Travis R. Eby
@travis-robert.bsky.social
NYC / Tear down urban highways / Language lover: EN FR IT PL RU AR DE ES / 🏳️🌈
Now that there’s a congestion charge to enter Lower Manhattan, Downtown Brooklyn has unequivocally taken the crown as the traffic clusterfuck of the city - desperately need a separate congestion zone here.
January 17, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Now that there’s a congestion charge to enter Lower Manhattan, Downtown Brooklyn has unequivocally taken the crown as the traffic clusterfuck of the city - desperately need a separate congestion zone here.
The weekend @mta continues to be a complete shitshow. A dreaded 2-transfer trip for me today. Either major planned work/suspension or a major delay on all 3 lines. Slow zones. Escalators down everywhere. The payoff for all these purported upgrades needs to fucking happen faster, I’m done waiting.
January 17, 2026 at 6:32 PM
The weekend @mta continues to be a complete shitshow. A dreaded 2-transfer trip for me today. Either major planned work/suspension or a major delay on all 3 lines. Slow zones. Escalators down everywhere. The payoff for all these purported upgrades needs to fucking happen faster, I’m done waiting.
You know - shit happens (it happens far too often in this system, alas) - but what really gets my goat is how fucking slow they are to update status
January 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM
You know - shit happens (it happens far too often in this system, alas) - but what really gets my goat is how fucking slow they are to update status
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Peter Yazzie, a Navajo man, was asked by ICE agents to prove he was a US citizen. He produced both US and Navajo IDs. They didn't care. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
January 17, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Peter Yazzie, a Navajo man, was asked by ICE agents to prove he was a US citizen. He produced both US and Navajo IDs. They didn't care. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
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This is bad. Like Reconstruction Era bad. www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
DOJ investigating Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over alleged conspiracy to impede immigration agents
Federal prosecutors are investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly impeding immigration agents, sources told CBS News, an extraordinary escalation in the Trum...
www.cbsnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:06 PM
This is bad. Like Reconstruction Era bad. www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
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New: After Renee Nicole Good was killed by an ICE agent, right-wingers attacked and mocked her sexuality, motherhood, and politics. Other protesters are being told to "learn" from her death. @parkermolloy.com reports on this aggressive smear campaign: www.wired.com/story/the-ca...
The Campaign to Destroy Renee Good
After an ICE agent shot and killed the Minneapolis mother, conservative media launched an all-out attack on her reputation. Her identity as a queer woman was central to it.
www.wired.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:06 PM
New: After Renee Nicole Good was killed by an ICE agent, right-wingers attacked and mocked her sexuality, motherhood, and politics. Other protesters are being told to "learn" from her death. @parkermolloy.com reports on this aggressive smear campaign: www.wired.com/story/the-ca...
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As usual, the story here isn't about "divides" or cosmopolitan elites looking down on rural populations. It is about radicalization. This woman wants violent vengeance for things that did not happen.
January 15, 2026 at 2:55 PM
As usual, the story here isn't about "divides" or cosmopolitan elites looking down on rural populations. It is about radicalization. This woman wants violent vengeance for things that did not happen.
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"The network’s top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call Wednesday morning, according to staffers who listened." www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
CBS News report on ICE officer’s injuries drew ‘huge internal concern’
Anonymously sourced report that Jonathan Ross ‘suffered internal bleeding’ after killing Renee Good faced skepticism inside CBS newsroom
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:19 AM
"The network’s top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call Wednesday morning, according to staffers who listened." www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
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“Huge internal concern” among CBS staff over that “internal bleeding” story.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
![The network’s top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call Wednesday morning, according to staffers who listened.
“There was big internal dissension about the ‘internal bleeding’ report here last night,” the CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said . “It was viewed as a thinly-veiled, anonymous leak by [the Trump administration] to someone who’d carry it online.”
“Felt to many here like we were carrying water for the admin’s justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources,” said a second network staffer, who was also not authorized to comment.
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January 16, 2026 at 3:07 AM
“Huge internal concern” among CBS staff over that “internal bleeding” story.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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Minneapolis is headed towards something resembling a general strike, if you were wondering how the campaign to cow working people into quiescence is going
Last night, The Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 signed on to the call for a Jan 23 shutdown. That brings total labor support to: the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28, and the MFE 59
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
January 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Minneapolis is headed towards something resembling a general strike, if you were wondering how the campaign to cow working people into quiescence is going
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every elected with an ounce of ambition should see this as the opportunity of a life time if they are willing to break the mealymouthed consensus of mediocre substackers and instead listen to the polls heralding incandescent rage
People who want to be elected to high office usually want to make history - in a way in which they are fondly remembered as examples of great leadership.
Our leaders have now been granted the rare chance to make such history.
They must find the courage to take that chance.
Our leaders have now been granted the rare chance to make such history.
They must find the courage to take that chance.
January 15, 2026 at 6:48 AM
every elected with an ounce of ambition should see this as the opportunity of a life time if they are willing to break the mealymouthed consensus of mediocre substackers and instead listen to the polls heralding incandescent rage
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ICE is out of control. Congress cannot keep bankrolling ICE's abuses.
ICE is out of control.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
youtube.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:14 PM
ICE is out of control. Congress cannot keep bankrolling ICE's abuses.
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This dude is intense and correct
January 15, 2026 at 9:05 AM
This dude is intense and correct
Just heading down a path of total isolation (and therefore economic and cultural irrelevance) on a number of fronts
US government's policy toward the Big 3 automakers—encouraging them to invest in massive, US-only SUVs & trucks, now encouraging them to underinvest in EVs—has reinforced their global irrelevance.
Ford sold 33% fewer vehicles worldwide in 2024 than 2015! GM sold 40% fewer vehicles!
Ford sold 33% fewer vehicles worldwide in 2024 than 2015! GM sold 40% fewer vehicles!
"Big 3 Not So Big"
January 15, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Just heading down a path of total isolation (and therefore economic and cultural irrelevance) on a number of fronts
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ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
January 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
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Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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Minneapolis tonight.
January 15, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Minneapolis tonight.
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A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
Mike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it.
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
January 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM
A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
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This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.
January 15, 2026 at 12:58 AM
This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.
Bout to catch the last G out of ‘Nam
January 15, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Bout to catch the last G out of ‘Nam
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The sheer volume of white nationalist memes/allusions posted from official government accounts over the past year is staggering
www.vox.com/politics/475...
www.vox.com/politics/475...
January 14, 2026 at 6:42 PM
The sheer volume of white nationalist memes/allusions posted from official government accounts over the past year is staggering
www.vox.com/politics/475...
www.vox.com/politics/475...
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I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
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stop framing this stuff like this. sigh.
Here’s my question for Republicans in Congress:
How can you explain to Americans that you voted to double or triple the cost of their health insurance?
How can you explain to Americans that you voted to double or triple the cost of their health insurance?
My Question for Republicans in Congress
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
youtube.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
stop framing this stuff like this. sigh.
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Why does this article even exist given its own third and fourth paragraphs
January 14, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Why does this article even exist given its own third and fourth paragraphs