mitch, ardent fan of the bus @73_Carondelet Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

I think it's time to start an ongoing thread of problems with fare enforcement in St. Louis 1/x

carb uncle

@homerbankforts

5 years

today in Saint Louis

1

3

23

2

12

49

Last Seen Profiles

@IamJasonMartin

@slksyrena

@pengen_stw

@hijabjilbab1

@Tante_Binal69

@SonyPics_TV_JP

@shigure_0623

@stw_pdg

@B_Man014

@elbah_adam_

@f1bastard

@jandakembangstw

@Tanuganguly

@stw_pdg

@jandakembangstw

@dllgntboys

@stw_pdg

@mattygriff65

@Wakeyfn_

@MrArabianSavage

@edde_ms

@rngf259863

@verawati556

@BinorRaja

@stopnuttin

@lenombrilisme

@Neat_Christi

@urkittyluvr

@StwIbu64248

@stw_pdg

@MusBizXperiment

@zubymadu

@pengen_stw

@stw_pdg

@hullcity14

@DiscoverousGame

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

HOW TRANSIT SHOULD WORK 🚌 🏃 🚌 🏃 🚌 🏃 💨 🏃 🚶‍♂️ oh fuck I missed the bus 🚶‍♂️ glad there's another in 6 minutes! HOW TRANSIT DOES WORK (IN THE US) 🚌 🏃 🚌 🏃 🚌 🏃 💨🏃 🚶‍♂️ oh fuck I missed the bus 🚶‍♂️ not another for an hour 🚶‍♂️ hope I don't lose my job.

492

16K

77K

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

Philly Chicago San Francisco San Diego Minneapolis LA D.C. FYI using an Uber on May 8th in these cities is crossing a picket line

18

3K

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

@LydaKrewson Either you didn’t think thru your actions or you did this on purpose. Both are bad. But either way, we saw the video and we heard your malice towards the people you are supposed to represent. You need to resign.

8

103

2K

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

damn this dumb tweet is doing numbers already. here's the fact I really need to go viral, St. Louis neighborhoods are hiring fake police cars from a private corporation, with this abominable guy at the helm. their employees carry SLMPD service weapons.

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

@LydaKrewson This is neat. Matthew Karnowski (COO of The City's Finest) is implicated in multiple police use of force incidents. Google his name. He commanded the use of force from the Sept. 17 Stockley kettling. Cool. Great. Glad he's leading a private security firm.

3

35

161

11

218

940

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

6 years

@boringcompany wow this is a neat idea, what if we did it with big cars for more people that were like publicly owned, and with set times for the cars to come regularly or something like that

9

12

594

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

7 years

7

147

494

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

@biIlspreston Thank you!!! Give these men and women in blue some love too!!!

1

40

423

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

6 years

uh sure why not

10

26

349

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

This was over 135 years ago

18

53

340

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

Make this parking lane a bus lane you cowards

5

16

287

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

┏━━┓┏━━┓┏━━┓┏━━┓ ┗━┓┃┃┏┓┃┗━┓┃┃┏┓┃ ┏━┛┃┃┃┃┃┏━┛┃┃┃┃┃ TAKE A BUS, EVEN JUST ONCE ┃┏━┛┃┃┃┃┃┏━┛┃┃┃┃ ┃┗━┓┃┗┛┃┃┗━┓┃┗┛┃ ┗━━┛┗━━┛┗━━┛┗━━

5

64

283

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

7 years

31 states still have Confederate monuments. There were only 11 states in the Confederacy.

4

170

261

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

7 years

Excited to announce @stlouisdsa is organizing our own free brake light repair clinic, and we'll have details soon!

0

39

225

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

If it's too big to fit in a parking spot.... maybe there's no reason to allow it to exist?

17

16

241

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

6 years

since elon musk has started changing his tune I made some suggestions for his company's website.

7

83

187

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

St Louis is just a really fucked up region, and the last few days have been a reminder of that. I really don’t think there’s another city that so wholly grasps as many facets of the messed-up-ness of this country in microcosm.

8

25

179

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

@LydaKrewson This is neat. Matthew Karnowski (COO of The City's Finest) is implicated in multiple police use of force incidents. Google his name. He commanded the use of force from the Sept. 17 Stockley kettling. Cool. Great. Glad he's leading a private security firm.

Hundreds of city cops named in class-action suit stemming from “kettling” arrests during Stockley...

