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e.g. Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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There is a good argument to fire and disbar every DOJ lawyer involved with this.
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John Williams
1 day ago
You might have read something about Ross Douthatās podcast last week. Becca Rothfeld reviews the new book by Leah Libresco Sargeant, one of the guests on that show.
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Review | A conservative argues we need to value āwomen as women.ā But what does that mean?
Leah Libresco Sargeant argues that we need to better acknowledge human need and vulnerability, and that valuing women āas womenā is a start
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/11/13/dignity-dependence-leah-libresco-sargeant-review/
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Findings Press
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Are Adolescentsā Decisions to Cycle to School Linked to Their Parentsā Cycling Behaviour?
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Are Adolescentsā Decisions to Cycle to School Linked to Their Parentsā Cycling Behaviour?
Parental cycling strongly shapes adolescentsā likelihood of cycling to school, with stronger effects for females, underscoring parentsā role in promoting active travel.
http://dlvr.it/TPFfft
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Sam Cole
1 day ago
āProviding tech services to supercharge ICE operations while blocking tools that support accountability of ICE officers is entirely backwards." -
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www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-effort/
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WTTW - Chicago PBS
1 day ago
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
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North Center Daycare Teacher Detained by ICE Released From Custody
Diana Santillana Galeano, who had been held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in Clay County, Indiana, was released Wednesday night, hours after a federal judge granted a habeas peti...
https://to.wttw.com/47WgJMA
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This is pretty fun
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Philip Bump
2 days ago
Dropping kid off at school, saw a pickup with a Blue Lives Matter flag, an FOP sticker ⦠and a decal reading, āWhen tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.ā
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advait
3 days ago
Today's new
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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...
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Bubble or Nothing
Policymakers concerned about the deployment of clean energy and compute-focused infrastructure over the long term need a framework for managing the uncertainty in the AI sector's investment landscapeā...
https://publicenterprise.org/report/bubble-or-nothing/
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Legit looks like notes I found by one my parents well into dementia
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Eric L. Robinson
2 days ago
The piggies devour their slop
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Would be game changer. Curb management for U/14th can be an absolute mess
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Drop Site
3 days ago
More than a dozen Israeli soldiers spoke to ITV for their new documentary Breaking Ranks: Inside Israelās War, about how their armyās two-year campaign in Gaza involved shooting unarmed Palestinians en masse, using teenagers as human shields, and flattening entire neighborhoods without pretext of...
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
3 days ago
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)
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Validate User
https://academic.oup.com/ser/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ser/mwaf055/8286993
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Vincent van Gogh
3 days ago
Woman, Sitting by the Fire, Peeling Potatoes - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13865
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Putting it in my āinflation can kill road wideningsā hopper.
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Matt E. Reals
3 days ago
me to the carabinieri, after stealing a bunch of road signs in italy:
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Canāt really describe
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I would have a few other questions for troops claiming to be Nordic Pagan
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Guggenheim Collection
3 days ago
Outburst by Judit Reigl, 1956
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137584
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Meghan O'Keefe
3 days ago
Itās soooooo good!!! (And Iām quite glad I was able to write in depth about it)
decider.com/2025/11/06/n...
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Netflix's 'Death By Lightning' is a timely look back at a largely forgotten moment of radical political violence
āIt felt so immediate to this current era in which we live,ā showrunner Mike Makowsky said. āNot just Garfield as an individual, but also his political moment.ā
https://decider.com/2025/11/06/netflixs-death-by-lightning-is-a-timely-look-back-at-a-largely-forgotten-moment-of-radical-political-violence/
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The War on Cars
3 days ago
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 werenāt harsh enough.
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John Rainš„
4 days ago
"And James Bond, who did NOT die"
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Vincent van Gogh
3 days ago
Scheveningen Woman Sewing - December 1881
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/3109549
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Dael Norwood
4 days ago
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.
