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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 23h

I'm honestly a little overwhelmed with emotion by this. How many times have I walked and biked these same streets...I love NYC and I believe in a better future for all of us in this city and in communities around the world!

The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks, Oonee, for running these digital billboards for “Life After Cars” on your bike parking stations. We’re excited to see our names in lights near Times Square but the one by the Holland Tunnel – which brings the message right to drivers – is especially cool!

www.lifeaftercars.com

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 22h

She thought it said "Life After Cats."

Ross Wallen @rosswallen.bsky.social · 22h

New book from @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social

German Golden doggie on a blanket with Life After Cars book in front of her

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 20h

Longtime Volts listener, first-time guest. Thanks, David, for having us on to talk about Life After Cars.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21h

Today on Volts: You know what sucks? Cars. They screw up cities, degrade our health, make us mean & selfish, induce terrible public policy, on & on. I talk with Doug Gordon & Sarah Goodyear, hosts of the unapologetic @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcast, about their new book & life after cars.

Yes, you weenies: a war on cars

Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon join me to discuss their new book and why a future with fewer cars is a happier one.

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Ryan Van Velzer @ryanvanvelzer.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings in Louisville, Kentucky: I reported extensively on the 2020 Breonna Taylor protests and I don't think I've every seen as many people protesting in downtown Louisville as I did today.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings Denver speaker Joe Salazar (fmr Dem state rep) tells me they estimate 25-30k gathered in Denver today, similar to the No Kings protest earlier this year. This view is from photographer Cheney Orr for the New York Times. #copolitics

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Brian Jones @dingodog19.bsky.social · 2d

Seen in Philadelphia
#NoKings

A person in an inflatable frog costume holds a yellow sign saying "Ribberty and Justice For All"

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ᒪᑰᓯ Mark Springer @markspringer.bsky.social · 2d

Peaceably Assembled in Bethel, Alaska!
#NoKings

A crowd of people peaceably assembled line Chief Eddie Hoffman Highway in Bethel, Alaska as part of the Nationwide (and, Global) No Kings Protest.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4d

NEW from me: Right before the Trump administration's gutted the staff at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, the office had already set up for federal money to be dispersed for special education. Now it has nobody to oversee the money. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Special needs students pay as Trump guts Department of Education

Employees tell reporter Eric Garcia that they fear that students with disabilities will go without vital services after Trump’s recent layoffs in the federal government

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4d

NEW from me: Employees at the Department of Education express fear that their layoffs will mean nobody will be able to enforce the rights of students with disabilities or make sure they have IEPs.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Special needs students pay as Trump guts Department of Education

Employees tell reporter Eric Garcia that they fear that students with disabilities will go without vital services after Trump’s recent layoffs in the federal government

www.independent.co.uk

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 7d

We're getting close! Exactly one week until publication day. You can read a preview of "Life After Cars" at @usa.streetsblog.org today. And please preorder the book if you haven't. It really helps! Thanks, team.

Sneak Peek: In Their Book, 'The War on Cars' Hosts Explore Life After the Automobile — Streetsblog USA

...and why it's so urgent that we work for a better future.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 10d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

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Laura Conaway @oleta.bsky.social · 10d

This sounds like a problem.  
Gift link:

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Screengrab from the Washington Post:

The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that “the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens” is threatening “the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.” “Unless the Department acts immediately to provide a source of stable and lawful labor, this threat will grow,” with increased funding for immigration enforcement from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Labor Department said in the Federal Register

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 13d

I think more people should be aware of how much cool stuff Link does in real life. He’s not just a poster.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 14d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

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Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

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Laura Conaway @oleta.bsky.social · 16d

I am delighted and proud to have a sticker of my wife’s “Life After Cars” book on my new notebook. Book hits the stores Oct. 21, available for preorders now at lifeaftercars.com #lifeaftercars

A purple notebook with two stickers:

One with a drawing of four red tomatoes on the vine and three white flowers with red centers.

The other shows the cover of a new book, “Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile.” Lifeaftercars.com

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Laura Conaway @oleta.bsky.social · 16d

Metaphor alert. Also just the stuff of nightmares.

