Tootfinder

One of the RV dwellers Lurie plans to displace is a staffer helping Joel Engardio fight his recall. #sfPol
https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/11/l…

Lurie has a plan to get RVs off the streets. RV dwellers say it's cruel and misguided
The residents react to City Hall's voucher proposal: "That's a step down."

Russian city of Voronezh comes under massive drone attack, multiple casualties reported: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/russian-city-of-voronezh-comes.html

Peru Debuts Discovery of Ancient City Dating Back 3,800 Years Ago and Ready for Visitors https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/peru-debuts-discovery-of-ancient-city-dating-back-3800-years-ago-and-ready-for-visitors/

Peru Debuts Discovery of Ancient City Dating Back 3,800 Years Ago and Ready for Visitors
Caral-Supe is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and oldest-known in the Americas, and Peñico likely inherited that legacy

Via AltNationalParkService on FB:
**Honored to announce: 12.1 million in attendance**, even small towns: Manistee, Oneonta, Pasco County, Stowe, Bennington, Union Gap, Bellingham, Casper, Jackson, Driggs, Petoskey, Traverse City, Big Rapids, Alton, South Bend, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Des Moines, Topeka, Great Bend, Hays, Lenexa, Garden City, Lawrence, Wichita, Pierre, Rapid City, Spearfish, Watertown, Brookings, Sioux Falls.

As deadline approaches, Chiefs' Trey Smith remains unsigned: How does NFL's franchise tag work? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6478545/2025/07/14/trey-smith-contract-kansas-city-chiefs-franchise-tag/

My single favorite photo of No Kings Los Angeles. I often park here near City Hall Main.
The LA Mall is often hailed as an example of City government failure. I like to think this photo represents Los Angelenos unity & love.
When you attack one of us, you attack all of us. One City. #NoKings

Gunman Opens Fire on 'No Kings' Protest in Salt Lake City (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gunman-opens-fire-on-no-kings-protest-in-salt-lake-city/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p7#a250615p7

For Father's Day I march with my child in solidarity, love, and grief for all the fathers left in Palestine and for all who've been slaughtered and for all who've had their children massacred or maimed by Israel.
#Galway #Ireland

Olmert was stunned to see Netanyahu,
a man who has an arrest warrant for war crimes from the international criminal court,
nominating Donald Trumpfor a Nobel peace prize.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul

with the bar for safe bike infrastructure as low as it is, it's hard to strike the right balance after a project between "hooray! it's so much better!" and "this, that, and the other thing still suck."
Streetsblog SF often errs on the latter side... I'm happier than ever with #ValenciaStreet, but their critiques are not wrong.

SFMTA Leaves Valencia Bike Lanes Unfinished - Streetsblog San Francisco
The center-running lane is long gone and some finishing touches are coming to the parking-protected section from 15th to 23rd, but the lack of concrete infrastructure remains problematic. And then there's the last four blocks from 23rd to Cesar Chavez, which is still just a striped lane wedged between parked cars and moving traffic.

Former Raiders QB Derek Carr Sounds Off on Arrowhead Stadium https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-derek-carr-kansas-city-chiefs-tyreek-hill

For Father's Day I march with my child in solidarity, love, and grief for all the fathers left in Palestine and for all who've been slaughtered and for all who've had their children massacred or maimed by Israel.
#Galway #Ireland

#Hamas City.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
M83:
🎵 Midnight City
#NowPlaying #M83
https://fororchestra.bandcamp.com/track/m83-midnight-city
https://open.spotify.com/track/6GyFP1nfCDB8lbD2bG0Hq9

LiDAR, GNSS and IMU Sensor Alignment through Dynamic Time Warping to Construct 3D City Maps
Haitian Wang, Hezam Albaqami, Xinyu Wang, Muhammad Ibrahim, Zainy M. Malakan, Abdullah M. Algamdi, Mohammed H. Alghamdi, Ajmal Mian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08420

