A fun thing about seeking out cool, independent bookstores in each of the cities we're going to on book tour is that most of them are located in equally cool neighborhoods with lots of independent businesses. An underrated way to explore a city!

"...his monomaniacal obsession on Israel." Come on. Mamdani could literally be giving out free ice cream to children or just going out for coffee and the press would ask him for his views on Israel. Mandani is not the one who is monomaniacally obsessed with this subject.

Do you think they’ll let me drive the Seattle Monorail?

As I was saying...

Under Mayor Mamdani, New York will soon skip the step of widening bike lanes and instead turn major avenues into bike streets.

I'm still amazed that it took until the year 2025 for a mayoral candidate in *New York City* to finally figure out that a relentless focus on making life better for transit riders is a winning message.

Trump said he would lower drug prices by something like 800%, a promise so mathematically ridiculous that the only way to make it work would be for drug companies to pay Americans to get their prescriptions filled.

What a night and what a venue! Thanks @townhallseattle.bsky.social @cascade.org and everyone who came to our live show with @nerd4cities.bsky.social last night. I was blown away by the turnout and the thoughtful questions from the audience. Seattle is a great town!

just finished Life After Cars and thoroughly enjoyed it. as a new (hybrid) car owner in the suburbs, reading this book is eye opening. because of how informative the book is, it allows a reader to quickly replace a selfish sense of guilt with ideas of how to improve the community. highly recommend!

as I've been sayin: the climate *is* the economy! slate.com/business/202...

Lots of love for lidding I-5 in Seattle (or just getting rid of it?) at the "Life After Cars" book event at Town Hall with @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social @nerd4cities.bsky.social. Get the book and join our fight at www.lidi5.org.

For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

What a turnout for @thewaroncars.bsky.social and @nerd4cities.bsky.social

Had fun meeting & chatting with folks from cycling, safe streets, transit, & urbanist spheres before & after attending a talk by some of my favorite car-free advocates. Got my copy of the book And yes, I biked to & from it! @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social @nerd4cities.bsky.social

Sold-out crowd for @thewaroncars.bsky.social in Seattle tonight, with more than one shoutout to New York’s mayor-elect: “This is a man who got people to talk about buses. That is a superhero thing to do.”

Sold out! Amazing to see in person.

Having good transit and good housing are winning issues

Truly one of - well, actually two of - the worst campaigns I’ve ever seen run.

Spectacular venue for our live event in Seattle with @nerd4cities.bsky.social tonight. @townhallseattle.bsky.social

I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.

"The ADL’s efforts highlight a troubling contrast between the multi-racial coalition that worked tirelessly to elect Mamdani with the people who’ve been taught to fear him. Where we see a pocket of blue sky for the first time in a year, they see an apocalypse. I don’t know how to reconcile the two."

New — I wrote about Zohran's victory, the challenge of celebrating wins in a broken world, and reconciling the competing realities of profound hope and festering fear:

We were on New Day NW on King 5 in Seattle this morning talking about LIFE AFTER CARS, bringing the message to local daytime TV viewers.

There’s a very common thing happening right now where the farther a pundit or Very Important Thinker lives from New York the more ridiculous their take on Mamdani’s victory becomes.

The Times parsed the vote using similar categories and again found that the single most determinative factor economic-like factor in the election was "commute by transit" vs "commute by car." It edged out renters vs. homeowners. There's still outstanding data but I expect these trends will hold.

We're digging into Life After Cars this Friday! Chapters 1–3. If you haven't already, get your copy at The Little Gay Shop and mark your calendars for our UAR and @safestreetsaustin.bsky.social exclusive event with the authors on December 5. See y'all real soon!

Lots of focus on Lina Khan (because yay!) but the real exciting thing is that Maria Torres-Springer is on the team. Nobody knows city government better.

Congratulations to our friends @thewaroncars.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social @naparstek.bsky.social on the publication of "Life After Cars". And thanks for including a few words of wisdom from the two of us!

If you want more democracy, you need fewer cars.

The transit riders vs drivers election.

There's gonna be daily fake AI videos of subway violence running on Fox News. I'm willing to bet they'll do a segment on NYC crime at least 3 nights a week after January 1 when they swear in Zohran.

I really think it's incumbent upon regular New Yorkers at this point to go ahead and take up the job of doing PR for their city.

Mamdani's model only works in a few places now, the most effective way for him to spread his ideas is to be a good mayor.

“You're not alone in wanting a better world, one in which cars are relegated to their proper use. Cars are tools that can be useful at certain times and places. They’re not gods. They’re not the foundation of our society. They should serve us. We should not serve them. There can be life after cars.”

i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”

As a Jewish person I’m safer in a city with Zohran Mamdani as mayor than in a country with Donald Trump as president. That some Jews are freaking out about the former and totally okay with the latter is mind-boggling.

Like yeah yeah yeah I know he’s gonna disappoint me whatever but do you know how amazing it is to hear a Democrat telling Trump fuck you, openly? Pritzker has been doing it too, but he has the energy and fearlessness to just go for it

He has declared war on Trump and made people excited about being New Yorkers. I’m already proud to live here and my god, that was the best NYC pride, don’t fuck with us speech I’ve heard in my lifetime

“To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us” amen.

Mamdani quoting Mario Cuomo but not naming him is a twist of the knife. Love it.

This an exceptionally good speech. Almost shocking to hear Mamdani go on this long after a campaign of debate quips and social media videos.

It’s not the biggest story of the night but shout out to @bradlander.bsky.social for what he did in the primary & after supporting @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Having a Jewish New Yorker stand up for & alongside with Zohran (not to mention immigrants in NYC) has been so inspiring.

"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Another note of thanks to @lindseyboylan.bsky.social who courageously spoke out against Cuomo from the beginning, through the primary, and all the way through today. A truly great New Yorker.

There are still a lot of hard times ahead, but remember this moment and what it means: We can win.

Public Utilities Commissioners are climate policymakers and we finally started acting like it

And people think Democratic Socialism is bad for the economy!

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