I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

a better way into the "male loneliness" story is that we have a whole of culture hanging out crisis which is somewhat concentrated among men but hardly exclusive to them here's one (of many) on point survey results www.americansurveycenter.org/research/the...

My politics are pretty much laser-focused on solving the loneliness epidemic

Put another way, suburbia is built to minimize all interactions with other people, including purely commercial ones, and it's getting worse over time with both the internet and the designs of newer suburbs. Is it any wonder people are lonely?

Hot take: we should actually encourage or even require hotel conversion for officially designated Historic buildings. This - improves public access to cultural resources - provides a revenue stream for preservation - weeds out bad faith segregationist landmarking efforts

“To renew democracy, we have to organize fearlessly in the face of a repressive state, despite all the reasons we have for being afraid. Every act of resistance can steel the courage of others.” Read the piece by @lfelizleon.bsky.social labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

first they came for the communists and the jews and the roma and the disabled and thank god I was a Good German who wasn't any of those people right?

NEW: A Senate report has shocking new detail on how DOGE—which is very much still active, even as government agencies deny it even exists—put Social Security at up to 65% risk of a catastrophic data breach, per agency estimates, as well as viscerally disgusting detail on its sleeping arrangements.

Love #protists? Then you'd love this! Beautiful collection of hand-drawn critters represented here at the Oxford-Japan symposium on ethological dynamics in diorama environments sites.google.com/view/oxford-... #ciliates #testateamoeba #diatoms

One reason society is so broken is that suburban life requires elevated extroversion, executive function, and planning ability to fulfill basic needs, at a time when online is rapidly degrading all of these at a population level.

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

Just watched a video about an Uzbek former nuclear scientist who left when the USSR fell and now owns a sauna and restaurant in Brooklyn, and was overcome with a vision of myself selling traditional cuisines such as fried Oreos and Frito pie in a fine city such as Cape Town or Rio someday

If bisexuality is fake then explain A&W rootbeer!

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Newsom has repeatedly tried to cut transit funding, but is now obsessed w keeping gas prices low. I guess this is Big Ass Truck Abundance?

It turns out that letting Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's book become synonymous with an urbanist movement was really terrible for everyone involved.

Since the headlines can’t be honest, I will do the work of clarifying that this article illuminates how ICE is routinely kidnapping children as a method of extortion

Lying down is low key goated when being sick is the vibe

Public developers that build mixed-income homes now develop capacity and assets to take advantage of a future Federal cash infusion. Just dumping a bunch of money on mostly inert PHAs and expecting them to have the staff, skills and structure to build and manage lots of new units is risky.

Well, here I am 3 weeks later with a bad case of COVID. Great job, RFK

This essay (by Patrick Wyman whose podcast Tides of History is also great if you like ancient to early modern history) always gets a re tootskeet, everybody read it if you have not already. Essential to understanding why Trump has power.

"Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in dozens of cities across Italy – shutting schools, disrupting trains and blocking ports and roads – in one of Europe’s largest nationwide protests against Israel’s offensive in Gaza."

I'm really glad that CAHSR is saved with guaranteed funding, but it's pretty bad that Newsom pushed for more oil drilling and to extend the life of refineries. I thought he was the climate governor?? So much for states picking up the slack from Trump on climate. calmatters.org/politics/202...

I recently rode high-speed rail in Spain from Ourense (population 1/2 of Bakersfield) to Madrid (metro population ~SF Bay Area), with stops in Zamora and Segovia (population ~Madera). I-5 truthers conception of HSR as an express between mega-cities is out of line with international best practices.

It drops off once it hits generations that were born after the establishment of the modern American suburb.

A really striking thing about the US is how it feels like everyone is constantly trying to rip you off. You have to hold constant vigilance against scam. Absolutely corrosive to social trust and a core part of our current political problems.

It's been one year since the smashing success of Caltrain electrification. We now have data showing electrification, level boarding, and through-running would cut travel time on the San Bernardino Line by 1/3. Your move, Metrolink. calelectricrail.org/electrolink-...

Deactivating for a bit because of international travel.

lowkey annoying to screenshot-respond a valid question but I really don't have a better answer than this word vomit thread I wrote back in 2023

Everyone's here! (except admin, again).

I almost feel like we need the equivalent of like a pride parade or ethnic studies or whatever for cishet white liberals because the self respect is hitting rock bottom. Have some goddamn self esteem!

MoVal mentioned. Most IE news story possible.

Yet another problem with hydrogen in transportation. Hydrogen infra prolongs the lifetime of natural gas production which is a major source of methane emissions. We don't have enough green H2 to replace real uses for fossil H2 let alone replace diesel.

SB-79 HAS PASSED THE SENATE AND IS ON ITS WAY TO THE GOVERNOR’S DESK

He was a troll and a provocateur and a celebrant of political violence. If you are left of center and believe he did politics "the right way", you should be pissing on his grave. If you condemn his murder, you are explicitly rejecting his legacy.

This is the ultimate demonstration of the pathetic liberal self-hatred that valorizes sucking up to people who want to kill you and deems conservatives the only source of authenticity and only people worthy of giving and receiving respect.

you can condemn political violence without asking me to believe that charlie kirk was just an ordinary decent pundit who believed in the liberal project--believed in pluralism, freedom, and equality. he didn't. his whole thing was that he hated those ideas and wanted to destroy them

Wish people concerned about "corruption" & inefficiency in CAHSR would direct some of this scrutiny towards CA's hydrogen gravy train. And the hydrogen boondoggle is downstream of the penny-wise, pound-foolish, "better things aren't possible" wrt capital costs attitude so many HSR detractors share.

This is bad. CA will be running a tech with lower capacity, lower speed, and more vulnerability to fuel supply chain issues on the US's second busiest rail corridor. We've written before about the negative side effects and flawed reasoning behind this purchase. calelectricrail.org/caltrans-hyd...

America must follow the lead of Portugal. Overthrow the fascists, give up your empire, git gud at making wine and building transit for cheap

Cranky old man take: it feels like people today have just totally given up on the idea of certain things being achievable only through hard work. Like either something is easy and you're a huge whiner for complaining about it or it can't be done.

🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.

"why people are mad about Abundance" in meme form to save me time in the future

First they came for the communists, and I said lol, lmao, they are so weak and incompetent.

Discourse: REITs keeping new condos empty to juice home prices Reality: mom and pop landlords keeping shitholes undeveloped and empty for dozens of years due to laziness and lack of taxes

BART probably creates a quarter trillion dollars in land value but it’s supported by nickel and diming consumers

The fact that the only way to save BART long term is to keep hiking sales taxes is such an indictment of California political economy

Riverside Rail Walking Tour with @calelectricrail.org and #IEurbanists for #SoCalTransitMonth with @movela.bsky.social. We met at the Downtown Riverside Metrolink Station and toured the station. Discussed #Metrolink, the SCORE program, and electrification on the State Rail Plan.