LiDAR, GNSS and IMU Sensor Alignment through Dynamic Time Warping to Construct 3D City Maps
LiDAR-based 3D mapping suffers from cumulative drift causing global misalignment, particularly in GNSS-constrained environments. To address this, we propose a unified framework that fuses LiDAR, GNSS, and IMU data for high-resolution city-scale mapping. The method performs velocity-based temporal alignment using Dynamic Time Warping and refines GNSS and IMU signals via extended Kalman filtering. Local maps are built using Normal Distributions Transform-based registration and pose graph optimiza…

City Council looked the other way for over 3 years while the Adams' Administration broke laws around the requirement to build protected bus & bike lanes. Why would Adams give a shit about Sanctuary City laws when City Council has proven to be toothless? https://www.

Council Leaders Seek Probe of Possible NYPD Sanctuary City Violations
In a letter sent Monday, Speaker Adrienne Adams and Oversight Chair Gale Brewer wrote that “recent episodes raise serious doubts that should be urgently addressed,” citing reporting from THE CITY.

Greater Manchester still has a long way to go on protected cycling infrastructure.
Share of protected cycling infra-
structure of total roads %:
Paris 44
Hamburg 33
Barcelona 19
Waraw 15
G London 8
Manchester 8 rank 29/36
Did better on school streets and safe speeds
https…

Streets for Kids, Cities for All: Protected cycling infrastructure ranking
We've analysed 36 European cities to see how they’re progressing in creating transport systems that prioritise the needs of children.

Salt Lake City, which faces a staffing shortfall, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year (Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/06/14/slc-eyes-letting-ai-handle-some/…

My city was one of hundreds expecting federal funds to help manage rising heat wave risk – then EPA terminated the grants - Cobb Courier
https://cobbcountycourier.com/2025/07/my-city-was-one-of-hundreds-expecting-federal-funds-to-help-manage-rising-heat-wave-risk-then-epa-terminated-the-grants/

Thread on today's 'red line' demonstration in The Hague. It's called the International city of peace and justice, but our government there has been extremely reluctant to criticize Israel for the genocide it is committing in Gaza. Let alone to take action: long overdue!
https://mastod…

Life on Different Paths 🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
生活诸多路径 🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

finally, there’s a pedestrian countdown signal at 17th St and Folsom!

What a story….
#measles

How measles tore through a remote West Texas city
Anti-vaccine activists seized on a measles outbreak in Seminole, Texas, and turned the small Mennonite city into a battleground between fringe doctors and mainstream medicine.

Had a nice time in Greenwich park with friends though. That view of the city from the hill there is magnificent. Lovely park, great observatory.

[Ich mag die aus Bulgur, Gerste und anderen Getreidearten gearbeiteten Reliefs von Jason Loebs.] #art
https://maxwellgraham.biz/artists/jason-loebs/

Blue hour in the colourful town.
#streetphotography #Hanoi

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
M83:
🎵 Midnight City
#NowPlaying #M83
https://fororchestra.bandcamp.com/track/m83-midnight-city
https://open.spotify.com/track/6GyFP1nfCDB8lbD2bG0Hq9

#linktipp
#Pakistan is home to one of the largest concentrations of sellers on Alibaba.com
https://restofworld…

Baltimore mayor & council members introduce comprehensive yimby package. Has backing of city's main business & community action organizations:
● Legalize 2-, 3- & 4-unit houses in 1-family districts
● Abolish minimum off-street parking requirements
● Legalize single-staircase structures with more than 3 stories
I don't think I've seen all this in one package anywhere up to now.

Baltimore’s top YIMBYs want to erase zoning rules blocking more housing
A package of five bills will attempt to make it easier to build and redevelop Baltimore City properties.

