Heavy vehicle use on difficult terrain not only drives maintenance needs but puts special stress on the mechanics and technicians who keep the vehicles running.

Related to trips per mile, passenger miles per trip is an indicator of both service density and the built environment that the fleet traverses.

San Francisco Muni is, pound for pound, the hardest working transit system in the country

New Substack Post. These Republican-leaving States Went Big on Minimum Wages. Here's What Happened to their Restaurant and Retail Jobs.

i am whispering “come to california” to him

BREAKING: DOJ investigating Iran for Mortgage Fraud.

these are the stupidest people to ever live

ICE loves hurting and killing women.

Good job Harrisburg

The more you love ProPublica, the more reason to not visit their site today.

Just got back from overseas and @davidgriscom.bsky.social brilliant new book, The Myth of Red Texas, was here waiting for me. Congrats, David, can’t wait to read it!

Absolute perfection. A+ four stars 10/10 100%. Peak duckling. What an incredible baby bird season it's been. Onto month 2! 🪶 🐣

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

Recently my biggest concern about the war was that it was increasingly seeming impossible for Trump to have a face-saving off ramp. I should not have underestimated his ability to just completely invert reality.

Disgusting

Also, this still happened. These lunatics continue to maintain massively unrepresentative levels of power because American democracy is broken. That's not normal!! It doesn't happen in most other democracies (that have all kinds of other problems)!! bsky.app/profile/mich...

Sorry everyone.

Tax them before they traffic you or a loved one.

That's a spaceship, mfer

Here for the acronym seekers: TWIRP (Two Weeks to Impeach and Remove the President) h/t @phl2ilm.bsky.social

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

The essentials are all there.

if you’re feeling as bad as I’m feeling just fyi this account is exclusively videos of someone picking dead leaves off succulents and it helps a little bit www.instagram.com/succulent_as...

The next 24 hours is gonna be a study in contrasts. These monsters were outraged when the Afgan war ended. A war nobody wanted. And here we are in another war nobody wanted and these goons are gonna spin like no shit has ever been spun.

First day of field season kicks off tomorrow and I stress baked some invasive crab sugar cookies to celebrate!

So pissed about all of this madness.

The art of shitting the bed.

It’s Tuesday Lemon.

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More of this. Trump and Netanyahu may never be held accountable, but those who carry out their orders should understand that they will be.

The U.S. Postal Service does mail shotguns & rifles - even for non-licensees. However, it MUST NOT mail alcoholic beverages as they are deemed "injurious articles." If one still tries w/o declaring, one might go to jail. There is some liberalization on the horizon, though – but only for handguns.

I’m still seething at the thought of a banker Jamie Dimon approving of this war, describing it as necessary and just. It’s fucking nuts and only a lunatic would do this. And the billionaire class is cheering it on.

At these gas prices?

I remember 23 October 1962 - this was when JFK's televised address from the night before implementing a "quarantine" of Cuba was broadcast in the UK. We all thought we were going to die. For me, this is without doubt the most dangerous time in international affairs since that day.

Bluesky’s been a bit under the weather, so re-upping this episode with @quinnslobodian.com & @bentarnoff.com that dropped yesterday.

Markey has a bill that prohibits the US President from a unilateral nuclear first strike and it only has SIX cosponsors in the Senate! www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Well to be fair he did commit some today just not as many as he had threatened www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Wienerschnitzel workers in Los Angeles are on strike to demand over $55,000 in backpay and penalties for wage theft. Management suggests it has called ICE, doesn’t pay sick pay, and doesn’t allow us to take legally required meal and rest breaks. We're not paid overtime, even on 15-hour shifts. 🧵

I was at a parent teacher organization meeting and we had to get a mid meeting update that the idiot decided not to commit war crimes. Impeach that fucking clown. This is not normal.

Today felt like January 6 to me. Another day when something got broke that’s never going to get entirely unbroken.

What we fail to say is also a message. Not calling for Trump's impeachment and removal conveys he has not committed offenses that warrant these actions. Or, at best, that you feel he has and are unwilling to do your duty and use the remedy written into our Constitution for presidential crimes.

I AM GOING TO BURN DOWN THE SHED UNLESS WE HAVE PIZZA ROLLS FOR DINNER TONIGHT [mom sighs, rolls her eyes, writes "pizza rolls" on the grocery list for next week] I HAVE DECIDED NOT TO BURN DOWN THE SHED

Let’s still get him out of there, ok?

33% say bring it on.

White folks who like white supremacy put Donald Trump in the White House so it’s a real (racist!) tell to choose this participate moment to aim your anger at folks who arrived at “it’s wrong to indiscriminately bomb children” before you.

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.

One of the problems we face is that voters have to hold Republicans accountable for their decisions and voters don't seem interested in this.

Needs to be wall-to-wall 24/7