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NEW OP-ED // State Lawmakers Should Hold Amazon, Microsoft Accountable for Supporting Fascism
Op-Ed by John Burbank, via @theurbanist.org // 🔗
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Op-Ed by John Burbank, via @theurbanist.org // 🔗
www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/01/o...
Op-Ed: State Lawmakers Should Hold Amazon, Microsoft Accountable for Supporting Fascism » The Urbanist
# Amazon and Microsoft benefit handsomely from a tax loophole in the Workforce Education Investment Act. Lawmakers can end this tax giveaway to boost higher education funding. These tech giants donate...
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February 1, 2026 at 11:12 PM
NEW OP-ED // State Lawmakers Should Hold Amazon, Microsoft Accountable for Supporting Fascism
Op-Ed by John Burbank, via @theurbanist.org // 🔗
www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/01/o...
Op-Ed by John Burbank, via @theurbanist.org // 🔗
www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/01/o...
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Higher hoods reduce visibility and increase pedestrian crash severity. Bright headlight glare reduces visibility for others.
Governments need to take action to protect people. My motion to Council this Thursday:
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#safety #urbanism #yyj
Governments need to take action to protect people. My motion to Council this Thursday:
pub-victoria.escribemeetings.com/filestream.a...
#safety #urbanism #yyj
February 1, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Higher hoods reduce visibility and increase pedestrian crash severity. Bright headlight glare reduces visibility for others.
Governments need to take action to protect people. My motion to Council this Thursday:
pub-victoria.escribemeetings.com/filestream.a...
#safety #urbanism #yyj
Governments need to take action to protect people. My motion to Council this Thursday:
pub-victoria.escribemeetings.com/filestream.a...
#safety #urbanism #yyj
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It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can. #InducedDemand
January 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can. #InducedDemand
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Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
January 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
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Facebook should have never been allowed to buy Instagram. This is one reason why monopolies are bad
January 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Facebook should have never been allowed to buy Instagram. This is one reason why monopolies are bad
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If you are interested in urban public policy, you should be reading more novels.
Crushing the NIMBYs of Middlemarch
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Crushing the NIMBYs of Middlemarch
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Crushing the NIMBYs of Middlemarch
How big things (used to) get done
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January 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
If you are interested in urban public policy, you should be reading more novels.
Crushing the NIMBYs of Middlemarch
open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...
Crushing the NIMBYs of Middlemarch
open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...
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“Nobody bikes in the winter” is a sorry little excuse that spineless council members and mayors give to avoid challenging car-centrism.
This was my gym yesterday. The “no one bikes in the winter” is officially dead.
January 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“Nobody bikes in the winter” is a sorry little excuse that spineless council members and mayors give to avoid challenging car-centrism.
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removing radar/lidar systems in favor of more cameras should have triggered a NHTSA investigation and halt of sale imo, but here we fuckin are
January 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
removing radar/lidar systems in favor of more cameras should have triggered a NHTSA investigation and halt of sale imo, but here we fuckin are
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teslas are truly american cars
January 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
teslas are truly american cars
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Walmart just changed its logo after almost 20 years.
People got paid a lot of money for this.
Life today often feels like an Onion article.
People got paid a lot of money for this.
Life today often feels like an Onion article.
January 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Walmart just changed its logo after almost 20 years.
People got paid a lot of money for this.
Life today often feels like an Onion article.
People got paid a lot of money for this.
Life today often feels like an Onion article.
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San Francisco, Los Angeles, and numerous other progressive cities have supposedly maintained single-family zoning to preserve affordability. It never worked
how can we beat it into Dem officials' heads that banning upzoning will ultimately *accelerate* gentrification www.governing.com/urban/despit...
Despite Housing Shortage, Denver Puts Brakes on Dense Development
The city’s planning office won’t approve conversion of single-family properties into multiple units in six neighborhoods. The desire to protect Latino neighborhoods from gentrification runs counter to...
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January 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
San Francisco, Los Angeles, and numerous other progressive cities have supposedly maintained single-family zoning to preserve affordability. It never worked
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I would like this comic I drew in 2017 to stop being relevant pleeeaaaaase
January 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I would like this comic I drew in 2017 to stop being relevant pleeeaaaaase
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New York's 5th Ave is undergoing a major redesign that will widen sidewalks by 50%, shorten pedestrian crossings, reduce travel lanes from 5 to 3 and add plantings & lighting. The project is projected to pay for itself in 5 years through increased property & sales tax revenue.
January 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
New York's 5th Ave is undergoing a major redesign that will widen sidewalks by 50%, shorten pedestrian crossings, reduce travel lanes from 5 to 3 and add plantings & lighting. The project is projected to pay for itself in 5 years through increased property & sales tax revenue.
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The hard truth about the consequences of the #ClimateCrisis — wildfires, floods, storms, droughts, heat waves and more — won’t come from climate activists who are too easily ignored or even vilified. It will come from central banks. And insurance companies. And every rational evidence-based sector.
January 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The hard truth about the consequences of the #ClimateCrisis — wildfires, floods, storms, droughts, heat waves and more — won’t come from climate activists who are too easily ignored or even vilified. It will come from central banks. And insurance companies. And every rational evidence-based sector.
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A new peer-reviewed study on the health impacts of pollution from Alberta's oil & gas sector has found the odds of having negative respiratory & cardiovascular health outcomes increase by nine to 21 per cent, depending on the number of oil and gas wells a person lives near
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Study links oil and gas industry pollution in Alberta to negative health outcomes | CBC News
A new study from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., examined the health impacts of pollution from the oil and gas sector in Alberta. The lead author said there's been a lack of researc...
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January 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
A new peer-reviewed study on the health impacts of pollution from Alberta's oil & gas sector has found the odds of having negative respiratory & cardiovascular health outcomes increase by nine to 21 per cent, depending on the number of oil and gas wells a person lives near
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I'm gonna share this cartoon again simply because Jeff Bezos' Washington Post tried to censor it.
January 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'm gonna share this cartoon again simply because Jeff Bezos' Washington Post tried to censor it.
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'How Bad For The Environment Can Throwing Away One Plastic Bottle Be?' 30 Million People Wonder
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January 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
'How Bad For The Environment Can Throwing Away One Plastic Bottle Be?' 30 Million People Wonder
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Why do my cats pose for photographs like they’re 18th-century aristocracy?
January 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Why do my cats pose for photographs like they’re 18th-century aristocracy?
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Zero-emission zones have come into force across 14 Dutch cities to reduce carbon emissions in urban logistics.
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January 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Zero-emission zones have come into force across 14 Dutch cities to reduce carbon emissions in urban logistics.
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Today marks the introduction of Zero Emission Zones (ZEZ) in major portions of 14 Dutch cities, including Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Eindhoven and Delft—intended to decarbonize the logistics sector while increasing the attractiveness of urban areas and decreasing air/noise pollution.🧵
January 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Today marks the introduction of Zero Emission Zones (ZEZ) in major portions of 14 Dutch cities, including Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Eindhoven and Delft—intended to decarbonize the logistics sector while increasing the attractiveness of urban areas and decreasing air/noise pollution.🧵
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Now, considering the music from December into my replay to turn the page of 2024.
January 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Now, considering the music from December into my replay to turn the page of 2024.