Fahrradhelme sind ein Zeichen für unzureichende Verkehrspolitik.
Siehe @… in https://social.ainmosni.eu/@ainmosni/status…

Post by Daniël Franke , @ainmosni@ainmosni.eu
For all the people living in cities where cars are the most dominant form of urban transport: there is 0 need to wear a helmet in a city like Amsterdam. And as cycling is the main mode of transport for people ages 6 and up, for occasions ranging from commuting to school, to starting your honeymoon, ...

playing prague | Prague City Tourism - https://prague.eu/en/playing-prague/?utm_source=charlesgames.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsl…

playing prague | Prague City Tourism
Playing Prague is a game celebrating Prague and all those who have shaped and continue to shape this beautiful city. Every detail of the game is a tribute to the 1000-year cultural heritage of a city that was once the seat of the Holy Roman Emperors and the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom. It is also the origin of the designation of bohemians as people with a creative and unconventional way of life. Become a Bohemian for a while and build your own Prague.

Unser Cyberpunk 2077 Playthrough geht weiter: Wir cruisen auf der Suche nach Hellman durch die Badlands, durch von Klimakatastrophen-Stürmen zerstörten Windmühlenparks und Wüste. Auf einer riesigen Müllhalde treffen wir eine mysteriöse Auto-KI. Wir einen spektakulären EMP Blast aus, der wahrscheinlich den Strom von halb Night City ausknipst. Ups. Enden tut es damit, dass ich 20Min. lang versuche, den Erzfeind schlechthin in allen Games auszuschalten: Turrets!

local restaurants I love you but please have a website that isn't your instagram profile and has your hours of business on it. kthx

03:57—Good night #Fediverse! 😴 💤
This is the last time for a while I’m going to brag about my shiny new pinned posts, try not to miss them too much.
Sleep well and if bad dreams come knocking, just boost them away with this little gem:

Honestly, good for these folks
City councils in Boise and Salt Lake City work around restrictions on LGBTQ flags
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/08/nx-s1-5389748/city-councils-in-boise-and-salt-lake-city-work-a…

Greater Manchester still has a long way to go on protected cycling infrastructure.
Share of protected cycling infra-
structure of total roads %:
Paris 44
Hamburg 33
Barcelona 19
Waraw 15
G London 8
Manchester 8 rank 29/36
Did better on school streets and safe speeds
https…

Streets for Kids, Cities for All: Protected cycling infrastructure ranking
We've analysed 36 European cities to see how they’re progressing in creating transport systems that prioritise the needs of children.

USA Resources by city - Don't Call The Police https://dontcallthepolice.com/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Pay Attention&utm_medium=mastodon

Resources by city - Don't Call The Police
Database of local and national community-based alternatives to calling the police or 911, broken down by city

every time someone invokes mom and pop landlords to argue against eviction protections, I want to scream: when do we talk about the mom and pop tenants? when is it time to care about the mom and pop tenants that landlords are throwing out on the street?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Ghostland Observatory:
🎵 Sad Sad City
#GhostlandObservatory
https://frogmusiclicensing.bandcamp.com/track/cilantro-boombox-sad-sad-city-ghostland-observatory
https://open.spotify.com/track/26T7C1NMXKE7hCWhKH2l0o

RoundaboutHD: High-Resolution Real-World Urban Environment Benchmark for Multi-Camera Vehicle Tracking
Yuqiang Lin, Sam Lockyer, Mingxuan Sui, Li Gan, Florian Stanek, Markus Zarbock, Wenbin Li, Adrian Evans, Nic Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08729

RoundaboutHD: High-Resolution Real-World Urban Environment Benchmark for Multi-Camera Vehicle Tracking
The multi-camera vehicle tracking (MCVT) framework holds significant potential for smart city applications, including anomaly detection, traffic density estimation, and suspect vehicle tracking. However, current publicly available datasets exhibit limitations, such as overly simplistic scenarios, low-resolution footage, and insufficiently diverse conditions, creating a considerable gap between academic research and real-world scenario. To fill this gap, we introduce RoundaboutHD, a comprehensiv…

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 4936 nodes and 27149 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Culture vs War: Serhiy Zhadan – the life of a poet in a city under shelling: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/culture-vs-war-serhiy-zhadan.html

"If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because 'violence' is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo."
https://organizingmythoughts.org/protes…

Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate
"We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating."

