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Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 26/05/2026
Costco makes up for its super low margins on products by selling memberships. With stagnant population and housing growth, membership growth also flattened. The seeds of the midtown Costco’s demise were sewn when elected officials downzoned midtown.
A map of Kansas City, Mo showing areas where apartments and duplexes are not permitted adjacent to the streetcar route and transportation development district.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.
Bugs Bunny giving a monster a manicure, caption: My I'll bet you monsters lead interesting lives.
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
In addition to building up, we also need to build down. Thru-running regional rail could transform all of northeastern Illinois, especially on Chicago’s South Side and working-class communities throughout Cook County. It’s time to #BuildTheTunnel. 🔗 buildthetunnelchicago.org
CrossTowner regional rail project mapCrossTowner regional rail service diagram showing 2034sight + CRCL Plan improvements
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Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 09/03/2026
@staubio.com I’ve never seen any of the old foundations on the riverfront until the overgrowth clearing project made it possible. Amazing work!
Historic interpretative sign at town of Kansas bridgeFoundations from early riverfront buildings
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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
If Rochester can do it, your city can too.
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North Loop Neighbors @northloopneighbors.com · 02/03/2026
North Loop mentioned!
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Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance @kcrta.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We support #KCMO Ordinance 260219, an effort to remove parking minimums in some of the denser parts of the city. Check out our letter of support and submit testimony to the city clerk before the Neighborhood Planning and Development committee meeting on Tuesday, 2/24!
Page 1 of 2 - KCRTA letter of support for Ordinance 260219. It reads, in part, "Parking minimums waste valuable urban space. They drive up the cost of housing and Development, degrade historic urban neighborhoods, and encourage people to drive, even in situations when they know they shouldn't. Part 2 of 2 - KCRTA letter supporting Ordinance 260219. It reads, in part, "The KCRTA believes in an urban core where driving is just one of many choices that people have to move around their city and access opportunities, and we have put in the work to expand those options for our neighbors."
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Eric Goldwyn @egoldwyn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
41 miles of new subway for the cost of free buses. Here’s an audacious, expansive plan to expand the subway’s reach & catalyze housing to attack the affordability crisis. An incredible effort from NYU Marron team. Excited for this to be out in the world: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...
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Free Buses? How About Expanding the Subway by 41 Miles Instead?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/12/2025
she's just doing what she was hired to do
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Michael Kelley says Vote NO on Amendment 3 @mckelleykc.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Hey Kansas City friends: if you've used bike share this year, please take a few minutes to complete (and share) their annual survey: #bikeshare #KC #bikethere bikesharekc.com/2025/12/05/b...
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Big news for bike share! (+ don't forget to take the survey)
New name, new hubs, new app en español, new survey, and hibernation season
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Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 02/12/2025
KC NIMBYs arguing for parking minimums… get a grip!
Mr. incredible meme saying “Shut the the fuck up. Please shut the fuck up.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/11/2025
this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
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Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 19/11/2025
It’s really not that simple yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/do-a...
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Do Americans really want urban sprawl? » Yale Climate Connections
Although car-dependent suburbs continue to spread across the nation, they’re not as popular as you might assume.
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San Diego Bikeist @sdbikeist.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Highways/Freeways are good for connecting far flung places to each other. Running them through cities/neighborhoods was one of the worst ideas of the 20th century -
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 31/10/2025
Good morning! Last night, Illinois’ legislature passed a law, SB2111, which will fund a major expansion of service for the Chicago region’s transit systems, thanks to new revenue sources. The law also takes a major step forward in coordination between agencies.
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Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 29/10/2025
We tried! Business concerns won over the needs of transit users. The exclusive lanes were also a last minute addition.
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)
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Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 13/10/2025
Kind of wild how much of the expanded streetcar transportation development district (taxing district for KC’s new streetcar) doesn’t allow for apartments, or in some cases, even duplexes.
Map showing the streetcar taxing district and locations where apartments and/or duplexes aren’t permitted
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Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 13/10/2025
Girders for the new Grand Boulevard pedestrian bridge are nearly all set!
Grand Blvd pedestrian bridge under construction
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2025
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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NRDC @nrdc.org · 04/10/2025
More than a third of Americans don’t have reliable car access to get to work, school, or the grocery store. Our new transportation map can help policymakers better understand their communities and build a system that will benefit everyone.
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Who Doesn’t Have a Car?
A new NRDC map shows car-free living and the factors affecting car usage in United States.
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 02/10/2025
Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance Vice Chair Michael Kelley says the poll shows that people across the metro will support public transit if their local governments invest in it, especially at a time when the state and federal governments are pulling back transit funding.
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Voters across the Kansas City metro support a sales tax for better bus service, new poll finds
A new poll from the Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance found that voters in four counties across the metro would support a regional sales tax dedicated to bus service, even as soon as next year.
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Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance @kcrta.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🚨ADVOCACY ALERT!🚨 KCRTA polling shows majority voter support for transit funding across the Kansas City region! 🧵 1 of 4:
Image from KCRTA. The text reads: "We believe that public transit funding is a REGIONAL problem. So we decided to hire the top transit pollster in the country to ask real voters in Jackson, Johnson, Clay, and Wyandotte Counties if they would vote to approve a sales tax that would fund a regional bus system. Here is what a majority of voters told us..."
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Sam’s Law of Media: The media treats Democrats as the only political actors with agency, responsible for everything happening Republicans, by contrast, are treated like zoo animals: odd, fascinating, but never to be judged and, perhaps more importantly, never responsible for their own decisions
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein
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Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 21/09/2025
The KC Riverfront is (finally) getting some promising urbanism!
