minnesota's single stair report (final) is now published. www.dli.mn.gov/sites/defaul...

More on my recent paper. “We Are Not as Wealthy as We Thought We Were”: Postscript 1 open.substack.com/pub/kevinerd...

And yet, European leaders probably won't quit Twitter. Being able to walk away from something like that demonstrates confidence in your own ability to draw people to other platforms, and they don't seem to have it.

It’s time for today’s game of “is this appalling thing the President just said even true or is it just a neuron misfire or a manifestation of his pathological need just to say whatever shit he thinks will make him look cool and tough”

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

as I learned from our discourse, the responsible thing to do is to mock JD Vance and theorize this guy was his lover

Two things were happening as Trump decided to launch his imperial strike on Venezuela. One was the DOJ filing w/the court explanations for their redactions in the Epstein files they released. The other was Jim Jordan’s release of the transcript of Jack Smith’s testimony. So I read the transcript.

As if there weren’t already enough ethical considerations to using ChatGPT. 🤦🏾‍♂️

Immigrants play a key role in the supply of homebuilding and remodeling labor and the recent slowdown in immigration could worsen chronic labor shortages and constrain the ability to build and remodel housing, writes @rickriordan.bsky.social. www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/homebui...

As of this week, millions of Americans are now paying thousands more for health insurance. If the President and Congressional GOP think Washington has the capacity to "run" Venezuela right now, why won't they fix the insurance cost crisis they've created here at home?

as a former professional organizer & nonprofit employee, hell yes. and a letter (*not!!!* an email) is even more impactful than a call. folks On Here would be shocked to find out how fast a legislator can change track when they receive just a few dozen hand-written letters on any one issue.

Substitute "bike lane" "public plaza" "open street" "road diet" "busway" "traffic calming installation" etc for "congestion pricing" & the headline still works The freakout always precedes the benefits, and is proven wrong on the ground @gothamist.com

Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead

"But we have winter" is not an excuse. People aren't held back by weather when they're enabled by infrastructure and city design.

oh my god he's such a fucking loser

Larry Wall, the guy who created the Perl programming language: "The social dynamics of the net are a direct consequence of the fact that nobody has yet developed a Remote Strangulation Protocol."

The local paper, the Bend Bulletin, has a weekly column of news stories from years past. Was America great then?

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

If our local police department killed 80 people to arrest one drug dealer with "machineguns", I think it would be a huge scandal. I mean, their policy is not even to do high speed chases in some situations, because they don't want innocent people to get hurt

I do resent the "every regulation is written in blood" bullshit from people responding to serious investigations into how to improve regulations. If regulations are worth having, and worth enforcing, they're also worth doing right. Arbitrary differences between jurisdictions are worth understanding.

It's a bit as if the British Empire in the 1890s was controlled by a senile emperor who went all-out to dominate the global supply of sail cloth and get its client states to pass laws banning steam engines. (Not even Lord Salisbury was that mad.)

Interim Venezuelan leader promises Trump family to speed the flow of cocaine into the United States.

i'm not picking on this person, so don't you, either, but congressional dems in both chambers have been shouting from the rafters about this for months, it's one of their most consistent messages, and if you're not hearing it, you need to take a look at how you're consuming information and from whom

If you can do so, riding a bike daily is a really good middle finger to the oil barons ruining the world.

taking this stupid, tortured analogy seriously for a moment, the american people gave the republican party an exclusive two-year contract to handle extermination duties. you're mad at the exterminator you didn't hire because they're not doing the job you hired someone else to do.

Avid Cyclists are the red dots. Build infrastructure for the people who aren't red dots.

It's hilarious to me that NYT reporters are still salty over Biden not doing enough interviews with them. Trump treats me them like enemies, regularly threatens them, and restricts access, but Biden didn't let Tyler Pager interview him and that is unforgivable.

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

Ok things are on fire nationally but it’s still good to have reminders that we can still want and work for better things.

The "housing theory of everything" content we need:

Reminder, if you are blaming Dems right now, you are doing exactly what Trump wants you to do. You are perfectly following his plan. So maybe let’s blame the Republicans cause they are the ones in the majority and they’re the ones who voted against curbing this, and they’re the reason we are here

Trump just posted this photo of the sharpest minds in our intelligence community hard at work during the Venezuelan operation.

There's a protest today here in Bend. Not sure I will be there myself; I think I need some outdoor time.

matthew did a thread on why, when you call your representatives & senators, you can make life easier for yourself your message does NOT have to be elaborate or detailed or polished

You don't have to give a big speech. They're counting numbers - seeing how many constituents care enough to call in. Just tell them to impeach for this illegal war. Also, make sure you only call YOUR reps - they don't care about out-of-district calls. You can do this. It'll just take a minute. 💪

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

Here's a growing list of emergency protests demanding no war with Venezuela.

Call your Congress people before complaining on the Internet. Enough is enough. The president and his dictatorship need to be removed immediately. "But calling them does nothing". No, you saying that and doing nothing leads to nothing. Make action, not excuses.

I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.

it's time to play America's favorite new game, 'what the fuck am I waking up to now'

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Abolish ICE. There is no other path forward. Reform CBP. Reduce their authority to the border only. (And, honestly, I oppose borders but I know I am in the minority on that one).

I also love America and believe in its stated values. And I understand that this pronouncement lands very differently when it comes from an organization that has intentionally been overhauled in order to curry favor with a jingoistic proto-fascist who says his opponents hate the country.

Most concerning to me is that few elected Republicans in Oregon see any downside in working together with violent far right extremists, or even letting them take the organizing lead like this. GOP voters don't take the threat of far right extremism seriously and so won't punish them for it.

There's a tax protest at the capitol in Salem, OR tomorrow that appears to be organized by a former Proud Boy/Patriot Prayer leader who's called herself a "white pride" advocate. The stage on which the event will happen is owned by a Proud Boy who is also the vice-chair of the Clackamas County GOP.

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

People tend to put pressure on Dems for everything, because only Dems care, but If you blame Dems every time Trump does something bad, what exactly is his motivation to stop? None. You reward him. You create direct motivation for Trump to be as bad as he can be, because it hurts the Dems.

Paying for an enterprise license of the only major AI chatbot that calls itself “MechaHitler” and generates CSAM is like failing an IQ test.

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