Amazon Web Service incidents means I cannot sign on to CANVAS where my studio activity today is located.

I can't wait to see this article! It's been too long, Jason. I think last time I saw you was somewhere in a rainy natl forest in VA? 😂

@jttnncdcmd.bsky.social Well then I have to get you back on pronto. I am growing my hair out and have been poofing it up more, though I see it was sadly a little flat that morning.

As an MIT MCP Alum - I signed this. Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

Ever wanted to find out about #Quakerism in Kansas City without attending a Meeting for Worship? Come to the Penn Valley Friends Meeting, World #Quaker Day Open House October 5, 11:30am - 2pm. #FWCC We are located at the corner of Charlotte and Gillham in the South Hyde Park neighborhood.

The Queer and Trans Interest Group of ACSP is sponsoring our Queer Fireside Chat with Dr. Kevin Guyan on October 9 Noon CDT. Come hear about his new book The Rainbow Trap. Now approved for AICP CM credits! forms.gle/tqpy7phVUfR6... to get the Zoom link.

#UMKC Urban Planning + Design students talk about transit and housing in #KC! thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025...

Vita passed away yesterday...

This is a very useful graphic on what scholars need to think about in the United States today. What is to be done? How to keep a career going at what cost? From the Anti-Autocracy Handbook p. 12 h/t Ladd Keith

Highly recommend my fellow American scholars read the new Anti-Autocracy Handbook on this 4th of July, a "call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism." zenodo.org/records/1...

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice is coming out this fall. Look for my chapter "LGBTQ Inclusive Urban Design"

Alito's opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor is poisonous homophobia that gives parents a de facto right to ban books in public school classrooms. It's violently stigmatizing toward LGBTQ families and filled with lies and bigotry. Every justice who joined it should be ashamed. slate.com/news-and-pol...

For your Juneteenth reading pleasure. Here’s why 2025 is the Summer of Marsha P. Johnson for me. time.com/7295713/how-...

I just found out you can play the younger me in a theatre project that recreates an ACT UP NY Meeting from March 1989. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/t....

One last post about KC LGBTQIA Pride Fest. I did not see any #UMKC presence there. The university did not participate from what I can see. In the past - LGBTQIA programs had a booth.

3. At the Quaker table at KC LGBTQIA Pride Fest, I met folks from central Kansas that were happy to see a Quaker presence. Most Quakers in Kansas affiliate with Mid-America Yearly Meeting which is not LGBTQIA welcoming. Thus, I think this was a successful out Queer Quaker experience.

2. I only knew 2 songs that I heard from the stage: a badly off-key version of Chappell Roan's "Pink Pony Club" and Charli XCX's "I Love It" which made everyone dance. In my time at Pride Fest I did not hear "You Make Me Feel Mighty Real" or any Ten City songs.

Signs that I am an older cis-gnder gay man that sat at the Quaker outreach table at KC LGBTQIA Pride Fest: 1) It was so loouddd. and this was just in the afternoon.

Stop by KC Pride Fest Saturday afternoon, I'll be at the Penn Valley Friends Meeting booth. #Pride #Quaker #KansasCity

This thread is essential reading on #science and public health policy. Thank you Gregg!

Fascinating post on how payroll taxes in French metropolitan areas provided the funding for French cities to reverse the ridership declines of the 1960s & pave the way for system expansion & high ridership in most cities today.

#KCMSA #BistateCorridor #NorthLoop Close the Loop proposal: info.umkc.edu/63rd-st-stud...

North Loop proposals: Transit Hub as Linear Park info.umkc.edu/63rd-st-stud...

Transit hub proposal. #KC #MARC #NorthLoop

Student work on a North Loop Transit Hub is available on the studio website: info.umkc.edu/63rd-st-stud... An analysis of past value increases Downtown - the potential for value capture. #KC #TOD #NorthLoop

I think my colleague Drew Bergerson gives us a lot to think about (in a nice digestible chunk) in terms of today's politics. The key is that we have more agency than we acknowlege even if our choices have risky outcomes..... www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ-u...

#kcmsa Community population growth since 2020 in terms of net change. 1. KCMO 2. Olathe 3. OP KS 4. Lees Summit 5. Raymore 6. Gardner 7. Shawnee 8. Spring Hill 9. Lenexa 10. Belton

KC MO allows you to look at the drawings of proposed developments as they are filed with the city. 39th and Broadway is a significant corner in Midtown KC. To its credit, the city (KC MO) is also asking for more fenestration.

here's the Broadway side - a little better - at least there's some fenestration. 39th and Broadway #KCMO

Pink Walls for the SE corner of Broadway and 39th? Revive dayclub proposal #KCMO

Call it by its name. This is state terror.

Days later, Trump has revealed the full scope of the scheme: Summary deportations of U.S. citizens to a Salvadoran prison where they have no constitutional rights or hope of return. If SCOTUS doesn't stand up for Abrego Garcia now, it will effectively approve this plan. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Porch life...

#AcademicSky, #Urbanism+, #LGBTQIA+

QTIG Call for Pre-Organized #ACSP 2025 Minneapolis Paper Sessions and Roundtables Academics in Urban #Planning and Allied Fields! Abstracts for the 2025 ACSP Conference are due April 1. Suggested topics: resistance to #LGBTQIA erasure in urban planning, and/or Queer and Trans migration to safety.

Calling this "anti-DEI" is so misleading as if it's just going after some office or some narrow program, and the media keep falling for it. This is about destroying the nation's affordable housing infrastructure, in large part because it's the stuff liberals do.

I listened to this so you need not to: Ross Douthat "The Anti-D.E.I. Crusader Who Wants to Dismantle the Department of Education" Rufo wants to put all univerisities into an extreme financial crunch to punish them for their liberalism.

An MPO committee I'm on is updating a #transportation #plan. The MPO has to remove Federally determined "problematic" terms and phrases. I said I have to be on record as opposing this as a matter of conscience. In #Quaker terms - your yes should be yes, and your inclusion should be inclusion.

John Eck starting the evening...

Pascale Sablan "I was asked to stand" at #umkc #lindahalllibrary architecture lecture

Appalling. They are still cutting PEPFAR - a program started by President GW Bush that saves thousands of people's lives.

Gutting transportation planning research.... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The point of excluding categories of people from the military like this is to send the message that they are unworthy of citizenship, it is pure bigotry and the assumptions behind it are disproven by the honorable service of the people being targeted in the first place bsky.app/profile/bran...

This is outrageous.

Urban Planning academics #ACSP, Queer and Trans Interest Group #QTIG Queer Office Hours are happening on Thursday Feb 27th 4pm Central time. Contact me or another board member for Zoom link.

Filtration politics and urban growth... www.yellowbrickurban.com/popular-arti...