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@walkablecityboy.bsky.social
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Walk/rollable cities and public transit. Tax the rich, triple the bus frequency and build affordable housing. Fund resources, not punishment. He/him. Montréal

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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Here in Canada we’re only about half as likely to be killed by a driver as in the USA, but we’re still behind most of Europe when it comes to preventing road deaths. We need to invest in public transit which is ~10x safer than driving and make cheap, common sense road safety upgrades now.
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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We need to start calling gas cars “fossil cars”. I hate all cars but we need to start stigmatizing fossil cars more.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
A surefire way to make transportation more abundant and affordable? Increase density. In Bloomberg, I explained why. 🧵
bloomberg.com
Achieving ‘Transportation Abundance’ Is All About Density
To drive down transportation costs and move the needle on affordability, Americans need to embrace living closer together.
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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Every cent spent on electric car infrastructure in cities should have been spent on improving bus service
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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Waited for a bus that only comes every 30 minutes that didn’t show up, and now I’m in an expensive Lyft. Just another day in North American transit
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 13/01/2026
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
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ICE in St. Paul: Man roughly detained at gas station, Border Patrol chief jeered in Midway Target
Videos and photos show a prevalence of federal agents in St. Paul recently.
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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
"Transit's not supposed to be for profit. It is an essential service. It has a very important social function of bringing people to work and bringing people to their desired destination," Carvalho said.
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Transit fares are going up. Why do Canadian cities struggle to keep it affordable? | CBC News
With transit fares on the rise in a number of Canadian cities, some experts say it’s time to rethink how we fund public transportation so that lower-income riders — who rely on it the most — aren't...
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
man, did the viziers in the WH not actually show him the actual video?
President Trump called the fatal shooting of Renee Good “a vicious situation” in an interview with The New York Times Wednesday, saying Good appeared to run over an ICE agent.

“I want to see nobody get shot. I want to see nobody screaming and trying to run over policemen either,” he told the Times.

But after watching a slow-motion surveillance video of the incident, Trump expressed discomfort and struggled to justify the agent’s response.

