Reposted by Michael ScottJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/10/2026What’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌ 37609159 0
Michael Scott @mctoulouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sign SB 868, governor! We need to make plug-in solar legal in California 210 0
Reposted by Michael ScottThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Again: It isn’t about antisemitism. It’s about Israel. Criticism of Israel is not antisemitism. 361376342 0
Michael Scott @mctoulouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Just want to add that if someone is too elderly to use an ebike, they’re probably too elderly to be driving a car. There’s a bus stop! We should be funding bike and mass transit infrastructure for precisely these reasons. 0150 0
Michael Scott @mctoulouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Uber from LAX to Anaheim: 1.5 hours and 100+ bucks. Metro and an uber: 1.5 hours and 50 bucks. 000 0
Michael Scott @mctoulouse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026You are school. I am school. We are all school 😂 010 0
Reposted by Michael ScottJason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I think that we have to admit that post-apocalyptic movies seriously underplayed how much diarrhea and disease are involved in social collapse. 24271771073 0
Reposted by Michael ScottMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. 20318811024816 0
Reposted by Michael ScottYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 03/07/2026Rennes, France will increase frequencies on its Metro A Line to every 60 seconds (down from every 80 seconds), perhaps making it the most frequent metro in the world. The automated light metro line has 140,000 daily riders, in a city with a population of 230,000 (Line B carries ~80,000/day).20minutes.frAvec une rame toutes les minutes, le métro rennais va accélérer la cadenceEn 2028, un métro circulera toutes les minutes en heure de pointe sur la ligne A du métro rennais, contre 80 secondes aujourd’hui, ce qui permettra d’augmenter la capacité de 25 % 924944 0
Reposted by Michael ScottOld School Punk Librarian @kennethf62.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries 287195175035 0
Michael Scott @mctoulouse.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Re: Avatar legend of Aang on Netflix. The first episode’s scene with Suki’s peach pear is 😂🫠 000 0
Michael Scott @mctoulouse.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Happy Pride from the hell hole that is San Francisco! 000 0
Reposted by Michael ScottCharm City Couillon @diabsoule.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The irony of a Tesla being hit by a mass transit train covered in a pride flag during Pride month. 611674212 0
Reposted by Michael ScottBrandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 22/06/2026The reason you don't see bicycles as practical transportation is because your infrastructure has been designed to only enable movement by car. 2356196 0
Michael Scott @mctoulouse.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I don’t get it. It’s like in their heads, the rainbow automatically means gay sex, so they “have to speak out” and “distance themselves” as “good christians” but it’s like, why are you so obsessed with gay sex? 000 0
Reposted by Michael ScottMFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026The air feels heavy — not just with humidity, but with memory. We remember Pulse. We remember the laughter, the music, the light that was stolen, and the love that refused to die. May we keep building a world where joy is never punished, and where every soul can dance without fear. 704890859 0
Michael Scott @mctoulouse.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Is this why Grocery Outlet is so cheap? Not that I’m complaining #surprise 010 0
Reposted by Michael ScottAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country. 755204445649 0
Reposted by Michael Scottlilalexei @lilalexei.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Why have a BLT when you can have an LGBT? Lettuce guacamole bacon and tomato... #DailyLife #SuperNotKosher #Humor #ChaoticQueer #GeekCrafts 1662648190 0
Michael Scott @mctoulouse.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Watching Persepolis today 😢 “Punk is not ded” 000 0
Reposted by Michael Scottbrie “Stupid Twink” monger @stupidtwink.bsky.social · 29/05/2026 3883531666 0
Reposted by Michael ScottRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true. 385119265432 0
Reposted by Michael ScottBrandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Cities are for people, not off-roaders. 320821 0
Reposted by Michael ScottRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/05/2026The widening gap between the wealthy and working-class consumers is so bad, even the CEO of McDonald's is sounding the alarm bell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8OWhw-GXUUyoutube.comOur Economy Is in Danger. Here’s WhyWhile corporate profits skyrocket and the stock market rides high, regular Americans are struggling to make ends meet.Ev 1382298872 0
