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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd

@nerd4cities.bsky.social

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Plangineer (AICP) when I’m at work, alter ego CityNerd when I’m not. New videos on cities and transportation every Wednesday. http://linktr.ee/CityNerd 🐘 @nerd4cities

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 8d

Tuesday night special for the Nebulized! Yes, I took the bait —

nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

CityNerd — Can We Agree On the 4 Major U.S. Cities?

I usually avoid trending topics, but unfortunately this one is catnip. Come along for a review of U.S. cities, and prepare to be enraged.

nebula.tv

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 1d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 1d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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BikeSD @bikesd.bsky.social · 2d

Big couple of weeks — from the Welcome @nerd4cities.bsky.social ride to our bike/walk audit on Fairmount, the SDCW ride & panel, and the El Cajon Blvd hack-a-thon

Thanks to all the volunteers, riders & advocates who keep showing up. We couldn’t do it without you. More exciting things coming soon!

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 2d

This is all absolutely insane

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 2d

We're about to begin.

Judge Immergut is presiding.

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Left! There’s a video where I talk about them

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Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 3d

Weird energy outside Portland’s ICE facility. Probably 100 people scattered around the area, seemingly a mix of protesters and counter-protesters. One guy seems to be looking for a fight from the protesters, who aren’t interested. “Are you scared?” he asked. “No, just annoyed.”

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BikeSD @bikesd.bsky.social · 5d

Help welcome @nerd4cities.bsky.social to San Diego - join us for a group ride this Sunday!

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 5d

I hate using the siren emoji but 🚨

Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social · 5d

If you saw a headline about NYC potentially losing two big transit projects "because of the government shutdown," know this: 1) it's bullshit, and 2) ending the shutdown on the Trump administration's terms would be terrible for transit *all across the country*, and very likely in your community. 🧵

Is Sec. Duffy Holding NY Transit Hostage To Negotiate Away The Rest of America's Transportation Future? — Streetsblog USA

The federal Transportation secretary is using two large transit projects as a bargaining chip to bully Congress into passing a budget that could be disastrous for communities across the country.

usa.streetsblog.org

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Monica de la Cruz @monicadlc.bsky.social · 6d

Do you have a deep burning question for @nerd4cities.bsky.social? Submit your question for Ray using our form and we might ask it at the @bikesd.bsky.social live event next Wednesday!
forms.gle/xHrNffFVwbkS...

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 6d

Did it

Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 6d

Still livid at all the people who got in my YouTube comments last year to tell me Project 2025 was liberal fear mongering

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder that Trump claimed he had nothing to do with Project 2025 and wouldn’t implement it

Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 6d

President Trump says he is meeting today with Russ Vought, OMB director and "of PROJECT 2025 Fame," to discuss cuts to "Democrat Agencies."

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 6d

Love to get a shoutout from the actual researchers! If you’ve watched the South Lake Union video, go read Dillon’s paper (cited in the video description). Or just skip the video altogether lol

Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 6d

This dovetails with another paper I co-authored — featured by the incredible @nerd4cities.bsky.social — covering how the amazing urbanism of Seattle's South Lake Union hides a built environment that serves surveillance.

CityNerd: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLay...

Paper: dillonm.io/papers/the-u...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

am i the only person who cares about housing prices? is this like a niche political interest or something?

Scott Greer tweets: "Some may say it's frivolous to care about Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl halftime entertainment, but it matters for three reasons.

1) The Super Bowl is America's premier culture event. It reflects where mainstream culture is.

2) It shows the NFL willing to broadcast a middle finger to Red America in the form of an anti-Trump, anti-ICE, Spanish-only singer

3) An entire halftime show in Spanish is the clearest sign of America's Latin Americanization and an affront to our traditional culture."

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 6d

Oh man let’s do bar trivia next time we’re in the same town

Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 8d

Tuesday night special for the Nebulized! Yes, I took the bait —

nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

CityNerd — Can We Agree On the 4 Major U.S. Cities?

I usually avoid trending topics, but unfortunately this one is catnip. Come along for a review of U.S. cities, and prepare to be enraged.

nebula.tv

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9d

New @washingtonpost.com opinion editor tells Fox they’ll have a range of @postopinions.bsky.social — from praise of Trump… to criticism of Zohran.

How all-encompassing! Nothing missing at all!🙃 www.foxnews.com/media/editor...

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 10d

NEW // Sunday Video: CityNerd and Kenji López-Alt Visit Pike Place Market www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/28/s...

Sunday Video: CityNerd and Kenji López-Alt Visit Pike Place Market » The Urbanist

# CityNerd host Ray Delahanty was recently in Seattle and made a video with food blogger Kenji López-Alt while he was in town, focusing on what makes Pike Place Market great. Obviously, the recent (pa...

www.theurbanist.org

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Orcish Law @orcishlaw.bsky.social · 10d

His next executive order will be titled FW: fw: RE: fw: re: RE: portland medbeds

Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 10d

This is an actual headline

www.kgw.com/article/news...

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 10d

This is an actual headline

www.kgw.com/article/news...

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 10d

The people who think they’re too smart to be susceptible to right wing influence operations are exactly the people who are still on X

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 10d

This is a demonstration of how powerful the right wing misinformation machine is. They take a phrase or a word some Democrat said, attach the worst possible interpretation to it, and repeat their view of it THOUSANDS of times until even liberals remember it the way conservatives want them to.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve heard Ezra now twice take one part of Hilary Clinton’s “deplorables” speech, without mentioning the rest of it, which does exactly what Ezra calls for Dems to do. I recognize that we have a politics of sound bits, but in full context the speech hits differently than he suggests.

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 10d

Not at all

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 10d

Sara Nelson and Bruce Harrell both leaned into the “Seattle is dying” KOMO tv narrative (komonews.com/news/local/k...) to win their elections. In the process of doing so they validated the right-wing narrative about Seattle, and hurt our city’s reputation. Short term expediency, long term damage.

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Jeremiah Hayden @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social · 10d

A total about-face by Metro Chamber and allies, trying to repeal the portrait of Portland crime they drew up during the post-COVID years, when it seemed politically advantageous.

Now, the crime narratives are “outdated,” because the people who constructed them decided so. Sleight of hand.

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 10d

Hollywood isn’t even a particularly “nice” Portland neighborhood. It has a Grocery Outlet for chrissakes

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