The frame for 2028 and all future elections is The American People vs The Billionaires

reminder that one of the most promising emerging treatments for glioblastoma, the most lethal of all cancers, is customized MRNA vaccines, which HHS under Trump now refuses to fund: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The levels of overreach here—criminal subpoena, from a court in Texas to a hospital in New York, targeting private patient records—are outrageous and should frighten anyone in any category that the administration might choose to target.

Dems need to start publicly talking about the Guarantee Clause.

People are pretty good at figuring out the most best way to get where they are going; so policymakers should design their transit system for the mode share they want. If the train and the bus are the fastest and most convenient way to get around, people will take the train and the bus.

Democrats should ensure that voters hear this so much it haunts their dreams this fall.

lmfao

From the new website Find The Right Bike: Investing a few thousand dollars in a cargo bike to haul kids and gear may seem expensive. But it's a fraction of the cost of doing those tasks by car. chi.streetsblog.org/2026/05/07/t... @chiwho.bike @viktorkoves.com @atalliance.bsky.social

A lot of people don't seem to know this but the Genocide Convention does not require a single person to have been killed for it to have been violated.

For 45 years, Berkeley built virtually no new housing. By the mid-2010s, it was one of the most expensive college towns in America. Around that time, YIMBYs took over and kicked off a building boom. Today, rents are below 2018 levels in nominal terms—a remarkable case of progress on affordability.

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.

i think if billionaires wanted to receive more respect and deference from the population at large they wouldn't say shit like this

gotta say it’s frankly embarrassing that people who have treasures that would make a king of antiquity blush still spend all day whining about how people are too mean to them and modest tax increases are unfair

If only America could build social housing for people instead of for cars

I would love it if we had a major political party that is against defunding the public sector.

Once again, if I wanted to avoid being taxed on my pied-à-terre worth more than $5 million, I would simply avoid owning a pied-à-terre worth more than $5 million, I don’t see what’s so difficult about this

part of me believes that if every American could have a gap year in which they experience functional mass transit, including high speed trains, it would transform the way we get around in this country inside a generation

Would be great if we applied the same level of design, testing and scrutiny used for our children's car seats to the bike lanes they ride to school in.

Avant / Après la piste cyclable Quai Jacques Chirac dans le 7ème arrondissement de Paris. Le trottoir passe plus près des arbres en 2026 qu'en 1970 mais ça ne vient pas de la piste : la voie fut élargie bien avant l'apparition de la piste.

Camera-haters: I want road safety but I worry about expanding state control. Me: Put so much shit in the way that the speed limit isn't achievable & cameras become redundant. Safe streets & avoid state surveillance, police involvement, etc. Camera-haters: ... No. Extremely giving the game away.

Frankly, most people should just be honest that they oppose speed cameras because they speed often and don't want to slow down or face consequences for it. Unfortunately we have normalized speeding so much in this country that people don't even think it's wrong, let alone dangerous.

So weird how when it benefits the Dems, the entire year of an election is “too close” according to the GOP, but when it benefits the GOP, one week ahead of an election is just fine for the GOP.

The Mayor of NYC is just repeatedly showing folks how easily cities can make bold changes for our kids. Here in #Halisky these initiatives get buried in years of studies and council proceedings until someday we get more crossing guards and a road safety education program.

So you're telling me that cutting tariffs leads to lower prices? Fascinating.

The fact is that billionaires DON'T provide enough to the people who work for them. The government subsidizes billionaires through social services to workers. Tax the billionaires mercilessly.

Whoever makes the top two for the governor's race will be asked non-stop about what they will do to lower gas prices and there really isn't much they *could* do. This is going to drive me insane because the honest answer is, "this is exactly why we need to get off fossil fuels"

Atherton. In my 20-ish years searching the Chronicle archive, the only constant is that Atherton and Atherton-adjacent attorneys are at the center of every other anti-housing, anti-transit, anti-infrastructure plan. I’m incapable of surprise at that city’s history of BS. “It’s Always Atherton”

None of us alive will experience climate better than what we have now. How much worse it gets is up to us.

It's very funny to see Republicans talk about their ideas and values when it comes to redistricting, because the only reason they need to gerrymander and engage in voter suppression is *because* their policies are so deeply unpopular

“Often, the book ban argument devolves into ‘parent’s rights’ … ignoring the existence of children’s rights … This to me reveals the fundamental sick at the heart of book bans … that the role of children’s literature is to create and instill obedience, or not to exist at all.”

This Nextdoor comment is amazing. Apparently 1500 square feet is basically a prison. First time I have seen the anti-housing side claim to want a bigger project.

❤️ @theguardian.com covering nondrivers! "I only visit places that have metro systems that I can use to get around the city as a non-driver."

if i were going to run a left campaign for the democratic nomination for president i would also spend a lot of my time in black churches, fwiw

Flights of less than 350 miles should be a train ride. 🙃

"AVs almost by definition lower the friction and costs associated with driving ... And we already know, from the last century-plus of experience in the US, what happens when we make driving easier: We will get more of it. And more concrete and asphalt infrastructure to accommodate it." #UrbanTruth

Paris urban biking investment helps cut pollution in half: “Between 2005 & 2024, levels of nitrogen dioxide & fine particulate matter — 2 of the most harmful pollutants to health — have been slashed by 50% & 55%, respectively.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social Bike-lanes make better cities. #UrbanTruth

Know. That. 💯

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

Developers do not make money on empty apartments, this is the dumbest theory of housing.

Yes, Polanco is a wealthy neighborhood, but pay close attention to the sidewalks widths, the traffic calming and bollards, the wide medians with parks, the public seating, the indoor/outdoor flow, the street trees and plant boxes. Light years ahead of San Francisco. youtu.be/x8OSPMnYiUc?...

Happy to see that there seems to be consensus on Bluesky that men should let their balls stay their natural size and if one discourse takes us all to the right place, well, I guess that's better than a lot of other days lately.

My son was bored andwandering about aimlessly. I was suggesting alternatives and I made the cardinal error of saying "Do you want to go for walk?" in the presence of the dog. Guess I'm going for a walk now.

Get involved locally, act and speak in good faith, and speak the truth as you see it. The world will get better as a result of more of us doing this.

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

And frequent, reliable transit so they don’t have to spend so much of their time chauffeuring kids around!

Once more, for anyone who needs it:

Oh, wealthy property owners! My advice to you is to be content with a modest tax increase and some light vilification. There are options you will like a lot less!

Mothers invented traffic calming.

Ex congressman Jim Cooper chief of staff Lisa Quigley and data analyst david manasco👇🏽are both among those saying the new map stripping Memphis of representation actually has potentially put 4-5 TN districts within range… if Dems really turn out and vote. 👀