SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Considering that the last time the street lights went out by my house, drivers just blew through the intersections at +10 over the speed limit obliviously, I might prefer cars to just brick themselves in such circumstances.

Nothing radical about impeaching a criminal who commits new crimes every single day

It's pretty notable that in some of the highest profile murders in the past year, police and FBI didn't actually find the perpetrators and in multiple cases didn't have any idea where they were located or even who they were before they were found by members of the public. It repeats.

How in the world....

Multiple drivers failing to yield to a pedestrian on the left turn; driver in massive poor-visibility truck covered in snow. Pedestrian trying to cross five lanes of traffic at the only opportunity. Seems like a culture of reckless driving in an environment of dangerous roadway design.

The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans. bsky.app/profile/jare...

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

If you drove drunk and the financial cost of complying with the sentence you received for that is overwhelming, then maybe you shouldn't be driving drunk? Because maybe you shouldn't drive drunk as a general rule? This is a terrible argument from the ACLU.

To the person who waited, behind a semi turning left, and decided despite the light turning red and despite being 50 ft back from the intersection that they should accelerate from zero, drive through the intersection, and then get annoyed at me for being in front of them in a crosswalk: a big F you.

Everyone who thinks this dude should be President needs to be on your permanent mute list.

Minneapolis: absolute hell hole right now.

Caving on the shutdown was totally worth it. Good job, Chuck. Incredible leadership.

This is something else right here. Look at how much time, energy, and tax dollars were put into this without even the most basic premise for any of that activity. Lawless idiocracy at taxpayer expense.

"He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people." - some 200 year old nonsense not at all relevant today or part of our foundational national idea

Brett Kavanaugh wants this to happen to you

Another Kavanaugh Stop sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪

I guess this has to be said because we're governed by weirdo morons, but the purpose of formula is not be "better" than breastmilk - whatever that might possibly mean. The purpose of formula is so that babies don't die of starvation.

New York City went 12 days without a murder in November / December. That's tied for the longest stretch in history, according to the NYPD. As someone who was here when there were 6+ murders per day in this town, it continues to amaze me how safe the place is.

Disappointing development for London. I absolutely loved having convenient access to moving Zipcar vans for micro-trips (like 20min to pick up some bulky object and bring it to my flat) and a dense network of cars for last-minute, unplanned journeys. www.bbc.com/news/article...

There is no evidence that the death penalty works as a crime deterrent. People who say this kind of stuff don't care about evidence of what prevents crime or reduces recidivism. They just fetishize violence, and should be labeled weirdos accordingly.

This is disgusting and obviously murder, but let's not forget the first strike is also illegal. The US military does not have Congressional authorization for war. This is all just murder. Calling it a war crime would elevate it to happening in a context of legality that the offense does not have.

I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

Contrary to recent racism, Minnesota and Minneapolis are doing fine actually.

Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.

Incredibly bad headline. Twenty paragraphs in the article talks about how these aren't bikes at all; they're motorcycles.

Gotta love the online comments telling cyclists to get off the shared use paths in winter because actually they're only for pedestrians, but also get off the road and stick to bike lanes because roads are only for cars. But the bike lanes don't exist most places and probably won't be snow-plowed...

Getting asked at the doctor's office about whether you've been exposed to anyone with measles is something about 2025 I'm not thankful for.

Stop Shooting Journalists Challenge

Grocery store car parking seems like a mess today. Luckily the cargo bike and my recently purchased cleverhood made the pre-storm panic shop a breeze.

The consultant class is droning on about Dems being too left-wing and erring on defund the police. But I think this is exactly what "defund the police" people want to defund. Rightly so. This instance being a mild-ish example of the type of police behavior I would very specifically like to defund.

It's interesting that car culture has totally warped our collective understanding of use of space that we believe people standing in a residential street (which is actually a totally normal thing) can be construed as something meriting a state response with pepper spray and riot gear.

Owámniyomni Okhódayapi just announced the Dakota-led design for the restoration of five acres at Owámniyomni (St. Anthony Falls), adjacent to the Upper Lock on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Project construction is targeted to begin in spring 2026. Very exciting! owamniyomni.org/design/

An interesting thing about autonomous vehicles is that the empty repositioning trips between passenger journeys mean they decrease the average number of people moved per vehicle trip, which is already barely above 1. Traffic that doesn't even transport. Not good!

Cops committing crimes, a graph:

Trigger warning. “In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.” Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.

#obligatory #aurora #mpls

Happy Monday, riders! #Mpls (Someone driving a mini-van almost hit me three blocks after this. First time I've had to brake hard to avoid being hit.)

As everyone expected, it turns out the Trump administration is indeed just waging a Duterte-style murder campaign against low-level drug offenders.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Gotta love a "Bike Lane Closed" sign 50 ft before the closure and some cones that just slowly nudge you into car traffic.

Urban Arrow battery went from 8% to 0% on the last uphill before home this morning. That was a rough couple of blocks.

I stand by my view that Minnesota's bipartisan opposition to REALID, resulting in multi-decade nationwide delays in its adoption, is one of the state's greatest accomplishments of the 21st century. No good comes from citizen registries in the hands of tyrannical governments.

Imagine making a propaganda video set to the Lord's Prayer while you starve children, murder people, and round up foreigners for the non-crime of fleeing poverty and violence. Trying to think of a term for this. Something like the antonym of Christ. Hmm...

Halloween: the annual reminder that we deserve full-sized Krackel bars.

Good defense of halloween, the most urban holiday we have. minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/30/t...