Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

If you’re a follower of mine in the United States, please take a look at the post below, and please consider sharing it. I presume it WON’T be covered in American media.

“In Toderian’s view, the dividing line between cities that succeed and those that stagnate isn’t geography, wealth or even size—it’s mindset. Some places embrace experimentation, risk…Others default to caution, delay, and a reflexive belief that change is impossible.” momentummag.com/urban-truth-...

MEDIA RELEASE: “The 1-Hour City Conspiracy.” If you are traditional or new media and would like to write, talk, or post about the REAL conspiracy in cities, read our media release, and send us a DM for more information. It’s already making BIG waves! And allies, please help share this. #UrbanTruth

New from me: www.governing.com/urban/parkin... We’ve seen more progress on parking reform than I ever imagined. And yet, some of the places that could benefit from it the most (eh hem, NYC) are still hanging on to parking mandates.

Most of the social programs that are routinely dismissed in American politics as "unrealistic" or "too expensive" could have been paid for multiple times over by the cost of this war so far, much less the costs to come. It's never the money.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"By the way, here’s the breaking news for some folks. They didn’t levitate there or get transported by the moon fairy." --Dr. Marshall Shepherd Discussing reflectors left on the moon for laser studies ongoing today www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Trump’s $1.5 trillion military budget will destroy what little is left of US science, environment, & health: Cuts: NIH -$5.8 billion NASA -$5.6 billion NSF -$4.8 billion EPA -$4.6 billion CDC -$2.9 billion NOAA -$1.6 billion It also includes $$ for 130,000 beds at ICE concentration camps.

Did you know, beef has the highest emissions per kilogram compared to any other protein rich food? #animalagriculture

It’s peak strawberry season in Oxnard. 16 weeks of hard work to save up for the off season. “Itzel” says, "I only have small bites for lunch. If I eat too much, I get nauseous when I need to run fast to make as many boxes as possible so I can earn as much as possible." #WeFeedYou

Peter Gleick: “This particular year is as clear an indication of the influence of climate change as anything we’ve seen."

Postcard from a series called "The Young Girls Mobilized" ca. 1914-1918

Nature is amazing, it just keeps the surprises coming! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfW...

To find your local No Kings march, go to: www.nokings.org

New: Around the world people are turning to low-carbon EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps as the Iran war upends oil and gas markets. Bloomberg journalists, including yours truly, filed dispatches from San Francisco to Lagos for this story. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Horrible, awful people are in control. Biggest protest yet on March 28. They must be removed.

40% of US rail freight is also fossil fuels, mostly coal. Wind coal down and you free up a lot of rail resources! Some of which could be converted to fast electric passenger trains, which in countries with modern transport infrastructure are faster than air travel for most trips under 1000 miles.

Suburban Sprawl may seem cheap, but even the costs we CAN count are far too high, and we ALL pay them. HT Smart Prosperity Institute #UrbanTruth institute.smartprosperity.ca/library/publ...

I don’t know. If it looks like a 🦆, swims like a 🦆, and quacks like a 🦆, then it probably is a 🦆ing concentration camp.

Half of our agricultural land is used for beef that provides 3% of our calories. Nobody likes it when I bang my spoon on my high chair about this but eventually we need to grapple with it.

the rest of our lives we are going to just uncover more and more unfathomable horrors undertaken by this hideous fascist government and i don’t know how we’ll ever forgive ourselves for not doing more to stop it. May we all stretch and rise to the moment

As expected, in the final rule, EPA's Endangerment Finding repeal backs down entirely from challenging the science, choosing to focus on statutory arguments regarding EPA's authority. Good work, everyone who contributed to the @andrewdessler.com review!

@andreapitzer.bsky.social "concentration camp regimes in their early stages often make use of large open infrastructure to convert into detention spaces. Dachau was converted from a shuttered factory into a concentration camp in 1933" degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/building-t...

From @michaelemann.bsky.social in today's @sfchronicle.com: On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency reversed its “endangerment finding," which found that greenhouse gases are a threat to human health. The latest actions will be costlier for Americans, rather than saving money.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

We're living a terrifying new reality. Trump's DHS mob are killing US citizens, kidnapping kids and terrorizing hard working immigrants - including the farm workers who feed us. Call your Senators TODAY! Tell them don't fund ICEs terror campaign! act.seiu.org/a/do_not-fun... #ICEout

“The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, triggering climate tipping points, and a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, lock the world into a new and hellish “hothouse Earth.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘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.’

NEW: 150 days of Kavanaugh stops, and it just keeps getting worse. Kavanaugh stops would always be bad. As a tool in the Trump administration's authoritarianism arsenal, they are worse. The consequences are everywhere. This evening, at Law Dork:

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)

Holy shit. So this just happened at Minneapolis's legendary First Avenue club. That's Tom Morello introducing Springsteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHe...

That cardboard box in your home is fueling election denial... A boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country. (Published 2022)

It is rather beautiful here in Oulu 🇫🇮, right now. Absolutely no filters needed at all 🤌 -20°C, wind chill -28°C. #Oulu #MeanwhileInOulu

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

Protected bike lanes = One Weird Trick to Massively Increase Cycling

In addition to the very aggressive and ostentatious shows of force by ICE elsewhere, they're escalating operations in places like San Diego and hoping no one notices, or that people are too overloaded to take action.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Thank you!

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking

As ICE terrorizes our communities, farmworkers are still feeding this country — every single day. #WeFeedYou

January 24, 2026

After 17 years, I left the EPA yesterday. I'm sad to leave my "unicorn job", but this admin won't let me work on climate change. I'll be posting at thesaraphreport.substack.com First up: the Endangerment Finding. I helped write it. I defended it. Now I'm watching them tear it down.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

“.. People take part in a rally on the day of a general strike to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's deployment of thousands of immigration enforcement officers on the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota.” @reuters.com

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.