To be clear about what just happened: The Trump administration sent armed FBI agents to abduct a 78-year-old doctor and former federal public health worker from his home and stripped him because the brainwashed right-wing base, hopped up on a literal conspiracy theory, wants scalps.

Apparently I need to add taking public transit to my list of leisure time activities.

"Jonathan Ross, who was only placed on three days of administrative leave for shooting Good in the arm, head, and chest, is back in both an administrative and investigative capacity, facing virtually no consequences for killing an innocent woman in broad daylight." newrepublic.com/post/209615/...

People in cars are doing important things, and their time is valuable. We know this because they are in cars. People not in cars are doing unimportant things, and their time has no value. We know this because, if they were doing important things, they would be in cars.

the u.s. is shooting itself in the foot with a tactical nuke american universities are *so* good and it's a virtuous cycle: smart and ambitious people attend, elevating the whole enterprise. if we alienate the world, it becomes a vicious cycle headed in the opposite direction

Surprise! Who could have guessed?

“Our overall conclusion is that congestion pricing in New York City, like many other cities in the world that have implemented it, helped not only improve traffic, but also helped reduce air pollutant concentration, improve air quality and should be good for public health.” #UrbanTruth

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I wonder if it’s too late to make a bet on poly market that the gunman at the WHCD tonight was a hardcore 2A MAGA cult member unwilling to surrender his gun at the mags.

Nothing annoys conservatives more than making the world a better place without someone getting rich off it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The metaphors just keep popping out everywhere

It was raining too hard for me to get a pic but I still want to give a shout out to the empty MoCo DOT car that was parked completely blocking the 2nd Ave PBL in downtown Silver Spring across the street from the SS Metro Station. Just needed to grab lunch at Mikey Ds I guess. Well done!

Deliberate, calculated, overt cruelty as a philosophy is the motivating force behind the conservative enterprise writ large and has been for all of human history. Their internal squabbles about the best means to that end are just counting angels on the heads of pins. They are all monsters.

Drivers only see what they're looking for and that is other cars. Pedestrians as long as they are 'in their place' ie crosswalks have a somewhat better chance of being seen but cyclists for the most part have to share the road with drivers but as we aren't cars we aren't seen. Predator / prey stuff

Would you be of any use if you came across a traffic crash with bleeding victims? Consider a www.stopthebleed.org course. There is almost certainly a free one close to you.

Everyone applauding the Lost Cause Confederate apologists losing their tax exemptions in Virginia but meanwhile in MD baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-...

This right here is why FDR succeeded and modern Dems since Johnson have failed

MARC trains between Bmore and DC should run til midnight seven days a week. Stop looking at the trains as commuter lines and start using them to replace car trips.

I'll admit that I thought Trump was a buffoon long before he ran for president. Still I have to give credit where & when it's due. Despite his bluster Trump has in the last few weeks done more to cause people worldwide to think harder about alternatives to fossil fuels & for that I applaud him.

Instead our money will go to Trump vanity arch projects and into his pockets. America deserves everything that is coming.

It’s so much more pleasant to get about by bike in Baltimore than by car. Even more so when it’s sit reading outside the coffee shop weather.

Brutal.

People around the world once lined up to become Americans, now they recoil in horror. Americans once reveled in our openness to diversity, popular movies like Casablanca were based on that conceit. Now we elect people like Trump & our media excuses all that he does & grovels before the oligarchs.

My country 'tis of thee Home of the brave, land of the free

Might be a good time to remember that the top US marginal tax rate under Republican Eisenhower was 92%. High taxes on the rich work really well as it turns out.

Money Changes Everything on loop

The party of Lincoln says this is nonsense and that they know better

Did Trump get off on the FPV drone shots of this strike with his breakfast?

This is the biggest red flag of the current miasma. Trump and his minions know full well that loss of the House means a very uncomfortable upcoming two years. Loss of the Senate likely means prison. They have every incentive to sabotage the mid-terms by any means conceivable.

Classic sign

Turn out was light when I arrived but picked up as the weather warmed up. Location was first class. Thousands of people on the Capitol Beltway honking support. Even a MoCo cop car ran its siren for a bit. Signage was very well done ( just gotta take my word for that part ) #NoKings

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Read Mark Twains “The War Prayer” or watch the PBS. Film version on utube because we are there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Maryland My Maryland Cambridge edition. Inquiring minds want to know the address of this house in Cambridge.

“There’s no hate like Christian love.” ffrf.com

Big picture thinking is a heavy lift for conservatives but that doesn’t make the big picture go away.

The pedal note of WW2 analysis is that the Allies won largely because while the Germans & Japanese ran with that Alpha male shit the US leaned into the logistics planning side, arming and feeding all of the Allied armies. Learning from history apparently isn’t an alpha male thing either.

Our military is fighting a war Americans don't want, secret police are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, and the regime is trying to suppress the vote in the midterms. Silence isn't an option. Join us on Saturday to make No Kings Day big, loud, and inescapable: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

My fav

I heard there was a secret cord You plug it in and you meet the Lord But you never care for OSHA do ya

Big bike would probably get more buzz if it convinced apocalypse movie producers like The Last of Us to show bikes as being the last transportation standing in the ruins.

The Feds plan to rip out the 15th St bike lanes on the National Mall on Monday Join Hill Family Biking on Sunday for a giant protest ride! www.eventbrite.com/e/hill-famil...

Just to be clear, this would mean roughly $9 / gallon average cost in the US and higher in many states. If your city isn't actively fast-building as many bike lanes as possible at the moment in preparation they have failed you utterly.

Irony is facing some serious strains when the world starts to think much harder about alternatives to the oil economy because Trump started a war that broke the oil economy. www.bbc.com/news/article...

My only hope at this point is that Trump and his cult do so much damage to the country and the world that conservatism writ large is voted out for the next two generations at the least.

We must never forget that our fellow citizens did this to the world. We voted for this guy or at best choose to not vote for an alternative no matter how flawed. We are responsible and deserve all the pain that brings with it until we get off our asses and remedy our poor choices.

n case you were wondering when the next shoe in Fascism theater was going to drop here you go www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...