Michele Reeves
@rethinkplaces.bsky.social
Misc musings of urban strategist…land use, retail, transpo, lighting(!), placemaking, real estate development, and people… with a few random acts of photography thrown in! (Finally making the move from Twitter… starting from scratch again!) views=my own
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Thanksgiving Eve Tater Tot Hotdish. Still got some MN in me.
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Thanksgiving Eve Tater Tot Hotdish. Still got some MN in me.
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I’m running out of words to describe this Administration.
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I’m running out of words to describe this Administration.
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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I don't think we're going to have a successful Amazon boycott till we break their monopoly on indie books.
They have a clever strategy to build their monopoly, which any functional government would have banned: if you want your indie book listed in Kindle Unlimited, you have to be exclusive. 🧵
They have a clever strategy to build their monopoly, which any functional government would have banned: if you want your indie book listed in Kindle Unlimited, you have to be exclusive. 🧵
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I don't think we're going to have a successful Amazon boycott till we break their monopoly on indie books.
They have a clever strategy to build their monopoly, which any functional government would have banned: if you want your indie book listed in Kindle Unlimited, you have to be exclusive. 🧵
They have a clever strategy to build their monopoly, which any functional government would have banned: if you want your indie book listed in Kindle Unlimited, you have to be exclusive. 🧵
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The OG Simon's Cat film!
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The OG Simon's Cat film!
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
OH at Duluth coffee shop downtown:
Woman 1: “OH MY GOD, did you walk here?”
Woman 2: “Yah, I did, but I shouldn’t have…it was really slick.”
If you are a snow city and you train people to NOT walk downtown 5 months out of year, they won’t walk downtown 12 months of the year. #snowmanagement
Woman 1: “OH MY GOD, did you walk here?”
Woman 2: “Yah, I did, but I shouldn’t have…it was really slick.”
If you are a snow city and you train people to NOT walk downtown 5 months out of year, they won’t walk downtown 12 months of the year. #snowmanagement
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
OH at Duluth coffee shop downtown:
Woman 1: “OH MY GOD, did you walk here?”
Woman 2: “Yah, I did, but I shouldn’t have…it was really slick.”
If you are a snow city and you train people to NOT walk downtown 5 months out of year, they won’t walk downtown 12 months of the year. #snowmanagement
Woman 1: “OH MY GOD, did you walk here?”
Woman 2: “Yah, I did, but I shouldn’t have…it was really slick.”
If you are a snow city and you train people to NOT walk downtown 5 months out of year, they won’t walk downtown 12 months of the year. #snowmanagement
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In my downtown revitalization work, I get a lot of … “b/c weather” excuses.
We need to require awnings b/c rain, people can’t walk downtown in winter b/c snow, we have to have our storefront windows tinted pitch black so downtown looks like Mordor b/c sun, we can’t sit outside b/c too hot/cold…
We need to require awnings b/c rain, people can’t walk downtown in winter b/c snow, we have to have our storefront windows tinted pitch black so downtown looks like Mordor b/c sun, we can’t sit outside b/c too hot/cold…
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
In my downtown revitalization work, I get a lot of … “b/c weather” excuses.
We need to require awnings b/c rain, people can’t walk downtown in winter b/c snow, we have to have our storefront windows tinted pitch black so downtown looks like Mordor b/c sun, we can’t sit outside b/c too hot/cold…
We need to require awnings b/c rain, people can’t walk downtown in winter b/c snow, we have to have our storefront windows tinted pitch black so downtown looks like Mordor b/c sun, we can’t sit outside b/c too hot/cold…
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Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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“WASHINGTON—Citing that a majority of Americans are irresponsible, easily distracted people who have little regard for other human beings, a new Dept of Transportation report revealed that it’s ‘actually kind of crazy’ that U.S. citizens are allowed to drive automobiles.”
The Onion strikes again.
The Onion strikes again.
Report: It Pretty Incredible That Americans Entrusted With Driving Cars
WASHINGTON—Citing that a majority of Americans are irresponsible, easily distracted people who have little regard for other human beings, a new Department of Transportation report revealed Wednesday t...
theonion.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“WASHINGTON—Citing that a majority of Americans are irresponsible, easily distracted people who have little regard for other human beings, a new Dept of Transportation report revealed that it’s ‘actually kind of crazy’ that U.S. citizens are allowed to drive automobiles.”
