This machine fights fascists.

Do these men feel big, in their uniforms and battle rattle, their masks and their sunglasses, hauling away a little girl and her doll?

Taking the whole ROAD ✔️ Distracted (singing) ✔️ No helmets ✔️ No lights ✔️ No reflective vests ✔️ Riding in a pack ✔️ Textbook radical anti-car cyclists.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

hell yes

Car-oriented suburbs lure you in with countryside views and empty roads then promptly ruin both to lure the next batch in

Osaka’s showpiece streetscape Midosuji Boulevard has undergone major changes. In the build-up to hosting the 2025 World Expo, the city began experimenting with reallocating parts of the road space: widening sidewalks, limiting car traffic, and creating continuous protected infrastructure for bikes.🧵

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

999 climate deaths. Each one a life as worthy and important as any big oil CEO, or president or prime minister. Each one predicted, predictable, and preventable.

YOU HAD ONE JOB, SPIRIT www.newsweek.com/trump-air-fo...

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Natalie isn’t a public figure. But she’s been caught in the crosshairs of a broad right-wing harassment movement — one sanctioned and encouraged by the government. www.theverge.com/policy/77897...

Occasional reminder that Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a story about crushing NIMBYs

The radical left wants UBI wants affordable housing wants police reforms etc The radical right wants you dead wants white supremacy are Nazis These are not the same. These have never been the same.

“I will never visit the United States again,” Mr. Jeong said. @nytimes.com #Hyundai www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...

I’m salivating

Turning off the fire alarms won’t prevent the fire.

Next time this happens (seems inevitable) this is how you write about the guy (will most likely be a guy)

As a driver, I would like more automated speed enforcement so I can drive the speed limit and not have some asshole in a Ram pickup tailgating to get me to speed up or get out of their way

Buddha: Live your life in such a way that it doesn’t create “politeness discourse” when you die.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Anti-immigrant propoganda in the early 20th century relied on a paradoxical balance of “they are feminine, lazy, cant contribute” and “they are hyper-masculine sexual deviants capable of sensless and devastating violence.” It’s the same big tent brew most marginalized groups get thrown into today.

I love when cycling friends out themselves as Charlie Kirk lovers and make it easy to never ride with them again.

Lincoln in 1861: "Our adversaries have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words 'all men are created equal.' Why?" millercenter.org/the-presiden... The adversaires resurfaced 150 years later.

apocalypse now, a film famous for its artistic commentary on the folly of military intervention

Let me be very clear as an academic who has studied research and written about the far right and authoritarianism: the Republicans are openly setting the stage for civil conflict across the nation using regular military against democratically held populations of this country.

This is amazing. As an avid cycling advocate, it’s not about transforming the city because we think we’re better than anyone. It is that the city should be safe for everyone. I’ve had many close calls on McGuinness over the years, that this has been delayed so long is a stain on the city. #urbanism

"Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?" [stares directly at the camera]

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

NEW: What is going on at Walmart and Target, as it appears workers are removing prices on private label apparel tags... www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...

Trump's tariffs causes SSENSE to file for bankruptcy protection. Devastating to small designers, as SSENSE is an important retailer for them.

Hate traffic? Support transportation infrastructure that gives people viable options to not use a car and watch the congestion ahead evaporate.

Hitler sidesteps judicial norms with mass incarceration program.

Yes Trump has attacked our democracy and eroded our civil liberties but look what he has done to our Big Mac access. www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Reconstruction now, reconstruction tomorrow, reconstruction forever.

Mamdani has a nearly 20 point lead over the rest of the field, but his poor showing with gay ultraorthodox baby boomers hints at political weakness.

anyway the choice america faces going forward is live in the confederacy or do reconstruction for real and purge those motherfuckers from all of public life. and there isn’t really an in-between.

Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’

I've about had it with throttle bikes that get lumped under the basic label of "ebike". Throttles that propel people into double digit speeds, without pedaling requirements are causing issues on our active infrastructure, largely fueled by thrill seeking males.

Electric cargo bikes are car replacers. It’s so great to see how many families can get to soccer practice this way (enabled by Minneapolis’ protected bike infrastructure).

Hey, guys. Guess what we’re not talking about any more.

Dr. Yael Harrari receiving diploma at Tel Aviv University’s School of Medicine graduation. Shirt says: first do no harm, and harm is crossed out and it says GENOCIDE

"Cities are facing a two-wheeled traffic jam." Bullshit. They're suffering from a 4-wheeled infestation.

President Trump promised to bring your family's costs down on day one, but his reckless tariffs keep driving prices up and up. He needs to get #Trumpflation under control, because hardworking families cannot afford his hidden tariff taxes on every day goods.

Ahem

I love this essay because it explores the practical benefits of e-bikes along with the fact that they're just fun! Plus, it shows that when people try e-bikes they are often converted, as the author was. More of this!

Disgusted God Puts Giant  Overturned Glass Atop   Humanity theonion.com/disgust...

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

Zohran Mamdani stuns political consultants with revolutionary campaign strategies like telling people “I want to make your lives better” and pointing out “the other guy is an evil pervert.”