JR Mayer
@jrmayer.bsky.social
Starry-eyed realist, anti-racist, transportation policy wonk, Mom to 2 boys, wife to an amazing woman.
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This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.
Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.
That’s what we have to change.
That’s what we have to change.
January 28, 2026 at 7:59 PM
This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
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WE NEED TO KNOW HOW MANY ICE AGENTS ARE PARDONED JAN 6ERS
@ericswalwell.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social
That should be Demanded by DEMOCRATS before any funding is given.
@ericswalwell.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social
That should be Demanded by DEMOCRATS before any funding is given.
January 27, 2026 at 8:10 PM
WE NEED TO KNOW HOW MANY ICE AGENTS ARE PARDONED JAN 6ERS
@ericswalwell.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social
That should be Demanded by DEMOCRATS before any funding is given.
@ericswalwell.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social
That should be Demanded by DEMOCRATS before any funding is given.
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Incidentally, this line is going into all @prospect.org stories on this topic from this point forward:
"Immigration agents have shot to death at least 5 and wounded 9 more in shootings nationwide during their extended terror campaign, while causing at least 32 others to die in detention camps."
"Immigration agents have shot to death at least 5 and wounded 9 more in shootings nationwide during their extended terror campaign, while causing at least 32 others to die in detention camps."
One person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving Border Patrol in Arizona
The individual is in custody and receiving care, according to law enforcement.
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Incidentally, this line is going into all @prospect.org stories on this topic from this point forward:
"Immigration agents have shot to death at least 5 and wounded 9 more in shootings nationwide during their extended terror campaign, while causing at least 32 others to die in detention camps."
"Immigration agents have shot to death at least 5 and wounded 9 more in shootings nationwide during their extended terror campaign, while causing at least 32 others to die in detention camps."
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i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
January 27, 2026 at 3:15 PM
i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
Anybody well informed about the King County Conservation District supervisor candidates? Do any of them seem better for urbanism or social justice? @brittneybush.bsky.social @theurbanist.org @finchfrii.bsky.social kingcd.org/about/board-...
KCD Supervisor Elections and Appointments : King Conservation District
King Conservation District is led by an all-volunteer, five-member board of supervisors. Board members contribute local perspectives on important natural resource management topics.
kingcd.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Anybody well informed about the King County Conservation District supervisor candidates? Do any of them seem better for urbanism or social justice? @brittneybush.bsky.social @theurbanist.org @finchfrii.bsky.social kingcd.org/about/board-...
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Each mayor has to pedestrianize one street for every point scored by the opposing team.
I just want both teams’ urbanist mayors @wutrain.bsky.social & @mayorofseattle.bsky.social to make some sort of sweet transit oriented bet on the Super Bowl. Winner gets a lifetime CharlieCard or ORCA Card?
I’m not the biggest sports fan but it would be nice if the Seahawks could give Mayor Wilson a Super Bowl win right out of the gate.
January 26, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Each mayor has to pedestrianize one street for every point scored by the opposing team.
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Emily Lowan
Jim Pattison, BC grocer billionaire, owns a US warehouse that will soon be an ICE facility. Let’s crank up the boycott pressure on Pattison and organize for a real tax on these ghouls. This is a stark reminder of how the billionaire class aids and abets fascist forces.
Jim Pattison, BC grocer billionaire, owns a US warehouse that will soon be an ICE facility. Let’s crank up the boycott pressure on Pattison and organize for a real tax on these ghouls. This is a stark reminder of how the billionaire class aids and abets fascist forces.
January 25, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Emily Lowan
Jim Pattison, BC grocer billionaire, owns a US warehouse that will soon be an ICE facility. Let’s crank up the boycott pressure on Pattison and organize for a real tax on these ghouls. This is a stark reminder of how the billionaire class aids and abets fascist forces.
Jim Pattison, BC grocer billionaire, owns a US warehouse that will soon be an ICE facility. Let’s crank up the boycott pressure on Pattison and organize for a real tax on these ghouls. This is a stark reminder of how the billionaire class aids and abets fascist forces.
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This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
January 24, 2026 at 6:22 PM
This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
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This is the way. Any 2028 Dem candidates need to start saying that on Day One: (1) all ICE agents fired; (2) pensions/benefits defunded; (3) forced to pay backpay as restitution to victims; and (4) only way to avoid prison is to become a cooperating informant
Maybe instead of identifying specific ICE agents who do particularly heinous things, we could just penalize everyone who was on payroll at the agency starting by a certain date.
