Reposted by Ron Pike🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 123123615260
Reposted by Ron PikeDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 18793331
Ron Pike @ronpike.com · 10/09/2026The Logic of Destruction snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...snyder.substack.comThe Logic of DestructionAnd how to resist it 000
Reposted by Ron PikeDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026In NYC, Mayor Mamdani has launched the Office of Worker Power, designed to connect workers who want to unionize with education and resources. Former US Labor Sec Julie Su is overseeing the effort & the executive director comes from the UAW. "When workers can organize, everything changes," said Su.prospect.orgMamdani Opens Office of Worker Power - The American ProspectThe new city agency intends to connect workers who want to unionize with resources and organizing contacts, and use worker stories of exploitation to inform policy. 141784484
Reposted by Ron Pikemichaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Spotted over I-5 in Seattle 250146323011
Reposted by Ron PikeGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Not to harp on headlines, but this is also a great example of privileging the lie by trying to be clever. A more accurate headline would be something like this: "Bike Lanes Benefit Everyone. The Trump Administration Wants to Kill Them." 1655
Reposted by Ron PikeLawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 27/08/2026In the past year, the Trump administration has killed at least 223 people in Caribbean Sea and East Pacific boat strikes. These attacks are extrajudicial killings and should be considered murder under domestic law and crimes against humanity under international law, writes @seharrison7.bsky.social.lawfaremedia.orgThe Boat Strikes Aren’t Part of a War. They’re Murder.By debating war powers and war crimes, Congress is missing the simpler, graver truth: The president is directing summary executions. 19449229
Reposted by Ron PikeJustin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026As mentioned in my comment on USPS's new ballot rule, the American postal service was born in 1774 _because_ the alternative system (the Crown's post) let the executive decide which mail not to deliver. For a Court riveted by bespoke historical analogs, this rule is 252 years of unAmerican.electionlawblog.org 141164470
Reposted by Ron PikeD. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 21/08/2026🗞️As a former Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes I can tell you it is the most important newspaper in the world because it exists to inform and protect our troops from people like the despicable Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump who do not believe they — or anybody for that matter — are owed the truth.apnews.comStars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interviewThe editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired him as well as its publisher and a reporter. 531886808
Reposted by Ron PikeMRSPOURS @mrspours.bsky.social · 17/08/20262026 MN State Fair Crop Art entry "Witness" based on pStar Tribune photograph by Leila Navi with MPR reporter Sam Stroiza. 141736337
Reposted by Ron PikeSounder at Heart @sounderatheart.com · 17/08/2026Tifo by @weareecs.bsky.social: ‘always here | always proud.’ 013122
Reposted by Ron PikeNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026NATO is bad, EU is bad, democracy is bad, Putin is good, you aren't white enough. countries that fought in Afghanistan never do anything for us, we're tariffing you, we're taking Canada, we're taking Greenland, no air defense for Ukraine, we attacked Iran and you have to fix it, hey where you going? 747990
Reposted by Ron PikeDr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026On geographies of grounded relations and repair, power structures, and ultimately, geographies of accountability by American Association of Geographers President Sara Smith www.aag.org/geographies-... #AcademicSky #GeogSky #BlackSkyaag.orgGeographies of Accountability - AAGAAG - Geographies of Accountability - All - 1136
Reposted by Ron PikeThe Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Paging Franz Kafka 0378
Reposted by Ron PikeFrank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This also relates to that Lula quote I keep coming back to, that the point of politics is to make things good for people, and that those good things *must* be joy, art and play. If you reject that, you get the modern right, who think the point of politics is that they should be allowed to use slurs 0428
Reposted by Ron Pikedr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 01/08/2026the problem these people have can be boiled down to a simple binary: (a) they look down on every person on earth but (b) they are the lowest of all people on earth. they venerate "civilization" but themselves are wholly uncivilized. sanctimonious and judgmental, criminals and antisocial scum 523532
Reposted by Ron Pikedr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 01/08/2026it's so fucked up in so many ways including the many times where it's like "haw haw you will be so miserable being deported to this hellhole full of mud people" and then the people there actually show them humanity and compassion not possessed by us americans 334327
Reposted by Ron PikeGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/08/2026So many families terrified and in pain tonight. The people who just followed these orders need to be brought to justice. 29313
Reposted by Ron PikeSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 24/07/2026Today marks 3 years since anti-corruption activist & economics professor, Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu, was arrested & detained on politically motivated charges in Azerbaijan. Despite his deteriorating health, the Aliyev govt has denied him access to the life-saving care he needs. (1/2)justsecurity.org1,000 Days and Counting: A Father, A Professor, and a Government That Won't Let GoThe son of an Azerbaijan economist and anti-corruption activist appeals for the release of his father and uncle, both political prisoners. 421872
Reposted by Ron PikeEric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 17/07/20261945: You borrow > 100% of GDP and you can comprehensively defeat fascism, allow the US to design and build international institutions, and instill in a generation the vitality of freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear 2025: You borrow > 100% of GDP and, uh 03913
Reposted by Ron PikeKatie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026This working mom of 2 has been trying to get her family's SNAP benefits reinstated for months but keeps getting caught in the added red tape. She’s cut back her own meals to make sure her kids get enough. These are the people this administration claims were "lifted" off SNAP. 418089
