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I’m sure the voters just love that MAGA and the GOP are still not listening, still refusing to stop wrecking the country, still gaslighting.

This is city planner @lindseyboylan.bsky.social. She was the 1st whistleblower to bravely come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Andrew Cuomo. 12 others joined her. Cuomo resigned as Governor. His “comeback” never should have been enabled. She earned this moment more than most.

If you want more democracy, you need fewer cars.

It took long enough but we finally have the first ever WordArt president

If reversing the fertility decline were my thing, I would have this tattooed on my forehead.

I truly never thought I’d see the day when Marin County voters went pro-housing; but they appear to have opted to upzone parts of Sausalito(!) and rejected the housing-centric recall effort against the mayor of Fairfax.

Still one of the most amazing photos I've ever seen - aerial view of Central Park in Manhattan, #NewYorkCity.

Lots of focus on Lina Khan (because yay!) but the real exciting thing is that Maria Torres-Springer is on the team. Nobody knows city government better.

It’s easy to be a good pedestrian. What’s hard is for news outlets to address the systemic solutions to traffic violence.

Here's a public transit model a lot more cities need to know about. It's the #Karlsruhe Stadtbahn. It runs tram-trains, in this metro region in #Germany of 310,000. Outside town, they run as standard commuter trains. Inside town, they operate as trams (streetcars)—no need to change mode. 🧵

As a Jewish person I’m safer in a city with Zohran Mamdani as mayor than in a country with Donald Trump as president. That some Jews are freaking out about the former and totally okay with the latter is mind-boggling.

the most obvious way for Zohran to tie his climate and affordability promises together is to get New York to build hundreds of thousands of transit-oriented apartments

Thank you, Boston 💜 Thank you to every voter and volunteer, every candidate and campaign for strengthening our democracy. We are the city of champions, beacon for freedom & home for everyone. At a time of challenge and consequence, Boston is going to keep moving forward.

Regarding Prime Minister Carney’s federal budget: I don’t pretend to fully know it, and there are elements that concern me, but if I were the NDP I’d pledge to support it if a significant investment in urban public transit (nation-building, climate etc) was added, and if I were PM Carney I’d agree.

Waking up on the West Coast thinking about my hometown and 🎶 Mamdani 🎶

TARIFFS ARE A TAX ON THE BUSINESSES AND PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY THAT LEVIES THEM. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

UNDERSTAND THE ASSIGNMENT!

One day after election day, Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes has fired Brian Maxey, SPD's COO, and chief counsel Becca Boatright. Per inside sources, Harrell told Barnes to wait until today. These are two very longtime civilian employees who've been shut out by Barnes, who brought in his own team.

Google Maps is a more impressive achievement than any given physical wonder of the world, in my opinion.

The slow-growth coalition that has dominated big city politics for the past 50 years is losing its grip on power as an ascendant YIMBY movement demands new homes in the places people want to live.

Be the change you want to see.

Hochul needs to fire Jay Jacobs and then pass a state law to upzone every single LIRR station

73% of Copenhageners don’t own a car, and the city has made huge strides reclaiming public space for people that had been previously surrendered to cars. Now candidates in the upcoming city election want to prioritize “car storage” again. Not surprisingly, @colville-andersen.com isn’t holding back.

Christian Nationalists, MAGA and the GOP will absolutely try to take away women’s right to vote. Zero doubt.

This is a significant takeaway imo. Slop isn't a communication strategy.

the 2028 ticket

“Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist & state assembly member, was able to defeat the moneyed & powerful Cuomo dynasty. And he was victorious despite record-shattering political spending from the former governor’s fundraising apparatus, including the biggest super PAC in New York’s history.”

New York's mayor doesn't control Subway services or its infrastructure...

it’s actually absurd that people who consider themselves progressives are still siding with the Staten Island Republican Party over Zohran on the pro-housing ballot measures

Last night’s election results, in a nutshell. (watching this legitimately made me laugh out loud)

is it just papered on straight from the home office printer?

In NJ, in VA, in NYC, it's time to get to work. There are no permanent majorities. There are only moments of time when parties can assemble a majority of voters around a set of ideas. You have to take that moment and run as fast as you can, before the next election breaks your stride.

There's lot of challenged ballots in Seattle. Challenged ballots disproportionately skew younger with over half from people under age 45.

To the Fox News viewers out there, I’m really, truly fascinated by this. They so CLEARLY think that you’re gullible suckers who will buy anything they say. I mean, ANYTHING. Are you really ok with that?

