The military can self select a bunch of people out of the infantry until you get in a conflict where you’re a conflict where you need a lot of infantry, and oh boy are you not going to be able to self select for that

I really worry we’re way over indexing the efficacy of drones to supplement other combat arms because of one conflict in one theatre with a specific problem set

Who are non drivers? @nrdc.org repport finds: -34 million disabled people -47 million young people (over 10 who don't own cars) -5.6 million people who are 75+ -Millions of others who don't own their own vehicle #WeekWithoutDriving www.nrdc.org/resources/wh...

Wrong hashtag earlier, #weekwithoutdriving

Austin isd has announced their draft plan docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Also, part of why this framing is important is that US political media is incredibly reluctant to make values judgements about policies, but very willing to attack dishonesty and hypocrisy - which is theoretically value-free - and this is the most extraordinary political dishonesty in US history.

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Bike commute #WeekWithoutDrivingATX @cnunewurbanism.bsky.social @americawalks.bsky.social

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

It is bad that Trump wants to use American soldiers against their fellow Americans. And it is also bad that Trump wants foreign powers to exploit his unnecessarily, artificial, and pre-scripted civil war.

I think the underlying problem and question is; can the officers in this meeting even identify they can be used as pawns for political purposes? If so, do they even know what to do about it?

Grocery pickup at the HEB 💪 #WeekWithoutDrivingATX @cnunewurbanism.bsky.social @americawalks.bsky.social

Looks like Deep Eddy Vodka is the host for this watch party

We already have industrial policy in this country but it's for food/agriculture.

Taleb's critique of bike lanes is misapplied here, I agree with his overall points though. Retrofitting in bike lanes have two primary economic benefits: (+) efficiency of limited ROW & reduces comprehensive cost crashes. fortune.com/2025/09/24/b...

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Double hit point boost, flu and covid vaccine 💪 I believe they just released this season's formulation, about 3 weeks ago.

🎶"Let's rock this Enterprise until the dawn" 🎶🎤 Lol, these are great #StarTrek https://youtu.be/ZWJutMTIyUU?si=OdSq7tew6coRqciX

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We need a contemporary Sneakers movie for AI. The undertone was very internet/encryption skeotical.

pro wrestling with loose christian aesthetics

Layover in Dfw, missing #austinfc 💚 ☹️

At SLC airport and they're asking for a 'Matthew Gaetz' to return to security for taking someone else's laptop and leaving his. 👀😬😬

I enjoy how sometimes you see left of center people talk about "the excesses of peak woke" like they're talking about the Great Terror or Stalin's Purges

This is all because of the very accurate @dkthomp.bsky.social take down of non-existent monopolies in Dallas housing market: www.derekthompson.org/p/the-anti-a...

sirota has always been a moron but this take is especially stupid. how does zoning reform preclude any anti-monopoly policy? also the problem with NIMBY laws isn’t that they are “annoying”, its that they drive up rents, increase carbon emissions, and exacerbate inequality

"If the suckers want rules and laws, you might as well give them rules and laws, good and hard." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-rich-kid-t...

again, again, again, again: autocrats like to declare themselves untouchable and all-powerful. sometimes they even write it into law. and yet that does not make it so

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Sen Chris Murphy has been at work and deserves credit

"..Curtis Evans stood directly in front of the gate with an American flag. The 65-year-old Evanston resident heard about the first protest on social media and came to represent “the ideals that our country stands for.” He said tear gas and pepper balls hurt, but “five minutes later, you’re fine.”"

In Park City, Utah. Spoke to this bus driver. He was raving about the electric bus here. Said it's way better year round, able to make it up the mountain way easier. It's about 6800' here, internal combustion engines lose a lot of power.

That's right. The Flag is ours, you fascist fucks.

Yeah the sign on the ground is important. It reads "Every ICE agent will be held to account."

also where you get the perma-doomers because they don't realize there's degrees of autocracy

The regime wants you too scared to oppose them, exaggerating their power so fear can accomplish what the government’s capacity cannot. I don’t understand why anti-regime protestors would try to cultivate a similar mindset in people, telling them they should be terrified to speak up in the open.

Lot of people acting like this is the end and anyone with any tenuous connection to left wing politics will be shot in the streets, but continue to go to their day jobs and keep posting instead of doing the rational thing of converting all their money to Swiss francs and fleeing to Latin America.

Man, you know that civil rights marchers willfully got themselves arrested and beat up, right? They weren't doing covert guerilla actions. The strength of their protest came from the public and unapologetic civil disobedience they were conducting.

Still incredible this man wrote an entire ass book about how American generals have a personal and professional obligation to speak publicly and forcefully if the president and civilians were doing things against the public interest and he’s doing *handwaves* whatever this is

I've lived in both a full blown autocracy (China) and one of the great resistance states (SK) a) if you were *actually* practicing security, none of this would be on this highly visible public platform. b) courage is an important part of resistance, organization is an even more important part

Arresting people who sign up for protests is not a very easy and obvious next step. This is hysteria and counterproductive

I once linked someone a paper about how the Stasi funded neo-nazis across Europe to attempt to discredit the West and was told "these sources are neoliberal propaganda" The sources in question were the Stasi archives

bro they used to shoot people trying to escape the country like it was an open air prison

Concrete bike lane construction 🚧 at Loyola and Decker lane via slip form paver

I find it necessary that we distinguish between these types of firings. Being fired because of speech that is repellent to the customer base of a private business is radically different from a firing stemming directly from regime pressure.

On this date in 1939, the USSR invaded Poland in cooperation with its ally, Nazi Germany. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/timot...

New haircut 💇 Whoever wins this gets to host!?! #austinfc 💚

I’m sticking with “assassination is bad” and add “if, as these charges suggest, you assassinated someone to fight hate, you absolutely condemned a bunch of other people to die as a natural consequence.”

My biggest criticism of parks and rec is that it actually didn’t go far enough in showing how unhinged the average public commenter can be