Jeff Gang
@jeffgang.org
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Organizer, climate hawk, nonprofit leader, consultant. Let’s talk about bikes, urbanism, nonviolent direct action, energy transition…
Part-time farmer, language nerd, band geek
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jeffgang.org
Organizer, climate hawk, nonprofit leader, consultant. Let’s talk about bikes, urbanism, nonviolent direct action, energy transition…
Part-time farmer, language nerd, band geek
He/him
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I think this was my favorite video of 2025 so I'm re-sharing it.
Such a powerful video from @boston.gov and @streets.boston.gov about the impact of e-bikes (and the city's e-bike voucher program). Just look at the joy these bikes have brought to Steven and Muriel Leonard!
December 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I think this was my favorite video of 2025 so I'm re-sharing it.
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BREAKING: While baristas continue the largest ULP strike in Starbucks history, 19 more stores filed for a union election today - one of the biggest filing days since our union began.
330+ workers across 15 states hope to join the 250+ baristas who have unionized since mid-November alone.
330+ workers across 15 states hope to join the 250+ baristas who have unionized since mid-November alone.
December 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
BREAKING: While baristas continue the largest ULP strike in Starbucks history, 19 more stores filed for a union election today - one of the biggest filing days since our union began.
330+ workers across 15 states hope to join the 250+ baristas who have unionized since mid-November alone.
330+ workers across 15 states hope to join the 250+ baristas who have unionized since mid-November alone.
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Life After Cars is the best of a spate of anti-car jeremiads published this year. The @thewaroncars.bsky.social crew has produced a book that's both thorough and accessible.
(Below, I spoke with @brooklynspoke.bsky.social & @sgoodyear.bsky.social about the rise of car-skeptic activism.)
(Below, I spoke with @brooklynspoke.bsky.social & @sgoodyear.bsky.social about the rise of car-skeptic activism.)
What Comes After the ‘War on Cars’?
Podcast hosts Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear deliver a book-length takedown of the automobile — and a plea to stop centering cities around driving.
www.bloomberg.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Life After Cars is the best of a spate of anti-car jeremiads published this year. The @thewaroncars.bsky.social crew has produced a book that's both thorough and accessible.
(Below, I spoke with @brooklynspoke.bsky.social & @sgoodyear.bsky.social about the rise of car-skeptic activism.)
(Below, I spoke with @brooklynspoke.bsky.social & @sgoodyear.bsky.social about the rise of car-skeptic activism.)
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The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.
December 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.
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I can't believe The Groups forced our noble and long-suffering opposition party to approve a record-setting bill to fund Donald Trump's capacity for waging war and doing state violence!!!!!
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I can't believe The Groups forced our noble and long-suffering opposition party to approve a record-setting bill to fund Donald Trump's capacity for waging war and doing state violence!!!!!
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3,800 baristas are on strike against Starbucks’ union busting and refusal to settle a union contract.
Stand with them! No contract, No Starbucks!
Stand with them! No contract, No Starbucks!
This morning, in the largest expansion yet, hundreds of new union baristas are walking off the job in 34 cities.
That means there are now:
🗣️ 3,800 baristas
☕️ across 180 stores
📍 in over 130 cities
on an open-ended ULP strike!
We’re 👏 only 👏 getting 👏 stronger
That means there are now:
🗣️ 3,800 baristas
☕️ across 180 stores
📍 in over 130 cities
on an open-ended ULP strike!
We’re 👏 only 👏 getting 👏 stronger
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
December 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
3,800 baristas are on strike against Starbucks’ union busting and refusal to settle a union contract.
Stand with them! No contract, No Starbucks!
Stand with them! No contract, No Starbucks!
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On Fri. 12/19 I'll join Andreas Malm and Wim Carton to discuss our new books, the deadly combination of accelerating global warming and stalling political action, and what is to be done from a left perspective. Moderated by @learning2live.bsky.social via @haymarketbooks.org & @versobooks.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
On Fri. 12/19 I'll join Andreas Malm and Wim Carton to discuss our new books, the deadly combination of accelerating global warming and stalling political action, and what is to be done from a left perspective. Moderated by @learning2live.bsky.social via @haymarketbooks.org & @versobooks.bsky.social
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☃️ Tomorrow @ 12:30pm ‼️
Join us in a festive, bike trolley tour and help us present the Mayor with her very own "Bike Lanes Help Me Arrive Alive" yard sign 🎁
Let's wish together for more of the bike joy she brought in her first term!
Join us in a festive, bike trolley tour and help us present the Mayor with her very own "Bike Lanes Help Me Arrive Alive" yard sign 🎁
Let's wish together for more of the bike joy she brought in her first term!
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
☃️ Tomorrow @ 12:30pm ‼️
Join us in a festive, bike trolley tour and help us present the Mayor with her very own "Bike Lanes Help Me Arrive Alive" yard sign 🎁
Let's wish together for more of the bike joy she brought in her first term!
Join us in a festive, bike trolley tour and help us present the Mayor with her very own "Bike Lanes Help Me Arrive Alive" yard sign 🎁
Let's wish together for more of the bike joy she brought in her first term!
