In Seattle's Pike Place Market, vendors claimed that removing cars would cripple them. Nope. Sales actually rose. Remember: Studies show that biz owners consistently exaggerate how many customers drive and undercount those who walk, bike, or ride transit. Info: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I'm a small business owner and I would LOVE it if the avenue my shop is on would close to cars. It drives me bananas that other shop owners freak out about parking, since on the occasions we do close it, like our annual Halloween parade, people come out in droves.

Your regular reminder that when it comes to whether or not a crash happens at all, and whether or not people die or are injured in that crash, speed is ALWAYS a factor. ALWAYS. #UrbanTruth via @t4america.bsky.social & @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

this is very funny as well as good evidence — you know, beyond what we can see with our own eyes — that there is not some epidemic of anti-white discrimination

when you realize this is the average median voter, all the online debates about "why kamala lost" go out the window

Freelance health journalist Jamie Ducharme is writing an article for The Sick Times about peptides and #LongCOVID treatment.

My painting SPRING RIDE

It turns out replicating human brains is expensive

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

The media is giving an unearned farewell lap to this man so that he can get on camera and say the most offensively regressive things, and we're supposed to feel bad that he is dying comfortably of cancer after a career of trying to take away healthcare from everyone else who has it. Fuck Ben Sasse.

Sure doesn’t seem like they are desperate….

like i think some UK/US posters should talk to people in Asia. it's fucked www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...

donald trump literally threatened to completely wipe out an entire nation 1 month ago, no one takes this seriously coming from them lol

Over 50% of American adults can't read above a 6th grade reading level, and this is an absolutely catastrophic civil rights crisis with implications for every facet of individual and collective life, including processing political statements by politicians, doctors, and so on

This kind of stuff will make all of us go insane. Nobody was discussing any ballroom until Trump tore down the East Wing last year. And this was not an argument for the ballroom until literally hours ago. But now we're supposed to pretend like the WHCA incident settles some longstanding debate?

Stop trying to be president, son, and start trying to be PRESENT for your SON

Spring is still in the air! Fox family in daughter's backyard in London.

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

Israel expanded its territory by 1025 km2 (462 square mile) in 3 years by invading and occupying territory in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. The genocidal state needs to constantly expand its lebensraum www.instagram.com/p/DXhM6H-DO1n/

wanted to see what Mr. Beast would look like without teeth and now you have to see it too

The title is fitting. A patient was being treated for Stage IV colorectal cancer. She had qualified for clinical trial, a her last-chance to slow the spread of her cancer. Her trial was about to start when NIH funding was pulled overnight, & it was canceled. She died. Many more stories. 🧪

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

The Long-COVID Crisis: No Cure, Little Attention www.medscape.com/s/viewarticl...

Mr Beast in the workplace

Yeah I think pretty clear that there is a BIG chunk of MAGAs who are mostly in it for the racism

WASHINGTON (AP) — US soldier charged with using inside information to win $400K in betting market on Venezuelan President Maduro's capture.

Once the British press gets the classic introspective and depressed backseat car photo of you… it is over.

Very strong @lookitup.baby vibes from this photo posted on a Facebook page for MN wildlife and parks.

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

The handkerchief news media that insisted their Hunter Biden coverage was rooted in good faith because “we cover all instances of corruption on both sides” will never mention this

Also, even if that were true, that’s fucking monstrous? Are we not supposed to care when people who have other health problems die?

The Boys do the American Schism

Before she was murdered, Amal Khalil was sent a threat on WhatsApp by somebody with an Israeli number. Journalist Jeremy Loffredo then reached out to that number and the individual was unsurprisingly unapologetic about murdering journalists.

Rep. David Scott, a Democrat of Georgia, has died: www.ajc.com/politics/202... Scott, who is 80, faced a lot of pushback for choosing to run for reelection this year, amid reports he'd skipped voting in many recent cycles (inc. 2024 presidential race) & faced multiple primary challengers in May

"Rogue actors have breached the Mythos protocols, potentially giving them access to all the world's software vulnerabilities" is the kind of problem that by all rights should be solved by Tom Cruise sprinting through an airport

Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll, with 37% of adults opposed. Crucially 1 in 5 of Trump’s own voters support impeachment. Read and share: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...

how can you not be romantic about baseball

They are explicitly and specifically targeting people with long covid because, to put it bluntly, there's fuck all else available to us. MAHA decimated long covid research funding and now the grifters are swooping in....

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

Big abortion win in PA today - the ban on Medicaid funding is unconstitutional! AND there's a fundamental right to abortion! We won! (Though this Commonwealth Court opinion can be appealed - we'll see what our AG does.)

Ever seen a poll result that is basically telling the pollsters themselves to go touch grass?

New AP/NORC poll: "President Donald Trump’s approval rating on the economy has slumped over the past month as the Iran war drives prices higher...with even Republicans showing less faith in his leadership." Overall approval: 33% (-5 from March) Approval on the economy: 30% (-8% from March)

trump's former "commander-at-large" of the border patrol greg bovino says mass deportations, not deporting "worst of the worst" will "correct" places like Plano, Texas having a diverse population

Feel like it should be a bigger story that Howard Lutnick's firm (run by his kids) created a financial product to buy up tariff refund claims at a major discount, and will now be cashing in on the higher costs passed onto consumers.