Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀

they view all bikes/bicyclists with contempt

Something deeply satisfying to see (grand) juries emerging as an anti-authoritarian bulwark

There’s a reason the “jury of peers” is one of the oldest, most foundational rights!

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

update: just heard from a friend that his Bay Area suburb's PD is ticketing kids on e-bikes for Bike to School Day

the issues isn’t so much whether it’s fair to treat e-bikes & mopeds as different things (sure, absolutely) as whether we can trust police to enforce the distinction without mass harassment of (non white) e-bike riders

this is another example of how the fundamentally untrustworthy behavior of American law enforcement constrains policy making

Liz Warren has always been on the housing supply side as far as I can tell

Mamdani has (with apologies) rizz tho

Sonoma is actually one of the more pro-housing corners of the state

even setting aside whatever it means for the vote on the release of the epstein files, we're at a very grim place if the republicans are straight up refusing to seat people democratically elected to congress

Disempowering NIMBYs makes for better public process, and it’s always an available choice

Who benefits from kicking people like this out of our country? Nobody

The whole community is poorer for it

These guys are often in plainclothes but at least they usually have visible badges. I did not see a single badge visible among any of these guys. They are literally indistinguishable from any random guy off the street

seems like you really oughta be able to build at least 60 units/acre

maybe even 60 ft!

google satellite view of Sausal Creek below William Wood Park in Oakland

for example, this stretch of Sausal Creek is a huge length of bike/ped obstruction

but it's anchored by an existing public park at one end, and multiple big institutional land owners at the other

and the undeveloped/green area is quite wide!

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

I have unlocked a new scrolling activity: looking on Google Maps for greenway routing opportunities along Sausal, Courtland, and Arroyo Viejo creeks

o7

Yeah defund and dismantle ICE. We can have some sort of border enforcement agency but this institution needs to be completely dismantled. No one working there should be working in government.

this is great

have you called Governor Newsom yet for SB 79?

the law protects but does not bind the president, and binds but does not protect the citizenry

cutting food aid at home & abroad, canceling cancer research & trying to limit vaccination, terrorizing immigrants & anyone walking down the street in many US cities… how differently would they govern if the affirmative goal were to maximize human suffering?

a couple of other kids & I somehow ended up with our own private math tutor for a year (or two?), but there was also the part where my mom came in to lead a group of us in reading cautionary tales about relying on the services of djinn or bottle impa

I have seen my all to real city put traffic light poles, utility poles, and utility boxes dead center in the sidewalk : /

the government should not be able to smash into your home and drag you into the street for no reason. it's kind of a core civil right, perhaps THE core civil right.

well he’s the Deputy White House Chief of Staff

Phee is one of the 5 or so best players in the league

a republic, if we can keep it 🇺🇸

Headed to China for a month with my partner in November (Beijing, Guizhou, and points in between)

what destinations/sites/experience there do people recommend from an urbanist angle? (and also for eating)