Reposted by Ron PikeAlexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The right has a longstanding tradition of shoving sources in your face (the Bible, the Constitution, etc.) to justify their worldview that they also absolutely refuse to read in full or see how these sources indict their own behavior, and it's not stopping now. 110126
Reposted by Ron PikeCNN @cnn.com · 05/07/2026The Seine river went from being too hazardous to swim in, to its second summer as a popular swimming spot for Parisians and tourists alike. CNN's Melissa Bell reports. Read more: cnn.it/4b6GLz8 830251
Reposted by Ron PikeRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 06/07/2026according to the Treaty of Tordesillas this is a home game for Spain 1212913
Reposted by Ron PikeRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Spain-Portugal in JerryWorld 831348
Reposted by Ron PikeDana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 04/07/2026And you could probably say that about just NYC or Chicago (& maybe LA & Houston) Been thinking about the Cape Verdeans I met when I worked in Bridgeport. 23510
Reposted by Ron Pikeceej @ceej.online · 04/07/2026celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle 213719949
Reposted by Ron PikeJason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it. 265207493774
Reposted by Ron PikeKatherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 01/07/2026But now, Republicans are gutting seniors’ healthcare to bankroll tax cuts for billionaires, starting with a $536 billion cut under their Big, Ugly Law. Democrats will continue fighting for a nation where healthcare is a right for all — not a luxury for a few. 24718
Reposted by Ron PikeKatherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 01/07/202660 years ago today, Medicare’s first 19 million enrollees began receiving the quality health coverage they deserved. For generations, Medicare has provided Americans with dignity and security in retirement. 25922
Reposted by Ron PikeMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/06/20265-4 instead of 9-0. Just a completely illegitimate institution at this point. 261853378
Reposted by Ron Pike🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 24/06/2026Folarin Balogun is willingly playing under our flag and making us stronger and Johnson hates that. And that's just ignoring the stupidity of this xenophobia. I just tried to find Bologun's religion and couldn't find it so Johnson is being Islamophobic just because Balogun's parents are Nigerian? 37879167
Reposted by Ron PikeCharles Boehm ⚽️ @cboehm.bsky.social · 21/06/2026You're telling me that firing the coach 1 game into the World Cup and giving Hervé Renard 4 days to prepare a downtrodden team for a do-or-die duel with one of the most synchronized, technical, ball-dominant teams in the tournament isn't working out for Tunisia??? 515513
Reposted by Ron PikeJenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026As for what I am doing being political, my outside of work activities often are. Because I care deeply about the future of science and my country, I engage in politics often. All Americans should as much as they can. 1540629
Reposted by Ron PikeEdward Russell @byerussell.com · 17/06/2026The final bike bus of the school year. I can't emphasize enough how great #bikebus is for my son: he loves his friends, loves biking with them and the confidence he's gained cycling is invaluable. Have a great summer everyone and here's to many more miles! 🚴🏽♂️ @bikebusworld.bsky.social #bikedc 151042141
Reposted by Ron PikeJosh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Scottish soccer fans in town for the World Cup made a side-trip to Fenway on Sunday and brought actual magic with them. It was such a delight and honor to get to accompany their singing. 411696419
Reposted by Ron PikeMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/06/2026In some ways Rubio's right, it's intrinsically American, just not the way he means: the UFC was created as a marketing event to showcase a Brazilian immigrant family's business that was developed based upon what they had learned from a Japanese immigrant. 11058
Reposted by Ron PikeAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 12/06/2026This ocean-monitoring system was built over the past decade, and planned for decades before that. It cost hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. And Trump is dismantling it. It's fucking obscene. It's the moral equivalent of shooting a missile to blow up the Hubble Space Telescope.thebulwark.comTrump Just Gutted A Major Line of Oceanic DefenseJust in time for hurricane season, the Trump administration is defunding its global ocean-monitoring system. 415366
Reposted by Ron PikeBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11/06/2026"The U.S. government has intentionally killed at least 205 people outside any lawful circumstances...We don’t know exactly where the strikes have occurred. We don’t know what intelligence was used...It doesn’t seem that anyone knows whom the government has killed." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...open.substack.comNo Guns, No Drugs—Why Did We Blow Up These Boats?Shocking new facts are still emerging about the campaign against ‘drug boats.’ 561287446
Reposted by Ron PikeMiser @misernyc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Car drivers almost killed this greenway, but we fought them and won. Now it has a lovely new park at the end of it too. 10849118
Reposted by Ron PikeMiser @misernyc.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The most fought over bike lane in the world is here and it's a beauty... We win. 18814128
Reposted by Ron PikeAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace. 650310068414
Reposted by Ron PikeSeattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 21/05/2026UW architecture students built models of buildings destroyed by I-5 construction as part of the “City Erased” project, and they look beautiful. At Gould Hall through May 29: www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-mag…seattlebikeblog.comUW architecture students built models of buildings destroyed by I-5 construction as part of the “City Erased” project, and they look beautiful. At Gould Hall through May 29: https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/uw-students-resurrect-seattle-cityscape-that-i-5-erased/ 0195
Reposted by Ron PikeJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/05/2026The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize. 198115023756
Reposted by Ron PikeGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social baby robins www.wmur.com/article/olat... 030452
Reposted by Ron PikeSusan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Every citizen of Minneapolis, please step up 💥 472134492
