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No a single thing happening right now is "hard to message." 1. No war on Iran. 2. Donald Trump is responsible for gas prices rising. 3. The GOP has shut down the TSA. 4. Abolish ICE... etc etc etc

Re: ICE in airports - both ICE and TSA are under DHS the department that is not funded... How are they getting paid?

Proud that Rochester is punching above our weight for the weird food map.

Truly a generational communicator & A national treasure - humility, peace, kindness, solidarity. Thank you Mr. Mayor Eid Mubarak!

In honor of Mr. Rogers’ birthday, here’s your regularly scheduled reminder that the quote of his you keep sharing, that in times of crisis we should look for the helpers, was for his audience of children. We’re adults now. We’re supposed to *be* the helpers.

A friend of mine wrote a kids book - It's a ton of fun! Neat little story about learning to be careful with our strength. He's also a skilled photographer & artist. Love supporting my friends work! Give it a look! www.amazon.com/Larry-Lonely...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

This little drawing of Ursula’s cat Leonard—who also features in the Book of Cats—is among her papers at the University of Oregon. We included it in our latest infrequent newsletter this morning; the next newsletter will be timed to the announcement of the Le Guin Prize shortlist, in June!

This is an investigation. right here in Rochester and proves my point! youtu.be/ST-MogjvuB4?...

Every car in your city represents $8-12K/year being sucked out of your local economy instead of being spent on housing, goods & services. I wish more parking-obsessed retailers & elected officials understood this. #WindshieldBias #CarBlindness

It's infrastructure week in the strait of hormuz - we've got the concepts of a plan, and in two weeks it's gonna be the greatest thing anyone's ever seen.

Imagine anyone in Congress having the principles to burn bridges half this thoroughly with "colleagues" who would have cheered their murder by a mob on Jan 6th... Bring back shame.

As a speaker, if someone does this to you, speaking up is important. Another commenter said that all the panelists said something, but the first one is the most important. Don't let presenters get away with this lazy stuff, it's possible they were just trying to be hip with AI, but call it out.

In case you're curious, the current conservative copium is that the oil that goes through the strait to the US only goes to California by way of India because they've got such a weird gas formula... What you're seeing at the pump otherwise is an illusion I guess?

Declaring that no quarter will be given is straightforwardly prohibited under international humanitarian law. When done to threaten an adversary, the declaration itself amounts to a war crime. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

When you build a lot of housing rents go down 👏🏼👏🏼 When you build a lot of housing rents go down 👏🏼👏🏼 If you build up real estate It will bring down market rates When you build a lot of housing rents go down 👏🏼👏🏼

Well well well, if it isn't Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you wish, you can practice stopping the arguments inside your head w/people who aren't present, or people it's not safe or fair for you to argue with, as soon as you notice them & as many times as you need

using public office to name and shame evil landlords into submission is so cool. i hope democrats learn from him

Today I learned that a sign reading "No betting" was a prominent feature of Yankees stadium for many years. I'm sure the people who painted it never could have foreseen just how bad betting in baseball would get... Or that we'd need a similar sign in the Pentagon.

If you're riding a bike, any bike, you're doing it right

“When I got home, I sat on the floor, wearing my helmet, and sobbed until I was hoarse with the overwhelm of my joy. I’d just ridden a bike for an hour! A bike! For an hour!” The “greatest feeling in the world” after Long COVID. E-bikes and accessibility, via @heatherhogan.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth

Love this experience by one of the basic income pilot participants in Wales. They got £1,290 a month after tax for two years (about $1,862/mo), and at first they planned to not get a job, but then after getting into the pilot, they changed their mind, because why not do more to get more money?

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

My Favorite thing about walking/running/biking through my neighborhood regularly? Getting to watch new spring flowers appear in my afternoon walk that weren't there in the morning.

American DOTs love this design where bikes are routed between two lanes of traffic, but it never passes the "Would you let your 8-year-old child ride here?" test.

Now is the moment for GM to introduce an electric Geo Tracker and sell a million units this year

#IdeasAtWork A month in hospital costs: $30,100 Month in prison: $9,400 Month in shelter: $6,800 Supportive housing per month: $3,800 @uhn.ca's Dr. Andrew Boozary h/t @urbantruth.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

One of the core challenges for anyone doing liberatory work is figuring out how to meet people where they're at while simultaneously remaining principled and decent. There is a difference between absolving the complicit and patiently finding a path to help folks recognize and end their complicity.

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

If you're responsible for leading anything, whether it's a class or a workshop... Anytime you get up in front of a room full of people take time to address that this is not normal. Give people permission to feel, let them know they're not alone and they're not crazy.

One big (small) thing that the USA needs to work on is bringing back small format retail. Out shops are too big.

What I am realizing is that I am no more anti-AI than I am anti-Agriculture or anti-healthcare. ALL I want to see are methods that are transparent, just, and centered around long-term collective well-being, where collective spans to encompass other species and future generations.

This great chart from Vancouver shows just how much land is needed for single family homes generally, yet Monroe County zoning restricts apartments, ADUs, and houses on small lots while allowing single family homes everywhere. We will need to address this if we want walkability.

No but this is entirely correct

Single stair accessible flats, and a corner cafe. Replacing a single home on a 50x122 lot.

Sport cyclists - When you're training how do you determine how much improvement is enough & it's time to maintain? How do you cope with the dopamine loss of not making PR's go brrr? What's sustainability look like after the initial big gains?

Judge Quraishi says that if ICE keeps arresting people and detaining them without bond under the legal theory that has been rejected by hundreds of judges, and any of those cases come across his bench, he'll immediately order DHS and DOJ personnel hauled into court to explain themselves.

Breaking: Nurul Amin Shah Alam has been confirmed dead by Buffalo police He was found Tuesday evening downtown after he'd been missing for 6 days. Nearly blind, he'd been left at a coffee shop Thurs. evening by Border Patrol agents 5 miles from his home. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

Abolitionists : My 3yo just said "bad guys go to jail" and is there even a remotely age appropriate way to talk about prison abolition with a toddler? I'm trying but I'd love wisdom from folks who have done this before.

When pedestrians/cyclists do something they are entitled* to do, drivers think they are entitled.** When drivers do something they are entitled** to do, drivers think they are entitled.* * In the sense of having the right. ** In the sense of being selfish and arrogant.

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

Urgent dispatch from the desert: it is bunny bullfighting season

One thing we don’t do well, societally or interpersonally, is digest harms when there really isn’t anyone to blame. Being called a n*gger on international television in front of your peers is a harm. Having a disability that creates that harm through no choice of your own is a harm.

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Drivers are not ok. Yet another walk to daycare past the Ginko sapling that a driver murdered before they continued to knock down a light post, a 3' stone planter & a transformer. They did all that with the 100 feet they had to accelerate on a Neighborhood street where speed limits are 20 mph.

THIS IS HOW

This is what gives me the confidence that when Trump is gone this all ends. Say what you will, Trump knew how to entertain a crowd & keep them with him. Anytime Vance talks he looks like the awkward toady he is. The ultimate dork, and not even charmingly dorky because his dork-obsession is cruelty.

"Every extra block of distance, car-dependent errand, or isolated service creates barriers that compound over decades. Proximity keeps people independent."

When models stop doing the flatter & fawn routine... people got addicted & when the AI companies try to correct even a little they lose their minds. Someone will step in to fill the void & serve the hard wird addictiveness of unconditional praise. Unregulated creates disregulated.