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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 5h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 1h

Chat do we think using a cable lock to secure to a flexi post is a good way to lock our ebike?

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 1h

Pink dots say a third bike rack is coming soon (all three will be reoriented at an angle).

They really do listen to suggestions! Submit bike rack requests here: bikeparking-chicago.hub.arcgis.com

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Damon Holtz @hrderbyswing.bsky.social · 9h

Looks so serene and post-apocalyptic at the same time.

Chicago, IL

Taken from Indiana Dunes State Park

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 2h

An event remarkable for its low death toll and extremely high injury toll.

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Viktor Köves @viktorkoves.com · 7h

Now that I'm on Amtrak home, it's time for another urbanism thread - this time, on New York City! I'll cover biking, walking, and transit. 🧵

First, walkability - NYC is great to walk, and @jeffspeck.bsky.social's work basically explains why - it's fun, comfortable, and has lots of things to see!

Several people walking through a crosswalk in New York City, with a restaurant on the other side

A night time view down a New York City streets, showing four or five different businesses

A New York City street corner with an angled building with patio, along wine and liquor neon sign on the left side

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 6h

It says right there if they requested funds for something and Congress declined to appropriate it, that they can't use this transfer method.

Congress definitely declined to appropriate the regular monthly payroll for active duty troops.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 7h

Well the claim in this post (which was not made by Miller or Vance) was that the DoD "is allowed" to transfer this money but reading the statute it sounds like they aren't.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 7h

Because of the ADA, freedom of movement is guaranteed for all. Unlike in backwards Europe where they don't have any laws.

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Municipal Shutdown @nikhunder.com · 25d

ADA is Chicago's passion

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 7h

I want to see the use of force guideline that allows you to kneel on the neck of an unarmed minor like that.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 8h

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 7h

When I end up in this situation I just think to myself "wow I have to sit in this padded chair in this climate controlled room, with easy access to food and drink, and the entire world's knowledge in my pocket. Woe is me."

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 7h

What's the unforeseen military need?

Was this money not requested from Congress and not (yet) appropriated?

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 8h

“Is the Earth Flat or Round? Depends on the Narrator.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 17h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 9h

Here in America we like to fill the sidewalk with poles, like an obstacle course.

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 10h

Right-on-red is also a consequence of the fact that in NA we overuse the most inflexible and dumb types of control for intersection, i.e. non-actuated traffic lights and all-way stops, because the road engineering profession is terrible at designing intersections and at circulation planning.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 9h

It’s a pretty modern design! So I would be surprised

Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 11h

I actually meant that it makes all *new* stations accessible (present tense)

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 12h

Maybe not even waiting that long...

Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 12h

I just emailed the city. As I was watching a little kid, ran down the hill and went straight into the cable.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 12h

lol the Chicago one (which is required by law) shows like a total of 7 people and listed their former commissioner for 12-18 months after she was replaced.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 12h

Lawsuit waiting to happen

Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 12h

On the right out of frame is a dirt pump track.

The city just installed a practically invisible cable where generations of kids have run and biked up and down.

This is hostile infrastructure

Posts and a wire across an area of grass and hills

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clara @clararaubertas.net · 12h

Local bar

Chalkboard sidewalk sign: ICE in our cocktails NOT in our streets!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

This is the thing. Republicans blocked a standalone Dem bill in the House to pay the troops because they thought it would weaken their ability to just get Dems to fold on the clean CR.

Thom Weaver @thomweaver24.bsky.social · 12h

That sound you just heard is Johnson and Thune loudly shitting themselves. He just completely eliminated their leverage

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.

“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”

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Doug @doug.city · 12h

The standard—and not totally incorrect—narrative is that the US basically abandoned transit after WWII, but there was a real revival underway in the 1970s that stalled out by the mid-1980s as the political winds shifted. Things have improved since, but we've never fully recovered that ambition.

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 12h

UMTA R&D spend from 1972-1989. The amounts in the 1980s appear to be overstated as a lot of those projects were commissioned in the 1970s and were finishing up. Dollars are not adjusted for inflation.

New spend by the late 80s was down to $13m/yr, $3m/yr of which went into 'privatization' =>

Tables of new R&D spend between 1985-1989. Spending on research related to train and system design had been entirely zeroed out.

Table of R&D spend from 1972-1985. The wind-down begins in 1982.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 12h

Does anyone know of an intersection of this design in North America?

It would be so good on Stony Island, Western Blvd, Etc.

Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 14h

First, left turns.

There is this pseudo traffic circle design so that every left turn has (1) a dedicated lane (2) a dedicated signal and (3) no oncoming traffic.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15h

Frustration toward SCOTUS building even among Republican judges. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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