Bourbon Planning, AICP

🧵 (1/4) On Transit Equity Day I want to make sure we're telling a fuller story of the fight for justice and better transit. 100 years before Rosa Parks, there was Elizabeth Jennings Graham and months before Rosa, there was Claudette Colvin.

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

No, Democrats want ICE (and CBP) ABOLISHED, their thugs jailed, their camps and rendition centers shut down, all their prisoners freed, and their bosses in this administration impeached and removed from office.
No half-measures. No bullshit. No quarter for fascists in the United States of America.

Jokes aside, I think another thing Democrats need to do is start vocally explaining how presidential immunity will not protect any contractor that offers to demolish public buildings at the president’s behest, and it will certainly guarantee they never see a government contract again.

He’s going to tear down the Kennedy Center. The entire building. He tore down half the White House and no one stopped him; now he’s doing this. It’s annoying how many people are pretending they don’t understand this is what he’s openly saying he’s going to do.

So PSA: you can request an MMR vaccine for your baby as early as six months! The caveats: you’ll have to repeat it, because at this age immunity won’t last forever. And insurance might not cover it. Ours did, but we were quoted $120 for the cash price if it didn’t.

ah yes, Shreveport aka Haliffax. A well-known Canadian winter cruise destination. As is the landlocked Victoria, Ohio

#PlowSidewalksToo

Are any politicians running on a platform of finally banning teargas? Like, that shit is banned for use in warfare but it seems like everyone is okay with it being lobbed at citizens on a regular basis.

ICE Out for Good On January 23, people across the country are taking action in solidarity with Minnesota to demand ICE out of our communities. Join the day of action.

Minnesota organizers want us to help turn up the heat on the state's biggest regime-friendly corporations. Contact Target, Hilton, Enterprise, Home Depot, and Delta Airlines to demand they take action to get ICE out of our communities FOR GOOD.

On 10 weekends Feb-June, free shuttles replace trains at Crystal City station and others (including Reagan National Airport on select dates) to support construction of a 2nd entrance + track work.

*UPDATE: On 3 wknds, Potomac Yard will be included in the closures. Info: wmata.com/about/news/C...

Fifty unhinged things that would be scandals under any other administration happening in the time it takes me to get inadequate sleep should be as unsustainable for the monsters as it is for my psyche.

My favourite way of saying “we’re on it” or “we’ll take care of that for you” is the Dutch we zullen dat varkentje wel even wassen. It means “we will certainly get that piglet washed.”

It’s a little crazy to call this a bathroom ban bill when the bigger thing it does it revokes gender designation changes made legally to birth certificates and drivers licenses, and forces trans people to revert them. For birth certificates: yes, even if they’ve fled to a different state or country

Feeling very STOP CARRYING OUT YOUR INTENTIONS towards a lot of people right now. But also NO MEANING

Do one of the things that makes you feel better, because if you aren't doing any of that, you will run down. Today I did some writing. I'm a writer, & if I don't write, I run down. It's very easy for me to forget this, despite decades of knowing it. And so I am here to remind you to do your things.

Quote w 5 jobs you've had:
(Yes, volunteering and internships too)

1. Library assistant (x2)
2. Summer youth program teacher
3. AmeriCorps VISTA (ran tutoring at family homeless shelters)
4. Maple syrup maker & gardens coordinator
5. Urban planner (x3)

This is nothing. ICE and DHS need to be outright abolished. Call Schumer's offices and make it known.

I suspect folks are really overestimating how much existing office space is currently being converted to residential (or soon will be) and latest U.S. office market report from Avison Young bears that out.

Those projects get headlines, but still a tiny share of existing stock.

The amount of money the US government spent on troops in DC in 2025 ($223m) would have been enough to give the city's ~5,100 homeless residents each $43,000. Instead, federal troops destroyed their meager encampments.

"DCers please stay out of the road, use the sidewalks."

Hey @ddotdc.bsky.social, can you explain physically how we're expected to take your advice? Please be specific.

No child should live in detainment. No child is illegal. A country that jails children must be stopped.

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Agreed. I don’t want to have National Guard hanging out on my street corner. I want them gone. #freeDC
(But if they’re already there why can’t they grab a damn shovel & clear the huge icy drifts that elderly folks and people with strollers or wheelchairs are struggling through)

I am glad some politicians are finally, FINALLY, refusing to fund ICE and some talking about abolition.

But where is the screaming, where are the strong words, where is the horror and the remedy for the detention centers? There is no excuse. Free everyone, shut down, then investigate and prosecute.

Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.

www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

I feel like better messaging is they have created a secret police that grabs people off the street and they have done nothing to make your life better. But I’m just some middle aged white lady.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

I love every single thing about this.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.