January 24, 2026 at 3:21 AM
This is the way. Any 2028 Dem candidates need to start saying that on Day One: (1) all ICE agents fired; (2) pensions/benefits defunded; (3) forced to pay backpay as restitution to victims; and (4) only way to avoid prison is to become a cooperating informant
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ICE agents need to know that there is no statute of limitations for murder.
And murder is a state crime.
And he eventually throws everyone under the bus and will not protect you in the long run.
You have a choice. Resign now before it’s too late and encourage your colleagues to do the same.
And murder is a state crime.
And he eventually throws everyone under the bus and will not protect you in the long run.
You have a choice. Resign now before it’s too late and encourage your colleagues to do the same.
January 24, 2026 at 8:49 PM
ICE agents need to know that there is no statute of limitations for murder.
And murder is a state crime.
And he eventually throws everyone under the bus and will not protect you in the long run.
You have a choice. Resign now before it’s too late and encourage your colleagues to do the same.
And murder is a state crime.
And he eventually throws everyone under the bus and will not protect you in the long run.
You have a choice. Resign now before it’s too late and encourage your colleagues to do the same.
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i’d like to think i’m this good of a person but in reality i’d probably be all “tell kristi, i want her to know it was me”
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
www.startribune.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:16 AM
i’d like to think i’m this good of a person but in reality i’d probably be all “tell kristi, i want her to know it was me”
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ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
January 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
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“We didn’t do all that because we are heroes and saviors. We did it because we understand the meaning of our faith: that we are all connected. We join together. We are a part of a people, a body of humanity that is made in the image of a loving and beautiful God that wants all God’s children free.”
Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
January 23, 2026 at 2:58 PM
“We didn’t do all that because we are heroes and saviors. We did it because we understand the meaning of our faith: that we are all connected. We join together. We are a part of a people, a body of humanity that is made in the image of a loving and beautiful God that wants all God’s children free.”
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Reps Tarra Simmons and Shaun Scott have introduced a bill in the WA State Legislature that would prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies from hiring individuals who were previously employed as sworn officers with ICE on or after Jan 20, 2025.
This is called an idea whose time has arrived.
This is called an idea whose time has arrived.
January 23, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Reps Tarra Simmons and Shaun Scott have introduced a bill in the WA State Legislature that would prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies from hiring individuals who were previously employed as sworn officers with ICE on or after Jan 20, 2025.
This is called an idea whose time has arrived.
This is called an idea whose time has arrived.
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Since 2020, electricity prices have increased by an average of 40 percent across the country. But the rise in costs hasn’t affected each type of user equally.
An unusual disconnect is emerging between what regular people pay — and what data centers pay. https://wapo.st/49A1v25
An unusual disconnect is emerging between what regular people pay — and what data centers pay. https://wapo.st/49A1v25
January 22, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Since 2020, electricity prices have increased by an average of 40 percent across the country. But the rise in costs hasn’t affected each type of user equally.
An unusual disconnect is emerging between what regular people pay — and what data centers pay. https://wapo.st/49A1v25
An unusual disconnect is emerging between what regular people pay — and what data centers pay. https://wapo.st/49A1v25
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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
January 17, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
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Look at this absolute queen
January 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Look at this absolute queen
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I sincerely will never forget the first time I saw “clash between police and protesters,” after watching law abiding people, who’d followed every direction given, attacked with tear gas and violence. Then watched fry cooks and student teachers called “paid agitators.”
January 15, 2026 at 7:43 PM
I sincerely will never forget the first time I saw “clash between police and protesters,” after watching law abiding people, who’d followed every direction given, attacked with tear gas and violence. Then watched fry cooks and student teachers called “paid agitators.”
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NEW: Seattle City Council Member Eddie Lin wants Mayor Wilson to delay implementation of surveillance expansion so the City can revisit decision in wake of ICE terror. He suggests possibly redirecting funds to immigrant resources. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...
Seattle Council Member Eddie Lin Suggests Redirecting Surveillance Tech Funding To Immigrant Resources
As ICE’s reign of terror returns to headlines, activists demand bold and urgent action from City Hall’s new progressive bloc, including a reversal of a recent expansion to the Seattle Police Departmen...
www.theburnerseattle.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:56 PM
NEW: Seattle City Council Member Eddie Lin wants Mayor Wilson to delay implementation of surveillance expansion so the City can revisit decision in wake of ICE terror. He suggests possibly redirecting funds to immigrant resources. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...
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MN can toll stats of limitations when feds obstruct justice. MN did it for COVID. Courts upheld for the I-35W bridge. This bill pauses the clock on claims against federal agents until accountability is possible—no new liability, just preserved rights. I drafted a bill for you, @governorwalz.mn.gov .
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 AM
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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
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Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
January 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
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This is a death threat
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 3:29 PM
This is a death threat