I mean, you don't really need a translator

Yes Could have saved myself years of deeply obnoxious arguments with people who do not pay attention by just knowing and remembering this

i believe this is inextricable from their anti-anti-trump tendencies. they are too devoted to the idea - which his supporters share - that the peak of american and human society was reached at some point between 1948 and 1970.

something i realized years ago about the extremely online left is that their version of american history is so fundamentally declinist that the basically reactionary and revanchist nature of their politics is unavoidable. you can’t build progressive politics on the idea that we have to go back.

Boy, what a terrible headline. We *need* the wealthy to participate in public services. If only poor people ride the bus, then rich people won't wield their power in support of public transit or, worse, will wield their power *against* it.

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The arc of history is long, but it bends toward reminding people that white GOP evangelicals infiltrated and basically took over the U.S. Air Force Academy in the 1990s as a foothold in the U.S. military and nobody batted an eye because VSPs don't think a Christian Taliban can happen here.

I know there's a lot going on but I don't think we're prepared to grapple with the fact that Confederate Republican traitors have legitimately destroyed a giant chunk of U.S. government and will probably be able to keep it destroyed even if we take back the U.S. House. Progressive Federalism, SOS.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

The best part about all of this is, thanks also to Ford/GM/Stellantis/Trump/GOP opposition to vehicle fuel economy standards, most new "cars" in the U.S. are massive trucks and SUVs that get 20 mpg and so its the average American driver making Iran so powerful. Witness the insanity of car culture.

congratulations to trump and bibi for starting a war and immediately making the iranian regime the strongest and richest it has been in its entire history incredible, world-historic geopolitical fuckup

One of many problems I have with the presumption that old politician = past their prime is that it greatly under-values the power of a pol in their dotage with literally no fucks left to give.

here it is. one single picture that perfectly captures why we have a housing crisis. it’s not blackrock. it’s not the developers. it’s the boomers who will yell at any politician who wants to build more housing

a buddy of mine works at an ebike store who has been summertime busy since, like, january, and i am afraid that the next time i see him, he is going to have aged thirty years

"While progressive YIMBYs have aligned around an agenda that incorporates many non-YIMBY housing advocates’ priorities, a significant bloc of those advocates have continued to oppose YIMBY legislation or demand poison pill amendments." www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/to-move...

These machines fight traffic. Our @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social billboard is live.

I think cars can be fun and useful, but municipalities have to start enforcing laws against drivers summarily slaughtering and maiming their residents. Drivers are already the leading cause of violent death/injury in our communities, and without a serious crackdown, they'll kill/injure millions more

The current 12-game Jeopardy champion works at an affordable housing finance agency in NJ, and shamed New York for not building more housing: "NJ's doing really well, we're ahead of NY, CT, PA. If you're from one of those states, shame on you, build more housing."

I think it's darkly appropriate for the traitorous Confederate President to appear before the Confederate Supreme Court -- which he appointed as a part of the 50-year Confederate Republican traitor strategy -- on the day they formally end the United States of America.

"U.S. automakers have among the least fuel-efficient lineups on the road. The new 2026 lineups from Ram, Dodge, GMC and Chevrolet have combined MPGs that are worse than any auto brand except a handful of luxury titles, such as Ferrari and Rolls-Royce." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This is why bluesky is not actually any better than Twitter. Left MAGA on the left, right MAGA on the right, here I am stuck warning you all that horseshoe theory is real.

so, one of the most fucked up things about the whole history of Tesla Autopilot is that Elon Musk literally goaded the first American to die in an Autopilot-involved crash into overtrusting the system by retweeting a video of his just weeks before the fatal crash www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/b...

In a healthy democracy the government would have collapsed by now and instead we've got at best just over 7 months to know if there will be electoral consequences and until january for them to start to take effect

“Once rare, 7-year car loans are fast becoming the norm. They’re often the only way buyers can afford new rides, with average sale prices surging 28% in 5 years to approach $50k.” Designed-in car dependency, surging car AND gas prices, longer loan periods with more interest. Sound like “freedom?”

good thread. tl;dr: people are afraid of a lot of things, including change. we push through best we can.

Buying fire engines that fit the city you want is cheaper than building your entire city to fit the fire engines you have. This is true even after taking staffing costs into account.

You need to pay for news

Looking at you, Berkeley, claiming to be environmentally aware but fighting bike lanes to preserve on-street parking.

Here's the saddest/funniest part of what Ford/GM did to destroy the USA: The average truck/SUV in the U.S. -- there are 200 million of them (65% of fleet) -- is 14 years old. That means the average U.S. cars of 2040 are being sold *today.* And they're F150s/GMCs that get 21 miles per gallon.

Because oil will be above $100/barrel for the foreseeable future, it is pretty funny that everyone who bought one of these Gender Affirming Vehicles has basically ruined themselves financially.

Brian Eno being responsible for much of both Bowie's Low and U2's Joshua Tree is sort of insane and every time I think about it he becomes a bit more of a center of gravity for a vast swath of the good interesting music of the late 70s and early 80s

Motonormativity (also, pejoratively, car brain) is a shared and unconscious cognitive bias in which the social norms of private motor car use, and its societal effects and externalities (the harm it causes), are assumed to be natural, universal, inevitable, neutral, and non-negotiable.

This is an enemy of the Constitution bragging about its destruction

Reach out to your state electeds and ask for a progressive vehicle weight fee like Washington DC

We need a vehicle weight tax. If you can justify buying an $80k, 3,000 kg Wagoneer to haul one bag of groceries, taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing your pavement wear and tear plus the added danger to our streets. If you can afford the payments, you can afford to stop asking society to subsidize it.

“Compared with non-active travelers, the cyclists had a 19% lower risk of all-cause dementia, a 22% lower risk of Alzheimer's, a 40% lower risk of young-onset dementia (before the age of 65), and a 17% lower risk of late-onset dementia.” Getting around a bike more often could reduce dementia risk.

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We did the math — homes in the exurbs aren’t more affordable https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ca/239491/ The cost of housing is arguably the most important economic and environmental issue today in California and much…

My new op-ed: why new exurban housing is actually more expensive to own than comparable infill homes closer to jobs and services.

I think you need to accept that, even if you're a died-in-the-wool car lover who hates safe streets, transit, and those smelly cyclists, you have a 1 in 100 chance of being killed by a driver at any given moment -- and that it's getting worse by the year. sfist.com/2026/03/27/p...

*editor's note: The "country" she is referring to is the Confederate States of America, which are presently governing the former United States, dissolved in 2016 when Confederate traitors conquered the Supreme Court.

That's $10.25/gallon for all the Americans crying about the price of gas. But you know what freedom the Dutch have that you don't? The freedom of choice in high quality transportation options that don't require owning cars.

Happy 50th birthday to Metro, the best Washington monument and a vital part of this city and my own life

We could say the U.S. Senate has abdicated its Constitutional duty but that wouldn't be true, because the Senate is fundamentally a Confederate -- not American -- institution, designed to dismantle the United States & advance Confederate principles. And so, the U.S. Senate is working as designed.

Every driver who complains about efforts to improve traffic flow, reduce pollution, & save lives is wrong. It's pathetic so many Democratic city leaders side with Trump on this. "Congestion pricing has improved quality of life and provided a boost for businesses." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

Violent drivers like these need to be in jail.

Update: The main bmw driver was arrested.

It's not remotely surprising that Bernie Sanders has endorsed this anti-semitic B.S. but important to know that he knows literally nothing about local politics in the U.S. and has repeatedly screwed over locals via his ignorance. It's still not an excuse. But man I wish he would just go away.