Bike parking by the ice skating rink. There is no bad weather, there is only bad infrastructure.

An American beast. Tamed. #WorldBollardAssociation

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

I'm an even better friend. I send you the contact info for an experienced heat pump installer

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

I don't have anything to contribute except to say that it's maddeningly unjust that you can qualify for housing assistance but not receive it for lack of funding. 56,000 families could be kicked out of stable homes by the early cancellation of this program.

Today is December 10, Clipper 2.0 launch day! This delayed launch is finally releasing a bunch of amazing fare policy changes that have been passed by MTC and agencies over the last few years. I don't need to make a multi-agency trip today, so instead I am going on a celebratory silly joy ride!

10 seconds to tap a clipper card?? What the ever-living hell?? MTC is doing its best to radicalize urbanists in favor of fare-free transit.

If you want to know who your city is actually built for, wait for it to snow. The machines get a heated red carpet. The humans get a frozen obstacle course.

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

This kind of dense, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities

CDOT confirms they don't even start in on clearing bike lanes until Monday morning if snow falls over the weekend. And then it takes them several days to clear 7 miles The majority of the 8,000 miles of roads are cleared 24/7, usually within 12 hours of the snowfall stopping.

Nearly two dozen Bay Area transit agencies that accept Clipper will join BART as Tap and Ride systems on Dec. 10 next week. Just tap your contactless bank card or mobile payment method! Listen to BART GM Bob Powers explain what that means for riders in our latest podcast 🧵 ⬇️

there's a certain personality that's very debilitating in modern life. 100 years ago, if you wanted to buy something, you'd go to five local shops and decide. now with the internet, you need to spend 1,000 hours so you can own the best version in the world like you're some venetian patrician

We're about 2.5 years away from the 50th anniversary of Prop 13. My hunch is that the polling will be similar to the 40th anniversary, maybe just a smidge higher for homeowners (the gainz since 2018!) and a smidge lower for renters. Most renters think "Yeah, one day I'll benefit from Prop 13 too."

Los Angeles is trying to avoid HLA by claiming that it is “restriping without making other improvements” when, in fact, it’s making many other changes across multiple projects. This behavior must stop. Read the letter we sent to the Mayor, LADOT, and the Board of Public Works

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

There were donuts

The family of a Colombian man believed to have been killed in a US strike in the Caribbean has filed what’s believed to be the first complaint against such attacks with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

While I have been somewhat skeptical of Mamdani’s proposal to make the bus free, funding it with paid parking would be good policy and good politics.

Love to share the road with cars programmed to blast past speed limits

City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it! Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling. City: No, we'll lose parking spots.

This op-ed is truly terrible. A few obvious failures: 🔹 Why are Waymo's self-reported data treated as fact? 🔹 Why does the writer ignore myriad ways to save lives that are cheaper, more reliable, and quicker than waiting for AVs? 🔹 Why doesn't he mention he's a VC partner?

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Kudos to Supervisor Lindsey Horvath for voting no on this Metro/Caltrans #climateartson freeway expansion.

My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law. Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it. No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors. That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.

Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.

The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

“Never have so few done so much to so many.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Happy Thanksgiving America, where we are still trying to deport all indigenous people because they aren't white.

In 2017 as a christmas gift, my housemates gave me an alexa device. They were apprehensive -- immediately letting me know they weren't confident I would like the gift and that they weren't even sure they wanted it in the house. They wanted to find me something that reflected my new career.

I'm becoming convinced Lyft has a basic conflict of interest managing ridehail as well as bikeshare in NYC, DC, Boston, Chicago, SF, etc. The more expensive bikeshare is for visitors, the more likely they are to take ridehail instead (great for Lyft; bad for cities). Seems like a problem!

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

LA County — which has no official role in the upcoming Olympics and Paralympics — now has a website for 2028. You know who still doesn't have one? THE CITY THAT HOLDS THE HOST CONTRACT AND IS FINANCIALLY ON THE HOOK FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE GAMES LA County's website is here: lacounty.gov/olympics/

4 images that perfectly tell a California story: A 3 bed 1 bath 988 sqft house sold for $2.8M In a school district that has to do budget cuts While trying to help its growing number of homeless students Meanwhile residents are mad that a Chase will be replaced with 6 stories of apartments

A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.

A difference between robot cars vs. regular cars is that with regular cars, drivers walk to where they park, spreading traffic out. With robot cars, every event turns city streets into an airport pickup line. bsky.app/profile/thew...

Unless the robot car industry starts self regulating, the ever-increasing number of robo-traffic jams is going to unify both sides of the war on cars in one of the weirdest political coalitions 🙃

One other small moment of irony in today’s #MeasureHLA hearing. The city had the audacity to use a photo I took (published at Streetsblog) *uncredited* - in its slide presentation against my HLA appeals. Left: Streetsblog. Right: LADOT slide today.

ICE continues arresting and detaining increasing numbers of people who have never been charged with a crime. This is a massive change from even one year ago

The Guardian is tracking the Trump administration's campaign of mass deportation. Since Trump was inaugurated, ICE and CBP: - arrested nearly 290,000 people - deported more than 290,000 people As of Nov 17, 65,000 people are in immigration detention, an all time high

Jimmy Cliff has passed. His art shaped my youth. Specifically, the harder they come. "And I keep on fighting for the things I want Though I know that when you're dead you can't But I'd rather be a free man in my grave Than living as a puppet or a slave" Rest in Power www.bbc.com/news/article...

In healthy cities, postal carriers don't block the bike lane, they use it.

Waymo privatized another public street: Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away. The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined. OP: .tiktok.renaspam18

We also uncovered a striking phenomenon of "corporate enclaves": localities w virtually no residents but millions (even billions) of dollars’ worth of commercial property. Examples include the Disney-owned jurisdictions near Orlando and the industrial city of Vernon in LA (profiled by Mike Davis):

OK then, but I'd still rather a 🚂 than a 🚘 in the bike lane #BikeHFX

This block on West 41st by the Michael J Quill Bus Depot used to be full of illegal parking (No Standing Anytime) On October 8th someone in NYPD Traffic woke up and started writing tickets. 40 tickets for "Fraudulent Use Parking Permit" since. Now that block is empty. cc: @nyc.streetsblog.org