if we combined mamdani and obama but kept the great politics mamdani but michigan

I especially like when you can see how major intersections have changed. Oh, this clearly-used-to-be-a-6-lane-motorway is now 4 lanes of calmed car traffic, a multi-use path, and a ton of landscaping.

Honestly I'm starting a new "VIP" club: the Voter Intent Protectors 🫡🦸🏾‍♀️ Unfortunately, one thing about getting progressive wins is after you win you literally can't stop fighting to keep it 😭 I know it's exhausting but our ancestors did it too and we CAN'T GIVE UP. Y'all wanna be in the club!? 😎

i need a slow TV youtube channel that is just people riding 2 way protected bikelanes around the world, with slow fades between scenes and like a 9 hr run time

The likely number of planets in our galaxy is on the order of one trillion.

Agreed, I think they're both set on a path of open class war, and shocked that wars tend to have at least two sides with some degree of agency. Same pattern as the war in Iran, in a sense

onto my next celebrity biography share.libbyapp.com/title/12575206

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

Yet you just granted an election denier and enabler of Trump and his policies a lifetime appointment. Shameful.

Nine Senate Republicans missed the confirmation vote, meaning Senate Democrats — had they all voted ‘no’ — could have blocked confirmation and forced a later vote. To date, 19 Senate Democrats have voted to confirm at least one of Trump’s lifetime judicial nominees during his second term.

a lot of things didn't age well but those public enemy CDs we bought in the 90s still feel good. flavor flav on bluesky throwing down for women's sports, i love it

Congratulations Charles Booker on winning his primary for U.S. Senate in Kentucky. A longtime community advocate and public servant, Charles will fight for a future working families need: one where everyone has what they need — not just the rich and powerful.

I’m literally stopping and smelling so many roses rn

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Lorraine Hansberry, writer most famous for "A Raisin in the Sun" was born in 1930. Yuri Kochiyama, Japanese civil rights activist who was held in an internment camp during WWII & also a close friend to Malcolm X was born in 1921. Born in 1925, Malcolm still looms large. They all share a birthday

i also have long covid and have been born again through my e-bike. this is so real. i first experienced the rapid heart beat and energy crash of long covid after trying to go on a gravel ride on a new bike in 2024, so it is emotionally cathartic to be riding long miles again

Susan Collins possibly feeling some heat from her virulently anti-war, combat veteran opponent barnstorming the state. very rare for murkowski and collins to be concerned on this side of the ledger

discovered group tabs in firefox just in time to save my own life

Chop From The Top

can i propose that wikipedia make a search engine? i will pay!

trying to find a Black artist who has made art out of this Angela Davis quote and coming up short! anybody know of one? "You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time"

Democrats: Here’s what I think is frustrating all of us about the current version of our party…you agree?

sorry my brain is addled, but is the ballroom an attempt to create a bunker from which he imagines he will violently cling to power

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THREAD. The San Francisco DA gave an "exclusive" interview to the New York Post yesterday that is full of egregious misinformation. But something deeper is going on that should worry everyone who cares about the possibility of a democratic society.

2-way protected bike lane post of the day

⚡️ Russia threatens Latvia over unfounded claims of Ukrainian drone launch plans. "It would be useful to remind that the coordinates of decision-making centers on Latvian territory are well known," Russia's intelligence agency said.

And the reason our society is so obsessed with youth in women, why it despises old women, why it pressures you to act and appear young, is that cis men never make it to Act III, and yet they are desperate to maintain that they are “naturally” the proper leaders of the species.

you either understand that it is post menopausal women sitting around tables who run the world or you don’t

Females in Act III of their lives are *so* important that in the 5 other species we know for sure have menopause, they’re the leaders. Humans have made older women invisible, or objects of derision.

ive been tuning into norway maples lately, those workhorses of street shade! sadly they’re invasive and planting them is now banned on city property. they spread on the wind & displace. once you notice how many of them are sprouting around the neighborhood near the big ones, you can’t unsee it

i feel like i saw 10,000 roses today and that's actually probably true because i stopped by the peninsula park rose garden

One thing a drawn out impeachment effort does is force the American people to learn about this. it is so fucking nuts that from Schumer on down the Dems have the money and clout and leverage to drag this across the TV for weeks and they just... won't

'This is a near-term pilot project before a future permanent transformation' that's a sentence i sure hope we can get PBOT daring to say more often

'Torii Gate at Gion' from the series 'Famous Places of Kyoto' - Hasegawa Sadanobu, ca. 1858. #ToriiTuesday #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt

why are we not road taxing Amazon trucks in PDX

site visit to Kairos PDX charter school, which serves kids and families of color, has a mission to eliminate racial achievement and opportunity gaps, and wants to include depaving the schoolyard along with their PCEF energy efficiency community grant

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

People are winning the fight against AI data centers Watch, subscribe here for more conversation like this every single week www.youtube.com/watch?v=5twr...

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

The fund will operate for 2–3 years, distribute somewhere between $400M and $1.2B, get wound down, and become a case study in Federal Courts and Administrative Law textbooks. That loud "whoosh" sound is the taxes you paid April 15th going to Jan. 6 insurrectionists

your move, United States Congress

i feel like we’re 2 steps away from ice disappearing anti-data center organizers. there is so much capital in play here it’s insane

GitHub Copilot moves to token based billing on June 1, and its users have now got a calculator that shows how much they've been actually burning every month - some $39-a-month users have spent $1500 to $5800 in tokens a month. Microsoft's subsidies are insane. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

good luck to everyone training their brains to be dependent on anthropic

nice data center plan, be a shame if it slows or stalls

May 18, 2026: Here's a thread on the ways in which I think experimenting with—and ultimately switching to—a revised version of the "precinct-captain" model of electoral field work would be good for today's NYC's electorally organized Left. bsky.app/profile/bdli...

amazing that hominids fanned out and evolved thousands of distinct languages and societies, as well as the ability to understand our own evolution and diversity. idk how anyone has anything but awe & love for human diversity across time, it is so incredible

a notable step up from my usual celebrity memoir pulp, 10/10 recommend the audio book where he really does it up share.libbyapp.com/title/9611905