Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/03/2026One thing I feel ought to be discussed more is the fact that basically all rural and suburban places in the US are subsidized by cities. They resent cities. They insult cities. They elect politicians who abuse cities. But none of them could survive without cities. 852427467 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsAlessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Print this poster and hang it in every city council and state legislature room 29416 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsJordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 27/02/2026There is an emerging and worrying trend I've witnessed recently in YIMBY spaces where people are starting to show a willingness to embrace greenfield sprawl as a solution to our housing and affordability crises. As a reminder: sprawl is a distraction and a ponzi scheme. Nothing more. 822135 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsMarlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 15/02/2026pretty stunning chart 22231351140 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsRachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026🚨🚨🚨Video captures a DHS employee break the window at the Eugene Oregon Fed Building. They declared a riot and tear gassed everyone over it. 19558315 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...al.comAlabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-registerAlabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants 780171738950 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... 985209748423 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 23/12/2025Even before the new tram line opened, Montpellier was doing a great job getting people to ride—it carried 110 million riders in 2024, up 33% from 2019. The urban area's per-capita ridership is 5th highest in France, and higher than any US urban area's, even NYC's. www.urban.org/urban-wire/t... 0112 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsBrandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Love how much energy we all spend circle jerking over classes of ebikes while car culture runs around with metrics of multiple tons, hundreds of horsepower, and top speeds only limited in triple digits. 1825135 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Trump has now pardoned a murderous drug lord who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the country, AND the guy who ran the Dark Web's biggest drug marketplace. 451241562 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsBrandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Absolutely insane shit happening in one of the most wealthy countries on earth. Wealth for the few. Hardship for everyone else. 3347 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsBikeLoudPDX @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social · 05/11/2025BikeLoud filed our lawsuit in 2022. Our Board & pro bono lawyers spent 100s of hours to craft a settlement w PBOT. We're not asking for much. We're not making any money. We just want to make biking better for schoolkids + bike access to small businesses. Still waiting @portlandcouncil.bsky.social 2205 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 31/10/202515 million Americans are going to lose their health care. 2273270489310 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 24/10/2025The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025. 34764782978 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsAmy P. @amyephillips.bsky.social · 20/10/2025They are so, so close to figuring out how trade works! 1234152 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-Wilkinsamb @amb.fyi · 08/10/2025Easy ninety second task to ask elected officials to stop expanding fossil fuel infrastructure in city limits, especially where it’s gonna liquify into the willamette river when the earthquake hits: 1195 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2025Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her 6202914013792 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive: 2015: 332 2016: 383 2017: 347 2018: 335 2019: 414 2020: 611 2021: 689 2022: 644 2023: 659 2024: 503 So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days. We do not have to keep living like this. 902172526427 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsMatthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Incredible pairing of text and chart 69825135 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-Wilkinsiain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025August 2025 stats are out for PDX: cdn.portofportland.com/pdfs/Aug%202.... Of note: the build up in Portland by Alaska Airlines Group means that they're not just up a lot of over last year; they're larger at PDX than they were in 2019 (with or without factoring their acquisition of Hawaiian). 2204 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsRay Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Your war correspondent on the ground in battle-ravaged inner northeast Portland 1964063787 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsAmy Devlin [Hiatus] @amydevlin.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Wow! What a breakthrough moment for these women. #WRWC2025 #RWC2025 #RUGBY 444105602 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2025War-ravaged Portland 538184344332 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone. 265224446202 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-Wilkinse.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18/09/2025if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved 300298916116 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act. 17336056117507 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-Wilkinsonion person @junlper.beer · 17/09/2025its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project 202167723327 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/09/2025That both of Turning Point USA’s founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time. 87116882693 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsPam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025This is why I can’t muster empathy for Charlie Kirk. He worked hard at ensuring our children face as much gun violence as possible. My empathy is reserved for these kids and that community. 51812208 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I understand MAGA is insisting the signature isn't Trump's but the WSJ piece nicely shows how the signature matches other letters he signed. 672073528 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsMichael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Continue to feel like almost nobody talks about how flat rents in Portland have been for so long They've risen with inflation but that's about it I could say they're currently at August 2023 levels but they're also at November 2016 levels 1214511 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsBrandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 05/09/2025this is the future liberals want 2738934 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsBree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 23/08/2025To put it bluntly, this is a fucking disaster. For consumers, for small businesses and artists, for everybody. The US is cutting ourselves off from the rest of the world and for what?? Even if this gets sorted out or walked back, it’s going to cause a major disruption. 1344292128 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Kansas City was one of the first US transit systems to go fare-free. Now the fares are coming back. The city & transit agency had a choice: Eliminate bus service or charge for trips. They chose the latter. (Low-income riders can still ride free.) Good move. Service quality > Free fareskcur.orgKansas City saves buses from cuts with new KCATA contract. Most riders will soon pay faresKansas City and the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority finalized a contract today, after months of fraught negotiations. The city’s bus service will continue without any cuts, but $2 fares will... 1323450 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/08/2025ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media. I am not making this up. 48949162151 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsProPublica @propublica.org · 14/08/2025Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641. As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570. With @texastribune.orgpropublica.orgTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private LawyersDespite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney… 1081694860 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/08/2025There is no legal or political system that can hold together a culture that has lost all sense of public morality or shame. 15786159 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsSimon HB @norock.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa... 1061487989 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 11/08/2025I love living in the real America (a big city) 159569 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsBikePortland @bikeportland.org · 11/08/2025Just updated post w this video of the collision 116422 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsLindaG23 @lindag23.bsky.social · 05/08/2025More of this please 011225 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/08/2025"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..." whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...cnbc.comWhy insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurableGünther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable. 31965416 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsIshrion Aviation @ishrionaviation.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Alaska Airlines announces 2 new routes to Europe: • Seattle (SEA) to London (LHR) with 1x daily Boeing 787-9 • SEA to Reykjavik (KEF) with 1x daily 737 MAX 8 Flights begin in 2026. Alaska also unveils its new branding on the 787-9. 5387 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Worth remembering that in any other administration, a 15% tariff on our largest trade partner & some of our closest allies would be considered the worst trade war in more than a generation 703159703 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsThe Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Hannah Hampton had big shoes to fill when she took over the No. 1 jersey and replaced Mary Earps. Earps' retirement threatened to make Hampton's job very difficult indeed but she has risen to the challenge. The hero in two penalty shootouts, her prize is lifting the European Championship trophy. 015915 0
Reposted by Anton Holloman-WilkinsAmtrak Cascades @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov · 24/07/2025Big news! The brand-new Amtrak Cascades trainset is on the move! It's en route to Pueblo, Colorado! Many thanks to rail fan Hudson Sheats @centralvalleyrailfan8311 who captured these amazing images! More info in comments. #AmtrakCascades #NewTrains 917937 0