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Dan Jorgenson

@dtjorgenson.bsky.social
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Web developer by trade. A bit of a news & politics junkie. Long-standing interests in science and technology. Pragmatic Left-Urbanist YIMBY. Liberal. Lifelong Democrat. Sometimes hobbyist photographer. He/Him

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026
One thing about Copenhagen is that there's tons of dense housing but you *never* find it fronting a busy road with cars racing past, which describes about 90% of the apartments in the US. They manage to make it feel tucked away, private, cozy. (These are all from Sluseholmen, my dream neighborhood.)
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cities everywhere are discussing the dangers of ebikes in cities and passing swift legislation to tightly control them. Meanwhile:
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 01/10/2026
People are going to clown on this but we need to remember that planning for local context is important: a city with Los Angeles, California’s semi-arid Mediterranean climate only gets sunshine ~300 days a year; so it’s important to make sure you can never ever find shade in the middle of the day.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Are robotaxis really "green"? - "They're EVs!"  Sure, but cars can go electric w/o autonomy. - "They'll be shared!"  Doubtful. Shared ridehail has fizzled. - "They'll boost transit!" Ridehail made the same claim. Nope. In fact, AVs could worsen the environment by inducing much more driving.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Paris has been praised in recent years for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get enough credit for just being really pragmatic! Everything they’ve been doing is common sense. They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air and cooling the city.
People riding bikes in a full separated bike-lane in Central Paris.Cars jamming a street in central Paris.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The story of American politics is the story of a C student who cannot help but start big projects the night before they are due. We've seen this coming for decades, but in response, we just made cars bigger and more deadly.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let's keep arguing about e-bikes, everybody.
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Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 03/03/2025
"It simply never occurs to us to make streets into oases rather than deserts."
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
YIMBYism is simply an attempt to do to predatory landlords what the Pokémon Company is apparently doing to scalpers
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Again, the people who voted for the racist party did so for racist reasons. They are not secretly communists in waiting who are just frustrated at the lack of a communist party. As there, so here
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Bianca Walser @biancawalser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The human contact aspect of biking is wildly underrated.
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I won't claim that riding a bike fixes everything, but moving your body, getting some fresh air, and being face to face with nature on a simple commute can do so much for your physical and mental health. You don't always have to leave the car at home, but give it a try sometime if you can.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
This is demonstrably, measurably improving the health of the people who live there. Most notably, it increases the respiratory *& cognitive* health of children. They literally do better in school. If this country really gave a shit about children, this would be at the top of the public-policy list.
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The reason the left needs to embrace this thought is that the only way to pay for Nordic-style social democracy in America is to raise broad-based taxes across the board, and we'll never be able to do that if we operate under an ideological principle that almost everyone in America is poor.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I find this so infuriating for a couple of reasons. First is that for adults, e-bikes are often car replacements! Second is that e-bikes are about *mobility* and it shouldn't matter what level of exertion someone has, even if they're riding recreationally. There's so much ableism in this POV.
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ironically, there's something about bike helmets discourse that causes people's brains to turn off. Bike advocates: "Helmets are great, but they are literally not designed to save your life if you're hit by a car." Everyone else: "Why do you oppose bike helmets??"
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A whole lot of people are interpreting this as being anti-helmet and I hope folks read the article which includes robust discussion about why safe streets advocates bristle at helmet PSAs. I recently shared some of my own thoughts in a short thread.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 25/08/2026
Everyone who has been riding their bicycle on American streets for more than a couple of years has had a motorist try to kill them.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The median American voter, voted for it be 2019 again and for Trump to make them rich, under the very mistaken belief that Worse Things Aren't Possible, and quite literally everyone is paying for it
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
please
Many people try to misrepresent
"We should make it better and safer for people to bike"
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"Every person must ride a bike for every situation, everywhere, every single time"
Could we please stop this childish game?
ROVÉLO CREATIVE
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Once again it's really interesting how posts advocating for active transportation are interpreted as evil urbanists wanting to take cars away from rural people.
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"if there was a cure to cancer they wouldnt sell it to you, to sell you chemo instead" (actual market): holy fuck these guys mightve cured melanoma BUY BUY BUY
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I really think the fact that it takes decades to build critical infrastructure plays a significant role in blackpilling young people. government should be able to do things on a reasonable timeline
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I coulda used this when i was 21 (im 32 now)
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can you just fucking build it
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/08/2026
Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is what a post war suburban arterial should look like. Note the wide median (instead of 2 more lanes), protected bike lane shared as sidewalk (no on street paint bullshit), and every intersection has car turn phases that don’t conflict with bike/ped.