More than 340 St. Louis Metropolitan police officers are named in a class-action lawsuit filed todayagainst the individual officers and the City of St. Louis, alleging the unlawfully pepper spraying,

www.stlamerican.com

3

35

161

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

St. Louis been telling ya’ll this

cycling crusader🥑🔰🚲🚉

@cinemachagrin

4 years

The fourplex. This is the ideal housing type. You may not like it, but this is what peak housing performance looks like.

71

143

3K

7

12

172

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

@whitesox @chancetherapper is chance wearing a crop top

0

3

161

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

6 years

@LydaKrewson Why are you thanking the guy who helped strip our minimum wage, tried to pass RTW, and blackmailed a woman he sexually assaulted?

1

8

135

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

HIGHLY underrated benefit to not having a car is never driving drunk

2

19

142

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

@maehaun sorry but he’s right

0

157

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

Don’t let an authoritarian curfew and the actions of a few overshadow what St Louis saw yesterday. A massive outturning of solidarity. Thousand(s?) committed civil disobedience in “defacing” a national monument (with post-it notes) and occupying a highway to say #BlackLivesMatter

1

53

148

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

@darthbob88 @donoteat1 In St. Charles County (who refuse to pay into our regional transit system, and therefore it's night impossible to get there on transit) they have their own system with 5 routes that run like 6 times a day. It's literally called SCAT.

6

1

138

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

basically mandatory car ownership

🟢dev DECKER ™️ ✊🏾

@dev_decker

4 years

What’s something that’s clearly a scam but Americans have been conditioned to believe it’s “normal”?

7K

1K

14K

2

23

134

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

driving in the snow sucks and also everyone is bad at it. IDEA: big shared vehicles with professional drivers.

8

18

133

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

Kansas City won free fares. St Louis, we can organize for transit justice. If you're a transit rider interested in organizing for better transit here, please try and keep open next Monday, Dec 16 evening. More info to come. (Please RT/share with other local transit folks)

4

55

112

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

Do I like Bloomberg? No. Do I think he would be a good president? No. But will I vote for him if he’s the nominee? Also no.

7

10

106

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

a system built on cruelty and repression builds its own destruction

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

@stltoday

3 years

Inmates set fire, smash windows at downtown St. Louis jail

54

229

623

1

16

118

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

a tale of two trolleys

6

26

112

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

How it started How it’s going

4

10

119

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

It’s getting cold, so a friend has put together a free donations rack on Cherokee Street. Coats have been going fast, so there is def need. If you have extra winter clothing, you can bring it to the rack, in Bridge Bread’s alcove.

2

36

118

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

Riding the bus for a year in St Louis costs more than Trump paid in taxes.

1

26

118

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

@MissouriGOP just a guess but maybe she's at the truman office located at 301 W. High Street, room 880?

1

116

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

imagine spending a year in a jail before a judge decides if you should even face charges. not convicted of any crime, just too poor to bail out. you'd be furious too. the whole damn system is guilty as hell.

2

13

112

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

kinda bullshit that almost all COVID testing in STL is drive-in people without cars exist

1

7

104

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

An AirBnB “super host” bought my friend’s apartment building, and is terminating his lease during a pandemic. This is apparently not an eviction because the lease terminates on sale of building. Tenant law is so fucked.

6

17

110

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

If you wanna understand why "Medicare for all who want it" won't work, please consider how right now we effectively have "Transit for all who want it"

3

18

101

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

OH COME ON

8

14

99

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

It has been 1207 days since Krewson demanded that Jeff Roorda be fired

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

7 years

"Today I call upon the elected leadership of the St. Louis Police Officers Association to fire Jeff Roorda. When I am mayor, he will not be welcome in my office." - @LydaKrewson , February 16, 2017

1

14

34

2

37

94

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

we did a thing 🥰

18

0

107

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

Hot take Monday: golf carts a better signal of gentrification than coffee shops.

10

4

99

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

We had an electrified and extensive streetcar system. And we let GM, the auto-oil-rubber complex, and their shell companies buy it and tear it all up. I love the bus, but mostly because I have to, because they took all this away from us and we'll never get it back.

5

16

103

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

7 years

"You can't stop the revolution" at West County Mall #StockleyVerdict #ShutItDown

13

37

75

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

Great Budweiser ad! Really brave featuring footage of the notable “free hugs” protests that drew severe police repression in AB’s former hometown! And who can forget all of the blurry protest signs?