Lots of things in Canada’s federal budget: Big deficits. Big military spending. Public service cuts. Fewer trees being planted. Trying to join Eurovision. Aid for embattled industries. Crazy thinking how much of this is happening because the elephant decided to roll over onto us.

As of 10:00am today, King County Elections is reporting that turnout in the City of Seattle has reached 37.96% with 191,827 ballots received. 118,043 ballots were counted as of last night. Turnout numbers will increase as more ballots are received.

In some far future America, our descendants are amazed that we allowed private freight train companies to just block major city streets for unlimited amounts of time, with trains that weren't even moving. (SE 11th Ave. in Portland).

In the Seattle mayor's race, Katie Wilson needs to close a 7.15% gap to beat incumbent Bruce Harrell. If Harrell wins by less than 1%, I'll be extra curious about why he paid $25,000 at the last minute to someone with a history of skirting the rules to help Harrell out. publicola.com/2025/10/30/h...

Spectacular venue for our live event in Seattle with @nerd4cities.bsky.social tonight. @townhallseattle.bsky.social

what race? race to where? the race metaphor is almost as bad as the intelligence metaphor. Even if I thought this stuff was real, there's no network effect, there's no lock-in, there's no first-mover advantage, even if you have a super magical efficient model, that doesn't mean you have a product.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell gained another point on progressive challenger Katie Wilson in today's ballot drop, which added about ~21,000 ballots. She trails by 8 points. Expected bigger counts tomorrow and Friday, which are typically more progressive-favoring. Comeback still possible.

good news for mayor-elect katie wilson

The thing I want everyone to take away from how Mamdani communicates is explaining things

I found the enlistment center. @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Epically pathetic bending of the knee to Trump by a famously corrupt organization.

We were on New Day NW on King 5 in Seattle this morning talking about LIFE AFTER CARS, bringing the message to local daytime TV viewers.

If you are looking for some inspiration, watch Zohran Mamdani's extraordinary victory speech last night. This is what hopeful politics sounds like 👇 www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL...

Dan says it right: this is a city, and we need leaders who will say so.

Top of the Q&A at Town Hall tonight

lol never look at reddit (the entire "progressive" local reddit shitting on me for "hiding" a fact that I put in the headline, mentioned right up top, and repeated several times in this post—Harrell paid for a fuckton of luxury travel on city business out of his own, extremely deep pockets)

As my passion for Dutch 🇳🇱 cycling grew, so did my little shadow. Through all the moves and all the new bikes, she was my constant, curious inspector. ​It’s so quiet without her. I miss her terribly. I love you, Zoey.

Sound Transit is installing new signage at Capitol Hill Station. The new signage includes the 2 Line destination information! (Thanks to the K.G. for the photo.)

Last night’s election was big for housing ⬇️ —NIMBY NJ Gubernatorial candidate lost decisively. —Mamdani, promising to pause rent increases & develop 200k affordable units, won NYC decisively. —All pro-housing referendums in NYC passed. —Housing funding measures passed in Columbus & Denver.

The Anti-MAGA Majority Re-emerges. And the Trump Backlash sweeps the elections in both blue AND red states. “The big lesson may be that Democrats’ best bet is to run candidates who effectively represent and speak to the places they’re running, rather than pursuing a single ideology.”

“Let’s not pop the champagne quite yet. History has taught us this is precisely when Trump is most dangerous — and when Republicans turn to voter suppression, election subversion and worse…Trump is already plotting his next moves. Here’s what we all need to prepare for.” Via @marcelias.bsky.social

Canada is statistically the second safest country in the world for travel in relation to violent crime, and is the fifth safest country in the world overall. Japan takes the top spot, with Belgium in 3rd. Via @cultmtl.com Comments?

maybe I can make my return to form by doing what I really want: ring cycle fanfiction

‼️ "Roughly one in four @transit.app users has some form of accessibility need, spanning from low vision to mobility limitations."

If you want to see some wild election data, here's the breakdown for mail, email/fax, and drop box ballot returns in King County. Over 64% of ballots were returned by drop box this cycle with 185,983 ballots returned that way yesterday alone.

I got into the GLP long covid trial should I do it

With a title like “How to be a good pedestrian — it’s harder than you think,” there was a good chance I was going to hate this. I thought I’d see if there was even ONE word about being a good DRIVER. Nope. Not one. The Oscar for car-brain & victim blaming goes to… www.khon2.com/top-stories/...

