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America’s plan to protect pedestrians failed. A young woman’s death reveals why. U.S. officials adopted Europe's Vision Zero initiative, but many cities have seen an increase in pedestrian fatalities despite efforts to improve road safety.

What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

@seangallagher.bsky.social has written a great piece full of helpful advice on how to think through and compile comps reading lists.

We should be working towards free, expanded, and accessible public transportation coupled with making driving harder.

Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.

Cell phones have ruined so much. Especially the concert going experience.

WA has set Vehicle Miles Travelled reduction goals. To achieve that two things need to happen:
1. Transit/ safe ped access must have priority
2. Driving, parking, cost of gas, insurance all must be a little bit worse (harder, slower, more expensive)

Mode shift can’t be all carrot and no stick.

People were gaining a language, sense of history and set of conceptual tools that delegitimised both white supremacy *and the wider systems of capitalism and colonialism-imperialism* that it's bound up with.

The 2020 racial reckoning threatened the legitimacy of *the entire social order*.

This holiday season, I'm passing the hat A plea for sustained support.

In all seriousness, I am working on new podcast project that I hope to launch in the new year, and need your help to get it rolling. Your paid sub helps me stay afloat and gives me the scratch to pay a producer & work on other cool things that I simply haven't been able to afford taking the time for

WHAT STARBUCKS WILL PAY FOR:

✅A swanky office with all the fixings so CEO Brian Niccol can chill near his home in Newport Beach
❌Investing in workers with fair pay, hours, & protections in a union contract that would cost LESS THAN 1 DAY OF SALES

We just want to chat, Brian... #NoContractNoCoffee

The Creation of America's Car Culture Podcast Episode · The War on Cars · 11/11/2025 · 30m

This recent episode from @thewaroncars.bsky.social is a great little primer on the history of manufactured car dependency.

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To the Fresno person that piled their trash in the bike lane: may you have the Monday you deserve.

Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.

Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

I am absolutely over the moon that my book “The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP” is officially published TODAY!

After years of hard work, I am incredibly proud. Thank you to everyone who has made this possible 📚🐘🗃️

@uscpress.bsky.social

Always repost Paul Robeson singing I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night to Scottish coal miners.

A two-year LABOR HISTORY postdoc @brownhist.bsky.social and @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social

Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor

Please apply!

This is terrible. Ursinus College (where my partner works) spent last year planning a reorganization (they’re creating multidisciplinary “hubs”) only for its administration to announce layoffs this semester. I hope this isn’t in the cards for those working at Montclair State

This is correct.

On top of state and local police complicity with ICE, many communities on the receiving end of decades of over-policing aren't necessarily thrilled to invite local police into the situation.

ICE's terror campaign echoes the militarized "War on Drugs" that terrorized generations.

Counterpoint: Find your local ICE watch group, save their number, and call them. Better yet, volunteer yourself, hit the streets, and patrol.

We have seen far too many examples of police departments protecting ICE, even departments that have policies of not helping ICE.

The police and ICE are on the same side, guys.

Organize and call your neighbors, not agents of the state.

Judge Rules Trump Can’t Cut UC Funding — but UC Leaders Are Still Negotiating a Settlement While faculty and students won a federal ruling that Trump can’t cut UC funding, UC leaders are still negotiating a settlement.

Judge Rules Trump Can’t Cut UC Funding — but UC Leaders Are Still Negotiating a Settlement

Nationwide, faculty and students fight against Trump’s assault on higher education — and administrators capitulate. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/u...

Had the opportunity to speak with Charlene Mires, one of the editors of the "Greater Philadelphia" three-volume set for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

UNIONIZED STARBUCKS WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE AS OF THIS MORNING @sbworkersunited.org

Don't cross the picket line

Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike 🪶

DON'T BE A SCAB! DON'T BUY STARBUCKS!

fin.

"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."

A quote from Q on Star Trek: The Next Generation really sums up the current moment and the need for more political imagination and courage:

As we're facing literal fascism, as our neighbors are being kidnapped by state secret police in front of us, as our institutions are burning, we require political imagination and courage. Not an appeal to the status quo.