Reducing traffic reduces crime: see new study from Leeds. www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

I hereby declare that Rudy Giuliani be stripped of the title "America's Mayor" for multiple reasons and nominate Zohan Mamdani

Kinda weird when people come to a revelation about needing to win elections after losing a couple primary contests to the left and not when the courts and both houses of Congress and the Presidency are controlled by the other party

The destructiveness of automobiles is much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building. - Jane Jacobs

Big Tech is saying out loud "You can have a habitable planet or machine generated slop, but you can't have both."

It's absolutely wild to me that, we as a society, have been tricked to believe that scratching a car is the eighth deadly sin.

I don't understand a business that wants both a patio and a double drive-thru. Wolf Road is bad enough already from a safety perspective. The drive-thru will make it worse. www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/...

One problem that plagues North America is city leaders who make decisions about urban infrastructure who never use anything but a car to go from A to B. This has to end.

It’s awesome that fascism has taken such a foothold that holding beliefs like “poor people should eat” and “people who aren’t like me can exist” are now considered so extremitist

Retractable bollards with remote access for delivery and emergency services filter modes with absolute certainty. They close streets to private cars for far less than the cost of human enforcement, demanding 24/7 compliance through solid, smart design.

JD Vance is admitting, CONFESSING, that they have committed crimes against the nation and humanity worse than Watergate on the daily. We are not angry enough.

these are both "trucks"

Filed under "entirely predictable things that every single expert consulted told you was coming."

I don't think NBC gets enough blame for their contribution to the state of things today through their creation or elevation of characters like Trump, Joe Rogan, and Megyn Kelly.

What's sick is that Vance is right, which says everything about our feckless journalism and utterly corrupt Republican politics today. JD Vance says Nixon’s Watergate scandal would be ‘12-hour news story’ today www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

🤔 "War?" "Hijack?" "Takeover?" Y'all use the weirdest vocab to describe voters calmly walking into a voting booth and filling in the bubble next to the name of the candidate that says things like "Childcare can be cheaper!" and "Let's fix that bike lane!" and "Elon should pay more tax than you do!"

lol does this article really not mention that Clarence Thomas was in house counsel for Monsanto, the Roundup manufacturer?

Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.

...I've held my nose and voted for centrist Dems more times than I can count because I didn't want the opposing Republican to win. centrist Dems who won't do the same when a progressive is on the ballot are giving away what side they are really on

Think about what the world will be like in a future where every company, retail store, venue, hospital, etc starts doing this. Giant shared lists of people who are banned based on some infraction or perceived infraction. A massive private police state with no mechanisms for oversight or redress

This is typically great. Ken will be fine. It’s our loss. www.popehat.com/p/a-bit-of-t...

Good to see parking lot fatalities and injuries get attention. These are harms we know almost nothing about, and when I started looking into these a few years ago was surprised how little there was. Data are hard to find, if they exist, and often crashes are not reported at the site they occurred.

I mean, your record speaks for itself

my guesses: easy to photograph, blindingly obvious symbolism, politics reporters are in DC and can go down there easily, everyone needed a laugh

Moderates have dramatically failed to meet the moment in response to rising fascism. If the Democratic establishment wants to stop losing elections they should stop being so feckless

What are the best bluesky apps for iOS these days?

How do you publish this article without noting that it's a violation of the constitution. What is the goddamn point of you.

The fact that the Harris campaign stopped Gov. Walz from reminding everyone just how *weird* all these people are may go down as one of the greatest political blunders of all time.

Outlaw stock trading for ANY elected official or political appointee. Require publication of 10 years of tax returns for any candidate for national office. Enforce requirements that congresspeople live in their districts. Enforceable ethics code for SCOTUS, and 18-year term limits.

a constitutional violation the size of a jumbo jet

i mean for all of vance’s talk about family and community, he can’t even muster up the courage to defend his wife and kids from fuentes

What this data says: Working remotely is bad for your mental health *unless you have a spouse and children at home*, in which case it's an obvious, unambiguous benefit with no downside. What the headline says: remote work is bad www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...

The 2 biggest supporters of The Heritage Foundation’s tech policy agenda, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jonathan Haidt, are part of this Peter Thiel initiative

I called @corybooker.com's office today to ask him to address this publicly. I said that no one should be associating in this way with Thiel. I think all Democrats deserve a response.

Pointing out this slow learning is important, not because of the cathartic "I told you so." But because the people that didn't heed the last warnings, are also not hearing the current warnings. Even this article still soft peddles what the "suicidal empathy" crowd thinks is necessary.

OK now I just feel bad for baby Matt. I'm picturing him enduring homoerotic bullying, because he thinks his bullies are his friends. Eg, his mom asking him who drew crude drawings on his forehead in permanent marker, so that she can tell the principal, and him saying "No! They'll stop liking me!🤡"

I love this & live by it. 💚🚲

This right here is why I didn't vote for him, despite the appealing things he was saying. I'm so fucking tired of people showing up out of the blue in election cycles, pulling votes off other candidates, then disappearing for the next four years. Do the work. Do it without power, without thanks.

What he saying is that we are going to entirely reshape our social, political, economic, and physical landscape for AI the way we entirely reshaped it for cars instead of people — and eff the kids that inherit this world.

Feels based ethics is about as good as feels based anything else.

That's why we outsource a lot of rightness to culture and law, because we're not born moral geniuses. And those institutions still fail us all the time. This is hard, and I wish people who would never try to operate on someone or fly a plane would have some humility about how to live a moral life.

Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done

The social internet got turned into a giant dopamine farm by a handful of companies who literally hired the same psychologists who design casino floor layouts, and the policy-makers just threw up their hands and said "guess we better ban kids from using the internet then"

Key aspect of fascism. They don't mean anything they say.

If Constitutional rights are something that a despot can "weigh suspending" for his convenience, then there is no Constitution and we should draft a new and better one as soon as we excise the despot and his party from every level of government. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

We made systems of justice to get away from mob violence and shunning. It's not perfect but we should work on that, not go back to pick a person to be guilty, form a mob, and hurt them as much as possible. Reparative justice first requires you to sit with the humanity and rights of all people.

I don't care about professional sports, but this is a glorious statistic 😂

It’s becoming more obvious by the day, but still needs to be said: It would be a better world if all the worst people weren’t allowed to have the most money.

@philsteckny.bsky.social What would it take to get NYSDOT to build protected bike lanes or multi-use paths on Rts 9 and 155? Here's yet another new business that caters to young people who have no safe way to get there. www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/...

This one hits hard.