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Topsham hunter recalls scary rescue from quicksand-like mud

Matthew Alexander became stuck in waist-high mud while duck hunting on Wharton Point Wednesday.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 20d

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Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

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Laura Conaway @oleta.bsky.social · 20d

Another one for the shadow collection of signs and plaques removed from national parks.

www.pressherald.com/2025/09/28/t...

Trump administration pulls climate change signs from Acadia National Park

The signs, installed in 2023 atop Cadillac Mountain and at the Great Meadow wetland, detailed steps being taken to combat rising temperatures and extreme weather.

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Laura Conaway @oleta.bsky.social · 20d

"She put so much effort into looking nice, because she was excited to take a step toward becoming an American, and I had to go home, and I had to put away the shoes that they took off her feet and gave to me in a plastic bag."

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Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

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Laura Conaway @oleta.bsky.social · 20d

Vaccines depend on getting everyone who can take one to do so. In this case, the baby was still too young for the shot. But if the vaccination rate stays high, the baby stays safer.

"The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine, the agency said."

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Laura Conaway @oleta.bsky.social · 20d

Mississippi health officer on death of baby (whooping cough)

“We do believe that declining vaccination rates are impacting this. . . . [O]ur concern is that adult Mississippians are not maintaining the pertussis immunity, which puts our babies at risk.”

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Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.

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Roey Hadar @roey.bsky.social · 21d

Don't forget that it was because Darnella Frazier took out her phone and hit "record" that the racial justice moment of 2020 that emerged out of George Floyd's death took off the way it did.

This is what the press release looked like from Minneapolis police after Derek Chauvin murdered Floyd:

Minneapolis Police press release headlined: MAN DIES AFTER MEDICAL INCIDENT DURING POLICE INTERACTION

May 25, 2020 (Minneapolis) On Monday evening, shortly after 8:00 pm, officers from the Minneapolis Police Department responded to the 3700 block of Chicago Avenue South on a report of a forgery in progress. Officers were advised that the suspect was sitting on top of a blue car and appeared to be under the influence.

Two officers arrived and located the suspect, a male believed to be in his 40s, in his car. He was ordered to step from his car. After he got out, he physically resisted officers. Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress. Officers called for an ambulance. He was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center by ambulance where he died a short time later.

At no time were weapons of any type used by anyone involved in this incident.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has been called in to investigate this incident at the request of the Minneapolis Police Department.

No officers were injured in the incident.

Body worn cameras were on and activated during this incident.

The GO number associated with this case is 20-140629.

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Laura Conaway @oleta.bsky.social · 24d

If you’re wondering how to cover autism, this is one excellent model — asking autistic parents about their autistic kids.

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‘We’re not a disease’: Families push back on Trump’s autism rhetoric

Parents fear that progress toward inclusion is under threat as political leaders call autism a “crisis.”

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 26d

When my copy of The Onion arrived yesterday, I laughed so hard at this article. Everyone should buy a subscription.

Front page of newspaper The Onion with a photo animals such as giraffe, bear, and zebra next to ICE agents. Headline reads: Homeland Security Relaxes Species Requirements to Join ICE

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Laura Conaway @oleta.bsky.social · 26d

Yesterday in London, President Obama described the autism spectrum and why there has been a big jump in the number of people who know they're autistic.

Worth seeing.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Obama began by invoking “the spectacle of my successor in the Oval Office making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.”

“The degree to which that undermines public health, the degree to which that can do harm to women who are pregnant, the degree to which that creates anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic — which, by the way, itself is subject to a spectrum, and a lot of what is being trumpeted as these massive increases actually have to do with a broadening of the criteria across that spectrum so that people can actually get services and help,” Obama said. “All of that is violence against the truth.”

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Laura Conaway @oleta.bsky.social · 26d

Aggressive squirrel sending people to the ER was nowhere near my horoscope for today.

www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Aggressive squirrel seeking food has sent at least 2 people to the ER in CA

Residents of a San Francisco Bay Area city are on the lookout for an aggressive squirrel that has sent at least two people to the emergency room.

www.seattletimes.com