Star-studded nuptials between Amazon founder, billionaire Jeff Bezos, and Lauren Sšnchez, a former TV journalist.
The days-long shindig,
expected to begin from 24 June,
will be the biggest wedding held in Venice California since George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin in 2014.
While Venice residents mostly embraced the Clooneys’ fairytale big day,
the Bezos wedding has been met with much more antipathy.
As soon as Venice’s millionaire mayor, Luigi Brugnaro…

Here’s what happened in a N.J. city when some got $12,000, no strings attached https://www.nj.com/essex/2025/06/heres-what-happened-in-a-nj-city-when-some-got-12000-no-strings-attached.html?utm_source=Mastodon

Here’s what happened in a N.J. city when some got $12,000, no strings attached
A two-year pilot program showed the payments improved recipients' lives, contradicting critics who claim such programs discourage work.

Because the problem is in the infrastructure, I’d ask my fellow cyclists and urbanists to make sure any fist-shaking about these vehicles is directed toward •improving infrastructure• instead of •policing novel vehicles•.
I can easily imagine a backlash to these vehicles at the city Council meeting turning into rules that make it harder to get better vehicles on the street.
Instead, the reaction I’d like to see to these UPS cargo-bike-adjacent thingers is “Great!! Obviously they’re a problem in these too-narrow bike we’ve stuffed onto road shoulders, so where can we put them?”

Kansas City Chiefs training camp 2025 preview: Key dates, notable additions, biggest storylines https://www.nfl.com/news/kansas-city-chiefs-training-camp-2025-preview-key-dates-notable-additions-biggest-storylines

"Despite good-faith efforts by DSI [dense street imagery] providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and license plates, these measures fail to address broader privacy concerns. In this work, we find that increased data density and advancements in artificial intelligence enable harmful group membership inferences from supposedly anonymized data."
via @…

Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery
Spatially and temporally dense street imagery (DSI) datasets have grown unbounded. In 2024, individual companies possessed around 3 trillion unique images of public streets. DSI data streams are only set to grow as companies like Lyft and Waymo use DSI to train autonomous vehicle algorithms and analyze collisions. Academic researchers leverage DSI to explore novel approaches to urban analysis. Despite good-faith efforts by DSI providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and l…

Whistleblower: Lockheed Martin Awarded Bonuses Based on Race (City Journal)
https://www.city-journal.org/article/lockheed-martin-civil-rights-law-bonuses-race-merit
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p121#a250612p121

A look at Amsterdam's failed experiment to create a fair welfare AI system that would evaluate every welfare applicant in the city for potential fraud (MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/1

Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI
The Dutch city thought it could break a decade-long trend of implementing discriminatory algorithms. Its failure raises the question: can these programs ever be fair?

What's the opposite of a snowbird? I'm going to start summering in Montreal. Or even further north..
https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a-8mMvqdG0TBu8rLQV9dpBmg:a:3807498986-/0

Heavy storms, possible flooding expected for NYC area Monday amid ‘tropical-like’ air
A “tropical-like” air mass could yield heavy showers, thunderstorms and wind gusts Monday across the New York City region, the National Weather …

On the same day a military parade unfolds in D.C. to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary on Saturday,
an organized day of protests against the policies of President Donald Trump’s administration is planned for more than 2,000 cities nationwide.

While thunderstorms could disrupt the celebrations in D.C.,
weather will vary at locations around the country where rallies are planned.

Mostly dry and hot weather will dominate the western United States,
while it should b…

A city-by-city forecast for Saturday’s nationwide ‘No Kings’ protests
Conditions will vary across the country, with wet, unsettled weather near the East Coast and dry, hot air dominating the West.

Urban Composition III 🫟
都市构图 III 🫟
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

Tony Romo debates 'dynasty is over' labels for Chiefs, explains why Kansas City should worry opposition

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tony-ro

This is what got Rebecca Solnit kicked off of FB:
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-on-the-city-of-angels-and-the-nature-of-violence/

A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding Canadian city councils with climate misinformation, and already having some 'success'.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/28/investigations/weaponized-ai-chatbot-…

A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation
Internal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers. The messaging is all framed to resonate with municipal officials’ duty to represent local interests. The chatbot drops the cost of misinformation to "close to zero."

