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Tom Holub
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@oaklandbikelab elsewhere. Bicyclist, unicyclist, mobility justice advocate. Generally unpopular opinions about urbanism, often including data.

Skepticism is my beat.

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Tom Holub @bike-lab.org · Nov 25
The Bike Lab visited the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C., to follow up on some analysis I'd done in 2018. The bicycle is my data gathering tool, so I rode through to learn more. I found a community actively resisting gentrification and displacement.

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The Bike Lab visits Anacostia - Bike Lab
In my series on neighborhood change along streets named for MLK, Washington, D.C.'s Anacostia neighborhood was identified as notable; between 2000 and 2017, Anacostia saw Black population increase, wh...
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Gee, I didn't see Schumer's proposals for free child care, free buses, and rent control. Only more of the same neoliberal bullshit he's been pushing for years.
mattgertz.bsky.social Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 4h
The pivot from "Mamdani is a political genius for focusing his message almost entirely on affordability" to "Schumer is a political moron for focusing his message almost entirely on affordability" is odd.
January 20, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Houston Texans’ Azeez Al-Shaair has reportedly been fined $11,593 for wearing eye black that contained the message "stop the genocide”

The report says he was fined for violating NFL uniform and equipment rules

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An NFL player is wearing eye black that says “stop the genocide”
January 18, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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I’m the dude in the photo. And yes, I threw leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. I’m back out today photographing an anti-Islam protest from a far right extremist in a couple hours. IG john_abernathy_ more information on Facebook
January 17, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.
TEXT: Out on patrol with two friends this morning and I kept seeing the beautiful web being woven in Minnesota right now. Not with new materials but woven with wisdom into what was already here. I could feel this net with my hands, this connection as we passed that group of three on the corner of Cedar and Lake, this connection as we listened to someone doing dispatch while their kid yelled in the room behind them. I thought of this today stopping by a locally beloved Mexican restaurant to grab some food for the family and having the owner step up with tears in his eyes and reflect on how much they feel cared for and then the security guard stepped over and asserted that this is what we do, we care for our own. He said, tell people we have them, we've got them and we will keep them safe. All of the worst stories you read are true and there are more of them than what shows up on social media, but there is also this, everything I am writing here in the same morning, driving over to northeast and a junior high has just done a walk out, they are lining a major road in their "are those pants they look like pajamas" clothes and all are holding signs and I am on the phone with someone and I burst into tears when I pass them. This is a net and I remember this very old fishing net someone showed me years ago, guiding my fingers to feel where the net had been repaired over and over again, like scars in the fibers that strengthen rather than break. ICE is sharp, knives that cut with small knicks and sometimes great full arm thrusts that shove and tear through this connected set of scars and fresh material and there are wounds and this is violence and some of you beloveds are being stopped on the road because of how you are read and I am not being stopped and none of this is ever ok and still, I feel the pull and tug of the net that is larger than anything I have experienced TEXT: before. Is there anyone in these cities not showing up in some way? I can't remember the last time I saw or heard anyone have words other than how can I show up? There is a net and it has always been here, it is always here, it's just that sometimes it's hard to see and all that is happening in Minneapolis is that some of the confusion is fading and what is visible is the link and weave and stumble and steady between us. May we keep repairing it as it frays, from those outside and from the rising tension we hold within and may this net grow with wisdom and may bodies tired of holding themselves up alone someday feel like they can relax into the steady certainty of something much bigger than the size of their skin.
January 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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My band, Varmints, played a show in South Minneapolis tonight. It was a hardcore punk show giving out free whistles and every band said Fuck ICE between songs. It’s important right now, if you can, to play music and make art that stands on 10 toes telling fascists to fuck off.
January 17, 2026 at 4:39 AM
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Bro, people are going to build entire lives around the neighbors they’ve found in these anti-ICE signal chats. Marriages, lifelong friendships, weird hobbies. It is actually breaking my brain. I am almost crying in the club (chat).
January 16, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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This is just calling back to the early days of Faux News, where their slogan was "We report, you decide": framing the rest of the media as slanted, and Fox's intentionally slanted reporting as balanced.
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 6d
Been reading this over and over and can't for the life of me understand what he's even trying to say. This is a lot of words to say... nothing.
Tweet from Tony Dokoupil: "You may not agree with everything you hear on our broadcast, but we trust you to hear it, and we trust you to decide for yourselves."
January 14, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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This is why no chase policies are important and it is important to point out the police regulalry violate them.

