learning mark cuban has spent his christmas eve arguing with randos on bluesky

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

I love the east Bay Area. People of different races and religions live and work together to build the American Dream. We in liberal society take this for granted but the national rise of extremism stemming from online content seeks to take this away from us. darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-americ...

Seems like a good time to note that many nonfiction publishers do not fact check, or do so only very superficially, and authors who want their work fact checked need to pay for it. This is bad in general but especially when editors are acquiring ‘eye-opening books’ that are just reactionary lies.

There is no such thing as free parking!

It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.

You know how Americans are surprised to learn that gun deaths are rare in most other countries, pedestrian-centered cities are normal, or everybody else uses metric? That, but discovering that the rest of the world moved to EVs.

“Like prime, but with human beings”

There's a much better chance someone in this administration would sexually assault my child than anyone they sent to CECOT

On that note, results of left-turn calming pilot at 16 locations across the Austin—46% decline in pedestrians hit & 32% decline in vulnerable rd usrs (ped + bike + scooter) hit Each intersection cost about $5.4k, each saved up to $182k in annual crash costs www.austintexas.gov/sites/defaul...

WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people. Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

I wrote about this exact policy on my substack months ago and it is very nice to see it get the press it deserves in the NYT there should not be a single free parking space in Manhattan imo bettercities.substack.com/p/10-thought...

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

it does seem a little unfair that despite being no worse than fourth worst on the court he gets to eat this as his name’s legacy forever, but hey, sucks to suck

kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass

It's again that time of year when people mock our firm for falling victim to a pair of scammers, based on a slanted documentary which did not paint our efforts at inclusive hiring in a fair light.

This incredible story only happens because the kids live in a walkable town with a train station.

This is really not what we wanted for Christmas

This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status. These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.

God forbid women have hobbies.

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

This is a key point. I wish we didn't have to pander to them so much, but sometimes the best way to sell a policy like congestion pricing or building bike lanes is to explain to drivers what's in it for them.

Amazing results in New York remind me how disappointing it is that congestion pricing efforts have stalled in San Francisco. With congestion pricing, Muni service could be robustly funded, transit ridership would climb, and traffic through much of the Bay Area would significantly decrease.

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

"It's safe to drive significantly over the speed limit at night because there's hardly anyone around!" but also "It's not my fault if I hit a pedestrian or cyclist at night - they're hard to see so you can't stop in time."

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight

really appreciate Oaklandside’s traffic violence/street safety coverage and remember: traffic deaths are preventable, if we want them to be

A lane is a lane. There are no good highway expansions.

i don’t think i’ll ever get over how we’re sending people to torture prison camps in el salvador STILL and those in charge of CBS want us to pretend it’s an old story that’s been resolved. people are still being tortured!

If my daughter went there I'd never send her back to that school. Look at this statement. This guy needs to be fired and sued and someone needs to check his hard drive. If a 13 year old student tells you, an adult, that boys are sharing naked photos of you and you wave her off, you're the problem.

This CBS censorship moment is a good time to remind there is a crisis in local journalism that you can help end by supporting local journalism. We can't save the republic from a national media owned by fascist Republicans. But we can save our communities. www.niskanencenter.org/the-state-ca...

The bar set by this FPPC nexus test requires anyone with a "foreseeable" source of income to recuse themselves from decisions. It should be turned around to toss realtors and consultants off planning and landmarking commissions.

Looks like the initial data on NYC congestion pricing say it’s working. 👏 🔌💡 #TalkAboutClimate www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Funny how there's apparently no conflict for councilmembers who're landlords voting on tenant protections, or homeowners voting on new housing projects and rezoning actions. Just for renters who want more homes.

For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Harvard's first Black president was bullied out of office by a guy who was best buddies with Jeffrey Epstein, that's still sinking in

it doesn’t matter to white Christians in America that they are not in any way persecuted. it matters what they do after they convince themselves that story is true, and the movie names a lot of those harms explicitly. it matters how many people, and WHICH people, those lies hurt or endanger

People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.

Sad death of CBS News as actual journalism And a reminder that CECOT is a human rights travesty, and everyone up and down the Trump admin involved in illegally sending people there belong in The Hague.

a muppet twist on iconic art: thread

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

Fwiw I think the “apologize for being white” thing is very clearly about making sure white people don’t feel an obligation to alleviate past injustices or make society fairer. Ultimately to do that you have to raise taxes and the billionaires holding Vance’s leash don’t want that.

Billionaire futurism is premised on selling a future that never comes to people instead of meeting their needs now. Wealth is, to be Derridean, always already there, yet never there.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

This is a surgical dismantling of yet another dumb Matt Yglesias argument by a former clean energy exec and current Representative. This is the sort of thing that should make people stop listening to people like Yglesias. Read the whole thing.