Former Transportation Secretary @petebuttigieg.bsky.social says the Gordie Howe International Bridge is being blocked from opening due to "corruption." "The craziest thing about this is Mexico was never going to pay for the wall, but Canada actually did pay for the bridge," Buttigieg adds. #MPC26

Sadly, every word is true. The American experiment is over. Killed in the middle of Fifth Avenue and no one in power blinked an eye to stop it.

Nearly 2 billion people live in the red area. It is becoming completely uninhabitable. What do the climate deniers, who also hate immigration, think is going to happen?

One week and I get to feel the surrealness of this thing yet again as it comes through my local turf. I still cannot believe this is not only coming through Cleveland but will be making one of its whistle stops at the crossing nearest my home…

Watch them actually do this.

It’s stupidly refreshing to me to see a Republican declare the semiquin a failure. One month to the UK!!

Gonna print this for next week

Greg Bovino and the head of New York's Young Republicans were in Portugal this weekend for a neo-fascist summit on ethnic cleansing. So why didn't the press cover it? My latest for @theredoubt.net, on extremism, antisemitism and media double standards: www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...

Every time I've been inside a hospital in more than a decade (and in most doctor's offices too) there have been prominent signs posted reminding the reader that assaulting an on-the-job healthcare provider is a years-in-prison kind of felony. But I guess it's okay if you're "just following orders"

TLDR: Steve Cohen (D-TN; being forced out by confederate restricting) filed 6 articles on Roberts. Must be taking the attitude of having nothing to lose.

One thing about trains: it doesn’t matter when they run. What matters is deciding to hurry up and wait! 😉

I love every version of these things. All three major railroads in Michigan used various designs of these when I was growing up and some remain scattered across the state today.

“HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO NUKE GREECE NOW?!?!” - Turkey

Pretty telling what everyone that is doing tonight. Over half of the trending topics here are really just one topic: the NBA finals. Sorry but I quit following when New York knicked the Cavaliers. (Pun absolutely intended).

And what’s better is the existing Amtrak hub in Chicago covers most of the routes depicted here. Continued strengthening of these routes with faster schedules and more frequencies would lay the proper groundwork for a high speed service.

Damnit… I get it, but DAMNIT. I was excited about this one…

You’re laughing. Our obese stupid senile pedophile president is trying to barricade himself in his winter palace after sinking the nation into an empire shattering conflict he cannot win and you’re laughing.

The poor aren't the evil in our society, it's the people who have profited and hoarded to such an extent that we have such a large number of impoverished citizens. The nature of becoming a billionaire means you don't play well with or care at all about others.

It’s really obvious we got into this stupid war for Bibi’s little wet dream of putting down Iran. I guess this is a marriage now. Friend who sent this to me characterized it as a shadow invasion… I don’t think he’s far off. Israel is a rogue state in every sense of the word. They’re out of control!

IF they lose power they know they will likely face consequences (jail or bankruptcy or worse) for the crimes they have committed. So they will do everything, sacrifice anything, subvert all things to stay in office.

I have never seen a Gray Catbird eat from any bird feeder. First find for everything I guess.

Would have looked good on the 76 AFT if she’d been picked. Good rendition but I’m not really feeling this one. Hopefully it goes Back to stock N&W after this year.

Exactly, "wedge issues". Because they DRIVE a wedge into a voter base, and cause it to split. Nobody much HAD an opinion on trans people using the bathroom until Republicans made it the top crisis in America, along with litter boxes in classrooms. Creating the problems and pretending to solve them.

It’s a pretty telling thing when 75%+ of the posts on your profile are solely dedicated to dunking or shitting on one single candidate or cause…

The point isn't that the Democrats should prioritize the views of likely Democratic voters under 30. It's just interesting because the view that Democrats aren't far enough left is completely unrepresented in mainstream media, while the view that they're too far left is everywhere.

Did you see this??? An entire 50 PERCENT of Democratic voters under 30 want the party to MOVE TO THE LEFT on transgender issues. Comparing with other issues polled, it's second only to healthcare as an issue younger voters want to see the party move left on.

And of course NS and FWRHS ran 765 TODAY rather than during the week like they normally do… hope I can get it leaving in late June

Context for my last post. They look cute together. And it probably makes some of the conservatives heads explode to know a progressive like this is descended from a Texas founding father.

My girlfriend has toyed with veganism before but never forced me to try - I generally like vegan cooking anyway. *has* is also a key word because recently she’s transitioned back to being a pescatarian and occasionally has fish again. TBH, makes me sad (I’m still veg) but I don’t stop her.

Tim Walz’ comment about how weird those guys were was sport on, and who ever got him to stop needs to be tarred and feathered.

I need to expand on this. These politicians invoking the manosphere need to genocided. I’m serious.

“It's a huge problem for the [Democratic] Party that you take one look at the men they run for elected office and just know that they couldn't name a single obscure wide receiver from the early 2000s." Okay so you can’t be an American citizen without having a PHD in football? Republicans = evil.

I lost a lot of respect for Mercedes over the recent union busting here in the US but beyond the stigmatized stereotype covering them, they’ve always been an impressive company from an engineering standpoint. They aren’t backing away from EVs the way everyone else is today, either.

Apparently other modes are allowed to modernized in these peoples’ view, but not anything on rails. Nevermind the most perfect form of automated travel has rails and has proven & extensive use cases that most people have experienced.

I would recommend not engaging with anyone arguing the “trains are 200 year-old technology; we have planes and cars” position. (Both of which are more than a century old) They don’t want a reasonable debate. We will not persuade them. We only give them more engagement, audience & credibility.

Yeah this sounds familiar… it was a very reluctant vote for that woman. Felt a lot better about Harris years later. But this country is still very racist.

One project I never got to do with any of my prior cars was taking them to visit facilities that collectively built them. I’m off to a decent start with the Chevy. Here it is today in front of GM’s Parma Stamping (Parma Operations in modern titling) where some metal components on the car were made.

I wonder how many idiots working at these panicking organizations voted for or clandestinely funded these Nazis now threatening them. I bet it’s not zero. Still enjoying that fresh air, Bastian?

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

I didn’t think much about these things until I was on Long Island recently. I started to notice these cameras *everywhere*. There’s a remarkable amount of them, especially in very low crime rate areas. These people are so afraid of their own shadows.

I think there’s a big difference between home security cams and an entire network of government surveillance logging everyone’s every move operated by a company that sells its data to ICE

all this stuff is just barely-veiled code for "talarico is a [f-slur] and you're one too if you vote for him"

Now do it with Bezos aboard.

Oh great. We’ll know soon enough if this was an accident or deliberate I guess… these ugly old hag boomers like Putin, Trump and Netenyahu are going to destroy the entire fucking world if something isn’t done about them soon.

TW: Person getting hurt. I’m not sure if this is a fan or an employee but a good reminder to be extra extra careful around railroad equipment of all kinds. This can and has happened with diesels too but this is especially bad with historic equipment. Continued instances like this could kill it all.

The stain and stench of this era’s corruption will never go away.

New place to try and the building where my physical office is, but I never go to anymore!

I think about this a lot.

This one calls back to the 1976 era schemes not only because it’s an adaptation to one but because, although mostly limited to Canada by then, I believe the M630 was still in MLW’s catalogue in 76.

I like how hard they’re making this for UP.