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
It took, what, eight days? For the pretense that MAGA cares about Charlie Kirk to totally collapse, and for Trump’s megalomania to take center stage again. No matter what they say or do they only ever care about one thing: making us worship Great Leader alongside them
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!
Taking political positions that'll make it more likely to win Senate seats in Kansas and Ohio and Missouri. Trying to open your coalition to people you didn't want it open to before. Running pro-life Democrats.Constitutional Amendment 3
November 5, 2024
Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative
Choice
Yes
X No
Results
Votes
1,538,659
1,443,022
%
51.60%
48.40%Issue 1
November 7, 2023
Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety(1]
Results
Choice
Votes
%
& Yes
2,227,384
56.78%
No
1,695,480
43.22%
Total votes
3,922,864
100.00%2022 Kansas abortion referendum
KANSAS
August 2, 2022
Should there be no Kansas constitutional right to abortion or to require the government funding of abortion, and reserve to the people of Kansas, through their elected state legislators, the right to pass laws to regulate abortion, including, but not limited to, in circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or when necessary to save the life of the mother?
Results
Choice
Votes
%
• Yes
385,014
40.84%
X No
557,837
59.16%
Total votes
942,851
100.00%
Registered voters turnout
1,929,972
48.85%
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Remarkable how centrist pundits like Noah Smith are still prattling on about "cancel culture" and "Bluesky-ization" while people are getting fired for insufficient mourning of a bigoted liar who constantly directed hatred towards the majority of Americans.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 13/09/2025
“Kirk was not an example of healthy political discourse, and we should not pretend otherwise just because he was the victim of what appears to be more senseless political violence.” www.liberalcurrents.com/not-all-vict...
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Not All Victims Should Be Martyrs
Charlie Kirk believed in advancing right-wing political goals and attacking left-wing opponents by any and all means necessary—including political violence.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Excellent piece by Ezra Klein: if Dems really believe that Trump is creating an authoritarian government they should not continue to fund it. The shutdown is their only leverage right now to draw attention to what is happening and maybe force change. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2025
ah yes, politics, that realm of human affairs where drama and emotional catharsis are to be avoided
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
JD Vance said he doesn’t care if the US commits war crimes. Did it make the news? Donald Trump said he’s declaring war on Chicago. Did it make the news? Executive agencies keep posting Nazi blood-and-soil propaganda. Did it make the news?
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
A simple way to improve American downtowns: Make one-way arterials bidirectional. Doing so will improve safety, boost retail sales, and attract pedestrians. Me, in Bloomberg 🧵
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One-Way Streets Are the Wrong Way to Tame Downtown Traffic
In the 1950s, US traffic planners thought unidirectional arterials were better for moving cars through urban areas. Now many cities are having second thoughts.
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Spreadsheet enjoyer 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @bluser12.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
“Blueskyism” Rent free lmao
Tweet from Nate Aluminum:

@NateSilver538
X.com
Electorally speaking it's more important for Democrats to avoid Blueskyism that leftism. Not that Bluesky is important but it embodies all the characteristics that make progressivism unappealing to normal people. If you could subtract those the left would win more often.
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Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 25/08/2025
The owners of The Grand continue to blame crime on the presence of bus stop, including in their latest appeal to the PIEA last week. More obvious to me is the unsecured surface parking, concentration of 3AM bars, and c-store selling single serving liquor.
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Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 20/08/2025
This all feels like a hallucination ngl
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Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 19/08/2025
These digital advertising kiosks have been a huge eyesore downtown for the last 10 years. IMO digital should be kept out of the public realm. It falls apart too easily and won’t be lucrative or well maintained in low pedestrian footfall markets like KC.
(Now removed) Citypost Digital Advertising Kiosk with large sign that says “Your Ad Here” at the River Market West Streetcar stop
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Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 15/08/2025
These are the owners of the new downtown drive thru coffee shop approved the the Kansas City Board of Zoning Adjustment
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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
🚨 WaPo EXCLUSIVE Hours before Trump removed Billy Long as IRS commissioner, his agency clashed with the White House over sharing immigrants’ tax data.
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IRS, White House clashed over immigrants’ data before tax chief was ousted
The Trump administration’s move to push out IRS Commissioner Billy Long came after the agency said it couldn’t release some information on taxpayers suspected of being here illegally.
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 07/08/2025
The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority and Kansas City, Missouri, are wrapped up in intense negotiations over a new contract. If a new agreement isn't reached in the next few days, cuts to the local bus service could be on the table. loom.ly/vdOEcUA
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KCATA board member hopeful for contract with Kansas City, but calls out 'political grandstanding'
Bridgette Williams, who represents Wyandotte County on the KCATA Board of Commissioners, remains hopeful that a deal will be made soon with Kansas City, Missouri. The transit agency needs a contract soon to secure funding and prevent bus service cuts.
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Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 01/08/2025
“The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority removed the benches that were there in 2023 after a request from developers and the Kansas City Police Department.” Lot of fingers being pointed the wrong direction
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Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 27/07/2025
Great write up in the Kansas City Star on the history of this highway and the community it impacted. Very excited to be helping Kansas City think through some potential solutions.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Wow — New Gallup poll: — Trump approval on immigration: 35-62 (!) — Record high approval of immigration (79-17 overall) — 78% of people support a pathway to citizenship (+8 from 2024); only 38% support mass deportation (-9 from 2024) — 30% want a decrease in immigration (-25 from 2024)
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/07/2025
anti-doomer sentence of the day: "Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last" www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
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Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 05/07/2025
Another all ages and abilities bike facility delayed or canceled by an “avid cyclist” grabbing the microphone
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