Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵

Not enough liberals or leftists understand the UAE and Israel to be part of the same Metternichian regional order

Painted cycle lanes are the non-smoking sections of today's urban landscape. Both recognize a problem and the harms it causes, but are designed without the will or imagination required to implement a real solution.

While helmets help in a crash, they do nothing to prevent it.

Bad news

IT'S CARS THE ANSWER IS, CARS

La people - this is where the rubber meets the road - get into the weeds on transit projects!

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

SF ppl - cal yr reps!

I really hope people recognize that there are supposedly liberal pundits who are going to be part of this Bari Weiss podcast outrage slop. Don't forget them.

Service led planning

Just when you thought this campaign couldn’t get worse. This is a photo of Bali

The unemployment rate for Black workers soared to 8.3% in November. That's more than double the rate for white workers.

New paper in PNAS: Your homicide risk follows you around the country. If you’re born in the historically violent Wild West, Appalachian Highlands, or Deep South, a higher risk of violent death trails you wherever you go. 🧵1/14

Really thought-provoking work here

>the gyre? narrowing >falcon? hears the falconer >things? sticking together >center? holding >mere anarchy? never heard of it >blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight >ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal >the best have so much conviction >the worst? listless and apathetic we're all gonna make it

It’s important to contextualize just how much less safe American drivers are than everywhere else in the world, and it’s getting worse!

The death toll at Srebrenica was about 8,400. At Katyn, about 22,000. At Babi Yar, about 34,000. Add those together and you've just barely cracked the low-end estimate of the death toll at El Fasher.

PSA: “Large Asphalt Repair” does not exempt the city from Measure HLA. "When the city claims projects are "large asphalt repair," understand that this is the city's way of blocking accessibility, walk, bike, and bus improvements” la.streetsblog.org/2025/12/11/w...

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LA quietly stopped repaving all streets last July to avoid fulfilling its ADA obligations. The federal govt says when you repave a street, you have to update all the curb ramps. LA has tons of out of date curb ramps, so the rule makes repaving much more expensive. The city's solution: stop repaving!

I'm at the combination

Donald Trump’s first appearance in the NYT— “Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City” from 1973

45 minute timelapse of Vredenburg in Utrecht, which can only be used by people on public transport, walking or cycling. Buses do not get delayed in queues or behind people cycling and people cycling are kept safe. You get safer cycling, faster transit, quieter streets, and a city that actually works

directly before it produces a word, it has a layer representing ~the probability of every word in the keyboard. when you are making the "raw" model, this can vary to better represent your dataset. but if you start any of the specialist training, from a different distribution... you get this.

idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was

If you want a good summary of the legal issues, this is a good overview. But even before this horrific attack, it's an open question whether any of these strikes were legal. www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...

How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal. Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military. Pure, mindless, barbarism. www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

The boycott is today

In every aspect, this is on Trump and Miller. If Trump wasn't pushing martial law in the US, those kids would not be there. If Trump honored the judges order, they would be at home. If Trump hadn't thrown allied Afghans in the US to the wolves for ICE show, this would not have happened.

JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.

2/ nor can we forget Thomas Fugate, the 22 year old Trump campaign worked appointed as the lead counter terrorism coordinator at DHS.

With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.

i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...

Udo took a chance on my rinky-dink festival in Vancouver back in 2000 - he went on TV interviews with me, carried 35mm film prints up stairs, went to get me coffee and even live-dubbed Giancarlo Giannini's voice when BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA showed up without subs. RIP Udo, you were a star 🌟

Low income countries are enduring the worst sovereign debt crisis ever….debt service absorbs an average of 43% of budget revenues paid to foreign and domestic creditors. Germany got debt relief after World War 2 benefitting both Germany & EU. Africa needs the same. www.ft.com/content/1637...

Thread. Venezuela. 1/

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

yikes

👇🎯 The total failure of elite accountability is the <central feature> of American politics dating back at least to 1865. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

I made an ascii art moon phase tracker that runs whenever I open a new terminal window, and it makes me aware of the passage of time more than any calendar. github.com/asweigart/as... and github.com/asweigart/as...

My most woke opinion is that "woke" at root is a beautiful concept: active socio-political consciousness in the context of the Black American liberation struggle. And the way it's been turned into a sneering pejorative is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen in Western political discourse.

Stepping in to play Rachmaninov 2 and Prokofiev 3 with the @philharmonialondon.bsky.social and Lawrence Foster on Monday at @southbankcentre.bsky.social! Two of my favourite concerti in one evening 🥰 If you’re in the are and free that evening, do come 😀 philharmonia.co.uk/whats-on/bor...

Expel the yes votes from the party and cut off all their access to fundraising, then remove Schumer from leadership. Anything less is mealy-mouthed coward bullshit.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

I have been developing retail properties and groceries for 25 years. This week, an interview with me appeared in Germany's leading real estate newspaper, and it will be republished (🤞) next week in the leading business newspaper. The topic: The bicycle is the future of downtown retail.