Will the new systems be set up to favor the needs of a city's residents? Or will they be set up to favor the needs of the auto industry? I wish I could be more optimistic.

My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

Internet good. Broadband bad. Speed kills, let’s take it down to 3kb/s so the literate rule the earth.

John Roberts, here's a sneak peek at your future.

So, there's this plan called California Forever, financed by a bunch of tech billionaires, to build a brand new city of 400,000 an hour from SF on ranching land. They just released their plans. It's seductively well designed. But the more I think about it, the less I like it. (Long 🧵 coming) 1/

it happened again, so it’s time for a reminder: Drivers, please do not wave pedestrians and cyclists into situations on the road when they do not have the right way. I know it feels like the polite thing to do, but it is incredibly dangerous

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

That's a funny lookin' bike.

This is what Democratic mayors should be doing to the streets in front of ICE facilities. Can't have a facility if no one can bring a car into it!

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

From the Western Railway Museum, the 12th Street Dam.

12. Braxy the Waxed (CN dwarf thief) is an ex-criminal and roadie for The Bristles, a band of dwarf bards that sings songs about how great having facial hair is. Was hired despite his past because he had a great moustache and refused to shave it even when the Watch put it on a wanted poster. Respect

We All Want The Same Thing. original version of the Unity posters spotted recently.

luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Malcolm Gladwell has spent well over 10,000 hours being a fucking idiot, that's why he's so good at it.

realistic Star Trek

JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

Why aren't Medicaid expansion states simply using MAGIC to make everything better? And a PONY? These idiots are so desperate to believe that AI is the next big thing and that they are the visionaries who will make the future happen.

NIMBYs in shambles as the People’s Park dorm rises from behind shipping containers and barbed wire. Photos via @mattbaran.bsky.social.

Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.

Ossoff: Did anyone really think the sexual predator president who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was going to release the Epstein files?

Well, there you have it. Can't argue with that.

its so revealing of who the "serious" candidate was that one guy was clearly really read up on the latest policy ideas in debate about housing and the other guy didn't know anything about the housing despite being THE FORMER HUD SECRETARY

For a lot of people in public life women's rights are something to make a lot of noise about when it's convenient and sweep aside when it's not. ...“In my mind, I never crossed the line with anyone, but I didn't realize the extent to which the line has been redrawn,” Cuomo said at the time.

The NYC mayoral is the first big race where we’ll see a generational fight over the future of the Democratic party - it won’t be the last. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...

“Abducted and disappeared by ICE”

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

Looks like it's got one.

What motorists hate the most is having to pay attention to their own driving. This is why they dislike street redesigns that are intentionally built to make drivers feel constrained so that they slow down.

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes

i've always been, basically, a pragmatic center-left person, but seeing what stratospheric wealth accumulation has done both to the people who accumulated it and the society they seek to control with it has genuinely radicalized me hard into significantly more punitive tax policies for the wealthy

"It's time to fight everywhere and all at once" Pritzker says, blasting "the do nothing crowd" of Dems in response to Republicans: "We have to abandon the culture of incrementalism that has led us to swallow their cruelty and their callousness with barely a cowardly croak."

Don't even get me started on proposals to create subsidized "teacher housing" instead of figuring out why the area isn't already broadly affordable to teachers and people of similar incomes.

Motonormativity? Here's the Jeep belonging to the guy who choked someone, waved a shotgun at the cops, got shot by same, and caused the whole neighborhood to be evacuated. Car isn't registered, has a bunch of tickets. It's still here. You can shoot a guy, but don't touch his truck. Truck is sacred.

One way of looking at Trumpism is, it’s not a coherent program it itself, but a matter of removing constraints from all the little tyrants - cops, bosses, right-wing governors, patriarchal fathers - who already exist throughout the country.

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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

A reasonable tradeoff: Complete erasure of worldwide market valuation and collapse of global economy, but on the other hand “top bankers” can now say “retard” and “pussy” with slightly more impunity than they already enjoyed.

And his 77 million enablers.

Reminder: All People Had To Do Was Fill In A Little Oval Next To The Smart Black Lady’s Name.

So we're going to have to impeach Filthy Donald THREE times to make it stick? Dammit.

So I'll finish transcribing parts of this speech later but I wanted to talk about a couple things in it that makes it great.