"These vehicle homes sheltered dozens of working-class Latinx families, who could no longer afford the city’s soaring rents. Living in RVs was the only way many could keep their jobs in food service, janitorial work and construction while their children stayed enrolled in nearby schools.
"To city officials, it looked like homelessness. But residents didn’t see it that way. Living in RVs was a survival strategy—a way to stay housed, employed and near their communities."…

Aftermath of Russia’s HORRIFIC attack on Lviv: the city shook from the EXPLOSIONS #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/aftermath-of-russias-horrific-attack.html

He gave children saline shots instead. Isn't that fraud?
I bet parents are pissed...
Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/covid-utah-pam-bondi-joe-biden-salt-lake-city-b2787978.html

the sidewalk is not "your driveway," SF motorists. enough with the entitled grabbing of public space
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/car-driveway-san-francisco-20763724.php

Several people killed in school shooting in Austria's second biggest city, police say (Astha Rajvanshi/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/school-shooting-austrias-graz-second-biggest-city-graz-rcna211983
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p12#a250610p12

3 years after car-free JFK/Overlook/Middle/MLK was made permanent, the signage for the non-JFK parts of the route is still so bad. No one but us nerds knows a car-free path to the beach even exists!
There should be a big banner on this overpass telling you to turn left then right. Instead there’s a tiny sign no one will see and even if you do it’s unclear (this isn’t “slow streets,” it’s car-free!)

Sources: Chiefs make Smith NFL's top-paid guard https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45747043/sources-chiefs-trey-smith-agree-4-year-94m-deal

“I’ve just seen pictures of my two daughters on a curb in downtown Los Angeles in handcuffs [with] the LAPD,”
Pasadena City Council member Rick Cole said at the rally.
“So I’m going to be figuring out where they are so I can go bail them out.”
Protests against federal immigration raids continued to rage Sunday after Trump ordered the National Guard to Southern California.
Mejia, Cole’s boss, is an outspoken critic of the Los Angeles Police Department.
On Fri…

L.A. City Council aide arrested on assault charge at anti-ICE protest
Luz Aguilar, 26, who serves as City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado’s deputy for economic innovation and community growth, was arrested around 7 p.m. Sunday.

Thread about the two Palestinians invited to speak at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Piedmont, who were instead detained at SFO with their visas arbitrarily canceled:
https://social.coop/@raph/114674710005408478

Minneapolis and Saint Paul are finally launching this BRT line that was already in the planning phase when I last visited in ... 2019.
Good, but if it's gonna take that long, maybe agencies should just incrementally upgrade the buses that exist instead of these big fancy unicorn "BRT" projects?
https://

Creating Buzz for the B Line
The Twin Cities’ newest BRT line is an attractive option that could turn more people into transit users — if they know about it!

She's going after 500 people out of 3.8 million. Hardly a 'city of criminals'
DHS chief Kristi Noem calls LA a 'city of criminals'
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5341800-noem-la-a-city-of-criminals/

Russian drones kill 1, injure 3 in Sumy Oblast amid attack on civilian, critical infrastructure: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/russian-drones-kill-injure-in.html

Chiefs make Trey Smith highest-paid offensive guard in NFL with four-year, $94 million extension

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-

SFMTA is adding left turns back to Valencia at 17th, 21st and 23rd streets with a new phase, which will cut down on time for pedestrian and bike crossings. The word is that Mayor Lurie directly ordered this. Signal modifications are very expensive and that money could have gone to safety or transit priority.
Seems small, but it's wasteful and adds to the "death by a thousand cuts" for Transit First in Lurie's SF.

Foreboding only intensified Monday,
when Trump applauded the idea of arresting California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D),
followed by the mobilization of hundreds of active-duty Marines to augment the Guard members already in Los Angeles.

In a city that has increasingly found itself in the crosshairs of the federal government, turmoil can feel personal.
Local leaders accuse the Trump administration of ginning up a crisis for political gain,
and Angelenos from across …

‘He’s waging a war on us’: As Trump escalates, Angelenos defend their city
Across this vast metropolis, residents denounce what they consider an attack on the very fabric of their city — on their neighbors, co-workers, family members.

