Mike

Guess which one of these vehicles has a motor that prevents it from going too fast for the safety of others?

Struggling Downtowns Are Looking to Lure New Crowds Traditional business districts in cities like Chicago and Portland are still waiting for office workers to return. Can younger residents and families fill the gap?

if you want more families living downtown - cities need to legalize mid-rise single stair buildings

this is literally 90% of urban multifamily housing outside the US and canada

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Better is still a win. 😎 maybe someday Parks will let kids eat and play in the same place.

Hot dog fans rn, legalize in parks too pls

never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

friend and I had drinks with her cousin and his 7yo kid in Marseille and he brought us to this pedestrian square that's basically lots of terraces with a playground in the middle so the adults can do lunch/drinks/dinner while keeping an eye on their playing kids and......why is this not everywhere

Ted Wheeler created PEMO by emergency order to sidestep then city council and extended that order to embed the Metro Chamber and Neighborhood Associations in the new form of government. It's time to dismantle this group.

Good 🧵

Will the same be true of Portland’s next council election?

I wish cities in the US didn't hate houseless people so much that they won't increase the amount of urban public space.

Our infrastructure is crumbling, Social Security won't be there for my generation, public services are being criminally defunded, damage is being done to the nation via gleeful, open looting that will take a generation reverse, but TV has got y'all arguing about 4 trans girls who wanna play soccer.

O ciclista mais fraco do país do futebol

SF condo owners are suing themselves onto a mortgage blacklist Builders are liable for defects in new construction projects in California, but a system built around litigation has choked development and stalled sales.

Condo defect liability is *very* wonky but we absolutely need to fix it to make urban homeownership available to middle-class people.

If we don't get this right, ~all the new apartments will continue to be rentals and the only new starter homes for ownership will be in exurban sprawl.

I didn’t realize that the Mamdani platform already included School Streets as opt-out rather than opt-in 👍 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Move Over, Training Wheels: There’s a Better Way to Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike The six bike experts we talked to all agree: The balance bike method is the best way to teach a kid to ride a bike.

If you’ve ever struggled to learn to ride a bike, try ditching the pedals and focusing on balance first. It’s a simple trick that works for kids—and adults too! 🤓🚲

Here’s a handy guide to get you started: www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

good zoning (Spokane's middle housing code is probably best in the country) + good permitting = good housing production

Street full of parked cars in Bordeaux France, Google photo from 2008.

Same location in Bordeaux photo taken by me in 2023.

Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.

I know too many very worthy candidates but just submitted my nomination.

An amazing jump in density, yet @pbotinfo.bsky.social still insists on curb parking everywhere.

This whole dynamic is completely broken. Ad hoc upzones are release valve on the incoherent general beliefs around density.

Apartments should be legal everywhere. That's the real battle and the litmus test for being pro-housing.

Until we pass a nationwide ban on gerrymandering (which we need), Democrats should gerrymander every state to the fullest extent. 52-0 in CA, 17-0 in IL, and so on. No more unilateral disarmament. Time to get serious about fighting back.

Unions reduce sexism.

This is a distraction.

When are they going to release the Epstein report? You know, the one with the names of all the rich pedophiles? That supported human trafficking and abused girls?

A real sausage party

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles WASHINGTON—Despite the president’s sagging approval rating overall, a Gallup Poll released Tuesday confirmed that Donald Trump’s support remained overwhelmingly strong among working-class American ped...

@theonion.com always on point.

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we desperately need more mainstream cultural movements for climate action

And, U.S. cities could learn a lot from what Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social has done too. Great piece by @adamtranter.bsky.social

My 2 fave insights Adam highlights:

The car symbolizes masculinity.
#Health is the most persuasive argument for #lesscar

#transportation #cities #ClimateInfluence

Greater Toronto got its Greenbelt in 2005. It took 20 years for the City of Toronto to partially legalize sixplexes.

I think, if you want a greenbelt, you need to legalize substantial density *first*.

Not just sixplexes. Single-stair mid-rises everywhere (high-rises around all subway stations).

What if the same oligarchs ruining American politics didn’t own all the media?