there’s literally nothing better than sleeping. I don’t understand why we don’t all sleep a lot more.

Whole lot of soldiers on the precipice of class consciousness

It’s easy to be a good pedestrian. What’s hard is for news outlets to address the systemic solutions to traffic violence.

For a bit I forgot that the current political movement was won with a weak minority and is managed by annoying dorks who nobody likes who have terrible vibes. This video has 1.3 million likes and is a good reminder that better things are possible, even for those of us outside NYC. A good night!

The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP. They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown. They’re refusing. Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop. Starvation as a policy choice.

it’s tough to see others living your dream

The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself

Excellent paper. I'm increasingly convinced that students are not dedicated to GenAI junk, but if they're being drowned in it, some may feel like they have no choice but to use it. It was the players who ultimately got steroids out of baseball; students will need to help get GenAI out of education.

You shouldn’t have to work if there’s a bird outside you want to watch

how do i get a stencil so i can guerilla market to the atx community

Sidewalks should be spacious enough for greetings to become gatherings.

once again posting The Chart

The future of public power is also WORKER power. We are just getting started.

I actually always appreciate the research that elegantly proves the obvious

That very MUNDANE action that you don't take because you are too busy fantasizing about being a superhero instead would actually DO something for someone. Your fantasy does not.

Local “Man” insists cyclists should ‘share the road’ by staying out of it entirely. Experts confirm he has not shared anything since 1998.

sooooo worth the wait. great work as always @thewaroncars.bsky.social

obsessed with her

"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!

Society melts your brain

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

It's funny, the no kings protests could be the best chace to normalize the idea of nationwide strikes in the US, if the organizers are serious. They do maybe 2 more on weekends to really lock them into people's practice, then say, "hey, let's show them we really mean business & do it on a Wednesday"

“The law runs against one of the hallmarks of modern public health: that a person’s full participation in society depends on their willingness to follow certain rules… [it] not only removes the obligation to follow such rules, it makes the rules themselves illegal.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

this administration would be so funny if it weren’t so goddamn depressing

god i love a politician with convictions. wish they weren’t so scarce

car dependency

I fear I may have finally cracked the case.

Amazing

Either universities are private businesses that get to set their own priorities or they’re public goods that are obligated to serve everyone. You can’t have it both ways.

Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.

The mass protests in Ecuador against austerity measures dictated by international finance is clear example of the export-extraction vicious cycle generated by today’s international financial architecture, as we describe in a recent @cplusc.bsky.social report: climateandcommunity.org/wp-content/u...

get in losers we're repenting

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths: "It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die." "[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Maybe we should make insurance cost proportional to vehicle weight and maximum speed?

must be the car centric infrastructure

we are literally besieged in all aspects of american life by unrestrained plutocrats who themselves are surrounded by toadies and sycophants, not one person there to tell them that their hair looks idiotic, their plan to invade portland is insane, that their AI does not work. bring back hard truths

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

none of these feel like bad things

the basic problem is that it is easier to reproduce an artist's style in almost every detail or answer most questions with like 88% accuracy than to walk up four steps

I think that's part of it but the other part is it's men -and in this case especially rich men - and they already don't do those tasks, so they don't see them. This is why we're getting Samsung TV's with ads and not fridges that remind us to eat the lettuce before it spoils

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

No War on Chicago No War Anywhere

cars could never

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actually yeah

policy idea: something good for once, anything really

"50 % of profits went to the wealthiest 1 % of individuals, predominantly through direct shareholdings and private company ownership. In contrast the bottom 50 % only received 1 %." It was a cost-of-living crisis only for the many. #Inequality www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Imagine being the Secretary of Transportation for the entire country and cheering ripping up a crosswalk because of your hatred. Sad little man

can we please do a communism or something this shit is exhausting