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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 26/09/2026
Portland is hiring a Senior City Transportation Planner focused on parking policy + planning—and this feels made for someone in the PRN network. Curb management, parking reform, public space + real implementation. Know someone? Send it their way: www.governmentjobs.com/careers/port...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/09/2026
Oooh, Copper has released the 2.0 version of Charlie, its electric induction range. It now can plug into a normal 120V outlet! Bigger battery, more power. NYC is gonna buy a bunch of these for public housing, help bring the cost down.
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Charlie - battery-equipped induction range
Meet Charlie, a powerful battery-equipped induction range that plugs into 120v and 240v outlets. Ranges are built in the U.S. and installed across the country.
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 17/09/2026
Debs Schrimmer and Matt Redmond had an unusual wedding request: They wanted every guest to ride to the reception on a bicycle through Golden Gate Park. Here’s how it went.
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They wanted an all-bike S.F. wedding. But what about 95-year-old Grandma Meryl?
Debs Schrimmer and Matt Redmond had an unusual wedding request: They wanted every guest to ride to the reception on a bicycle through Golden Gate Park. Here’s how it went.
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At Upway, someone can buy a certified/warranteed used e-bike and have monthly payments that cost less than one tank of gas.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What makes this obscene is the building Trump's threatening to demolish if he doesn't get his way, is a *memorial* to a loved president who served his country and was assassinated while in office (two things Donald is yet to accomplish). It is like Trump threatening to jackhammer JFK's gravestone.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.
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BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception
The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
you can be arrested if you give water to people waiting on line to vote
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Remarkable. In 2025, Japan had the lowest number of crash deaths on record (going back to 1948). Now they're poised to have even fewer.
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Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets
Speed limit dropped from 60km/h for around 70% of general roads in the hope of making narrow streets of crowded cities safer
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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Amazing work by my good friends at @pge4me.bsky.social. I hope this project with Google is a forcing function to get the utility and the regulator to open this kind of opportunity to all customers. 🧵 lnkd.in/p/gpGhUNBR
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How Home Batteries Unlock the Grid's Next Chapter | Jigar Shah | 28 comments
PG&E ended 2025 with five flexible interconnection sites online. Data centers, EV chargers, hospitals are all waiting for hard path infrastructure that takes decades to permit and build. This week, P...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/09/2026
In internal meetings, top USPS officials expressed concerns about new mail voting rules. One repeated concern regarded how to avoid invalidating an entire batch of ballots if one voter among thousands couldn’t be confirmed as eligible.
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New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 02/09/2026
SDOT wants to hear from you about our shared bike and scooter program – from people who do and don’t use it. Tell us your opinions and experiences and enter for a chance to win one of five $100 gift cards! Take the survey by September 27 at: bit.ly/seattlescooter26-s
People walk past Lime scooters parked in a colorful parking corral.
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Findings Press @findingspress.org · 01/09/2026
A Research Roadmap to Pave the Way for Shared Micromobility in the US: Findings from a Cross-sector Delphi Study
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A Research Roadmap to Pave the Way for Shared Micromobility in the US: Findings from a Cross-sector Delphi Study
Shared micromobility is a disruptive technology with myriad benefits, but the industry has faced persistent profitability and regulatory challenges. This study identified research priorities to support the future of micromobility.
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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
UCLA's cityLAB identified 20,000+ vacant, housing-zoned LA lots ripe for "gentle density" starter homes. Its new pilot picked three teams to build duplex-to-sixplex projects for sale, using low-interest loans & recent zoning reforms, breaking ground by next summer. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 20/08/2026
A new report shows that drivers are slowing down significantly on what have been some of the city’s most dangerous roads.
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Oakland installed new automated speed cameras. Drivers’ behavior changed dramatically
A new report shows that drivers are slowing down significantly on what have been some of the city’s most dangerous roads.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“When properly regulated, speed cameras don't pose the same threats to privacy as license-plate-reader surveillance”
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We’re privacy hawks. Here’s why we’re alarmed by license plate readers, and not necessarily by speed cameras - ACLU of Massachusetts
When properly regulated, speed cameras don't pose the same threats to privacy as license-plate-reader surveillance
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026
Spent all day in Vancouver riding around on a rented e-bike and I gotta say: riding around a city on an electric bike on good protected bike infrastructure is just about the most fun you can have with your pants on.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Ask poster in the wild. 🔥🔥🔥
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
And the people who spent 2024 convincing you that Joe Biden was drooling all over himself & barely sentient sat there nodding silently & marveling at the President’s ability to connect with the concerns of ordinary Americans squeezed by higher prices while nibbling on their crème brûlée
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.
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disgruntled lesbian of Minneapolis @phoenix-rights.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours
climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11/07/2026
BREAKING: the clock struck midnight and our bipartisan housing bill is now law. Trump refused to sign it, but he couldn't stop it. This law is GROUNDBREAKING. It will build more housing, bring down costs, and for the first time, stop private equity from buying up homes.
