The Giants are the only NFL team that regularly cannot field a kicker. I’m going insane.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Once again having to call an uber from the bus stop 😢 When will we as a society figure out accurate real-time bus location info? It cannot be that hard.

Waymo blocking the bus stop (not to mention the bike lane) at Irving and Mt Pleasant in DC. If these things are going to be on our roads they need to respect the infrastructure they’re using.

fascism is the ideology for insecure losers who know they do not provide any value in a functioning society and instead of learning any tangible skills they would rather lash out with violence

Not sure how to feel about this. Private companies funding transit could provide a much-needed boost, but it could also set a bad precedent for funding only the service that serves big-money events. Thoughts? www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/fanduel...

It's a lie. Stipulating "explicit" carries the implication that he *does* have some other kind of informal, traditional or implied authority over elections, when he does not. Don't print lies in the newspaper.

Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.

TIL the term "windshield bias" from @davidzipper.bsky.social's new article. He's using it to refer to reporters' inclination to focus on the inconvenience of speed cameras rather than safety benefits. He cites a survey of these attitudes among Americans: findingspress.org/article/1229...

Once again standing in a cramped airport-style @amtrak.com line, knowing that it’s unnecessary. For example, when I take intercity trains from Glasgow Central I just walk up, scan my ticket, and board. The waiting area is spacious and the departures boards are huge. Why can’t we do this?!

Zohran Mamdani's campaign is making politics seem fun, worthwhile and inclusive. No wonder the Democratic Party is rejecting him like a foreign organism.

A major way we avoid talking to another human being is by driving cars.

You're living through a major technological revolution right now and it has nothing to do with AI. The United States is in danger of missing it and getting left behind because our corrupt President wants us to be buyers-of-last-resort for fossil fuels owned by his paymasters in KSA and Russia.

It’s so interesting to see what kinds of incidents the media describes in the police exonerative tense.

We 👏 don’t 👏 need 👏flashy 👏 tech 👏 we 👏 just 👏 need 👏 efficient 👏 operations 👏 and 👏 station 👏 upgrades

Rule 78: Put Street Trees Almost Everywhere Street trees do it all, they... Cut crashes by 45% Raise home values 9% Boost retail sales 12% Clean air, cool streets, absorb stormwater, improve health, and make places more inviting Walkable City Rules www.amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...

Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...

If you don’t want e-bikes on sidewalks make room for them on the road: build protected bike lanes.

Gosh, turns out the things repeatedly cited for "RFK Jr makes some good points" were all bullshit, he's not doing squat about pesticides nor ultraprocessed foods, nor will he make fresh food more accessible and affordable. Huge surprise from a sociopathic con artist in a GOP admin, I know.

Just an innocent bystander, no doubt just out walking his dog.

EJ Antoni has never worked in statistics collection. He is 5 years out of his PhD. He's only ever written one economics paper. His explicit, only qualifications are that he works in ultra-conservative think tanks & believes Trump's conspiracies about the BLS. Grim stuff.

North American suburbia is entering a crisis point where the tax base isn't enough to maintain the massive amount of physical infrastructure required to keep the lights on. A thread: 1/

Yes, traffic cameras work, but it's a myth that people hate them! Survey after survey shows that most people support automatic enforcement (and often want more of it). This is a false controversy, fed by a minority of disgruntled drivers & journalists seeking narratives with conflict.

Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Again we see the incoherence of right-wing policy. Rounding up homeless people and imprisoning them *is* housing them! Punitive solutions to this problem also cost a shitload and require a massive bureaucracy. They are fine with providing housing, but only if it is ineffective and dehumanizing.

It’s a real shame that the main hub of DC’s healthcare system can’t spare a few feet for a proper bus shelter amidst fields and fields of parking. The (many) people who take the bus to and from their appointments should be able to do so in dignity and comfort!

Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Because of a health issue, an Irish tourist overstayed his tourist visa by a few days. He was imprisoned for 100 days and banned from the US for a decade. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In 2023, the City Council passed a package of laws expanding access to housing vouchers. Eric Adams vetoed it. Then the Council overrode his veto. The Mayor refused to implement it. Now a court says he has to. What a ridiculous waste of time during a housing crisis.

It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!

in 2020, these guys who fancied themselves the world's true leaders bore witness to the power of a large-scale social movement so big that it could shift public policy and strip power from them within their own organizations. it undermined their entire sense of themselves and they lost their minds.

Compare how Democrats normally speak about economics to Zohran and you will see why it's so important for the party to turn the page. Kamala's 2024 economic message was a bunch of gobbledygook to most voters, contrast that with how ZM speaks about the economy. youtu.be/bj-nPnxULak

ICE is out of control. This is not law enforcement. It is state violence.

Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence

I believe geese get better headlines than pedestrians/cyclists do

FEMA staff telling @marisakabas.bsky.social that "barely any staff" have been deployed to Texas, and that leadership is "nowhere to be found". A skeleton crew sent to address a vast and deadly disaster. Just another day in the Trump administration. www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-respo...

notice how strategically he says "we" and build that into your politics yesterday

I had to google this to check because I couldn't quite believe that there was a tax write off for auto loans. File this under "examples of how no there really isnt a level playing field for different forms of transportation"

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

A reporter teaming up with and granting anonymity to a race science guy who had hacked admissions data isn’t against the rules at the NYTimes but criticizing that reporter is. Fascinating.

The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazil’s military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.

Graph of intense pain & suffering

This must end now! Everyone needs to hit the streets and fight back ✊ It’s only going to get worse 🤬

the Senate's small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she's supporting will harm the nation's 339 million other residents.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Finally reading @jskstreet.bsky.social’s Streetfight and fascinated by how she pulls together the famously antagonistic philosophies of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs into a human-scale but results-driven theory of power. It resembles the modern Abundance movement (I’m sure that’s no coincidence).

The path is very clear: Republicans are creating a system to allow anybody—you, me, whoever—to have their citizenship revoked, sent to a prison camp in the Everglades, then exported to a labor camp in a third-world country. That entire pipeline could be in place in 24 hours.

Parents don't let their kids bike anymore. The rate of kids walking/biking to school fell from 48% in 1969 to 13% in 2009 and the number of kids who bike AT ALL fell by ~10 million (50%) from the 90s to the 2020s. What have we let happen to our roads? www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...