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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23h

Electric bicycles, and shared electric bicycles in particular, are a revolutionary transportation technology. Forward-looking cities should be building out the infrastructure necessary to make cycling safe and convenient for everyone who wants to do it.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i recently got a great deal on a barely used folding ebike and i have to say it has revolutionized my train travel. i can get from my front door to the amtrak station in a little less than 5 minutes!!!

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 1d

the paradox of sprawl

Ben @urbanistben.bsky.social · 1d

This place is both the most hostile to car ownership and most necessary place to own a car I've ever been

Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 1d

Reflections on last week's #WeekWithoutDriving in a city that still refuses to acknowledge the existence of its nondrivers — which a comprehensive new report claims make up one-third of LA's population

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Ben @urbanistben.bsky.social · 1d

This place is both the most hostile to car ownership and most necessary place to own a car I've ever been

Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 1d

Reflections on last week's #WeekWithoutDriving in a city that still refuses to acknowledge the existence of its nondrivers — which a comprehensive new report claims make up one-third of LA's population

One-third of Angelenos do not drive

Walking back the "car-free" games promise is unconscionable in a city where the people who don't drive are also the most vulnerable users of our streets

www.torched.la

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Ben @urbanistben.bsky.social · 4d

I really need to visit New England in my 30s

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Ben @urbanistben.bsky.social · 4d

The lyrics on this album are consistently bad.

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Ben @urbanistben.bsky.social · 4d

My insane take: Actually Romantic is about the Gaylors after the first few lyrics

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Ben @urbanistben.bsky.social · 5d

TELL MAX MARTIN THANK YOU EVERYBODY

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Ben @urbanistben.bsky.social · 6d

Otter Body Shop

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Ben @urbanistben.bsky.social · 6d

It's a year since my stuff arrived in Los Angeles

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Ben @urbanistben.bsky.social · 7d

Who is Tyra Riverbanks

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 8d

The military cares about climate change because they understand it's setting the ground for more conflicts, and because their bases are underwater. Seems like having your bases underwater might affect military readiness.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8d

Hegseth: “No dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship, no more gender delusions.

“We are done with that shit.”

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Ben @urbanistben.bsky.social · 8d

Feels like ICE and the state of Iowa are going to make sure this man is ruined even if he is released. From a Cedar Rapids Gazette Article: www.thegazette.com/state-govern...

"Our office has received information that you no longer possess legal presence in the United States, therefore you (are) not able to hold a license issued by the lowa Board of Educational Examiners," Michael Cavin, the board's executive director, wrote in a letter addressed to Roberts. "The license issued by the Board of Educational Examiners is no longer valid and your authority to serve as superintendent is revoked."

ICE also claims Roberts fled when first contacted by officers Friday, and when he was apprehended was in possession of a loaded handgun, $3,000 in cash and a fixed blade hunting knife.

Roberts was taken to the Woodbury County Jail in northwest lowa late Friday afternoon, according to jail and ICE records, the Associated Press reported.

The Des Moines Public School Board scheduled a special session for Monday, during which it planned to place Roberts on unpaid administrative leave, which is required by law given the state board's action to revoke Roberts' license. The board on Saturday put Roberts on leave.

The board on Monday will consider "new information" regarding Roberts' arrest, according to a district press release.

"New information and confirmed facts will continue to inform our decisions as we develop a path forward," Des Moines Public Schools Board Chair Jackie Norris said in the press release. "Two things can be true at the same time - Dr. Roberts was an effective and well-respected leader and there are serious questions related to his citizenship and ability to legally perform his duties as superintendent."

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 9d

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

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Ben @urbanistben.bsky.social · 9d

Exactly! You're landlord put in quartz countertops and thick laminate flooring because they are durable. The developer put in the minimum amount of outlets required by code because they are cheap!

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 9d

I always think "luxury"and "luxe" have the connotation "superficially flashy but shoddily made" these days.

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Ben @urbanistben.bsky.social · 9d

If you're one of those people who ascribe some of the precipitous decline in violence in the late twentieth century to "we stopped lead poisoning people" - which I am - you do have to be concerned that now we've made lead poisoning cheap and addictive.

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Ben @urbanistben.bsky.social · 9d

States I've Spent the Most Time In:
1. Iowa
2 New Mexico
3. California
4. Florida
5. Indiana

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 10d

The most affordable apartments in the many US cities are one- and two-bedroom units in divided up old mansions.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11d

Whenever people talk about "luxury housing," I remember there are literal mansions in Hartford, CT that are now selling for less than it costs to buy a starter home in Silicon Valley. If we judge luxury by market value, there is no housing that is intrinsically, permanently "luxury housing."

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Ben @urbanistben.bsky.social · 9d

Especially in Los Angeles, where people complain new buildings are unaffordable, and similar buildings are going up for half the price across the country. The price is dictated by local policies meant to drive housing prices ever higher and higher.

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Ben @urbanistben.bsky.social · 9d

One of the things I still can't wrap my mind around is people who are not urbanists inability to recognize "luxury" is purely a marketing term applied to new housing to denote its newness.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11d

Whenever people talk about "luxury housing," I remember there are literal mansions in Hartford, CT that are now selling for less than it costs to buy a starter home in Silicon Valley. If we judge luxury by market value, there is no housing that is intrinsically, permanently "luxury housing."