Reposted by Sam ThomasCapitol Fax @capitolfax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Will they light up the NW Indiana refineries like this? 817832
Reposted by Sam ThomasCool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If you live in a city you shouldn't have to own a car. 1452787249
Sam Thomas @samthom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Stewart Hicks and JB is the collab we never knew we neededyoutu.beWhy We Can’t Build Apartments Like This AnymoreYouTube video by Stewart Hicks 000
Sam Thomas @samthom.bsky.social · 22/06/2026As though it's impossible to find a stock photo of a person with a bike in a park 000
Reposted by Sam ThomasIllinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias @ilsecofstate.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Reach right to save lives. The Dutch Reach uses your far hand to open your car door, forcing you to pivot and check for oncoming cyclists. 🚴 It’s simple. It’s common sense. Let’s keep each other safe this summer! @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social 1111233
Reposted by Sam ThomasStar:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Imagine renting an apartment for decades and then deciding to buy a house, but then you realize that property taxes exist so you tear down the house to lower your taxes, and after that beg the city for decades of tax breaks in exchange for building a new house on the now-empty lot. Pound sand. 2525
Reposted by Sam ThomasWBEZ @wbez.org · 13/06/2026Riley O’Neil, a biking advocate and Chicago Department of Transportation worker, died after he was hit with a car door and thrown into oncoming traffic earlier this month. In the Loop sits down with local organizers and cyclists to discuss building safer streets in Chicago.wbez.orgHow can Chicago build safer streets for cyclists and pedestrians? 183
Reposted by Sam ThomasMichael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 22/05/2026The single family home, the most unaffordable kind of home in a high-cost area, just gets to skate on by without being subjected to the crazy requirements we stack onto multifamily housing. It drives me insane. 0467
Sam Thomas @samthom.bsky.social · 28/04/2026It's been great watching suburban mayors rally together to hamstring the future of their downtowns 010
Reposted by Sam ThomasJill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 27/04/2026This Wall Street Journal headline might be the thing that breaks me 1231945269
Reposted by Sam ThomasSummer Whitesell @linimentcake.bsky.social · 13/02/2026www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bostonians-w... Besides the less traffic, which is awesome, it also means there's less garbage being pumped into the air. This is a tangible, real effect of creating more bike lanes in cities. This is a very #goodthing! #positivity #positivevibesgoodnewsnetwork.orgBostonians Wanted More Bike Lanes: Now They Have Them, and Traffic Is DownMayor Michelle Wu's ran on more protected bike lanes around the city to satisfy a perceived demand for better cycling infrastructure. 114735
Sam Thomas @samthom.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Sounds like the type of actions you should be impeached over 000
Reposted by Sam ThomasTom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 28/12/2025"Annoying 8 year olds keep wanting to walk and bike to school despite city's best efforts to make it too dangerous." creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord 532881
Reposted by Sam ThomasCheer Captain @cheercaptain.wang · 26/12/2024Happy “Brick” by Ben Folds Five Day to all who celebrate 11496109
Reposted by Sam ThomasTom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Taking the whole lane ✔️ Distracted (singing) ✔️ No helmets ✔️ No lights ✔️ No reflective vests ✔️ Riding in a pack ✔️ The textbook radical anti-car cyclists our culture despises. 1123947
Reposted by Sam Thomasᴄʏᴄʟᴏᴢ @cyclozparis.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Cycles Frost de Chicago by Emile Clouet 1894 (France) 🚲 #illustration #art #design #bikesky #vintage #bicycle #bike #fahrrad #paris #chicago #cycling #cyclinglife #bikelife #biking #bicicleta #velo #cycle 🚲 🚴♂️🚴♀️ 1355
Sam Thomas @samthom.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Does hot sauce only exist so that parents can eat the whole meal they prepared for themselves? 000
Sam Thomas @samthom.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Eagerly awaiting the Brown Line to Jefferson Park beavers 000
Sam Thomas @samthom.bsky.social · 02/09/2025All of this except the part that requires time in Florida 000
Reposted by Sam ThomasMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 29/08/2025I’ve seen a lot of fucked up shit in my day, but this might just take the cake. 80687771530
Reposted by Sam ThomasOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 26/08/2025National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC 169294062583
