Jesse Shapins

Urban development, holistic sustainability, social equity & collective storytelling @nrep. New to CPH. Past @sidewalklabs, @uniondocs, @metalabharvard, @zeega.

[Jesse Shapins @jshapes]

This project was one of the reasons I joined NREP. Super inspiring to see it truly coming to life and this holistic approach to sustainability coming to life.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Here’s how Dems can + must do more than wait for an election.

Let’s start w/ why:

- 7 of the 9 justices were appointed by a party that hasn’t won a popular vote more than once in 30 years

- 1 of those seats was stolen

- Several lied to Congress to secure their appointment…

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

They really truly tried a coup and had they had any sense they had the senior Pentagon’s loyalty they would have straight up tried to seize power with troops.

[Indy Johar @indy_johar]

I would say electric bikes are going to redefine the city more than electric cars. Design your cities for electric bikes..

[Bloomberg CityLab @CityLab]

"For more than 90 years, there has been a tacit agreement in the US to treat the right to walk as dispensable, and to treat each death in traffic as an individual loss to be grieved privately." https://t.co/LZL8rsq1vq

[Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history]

This perfectly captures the state of the political discourse on the Right.

It’s a massive problem that much of the established media will keep pretending these are serious people because they feel the need to uphold the myth that there are two roughly equivalent sides/parties.

[Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history]

Never forget: Much of this is the result of deliberate political choices and could be remedied by political action. There are people responsible for what we are putting our children through. As long as America is still a democracy, vote them out. It doesn’t have to be this way!

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

I do not want to read a single profile of the shooter. Enough.

Nothing will allow us to predict which of the many, many troubled young man will turn to a mass shooter. Zero public interest in the individual details.

It’s the access to the deadly gun that’s the key. That’s it.

[Jesse Shapins @jshapes]

@johnolilly Not Morrocan, but was just in Paris and loved Le Petit Keller, Clamato and Early June.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

I’ll keep pointing this out— positioning the Buffalo massacre as one in a series of “mass shootings” is one way the establishment avoids placing it in the more accurate context of Jan 6, Rittenhouse as a GOP icon & Republican officials making threats toward colleagues

[Jesse Shapins @jshapes]

@elipariser @tzimmer_history

[Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history]

Every society harbors far-right extremists who dream of committing acts of fascistic violence. But in the U.S., they are heavily armed and find their ideology normalized by a rightwing media machine, their ideas amplified by Republican officials across the country.

A thread:

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

A self-described white supremecist traveled to a black neighborhood and murdered 10 people today, leaving behind a manifesto on the Great Replacement theory — a racist conspiracy theory endorsed repeatedly by Tucker Carlson, the nation’s most-watched political pundit

[Market Urbanism @MarketUrbanism]

New York really is the safest city in America

[Jesse Shapins @jshapes]

@MITLCAU @anamiljacki @dietoff @andres_sevtsuk @rduecyg @tchu88 @mitsap @MITdusp @datasew @MITarchitecture Thank you for hosting this rich and important discussion with such a wonderful group!

[Jesse Shapins @jshapes]

@melpiana @Richard_Florida @numina is great!

[Shabazz Stuart @ShabazzStuart]

I really think city leaders have to start grappling with the fact that the midtown economy— which was driven by crowds of white collar office workers…may never be the same.

…and by extension the city itself may never be the same.

[Jesse Shapins @jshapes]

@keerthanarang @laurenskelly This is the best!!!! Miss you both and that amazing spot.

[Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history]

This is a major issue. This type of framing is not only factually inadequate, it also builds on and perpetuates the pervasive idea of #BothSides being to blame for “Washington” being a dysfunctional mess - a narrative that strongly privileges the Right’s assault on government.