If there was a poll about the shutdown that was like "60% of voters blame Democrats" we'd get wall to wall news "analysis" saying the Democrats must immediately capitulate or face electoral ruin, but when we have the opposite (like we do now) the media doubles down on efforts to blame Democrats

place de la concorde yesterday

She’s magnificent

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

is this too much to ask for

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Rouen “Metro” 😉🚉

writing an article at a cafe in Rouen, sun is shining, coffee is good, and none of my direct family is in the United States

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

gare saint-lazare

it’s fucking insane that you can log off for a few hours and come back to find trump invaded another city in his own country

I hope you enjoyed today’s wordle which funded this piece of right-wing propaganda

RIPTA service cuts go into effect starting TODAY. These cuts were preventable. @GovDanMcKee.bsky.social shortchanged RIPTA in his proposed budget in January. In June, many RI State Senators voted against a last-minute budget amendment that would've directed sustainable funding to RIPTA.🚌⚓️

easy way to nip this in the bud is for someone to invite farrakhan or dr. umar

My latest: As the United Nations convened in NYC this week, 10 new countries recognized Palestine as a state. Despite this, these 5 nations still ship WEAPONS TO ISRAEL, funding the genocide in Gaza. Critics called this a "performance of justice." @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/09/25/p...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Microsoft has terminated unit 8200’s access to select cloud storage and AI services, making it the first giant tech company to terminate any services to apartheid Israel at least since the beginning of its Gaza genocide. Read more: loom.ly/aS6eYUQ #NoTechForApartheid #NoTechForGenocide

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

Tonight at a community meeting with @samzurier.bsky.social. 1st hour of the meeting covered 3 issues: our poor progress to meeting Act on Climate goals, failure to fund RIPTA, and the Washington Bridge fiasco. All 3 are partially, mostly, or all the fault of one guy: RIDOT Director Peter Alviti. /1

last night we let the politico talk

sup. (belleville, paris)

Reducing car dependency is a key tool in defending democracy in a whole lotta ways.

i basically already boycott everything by default. you'll never find me buying anything

fascist mob state

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

Absolutely shameful. Just gutter racism on the world stage.

TODAY: Join advocates, riders, and community leaders as we hold a vigil for RIPTA. See you at 5:30 in Kennedy Plaza! 🕯️Bring a candle 🖤Wear black

“If the industry continues to partner with organized labor, then we have a path to victory and we need to follow that path,” Crowley said. “These projects are about redesigning our entire economy with labor unions leading the way toward decarbonizing.”

if you have a library card (which all of you should have), you most likely have free (!!!) access to Kanopy aka an underrated, ad free streaming service with a ton of movies + short films FREE!!! through the library!!! your smart tv most likely as an app for it- mine does!

mon dîner ce soir

I'm furious about Jimmy Kimmel but fyi here's another free speech thing that happened to day and also is extremely not good www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

orange on the third rail 🍊🚇

plombir !

#NEW: State Rep. David Morales announced Monday he’s running for mayor of Providence in 2026, setting up a challenge against incumbent Brett Smiley.

ChatNYT prompt: write me a eulogy for Charlie Kirk about how he emboldened fascists but make it sound like a respectable thing to do

pretty wild that NOW republicans are calling for de-escalation of political tensions, thats been the trump era rights entire thing! the way they call for violence and eradication of trans people, palestinians, is gross. they’ve been the most complicit

democrat melissa hortman was literally politically assassinated in her fucking home less than 3 months ago and now everyone wants to comment on how bad it’ll be now like ok

sometimes they get so close

why is amtrak northeast regional better than sncf intercité to claremont-ferrand 😟

Will the absence of public transport infrastructure in North America mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Dir. David Lynch Runtime 135 minutes minutes 🚬 x 27, or one cigarette every 5 minutes ⚠️ REAL SMOKER MOVIE ⚠️ https://howmanycigarettes.com/twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me/

Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...