Peter Kelly

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[Peter Kelly @ptrklly]

@joshjacobsondc Can you share more about how they’re doing that? (City council meetings? Private discussions?), or share a link? Agree it’s important to get them to be a force for good on bike infra!

[Peter Kelly @ptrklly]

@utotranslucence This reflection makes me respect a lot more the metaphor of God the Father (or Mother). Not just the wellspring of creation, but an ongoing and active leadership. Thanks!

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

JUST IN: The White House has begun DEMOLISHING portions of the East Wing of the White House to build Trump’s $250 million ballroom — despite earlier claiming it wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing White House structure. (Washington Post)

[Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉 @DanielLurie]

If you live in San Francisco, you’ve seen it or heard it: large groups on dirt bikes and ATVs taking over our streets and sidewalks.

They ride without licenses, ignore the law, and terrorize our communities. For years, it felt like the city couldn’t—or wouldn’t—stop it.

Now we are.

Yesterday, with coordination between SFPD’s Citywide Plainclothes Team, the Real Time Investigation Center, and uniformed officers—and with the help of drones and license plate readers—San Francisco carried out a major dirt bike enforcement operation, using every tool available to do it safely and effectively.

The result: @SFPD officers made four arrests and seized six dirt bikes and an ATV.

We have the technology, we have the officers, and we have a clear message:

This dangerous behavior has no place in San Francisco.

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

One of the best things I've read on protesting. "A protest is an invitation to a better world."

Peter Brouwer:
Zen priest, Peter Coyote, on protest: "I’m watching the Los Angeles reaction to ICE raids with trepidation and regret.

Three years ago I taught a class at Harvard on the “theater of protest”— designed to help people understand why so many protests turn out to be Republican campaign videos working directly against the interests of the original protest.

A protest is an invitation to a better world.

It’s a ceremony.

No one accepts a ceremonial invitation when they’re being screamed at.

More important you have to know who the real audience of the protest is.

The audience is NEVER the police, the politicians, the Board of supervisors, Congress,etc.

The audience is always the American people, who are trying to decide who they can trust; who will not embarrass them.

If you win them, you win power at the ballot box and power to make positive change.

Everything else is a waste.

There are a few ways to get there:

1. Let women organize the event. They’re more collaborative. They’re more inclusive, and they don’t generally bring the undertones of violence men do.

2 Appoint monitors, give them yellow vests and whistles. At the first sign of violence, they blow the whistles and the real protester sit down.

Let the police take out their aggression on the anarchists and the provocateurs trying to discredit the movement.

3. Dress like you’re going to church. It’s hard to be painted as a hoodlum when you’re dressed in clean, presentable clothes.

They don’t have to be fancy they just signal the respect for the occasion that you want to transmit to the audience.

4. Make your protest silent. Demonstrate your discipline to the American people. Let signs do the talking.

5. Go home at night. In the dark, you can’t tell the cops from the killers. Come back at dawn fresh and rested.

I have great fear that Trump’s staging with the National Guard and maybe the Marines is designed to clash with anarchists who are playing into his hands and offering him the opportunity to declare an insurrection.

It’s such a waste and it’s only because we haven’t thought things through strategically.

Nothing I thought of is particularly original.

It was all learned by watching the early civil rights protests in the 50s and 60s.

And it was the discipline and courage of African-Americans that drew such a clear line in the American sand that people were forced to take sides and that produced the civil rights act.

The American people are watching and once again if we behave in ways that can be misinterpreted, we’ll see this explained to the public in Republican campaign videos benefiting the very people who started this.

Wake up.

Vent at home.

In public practice discipline and self control.

It takes much more courage."
- Zen teacher and author/narrator with Ken Burns

Note: Carry an American flag. As the administration creates a fake emergency to justify a state crackdown, it's important to honor the values and vision of democracy for which we're advocating.

When the Enquirer came for pics back in 2017, I smiled a big toothy grin and held a big flag as it felt so empowering and good to stand with my adult daughter, pastors, Franciscans, nuns, kids, parents, grandparents and some women from our women's groups for the values we tried to pass on.

After the protest, we sang and marched to a church where we heard poignant witness of immigrants trying to build a better life for their families against insurmountable odds.

Many Marines, National Guardsmen and vets are over on Threads and Substack expressinging their disagreement over being used by this lawless administration.

Peace, santi and shalom to all.

[Peter Kelly @ptrklly]

@eshear Deadwood! Life was tough then in the Wild West, but wouldn't call them tortured.

[Bill Clerico @billclerico]

How to solve wildfire:
1) Forest & fuel management (need to 100x what we do now in terms of acreage per year)
2) Rapid detection & initial attack (camera + satellite detection with <10 minute drone suppression response)
3) Home & community hardening

[Rohan Patel @rohanspatel]

@JigarShahDC and his team were more than happy to provide a loan to Tesla for any number of projects. There wasn’t a right fit in terms of timing and terms, but there was never any anti-Tesla bias I felt in my conversations with his loan program office team. This @Rivian loan has been in the works for many months. https://t.co/5cM6MW8qug.

[Peter Kelly @ptrklly]

@catehall Ugh this is so good. Thanks for sharing! Intermittent reward like this is what keeps me here.

[Peter Kelly @ptrklly]

@ByrneHobart Bridge teaches inference

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

this is an accurate portrayal of what Catholic doctrine teaches about Transubstantiation with the pop-tart as the body of Christ

[Qagggy! @Qagggy]

I am pretty excited to share what’s happening in Barcelona because it is fucking amazing. (this is not a.i.)

[Peter Kelly @ptrklly]

@HeerJeet Piano bar at The Dresden is great.

[Peter Kelly @ptrklly]

@MichaelWWara Don't need a code but what's your handle?! Trying to build up the flow over there.

[Peter Olivier @PeterOlivier]

I keep coming back to this paradox I came across while at climate week:

carbon markets whipsawing (particularly afforestation credits & the subsequent fall in prices - stranded assets story etc.) eroded trust in the carbon market for buyers & investors

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[Peter Kelly @ptrklly]

@JurassicParks Shock me!

[Peter Kelly @ptrklly]

@shaylekann @CatalystPod 5 stars!

[Michael Wara @MichaelWWara]

Why do home insurers agree to underwrite policies in high wildfire risk areas where utilities do not have robust wildfire mitigation plans in place?

[Peter Kelly @ptrklly]

@robertjbennett Yeah it doesn’t have the “anti” parts of punk (-establishment, -corporate, etc), which are important to the definition. But can still have the other parts: do it yourself, no permission needed, pick up an instrument even if you’re bad at it, we’re the ones to save ourselves etc

[Peter Kelly @ptrklly]

@robertjbennett I've wondered about this a little bit as well, and currently think "hope punk" might be a better genre if we're looking for one that can respond to climate? More of a focus on the individual putting their shoulder to the wheel of large institutions?