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I talked to Al Gore about Bill Gates's climate change memo.
He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it.
"He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."
He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it.
"He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."
Al Gore's case for optimism
Gore talks to HEATED about COP30, the Gates memo, and why he thinks billionaires should face far more scrutiny in the climate fight.
heated.world
December 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I talked to Al Gore about Bill Gates's climate change memo.
He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it.
"He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."
He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it.
"He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."
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Exciting news: my union @pen-guild.bsky.social won our fight to hold management accountable for rolling out AI tools with no notice & for failing to hold the bots to the same standards all of us humans must follow — in violation of the contract they agreed to. A neutral arbiter said we were right!
PEN Guild wins landmark arbitration on AI protections - Washington-Baltimore News Guild
This marks one of the first major labor-arbitration rulings on the impact of AI on journalism, setting an important precedent for the U.S. news industry.
wbng.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Exciting news: my union @pen-guild.bsky.social won our fight to hold management accountable for rolling out AI tools with no notice & for failing to hold the bots to the same standards all of us humans must follow — in violation of the contract they agreed to. A neutral arbiter said we were right!
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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Seriously, the article mentions 11 people killed on or by ebikes and emotorcycles over the course of a few years. Cars kill over 40,000 people in the US each year, including people on ebikes.
Wait until they hear about cars.
But seriously - yes, agree, regulate e-bikes. But also give them space and infrastructure: protected bike lanes and designated and required parking spaces.
But seriously - yes, agree, regulate e-bikes. But also give them space and infrastructure: protected bike lanes and designated and required parking spaces.
The Shocking Crash That Led One County to Reckon With the Dangers of E-Bikes
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Seriously, the article mentions 11 people killed on or by ebikes and emotorcycles over the course of a few years. Cars kill over 40,000 people in the US each year, including people on ebikes.
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No contract, no coffee.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
No contract, no coffee.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
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Big news! @thewaroncars.bsky.social will be on @wgbh.org @gbhnews.bsky.social Jim and Margery show tomorrow (starts at 11AM) to discuss their new book Life After Cars
Give @sgoodyear.bsky.social & @brooklynspoke.bsky.social a call in and a big Boston welcome
www.wgbh.org/shows/boston...
Give @sgoodyear.bsky.social & @brooklynspoke.bsky.social a call in and a big Boston welcome
www.wgbh.org/shows/boston...
Boston Public Radio
Join hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan for a smart local conversation with leaders and thinkers shaping Boston and New England. To share your opinion, email [email protected] or call/text 877-301-8970 dur...
www.wgbh.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Big news! @thewaroncars.bsky.social will be on @wgbh.org @gbhnews.bsky.social Jim and Margery show tomorrow (starts at 11AM) to discuss their new book Life After Cars
Give @sgoodyear.bsky.social & @brooklynspoke.bsky.social a call in and a big Boston welcome
www.wgbh.org/shows/boston...
Give @sgoodyear.bsky.social & @brooklynspoke.bsky.social a call in and a big Boston welcome
www.wgbh.org/shows/boston...
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Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
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Workers from @sbworkersunited.org put their bodies on the line today, shutting down Starbucks' distribution center in York, PA, the largest in the US
Stand in solidarity with these working-class heroes, DON'T BUY STARBUCKS ANYWHERE UNTIL THEY WIN THEIR STRIKE
Stand in solidarity with these working-class heroes, DON'T BUY STARBUCKS ANYWHERE UNTIL THEY WIN THEIR STRIKE
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Workers from @sbworkersunited.org put their bodies on the line today, shutting down Starbucks' distribution center in York, PA, the largest in the US
Stand in solidarity with these working-class heroes, DON'T BUY STARBUCKS ANYWHERE UNTIL THEY WIN THEIR STRIKE
Stand in solidarity with these working-class heroes, DON'T BUY STARBUCKS ANYWHERE UNTIL THEY WIN THEIR STRIKE
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79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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Join BCU, Massachusetts Families for Safe Streets, Sidney Mae Olson Rainbow Fund, @massbike.bsky.social, @cambbikesafety.bsky.social, Safe Roads Alliance, and @walkmass.bsky.social on the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims to Ride and Walk for Our Lives.
October 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Join BCU, Massachusetts Families for Safe Streets, Sidney Mae Olson Rainbow Fund, @massbike.bsky.social, @cambbikesafety.bsky.social, Safe Roads Alliance, and @walkmass.bsky.social on the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims to Ride and Walk for Our Lives.
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
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Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?
Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.
Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country
On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.
19thnews.org
October 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?
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A tremendous act of self harm by Earthlings.
The right whines endlessly about government support for clean energy and then turns around and dedicates ***$625 million*** in federal money to keeping coal alive
GIft link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
GIft link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Opens 13 Million Acres for Coal Mines to Aid Ailing Sector
The Trump administration is opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for leasing to coal miners and providing $625 million for power plants that burn the fuel as part of a broad initiative to help r...
www.bloomberg.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A tremendous act of self harm by Earthlings.