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ending at Kenton is one choice, but hear me out: take it down Lombard all the way to St Johns North Portland is so poorly served by radial transit focused on downtown and RQTC

Purple Line from St. Johns, east along Lombard/Columbia across the south side of the airport (where workers often enter) and then onto the Red Line tracks, switch to Green at Gateway and head south to Powell, then new track west to end at OMSI meeting the Orange Line.

Exactly north south transit connection , especially east of 205 is so difficult But like I live near 122nd SE and used to work in St. John’s and it was almost impossible to take transit Should be light rail from 181st to downtown St. John’s across the bridge back to downtown, we need ring loops

Brilliant! Simply brilliant. Even at its best, budget politics currently amounts to mere ranking: we decide which needs to prioritize now—and which to exclude or defer for yet another year. But the Loop enables us to add fiscal capacity OVER TIME—and make coalitions bodies of EXTENDED COORDINATION.

There are hundreds if not thousands of acres of Seattle public land available for tree planting if we just got rid of free on-street car storage on public streets. This is Barcelona. Vastly more dense than Seattle. Plenty of room for trees.

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

Democratic Socialists’ bus benches remain, city mum on next steps | Port City DailyWILMINGTON — The handmade bus benches installed by the Wilmington Democratic Socialists of America have highlighted a problem nearly everyone agrees exists: most Wave bus stops have nowhere for riders...portcitydaily.com

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

Should be obvious, but I will never use AI in my work and will not partner with organizations that do so.

Critical Mass for Louisa Gag about to start

China would vaporize our entire auto industry in 90 days if the markets were truly free

Today I learned that the NHS has "cycle responders" who are paramedics. One of my wife's coworkers was recently treated by one after collapsing in London. The bike, not surprisingly, responded much faster than the ambulance. Really cool! www.londonambulance.nhs.uk/calling-us/w...

For our mega-survey on populist attitudes, we asked whether people would prefer a more multi-party system or a two-party system. The former blew the latter out of the water. Asked about specific reforms to get there, people are less sure. Also, Trump populists are the most fond of the status quo.

Americans Hate the Two-Party System But Don’t Know What Should Replace It, ISMA Populism Survey FindsVoters overwhelmingly want something different, but don’t know or understand the reform options on the tablewww.theunpopulist.net

Vaccines are seriously fucking cool. We've come up with a way to train our immune systems to attack specific pathogens *before* they make us sick, and that's absolutely incredible.

This is Art Heaux's 4th year helping Depave flip this intersection into a party, and their 2nd time popping up a mini film fest right there in the street! This year's event is supported by AARP and SE Uplift.

Tonight at the Future Green Plaza @ SE 7th & Sandy #PDX, a bipoc film fest presented by Art Heaux Studio - 8:30 pm - free and open to the public at your people's plaza on the Central Eastside www.depave.org/futuregreenp...

P-Town Short Film Fest — DepaveJoin Art Heaux July 31 8:30pm - 10:00pm to experience and enjoy short films by amazing filmmakers and writers highlighting life experiences, love, and more!www.depave.org

Depave is partnering with Multnomah County Public Health to implement a cooling intervention in the East PDX Gateway area. We might do a micro depave, or we may pop up some shade like this ⬇️ at a hot bus stop. We're analyzing demonstration sites now, let us know if you have a recommendation!

Artistic Shade Structure for New York City Bus StopIn the summer of 2025, the vibrant installation “Limes” transformed Washington Empire Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, into a welcoming, shaded public space celebrating Caribbean...www.simplifiedbuilding.com

even if gen AI as currently being shoved on us was a lovely technology it would still be violently unethical due to emissions

even if you don’t find widespread proliferation of gen AI socially ominous, you should recognize the level of disinfo you’ve had to absorb in order to memory hole your feelings about wanting to prevent the worst impacts of climate change and also biodiversity loss

SHARE WIDELY: With reports of increased ICE abductions at domestic airports, we updated our Risks of Domestic Travel alert with some more information on who may be targeted and what someone can do if they are at risk. Available in English + Spanish: immigrantdefenseproject.org

Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.