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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 19h

I've lived in Birmingham six years. In that time, so far two cyclists have been killed directly along my short commute.

Here's wishing big lawsuits on the people who have the power to prevent these results but prefer car owner convenience instead.

Birmingham by Bike - Change & Continuity along the Commute

YouTube video by John Munro - University of Birmingham

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 18h

An increasingly important plus of pedestrianization is how it will make the crimes of coward kidnappers much more difficult to carry out.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 18h

My pleasure, Lucy. You covered so much, and covered it so well!

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 18h

I am. And I'm excited to see who they'll stand. I'll also put some thought into people I know who might go for it!

John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 19h

I've lived in Birmingham six years. In that time, so far two cyclists have been killed directly along my short commute.

Here's wishing big lawsuits on the people who have the power to prevent these results but prefer car owner convenience instead.

Birmingham by Bike - Change & Continuity along the Commute

YouTube video by John Munro - University of Birmingham

www.youtube.com

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 22h

If someone running for office owns a Dodge Charger and drives it in a city, that's all you really need to know.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22h

Lower income New Yorkers are more likely to ride the bus s. Also the house he used to live in before he split with Sandra Lee is worth 1.8 million dollars (third link) and had five bedrooms and six bathrooms and at 5,000 sqft meets the historical definition of a mansion

.
@ZohranKMamdani
’s “plan” provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while
@ZohranKMamdani
the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham.bsky.social · 22h

In 1776, a Scottish housepainter called James Aitken set out on a secret mission to destroy the British navy and win the War of Independence for the United States. His story is the core of my book, EMPIRE ABLAZE: The American Revolution and the Atlantic Working Class, out next summer with Verso!

The cover of "Empire Ablaze: The American Revolution and the Atlantic Working Class," which features an image of an eighteenth-century building on fire, with small sailing boats visible on a river in the foreground.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 22h

Why not? A Trump Peace Prize, and he can win it every year.

Wouldn't be any more ridiculous than these people already are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

NEWSMAX: What do you think? Trump wins the Nobel Prize next year?

SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: That's the hope. Certainly he deserves it work the work he's already done. Who knows -- maybe he needs a lifetime achievement award.

NEWSMAX: Maybe we need to create the Trump Peace Prize

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 22h

Just caught up with this excellent @brumhour.com conversation between @roifield.bsky.social and @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org's own @lucycaldicott.bsky.social.

As this positive discussion makes clear, we can have more mobility choices that improve our city for more of us.

Birmingham Midweek With Roifield Brown And Guest Lucy Caldicott (08/10/2025)

www.mixcloud.com

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 1d

What an antidote @zackpolanski.bsky.social is Reform/Tory/Labour's shared commitment to inequality.

Things really can be better.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Lets make different political choices says Zack Polanski.

Like taxing billionaires instead of blaming poor people.

#bbcqt

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 1d

If only our government saw this as anywhere near as important as clogging our streets with more and more Land Rovers.

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile. the UK Labour Party had two chances to vote to support a ceasefire motion when it could have made a difference.

The first time they outright voted for genocide. The second time they colluded with the Speaker to dodge the vote.

Eternal disgrace indeed.

Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 1d

Biden could have forced Netanyahu to accept a much better deal for everyone on Gaza at a moment when genocide could have been prevented, and he did not, and it is to his, Blinken’s, and many other Democrat’s eternal disgrace that they never viewed Palestinians as worthy of saving from annihilation.

Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 1d

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 1d

Trump deserves no credit for this ceasefire - even in a backhanded way. He could have stopped the war this entire past year. If you have to thank someone - and there is little to be thankful for given the ruins of Gaza - please thank the global protest movement.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 1d

For Labour to take up this very reasonable suggestion might mean putting forward figures who say the kinds of things @zackpolanski.bsky.social says, which would go against what Labour's donors want, so it won't happen. As with the US Democrats.

Best to accept now that Labour is a lost cause.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 1d

Southeast Classroom Block. Mortified not to have instant recall!

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 1d

Stumped! (and prepared to be embarrassed)....

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 2d

A definition of "anyone" a great many planners and road engineers go by, it seems.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 2d

For those unfamiliar with what it's like to ride a bike on Hagley Road, here's one view:

Birmingham by Bike - Democratizing Hagley Road

YouTube video by John Munro - University of Birmingham

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 2d

Hagley Road's current design is an announcement that if you don't own a car in Birmimgham, you deserve neither safety nor dignity as you move around your city.

But some changes are planned that acknowledge that car owners aren't the only ones who might use this corridor.

Have your say here:

Hagley Road

Have your say around improving transport on Hagley Road.

hagleyroad.commonplace.is

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 2d

Pedestrianize ICE streets!

Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 2d

This is what Democratic mayors should be doing to the streets in front of ICE facilities. Can't have a facility if no one can bring a car into it!

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 2d

That we share this planet with people brave enough to join an unarmed flotilla attempting to get aid into Gaza but also with cowards as craven as these guys is really something of a wonder to behold.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 2d

For those wanting more information about who the police deem worthy of an escort in this city.....

Kings Heath United Against Racism @khuar.bsky.social · 3d

Birmingham 'Raise the Flags' founder was at Solihull asylum hotels protest

The businessmen behind a Raise the Colours organisation have come under fire from anti racists concerned about the 'divisive' role of the flags now lining city streets

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

would you like to live multi-modally?

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 3d

20 seconds guaranteed to brighten your day - even if you live in a city where leaders refuse to take any steps in such an egalitarian direction.

Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 3d

It's impressive how quickly Paris has transformed car-dominant roads, prioritising more efficient modes of transportation. One lane for drivers on the right side, made to wallow in their own stop-and-start inefficiency, two giant lanes for bikes.

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