It takes a lot to shake me but this abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar at Tufts is bone-chilling.

Plainclothes, masked agents bundle her into an unmarked car.
https://apnews.com/video/turkish-student-at-tufts-university-detained-video-shows-masked-people-handcuffing-her-109ae65a4e734b12b357897376ea443b

It appears her thought crime was co-authoring op-ed in the Tufts newspaper, asking the university to take action in opposition to Israeli war crimes.

https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj

She's been whisked off from Massachusetts to Louisiana.

This is the new America.

Citizens are next.

Just in time for tomorrow’s @yimbysforharris call, this week’s video is all about the housing crisis and the growing power of the pro-housing/pro-neighbors movement. On Nebula now, and at the usual place tomorrow!

https://nebula.tv/videos/citynerd-yimbyism-just-might-be-a-political-juggernaut

Excited to share that Ghost is going to federate over ActivityPub and become part of the largest open publishing network in the world 🎉

https://activitypub.ghost.org

On traffic engineers sabotaging cities that want to improve safety:

"There can be only one agenda... There are many great engineers out there ready to prioritize public safety... Any city council wanting to can find these people, empower them, and support them so that they can do great things."

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town. Charles Marohn.

#StrongTowns #RoadSafety #VisionZero #SafetyFirst #urbanism #onpoli #onpolitics #engineering #trafficsafety