I'm reading Original Sin and I've never been more infuriated. Biden and those around him acted with such reckless irresponsibility it's stunning. Honestly, I hope we end up with a new and viable progressive party as a result of what the Democrats have done to themselves.

When you check the Streetview of the bike route that Google Maps gave you:

Someone please explain like I am five why this is a cute flashing light that drivers are completely oblivious to rather than like, a RED LIGHT for an appropriate time for cyclists to make it through the shoulder-less tunnel and give folks riding bikes a semblance of a chance to like, survive.

It’s only a matter of time before one of these street assaults leads to a shoot out. And I’m not sure that’s not the administration’s intent

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

More data supporting the need to restrict vehicle sizes. Car bloat is killing people, plain and simple.

LA is failing to keep streets safe. Great article from @ryan-fonseca.bsky.social this morning deataling the Vision Zero audit. Spoiler alert, the streets actually got worse. www.latimes.com/california/n...

Slow down drivers with this one weird trick: Make them terrified of scratching their cars.

This photo captures an imbalance perfectly. A dense, human-scale environment where everything fits, until a midsized SUV shoves its way in, claiming space like it’s entitled to it. That’s the design failure of car-centric cities.

gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election

I hate that in California, no matter how much community input we get, how many studies we do or how many people vote yes on referenda we still aren't given the safe infra we are promised.

14-year old boy killed in apparent solo ebike crash in Chino Hills, another teen sharing the electric bicycle treated for minor injuries: bikinginla.com/2025/04/10/1... #bikeIE

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

Oh, this is gonna make the rounds. 🤡 #PenguinTariff 🐧

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

An important assertion in this statement is that the flight to Louisiana occurred on Wednesday morning. The district court ordered that she not to be moved out of Massachusetts on Tuesday.

Folks who bike commute in LA—take five minutes to complete this cool survey by a French Fulbright researcher studying the motivations for active transport in LA and SF. h/t @bikinginla.bsky.social enquetes.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/SurveyServer...

Someone asked me what to do if you see someone being snatched off the street like those students detained by ICE, and whether you should ask them to tell you their family members’ numbers or their lawyer to notify them, to try to help. It’s a noble sentiment. But… /1

Nobody hurt after man drives car into protesters outside a Florida Tesla dealership, sheriff says https://cbsn.ws/4iXpVo5

Super bummed to see the Electric Fetus have this take. I almost exclusively get there by bike or bus and really welcome the improvements to the safety of Franklin Ave users in this redesign.

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This is horrifying! Family members of some of the people sent to do hard labor in a Salvadoran prison by Trump confirm their loved ones weren't members of a gang. One woman said her brother got a tattoo of a rose in Dallas, and because of that they accused him of being a gang member.

Well that sucks

For any non-lawyers who follow me: it is impossible to overstate how far beyond the pale this is. This is the legal equivalent of asking for a cease fire, and then immediately after your opponent agrees, fire bombing an orphanage.

Side note, it was back when Musk sneeringly dismissed the idea of induced demand that I decided he probably wasn’t as clever as advertised.

A true act of resistance 🙄

Where did we go so wrong?

One reason I think it’s important to continue to highlight the disparity on our streets is that most people just don’t see it. Despite it being obvious to some, so many people don't have real clarity because we have done such an incredible job of normalizing this imbalance.

This is why you hire professionals who understand active transportation. If this had been covered, usage would have skyrocketed. Instead, a basic design flaw discourages people from parking their bikes, a predictable outcome of poor planning.

a minute can feel very long, for example the minute between when my cab driver told me all he’d had before he picked me up was a coffee and an old fashioned and then later explained it was an old fashioned donut

New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

I keep seeing bumper stickers that say "if you don't support the police, don't call them" and it's, like, yeah, why would I need to call 911 to wait 4 hours for somebody to show up and shrug and say "Your car was stolen? What do you want me to do about it?" and then shoot my dog?

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

6 of us protesting 10 cops, at least 100's of honks and waves 1 honk and wave from a Tesla driver 100% more activism than yesterday

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

The clearest evidence that people don't want to be forced to have garages in their homes is all the cars parked in driveways, on sidewalks, and on the street.

We’re not going away. Every year there will be more of us. If that bothers you, vote for quality separated bike infrastructure and we will happily get off the road.

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

OK, some lawyer, represent me. —Acct is frozen on Xitter. —As an aviator and as a writer on aviation issues, I am specifically harmed by having NTSB etc notices come only via one proprietary source. —This is like saying that flood warnings, school closings, traffic alerts only via crony media

Twitter is state media now

In a world where vehicles like this have no rational justification in urban spaces, where their hostile design poses a direct threat to human life, I fully support those that push back like this. Enough is enough.

every time

Without a functional democracy, we'll have no streets to advocate for making safe. I'm sorry folks, but if you want to bury your heads in the sand and try to continue on as usual, you're delusional. Do something, do anything that tells anyone in charge that this isn't ok.

I haven’t lived through the collapse of a civilisation before I study history so I have read the guidebooks, but they don’t quite capture the experience of being there

@carloswelch.bsky.social and I are hosting a home game tournament tomorrow at 5pm eastern on ClubWPTGold.com. You'll need 5.50 sweeps coins and password THINK to register. If you haven't yet signed up for ClubWPT Gold, sign up code THINK will enable you to play immediately, while it's still in beta.

USAID was created by an Act of Congress in 1961; it cannot legitimately be dissolved by presidential edict. Ofc how long this period of misrule will last is anyone’s guess.

This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.

grind the government to a halt stop voting for any nominees, object to every unanimous consent, do a rotating talking filibuster on the senate floor going over the transformation of the United States into Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s personal fiefdom act like what’s happening is happening