Potrero Yard working group has an open seat for a representative of a senior-serving organization, if that’s you or someone you know.
The group advises SFMTA on the bus yard modernization housing development on the Mission/Potrero Hill border
https://www.sfmta.com/projects/potrero-yar

Potrero Yard Modernization Project
Rebuilding Potrero Yard to better serve you!

Trey Smith, Chiefs finalizing record extension to make him highest-paid guard in NFL https://www.nfl.com/news/trey-smith-chiefs-finalizing-record-extension-to-make-him-highest-paid-guard-in-nfl

fucking finally, Brotherhood/Alemany/Sagamore is one of the most absurd intersections along "bike routes" in the whole city.
https://carfree.city/@sfmtadocsbot/114836632393411416

You don't have to watch the bitch; the transcript says it all: "**[W]e are not going away we are staying here to liberate this city from the uh socialist and the um burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and and what they have tried to insert into this city" **
Watch Live: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem speaks on immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzCq2xx-XJw

WR Rashee Rice eager for Chiefs to 'put on a show' this season: 'Only thing in the way right now is time' https://www.nfl.com/news/wr-rashee-rice-eager-for-chiefs-to-put-on-a-show-this-season-o…

Mayor Danny Bluejeans' cruel crackdown on people experiencing homelessness in SF is... sending them instead to SFO. Displacement is not a solution. (But he's about to double down on displacement by banning RVs too) #sfpol

Direct orders from Stephen Miller ignited the Los Angeles protests,
leading to the precarious, highly militarized situation the city is currently facing. 
The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Miller, frustrated with ICE’s failure to meet their lofty deportation quota,
held an intense meeting at ICE headquarters  last month and bet his agents that they could go to places like Home Depot or 7-Eleven and start arresting people. 
Miller reportedly engineered th…

Stephen Miller Behind Draconian Orders That Set Off L.A. Protests
Miller reportedly engineered the raids that sparked the protests that have engulfed the city in recent days—likely because he wanted a pretext to send in federal troops.

Falcons' Michael Penix Jr. aims to end Atlanta's seven-year playoff drought, 'have the city turnt'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/falcons

Headway management is a net good, but it's no fun being on the bus that's being slowed down to maintain headway. You've got places to be and that bus is draaaagging, missing every light on purpose.
https://www.sfmta.com/media/42843/download?inline

the hardest 1990s Stereolab album for me to get into is Cobra and Phases Group, and I think it's because "Infinity Girl" and "Op Hop Detonation" sound so much like songs they made previously. it trips me up, like I'm listening to a remix with new lyrics. other than that it's a fine album

I wrote about why Zohran Mamdani's free bus fare policy is a good idea actually, and the difference between thinking about transit as a consultant versus as a voter and activist.
(public replies to this toot will appear as comments)
https://scott.mn/2025/06/11/consultant

Consultant's mindset, or why Jarrett Walker is wrong about free buses

Protest filling the street at 24th and Mission in San Francisco
#ICEProtests #FuckICE

Solnit: "It's...routine to blame the Democratic Party for what the Republican Party does. The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the wife to placate and soothe the husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the advance of rights for nature, women, children, indigenous peoples, BIPOC and immigrants/refugees, queer people, trans people, people with

male ladybugs should be called guy bugs

No one wants to live on Van Ness because it's a loud car sewer. Condo listings with a Van Ness address will tell you in all-caps if the unit doesn't face Van Ness. There's also no green space there. It makes housing on the corridor a passing-through place rather than somewhere to set down roots.

Van Ness Is ‘In Crisis.’ Revival Plans Hinge On Housing Towers and Chain Stores
This main SF thoroughfare once had grand houses and auto palaces. Now there’s a great bus line, but empty storefronts. Can it again be a place to live and linger?

