Thomas Rogers

Thomas Rogers

@throgers.bsky.social

City planner, photographer, urban hiker, http://sidewalktypos.com updater

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I love this @peterhartlaub.bsky.social piece on how biking can change your life and relationship to your environment! I've been bicycling a lot more in SF since we got an e-bike, especially with our elementary-school kid on the back, and it's been wonderful 🚲❤️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

sfchronicle.comA single S.F. lifestyle change bettered my life in ways I couldn't imagineA decade ago, the Chronicle’s Peter Hartlaub took a harrowing bike ride up Market Street. It changed his life in ways he never expected.

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I've followed pedestrian safety topics for a while, and the "hood height" issue was familiar (and horrifying) to me, but the A-pillar and mirror blind spots were new- terrible how modern trucks/SUVs block sight lines and put us all at risk www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

nytimes.comThe Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

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There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

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“In many ways it’s a time capsule. And it will be here for another 100 years.” For the Grand Lake’s 100th birthday 🎂🍿 I wrote about a romance between a man and architecture — and how it rescued the best theater in the Bay Area. Gift link for The Town 🌳🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

sfchronicle.com100 years of Grand Lake: Oakland’s favorite cinema is an epic love storyHow did Oakland’s favorite movie theater survive for a century? The answer includes Ryan Coogler, real butter and a theater operator who fell in love with a money pit.

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“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Trump, 11/1/24 “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” - Trump, 11/5/24

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Ossoff: "There are some folks who are doomscrolling in the fetal position. Every day there is a new outrage. It's easy I know to fear that maybe we could lose our republic. I think what John Lewis would tell us is it's up to us. We have the power to right the ship. Nobody is gonna do it for us."

I might not be understanding the complexities fully, but it seems like Sup. Shamann Walton holding up a public improvement that WAS binding, in order to try and get more goodies that were promised but explicitly noted as NOT binding? Anyway, great job, San Francisco

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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

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When they decided to teach the kids (such as my 11yo) a lesson I don't think they understood the lesson was fuck ICE

Lydia Kiesling@lydiakiesling.bsky.social

Congrats to ICE for dropping a metric ton of tear gas on a bunch of nurses, teamsters and children just now

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hey Square, shutting off a block of the primary N-S bike commute path, just as hundreds of parents are bringing their kids home after school, with zero indication of alternate routes, is a shitty thing to do and a great way to piss off thousands of people! @sfmta.com : just keep the bike lanes open

The Twins have a number of existing t-shirts that inadvertently work as "Minnesota solidarity" gear, but you really have to dig for them! Missing an opportunity here, guys 😄

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Replying to @lastpositivist.bsky.social

i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

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what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.

Mike Hixenbaugh@mikehixenbaugh.com

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

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The latest numbers are in: Congestion pricing cut 27M car trips in 2025. Commutes got faster Streets got safer And business went up See more exclusive analysis - and feedback from 600+readers - in our latest collab with @upshot.nytimes.com Free link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

nytimes.comCongestion pricing after one year: How life has changed. (Gift Article)How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.

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California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50. California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections. Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.

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Not building housing screws young people, pushes them out & tanks future economic success. We need to make it easier & faster to build the homes we need for a bright future. Our current vetocracy need to change & we’re working to change it.

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