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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14h

NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15h

I worry in the next few years we're all going to have to have some patient, complicated conversations with older or less media-engaged relatives who see the le epic trump takedown posts but do not stuff like this about who Gavin Newsom Really Is

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YIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“a building located in an R5(CW) zone shall not cast a shadow on a lot located in the R4 or R5 zone for more than two hours each day between the hours of 9AM and 3PM on the Winter Solstice and 9AM and 5PM on the Summer Solstice”

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why can't LA build more affordable housing? Well, you see, because a building located in an R5(CW) zone shall not cast a shadow on a lot located in the R4 or R5 zone for more than two hours each day between the hours of 9AM and 3PM on the Winter Solstice and 9AM and 5PM on the Summer Solstice.

A corrective comment from a zoning review for a 100% affordable housing project in Los Angeles that reads, "BUILDINGS OR STRUCTURES ON A LOT LOCATED WITHIN THE R5(CW) LAND USE CATEGORY SHALL NOT CAST SHADOWS ON A LOT LOCATED IN THE R3 OR R4 ZONE, OR THE R4(CW) OR RC4(CW) LAND USE CATEGORY FOR MORE THAN TWO (2) HOURS EACH DAY BETWEEN THE HOURS F 9 AM AND 3 PM ON THE WINTER SOLSTICE AND 9 AM AND 5 PM ON THE SUMMER SOLSTICE. THE PROJECT APPLICANT SHALL SUBMIT A SHADE.
SHADOW ANALYSIS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING AT THE TIME OF APPLICATION FOR PROJECT PERMIT COMPLIANCE REVIEW."

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The California DMV will now revoke someone’s license if they injure someone *after* having *four* DUIs. Our laws were written to protect drivers from any consequences, at the cost of not protecting their victims from death and injury. The right to drive a car may as well be in the constitution.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One thing I’ll credit my Catholic education for is turning me into a death penalty abolitionist.

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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hard to say what is scarier, this kinda shit or maybe having to park 1/2 a block further from your house than you want to.

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Henry Fung @henryfung.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yet another area constrained by the California Constitution: specifically banned by Propositon 5 (1974), which prohibits all jurisdictions, including charter cities, from requiring public employees to live a specific place. repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcont...

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MTA presentation on $1 billion tax on transit that tariffs are taking on our bus and train procurements. We have to pay this tax despite exceeding Buy America requirements and that rolling stock program funds hundreds and hundreds of manufacturing jobs — www.youtube.com/live/0e3tHtO...

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MTA Board Meeting - 9/30/2026

YouTube video by MTA Live

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"A Staten Island judge" stop right there we shouldn't have those

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think transitioning into Medicare for All, starting with children, is an excellent idea. It’s also exactly what Warren proposed during her presidential run. The very proposal that made people lose their shit and villainize her because a transition plan wasn’t “real” Medicare for All.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have many friends and family members who are/were addicts. None wrecked their lives or committed more unethical acts than the one who was a gambling addict. And that was prior to online gambling. Shutting this shit down needs to be a policy priority in every state.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't think it's a coincidence that there's so much overlap between the Platnerstosslegende crowd and the anti-YIMBYs who insists that a small cabal of financial elites are inflating housing costs. When your political cosmology is fundamentally conspiratorial you always end up in the same place.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Another Dem governor following Newsom’s lead in using transit funds to subsidize the fossil fuel industry due to “affordability” concerns.

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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

one reason (of many) i voted for fair share was that money would be used to support public transit to fight climate change. using those funds to subsidize individual, private auto use (and bail out trump) is a betrayal

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYC DOT is hiring for a ton of jobs to scale up bike lane and greenway implementation, if anyone is interested. We really need them fully staffed with great people, so please pass around. cityjobs.nyc.gov/jobs?q=micro...

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The MTA has been planning to reroute the B65 for years, long before Mamdani’s bike boulevard plans. And the reason? Because there are so many double parked cars on Dean/Bergen that buses literally get stuck. IT’S THE CARS. AS USUAL.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just to put “transplant” discourse in context: domestic migration to NYC has been net negative for all of the last five years.

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Spooky rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 21/09/2026

It’s wild to see people who (rightly) wouldn’t dream of maligning immigrants shouting about how internal migration is bad, that if you’re already in the country you shouldn’t be able to attempt to improve your life.

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This year legislators introduced a slate of 17 bills intended to close California’s “license to kill” system of loopholes for dangerous driving and repeat offenders. Almost all of them failed: calmatters.org/tag/license-... @calmatters.org

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License to Kill

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The chiropractor by my parents’ house specializes in “pediatric chiropractics.” There are numerous photos like this one on their website of literal infants. STRAIGHT TO JAIL.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think this reads “DEMOLISHED” and it looks like there’s smoke/fire so either someone made him a fantasy board or they’re trying to make him think it has already been demolished.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is what the block by the 78th precinct looks like every day--littered with the NYPD's personal vehicles on the sidewalk, next to a public park and playground.

Aerial view of Bergen Street in Brooklyn, NY. The image shows 16 veicles parked on the sidewalk.

A street view of Bergen Street in Brooklyn, NY showing NYPD officers' cars parked on the sidewalk next to a public park.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is my personal 9/11

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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Writing from coastal California, I beg if you: please do not do this in your state. As an Occupy adherent I increasingly feel as if "we are the 99%" stopped being a call for solidarity, but has come to obscure real material differences *in ownership* and labor power among the electorate...

