Ryan Dusil

One young voter in New Jersey on CNN right now: “Honestly, the last few days [of shutdown] have been scary for a lot of Americans. And while we’re sitting here struggling and worried, they’re building a ballroom.” 🎯

Very cool to see Mad Max Sherzer still has that fire after an absolutely incredible 17yr career. Dominance, longevity, and little bit of psycho. An all-time great. It had never occurred to me that he has also spent his entire career playing for relatively small market teams. That’s awesome.

Found out about Saint Paul’s Grand Round last night at 11pm and completed it by 1pm today. Serendipity for the win. What a cool urban loop. 27 miles of greenways, parkways, protected cycle tracks, and bike lanes.

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

The playbook: 1. Acknowledge the pain 2. Offer a villain 3. Promise a solution

Just had a thought: the difference between a "food desert" and a "car dependent neighborhood" is the income of the residents. Both are food deserts (there are no supermarkets, etc) one just has enough ppl with cars for it to not matter.

This line from “Killed by a Traffic Engineer” is a good example of why it’s a fun read: “What happens when the street network comes after the functional classification system? The result often resembles a branchy deciduous tree with streets named after the trees we cut down to build it.”

this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)

Some raw truth about cars

And so it begins, our e-bike era. We intentionally purchased an e-bike that fits a wide range of heights and can haul plenty of groceries. We’ll be selling our 2nd car, which will save our household an estimated $3,000 in 2025.

Merry Christmas to me!

Always good to remember that people in cars are the number one danger to themselves

not a landslide

"We're not going to lower our own bar ... just because of the outcome of this election. We'll negotiate to make progress along the way, but we're not going to be changing our North Star.” usa.streetsblog.org/2024/11/13/t...

Nations too often let us down. My biggest faith is in cities.