Reposted by Sam Thomasalec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention? 12028951462
Reposted by Sam ThomasMark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane 261903498
Reposted by Sam ThomasR. Charan Pagan @rcharanpagan.bsky.social · 28/05/2025The state choosing what occupations people can work in. Sounds like communism. 1266436
Sam Thomas @samthom.bsky.social · 10/05/2025White supremacists doing white supremacist stuffnpr.orgFirst Afrikaners granted refugee status due to arrive in U.S.Three months ago, President Trump signed an executive order telling white Afrikaans South Africans they could apply for refugee status in the U.S. The first group has been swiftly processed and is set... 012
Reposted by Sam Thomaspixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 03/05/2025It’s a difficult time for young men, growing up in a culture that no longer provides them with strong role models like Robert Wadlow, the fat biker twins, or the Indian guy with the long fingernails 1032605173
Reposted by Sam ThomasBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/05/2025WIth everything else you kind of forget that the president of the united states is a crypto scammer 128235054060
Sam Thomas @samthom.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Walkable neighborhoods getting 25% more attractive this week 020
Reposted by Sam ThomasThe War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 30/03/2025"...for every 30-second increase in traffic delay per mile traveled, there was a 1% increase in visits to fast food restaurants. While that may not seem like a lot, the researchers estimate that over a year, it amounts to about 1.2 million more fast food meals in Los Angeles."fastcompany.comThe worse traffic gets, the more fast food people eatThe longer commutes get, the more people stop and get fast food on the way home. Which means ending gridlock could have far-reaching public health implications. 1226551
Reposted by Sam ThomasHeidi in Montana @inmontana.bsky.social · 24/03/2025So many people who used school closures as their reason for supporting fascists are supporting a regime that is trying to destroy the public school system. 237933
Reposted by Sam ThomasCharter School Abolitionist 🇮🇷 @maniccage.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Time to go ride bicycle 51155
Reposted by Sam ThomasMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Imagine if Joe Biden had reposted a liberal pundit saying ‘shut up about gas prices’ in 2022. It would have led the news, all of the news, for days, weeks, on end. 551163413506
Reposted by Sam ThomasSam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 02/03/2025No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.” 15485193373
Reposted by Sam ThomasGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025People tell me to be safe while biking, and while I appreciate it, what I'd really appreciate is people going a step further and pondering *why* they think biking is unsafe. Because then they'd have to grapple with the fact that we've designed our society to make biking "dangerous" for many people. 281147153
Reposted by Sam ThomasBobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT 697165657074
Reposted by Sam ThomasBen Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Gonna tell my kids this was Elon and Trump 39515
Reposted by Sam ThomasCaptainCoby @captaincoby.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Huge congrats to Canada's 11th province on recognizing The Gulf Of Connor McDavid. Premier Trump will be sending out a press release shorty. 1228782
Reposted by Sam ThomasOckeroid @ockeroid.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description 152144652974
Reposted by Sam ThomasPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard 439279544638
Reposted by Sam ThomasPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them. 214612433531295
Reposted by Sam ThomasSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 16/02/2025Republicans aren’t hiding anything. Their priorities are written in black and white: trillions of dollars in tax breaks to the rich, while making savage cuts to Medicaid, housing, nutrition and education. The reconciliation bill will make the rich even richer and the poor poorer. 1885469946
Reposted by Sam Thomase.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/02/2025I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner 173167794738
Reposted by Sam Thomasbrooke bikes mke @brookebikesmke.bsky.social · 15/02/2025If you drive in winter, the most pro-social thing you can do is just have patience. Slow down. Wait for pedestrians. Wait for cyclists. Park farther away and walk if you need to in order to keep bike lanes and bus stops and crosswalks clear. You’re in a mobile living room, you’ll be fine. 1247469
Reposted by Sam ThomasBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain 243202722507
