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Obviously not a substitute for Congress doing its job, but now would be a good time for Clinton, W, Obama, and Biden to say something jointly.

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

Missed this a few weeks ago. I'm hoping this gives Rad bikes a new lease on life and they can sort out their finance and battery issues to remain viable as an affordable e-bike maker. www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-new...

I understand the impulse not to let this guy's statements dictate the news cycle but the fact that he can say shit like this and it barely causes a ripple in the media is a key to his ability to maintain power. Constantly pushing the bar of normality downwards, no pressure to take responsibility.

If you were reading a history of the Gilded Age and encountered a tycoon who kept pushing insane conspiracy theories about declining white birth rates and who used his vast influence to kill off nearly a million people in Africa, you'd very easily conclude that person was a white supremacist.

This kind of explicit gutter racism goes beyond what Buckley would have been willing to publish in his pro-Jim Crow days

First dispatch from Paris! In which I become totally and unsurprisingly enamored with the bike infrastructure

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Just a few days ago, America saw the biggest public political demonstration in the nation's history. 8 million people across the country. Virtually no violence, no incidents of any kind. An absolutely remarkable phenomenon. I'm reminding you because the media's forgotten already.

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This is not a drill. Absent stable long-term funding, Caltrain, like BART, will crater & potentially shut down entirely. Muni will reduce service by as much as 50%. We can avoid this disaster for the Bay Area by passing two funding measures on the ballot in November: …

the thing thats just not coming through in the coverage of, well of anything but particularly the war, is that theres literally no reason for any of it and republicans are making your life worse but cant explain why or what the payoff is supposed to be

“Having a car should not be a requirement to building a life of one’s choosing.” 🚶 🚴‍♀️ 🚌 🚆 -Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson at the Sound Transit Crosslake Light Rail Opening

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Just so we're clear here, Trump installed his own defense lawyer as the Deputy Attorney General and had him lead the purge of the federal prosecutors who brought cases against Trump.

US population growth is slowing and could hit historic lows as immigration drops and natural increase flatlines. States that rely on immigration may soon face outright population loss, writes @riordanfrost.bsky.social. jchs.harvard.edu/blog/population-growth-down-sharply-and-projected-fall-further

Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?

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Merci !

Normally the Democrats have to point out that we're starving the social safety net to feed an insatiable war machine, but Mike Johnson just went right out and said it.

Once upon a time, LA promised "car-free" games with no parking at venues. MetLife Stadium in NJ is actually doing it for the World Cup with buses "every 30 seconds for 4 hours"

Appreciate this op-ed and its recommendations for CA policies and programs: “E-bikes are not the enemy; they are a climate and mobility solution. They allow people to travel further, more frequently, … and help folks with mobility limitations get around with independence.”

“Based on historical patterns, Phoenix could expect a March day as hot as it was on Thursday only once every 4,433 years” heatmap.news/climate/marc...

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Recall how much "how will you pay for that" hand wringing came from conservatives, centrists, and media folks when it involved student debt relief. www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1...

Even with all the news organizations and their taking-heads, this is still the best explanation for Trump's predicament I've seen so far.🗽

$200B, the Pentagon's insane ask for the illegal Iran war, is comparable to all planned spending on energy and climate over *10 years* in Biden's signature bill, which Trumpists almost completely repealed last summer.

I think many scientists equate an effective, polished presentation with poor science, but you really don’t need to replicate the format of a peer-reviewed journal article in your talk - you’ve done the rigorous research, now tell the story to your audience, and convince them it’s worth reading more!

masterful gambit to make shipping costs go up higher by artificially reducing the supply of truck drivers in the middle of the biggest energy crisis in 50 years

Some employers are buying their workers an unlimited transit pass that works on BART, rail, buses, and the ferry. We are selling it now. It is called Clipper BayPass and it is generating BART an extra $7M per year.

Oregon retailers can now get a $250 fine for selling "imposter bikes" — which means it's illegal to sell "e-bikes" when they are actually selling electric mopeds/motorcycles. bikeportland.org/2026/03/13/w...

As @billmckibben.bsky.social reminds us, we can't look away from the crisis unfolding in Iran: open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties Also, he is what Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson told everyone Biden was. Their silence now is deafening. And damning.

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So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Statewide reforms in California have made it relatively fast to get projects approved but San Francisco still lags behind comparable cities in the time it takes to obtain building permits.

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For US automakers, Trump's election in 2024 may have been an extinction-level event. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b...

Report: refurbished e-bikes are matching the reliability of new models with 93% seeing no returns in a year. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/repor...

The chairman of the Board of Peace bombed the Gandhi hospital. Process that.

A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

the bombings will continue until peace improves

We had a deal to keep Iran from getting nukes! Trump backed out of it because he wanted to own Obama. Iran kept following its end of the deal for a year anyway, begging Trump to reenter the deal. Trump literally backed out of the no nukes deal and then initiated a war because of nukes. Insanity.

From @julianborger.bsky.social: Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran has no mandate – or legal basis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy