Go watch 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳! (preferably this opening weekend) Watching ethno-fascists drop dead is beyond gratifying. Show Hollywood with your wallet what you wanna watch!

I'm not saying this admin is incapable of objectively moral actions. I do question how the CBP arrived at this decision. If this admin has taught us anything, most likely 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥. Perhaps stateside bike makers w/ connections to this admin wanted to eliminate some Taiwanese competitors? FOIA after 2028

Short-term rentals is to hotel industry what rideshare is to transportation. Airbnb and Uber seemed like novel boons to visitors at first, but what they do is they divert resources — housing units, roadway capacity — from locals to visitors, soaking up supply & even inducing more idle drivers/cars.

𝘓𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘻-𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘦 capitalism as an economic policy makes no guarantee for the common good. That's why it falls on the gov to safeguard the welfare of the ultimate source of its legitimacy, the people, not to collude with hulking corporations to exploit them. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

It’s really funny for Trump to declare that flags need to be flown half-staff for Charlie Kirk on 9/11

It's surprising to see that Brazil managed to do what the USA could not... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Strangely enough, a non-political YouTuber I've been subscribed to for over a decade has predicted years ago that the U.S. would turn into a failed state like Argentina — admittedly, he thought it'd stem from a shortage/depletion of crude oil, not a home-grown Autocrat. I ought to remind him.

Americans used to get very upset at me for saying that the US has a mostly codified constitution with important unwritten elements and yell at me that "The Constitution is a document!" so I almost appreciate that the President has spent the last 7 months on speedrun proving me right... almost.

”The American system depends upon public understanding that law is bigger than politics,” that morality trumps personal grievances. Yet, Frum argues, the Autocrat derived his political fortune precisely and alarmingly from the successful reversal of this priority. The damage has already been done.

No, JD, belonging in America does not depend on how many generations of your family have lived here. The values of this country matter - deeply - to who we are and what it means to be American.

There’s something so charming about seeing people dressed up for special occasions choosing to take a bicycle instead of a car—and it can be done even if you have to transport things like flowers and a kid. Photo courtesy of @paparidesabike.bsky.social, used with permission.

elizabeth warren constantly trolling cnbc with her appearances gives me life. its a hostile booking i endorse.

NEW: After massive contract terminations for consulting giants like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power. www.wired.com/story/palant...

Selçuk Bayraktar, Erdoğan's son-in-law, was in charge of creating 𝘕𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘚𝘰𝘴𝘺𝘢𝘭. His team admitted that it's based on Mastodon, but refused to release their modified source code. (AGPL requires transparency and attribution.) Open-source advocates assert that this is "a violation of legal obligations."

Gerrymandering only works because the US still uses winner-take-all elections, where 51% of the vote = 100% of the power. It's the water we're swimming in here in America, but it's really a crazy way to elect representatives. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The North Cascades Highway is such a gem. Never gets old.

Some kind of symbols here for LA’s failing #VisionZero approach: install wimpy inadequate plastic stuff, then let drivers destroy it - and don’t replace or maintain

Pour @numerama.com j'explique comment le projet Highland Rim s'inscrit dans une dynamique "d'exit" (dévoiement de la thèse d'Hirschman) d'une société inclusive. Merci Eitanite Bellaiche. www.numerama.com/politique/20...

It is a 'shop job. Here's the original:

Quick search says Marc Andreesen (one of the funders for this) is funding another Christian nationalist enclave in Kentucky. The tech bro/theocrat alliance is one of the weirder products of Trumpism. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

This graphic alone is like a fucking dissertation. Incredible stuff. Master class. Blows a massive hole in every govt's excuse that their level of gov't has no control over freeway spending.

We've all heard this: "It's (current yr)! How is it possible... (outrage over hatred for marginalized groups)" *sigh* Folks may take progressive values for granted, but this past 6 mths have shown their faith in the inevitability of progress is unfounded. 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦-𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴.

Call me dorky all you want, but as a guy with large calves, I could never pull off crew/tube socks. IMO that's the domain of skinny chicken legs. My calves need room to do their thing!

"Cars get you from pt A to pt B, sealed up in a metal box and disconnected from the city" "..riding a bike, you can interact w/ the world, stop ... if smthg / s/o catches your eye, chat ..., and go off route" "𝗕𝗶𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁."

In January, I uncovered a network of AI-generated newsletters, called Good Daily, that was targeting hundreds of small towns and cities across the U.S. This week, the newsletter company 6AM City announced it had bought Good Daily and brought its founder on board. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/good...

It's time for clear eyed thinking about the potential for the large-scale destruction of public transit in American cities. It could happen in the next two years. Thread... 1/

European policymakers should designate open-source frameworks like the AT Protocol, the foundation for Bluesky, as critical infrastructure and invest in developing social-media apps on them, argues Sebastian Vogelsang.

My current mood: (spotted in Ventura, CA)

On the other hand are we about to get ten months of unhinged Stephen Colbert with nothing to lose?

🇫🇷🇫🇷 Happy (belated) Bastille Day to those who celebrate! 🇫🇷🇫🇷

At some point, voters need to learn not to be influenced by what money buys or you’re gonna keep ending up with shakedowns like this & the resulting legislation that we all know is bad.

Actually I think most cyclists are like "we'd like to not die while going about our daily business" -- is that being smug?

Et tu, Nuntii AP? Et tu?

Palate cleanse

Hello Bluesky. What's going on my "guys" and, in some cases, my "gals?"

Great news! I’ve been having lunch at the market regularly since the pilot started. Locals and tourists are flowing thru the market on foot, patronizing businesses while connecting with the new waterfront amenities to the west and downtown to the east.

The other winner in New York’s mayoral contest: ranked-choice voting | David Daley

If you think Establishment democrats are fighting for the little guys, think again. Dem operatives and crypto advocates pushing Dem Senators to support crypto-friendly legislation admitted that while “Trump’s corruption is manifesting dramatically in crypto,” it would be “political suicide” ...

It's easier to freak out about a brown millennial than it is to confront actual fascism

Opponents of #CEQA reform “heralded it as one of the most important tools to fight pollution and sprawl. And they often point to studies calling into question whether it truly stops development from moving forward.” How can a law fight sprawl if it never truly stops development from moving forward?

The evolving undercurrents shaping our ways of life more fundamentally than cityscape and transit are precisely why I started paying closer attention to politics; e.g. Medical debt after BBB's passage & DUI convictions due to substance-fueled escapism emerge anew as forces affecting transit usage.

I once walked out of a gated-off garden not knowing that there's no re-entry. Too lazy to go the long way around & wanted to take the shortcut, I almost seppuku'd myself climbing back in over a 10ft/3m spiked fence. (At least the spikes were fancy 🤷🏽‍♂️ The Palace Gardens at Versailles were huge, okay?)