Liz Alpert

Happy Birthday, Doug!

“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

Snort

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "He's a wartime president. He's the head of a war party. War on women. War on voting rights. War on Hispanics. A war on this state. War on institutions. Now he wants war on history."

Honored and humbled; thank you!

Paris 15 Minute City graphics

Paris 15 Minute City graphics

Another reminder that “15-Minute Cities” isn’t a new idea. It’s skilled packaging of an idea that’s been around for a LONG time.

It’s been called “city of short distances.” I used to call it “The Power of Nearness.” MANY names.

More things close by. Less car dependency. More CHOICE.

Common sense.

Yes, we warned about all of it last year. Every last detail, every policy. Watched every rally speech, every interview, every campaign video. Posted thousands of clips about it all. Most completely or largely ignored by legacy media.

And yes, it is going to get much worse.

This is not in the bill. Just a total lie.

Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

Happy Easter to all who are celebrating today.

This season of renewal invites us all to believe in the triumph of light over darkness, life over death, love over hate.

Just captured the most amazing rainbow I have ever seen!

I grew up near Alton. So glad to see an effort to revitalize this downtown that has needed it for years and has so much potential.

Vienna street filled with vehicles in 2018…

Vienna street now with people and green in 2020

Some of the best before-and-after transformations of streets & places come from Vienna, a city that shows that even when you’re already one of the best cities in the world, you can constantly keep getting better by rethinking space for cars. Pics via former Deputy Mayor @birgithebein.bsky.social.

Scary is right.

Fascism is here.

The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich.

🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Images of Dutch urban biking infrastructure

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

I'm looking forward to catching up LIVE with Stephen Colbert tonight. Feels like there will be plenty to discuss!

Tune in to the Late Show at 11:35 pm ET.

An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

📖 Biographer Franklin Foer wrote that President Joe Biden was the West’s father figure, guiding world leaders against authoritarianism with calm and clarity. "He was a man for his age.”

History will rightly remember Biden as the leader who held the free world together.

Full page ad in today’s New York Times:

Imagine FDR telling Churchill he wasn’t thankful enough
for the lend-lease act. Imagine FDR defending Hitler
while berating Churchill
in the Oval Office. That’s exactly the equivalent of
what happened yesterday.

🧵 “Hey there, Josh Weil here -- the Dem nominee running in the critical Florida special election on April 1st.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 215 (𝗗) 𝘁𝗼 216 (𝗥). 𝗜𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀. 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲….
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this week's cover is on point

ht: @jamiegangel.bsky.social

Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid.

So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.

LOL! Me too!