You could not have planned this any better!

Check out the handsome fella relaxing in a hammock in one of the shots. He looks familiar.

Today we saw Oxford Street transformed: car-free, world-class, accessible and clean. Our next step is working to make this vision a reality ⤵️

Life After Cars is kicking up your feet and relaxing on a hammock in the middle of a busy city on a street that’s been closed to automobiles and opened up to people.

Always good to show not tell how delightful walkable places can be (and how they do not make the sky fall).

This was one of my favorite parts of today’s Oxford Street demonstration. The kids know what’s up. So nice that @london.gov.uk gave them a literal seat at the table to come up with their ideas for the future of this street.

My cohost and coauthor @brooklynspoke.bsky.social is living the life...the life after cars, that is...in London right this minute!

I’m checking out the @london.gov.uk one-day pedestrianization of Oxford Street. Tons of people out enjoying this space. Hoping Sadiq Khan can make it permanent!

It’s me.

“With a single post or video, we can influence thousands of guests to try a food, drink, or experience in the parks,” she says. “I couldn’t, in good conscience, keep giving them free publicity knowing they don’t support free speech and are willing to bow to fascism."

Disney adults, I owe you an apology, I wasn’t really familiar with your game.

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

I just Googled Breezewood PA for the hell of it, and that Taco Bell is now called Sultan Kabob Restaurant Breakfast Shop. If that's not a perfect encapsulation of the promise of this country, I don't know what is. maps.app.goo.gl/bLTm5s4yJ4Y7...

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

Vicious and hilarious.

What if 100% of what the person does is bad?

Biggest story in the world, told in the mainstream press perfectly well: AP/PBS headline: TRUMP'S MOVES AGAINST MEDIA OUTLETS MIRROR AUTHORITARIAN APPROACHES TO SILENCING DISSENT www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Every time a city prioritizes non-car travel, pedestrianizes thoroughfares, expands transit, improves bike networks, implements congestion pricing or creates new public spaces, that city becomes better. It’s not a war on cars. It’s an effort to make cities better & more livable.

This feels like one of those abuses of power that are just the tip of the iceberg of much larger forms of corruption. Hopefully it's something @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social can clean up.

Cruz and others all thought they could have some sort of cafeteria-style authoritarianism where they'd enjoy a little of each of the kinds of policies they like and none of the things they don't. That's never been how it works.

This is why I don't have patience for doomerism. It would be one thing if this was all happening under a popular president, but it's not. Not that it will be easy and not that it can't get worse, but if we're organized and focused we can defeat this regime.

Here comes the sun. China leading global boom in solar energy, with more capacity installed in first half of this year than in all of 2021 and 2022 combined. @canarymedia.com @danmccarthy.bsky.social www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

So are we!

"For all the concern about 'the Second Amendment, the Second Amendment,' what about all the amendments that the kids in Sandy Hook or the people at the Pulse nightclub lost?" is a statement the Right would never accept.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Thank god we had Charlie Kirk, that champion of free speech, ready to run to the barricades to take up the noble cause of... well-actuallying a beloved children's media figure on the concept of love and kindness.

it's heeeere

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

Again, had Biden said so much as "$17 trill- I mean million" it would have been news for days.

Press warned to back up as DHS police take lawmakers were taken away in zip ties, among them Comptroller Brad Lander and 10 other state reps including Bobby Carol, Marcela Mitayanes, Julia Salazar, Emily Gallagher, Jabari Brisport, Jessica Gonzalez Rojas,... story TK

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

““Every day you wake up and there's still uncertainty, if not more, and I think that's what a lot of people are feeling,” said Brian, the father of a 10-year-old trans girl in Arlington, Virginia. “It’s not easy to just up and move and get a new job. You kind of feel trapped more every day.””

One thing my time in the bikelash trenches has taught me about politics and media is that when you read a headline that says "Residents Outraged By New Bike Lane" and then click through to read the story you almost find out that the "residents" are like 17 people in a neighborhood of 30,000.

Just preordered Life After Cars audiobook from my local indie bookstore that I adore. I love supporting this small local business and the awesome folks at @thewaroncars.bsky.social

what this latest episode shows is that like all fascists before them these assholes are highly afraid of being ridiculed so therefore we should ridicule them a hell of a lot more

“When was Joe Biden president?” remains the most difficult question in politics

The thing to do here would be for Democrats to say with one voice, "How about some language in there calling for gun control measures so political figures, school kids and others stop getting shot" and then making news out of that when Republicans refuse to go for it.

Exactly this

We were on NY1 this morning to talk with @patkiernan.bsky.social and Jamie Stelter about our new book, "Life After Cars." Check it out! Thanks so much to Pat, Jamie and the entire crew for making us feel so welcome.

"In the absence of governance, or just in its place, the state has taken up a grim and shameful kind of content creation." This is outstanding. Perfectly encapsulates the moment we're in.

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Exactly. Politics in the US is no longer a debate about which policies to adopt within a liberal framework of accepted rules. It's now a blood sport and one side playing it like it's still cricket won't work

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

i have been wrong on these predictions before, but pulling kimmel off the air and ending colbert at this season are two ways to put a big and easily understood spotlight on all of this elite corruption and capitulation

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Schumer and Jeffries keep saying they need to focus on kitchen table issues like health care subsidies but "regime cancels comedian for telling joke" is right fucking there. If they can't make hay out of this they're even more useless than they've been through all of this so far.

Just like he said after Colbert's firing that Kimmel was next, here is saying Fallon and Meyers are next. Sometimes he tests the waters to see how much he can get away with before dialing it back. This is not one of those times.

They're gonna force one of the big three networks to install Greg Gutfeld in late night, right?