The Onion strikes again.
The Onion strikes again.
6 pm and 10:30 pm!
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
6 pm and 10:30 pm!
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This is how butterflies see the flowers.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This is how butterflies see the flowers.
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Unbelievable.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Unbelievable.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
In my downtown revitalization work, I get a lot of … “b/c weather” excuses.
We need to require awnings b/c rain, people can’t walk downtown in winter b/c snow, we have to have our storefront windows tinted pitch black so downtown looks like Mordor b/c sun, we can’t sit outside b/c too hot/cold…
We need to require awnings b/c rain, people can’t walk downtown in winter b/c snow, we have to have our storefront windows tinted pitch black so downtown looks like Mordor b/c sun, we can’t sit outside b/c too hot/cold…
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
In my downtown revitalization work, I get a lot of … “b/c weather” excuses.
We need to require awnings b/c rain, people can’t walk downtown in winter b/c snow, we have to have our storefront windows tinted pitch black so downtown looks like Mordor b/c sun, we can’t sit outside b/c too hot/cold…
We need to require awnings b/c rain, people can’t walk downtown in winter b/c snow, we have to have our storefront windows tinted pitch black so downtown looks like Mordor b/c sun, we can’t sit outside b/c too hot/cold…
iOS 26 call screening makes unknown numbers leave name and why they are calling… would that help?
pretty sick and tired of constantly getting Social Security scam calls the past two weeks. Somehow the dam burst and I'm on some list again
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
iOS 26 call screening makes unknown numbers leave name and why they are calling… would that help?
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Every single women I know has their own sexual assault story and/or knows another woman who has been assaulted
But none of the men know a man who has ever assaulted a woman
But none of the men know a man who has ever assaulted a woman
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Every single women I know has their own sexual assault story and/or knows another woman who has been assaulted
But none of the men know a man who has ever assaulted a woman
But none of the men know a man who has ever assaulted a woman
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Women being attracted to RFK Jr is how you know heterosexuality is NOT a choice.
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Haha! Delightful.
I was like, why did I gain hundreds of followers, and then I saw this
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Haha! Delightful.
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If a local police department assists ICE in kidnapping people, are they eventually going to be held criminally liable too? Accountability must happen. We can't bend the knee to fascism and police who assist are as culpable a anyone else.
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If a local police department assists ICE in kidnapping people, are they eventually going to be held criminally liable too? Accountability must happen. We can't bend the knee to fascism and police who assist are as culpable a anyone else.
OMG, that would be a dream.
I'm SO in!
1. Ellison runs Paramount into the ground
2. Paramount files for bankruptcy
3. We all pool our money to buy Star Trek
4. Run it as a co-op
5. I finally get to live the dream and make Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2
2. Paramount files for bankruptcy
3. We all pool our money to buy Star Trek
4. Run it as a co-op
5. I finally get to live the dream and make Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
OMG, that would be a dream.
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And with that, we’re at just about the end of US soft power in Europe good job everyone
President Macron rebuked the U.S. peace blueprint and urged Europe to act independently on the roughly €140 billion of russian state assets frozen in Euroclear.
www.politico.eu/article/emma...
www.politico.eu/article/emma...
Macron: Europeans alone ‘must decide’ on Russian frozen assets
The French president praised Washington for seeking peace, just not this peace.
www.politico.eu
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
And with that, we’re at just about the end of US soft power in Europe good job everyone
That’s interesting.
FYI:
All Flock camera images in Washington State are now subject to the state Public Records Act
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
All Flock camera images in Washington State are now subject to the state Public Records Act
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
20251106 Ruling 25-2-00717-29 CITY OF SEDRO WOOLLEY et al vs JOSE RODRIGUEZ
www.documentcloud.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
That’s interesting.
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Hot damn, this is the good stuff
By capturing how taxable property wealth is shielded from redistributive taxation by local boundaries, we also identify specific jurisdictions—what we term “municipal tax havens” & “fiscal deserts”—where per capita property wealth is many times greater or less than their respective metro averages.
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Hot damn, this is the good stuff
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The energy transition happens often in unlikely places at unprecedented rates.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The energy transition happens often in unlikely places at unprecedented rates.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.