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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 18m

You know, I understand that you might not like bikes personally but you really shouldn't project your strongly-held opinions onto millions of people you don't know. bsky.app/profile/mate...

Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 5d

“The e-bike lets me keep riding bikes and spend time outside, even though I have this health condition,” she said. “I don’t think that a lot of people realize that e-bikes make things accessible to people with disabilities.” www.berkeleyside.org/2025/10/07/e...

Why electric bikes are everywhere in Berkeley

Residents of all ages and abilities are taking to electric bikes — used for commutes, school drop-offs, grocery trips and joy rides.

www.berkeleyside.org

Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 55m

Autonomous and electric vehicle promoters consistently delude themselves into thinking their mild facelift on the status quo is some kind of revolution.

Meanwhile, e-bikes outsell e-cars and one single city bike share program is lapping all the Autonomous Vehicles on earth.

Steady as she goes.

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 2d

"Though robotaxis have notched up impressive growth, they look ploddingly pedestrian compared with far zippier pedal-powered rivals. [Waymo] proudly proclaims that its cars do around 250k trips a week. Yet in NYC alone that number of trips is made every three days using the city’s bikeshare scheme."

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 2d

"Though robotaxis have notched up impressive growth, they look ploddingly pedestrian compared with far zippier pedal-powered rivals. [Waymo] proudly proclaims that its cars do around 250k trips a week. Yet in NYC alone that number of trips is made every three days using the city’s bikeshare scheme."

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social · Jun 10

American cities have stagnated. Residential neighborhoods, transportation systems, and commercial districts have changed little in 50+ years.

My new book, "The Unfinished Metropolis," explores how that happened — and how to fix it.

Preorder now: shorturl.at/PInVb

The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution

www.amazon.com

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 1h

been asking this for months. we can get journalists parachuting into bumbfuck Soybean, North Dakota, for sob stories about farmers who voted themselves into poverty -- but nothing about the Venn diagram between January 6'ers, Proud Boys, the KKK, and ICE?

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 4h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 2h

Stoller fell victim to one of the classic blunders - the most famous of which is "never agree to an interview with Isaac Chotiner" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against the menswear guy when death is on the line"!

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 6h

While I think ICE agents should face criminal charges for their kidnapping of immigrants, they should face long, and perhaps lifetime, prison sentences for anything like this involving kids. An ICE agent willing to do this is not someone who should be out among society even after Dems retake power.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 1d

yeah see the refusal to even acknowledge, let alone investigate, superior forms of goal- and outcomes-oriented management, and how they should apply to effective governance, is one of many reasons the entire left is doomed.

nobody cates about vibes

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 1d

there's a built-in dryer. You really don't realize that you've never participated in civilization until you've used a Japanese toilet.

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 1d

Like, even if we manage to win the war -- a big if!! -- Fox News will still be broadcasting to tens of millions of traitors that they should rally to the homes of American judges -- and light them on fire.

Shit man, that's already been happening, for years.

What the fuck are we doing here.

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 1d

In the end, nobody wants to get shot. But only one side of this war wants it bad enough to be sufficiently armed with a viable deterrent.

We're already talking about prosecutions/war crimes etc., as if U.S. prosecutors won't be cowed out of it by Confederate traitors threatening assassinations.

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 1d

Want to know why you never hear about major police actions going into lawless Confederate Republican areas with weapons drawn and pulling traitors out of their pickup trucks to beat the shit out of them?

Because *they're armed.*

We learned nothing from Malheur.

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 1d

As a second amendment liberal I'm still mystified by the fact that we're literally watching tyranny unfold, but virtually no liberals are making the connection between our visceral, irrational hatred of guns and the steady erosion of our free state.

Our enemies get it.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

“The big advantage of bikes is that they go directly from where you start to where you finish, when you need to go. The advantage over cars is that they need perhaps 1/10th of the amount of space. Roads that jam up quickly with cars can carry effectively unlimited numbers of people by bicycle.”

Why e-bikes are more important the EVs

Bikes can actually transform cities in the way driverless cars promise

danielknowles.substack.com

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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 1d

As a recreational cyclist, I got pretty excited when I realized that ebikes basically eliminate the "Ugh, I can't ride up hills!" barrier for casual/starting commuter cyclists. In many areas, it's one of the biggest barriers to adoption.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

“The big advantage of bikes is that they go directly from where you start to where you finish, when you need to go. The advantage over cars is that they need perhaps 1/10th of the amount of space. Roads that jam up quickly with cars can carry effectively unlimited numbers of people by bicycle.”

