you assemble the right gear to cycle through all weather, get studded tires, lobby for dedicated infrastructure, donate and organize to elect a progressive mayor who “supports” bike commuters, and still wind up riding in the street under even more dangerous icy, tight conditions than ever 😞

Comm Ave now has a bike lane again thanks to the effort of this volunteer crew! This is just one street, and we don't have the plows that the city has. Let's get this done city-wide!

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! Feb 7: "High crime" neighborhoods There is no such thing as a high crime neighborhood. Seriously. Read the whole linked thread.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

The latest from Anthropic: using Anthropic's products makes you worse at your job

August 20, 1965. Hayneville, Alabama—they called it "Bloody Lowndes" because everyone knew what happened to Black people and their allies there. Jonathan Daniels was a 26-year-old white Episcopal seminarian. He'd come to Selma after hearing MLK's call for clergy to join the movement. 🧵

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

This is why they don't allow congress people in

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

chickenshits www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

She is aggressively trying to turn the wheel AWAY from the ICE agent. It is her very last action. They provoke her, surround her, then kill her in cold blood. I have barely slept since this happened and I don't think I'll ever stop being angry about this.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US: Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

I was radicalized on the issue of the Supreme Court 25 years ago this month. I’ve spent more than half of my life now waiting for the Democrats and liberalism to get there. They still aren’t. It’s sickening.

If you want to know why Hegseth is panicking about reminders that there is accountably for giving or carrying out illegal orders, it’s likely because he knows he has given illegal orders to murder people.

... if we really want people to be held accountable this time, we will be fighting against the media, against billionaires, against big business, against the consultant class, against D leadership, against practically the entire apparatus of US politics. The architecture is *built for impunity*.

happy pie for breakfast day to all who celebrate

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

so our government made a big deal about banning speed cameras but one city left theirs running to see what difference the ban would make and you are not going to believe this

I wish it didn’t feel so unusual and inspiring to see a leader treating everyone like they matter and saying that we have a responsibility to help each other

poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍⚧️

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

🥄🥄 are back let’s go!

If you see this post an anime you love

drafting a post, added a photo, looked something up in my browser while adding alt text and the fucking bsky app restarted in the 3 minutes i was researching. sigh.

On Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember and amplify the memories of all those we have lost to anti-transgender violence.

I am sorry hold up a second. Are we all going to blow past that Chuck Schumer was listed in the Epstein files? Everyone hates this guy and suddenly all the prominent people calling for his ouster are silent?

Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I'm sorry, I'm still having a hard time getting over that the owner of the NY Times is in the Epstein files thing and they haven't even acknowledged this in any reporting.

I made you a flowchart: www.todayintabs.com/p/no-one-tru...

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

They’re calling her Megyn R. Kelly on TikTok

boston sent vital assistance following the 1917 halifax harbor explosion (so awful it killed 1700 people), and as thanks, nova scotia has sent us a christmas tree every year. it’s a nice little tradition. this is the first time the boston mayor visited to retrieve it in person

I always get a kick out of the NYT Defense Squad trotting out harrumphing takes about how serious journalists don't report on mere speculation, blow things out of proportion, dig into their colleagues' email, etc etc

SULZBERGER

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

If you have money on your EBT card, go buy groceries for your family. Forget the noise coming out of Washington. We have your back.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far