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Bianca Walser

@biancawalser.bsky.social

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I like safe streets, infill housing and trees. Find more ways to say yes. YIMBY, MeFite, Smithie. (ambrosiamonkey over on the old place)

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Bianca Walser @biancawalser.bsky.social · Jan 1

People who think that advocates for safe mobility infrastructure are politically powerful need to understand our streets would look very very different if that were in fact true.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3h

"no one should make a profit building necessary housing" is one of those things that sounds based and radical... for like half a second, before you finish thinking it through

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 6h

It is actually incredibly condescending to just assume “normal” people don’t care about being spit on, constantly, by the ruling party

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · Feb 27

Gonna be clear about this now, so people can understand the goal: This country will not be safe until the Republican Party is dismantled, destroyed, burned and salted.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23h

I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food.

I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.

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acieb.bsky.social @acieb.bsky.social · 5h

“Imagine you step into your vehicle, you push a button, and it drives you to the office. You catch up on work, send emails, or watch an episode of your favorite show,” said GM CEO Mary Barra.

This exists, it's called a bus

www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...

GM will introduce eyes-off driving in 2028 | CNN Business

General Motors, the 100-year-old car company, plans to offer Americans hands-free driving and the freedom to watch a movie on the go.

share.google

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John Ewing @avimentor.bsky.social · 7h

MTC's video on using their RSR bridge bike shuttle, which starts next Monday when the bike/ped path closes.

The design of the racks & some of the attachments in the trailer assume a bike w/o fenders.

It would be so much easier to just let cyclist ride across the bridge. 🤷‍♂️

youtu.be/w0vNljbw_QI

How to secure your bike | Richmond-San Rafael Bridge bike shuttle

YouTube video by Metropolitan Transportation Commission

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 15h

“We need to start considering the role of care in our daily lives—all the unpaid tasks that are the essential foundation of society, and our economy couldn’t function without them. But cities are so focused on the commute to work they forget about the mobility of care.”

biketalk.org/2025/10/2542...

Photos of male and female caregivers riding bicycles with small children along dedicated cycling infrastructure in a variety of cities in the Netherlands.

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robin @poconoduc.bsky.social · 20h

“Rather than feeling overwhelmed by the vastness of it all, remember: every intervention, every site of contestation, every kindness and act of courage matters.”
The sigh my entire body sighed after reading this. Thank you Kelly.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

We Have to Move

"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 10h

Liberate people not carbon.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 11h

Food not graft.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19h

Dutch is a native New Yorker, he teaches kindergarten and he got his apartment through a housing lottery. Dutch is a good person.

ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 20h

can someone please just run this as an ad?

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

The more evidence mounts that Platner is lying, the more convinced I become that he is lying not only about his past but also about his current views.

Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 1d

CNN confirms that multiple sources suggest Graham Platner knew his tattoo was a Nazi symbol years prior to launching his campaign — and is now blatantly lying about it.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 1d

Rescue the Tilden steam train! Email [email protected] with the subject line "Public Comment- Tilden Steam Train".
bayareatelegraph.com/2025/10/24/t...

Tilden's Beloved Steam Train is in Danger of Closing, Owner Warns Bay Area Telegraph

SF Bay Area food, news, politics, culture and tech.

bayareatelegraph.com

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1d

parking over everything.

a church and a parking lot

One of these places is considered a holy ground & untouchable that must be protected at all costs and only discussed with the utmost reverence - the other is a church.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

shit looks real bleak sometimes and I don’t want to downplay how bad it is but also we had seven million people show up to protests last weekend

there are more of us than there are of them and I am simply not ready to throw in the towel

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 1d

The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1d

women are about 78% of the healthcare workforce in america. i know people know this but it’s always worthwhile to state it outright. not only is it gendered to underpay healthcare workers but men who get “caught up” in it are undervalued for doing female-coded work. same with teachers.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

It will never not bother me how often when you’re talking to someone — in life, for work, w/e — who is struggling that that person works in healthcare. Nurses, orderlies, home health aids, people who draw blood, etc

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 2d

California will spend $31 billion on transportation this year with about 3% of that budgeted for support for transit agencies. lao.ca.gov/Publications...

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.

Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

when all this is over we need to have a pretty serious conversation about the utter moral failure of the elite of this country

James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 1d

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

With a gift link because I think it is very important for people to understand this:

Opinion | You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator

www.nytimes.com

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch bike. Dutch supermarket bag. Hauling groceries in the US. The cultural invasion is proceeding as planned, and I am 100% here to support it.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

Tell your normie friends that it’s fucked up that the US government is building concentration camps and that if we don’t stop this now it only ends in one place.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of people are pretty freaked out by the current political state of affairs and carrying on because they don't know what else to do, except out one foot in front of the other.

And I think a lot of Very Online folks mistake that for "normie" indifference

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis

City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

www.forbes.com

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