4

9

93

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

1

25

92

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

St. Louis now has a curfew for "at least the next few days." This release literally doesn't have an end date on it.

Lyda Krewson

@LydaKrewson

4 years

In order to protect the health, safety & welfare of our residents, businesses, and institutions, today I signed an executive order establishing a citywide curfew that goes into effect at 9pm tonight and will continue until 6 am the next day. It repeats daily until further notice.

72

100

145

10

68

96

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

So I missed that “The City’s Finest, LLC” owns a ton of new “POLICE” cars, as well as a building in the Grove labeled “POLICE” This is a private company: is the city just okay with this? Pretty ominous stuff imho.

9

21

96

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

met yet another person at my bus stop who wasn’t aware that if your bus doesn’t show for 30 minutes, Metro will order you a Lyft to your destination And no wonder! It’s not advertised anywhere afaik

4

26

97

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

Here's the pricing for apartments at @OneHundredSTL . Glad this place got a 95% property tax abatement for 15 years!!!!!!!

19

88

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

There's no tackling climate change without getting rid of cars. That's the tweet.

3

13

84

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

When I say something like "cars are bad" I don't mean you, a person who drives a car to work, is bad. I mean that this system, built over decades, in which it's 90%+ likely that you functionally have no choice other than driving to work, is bad.

1

9

88

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

Don’t forget we need to defund transit cops too

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

6 years

Hey @STLMetro is it standard policy to put a mace can in the face of people on your platform

1

27

32

1

20

81

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

STL folks: Would mobile ticketing (that is, being able to buy and use bus/train tickets or passes on your phone) convince you to use public transit more often? How much more often?

30

3

86

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

A St Louis Political Drama in Four Acts

3

16

83

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

what does this mean? isn’t “out of many, one” a collectivist vision, which socialists would probably agree with?

6

7

76

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

I far prefer less snappy slogans like “on day one I will close Guantanamo Bay”

The Hill

@thehill

4 years

Obama: You lose people with "snappy" slogans like "defund the police"

5K

2K

18K

1

13

82

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

rainy day reminder that we deserve more bus shelters

2

10

81

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

CORI MFIN BUSH!! SHE DID IT!

0

5

77

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

In case you’re worried: Bernie dropping out isn’t the end of anything. 2016 was the start of a new age of grassroots organizing. That work didn’t end between elections and it doesn’t end now. #organize

4

12

72

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

Compare: KCMO spends $8M to make transit free STL spends $19M on "security infrastructure"

Bill Schultheiss

@schlthss

5 years

“Free bus service, which is expected to cost about $8 million, has been pitched as a major help to low-income residents who rely on transit to commute to work.” For context the Kansas DOT is studying a $3 Billion outer loop. That could fund the free bus service for 375 years...

10

71

260

3

24

74

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

KC leadership vs. STL "leadership"

4

20

77

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

Hi @LydaKrewson , any updates on this? Thanks!

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

7 years

"Today I call upon the elected leadership of the St. Louis Police Officers Association to fire Jeff Roorda. When I am mayor, he will not be welcome in my office." - @LydaKrewson , February 16, 2017

1

14

34

3

19

71

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

$52M for @STLMetro turnstiles. For that price we could have made the entire transit system free for all of 2020 and 2021.

3

20

76

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

Cori Bush honest and unapologetic voice is going to be a breath of fresh air in congress. Lacy Clay's tower of influence toppling is going to be a breath of fresh air in St. Louis politics. Allowing myself some hope and optimism, even amidst 2020.

1

3

71

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

2

14

83

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards: "We don't have a trademark on the word police"

Alexis Zotos

@alexiszotos

5 years

We spoke with Judge Jimmie Edwards about The City's Finest's vehicles. He says "we don't have a trademark on the word police." He also said he doesn't want them initiating police work but if they see something, he expects them to respond.

7

8

23

4

17

69

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

@distorsun @LydaKrewson Yeah I mean that’s certainly the way it sounds to me in the video!

1

72

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

@distorsun @LydaKrewson SLMPD did this during the 2017 Stockley protests too! With protesters who were arrested the first day. Names and addresses. And there was public outcry about them doing it then. So she really should know better.

2

3

72

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

7 years

Proud to be a @DemSocialists member, and excited to announce that @stlouisdsa is taking its first steps towards actual existence!