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Cycling Capital @cyclingcapital.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My hot take is that most residential streets don’t need to be any wider than this. #Utrecht
Narrow but verdant brick street where all modes mix
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/08/2026
this entire issue is downstream of the fact that kids are trapped in car-dependent suburbs, unable to develop any sense of autonomy until age 16, when they're suddenly allowed to drive a 4,000 lb vehicle
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
daily we are reminded of the need for a certain type of person to get into esoteric music or obscure art or whatever again so they can stop pretending to care about politics and policy.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
👇🎯 This is the reason WI elections go late into the night, often with a large batch of Milwaukee votes coming in late. The only reason the Fidesz-on-Mendota Party has refused to change this 1915 law is because it serves their lying narrative about (nonexistent) mass voter fraud in Madison/Milwaukee.
wisconsinwatch.org
Does Wisconsin state law prohibit counting absentee ballots before Election Day?
Yes. In 1915, a state law was passed in Wisconsin stipulating that absentee ballots “must be opened only at the polls on election day while said polls are open.” While there have been m…
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
like I keep saying, as much as this place insists is not the case this is now basically the median dem position on the Hill Obama "oh we can just let torture bygones be war crimes bygones" isn't happening
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If your campaign is based around making a bunch of young non-voters show up to vote, no they aren't. There is exactly one candidate who has shown he can get non-voters to show up, and his name is Donald Trump.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Wow, rural voters being undercounted? Young people not showing up? Who could have anticipated the same thing that happens in every other election.
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trump is destroying the country @sooriclover.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
No matter what happen, Never rely on really young voters, they turn out the least every time (then many complain when they don’t like the result)
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I know I say it all the time, but a lot of pedestrian/micro-mobility conflicts arise due to lack of infrastructure or infrastructure that puts a lot of people into slivers of space not taken from cars. Will there always be assholes? Yup, but giving everyone more space will make things a lot safer.
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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The demographic reality is inescapable: We are going to have millions more older drivers with diminishing capabilities, in cars that are too big and too dangerous for everyone around them, with few satisfactory alternatives to driving. It will not end well.
lloydalter.substack.com
How will we live when we reach the end of our drivespan?
Our cities and suburbs are not designed to cope with the demographic time bomb.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Ah yes, the Green Lantern theory of politics. Under Kentucky law 1) McConnell has to either resign or die, he can't be declared incapacitated 2) He would have to be replaced by another Republican So basically people want Beshear to break the law so Republicans can get an extra vote in the Senate
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TomTom @tomtomchi.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Absolutely horrifying. This kind of sick shit (which happens on some level every day in California and beyond) is why advocates push back on the idea that the only housing boogeymen are big corporations. Petty bourgeoisie assholes like these kill by a thousand cuts and it has to end now.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
More Americans have been killed in the Iran war Trump started than in the Afghan withdrawal Biden was handed and completed. The implications for America’s geopolitical situation is much worse with attacking Iran than leaving Afghanistan. But going by tone of coverage, one would think the opposite.
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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The number of nominally Democratic commentators who want to effectively give the GOP another Senate vote -- who are *furious* at Beshear for NOT giving the GOP that vote -- bc something something "fighting" is mind-blowing. It is the apex of a truly toxic brainrot that is going to destroy us all.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Nobody disputes that having access to a car in a car-dominated society is good. It gives one access to jobs, healthcare, food, education, social opportunities and more. All we're asking is for people to go one step deeper and ask why access to such basic rights requires buying and operating a car.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/07/2026
The Center on Global Energy policy investigates rising electricity prices in the US and finds ... the same thing all the other research has found. It's not data centers, except in a few confined areas. It's a broad, complicated mix of factors with no fun, simplistic, social-media-friendly slogan.
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Center on Global Energy Policy Announces New Research on the Drivers of Rising Electricity Prices Across the United States - Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA | CGEP
The Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University SIPA today announced the release...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026
An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Once again: we did this in the 70s and everybody hated it. This gets mentioned all the time and somehow piles of dummies just pretend we didn’t learn something.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/07/2026
"Corridor zoning" amounts to jamming low-income residents into big, bland apartment buildings alongside stroads, where they can serve as a buffer, absorbing all the noise & air pollution cars produce, protecting the precious single-family homes that dominate everywhere around them. It's abominable.
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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Wild that vacancy rates going up really does drive down prices exactly like YIMBYs said would happen.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thrilled to see more criticism in the popular press about "ultra-processed food"
slate.com
One of the Biggest Boogeymen on Our Grocery Shelves Needs a Better Name
It’s all about the vibes.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13/07/2026
"Residents didn't oppose it blindly. We just wanted engagement. We read the plans, cited city code and asked questions about scale, traffic mitigation, safety and impact. But our concerns were ignored."
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 13/07/2026
i do not blame anyone for feeling this way, this isn’t a dunk, but *you* are in charge of the party. every local democratic party is three little old ladies who have been keeping the flame for 200 years waiting for someone to spell them, and all you need to do is put up chairs and bring coffee.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
1) Everyone should say whatever they want about Lindsey Graham. Piss on his grave, absolutely, whatever, he sucked. 2) It is silly to expect that Democratic elected will join you in this, or even that they won't release anodyne statements praising him. Why make yourself angry about the latter?
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