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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀

@aceckhouse.bsky.social

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Sixplex enthusiast. Redwood irredentist. Lake Merritt booster. Erstwhile Prince of Prosciutto. Cities are for people not cars. California is not full. he etc

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 4m

as it happens, I have

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 6h

thanks Max : )

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

this man's name is written in the book of life

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 11h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 13h

transit oriented development in *New York*?? kind of an out there idea, don't you think? : )

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 13h

it's truly sad

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 14h

more & more you are hearing people say it: Yes In My Back Yard

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 14h

current mood 😎

www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXC...

Stevie Wonder- Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours

YouTube video by faithk123

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 16h

are there any mobile home parks still in Oakland?

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 23h

there's great greenway potential under there it they could unblock it

ragged edged oval crop of a map of Long Beach, centered diagonally on the old rail right of way that could become a greenway connecting light rail in the NW to Colorado Lagoon and Alamitos Bay in the SE

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 23h

truly it would be nothing else

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 23h

wild parcel, Long Beach

a diagonal slash breaks the Long Beach street grid, filled by two looooooooong rows of warehouses

it runs from one major arterial to another across three blocks of mostly high lot coverage low rise apartments

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 1d

heartbreaking

map of a section of Long Beach where you can see the ghost of an old diagonal rail right of way in a series of parks and orphan diagonal streets

connecting a potential greenway street to a public park is blocked by 5 houses built on the old diagonal rail right of way

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 1d

when it actually *is* a write off

a man in a brown coat is standing in front of a door with a sign on it that says cashing .

ALT: a man in a brown coat is standing in front of a door with a sign on it that says cashing .

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 1d

posting, too, can be a triumph of the human creative spirit

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 1d

I would really like if American Jewish institutions acted like they see this as a problem!

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

This is how Trumpism squares the circle of using antisemitic tropes against bad rootless diaspora Jews while also claiming to be acting to protect Jews. They, the Christian nationalists, get to decide who is a Jew and who is therefore deserving of protection. Jews as symbols of Christian politics.

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 1d

the Spotlight seems to be getting NIMBYer & NIMBYer

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alex block @alexblock.bsky.social · 1d

“I live my life without a transit schedule, and I like it.”

That’s a great, succinct statement about the benefits of frequent service.

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 1d

The #1 piece of advice that TransLink's CEO offers other North American transit agencies:

Provide frequent service

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 2d

these look like they would meet the Oakland standards for being inset

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 2d

(same PD that showed up with a dozen+ squad cars to break up East Bay Bike Party)

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 2d

Walnut Creek

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 2d

Contra Costa

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 2d

they view all bikes/bicyclists with contempt

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 2d

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!

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 3d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

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

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 2d

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

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