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There is a good argument to fire and disbar every DOJ lawyer involved with this.

You might have read something about Ross Douthat’s podcast last week. Becca Rothfeld reviews the new book by Leah Libresco Sargeant, one of the guests on that show. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Are Adolescents’ Decisions to Cycle to School Linked to Their Parents’ Cycling Behaviour?

“Providing tech services to supercharge ICE operations while blocking tools that support accountability of ICE officers is entirely backwards." - @kateruane.bsky.social www.404media.co/google-has-c...

A daycare worker who was detained by federal immigration agents last week at a North Center preschool and whose arrest was caught on video and widely shared online, has been released from custody, her attorney said Thursday. https://to.wttw.com/47WgJMA

This is pretty fun

Dropping kid off at school, saw a pickup with a Blue Lives Matter flag, an FOP sticker … and a decal reading, “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.”

Today's new @publicenterprise.bsky.social report is a comprehensive analysis of the capital structure of the entire AI sector: data center real estate, GPU markets, private credit, you name it. It's also a financial risk management framework for policymakers! publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...

Legit looks like notes I found by one my parents well into dementia

The piggies devour their slop

Would be game changer. Curb management for U/14th can be an absolute mess

More than a dozen Israeli soldiers spoke to ITV for their new documentary Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, about how their army’s two-year campaign in Gaza involved shooting unarmed Palestinians en masse, using teenagers as human shields, and flattening entire neighborhoods without pretext of...

Very cool article about how our fragmentation of local tax bases allows some suburbs to effectively act as tax havens at the expense of central metro areas. (The link preview is bad, but it's: Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality by Manduca, Highsmith, & Waggoner)

Woman, Sitting by the Fire, Peeling Potatoes - 1885 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13865

Putting it in my “inflation can kill road widenings” hopper.

me to the carabinieri, after stealing a bunch of road signs in italy:

Can’t really describe

I would have a few other questions for troops claiming to be Nordic Pagan

Outburst by Judit Reigl, 1956 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137584

It’s soooooo good!!! (And I’m quite glad I was able to write in depth about it) decider.com/2025/11/06/n...

Some folks said we were too harsh in our episodes on on John Forester and Vehicular Cycling. This amazing video from Not Just Bikes suggests we weren’t harsh enough.

"And James Bond, who did NOT die"

Scheveningen Woman Sewing - December 1881 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/3109549

Not to diminish any other part of this reporting - which has uncovered some *very* shady looking insider land deals at DelDot - but the most impressive part to me is that the Spotlight reporter was able to identify the actual human owners of the series of cut-out Delaware-registered LLCs involved.

Patrick Nasmyth, Lewes; a Church on a Hill, https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1130699

Tbh I think he’s lying

Was just thinking of how you clarified this as I read www.thecut.com/article/taki...

Does Silver live in California or something? A “socially distanced bonfire” feels like a very California grump’s idea of what joyless liberals do.

Did not get all of the road diets I wanted this year but Annandale Rd from Galanis Dr to Medford Dr in Annandale, VA was a pleasant surprise. With about 14,000 cars per day, I believe this is the highest volume street VDOT NOVA District has approved thus far. #fairfaxcounty #bikeva #annandale

Vincent van Gogh, Worn Out, 1882 www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collectio...

Ordinary people understand the value of social infrastructure and design that is not only appealing but relevant to their lives.

Somehow, even though they were always about 9/11 as far as I remember!

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

if you are insured, in all likelihood.. you got a SUBSIDY to buy health insurance. WE ALL GET TAX SUBSIDIES TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE Those with employer insurance (60% of us) get subsidies TEN TIMES higher than the costs of the ACA subsidies. So why only attack the ACA/Obamacare subsidies?

The waxy ear is a fun new detail

“this DBOM could go off” is all time and not getting the appreciation it deserves

story link www.thebanner.com/community/ho...

I didn’t realize Kurt Vonnegut did transportation capital planning

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

“'There has been for years this theater of how you go about dancing around the entitlement process so you don’t trigger new parking standards,' he said. 'And what we have done over that period of time is approved a lot of outdoor dining with a lot of guidelines around it so it doesn’t trigger..."

This is kind of confusing to me bc the admin’s approach seems to be “work with us or we’ll keep finding ways to get everyone to hate us more”

Great movie alert: Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value, opening in theaters this weekend, follows a family in Oslo through multiple generations, w/ a never-better Stellan Skårsgard as the narcissistic patriarch & the luminous Reinate Reinsve as his depressed elder daughter. slate.com/culture/2025...

www.railwaygazette.com/traction-and... 🇨🇭 Swiss Federal Railways has selected Siemens Mobility for a landmark contract to supply up to 200 double-deck EMU. The decision has angered local supplier Stadler, which said its offer was only slightly more expensive but offered domestic production.

Thanks to the Illinois’ massive investment in transit, Chicago has a bright transit future, with the dawn coming next year: —50% increase in every-10-min bus routes to 30 citywide —8-minute midday headways on rail lines —24-hour Orange Line service (Red & Blue already have it)

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Sandwich man leaving court

Arguably the greatest reporting in the history of journalism Jason Horowitz: The The Smarmies of the Night | Observer share.google/qlP1SVxT8Jay...