Art from this morning’s walk. I stayed closer to home for the first weekend in forever. Five streets completed in Forest Park Southeast.
Julie in STL
@hyperhouse.bsky.social
Hyperfixates on hobbies and local things. Loyal but anxious. You can either find me inside making sourdough/reading/crafting or outside walking/biking and calling out infrastructure failures. Walking on IG as speedhumpme
Under Mayor Colau’s leadership, Barcelona tripled its cycling network in eight years, placing 90% of residents within 300 metres of a route. Progress under the current mayor has stalled, but here’s the thing about a cycling revolution: you can slow the infrastructure, but you can’t stop the demand.
And I haven't done the math on it, but well over half of the new Dem House caucus is going to be folks who took office after Trump's first inauguration. The folks whose frame of reference for governance is the pre-Trump status quo are going to be decisively outnumbered, and for the first time.
To make it local, one of the former heads of STL Venture Cafe was a key guest for this weird gathering. www.thepiraeus.com/p/new-event-...
New Event: Building on the Cultural Frontier
Upcoming Piraeus event in Nashville featuring grassroots cultural and educational leaders
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Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW: In leaked recordings, Peter Thiel argued that Nashville should be a moral alternative to Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church, which he called “a dubious ally” against a hypothetical future Antichrist Democratic president.
Extremely weird fact: We got more votes for the Bay Area Transit funding measure RTM than ~17 incoming federal Senators got
Carter Lavin@carterlavin.bsky.social · 2d agoWhy yes my new end of night ritual includes checking the updated RTM vote count and having the biggest smile ever.... Y'all, over 800,000 people in the Bay voted YES on the transit measure. That's more than the population of 4 states sfstandard.com/2026/11/03/e... G'night
hi when will all the progressive journalists and organizers be given newspaper columns and high-paying pundit jobs to explain how this country *really* feels
this really feels like the last stop before the bunker
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d agoTrump announces Stephen Miller will be his new White House chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles.
Waymo wants residents to lobby their cities to help "fast-track" safer roads. This is the company the @washingtonpost.com documented not yielding to pedestrians in marked crosswalks. Let’s focus on what actually works: narrower lanes, shorter crossings, protected bike lanes, lower speeds.
A play inspired by family dynamics in St. Louis is coming to Greenfinch Theater Nov. 5-8. "Brothers of Affliction" follows three brothers as they navigate love, violence and lies. The play originally debuted in Atlanta in 2012.
A St. Louis playwright explores family trauma and healing in ‘Brothers of Affliction’
With his production “Brothers of Affliction,” St. Louis playwright Paris Crayton III aims to create a space where actors and audience members can embrace vulnerability.
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As exciting as the blue wave is, remember that almost none of these campaigns even *mentioned* transportation, nevermind transportation reform. But we have a shot to finally fill progressives' single biggest blind spot — and if we don't want the next infra bill to suck, we have to get to work.
What It Will Take To Turn the 'Blue Wave' Into a Watershed Moment for Transportation Reform — Streetsblog USA
Democrats won big at the ballot box in the midterms. Will they fight for multimodal travelers when they're in office?
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It is *insane* that the party that runs on confronting climate change does so little to address its single biggest emitting sector. It is nuts that you can run on affordability and then "compromise" by defunding transit options that would let people survive without cars, their 2nd biggest expense.
Unofficial Ward by Ward results are out. www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/d... Citywide turnout was 49.7%, up from 43.6% in 2022. There were 6.8% fewer Registered Voters than in 2022 and all 14 Wards had fewer RVs. But ballots cast were up by 6.3% and all but the 12th Ward had an increase in votes.
Election Results for St. Louis City
City of St. Louis election results from 2004 to the present
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Starting any minute! St. Louis Planning Commission. hybrid. 5:30 p.m. www.stlouis-mo.gov/events/event... #PlanCommSTL Public Hearing on draft neighborhood plan for Mark Twain/ I70 Industrial nabe Spoiler: Zoning will make area ripe for #DataCenterSTL development. #MidtownTIF project.
Now that we're in Woke 3.0, what's your dream transportation policy or idea? Sure, ban cars, but what would you like to see in your fantasy version of events? There are no wrong answers, only good and absolutely outstanding answers. Go for it.
Is the parking actually full? For how long? Which blocks? At what time? Those questions matter because different problems need different solutions. Good parking management starts with knowing what is actually happening. Measure first. Manage second. Explore PRN’s resources: parkingreform.org
There should be a Prop on the next ballot returning the police to local control.
I was going to take a lunch break but then FDT came on my mix and now Exhibit F has been redlined (I accepted everything)
YG - FDT Music Video Clip
Alt: YG - FDT Music Video Clip
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Biglaw Firms That Surrendered To Trump Should Get Ready For The Congressional Probes https://abovethelaw.com/2026/11/biglaw-firms-that-surrendered-to-trump-should-get-ready-for-the-congressional-probes/
Biglaw Firms That Surrendered To Trump Should Get Ready For The Congressional Probes
Democrats repeatedly asked about Biglaw's shady Trump deals. After the midterms, they have the power to push for answers.
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What season is it? An inquiry on today’s Fox Park and Tower Grove East walk.
Some parts of St. Louis are more equal than others. Baden is one of the most neglected and forgotten neighborhoods in the city. Residents here deserve so much better.
That road cone has begun a katabasis. Its experiences will overturn its deeply held principles (paint as infrastructure, deferred maintenance, 50-50 sidewalk repairs), and the resulting grief and newly broadened imagination will prepare it to transform St. Louis’s urban fabric. At least I hope so.
A truly scary scene over in Tower Ghoul East… evidence of Spire on this block. Rest In Peace, residents.
"Deaf people deserve to die" is a helluva take, @seattletimes.com
Jason@jrock08.bsky.social · last wk."It doesn’t matter if you are walking, riding, or driving... if you cannot hear, you are not safe" Yet another victim blaming traffic violence op ed that ignores that deaf people exist and deserve to be safe while using our streets.
Had a person threaten to call the cops on me for walking while white in “her neighborhood” so that’s new. She also told me I have an evil look to me. I hope I ruined her day with what I said back. 😘
“I saw you had your morning blocked off on your calendar but I have a question so I sent an invite…” Use your words buddy. That’s called an email opportunity, not a reason to cross the boundary I put in place (at my boss’s direction mind you). DECLINE.
Julie in STL@hyperhouse.bsky.social · last wk.I'd be willing to take a 50% pay cut to not have to work with white men anymore.