was no trouble to get back home and grab my keys... Transit is essential, and buses + bikes are better together!

Billionaires who lobbied Trump to halt Canadian bridge praise EZ-Bribe App

People who don't follow these arguments *will never believe* how controversial the idea that this is how it works is

This is awful, and it's the tip of the iceberg. Trains 351,352,353,354 were cancelled for 2 solid weeks, and Amtrak made zero substantive public statements on why that happened and what they were doing to fix it. Like do what you've gotta do, but EXPLAIN. www.fox17online.com/news/local-n...

MNDoT is going to regret not letting us name a plow "Abolish ICE" from here on out, that's the moderate snowplow name. We have moved on to "Fuck ICE."

(3/3) Heart goes out to all those in situationships and cyclists "protected" by flex posts! <3

Y'all need to understand that this is truly the most deranged story in the last 2+ decades of Michigan politics. The blatant corruption and paid-for influence of the Morouns was why I sent my first ever letter to my state rep and senator back in like 2009. And it's still somehow not over.

somehow, Manuel Moroun returned from beyond the grave (it turns out his kids are also shitheads)

The billionaire Moroun family, which owns the rival Ambassador Bridge, has spent years and millions of dollars fighting the new U.S.-Canada crossing.

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Did you know? Michigan has the HIGHEST rural dial-a-ride ridership in the entire United States, but it's often left out when talking transit. Take some time with us to learn at our Transit Tuesday Talk! The event will be on Feb 24th at 6pm, virtually. www.detroittransit.o...

A good thread from a privacy hawk who's been raising awareness about Ring's surveillance and law enforcement connections for years.

Great article about LCI and advocate Marco Speeks! If you need some inspiration to keep riding through the winter months, check it out ⬇️

No one puts it better than @reductress.bsky.social: www.instagram.com/p/DUYbkgiEgz6/

Every city that I know of that’s established an in-house team to deliver ‘missing middle’ small-capital projects has had huge success.

City-funded curbside leaf collection is literally a transfer of wealth from apartment/condo dwellers to wealthy large-lot single family homeowners. Is that really what we're calling leftist / socialist approach to government?! #a2council

Tim collected videos and images from across many different cities for the Alex Pretti rides this weekend. From Anchorage to Tampa and everywhere inbetween. "Bikes are inherently political."

Happy February to all who celebrate! www.youtube.com/watch?v=38PB...

Kinda seems like @amtrak.com's Michigan services are in an ongoing operational meltdown and nobody's talking about it?!

The City temporarily banned street parking citywide so that plows could clear streets and make travel safer. But since they didn't send a postcard, text, and a person to move my car, I'm going to angrily post a 67 chapter book about it to every social media site. #a2council by James Q. Porkchop

ICE are running around in the streets using facial recognition on random people and telling anyone filming them they're a domestic terrorist and Democrats solution is to equip every ICE agent with their very own body-worn surveillance camera

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

It's shocking that they're doing unlawful voter purges in Ypsilanti Township. Good work by the @acluofmichigan.bsky.social to discover what was happening and challenge it. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

"There’s an extremely hurtful narrative going around that my product, a revolutionary new technology that exists to scam the elderly and make you distrust anything you see online, is harmful to society."

"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.