The eyes are the lamp of the body. People usually see and judge others by their own intentions and actions. People of good will working to repair the world will assume the best about others. People who are lying, cheating and scheming for power and pleasure will see malice and bad faith everywhere.

They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say

There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.

it is incredible to see the extent to which the Sensible Centrists are simply incapable of grasping the very simple and obvious fact that the president's concern with crime is a pretext, and that to deny claims of a sudden epidemic in crime is not to say that crime is nonexistent.

federally armed occupation of american cities, as the founders intended

that summit could've been an email

LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member. RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.

The core tenet of motordom is that the convenience of the driver must be prioritized over all other considerations including the health, prosperity, safety and even lives of other people; especially those traveling outside of a car. This hegemony is baked into policies and engineering standards.

Just my luck that Derek Guy starts to weigh in on something other than menswear and it’s not women’s wear. 😭 Anyways, he’s as good at architecture as he is at fashion.

There are so few places in the United States, even in older cities well served by transit, where it is possible to walk without continual exposure to noise, pollution and risk of blunt force trauma from automobiles. Pedestrian/bike only infrastructure is the best way to protect people from cars.

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

In the US we can’t even rationalize agricultural water policy so I don’t see this happening. As an alternative, discouraging lawns and encouraging pollinator plants (or human habitats such as ADUs and apartments) would go far in supporting local bee populations and preserving their habitats.

We should have the House right now. Let me say it again: we should have the House. This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries. They can’t win fair, so they cheat.

More of this, please.

Cadillac Desert is my top recommended book for anyone in California because it quickly brings two profound realizations: 1. Everything around you is an amazing and rickety engineering marvel 2. All of the seemingly unfixable problems with it evaporate if we simply stop massively subsidizing ag water

Think about what the GOP is revealing with their attempt to suddenly change the Congressional maps: they know their agenda is so unpopular that they're going to lose unless something changes. Of course, what they should be changing is their policies, not the maps.

NEW: We now know what Bove lied to Congress about according to the 3rd whistleblower. He lied when he said he didn’t offer promotions for DoJ lawyers who helped him dismiss the Eric Adams case and consequences for those who didn’t. There is audio evidence. Gift link: wapo.st/4fdVVmX

This take is correct. In California, the true third rail of politics is rationalizing agricultural water policy.

I’m not an activist, but as someone who reports on people who are, I see some activists sneering at people who are late to a cause they’ve fought hard for. Surely the point of activism is pitching to the centre to make change? Not alienating or mocking those whose minds you surely wanted to change?

Without street parking and car traffic, Chinatown is more like a ghost town with people having no other way to access all the businesses. This is not a sustainable model.

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trump is first and foremost a vehicle for delusional extremists — most of whom are total mediocrities — to impose their ideologies on the country, with vought as a paradigmatic example

CNN put together a supercut of Pam Bondi being for releasing Epstein files before she suddenly turned against it

I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator very grim

Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet. IG risolve

hey you guys remember when the white house photoshopped gang tats on a pic of an innocent man? anyway, memories

Two things both true: The loved ones of Venezuelans are celebrating that they are no longer in CECOT; some are celebrating their return home. And. It is a violation of international law to cause someone to be returned where they’ll be persecuted. Most of them never got a chance to make that case.

BREAKING: Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the health dept, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines were unscientific and harmful to the public. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/h...

the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

NO ONE who is freaking out about the possibility of a public grocery store has said word one about this, or shown any sign that they give a shit. "Spending public money" was never the real problem. "Showing voters that nice things are possible" is what scares these folks.

A frequent reason given whey we can’t have infrastructure for walking, wheelchairs, bicycles and scooters is funding: “it’s expensive.” NYC has created safe pedestrian spaces all over the city with large rocks. Rocks are cheap.

this wonderful piece from @profmsinha.bsky.social gets to what was truly great about lincoln — his open mind and great capacity for moral growth www.theunpopulist.net/p/abraham-li...

🤯 This is a really good po t I do t think I’ve ever heard stayed so clearly and succinctly.

When discussing traffic violence it’s important to distinguish between imposing costs, risks, harms and bearing those harms. Between hurting or killing someone and *being* hurt and killed. Virtually *all* the costs, pollution and lethal force in our transportation system comes from one mode: cars.

The headways at Millbrae *the* major station between San Francisco and Silicon Valley and BART connection is 30 minutes at 7:50 on a Saturday night. The next train isn’t until 8:16. Our region has wealth, stated progressive values and perfect weather. There is no good reason we are so car centric.

On the train headed home and in front of me is a sweet, curious, wiggly little boy sitting next to his father. He is staring out the window, asking a steady stream of questions and identifying objects (train!) Children aren’t just much safer on transit, they can have so much more fun and freedom.

BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇

In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

Congestion pricing in NYC has been a policy miracle. It has dramatically reduced air and noise pollution, saved drivers time money and New Yorker *lives.* There has been a ~50% reduction in injury crashes in the congestion relief zone. Pricing driving delivers better transportation for *everyone.*

Phang: If you have to resort to deceit to get something done, that tells me what you’re doing is wrong. What’s happening is a dup-and-scoop: people are being duped into going to court, their cases get dismissed, and then they’re scooped up by ICE and deported under expedited removal.

“The best indicator of the quality of public spaces is the age of children who are free to roam around on their own.” - Eva Kail (Vienna urbanist) @nacto.bsky.social This is a good rubric for evaluating subjective and objective safety: “Would I let a beloved child walk or play alone here?”

“Time is the most valuable thing we have…Every day we do something well, we improve people’s lives.” - @wmatagm.bsky.social Transit doesn’t just improve lives. It saves them. It is 30-70 times safer than driving and among the most important public health interventions available to us.

I’m so grateful to be able to attend the 2025 @nacto.bsky.social conference. This is a group of amazing people who want our cities to be great and for everyone to get where they need to go joyfully and safely.

The public sphere used to be glorious. Now so much of it is neglected, degraded and defunded. I wish we could get that part of American greatness back.

This is why California YIMBY is sponsoring AB 413. Immigrant communities in California build the most ADUs, by a lot, but most state ADU materials remain exclusively in English. cayimby.org/legislation/...