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DelDOT investigating land deal struck with a chief plannerās business partner
Following an inquiry from Spotlight Delaware, DelDOT officials have launched an internal investigation into a taxpayer-funded land deal that turned a million-dollar profit for a state transportation p...
https://spotlightdelaware.org/2025/11/10/deldot-investigating-land-deal-struck-with-a-chief-planners-business-partner/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=š%20DelDOT%20land%20sale%20under%20investigation%3B%20Wilmington%20Council%20gains%20land%20bank%20oversight&utm_campaign=11%2011%2025%20Newsletter
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Tate Collection
4 days ago
Patrick Nasmyth, Lewes; a Church on a Hill,
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1130699
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Tbh I think heās lying
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Alex Freidus
4 days ago
Was just thinking of how you clarified this as I read
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Taking GLP-1s to Get Ahead at Work
āThe truth is, Iām taking it because Iām afraid not to.ā
https://www.thecut.com/article/taking-ozempic-workplace.html
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Does Silver live in California or something? A āsocially distanced bonfireā feels like a very California grumpās idea of what joyless liberals do.
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Zack D
5 days ago
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
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Michael Lobel
5 days ago
Vincent van Gogh, Worn Out, 1882
www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collectio...
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Neil Flanagan š§±šļø
6 days ago
Ordinary people understand the value of social infrastructure and design that is not only appealing but relevant to their lives.
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This Free Library in DC Has Better Amenities Than Most Hotels
YouTube video by life and numbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5AJCjAZRIE
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Somehow, even though they were always about 9/11 as far as I remember!
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Dominique Baker
7 days ago
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...
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Maybe Donāt Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
Itās remarkable, the people youāll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institutionāthe term they tend to prefer is āeliteāāand odds are that eventually someone who was a studenā¦
https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/
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Timothy McBride
6 days ago
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?
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The waxy ear is a fun new detail
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āthis DBOM could go offā is all time and not getting the appreciation it deserves
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southpaw
7 days ago
story link
www.thebanner.com/community/ho...
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I didnāt realize Kurt Vonnegut did transportation capital planning
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Marisa Kabas
7 days ago
New ā While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesnāt 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:
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The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/snap-recipients-funding-lapse-shutdown
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Patrick Siegman
7 days ago
ā'There has been for years this theater of how you go about dancing around the entitlement process so you donāt 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 doesnāt trigger..."
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Mill Valley to end parking requirements for most businesses
The city is revising its 1980s parking regulations to encourage new commercial activity.
https://www.marinij.com/2025/11/07/mill-valley-to-end-parking-requirements-for-most-businesses/
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This is kind of confusing to me bc the adminās approach seems to be āwork with us or weāll keep finding ways to get everyone to hate us moreā
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Dana Stevens
8 days ago
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 SkƄrsgard as the narcissistic patriarch & the luminous Reinate Reinsve as his depressed elder daughter.
slate.com/culture/2025...
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His Previous Movie Was One of the Best of 2021. Now Heās Done It Again.
The glorious Norwegian movie thatās set to storm the (American) Oscars.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/11/sentimental-value-movie-oscars-2025-best-picture.html
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RailSpain
8 days ago
www.railwaygazette.com/traction-and...
šØš 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.
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Stadler unhappy as Swiss Federal Railways selects Siemens Mobility to supply up to 200 trainsets
SWITZERLAND: Swiss Federal Railways has selected Siemens Mobility for a landmark contract to supply up to 200 double-deck electric multiple-units.
https://www.railwaygazette.com/traction-and-rolling-stock/stadler-unhappy-as-swiss-federal-railways-selects-siemens-mobility-to-supply-up-to-200-trainsets/69911.article
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Yonah Freemark
8 days ago
Thanks to the Illinoisā massive investment in transit, Chicago has a bright transit future, with the dawn coming next year: ā50% increase in every-10-min bus routes to 30 citywide ā8-minute midday headways on rail lines ā24-hour Orange Line service (Red & Blue already have it)
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JoĆ£o JoĆ£o š©
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Alex Goyette
8 days ago
Showtime
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Coach Finstock
8 days ago
Sandwich man leaving court
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Mike Black
9 days ago
Arguably the greatest reporting in the history of journalism Jason Horowitz: The The Smarmies of the Night | Observer
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The Smarmies of the Night
Guests at the 2006 White House Correspondentsā Association dinner discuss what makes a party.
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