Now that the misinformation is starting, I like the rebuttal by my friend @form67.bsky.social : BART is one of the most efficient transit systems in the country, staff shortages have resulted in a higher need for overtime but uncertain future finances make it hard to commit to long term roles. 1/x

Come ride bikes with us in Minneapolis! And spend your money at our amazing local businesses. In the meantime please keep donating to help us keep our neighbors housed/fed/in MN. Lots of donation options here: standwithminnesota.com Or this one for my neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/support-mi...

If the Connect Bay Area measure fails, BART would slash service by 63% in January 2027: Reduced base schedule: 3 lines with 2 trains per hour, resulting in 240% more transfers NO evening service, service ending at 9 pm Close 10 lowest ridership stations...

Maybe we should try doing public infrastructure?

And that one-third statistic has to be low, because plenty of collisions, even fatal ones, can be written up without any useful effort to determine vehicle speeds. Speed kills, and opposing speed controls therefore also kills. Don't be a killer. I want GPS-enabled speed governors!

Bus rapid transit on San Pablo Avenue from Oakland to Richmond (and beyond) would be a game changer. So many folks would replace car trips with bus trips, and BRT would support the housing and commercial development that's happening up and down San Pablo. Let's approve, fund it and make it happen!

Next Tuesday!

This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0... It’s not getting better in Minnesota… we are exhausted 😩

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How many cities ago was LA? Still happening there, still happening in all the other cities too. ICE and CBP out now!

The time for mincing words and normalizing his ethnic cleansing campaign (disguised as “immigration policy”) is over. Trump is a racist. His party tolerates if it does not actively endorse his racism. Those who normalize him enable racism. His agenda is racist open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Micro-mobility users, whether on bikes, wheelchairs, or scooters, deserve their own safe infrastructure, instead of fighting over scraps of space with pedestrians or cheating death alongside cars.

Y'all, the most watched televised event of the year in the US just delivered a direct and unmistakable rebuke to white nationalism and the racist, demented man in the White House We are going to win. Let's work together to make it happen as quickly as possible

The Revolution Will Not Be Subtitled

Highway robbery!!

A reminder to the haters it takes this many states to outnumber the American citizens in Puerto Rico (~3.5m v. ~3.2m)

Your tax dollars. Your representatives. Your fucking country.

Clickbait, in other words…

There was once a plan to run a bus lane and a protected bicycle lanes down Westwood Boulevard. It might have been one of Los Angeles' great promenades. Instead, NIMBYs killed the proposal, and now it's a round-the-clock car sewer where people randomly die in extremely violent ways.

Vista Del Mar 2017: City installs then removes safety improvements 2021-2025: More people die Pershing Dr 2017: City installs then removes bike lanes 2026: Pregnant mom killed Westwood Bl 2015: Koretz removes Westwood from Mobility Plan Today: 3 killed michaelschneider.medium.com/las-darkest-...

The next Car-Free Happy Hour!! Tuesday February 17th 5:30 Cellarmaker Brewing 300 Webster St., Oakland AC Transit # 12, 72, 18, 62 Want to meet people, make friends and *reduce VMT*? Come on! @tvrr.bsky.social @bikeeastbay.bsky.social @walkoakbikeoak.bsky.social @walkbikeberk.bsky.social

I just read the declaration that Kira Kelley asked J. Blackwell to consider. This immigrant describes being -unlawfully arrested -taken from one overcrowded & filthy prison to another over 19 days -held incommunicado & ICE never telling him a court ordered his release He describes an American gulag

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Liberal Multicultural Democracy *is* the radical position. Let’s make it happen!

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

They're desparate to stop Senate Democrats from defunding ICE. Keep calling. Keep pushing.

You must actively seek out ways to build solidarity and protect other people to the extent that you can

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

Who, exactly, is obsessed with trans people? Also, why is it so hard for “moderates and centrists” to recognize the very real and political threats embedded in trans panic?

“Maria sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital”. Like, what the fuck? How fucking aggro do you have to be? Assault with the intent to commit grave bodily injury for starters.

ICE agents tried to quietly get Mexican food in Minneapolis, local neighbors and protesters found out and shamed then out of the neighborhood!

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Great interview with @vermontgmg.bsky.social on this New Yorker podcast. One vivid point: the rate of crimes among CBP agents is higher than the rate of crimes among those being detained. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The littler ride in San Mateo County also had great spirit! We rode along El Camino, detouring through the downtowns of a line of peninsula cities, from Redwood City up to Burlingame. Ride Together, Stand Together.

Truer than most on the left and center left would like to admit. Why should the union have so much control over how we manage the police power?

The particular officer in the headline is vice president of the local police union.

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

Love it

Joined several hundred cyclists in Seattle today to ride for Alex Pretti and other victims of ICE.

I was there and it was great and it was very large and the message was ICE OUT!

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

Denver's ride

I didn’t know Bruce Wayne lives in Sant Clara now? Come on SFGate, we all know Batman is Bruce Wayne, that’s like disclosed with in the first 10 minutes of every movie. Just say Batman. Batman reprimanded this City Council for being spineless.

Out on the SF ride for Alex Pretti ( and everyone killed by ICE)

WWHJD? (what would Howard Jarvis do?)

Warehouses, exurban to rural. Trucks come and go. No windows. The very image of a massive crime scene

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Summary of another excellent brief thread from Matt

We can fight ICE while we also stick with our local work. Here, we’re trying to keep people alive on the streets of Oakland www.oakrapidresponse.org/posts/fatali...