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Doug Gordon

@brooklynspoke.bsky.social
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Co-author, "Life After Cars,” co-host, The War on Cars. Runner, Disney parks fan (he/him) www.lifeaftercars.com Donate to my 2027 run in support of PPMD: donate.parentprojectmd.org/fundrais…

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 1h
Open Mic on the Open Street! Thanks to the good folks at the Commissioner Bar and Park Slope Open Streets for letting my kid organize this.
Kid in blue sweatshirt standing on sidewalk near crowd. Crowd sitting outside on open street.
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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 6h
AAA's Your Driving Costs 2026 report came out last month. Unsurprisingly, the researchers found that the average cost of owning and operating a new vehicle has shot up—it's now estimated at $12,863/yr or $1,072/mo. newsroom.aaa.com/2026/09/aaa-...
newsroom.aaa.com
AAA: New Vehicle Ownership Costs Hit $12,863 Annually – AAA Newsroom
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 7h
Today in DC: "Beginning Saturday, crews will start another major round of cutting at the historic public golf course. The first phase contains 169 trees marked for removal. The Trump Administration says as many as 529 could eventually come down..." www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...
washingtonpost.com
More than 500 trees may be removed from D.C. golf course Trump wants to redesign
Beginning Saturday, National Park Service crews will start another major round of cutting at East Potomac Golf Links, according to a new filing in federal court.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 2h
Families deserve guidance grounded in science, and the Trump administration’s abrupt changes to seven childhood vaccines are reckless. I sued to protect our kids and make sure every family can trust the advice they get from their pediatrician.
spectrumlocalnews.com
Democratic-led states sue Trump administration over childhood vaccine schedule
The lawsuit seeks to restore the recommended childhood vaccine schedule to protect against 18 diseases
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 3h
Death After Life After Cars.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 7h
Life After Cars continues to be a big seller at @communitybookstore.bsky.social in Brooklyn. They're down to their last copy yet again. Go get it if you're in the neighborhood! www.lifeaftercars.com
Books on bookshelf facing out. Books spines are various colors. "Life After Cars is in the middle."
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 09/10/2026
Measles hits the 100-case mark in Kentucky From @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/09/m...
kentuckylantern.com
Measles hits the 100-case mark in Kentucky • Kentucky Lantern
Kentucky has now confirmed more than 100 cases of measles as the state grapples with its highest case load this century.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 4h
Lose the Prime branding and this is how I want my funeral procession to go.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 4h
"And an extended impeachment investigation could uncover the kind of pervasive wrongdoing, even criminality, that could lead to real accountability for other figures in the administration." 100%. Lutnick, Hegseth, the Trump kids, Kushner and others have a lot to fear from impeachment procedings.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 4h
"Even in the absence of a conviction, the impeachment process is a valuable political tool. It underscores, for the public, the simple fact that the president is unfit to serve."
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Is Begging to Be Impeached
The president’s despotism is itself a constitutional offense.
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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 6h
My cousin is a senior director at a major tier 1 auto supplier. Biggest car guy I know. Used to own a F150 Raptor. Texted me out of the blue asking if I heard of the book “Life After Cars”. His coworker recommended it to him and he’s loving it. Unreal!! @thewaroncars.bsky.social
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 7h
Less than a month until our big live show at Hunter College on Fri, Nov 6th w/ Janette Sadik-Khan. We'll be celebrating her pioneering street transformations AND looking ahead as Mayor Mamdani now has a chance to make NYC streets truly world class. Tickets: host.nxt.blackbaud.com/registration...
Janette Sadik-Khan wearing white and sitting at red table in Times Square pedestrian plaza.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 20h
This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 20h
Some very bad officiating.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 20h
Welp.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 22h
Let’s go, Liberty!
Barclays Center showing New York liberty home Court
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Boba Cyclist 정 @bobacyclist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A driver caused a massacre in the Bronx today. Ran through a crosswalk and a red light and struck a bunch of people and five cars. What will the city council’s 17 e-bike bills do to address this?
bronx.news12.com
At least 9 hurt, 3 critically, after car strikes pedestrians and other cars in Allerton
Surveillance footage obtained by News 12 shows a white sedan fly through the busy intersection, plowing through a group of people in the crosswalk and hitting multiple cars waiting at the light.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
::low whistle:: apple.news/AbOgHERrCRnG...
apple.news
US surpasses 4,000 measles cases, infections confirmed in 45 states, CDC data shows — ABC News
Most cases are among those unvaccinated or with unknown status, CDC data shows.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A kid was hit crossing the Bedford Avenue bike lane by an e-bike rider and that bike lane was ripped out by the last mayor and still hasn't been restored by the current mayor.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Far too many people simply hate children for existing
Neighbor blasts an ultrasonic device audible and painful only to children whenever they pass on the public sidewalk.

Was riding bikes with my daughter and a friend to school this morning. We passed a house and they both started yelling, "Ow! It hurts my ears." Really strange, right? Then I hear a voice play through a speaker who says, "If it hurts your ears, ride your bikes somewhere else!"

Now I'm angry. Literally doing nothing but riding bikes to school, probably one of the most wholesome activities a person could imagine, and...I can't even get my brain around it. 

It's apparently not loud, but it is tuned to a frequency higher than I can hear. If it's low enough for my children to hear it, it's going to be almost useless as an animal deterrent. It is specifically designed to cause pain to humans and serves no other purpose.

How is this legal?

