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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 20h

The more you look at this map, the more mad you get

Reality Ausetkmt @ausetkmt.bsky.social · 1d

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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 1d

This map is bananas

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 1d

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Highlights
For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement.
Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design.
Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically.
Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street.
There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 3d

@ahjohnson.bsky.social is so good

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

1. This is one of the most insane statements ever delivered by a presidential spokesperson in U.S. history. Totally disconnected from reality.

2. There is either going to be a civil war or abject Democratic surrender to autocracy. They are telling this you, to your face, in explicit terms.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."

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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 5d

What has this man accomplished that makes anyone think he has "the answers?" He has made a living pontificating about politics since he was like 20! These guys get elevated for being professional bullshitters, who then think that everyone, even experts, are also just bullshitting.

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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 6d

Do you need any help? DM me if you need anyone tomorrow

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 6d

Every time a Democrat does a fact check and says, "Undocumented immigrants don't get health coverage" they are privileging the lie and letting Republicans frame the debate around only certain people deserving healthcare. A basic talking point for Dems should be that *everyone* deserves healthcare.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 6d

Embarrassed for our country that there's somehow a debate on whether a person, who needs medical care, should be turned away from an ER. Dems should be saying, "Yes, I want people to get help if they need it. If we're worried about who will pay for it, let Elon. No one needs a trillion dollars."

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6d

You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 8d

NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.

A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community.

thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...

Feds detain dozens of immigrants in 'massive' South Shore apartment building raid in Chicago • The TRiiBE

An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in the course of the overnight raid in the predominately-Black neighborhood.

thetriibe.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 7d

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis

City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

www.forbes.com

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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 6d

Dude agrees "most days" with DJTs policies -- ones that are so far from "common humanity" and "love one another" as to be from a different universe, but is clutching pearls when the guy just says it

Just a bag of bullshit, all the way through

More text from the blog posting: "What America needed was a reminder that we are one, that we can talk across partisan lines, that we have common cause and common humanity. That we should love one another, that we are Americans first. That's what a president should have said.

But that's not what this president said.

This president spoke of a world of us and them, of opponents, and his assurance that he hated his opponents. And that he did not want what's best for them.

And such is the imperial nature of this president that there is no one in his circle or in his administration who can tell him how out of synch he was, or to have warned him away from his impulses in the first place. And such is the moral construction of this president that his own conscience didn't warn him away either.

I voted for Donald Trump, all three times, and most days I agree with his policies. But sometimes he plays fast and loose with things that matter. And yesterday he failed to read the room. He failed to understand what was all around him."

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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 6d

What an absolute goober this guy is:

Screenshot of Bob Lonsberry blog from 9/22/25 ""I hate my opponents," the president said, "and I don't want what's best for them."
And with that, some five hours of praise and tears took a hard turn from the divine to the profane.

I voted for Trump, all three times, and most days I agree with his policies, but there's a tone deafness to him, a hole in his cultural heritage, that sometimes rears an ugly and divisive head.

Like Sunday."

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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 6d

I like the gray :-)

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7d

California and New York paying taxes to this federal government in 2025 is tantamount to England and France paying taxes to Germany in 1940.

The money is going to be used *against* you.

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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 7d

Avatar!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 7d

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 7d

Ok, you have significantly more self control than me!

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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 7d

Life is too precious to eat year old candy that the children have rejected

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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 7d

True constituent service 🐐

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 7d

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 8d

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012.

The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.

buff.ly/8epl2QS

Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8d

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.

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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 8d

These are not normal times, Congressman. This post sounds like you are dreadfully out of touch with the gravity of the moment.

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Ginny Maier @vbmaier.bsky.social · 8d

So, uh, the Secretary of "War" just said "We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country," and the President just said the military should use "dangerous cities as training grounds" because it is necessary to fight "a war from within"

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 8d

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 8d

“We are under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy, but worse—they don’t wear a uniform.”

This is the President of the United States, who ordered the entire leadership of our military to sit and listen to him, speaking a few minutes ago.

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