“It’s a terrible scene,” he told the Times, once the video concluded. “I think it’s horrible to watch. No, I hate to see it.”
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Make it viral.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/01/2026
“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
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Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The @ndp.ca should have started with this CUPE debate. I’m actually getting to hear what the NDP leadership candidates stand for rather than watch them struggle to communicate in French. Also, workers are our party. Would have made sense to start with a union moderated debate.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Sorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated. It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans. And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question. My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵
bloomberg.com
We Still Don’t Know if Robotaxis Are Safer Than Human Drivers
And even if self-driving technology proves to be less dangerous, there are many better ways to improve traffic safety and prevent fatal crashes.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
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Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
The most under-reported story of the year, IMO, is about the national implications of the extreme and wildly popular success of congestion pricing in New York City. When you remove cars from cities, you not only make money for things the city needs; you make people in the city much, much happier.
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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Do transit folks know what groups are involved with pro transit advocacy- specifically bus advocacy - in Montreal?
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Sort of like how one has to diversify an investment portfolio or risk losing everything all at once, a transportation system that doesn't have a diversity of modes is destined to crash. Building everything around cars, autonomous or otherwise, is always going to lead to this outcome.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/12/2025
the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Kids these days.
Child told to go outside and ride their bike also told to get off the street and ride on the sidewalk also told to get off the sidewalk - decides to just go back inside on screens told to get off screens and go outside.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 22/12/2025
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
NDP debate “in French” was pretty disappointing. They all really need to improve. Avi Lewis’ French was best and I like him, but he doesn’t have a seat. Heather McPherson is great and actually has her seat, but her French was pretty tough to listen to.
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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Bill 2 Threatening Care for Quebec LGBTQ+, Homeless, and Vulnerable Populations therover.ca/bill-2-threa... A great piece written by Isaac Peltz about bill 2 which is going to decimate Quebec’s already fragile medical system. The CAQ needs to go.
therover.ca
Bill 2 Threatening Care for Quebec LGBTQ+, Homeless, and Vulnerable Populations – The Rover
Because of Bill 2’s changes to the way doctors will be paid, at least 10 health care clinics taking care of LGBTQ+ people, the homeless, and community sexual health are likely to close in the New Year...
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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Government shutdown in the US should immediately trigger new elections for the house and senate
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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
It’s time for Canada also to end anti-circumvention laws that don’t allow the reverse engineering American tech. Canada was forced into these laws with the threat of tariffs. Trump put the tarrifs on anyways so now there is no reason to keep these harmful laws doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
doctorow.medium.com
Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall!
What the Eurostack is missing.
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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Just bought a copy of Life After Cars by @douggordon.bsky.social and @sarahgoodyear.bsky.social for my mom as a Christmas present. I find I get too worked up when talking about cars to communicate as effectively as I want. But with the book you can get it all across with Doug and Sarah’s help!
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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I want the New York City congestion charge to keep increasing until there’s no longer a problem with the subway every time I ride it
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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Money for the rich and for cops. Austerity and jail for the rest of us. Thanks liberals
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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
New billboard in town 👀
Billboard reads: "There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Join us in fighting for safer streets. Vision Zero Vancouver and Rovelo Creative." Beside the text, a picture of a child riding a bike in a painted bike lane.
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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We should charge people a congestion tax for driving to the airport. At just $5 it would raise hundreds of millions at LAX alone and could fund incredible public transit to and from the airport.
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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
All I want is a nice car free street to live on where I don’t have to breath dirty car exhaust, listen to loud car noises, or worry about my family and me getting hit by a driver.
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 20/09/2025
ICYMI Montreal was once so car-centric they were allowed in parks while bikes were banned due to "safety concerns" Since then, Montreal's become the North American leader in active transit, while San Francisco appears to be retreating Latest @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
sfchronicle.com
What Montreal can teach San Francisco about cars and urban renewal
OPINION: “My hometown is a good example of how an urban center can remake itself when it reconsiders the role of cars as the primary means of getting around,” Taylor C. Noakes writes.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2025
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
nytimes.com
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
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Streets For All @streetsforall.org · 12/09/2025
SB-79 HAS PASSED THE SENATE AND IS ON ITS WAY TO THE GOVERNOR’S DESK
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The most impactful housing bill in California history is on the 1 yard line. It has passed the assembly and the senate vote is TODAY! Right now is your last chance to call your state senator and tell them to support building more housing near transit! cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
cayimby.org
Call the Senate to pass SB 79!
Please call your State Senator and urge them to vote YES on SB 79!
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Streets For All @streetsforall.org · 12/09/2025
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY - SB 79 (WIENER) will build a ton more housing near transit!!!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/09/2025
The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it. Contemptible & pathetic.
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natalia barbour, phd @nataliabarbour.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Traveling on an electric train at the moment wondering about the thought process behind “let’s not invest in rail but put people in inefficient individual metal boxes that are parked 90% of the time.”
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
cars and cats kill billions more
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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
They weren’t “involved in a crash”, they are the victims of a dangerous driver. I swear you could be laying in your bed and a driver could crash through your wall and the media would use linguistic gymnastics find a way to somehow make you partially responsible for it
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Urban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Large numbers of Americans remain interested in expanding #health insurance coverage and containing #healthcare spending. In a new report, Urban researchers outline steps that would build on the #ACA—without a big federal price tag. Explore the findings.
urbn.is
Building on the Affordable Care Act to Achieve Universal Coverage
In this report, we propose eight incremental reforms that would expand upon the Affordable Care Act. For each of the eight steps, we introduce policies that would increase insurance coverage, improve affordability, and contain health care costs.
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Jordan @walkablecityboy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
You could find the most brilliant professor at any top university, but if they hadn’t been transit and safe streets pilled yet, they would look you in the eye with a straight face and tell you that e-bikes are somehow more dangerous than cars. This issue breaks everyone’s brains.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship. That's just a true statement about the world!
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Noem let those girls die with search and rescue teams sitting on their hands waiting for authorization
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Hopefully, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy can stop sobbing uncontrollably about a teenager on the C train who was watching TikTok without earbuds and devote a little of his attention to the near constant disaster that is air travel these days.
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Justin Fox @byjustinfox.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Chart showing risk of being murdered in the subway if you rode 500 times last year (0.4 in 100,000) versus other risks such as that of dying in a traffic accident in the US last year (12.1 in 100,000)
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Underrated tweet.
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Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Tell a friend to tell a friend NO buying produce July 16,17 & 18th. #USA #Strike #KeepGoing #Cali #California
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
this shouldn't just prompt a resignation, it's almost like negligent homicide if any of those people died
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