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This means that if the average American spent an additional $1,000 per month in housing costs to live in a city where they could get around without a car, they'd still potentially be saving money.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is what makes the privacy concerns about speed cameras so disingenuous. Your car is already collecting farrrr more data about you than a speed camera (not flock) that just takes a picture of your plate.

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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Crazy: "The EU motor insurance directive requires every member state to mandate at least €1,300,000 of coverage per injured person, ~$1.5 million... The United Kingdom requires unlimited coverage for personal injury. California requires 2% of the European per-person floor..."

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Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My new shirt “when you oppose tall residential buildings you stand with TERRORISTS” can be explained by my shirt.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

TIL that Mohamed Atta was a professional urban planner, of the preservationist nimby persuasion, and that his graduate school thesis was about how high-rises ruin neighborhood character 😳.

Screenshot of the Wikipedia page for 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta that reads, “ At the Hamburg University of Technology, Atta studied under the guidance of the department chair, Dittmar Machule, who specialized in the Middle East. 19] Atta was averse to modern development. This included the construction of high-rise buildings in Cairo and other ancient cities in the region. He believed that the drab and impersonal apartment blocks, built in the 60s and 70s, ruined the beauty of old neighborhoods and robbed their people of privacy and dignity.”

Screenshot of the Wikipedia page for 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta, with a highlighted sentence that reads “He criticized how the newfangled skyscrapers and other modernizing projects disrupted the fabric of communities.”

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 10/09/2026

In the early 2000s, transit ridership levels in the Atlanta and Seattle urban areas were quite similar. Since then, the two regions have experienced dramatic change: While Seattle's ridership is 70% higher than back then, Atlanta's is 40% lower. www.thetransportpolitic.com/databook/us-...

Monthly transit ridership, by urban area, Atlanta and Seattle.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

An Ohio friend shared the anti-Sherrod Brown mailer he got today.

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Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I worry that many on the left will vote for Kim for the wrong reasons. Kim's proposals are a bailout of wealthy suburban and rural homeowners at the expense of working class, urban people. She is using progressive language to distort yet another market to benefit those who have benefitted to date.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

According to the Census, over twice as many people moved *from* New York *to* Ohio last year than the reverse. 7,100 people NY --> OH 3,300 people OH --> NY. www.census.gov/data/tables/...

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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 08/09/2026

If you've spent your whole life going hiking, driving a Prius and having a beautiful garden in the 'burbs, it's horrifying to think that the guy who takes the train and lives in a steel tower is doing a better job of saving the planet than you.

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New interactive map compares carbon footprints of Bay Area neighborhoods - Berkeley News

Data on current carbon emissions will help cities meet goals set at Paris climate summit, and show people how they contribute to global warming.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yesterday I saw that this large parking lot adjacent to a NYC subway station is getting retrofitted with solar panels. Whether or not you think this is the most climate-friendly use of the lot determines which type of “environmentalist” you are.

Picture of a large parking lot in south Brooklyn adjacent to a Q train subway station getting retrofitted with solar panels.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In my early 20s, I would go to this place called something like NeuroFocus, where they would hook my head up with electrodes and say, “Watch this ad for Tide and press the button every time you see the color red.” I earned $75/session.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You can get these people on board for discrete policy items like pesticide bans maybe, but they are animated by a belief that if everyone just followed their elaborate health mythology, we'd all be cured and live forever. And the fact that someone isn't and is sick? Their fault.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Every home equity millionaire in California thinks they're very clever when they retort "but if I sell my house, where will I live?" as if that is not the exact dilemma that the 44% of Californians who rent their homes face without, you know, that million+ dollar asset to soften the blow.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My not-a-coastal-elite bona fides. Unfortunately this also means “immediately clocked as a Midwest transplant,” the gravest of sins here in Brooklyn.

A dialect map showing that the user’s dialect is most closely related to the Midwest and Great Plains states, and most dissimilar to the northeast region.

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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm grateful for DSA’s endorsement, and for every organizer, volunteer, and member who's knocked doors, made calls, and put in the work to get us here.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gavin Newsom’s priorities in 2026: ✔️ take money from transit, affordable housing, and schoolchildren. ✔️ give it to fossil fuel companies.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is the built environment surrounding the author's place of employment. See the problem? That's right, too many e-bikes.

An aerial image of the UC-Irvine campus, with the College of Health Sciences at the center. The campus primarily consists of parking lots and is adjacent to a major freeway.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's honestly kind of impressive that the human brain can do this

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Michael Schneider @michaelschneider.com · 02/09/2026

"How much does it cost to write your own law in California? About $500,000. That’s what Forest Lawn and Mt Sinai spent on lobbyists since 2025 to kill one road safety project, on one street, in LA. This week, Sacramento gave them their money’s worth." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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Contributor: Sacramento's micromanaging of a single lane in the Hollywood Hills

Imagine what this precedent buys next. A billionaire who dislikes the housing project down the block. A millionaire who wants a bus lane gone, a park redesigned, a public street bent to private will.

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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think it's nice that data center foes are finally bringing attention to this matter because for decades we've been pretending that > 60dB overnight noise from cars on roads is acceptable to people living in apartments. I guess when that sound level finally hits exurban white folks?

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TomTom @tomtomchi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Completely absurd. LA's Dept of Transportation and the local community approved the road improvements but Karen Bass personally intervened to delay it, which became bad press for her. So now conveniently the *state* stepped in to ban improvements on *just that one street*.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

California voters in 2025: turn out in Assad numbers to pass the Punish Republicans Act California politicians in 2025: I agree with the president. Now time to focus on preserving local control, banning bike lanes at cemeteries, and subsidizing oil refineries.

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