Location: Minnesota, Twin Cities suburb
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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 09/10/2026
If more of them talked like that, more of them would.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Do we really expect our children to act like adults just so adults can act like children?”
nyc.streetsblog.org
Cycle Of Rage: One Crash Shows How Reckless Car Drivers Ruin Kids' Childhoods - Streetsblog New York City
We want our kids off their phones and reading books in the library. Too bad drivers don't give a shit. A rant from Streetsblog Editor Gersh Kuntzman.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/10/2026
“All Americans should probably watch this film like their life depends on it.” Sheelah Kolhatkar reviews the new Elon Musk documentary. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
newyorker.com
In “Musk,” Alex Gibney Punctures Elon’s Self-Mythology
“To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?”
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026
just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Imagine if a daycare center only installed electrical outlet covers one at a time after a toddler shocked himself, rather than just identifying all the outlets and covering them at once. That's basically the modern US city government approach to fixing streets.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is good, but if it takes a blood sacrifice before a street can be made safer then something is fundamentally wrong with city leadership. Boston has dozens upon dozens of dangerous intersections like this. What's the plan to fix them *before* people die?
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 09/10/2026
New Yorkers: there will be a protest tonight at 5:30 at Foley Square, if you can make it.
Friday October 9
EMERGENCY PROTEST
ICE SHOT
A NEW YORKER
FOLEY SQUARE
5:30PM
Hands Off NYC
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Remarkable how consistently the Trump administration has adopted the aesthetics of mass shooters, from their schizophrenic social media aesthetic to livestreamed executions to masked men with long guns roaming our streets with impunity. Nihilist violent extremism as statecraft
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Jon Orcutt @jonorcutt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trying to think of more than one 2026 project that required real political capital. In the one, Fordham Rd, Mamdani downgraded the project For real fights, like reversing Adams' cars-back-in-parks or fixing Bedford Av 🚲 lane, he has shied away Far weaker & less innovative than de Blasio's 1st year
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They're the same picture.
dril tweet: "go ahead. keep screaming "shut the fuck up" at me. it only makes my opinions worsepost from Emmett Macfarlane: "3...2...1... [prepares to get yelled at. But I'm 100% right.]
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's Yglesias-like in its wrongness. "People I personally find annoying would get more traction if they would be less annoying and cater their messages to what *I* find acceptable." Okay. Good luck with that.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a form of social-media-induced psychosis where someone sees one post and thinks it represents the sum total of a movement. Tom Flood creates a wide range of images, from the stark and direct to to lighthearted and humorous. And anyway, you don't need to be polite to Doug Ford of all people.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The protest worked. The mayor announced the "Green Wave" program to expand protected bike infrastructure and install other street safety upgrades. There are times when it pays to be polite, but there are also times when we need to flip some tables.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In 2019, after 17 people were killed riding their bicycles in 6 monhts, advocates staged a die-in in Washington Square Park rightfully shaming Mayor de Blasio for doing nothing. The signs and chants did not hold back, saying the mayor had blood on his hands...
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's just another version of respectability politics which never works, at least not by itself. You need the whole spectrum, from the folks working the halls of power to the people carrying torches and threatening to storm the castle.
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Jehiah @jehiah.cz · 09/10/2026
There is always a @placardabuse.bsky.social angle. Note the (presumably) ICE vehicle with NY registration but no front license plate. 📸 @noahhurowitz.bsky.social
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I like it and I'd like more of it
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
haha sickos yes meme, but for democrats accurately describing Republicans.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I also think that "just take the parking" is a good strategy for reducing all the idling that happens with ASP. Another way in which cars ruin everything. We all suffer from dirtier air because drivers can't be bothered to plan ahead.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Interesting that they’ve learned that people will react positively to socialism if it is defined correctly so they’ve had to stop doing that.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NYC doesn't have the capacity at its impound lots.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If we want a cleaner and more resilient city we really gotta reduce the amount of free parking everywhere.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"DSNY estimates that about half a million drivers fail to move for their sweepers every week. As a result, debris remains on the street and ends up blocking catch basins, worsening the increasingly frequent flooding in the city, according to a spokesperson."
nyc.streetsblog.org
Prospect Heights Tried a Lighter Approach to Street Cleaning Enforcement — It Didn't Work - Streetsblog New York City
The city cut the days drivers in a small sliver of Brooklyn had to move their cars for street cleaning — and they still broke the rules!
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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Japan has just made 30km/h (I.e. 20mph) the default in most residential roads due to the evidence-base from EU cities. etsc.eu/japan-makes-...
etsc.eu
Japan makes 30 km/h the default speed limit on most residential roads - as European city survey shows significant safety benefits
Japan has lowered the statutory speed limit on most of its residential streets from 60 km/h to 30 km/h, effective 1 September. The new limit applies automatically to roads narrower than 5.5…
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Should also be shown to all Tesla owners and prospective buyers.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
guy's not fucking around
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 08/10/2026
Therefore, the main takeaway from the Netherlands shouldn’t be to just build more bike lanes. It should be to make the act of getting on a bike easy at first, and let the network grow from there. As Dutch planners learned long ago, the most important part of your bike plan is actually the car plan.🔚
A cycling priority street in the Netherlands where drivers are guests and cyclists are the main users.
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 08/10/2026
The better approach is to create the conditions for cycling first: build demand; then invest in high-end infrastructure where the numbers justify. Not every street needs a protected lane, and sometimes the most important intervention is just a street where cars have been slowed, filtered or removed.
A cycling priority street in the Netherlands where drivers are guests and cyclists are the main users.
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