Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism

You know what can reduce pollution equal to removing a million cars from the road?

Removing a million cars from the road.

We need to kill the false substitution meme from all climate discourse. Misleading at best, a lie at worst.

Because otherwise, all those cars are still out there, polluting.

ah wow, so, equal to two months' worth of annual gas-guzzling pickup truck sales from American truckmakers

Guys this violates the first rule of climate discourse, which is:

If you're gonna compare an impact to the pollution of a half million cars, and not propose reducing the number of cars by that amount, you are a handmaiden for Ford's F150 fall sales special.

"Equal to a half million cars"

I work for a YIMBY organization and I started posting about the Fed's bad read on housing and interest rates before the FOMC even started raising rates.

I suspect your critique is in bad faith though, unless you prove me wrong.

YouTube video by NextJen E-Bikes Are Outselling Electric Cars. Here's Why

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YouTube video by NextJen E-Bikes Are Outselling Electric Cars. Here's Why

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Smart Growth and Construction Jobs: How Urban Density Benefits Union Density - Good Jobs First Smart Growth and Construction Jobs: How Urban Density Benefits Union Density - Good Jobs First

Timely new study with SB 79 sitting on Gov Newsom's desk: investments in transit and dense infill create more union jobs at higher wages than highway expansion and sprawl. goodjobsfirst.org/smart-growth...

Electric bicycles, and shared electric bicycles in particular, are a revolutionary transportation technology. Forward-looking cities should be building out the infrastructure necessary to make cycling safe and convenient for everyone who wants to do it.

This is the actual future. This is what NIMBYs are fighting against. bsky.app/profile/gbdo...

tremendously richer.

$5 trillion a year. That's how much we tithe to the car industry in the United States. And most of that are subsidies in the form of valuable urban land and dead/maimed human bodies.

I want to stop giving that money to fascists. Because I am an anti-fascist.

How about you?

... bring more economic benefits to more people than *literally anything else we can do in the United States* --

It would largely de-fund fascism.

And we could do it all without trying to pretend that we have to overthrow capitalism or free markets -- because solving cars would make us all

We walk around our cities knowing full well that they're deeply diseased with cars, and then we turn on the dissonance and get separately verklempt about fascism -- as if these are two different things.

And the most frustrating part is, solving cars in cities not only would save more lives and ...

It's that cars are the primary source of funding for fascism:

Through gasoline purchases (largest GOP donors); through electric car purchases (Elon Musk -- largest GOP donor); through car dealerships (largest state/local GOP donors); through highway subsidies (major GOP donors, and city destroyers)

Wider sidewalks, protected bike lanes, narrow car lanes, bulb-outs, speed bumps, transit-only lanes, and an end to subsidized street parking would do more to defeat fascism than anything else we could do, or are doing.

It's not just that drivers are, by far, the biggest threat to urban residents.

Why electric bikes are everywhere in Berkeley Residents of all ages and abilities are taking to electric bikes — used for commutes, school drop-offs, grocery trips and joy rides.

“The e-bike lets me keep riding bikes and spend time outside, even though I have this health condition,” she said. “I don’t think that a lot of people realize that e-bikes make things accessible to people with disabilities.” www.berkeleyside.org/2025/10/07/e...

Zohran’s citibike numbers make me feel like we need to start demanding bike share stats from our politicians in the same way we demand tax returns

wizard frog is insane

Ex-NFL QB Mark Sanchez faces felony in fight that authorities say was over parking Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez is facing a felony battery charge for what authorities say was a fight over parking.

This is just normal behavior, literally an every day thing for drivers and car culture.

I'm not joking. Violent drivers shoot people once every 18 hours in the U.S.

In American car culture, violent assault is fully acceptable. It's only weird when they get arrested. apnews.com/article/mark...

What do Mark Sanchez and Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell have in common?

Getting into fights over parking!

"Few microtransit evaluations found that programs substantially increased transit ridership."

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Imagine if a water pipe broke and the water department had to ask city council whether to fix it and then spend 12 months asking everyone on the street their opinion of how to fix it before they could start work.

That's how cities manage curbs.

It's funny to me that I'm one of the biggest e-bike defenders on this site and I don't even own an e-bike (yet).

I just see their potential to get people out of cars and I want to fight for their expansion!

some ideas

Since we can't actually abolish the Senate -- the worst government institution in history -- I'm a big fan of @clarajeffery.bsky.social's idea to just stop funding the Confederacy.

One big problem:

For this to work, gonna need a *lot* more housing in California.

start telling your friends and family now that CBS is no longer reliable, because I'm still explaining how Newsweek was hollowed out by Republican ghouls and that deal was like a decade ago

What’s amazing about this is that it’s not activists, it’s random people in the street, dudes in trucks. They know who the villain is.

I think MAGA has a bigger problem here than they realize

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Starting a thread for examples of why American fascism couldn’t have happened without car-centric planning and American suburbs.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943