Movement folks, if you are looking for work, please consider working for the city. Seriously.

You don’t need fancy degrees or elite class status to be an intellectual. You do, however, need to seriously engage ideas, knowledge, and research. Today, tragically, serious intellectualism is often carelessly conflated w/ uninformed opinion, misinformation, and disinformation.

I hate how we as a society romanticize "rags to riches" stories. Poverty isn't a story, it's a symptom of a broken system. A system that isn't providing equal opportunities, resources & support for everyone. Romanticizing about those who made it out, ignores those who never will.

Climate change from 1880-2022.

The Dr. King uplifted in the mainstream is rarely the later Dr. King. He grew and learned and changed as he aged, as all great thinkers do. The video below is less than a month before he was assassinated. And yet we're shown the younger man. It's worth thinking about why.

You can immediately recognize a well designed city when its residents measure distance in walk time.

Bending the arc of the moral universe towards justice means fighting for a world in which Keenan Anderson is not tased to death by the very officers sworn to protect his life.

"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."

Important to add here that California has a victims compensation board, and has already opened up applications to victims of the Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay shootings — they're eligible for up to $70k in assistance from the state. victims.ca.gov/for-victims/vi…

Environmental justice solutions that just ✨make sense ✨ – a thread.

The design of storefronts is critically important for the vitality of cities. When the ground level is welcoming, it activates the street which leads to more people walking around, safer neighborhoods, & more prosperous small businesses. When its neglected, the results are sad.

I've been collecting a list of recently-built places with good urban fabric. Here are some of my favorites: 1. Las Catalinas is a hill town overlooking an ocean cove in Costa Rica, built just over a decade ago with the bones of a classic Mediterranean hill town (Las Catalinas)

COUNTDOWN OF THE TOP 30 PEDESTRIAN ZONES (that I have visited recently). A THREAD 🧵

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I just signed a Action Network petition: Sign On To Ask The State of California to Invest in Employee Ownership! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign…

'This is better than 3 parked cars' - a reminder from Hayden. 📍NYC at 10th Av/37th.

I wrote this tree language a while back for city codes. Feel free to make it your own.

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I hate how this is framed against TikTok when the bill will give the power to ban ANY application THEY see as a SECURITY THREAT. It’s just censorship repackaged.