5

8

62

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

WHY IS THE BOARD OF ALDERMAN DEBATING ANTI-COMMUNISM, DO SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY MAKES THE CITY SAFER LIKE PASSING A BILL TO PAY FOR 1000 SPEED HUMPS

2

7

68

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

just makin’ anti-car propaganda at @centralprintstl

0

5

65

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

6 years

@MissouriGOP delet this

1

54

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

Reminder again that @LydaKrewson 's office asked that the fake police cars remove the words "Traffic Safety" from their vehicles, but not the word "Police"

2

6

65

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

We're not saying "defund 10% of the Workhouse and give it to police," we're saying CLOSE the Workhouse, and invest that in our communities!

Lyda Krewson

@LydaKrewson

4 years

Also today, I am offering an FY21 budget amendment that cuts an additional $860,000 from the Corrections Division/Medium Security Institution budget -- and instead invests it in @CityofSTLDOH in order to fund a new community policing program we've previously test piloted.

19

12

43

1

29

66

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

6 years

My favorite sight of 2018 is @CoriBush wearing a DSA #AbolishICE button in front of a Time Crisis II arcade machine

2

16

68

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

🤔

4

17

61

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

8 years

A good read! Consider joining @DemSocialists today, if you haven't yet.

3

26

63

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

regular reminder that having frequent and 24/7 transit does so much more to make a street feel safe than anything you can do with police.

0

13

69

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

6 years

Finally saw it in person!! #ridethebus

3

0

66

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

my two cents: destroying a homeless person’s shelter and throwing away their sole possessions does not seem, to me, a very good way to help them during a pandemic.

1

15

63

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

6 years

@DemSocialists Ice Cream Socialists!

2

1

57

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

found this while searching for something else. funny if it wasn't so frustrating.

2

8

67

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

making 👏 the 👏 bus 👏 free 👏 makes 👏 the 👏 bus 👏 fast

Jeffrey Weston Sleasman 🔰

@jeffsleasman

4 years

At this point just don't do fare enforcement. Or, rather, don't do any fare enforcement that slows down service even slightly. Fare-free service should also formally be on the table. The trouble of fare enforcement isn't worth 10.3% of the budget. It's just not.

3

9

44

1

6

70

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

finally finished The Broken Heart of America and I have a lot of thoughts, not least among them that we gotta tear down the Thomas Hart Benton statue in Lafayette Park. highly recommended read to all St Louisans.

9

4

64

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

I know this is a little 11th hour before the primary, but I'm proud to announce that our data viz tool for exploring campaign contributions in STL municipal elections is now live:

9

10

71

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

@LydaKrewson You need to resign.

0

52

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

3 years

Tishaura wins!

2

4

62

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

Funny that TurboTax has a commercial on how complicated our taxes are when they’re the biggest lobbyist to keep it complicated

1

15

67

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

who needs a truck this big in downtown st louis

23

6

63

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

Pick your fighter: Missouri Major City Mayor edition

1

4

64

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

5 years

wow I can't believe the whole SLMPD fit into that bag, but glad mayor krewson is finally throwing it out!

1

9

58

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

in 2017 the cops chanted "whose streets? our streets!" in 2020 they painted it

Jeff

@Jeff_from_stl

4 years

Happening now in front of the Florissant, MO police department. Police block traffic while four white men cover up the #BLACKLIVESMATTER mural with a "blue line".

222

1K

2K

3

28

61

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

I personally love when our DINO mayor welcomes our unelected Republican governor to STL to sign a bill overriding local control on an issue we literally already have on our local ballot for this election, giving him a valuable media event while there is a governors race ongoing

2

13

63

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

do NOT follow ME unless you LOVE the BUS

6

4

58

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

a shelter for every bus stop. yes. every one.

3

6

66

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

Didn’t she just lose an election trying to play the middle ground?

Jason Hall

@JasonHallSTL

4 years

Great to hear the candid remarks of the one and only @clairecmc - honored by the @STLRegChamber #Legacy award. “We are losing the political middle ground. We need to learn compromise again.”

6

8

43

3

1

57

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

aaaaaand south city has started with the fireworks

2

3

59

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

4 years

lookin for investors to help me buy this old school building (and theater??) so the church of scientology doesn’t just keep owning it and doing nothing with it (easily accessible via the #11chippewa )

16

6

56

mitch, ardent fan of the bus

@73_Carondelet

6 years

Lmao got yelled at by code enforcement for taking this picture. Said he'd call the fire chief so guess I'll ask if this is okay @STLFireDept

8

60