Reposted by Michael ScottrondezvousWA @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Some of Seattle's top NIMBYs live in the Laurelhurst neighborhood, where they have managed to force Seattle Children's Hospital patients coming by life flight to land a MILE AWAY from the hospital and transfer to ambulance because NIMBYs don't like the noise. www.tiktok.com/@voterondavi...tiktok.comRich NIMBYs are delaying lifesaving care for kids so they don’t have to listen to helicopter noise. This is what happens when NIMBYs calls the shots. It’s got to stop. TikTok video by VoteRonDavis 1081246516 0
Reposted by Michael ScottThe Onion @theonion.com · 25/04/2026Red Light Therapy: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/red-light-therapy-myth… 10115098 0
Reposted by Michael ScottMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/04/2026Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich. 795362387592 0
Reposted by Michael ScottSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15/04/2026For Netanyahu, the war in Gaza was not enough. Iran was not enough. He is now waging a full-blown war of expansion in Lebanon. The time is long overdue for Congress to listen to the American people and end U.S. military aid to the extremist Israeli government. 1553526917 0
Reposted by Michael ScottJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. 373107862196 0
Reposted by Michael ScottGays Of Bluesky @gaysof.bsky.social · 11/04/2026ICE IS DETAINING HUMAN BEINGS IN INHUMANE CONDITIONS. REPORTS OF PEOPLE BEING SHOT, STRIPPED AND NEGLECTED ARE OUTRAGEOUS. IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS, AND WE DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY. NO ONE SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE THIS. STAND UP, SPEAK OUT AND DEFEND DIGNITY. ICE AND RIGHTS. 21287833183 0
Reposted by Michael ScottThe Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 11/04/2026It’s so cool that the pope can’t stop tweeting about how much God hates the American government 20591141161 0
Reposted by Michael ScottJack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Seen at local pubs...by Primitive Brewing, Seattle 14197901663 0
Michael Scott @mctoulouse.bsky.social · 10/04/2026“It is the result of state laws that limit local control and sideline community input.” And yet, before those state laws were enacted, “local control” and “community input” led us to *checks notes* ah yes, a horrendous housing and affordability crisis. 030 0
Reposted by Michael ScottPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Just a day after her firing, former attorney general Pam Bondi’s pictures have been taken down — and thrown in a trash bin, MS NOW reports www.ms.now/news/pam-bon... 1132398433 0
Reposted by Michael Scottscott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 03/04/2026If North America wasn’t so hopelessly addicted to gasoline, we could have nice things too 💔apnews.comMajor Japan railway now powered only by renewable energyTOKYO (AP) — Tokyo's Shibuya is famed for its Scramble Crossing, where crowds of people crisscross the intersection in a scene symbolizing urban Japan’s congestion and anonymity. 582006511 0
Reposted by Michael ScottAlessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 27/02/2026The elected officials in the City of Los Angeles never fail to disappoint. The lengths they'll go to stop denser and more affordable housing near transit is beyond me. If you build transit, you need to build dense housing around it.laist.comState law puts more homes near train stops. If LA wants to delay that, it must pick areas to upzoneL.A. leaders opposed SB 79. Now that it’s law, the city is scrambling to delay some of its provisions until 2030. 391241239 0
Michael Scott @mctoulouse.bsky.social · 28/02/2026If you like suburbia, live there, but don’t bring suburbia to urban areas. It might seem shocking, but some people want to live in dense, walkable neighborhoods. 1111 0
Reposted by Michael ScottSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 28/02/2026Congress must return immediately and vote to put an end to this war. Every Senator should be on the record—the American people deserve to know which of their leaders supports another potentially bloody and costly war in the Middle East. No war with Iran. 1382791656 0
Reposted by Michael Scottemily @emilysue.bsky.social · 28/02/2026i’m eating some pre-breakfast pie 184220 0
Reposted by Michael ScottGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/02/2026No new wars. 458126051980 0
Reposted by Michael ScottRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/02/2026U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering today. 563124794743 0
Reposted by Michael ScottOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/02/2026They told me if I voted for Kamala the US would continue to be involved in foreign wars, and they were right! 19681471124 0
Reposted by Michael ScottSenator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 10/02/2026I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now. 762313765940 0
Reposted by Michael ScottJordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 07/02/2026A pragmatic pro-housing leftist candidate running for mayor of the biggest city on the west coast against one the most vociferous NIMBY elected officials in the state? Be still my heart! www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comCouncilmember Nithya Raman to run for L.A. mayor, challenging onetime ally Karen BassRaman would immediately pose a formidable challenge to Bass. She was the first council member to be elected with support from the Democratic Socialists of America. 311316 0