Donald Trump's self-serving massive fireworks display on July 4 may cause the worst air pollution and public health disaster in Washington DC history, especially when combined with the extreme heat wave. Stay indoors, stay away, wear an N95 mask (you still have them, right, because of Covid?).

DOT is looking for feedback on the proposed Bergen/Dean bike boulevards. Please submit via the portal. Folks are already freaking out and going to extremes about them, so we need cooler heads to offer support and constructive input so we can make 2 of the busiest streets for bikes in the city safer.

fuck ezra klein

"These massive horsepower figures [are] an absolute engineering necessity, designed to mask the vehicle’s incredible overall weight. Automakers are using extreme electric thrust to hide the fact that drivers are essentially piloting rolling bank vaults."

One year ago today, I woke up to find my dear dear nine-year-old dog Holly had died in her sleep with absolutely no warning. It was one of the worst days of my life and I still haven't fully recovered. Haven't been able to get another dog because of travel commitments for work. The hole is so big.

I am personally obsessed with Pondless (@itspondless on IG and TikTok), and so I interviewed him! I love my job!

Really I am having trouble believing this is happening

This is the future Big Oil built for us. Fossil fuel companies knew decades ago that their products would drive increasingly severe and frequent heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires, but lied to protect their own profits at the expense of public health and safety. The public deserves accountability.

ICE releases a Texas nun intercepted walking to church dressed in her habit

Every trip that occurs by bike instead of a car is a win for the planet. Full stop. Can a bike always replace a car? No, and no one is claiming it can.

Composition A XXI, by László Moholy-Nagy, 1925, 📸 by Eakin Howard

And when a bus with 60 passengers has to wait 90 seconds at a light before it can turn onto an arterial road, it means that a driver alone in a car one mile away gets priority over 60 people who have already arrived at the corner.

One calculation that blew my mind: When I push a pedestrian beg button to cross an arterial road w/ 40 mph spd limit. Wait of 90 sec means a car 1 mile away gets to priority to clear the intersection before I am allowed to cross the road. I am standing roadside breathing particulates

Been talking about this theme a lot with folks recently: The current administration has robbed us of what should have been an amazing year for a beautiful and wholesome sort of patriotism Celebrating our 250th with the world watching us during the World Cup could have been magnificently special

A loud and painful reminder that COLLEGE-EDUCATED Black women bore the BRUNT of job loss last year cc @epi.org.

Let him cook

This is the USA we are fighting for.

one more term will fix it. just one more term bro

A cracking interview with @ianloader.bsky.social on the latest @thewaroncars.bsky.social in which Ian's work on rethinking the criminal consequences for drivers who harm people. Lots to challenge your existing thinking in this one. bsky.app/profile/thew...

Theyve mobilized faster against this than anything in the past 10 years and to me that pretty much says it all and justifies what so many have said about them collectively for anyone willing to pay attention

evergreen

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thread that is too accurate for my taste

terrifying stuff

might want to look up the definition of detente

Last Year At Marienbad/This Month At The State Fair

Many people are saying

literally

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Hmmm. Arterials might be noisy and that could impact people lively there. Interesting. Interesting. Sure hope we don't have an Official Plan to put more density on arterials than on nearby Neighbourhood streets.

he really worked on this line but i don't think it hit

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and this isn't just some random evil racist congressman. he's the majority whip, the third most powerful member of the house! this *is* the party.

"We are issuing a death sentence to so many who call this country home," says city councilor Ruthzee Louijeune who is Haitian American

Hey NYC friends, I'm going to be in a fun show tonight at the Upright Citizens Brigade on 14th Street. Come by and check it out! ucbcomedy.com/show/not-in-...

Just spotted this very nice explainer on why carbon capture and storage isn't going to fix things. Just stop setting fire to stuff projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.

The bill is coming due all over the world. And we are still in denial. It's really hard to watch.

epic example of car-blindness from this councillor

Kagan makes sure that Trump’s gutter racism — and the majority hand-waiving it away — gets into the record.

narratives drive change just like they can stop it loss of a child > loss of parking

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Yet another Doug Ford blunder. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/24/n...

That's attempted murder

"Car culture and motonormativity are so entrenched, it's too late for information and incentives to make the difference. 'Hard' measures are needed if we want to get serious about reducing car harms." - Absolutely.

on a lighter note

The people in Families for Safe Streets are so brave. They are dedicated to the idea that other people shouldn't have to lose loved ones to a completely PREVENTABLE cause of death, traffic violence. Amazing how threatening that is to car advocates.

Good morning to everyone who thinks the people who move into these new attached houses might feel more "connected" if they didn't have to risk their lives crossing the road to the bus stop for the 12 minute ride to Shady Grove Metro.

Really hoping someone files a FOIA into this and gets some investigatory material, because there is not a single shred of doubt that her post is protected free speech under the First Amendment and agents SHOULD know that. She literally identified the source of her information as a newspaper!