Why e-bikes are more important the EVs

Bikes can actually transform cities in the way driverless cars promise

danielknowles.substack.com

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 1d

No, they run politics like a business and focus on outcomes. Our side runs politics like a TV advertising firm that works for commissions.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 2d

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 2d

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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Welcoming Neighbors Network @welcomingneighbors.us · 2d

SB 79 is now law. This is a HUGE victory and a monumental step toward a California that is abundant and affordable.

Congrats to @cayimby.bsky.social, @scottwiener.bsky.social, and @gavinnewsom.bsky.social for getting this done. 👏 🏆

California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 2d

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...

cayimby.org

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 2d

The problem of Democratic consultant grift has been so bad, for so long, that @kos.dailykos.com wrote a *whole book about it* ...

... in 2006. Nothing has changed.

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

You may not realize this, but Democrats have *more money* available to them than Republicans do.

But Republicans are fucking masters at efficiency and network marketing. They maximize every dollar.

Democratic organizations keep hiring the same failed consultants. They need new blood.

Kamala Harris raised $488 million more than Donald Trump | World News - The Times of India

US News: Explore the dramatic fundraising figures between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in the 2024 Presidential race. Harris raises $633 million, while Trump secures $145 million. Discover key donor...

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 2d

I have to zoom out my second screen to 33% in portrait mode so that I can screenshot all the pro-housing bills Gavin Newsom signed today on one image. This is absurd (laudatory)

The full list of the signed bills include:

AB 36 by Assemblymember Esmerelda Soria (D-Merced) – Housing elements: prohousing designation.
AB 87 by Assemblymember Tasha Boerner (D-Encinitas) – Housing development: density bonuses.
AB 253 by Assemblymember Christoper Ward (D-San Diego) – California Residential Private Permitting Review Act: residential building permits.
AB 301 by Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo (D-Santa Clarita) – Planning and zoning: housing development projects: postentitlement phase permits: state agencies.
AB 413 by Assemblymember Mike Fong (D-Alhambra) – Department of Housing and Community Development: guidelines: translation.
AB 457 by Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria (D-Merced) – Streamlines approvals for larger farmworker housing in the Central Valley.
AB 462 by Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) – Speeds approvals for coastal and disaster-area ADUs.
AB 480 by Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-Fullerton) – Personal Income Tax Law: Corporation Tax Law: insurance tax law: low-income housing tax credit. A signing message can be found here.
AB 507 by Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) – Adaptive reuse: streamlining: incentives.
AB 610 by Assemblymember David Alvarez (D-San Diego) – Housing element: governmental constraints: disclosure statement.
AB 678 by Assemblymember Alex Lee (D-Milpitas) – Interagency Council on Homelessness.
AB 712 by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) – Housing reform laws: enforcement actions: fines and penalties.
AB 723 by Assemblymember Gail Pellerin (D-Santa Cruz) – Real estate: digitally altered images: disclosure.
AB 754 by Assemblymember Damon Connolly (D-San Rafael) – Floating home marinas: rent caps: County of Marin.
AB 790 by Anamarie Ávila Farías (D-Martinez) – Homelessness: single women with children.
AB 893 by Assemblymember Mike Fong (D-Alhambra) – Housing development projects: objective standards: campus development zone.
AB 920 by Assemblymember Jessica Caloza (D-Los Angeles) – Permit S…

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 2d

So, remember: Yes, every Republican/fascist/Confederate thug is "breaking the law" -- *of the United States.*

But as far as they're concerned -- as far as Supreme Court is concerned -- that's irrelevant. They are applying Confederate laws, as dictated by Trump: The President of the Confederacy.

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 2d

And we're not near ready to even talk about the fact that, yes, we are in a Civil War -- let alone that we are losing the war badly, due to our refusal to acknowledge and fight in the war; and as long as we are losing, the laws of conquering Confederate traitors are, in fact, the laws of the land.

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 2d

Because the USA only exists to extent that we crush Confederate traitors who defeated it and have *replaced it with an entirely different form of government.*

"The law" and "the Constitution," as we are accustomed to defining/applying them, only exist *on the other side of winning the Civil War.*

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 2d

And then you get to the second problem: We've been attacked by an enemy force that has fully conquered our nation, and now controls it. But we are still debating if we can stop them *using the laws of the nation they have already defeated.*

Ain't gonna work. We actually have to join the battle.

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