Larry Summers moves from neoliberal asshat to full fledged sex pest. Fitting.

A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold. Where are my Originalists at?

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It’s time your cat talked to you about fascism MagnaCata.com #Caturday

Is MarathonSwimmingSky a thing yet? It is now! Here with Elliot Hasler for the Toronto screening of his wonderful #MaratjonSwimming biopic, #VindicationSwim ! vindicationswimfilm.com

"Everyone - whether driving, walking or cycling has a role to play in keeping our community safe." -Mayor Andrea Horwath My question is simple: What about those who design, approve, build and maintain hostile road design? Do they have a role?

Matt Gaetz raped a 17 year old child after exploiting her healthcare needs for money and this is how the NY Times is framing it. "ended up having sex with powerful men" Literally whitewashing child rape. Corporate media is dead. Stop subscribing to it. This is beyond saving.

A crossing guard was killed by the driver of a dump truck yesterday. absolutely heartbreaking. Look at our intersections, look how hostile these are for people/children - this is what we continue to build and defend at all costs. These aren't accidents, these are results. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Climate knowledge has been taken hostage to prevent climate action. “It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies.”

So dark. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

There are probably things I’d less rather read, like a Larry Summers / Jed Rubenfeld / Alan Dershowitz coauthored piece on why it’s important for due process that the low-IQ girls not be able to take down important men, but this has to be pretty close to the bottom.

this has been a common refrain among the New Right on X, despite the fact that it makes absolutely no sense when you think about it

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?

Just gonna leave this right here ... nkjemisin.com/series/the-g...

this feels like a lot of words to obscure the pretty obvious dynamics at work: economic distress and political elites willing to weaponize gutter bigotry.

“Journalist.”

I didn't really use my health insurance for my first six years in the US. Then last summer, I was diagnosed with pre-cancerous cells in my cervix and then a broken neck in May, requiring months of physical therapy. I have spent more than $8k, even with employer insurance, just in the last two years.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

@gallego.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social please do not cave on the shutdown over a promise from people who have done nothing but lie to the American people.

SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS AN HSA AND YOUR KID NEEDS SURGERY OR YOU GET CANCER????? I am going to go insane that anyone things a personal savings account is a replacement for insurance.

This is a really remarkable piece of writing and in its particulars it describes so, so many people

"Perhaps in reaction to Watson’s sky-high self-regard, in his later years his peers and others began to ask if his discovery of the double helix was just a matter of luck. After all, as a second lab colleague said, “Jim has been gliding on that one day in 1953 for 70 years.” ..."

YES!!!

Without Musk’s “polarizing and partisan actions…Tesla sales between Oct 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher [~1-1.26M vehicles].” “Musk’s partisan activities also increased the sales of other automakers' electric and hybrid vehicles 17-22%” www.nber.org/papers/w34413

The Hub should be called out for this propagandistic garbage.

This is fantastic! Small steps. #UrbanSwimming #SwimmableCities #UrbanWaterFutures

The Rod Dreher humblebrag here is one of the saddest things I've ever seen, and yet it's so painfully captivating in its perverse, unadulterated cringe. I can't tear my eyes away, and even if I could, you can't unsee this stuff. It's almost more cringe-inducing than JD Vance in general. Almost.

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

“Plans to expand bike infrastructure in Ottawa are at risk amid proposed Ontario legislation that would bar municipalities from building new bike-lanes if they remove a lane of vehicle traffic.” What do cities do when a provincial premier deliberately makes them more dangerous and less successful?

"there is Darwinian competition between societies and the winner will be the one that rejects empathy in favor of hard but necessary choices" should set off alarm bells from a guy this powerful. (Instead of 'societies' it might have been 'races' in the original German, but clear enough)

I wrote a lot about Ken Griffin at my job because he is a prominent art collector and art patron but since I was laid off I can point out he doesn't even live in NYC; he moved his hedge fund's headquarters from Chicago to Palm Beach in 2022.

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GTHA Swim Fam: a film you won't want to miss! vindicationswimfilm.com Toronto screening Fri Nov 14 @ 6:30pm Imagine Cinemas Carlton Q&A after with writer/director Elliott Hasler, moderated by Canadian Olympian Zsofia Balazs. omniwebticketing6.com/imaginecinem...

MacKenzie Scott was taught and mentored by Toni Morrison, who was her professor at Princeton. Mentoring matters! It is some of the most important work that we do. #ProfessorLife

Teaching this tomorrow. Just can't recommend enough. For running a seminar, it's like fishing with dynamite

#UrbanSwimming #SwimmableCities #SwimDrinkFish

YES!!!

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One of my favourites, that I saw for myself last year: Neuer Markt in central Vienna. One of Vienna's main civic/market squares, choked by vehicles & turned into a grim 20th century car park. Transformed back into a space for people in the last few years. Before (📷 2017) 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗 After (📷 2024) 🚶‍♂️🚲🌳🌲🌱

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

Reposting this since midnight viewership may have been low. Really good space.com investigation of what's happening at Goddard, including destruction of science labs and spacecraft test equipment, way beyond just the layoffs.

New Zealand targets shadow fleet in expanded Russia sanctions reut.rs/3LeiVHN

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Sigh. A lot of the complaints about Smith are bogus, but this seems legitimate. newrepublic.com/post/202294/...