"Those contracts to conduct deportation flights are lucrative, with the Project on Government Oversight reporting that CSI Aviation, whose corporate director was a 'fake elector' in NM . . ., was awarded a no-bid contact for $128 million." azmirror.com/2025/10/07/t...

Your war correspondent on the ground in battle-ravaged inner northeast Portland

I hope the military stays safe in Portland. When I took my family there we were terrified of the largest Japanese garden in the US, the independent book store selling banned books, the massive & free rose garden, and urban green spaces. What a hellscape.

Do we know how lay publics define "corruption"? I've encountered quite a few folks (incl. undergrads) who conceive of corruption as something far broader than using public office for private gain. Instead they seem to think of it as "politicians taking any action I vehemently disagree with."

Chance of having ticket checked on Phoenix light rail is 150%, per my recent experience (checked 3 times in 2 trips).

Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.

i.e., *through* a red light

@waymo.bsky.social I just saw one of your driverless cars make a left turn at a red light (from a stop) into a busy intersection in Tempe, AZ.

Tom Fishburne commemorated this a couple years ago and I’ve been thinking about it ever since.

marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-w...

"moving from a less walkable (25th percentile) city to a more walkable city (75th percentile) increased walking by 1,100 daily steps, on average. These changes hold across different genders, ages and body mass index values, and are sustained over 3 months." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Couple of Seagulls

Medium-sized Audio Dynamite

Jane's Habitual Behavior

It's sobering to see how a skewed-representation issue I described more than 25 yrs ago for California continues to affect so many metro areas around the US. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Meant to say he pardoned Pres. Ninun.

To give more context: San Tan Valley has about 100,000 residents now. That's about as many as Boulder, Colorado, and Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Scoop: EPA is preparing to cancel $7 billion in grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/c...

ON GANGS, by Scott Decker, David Pyrooz, and James Densley, was featured on @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver on July 27. The book is quoted from at the 5:56 minute mark.

It's cool that Jane Jacobs's book helped inspire the set design on Sesame Street. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/r...

Seems bad:

"We identified more than 30,000 tire wear particles in 24 liters of stormwater runoff from roads and parking lots after two rainstorms. In heavy traffic areas, we believe the concentrations could be much higher."

When I commuted from San Francisco to study at Stanford in the late 1980s, the San Francisco peninsula rail line @caltrain.com was a primary limiting factor on my education. It ran every two hours and stopped at 10 PM.

Why? 🧵 1/

Why do some small towns lose their local paper while others don’t?
It’s not luck – it’s about wealth, race, and market forces.

This means that local news dies where it’s needed most.
theconversation.com/why-some-tow...

Same algorithm that suggested I submit a paper to the journal "Pediatrics."

Most incredible about this is that IU-Bloomington has long been the no. 1 university in the world for teaching Asian languages and cultures, with many programs found nowhere else.

They're slashing many of IU-B's most distinctive programs with zero thought or debate. They probably don't even know.

Bad news, Hoosiers