Embodying the principles of directness and attractiveness, Amsterdam’s Nesciobrug—floating 11m above and 780m across the Amsterdam–Rijnkanaal—is the longest non-motorised bridge in the Netherlands, and a shining example of what’s possible when cities don’t allow the car to dictate their priorities.🧵

Nice. #Vancouver

Just another day of vehicular violence in car dependent America. Good thing this wasn't an ebike or the community would be in an uproar.

With around ten million people, LA County is larger than most states. I wonder what other local government services could be developed as public software!

Our bus network redesigns are increasing ridership! humantransit.org/2025/11/our-...

The latest batch of ballots in the Seattle mayor's race is trending toward Harrell, but (and?) turnout seems exceptionally low. According to King County Elections, they've received ballots from just 38% of voters, which is much lower than a typical mayoral general election.

"No wonder Transportation Alternatives Executive Director Ben Furnas called Mamdani's election 'a generational opportunity to create a city where everyone can get around quickly, safely, and affordably, and with dignity.'"

"dad you owe me allowance from last week" This human currently owes me approximately $957,000

Congratulations, New York.

Guyana City, a midsized city in eastern Venezuela that you've never heard of, has a larger population than the entire nation of Guyana.

TODAY: “U.S. Supreme Court justices question Trump’s sweeping use of tariffs.” This is a no-win situation for Trump. His abuse of illegal/unconstitutional tariffs is so indefensible, that if SCOTUS sides with him anyway, it’s more obvious proof of their corruption. And if they don’t, he’s done.

My take? @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social is still the favorite. Until we have Thursday drop data (assuming it is election day dropbox data), we have no good reason to think otherwise, even if we do have reason to FEEL nervous. rondezvouswa.com/p/katie-wils...

More than that, this argument is so dismissive of non-national governance! But states & cities are very important in terms of taxes, housing, transportation, parks, schools, policing, etc.—collectively, they are more important than the federal government. Winning local races is very important!

more people door knocked for mamdani *just last week* than attended the largest tea party protest

See you soon Vancouver. Looking forward to seeing these billboards (at least one) in person. 🔥🔥

For a guy supposedly all about climate disclosure, baffling to see Carney tossing greenwashing legislation that simply asks corporations to substantiate their environmental claims. Why defend the right to lie? Carney scraps anti-greenwashing law. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/n...

#waroncars

This guy is a photojournalist who posts nothing but gorgeous images of New York City. Strongly recommended follow.

“Call it a comeback.” I was asked by a reporter this week if New York’s clear success with de-congestion pricing could change the political & community conversation [and media coverage] about the proven public policy idea in other cities around the world. Hell ya. It should. It needs to. It will.

Some good news for housing in California:

@brooklynspoke.bsky.social says cars are now banned in manhattan 💪💪💪

Really feels like Transport Canada is asleep at the throttle for rail development in this country.

I wish we had the initiative to run different numbers of escalators in the up-and-down direction depend depending on the time of day like so many other cities since we don’t, I’m posting this.

Supervillain framing

Ultimately, the Lib's approach to tackling the climate crisis remains almost entirely rooted in two key policies – carbon pricing and tax credits. It won't work. We can't incentivize our way to victory on this fight of our lives. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/n...

That’s one. Good luck next year, Paris.

Interesting that GOs new maps have our new rapid transit lines* on them, this is good and a reminder that Metrolinx actually has good way finding on the stuff they control

Our revolution of relaxing rolls on!

I am in the pocket of Big Headache

I saw that other video, but I totally missed that the mayor-elect rapped on the soundtrack of a Disney movie directed by his mother based on an ESPN article about a girl in Uganda who became a chess champion. This is delightful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ1O...

The next batch of King County ballot counts are due out "by 4 p.m." You can check on the status of your ballot here: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... In past elections, the big shifts happened in Thursday and Friday counts. A rainy bike ride is a great way to get out nervous energy.

My only note is that should be a Mets cap

everyone breaking their vows to never again stan a politician

I'm so sad I wasn't in NYC for the Zohran win...we are out on the road with our book for a couple of weeks (yes, I voted early). But I *was* on a bus here in Seattle at the moment I found out, so I think that's pretty good.

Sold out! Amazing to see in person.

doing battle with my local briefcase boy MP on twitter dot com

There’s a very common thing happening right now where the farther a pundit or Very Important Thinker lives from New York the more ridiculous their take on Mamdani’s victory becomes.

IMPORTANT: “Let’s not pop the champagne quite yet. History has taught us that this is precisely when Donald Trump is most dangerous — and when Republicans turn to voter suppression, election subversion and worse…Trump is already plotting his next moves. Here’s what we all need to prepare for.”