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transit planner • multimodal advocate • it is “couldn’t care less” • views mine

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robmolou @robmolou.bsky.social · Nov 7

I made a map imagining a light rail system in Louisville utilizing existing rail lines in the style of Harry Beck who drafted the revolutionary transit map of the London Underground.

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robmolou @robmolou.bsky.social · 1d

One day I will leave professional planning to pursue unprofessional planning and that will most likely look like the above.

robmolou @robmolou.bsky.social · 1d

Every now and then I am reminded that my first contribution to the urban fabric of Louisville was this putt-putt course at Lydia House which cost $57.00

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robmolou @robmolou.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t disagree! Living here let me tour in a band for ten years which I probably couldn’t have done elsewhere! I am certain that’s not the case for everyone who has left though but I’m sure most cities have folks who experience the same thing.

robmolou @robmolou.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve known a lot of people over the years who were desperate to get away, only to find other cities didn’t have what they needed socially or were too expensive so they grudgingly came back.

I guess I’d say I want Louisville to be a city people don’t want to leave 🤷‍♂️

robmolou @robmolou.bsky.social · 7d

That last sentence always seemed a little melancholy to me, but I’ve never moved away since I came in 1993 so maybe I’m reading too much into it.

robmolou @robmolou.bsky.social · 7d

Jim James (depressingly) nailed it.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 7d

Shameless promo: My intro to The Louisville Anthology adds a little more fuel to that fire, too. (Now on sale for just $15!) www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...

The Louisville Anthology

A book that looks to stir emotions. It holds a lot of anger.--LEO Weekly. Part of Belt's City Anthology Series.What is Louisville's identity in the twenty-first century? Is it the southernmost midwest...

www.arcadiapublishing.com

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robmolou @robmolou.bsky.social · 7d

This map unfortunately provides no clarity for Louisvillians arguing over whether we’re in the Midwest or South.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 8d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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robmolou @robmolou.bsky.social · 7d

My issue is that this map shows us on the boundary of Midwest and South, so basically the same argument we’ve had locally for ages.

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robmolou @robmolou.bsky.social · 8d

Have you added condensed milk yet

robmolou @robmolou.bsky.social · 8d

This provides zero clarity for Louisvillians.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16d

A disgrace.

Border Patrol “commander” on who gets detained in Chicago.

“‘Then, obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you?’ he said to the reporter, a middle-aged man of Anglo descent.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’

U.S. Border Patrol agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of inti...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Sean Willis @allhopeissean.bsky.social · 22d

New TARC network dropped: ridetarc.org/newtarcnetwo...

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 25d

He 'is actually a bad advertisement for a politics of 'discourse' and “engagement,” because he suggests that it involves being weak in our confrontations with white supremacy and genocide." www.currentaffairs.org/news/as-the-...

As The Far Right Rises, Don’t Be Ezra Klein

You can be committed to dialogue without pretending the right are reasonable and while aggressively challenging their views.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25d

something something political violence

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25d

Ingraham: A Democrat congressional candidate was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent. Good work

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28d

"I encourage everyone at home to use any avenue possible to reach out to your representatives ... and to the Israeli government to stop this senseless killing."

“Single Shots to the Head”: U.S. Veteran, Volunteer Surgeon Sees “Extermination of a People” in Gaza

As Israel continues its full-fledged military ground invasion of Gaza City, Democracy Now! speaks with Kathleen Gallagher, a U.S. military veteran and general surgeon currently volunteering in Gaza, w...

www.democracynow.org

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robmolou @robmolou.bsky.social · 28d

D has Sicily as well

robmolou @robmolou.bsky.social · 29d

That’s not Zach Galifianakis??

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Sep 15

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

MANKATO, Minnesota (AP) - Charlie Kirk stood 80 miles from where George Floyd was murdered, faced an overwhelmingly white audience, and declared he was going to say things "no one dares say out loud."
What followed was an avalanche of aspersions and debunked claims about Floyd, the Black man whose death at the hands of a
Minneapolis police officer set off a global reckoning over racial injustice and broad calls for change. But the white conservative agitator had a counter view: Floyd was a "scumbag," he said, unworthy of the attention.

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robmolou @robmolou.bsky.social · Sep 15

I got this as a wedding gift and use it all the time because I French press coffee too. The hold temp function is great if you’re doing multiple things while making tea.

Look at this product I found on google.com share.google/a4k2Y2LgAjUe...

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robmolou @robmolou.bsky.social · Sep 15

Electric kettle is easier than a microwave and if you ever add in honey you can pour them at the same time and it mixes perfectly.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · Sep 13

And if something happened to this guy tomorrow a bunch of centrist pundits would say "I don't agree with all of his ideas, but open and honest debate is a good thing so his loss is deeply felt" bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 13

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Sep 12

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · Sep 11

NEW: Investigators say the Evergreen High School shooter was "radicalized by some extreme, extremist network" and appeared to be "on a mission" to kill classmates. www.9news.com/article/news...

www.9news.com

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