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I did it I wrote the article wish me luck Lionel Messi is the GOAT, Ronaldo is not, why just about every statistical analyst agress www.expectinggoals.com/p/messi-rona...
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Why Messi keeps thriving as Ronaldo fades: The GOAT's always been the best
I'm not proud, or tired
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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
New NBER paper finds that the congestion zone in NYC sped up emergency responses by over a minute - about 5-6%. Great stuff! www.nber.org/papers/w35414
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Congestion Pricing and EMS Response Time: Evidence From New York City
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
THIS IS A REAL STATISTIC 🤯 Player-tracking data on Sofascore AND Fotmob confirm: Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha, 40, has attempted and completed more dribbles at the 2026 World Cup (1) than Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo (0).
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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
OK we can add "ripping out a state of the art filtration system for the reflecting pool because Obama installed it" to the list of things Trump has done out of absolute bitter jealousy of the first Black president.
OK we can add "ripping out a state of the art filtration system for the reflecting pool because Obama installed it" to the list of things Trump has done out of absolute bitter jealousy of the first Black president.
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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 19/06/2026
If these were cars, you'd need a 6-story parking garage and it would take 2 hours to empty out after the game. People would leave the game early to "beat the rush" and would have missed singing Take Me Home, Country Roads together.
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Bruno Fernandes needs punched in the throat @thombomb816.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
my god, it's real
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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 16/06/2026
Great @danielsperrykc.bsky.social piece for us today, about how the wonderful town of Lawrence, Kansas fell in love with Algeria: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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How Algeria won over a Kansas town – and became the World Cup’s unlikeliest love affair
Lawrence, a college town of about 100,000 in northeastern Kansas, has embraced Les Fennecs with a fervor that has surprised everyone but the people who live there
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Ben Wright @benwright.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
😳 via @futi.live
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Sounder at Heart @sounderatheart.com · 15/06/2026
If you’re stressing about how to get to tomorrow’s World Cup game, we have some advice. The main one is: Don’t drive. www.sounderatheart.com/2026/06/how-...
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How to get to World Cup matches in Seattle without losing your mind
Spoiler alert: Don’t drive.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Heads up: The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow it to refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that don't turn over voter rolls to the federal government. Dems say it's clear evidence the Trump admin is trying to unconstitutionally intrude on state-run elections.
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Postal Service Seeks to Block Mail Ballots in States Resisting Trump Demands
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
UPDATE: Now it’s Ivory Coast supporters caught up in Trump & Stephen Miller’s racist World Cup dragnet. ⚽️ 🇨🇮 www.thesun.co.uk/sport/393789...
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 30/05/2026
The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures
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Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I don’t remember any World Cup where shitty stuff like this happened, & I can remember every World Cup since 1978. This referee is one of the best referees in the African Football Confederation (AFCON), & FIFA is standing there useless.
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US confirms it denied entry to Somali referee set to take part in World Cup
Award-winning referee Omar Artan was 'determined to be inadmissible due to vetting concerns' after arriving in Miami.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
ICYMI: The right-wing think tank that developed Trump's anti-DEI policies is now shopping model legislation designed to turn minor protest offenses into felonies under a novel theory it calls "CIVIL TERRORISM" 🫠 by @lhn.bsky.social
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The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests
The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech.
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
CDOT Commissioner Cheaks should announce on Monday morning that the city will be phasing out "door zone" bike lanes starting immediately, as they are inherently deadly.
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Studies consistently find that retail business operators tend to overestimate the proportion of their customers who travel by car. In Berlin, for example, retailers estimated that 22 per cent of their customers drove. In fact it was only 7 per cent. findingspress.org/article/2449...
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Local Business Perception vs. Mobility Behavior of Shoppers: A Survey from Berlin | Published in Findings
By Dirk von Schneidemesser, Jody Betzien. Traders overestimate car use and underestimate active transport. Further, potential customers more often live close to their shopping destinations than retail...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/06/2026
BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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samstejskal.bsky.social @samstejskal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Been a minute, but I felt an itch to write something ahead of the World Cup. On the things the game can give us: medium.com/@samstejskal...
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 05/06/2026
World Cup watch parties have become part of the event’s fabric, and there will be no shortage of free options for soccer fans in the Bay Area over the next month.
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Bay Area World Cup watch parties offer communal experience without steep ticket prices
World Cup watch parties have become part of the event’s fabric, and there will be no shortage of free options for soccer fans in the Bay Area over the next month.
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 03/06/2026
OPINION: The political significance of Tuesday’s election isn’t simply that Mayor Daniel Lurie’s allies won (and won handily) — it’s where they won, columnist Allison Arieff writes.
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Mayor Lurie just got a mandate to build
OPINION: The political significance of Tuesday’s election isn’t simply that Mayor Daniel Lurie’s allies won (and won handily) — it’s where they won, columnist Allison Arieff writes.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We have a promo with Upway where you can save $100 off any purchase of $800 or more with code TWOC100. We're big fans of what they're doing. Sort of like CarMax for e-bikes.
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