"Although police officers per capita are above the median among OECD countries, the U.S. is an outlier in having few police per homicide. [This] is explained not by police staffing levels but by high levels of bureaucratic shirking... inefficient allocation, low effort, and the avoidance of bodily harm. We show that U.S. officers are paid significantly more (in relative and absolute terms) while not being at greater risk... than their international counterparts."

This is so out of touch. ICE is ambushing and kidnapping our neighbors and we're going to "cover the entire city with drones"? The SFBOS should reject this "gift"
https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/were-

‘We’re going to be covering the entire city with drones’: Billionaire’s donation to SFPD accepted
San Francisco police commission accepts tech billionaire's gift, to provide cops with drones, cameras and a massive new office

"At one point, an ICE agent addressed a protester, saying 'Just keep a distance. We get it alright, we get it.' A protestor responded, 'If you get it, why are you doing this?'
"'You know that’s not what I meant,' the agent said."
#FuckICE #IceOutofTheBay

Video: ICE agents brandish rifles, drive through protesters at S.F. immigration court
Immigration agents clashed protesters, who were trying to stop an arrest, in San Francisco’s most violent ICE encounter of 2025.

immigrant rights is a bike issue https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/freedom-to-move-why-immigration-belongs-in-the-mobility-conversation

Freedom to Move: Why Immigration Belongs in the Mobility Conversation — Streetsblog USA
"If movement is a right, then that right must apply to everyone regardless of identity."

I realize there's a lot going on, but I'm surprised I didn't hear anything about the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge partially shutting down for emergency repairs. How does this affect the bike path debate? No word if it's affected by the shutdown.
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reading this anthology about #StopCopCity and one of the most interesting chapters talks about how the movement handled having a diversity of tactics. some people were writing op-eds, filing lawsuits, and pursuing a ballot measure. others were occupying the forest, burning bulldozers, and setting traps for the cops raiding them. the aboveground parts of the movement refused to condemn the under…

No Cop City, No Cop World

Me in 2016: No one should have a billion dollars.
Me in 2025, accounting for inflation: No one should have $1.339 billion dollars.

these are so good https://mamdanitimes.com/

Mamdani Headlines
The New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani is getting desperate.

I've heard unhoused folks say they don't want tents because it makes them a target. A lot more people sleeping rough with just a sleeping bag, blanket, or merely a piece of cardboard. And of course the much-sensationalized open-air drug use at 16th & Mission is partly a result of taking tents away. This is a sign of degradation and further cruelty, not success.

San Francisco homeless tent tally hits new low
The number of homeless tents on the streets of San Francisco has reached its lowest point since before the COVID-19 pandemic, data shows.

Aaron Peskin's parting achievement
https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/sf-commission-streamlining-prop-e/

as a transit advocate, I would like to be able to embrace Scott Wiener as a champion for transit funding, but unfortunately he has also regularly attacked and defamed pro-Palestine activists. his actions have contributed to a neo-McCarthyist atmosphere around this issue that was immediately seized upon by Trump on coming back to power

Doctor Says UCSF Fired Her Due to Pressure From Wiener, Dillers Over Pro-Palestinian Speech
CA State Senator Scott Wiener and UCSF’s largest donor, the Diller Foundation, are named in new allegations by Dr. Rupa Marya, prominent physician, activist, and musician, who is suing UCSF over her recent termination stemming from public criticism of Israel.

nice coverage of new bus-stop benches kindly installed by some unidentified people!
https://sfist.com/2025/06/09/renegade-transit-activists-install-their-own-guerilla-benches-at-sf-bus-stops-that-do…

Renegade Transit Activists Install their Own ‘Guerilla Benches’ at SF Bus Stops That Don’t Have Benches
A rogue group of activists won’t stand for the lack of benches at many SF Muni stops, so they went and installed a bunch of their own unauthorized benches this past weekend. But we’ll see how this sits with SF Public Works.

#SilentSunday

"A paper published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association analyzed drug seizures by law enforcement in San Francisco and concluded that such interdictions were associated with an increase in fatal overdoses in the surrounding area the next day."
Mayor Lurie's #WarOnDrugs 2.0 is not just failing, it's actively killing people. Public health requires m…