Upcoming Route 1 departures: 🙂 1 min 🙂 2 min 🙂 3 min 🙃 27 min (likely cancelled) 😡 32 min #MBTA #BusBunching

God Bless America: proceeds to name every country on the continent. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

friendly reminder that post 5 pm sunsets are officially back 🌆

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

CAL FIRE’s thoughts are with the people and firefighters in Chile as catastrophic wildfires continue to burn across central and southern regions, forcing more than 50,000 people to evacuate and killing at least 18 people. #ChileWildfires #WildfireResponse www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Almost daily protests at the New England ICE field office: fixice.org/protests1000... #ICEout docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I’ve been fascinated by the story of the 1st Minnesota since I first heard it. I wrote this to connect some dots that feel like they point in the same direction, even if they start 160 years apart. andrewowen.bandcamp.com/track/first-...

Would be an interesting time for the Catholic Church in the US to resuscitate the idea of the Vicariate of Solidarty, the department the Chilean wing of the church established to contend with Pinochet's abuses. They were critical record keepers of all that happened. elpais.com/chile/2026-0...

1/ They did it again. More ADS-B spoofing drawing images in ADS-B Exchange. x.com/TheIntelFrog...

Two Rice University freshmen created a website mapping ICE incidents ricethresher.org/article/fres...

Steam rising from the Chicago River on a cold morning

Corner of Vin Scully and Stadium Way, Dodger Stadium.

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

Half the street corners around here have people--from every walk of life, including republicans--standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.

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

If you have a 3D printer, you can now download software to print out lots of whistles, all embedded with the phone number for LUCE, the local immigrant rapid-response group. www.printables.com/model/156587...

Massachusetts stands with Minnesota Over 400 people at the New England ICE field office today demanding #ICEout now

My daughter took her first trip on public transit today without adult supervision. She and her friends went to protest against ICE abductions. Or as I am thinking about it: Using a public good for the public good.

That red eye was absolutely worth it!

This post by @pkrugman.bsky.social on "Sundowning" is worth reading. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-sundow... Agree with this conclusion:

I speak Midwestern: 🟢 “Hey man, you sure about that?” 🟡 “Take it easy, buddy” 🟠 “It’s time for you to head home my friend” 🔴 “I don’t plan to let you do that” ⚫️ [you are under the ice in a lake that will not thaw until Memorial Day]

This guide here is incredible. People in the Twin Cities have really thought this out and created an extremely robust system that people can just drop into.

ICE abducted two members of CWA Local 7304 at their workplace, New Flyer in St Cloud. Both men had come to the US from Laos legally as small children and had worked at New Flyer for over 20 years.

Dr. King prepared us for this moment. I remain calm despite the coordinated, unrelenting attacks on Black people, on Black bodies, on Black votes, on Black power, and Black progress. Because our ancestors wrote the blueprint for our survival.

Lots of coverage of the protests. Less coverage of what's being built: 771 new ICE detention beds coming online across NH and Maine. 1,600+ total in New England by year end. WBUR has the map: www.wbur.org/news/2025/12/23/immigration-detention-map-massachusetts-new-england

When people say transportation research should get "back to basics," what do they mean? 🙃 This exhibit comes to mind – on the 4th Fl of the MLK Library, just a few blocks from #TRBAM #CrossroadsConvening

More highways in cities means more pollution, more heart and lung disease, more barriers between neighborhoods, destroying housing, more maintenance obligations draining city and state treasuries, less money for the good stuff. Highways are anti-abundance. Hurts our wallets and well-being.

"Our current reality is not inevitable" @equiticity.bsky.social on what fuels HOPE in this time #CrossroadsConvening

Great discussions at #CrossroadsConvening about designing reparative research rather than perpetuating "damage-centered" research (www.harvardeducationalreview.org/content/79/3...)

"We are at a crossroads, figuratively and in reality" Do we choose disinvestment and harm or repair and renewal? @theycallmeoboi.bsky.social at #CrossroadsConvening

📢 Just under 90 minutes until we gather at CBP headquarters to demand ICE Out For Good. Please join us if you’re in the DMV.

The Conveyal team is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with EBP to collaborate on access to opportunities analysis, scenario planning, and decision support for metropolitan planning and development. Stay tuned for more news this week! See our tinyurl.com/conveyal-newsletter and blog:

Having read a lot on the history of border patrol and ICE, killing of citizens and immigrants has been all too familiar on the border for many years.

Thinking of my time in El Chorillo for no reason at all today...

"If the United States can depose Maduro, Cuba could edge closer to collapse. For Rubio, that would be a transcendent victory... The real reason is that Venezuela is a stepping stone toward the grand prize: Cuba." From Nov 6: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/opinion/trump-venezuela-maduro-invasion/

Today is the anniversary of the capture of Noreiga in Operation Just Cause.

I remember the real-time discourse about how this, and later the Mission Accomplished speech, were powerful moments that would live forever. Now people only cite them to make fun of them and warn about repeating them.

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

ME: I’m going to take this time between Christmas and New Year’s to just relax and do nothing. ME: (drums fingers) (15 minutes pass) (drums fingers) ME: (assigns self enormous amount of work to do)

Let that grumpy pious St John go from house to house if he so wishes

joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

In particular, the new through-intermodal from LA to NYC will bypass Chicago entirely via KC and the former Wabash, promising to free up the NS Chicago Line for Amtrak

Like the suburban developments named after whatever natural feature was destroyed to build them

The CTA told me traffic keeps wasting bus operator time so I asked how many bus operators they have and they said they just go to the job fair and get a new operator afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding bus operators to traffic and then bus riders started crying.

The more you study old US transit plans the more you realize that ~everyone was rightfully fixated on travel time savings, noting times right on the map. Philly did a particularly impressive analysis with isochrones in *1914* babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hv...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Upper Midwest is looking solid right now