Brent Toderian

We are now over a month since the deadline has passed to release the Epstein files, and considering what has happened in that month...

Whatever was in those files must be REALLY bad.

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

Dense development is not the enemy of green spaces in the city; it is a prerequisite for them. And vice versa.

Fly over Berlin with Google Earth, one of the densest and greenest cities in Europe.

“There's an old-fashioned word for that. And that word is treason."

Very important proposal for bus signal priority in Vancouver by Mayoral hopeful @wazaroff.bsky.social running for @onecityvan.bsky.social. Transportation equity means prioritizing transit that’s moving a LOT more people in a lot less space. That’s ironically better for EVERYONE, including drivers.

💀 Hannity: “When did you notice Biden’s cognitive decline?”

Miller: “Probably around all the times Trump fell asleep in public and rambled about magnets getting wet.”

😂🔥

A Texas man detained by ICE was his disabled son’s sole caregiver. His son will be laid to rest without him | CNN Wael Tarabishi’s family had hoped his father and primary caretaker could be present as they say their final goodbyes to the 30-year-old at his funeral on Thursday.

Absolutely heartbreaking. The inhumanity is just too much to bear.

“There's an old-fashioned word for that. And that word is treason."

YouTube video by Science Savant The Inefficiency of Cars Explained by Bill Nye the Science Guy! #science #green #climatechange

If you haven’t seen this before, a warning, you might end up liking Bill Nye even more.

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Very important proposal for bus signal priority in Vancouver by Mayoral hopeful @wazaroff.bsky.social running for @onecityvan.bsky.social. Transportation equity means prioritizing transit that’s moving a LOT more people in a lot less space. That’s ironically better for EVERYONE, including drivers.

ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

Handling of Pretti investigation has some prosecutors on verge of quitting Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis, deeply frustrated by the response to the shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, have suggested they could resign en masse.

Handling of Pretti investigation has some prosecutors on verge of quitting. Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis, frustrated by the response to the shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, have suggested they could resign en masse. #ICEoffOurStreets
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Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

The Danger of Turning Americans into Enemies In Minnesota, "Trump has redefined dissent not as a civic act, but as an enemy force," writes Andrew Weinstein.

I’ve written a lot about democracy, but this may be the most important post I’ve shared here. It’s about the moment when political rhetoric stops being careless and becomes dangerous — when leaders start calling their own people “enemies.”

That moment is now.

Move over Kanye

This is why we can start building “car light” homes and n’hoods.

A massive crowd has gathered at UCLA as demonstrators protest against the nationwide ICE raids.

Thousands of students at UCLA have walked out in solidarity with Minnesotans protesting ICE and the killing of Alex Pretti, joining a growing wave of student activism against federal immigration enforcement.

www.foxla.com/video/fmc-27...

The Killing of Alex Pretti Put Democracy Back on the Ballot Minneapolis has convinced Democrats that the election can’t just be about affordability.

NEW: "But there’s now an emerging belief among Democrats that voters can be pissed off and motivated by two things at once—namely, the cost of living and Trump’s blatant disregard for the Constitution."

Yes, voters can walk and chew gum at the same time.

www.thebulwark.com/p/alex-prett...

National Guard deployments cost taxpayers almost half a billion dollars A new estimate from Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper tallied up last year’s expenses.

Trump’s deployment of National Guard and active-duty Marine personnel to U.S. cities cost us tax payers approximately $496 million between June and December last year.

Imagine the actual good that $$ could cover? Healthcare anyone?

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4. Should Europe continue financing the excessive US budget deficit by buying US treasuries? No!
5. Should Europe continue buying overpriced, obsolete & inadequate US arms for political reasons? No!
6. Can Europe trust any US guarantees under Trump? No! /3

For decades, the US has benefited enormously, because we all trusted the US as the benevolent hegemon, but idiot Trump has ended that trust. Then the many questions arise from Europe:
1. Should we accept the dominance of poisonous US social networks? No! Laws are needed! /1

YouTube video by Penalosa_G Brent Toderian • Density vs Nature in Cities? No More False Choices

WATCH: When @penalosag.bsky.social asked me a few years ago to join him in his YouTube series on parks & cities, I knew I wanted to talk about the common (and frustrating) false choice between more density and more integration of nature into cities. So we went deep into that. Give it a watch/share.

It is almost like cutting down/calming car trafic is more efficient solution then self-driving cars

I began living car-free as a month-to-month experiment over eighteen years ago. Feel free to ask me questions about it.

This is the way. I took a media literacy course my freshman year of college as a lark and it turned out to be the best and most important class I ever took.

Cartoon of Phone showing the murder of Alex Pretti, with the caption of the Orwell quote “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Believe your eyes, not the lies.

Via @adamzyglis.bsky.social

Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she?

'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.'

From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)

YouTube video by Science Savant The Inefficiency of Cars Explained by Bill Nye the Science Guy! #science #green #climatechange

If you haven’t seen this before, a warning, you might end up liking Bill Nye even more.

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It’s just nuts to me that senior DOJ officials are on social media all day shitposting and trolling. The unprofessionalism and psychosis is unfathomable to anyone who has ever worked for any DOJ agency - especially the posts about pending investigations and prosecutions.

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."