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Washington Informer Photographer Fatally Struck in Police Chase Near the White House
Remembering Aaron Marckell Williams, a talented photographer known for his work with The Washington Informer, tragically killed in a car accident.
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January 13, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.
January 13, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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January 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
Democrats officially going all in on the mealy mouthed “ICE needs training” narrative.

No. ABOLISH ICE.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
WARNER: It used to take 5 to 6 months to get trained. They've now lowered the training period to 47 days. Why 47 days? Because Donald Trump's the 47th president. Tell me that's a rational approach

KERNEN: I'm not taking that bait

WARNER: Joe! You can't pick your facts
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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i believe the photographer who is taking the photo is Christopher Katsarov of the Canadian Press, and here is his photo
January 11, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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While I was in D.C., I did some field work to follow up on some commentary I'd made back when the City of Oakland was trying to use a failed underpass project in D.C. as a model for what we should do on the waterfront. It's still failed, but now bike infra is complicit.

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More field work in Washington - Bike Lab
During Oakland's ill-fated plan to sell out its waterfront to John Fisher, OakDOT presented an image from a Washington, D.C. underpass as a vision for pedestrian access under 880. That project was alr...
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January 11, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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Faculty, librarians, and staff at UC Berkeley call upon EVCP Hermalin to rescind the suspension of Computer Science Lecturer Peyrin Kao and to reinstate him in his position. actionnetwork.org/petitions/re... @ucaft.bsky.social
Reinstate Peyrin Kao
We, the undersigned faculty, librarians, and staff at UC Berkeley, call upon EVCP Hermalin to rescind the suspension of Computer Science Lecturer Peyrin Kao and to reinstate him in his position. Fir...
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January 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.
January 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
in these moments, in my view, it is a political and spiritual DUTY for my outrage and anger to be as fresh as if I'd never heard how they shot Fred Hampton in his bed. As fresh as if I didn't know Bobby Hutton was surrendering when they shot him. 1/2
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Surprisingly, I'd never seen this image or known this artist. Very cool.
January 7, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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Whenever I correctly point out that there is no opposition party in US politics, the usual suspects swarm to screech about Dems having no power. If these folks are correct (they are not), then they should BUILD POWER. They aren't doing that.
January 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Barbara Lee was correct in 2001, and Lateefah Simon is correct now. Fortunate to live in probably the most anti-imperialist district in the country.
replsimon.bsky.social Congresswoman Lateefah Simon @replsimon.bsky.social · 17d
Congress must reassert its Constitutional power to declare war and reign in this Administration.

We must use every tool to hold this President accountable and to defend the principle that in the U.S., we do not let one man choose war.
January 3, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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And the rich man in his summer home
Singing just leave well enough alone
But his pants are down, his cover's blown
And the politicians throwin' stones
So the kids they dance
And shake their bones
'Cause it's all too clear we're on our own
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down

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Grateful Dead - Throwing Stones (Oakland, CA 12/31/87)
YouTube video by Grateful Dead
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January 3, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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What do these vintage aerial photographs reveal about the Bay Area’s ongoing transformation? Come find out...
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December 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Told a very well-known to many customer today: “I’m less inclined always to save space for everything that WILL sell than I am to make space for things that I WANT to sell.”

Not to say we are the best bookstore, but I desperately believe this is the key to any such aim or measure.
December 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Recently became aware of the similarity between Sound and Vision (Bowie, 1977) and Fantastic Man (William Onyeabor, 1979). Both great songs. Not clear whether the two ever worked together.

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Sound and Vision (2017 Remaster)
YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic
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December 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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As always, nothing good comes out of Stanford.
anildash.com Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29d
Important context here: when Peter Thiel and David Sacks began their war on diversity as undergrads at Stanford, thirty years ago, the very first tactic they adopted was to normalize slurs that had already been stigmatized out of mainstream society. This return of these hateful terms was a key goal.
lollardfish.bsky.social David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29d
“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
December 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM