Why is overt government propaganda in my news feed now Google? Time to find another news feed apparently.
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Why is overt government propaganda in my news feed now Google? Time to find another news feed apparently.
My indoor basil plants just shrugged
It will work better if we send the bad actors to jail in the Dry Tortugas for life this time around
Today in burn it all down prospect.org/power/sugar-...
When not if this breaks bad I suspect it won't be a platoon of nervous guardsmen staring down a line of college kids but rather a squad of committed right wing militants be they ICE or some more irregular barely deputized militia who have decided that their long awaited civil war starts here & now.
Even had church bells and a brass band!
Could have just shortened it to 'the current US Dept of Energy is essentially worthless'
The future we need
and 18,000 Twitter users clicked 'Like'. This country deserves all its getting.
Sure call me petty if you like but I got both Covid and flu vaccinations today just to annoy RFK Jr
Once again for the people in the back. Safer bike routes mean more people will bike. More people biking means fewer driving. Fewer driving means faster, less congested driving for those who do. Why are win/win solutions so hard to digest?
Damn I wish we'd gone completely metric in the 70s. I can't read the markings on wrenches and sockets without a fucking magnifying glass now. 🙄
I've long been a fan of the trains along the east coast, DC to NYC and DC to Boston. DC to NoLA was interesting until I realized that the train toilets went untended for 38 hours and were unusable for the last 8. 🙄
It would be foolish at this point to not assume that you or I could be next for showing up to protest or wave signs. This is full on fascism & it is exactly what the right wing has been salivating for. The Nazis aren't just the in movies, they are on our streets. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The satisfaction in riding past all of those cars in a cargo bike to pick up your kid and riding back past them again would be almost - but not quite- unbearable.
Listening to the Big Broadcast radio show on WAMU playing one of the Fireside chats. How did we go from a country that could elect FDR overwhelmingly to a country that could elect Trump? We richly deserve all the turmoil he brings us. Hopefully this episode of pain will remind us who we should be.
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Once again we want for a laugh then cry emoji
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
When you wonder what you should think about John Bolton being raided by Trumps thugs think like Thaddeus Stevens youtu.be/9W9-yT5AfBs?...
Waiting for a third day on a package and trying to remember how long its been since FedEx became so pathetically incompetent.
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
Damn I hate driving places I normally bike to but I hate it all the more on my last day living in Baltimore.
A modest proposal. Going forward let us call all troops, be they regulars or Natl Guard stationed in otherwise normal cities the 'Epstein Brigade'. Thank you for your attention to this pressing matter.
Yea, its pretty idiotic but its not the Epstein files. Eyes on the ball folks. youtu.be/866ilSBIVCE
Share your thoughts on the proposed relocation of the Sisson Transfer Station to the Jones Falls Valley secure.everyaction.com/QWtXunbzE0-p...!
Gotta ask having never done this, what maintains directional control? Why isn't it immediately pulled into the wake of the towing boat?
Not all Yale law degrees are created equally it seems
Did you know that we had a Progressive Party in this country that ran FDRs former VP Henry Wallace for president against Truman in the 1948 election? That's not what this post is about tho. Apparently he had a campaign song & the HangDogs have resurrected it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDq...
The guy slinging the shield was carrying four long arm magazines. They are just itching to start a civil war.
Apparently the commuter trains to Baltimore weren’t safe enough so Trump had to pay attention to the matter. Welcome to Amerikastan. Are we great yet.
I take no small satisfaction in knowing that at the moment of James Dobsons death he discovered that it was all a lie. No god, no heaven or hell. Hell was something he created here in the real world.
A trap for some, an invitation for others
My country 'tis of thee www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...?
TBH I was kinda expecting it to be blown up at the end with a bunch of hapless Russia troops scrambling out. Seems to be a theme with these vids after all.
heat island say what?
The revolution will be wheat pasted
Outside Dupont north metro
South Carolina tried for four years at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives to send soldiers to occupy Washington DC and failed miserably. Fast forward to the presidency of Donald J Trump and here they are by invitation. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Every passing day simply serves to underscore the truth at the heart of " Donald Trump is a stupid man's idea of a smart person, a poor man's idea of a rich man, and a weak man's idea of a strong man" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Sub version The revolution will be wheat pasted (stolen from Threads poster denismcd )
I was almost killed at this intersection a few weeks ago. I had to crawl out from under the cars front bumper. Ban right turn on red in urban areas. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Trump knows how to pick the new head of the Ministry of Propaganda
Outside the beltway VA apparently 🙄
"In FY2025, the U.S. is providing Israel with $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing & $500 million for missile defense cooperation" Thats $11.50 for every man, woman & child in the US. A lot of things need to change in this country & thats one of them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
25 mph urban / 55 hi way. Leaving aside the reduced traffic violence, reduced CO2 emissions, reduced oil imports, reduced vehicle costs just consider that high speed chases would end if cop cars could go 10 mph faster than 'civilian' vehicles.
We are not thinking this thru adequately. Corruption is bad anywhere. Corruption of this scale in the worlds largest economy with the worlds most powerful military is an untested scenario.
As much as I want raised crosswalks EVERYwhere this does sound like a close second. Enjoy!
When your enemy is empathy you're on the wrong side 51st.news/this-d-c-art...
Vox populi
Ah a watch app, gotcha
My kids are after me for posting cat videos but this is entirely political
"iPhone cycling workout app" Are you referring to Strava specifically or another app?
I'm suddenly a lot more interested in keeping my Strava info up to date.
They're afraid of the dark to begin with and as their energy runs down they just can't take it anymore and cry out in terror. Well sure that's a bit fanciful but come on, do you have a better explanation?
There's bubbles and then there's THIS bubble
This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.
Once again Bluesky wants for a LOL button.
I keep donating to World Central Kitchen to feed people in Gaza but people are still starving. It's almost as if someone is deliberately withholding food for over a million people. Almost as if there is something else that we need to do to resolve this. wck.org/news/gaza-fa...
This seems bad. Don't you think this seems bad? Maybe not as bad as all the other shit we have allowed Trump to normalize but yes bad.
I'm sure you looked great on the ride and all but I really like that bridge! 😏
Todays reminder that we need to look at the TX gerrymander move is just more Jim Crow from a state that exists almost entirely because some white Americans resented Mexico telling them they had to free their slaves.
Just as inevitably someone is going to end up shooting back and we will be in the chute to civil war. It’s hard not to think this is their desired end stage. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-25-20...
There’s heavy lifts and then there are lifts that are just too heavy
Night and day
New: Since Tulsi Gabbard released her report, Fox News has mentioned Obama over 3 times more than Epstein
Remember kids, the fall of Trump is only valid if it embitters his cult members so thoroughly that they tune out politics & like minded politicians for decades.
Can confirm ... too many times 🙄
Comedy is not dead the real hilarity will ensue when the news articles start going into Owens failing to wriggle out of parting with her last dollar toward the judgement..
I'm not exaggerating. The US forced Japan to accept more pedestrian danger. Japanese official: “Unlike U.N. standards, which are used by Japan and European countries, pedestrian safety is not a factor in U.S. vehicle standards."
The purity test idiocracy in these replies is just as pathetic as a long line of MAGA cultists fawning over a Trump decision but just a lot more disappointing from ostensibly more thoughtful people. Get a grip folks.
Now that radical far left rag the WSJ is publishing stuff Trump doesn't like. www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
Spent on MAKING traffic so a win I suppose
Had they thought this thru ten years ago it would have saved us all a lot of trouble
Well who better than Trump to opine on real estate related financial crimes?
Our tax dollars at work buying food and then burning it. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump admin sent an Irish tourist in ICE custody to a federal prison that was leasing beds to ICE, where he says "we were treated less than human." Staff at the prison would throw his medicine on the ground rather than deliver it to him in person.
Biking is such a good fit for staving off so many of the most common 'ailments' of age that its the low hanging fruit of remedies yet we instead subsidize all of the worst alternatives and sneer at biking as "for kids and MAMILS".
“The biggest barrier is the lack of a connected network and comfortable complete streets that include separated bike lanes, green spaces and safer traffic intersections.” As a ‘mature’ cyclist, I would like to cycle more, but the patchwork of disconnected paths makes that difficult.
Hey it Repubs are ever gonna drown government in a bathtub they're gonna need a lotta water.
My daily rider has bar ends for a hand position option but I'm a big guy and the relatively narrow spacing of drop bars even with hands on the hoods just makes the bike feel bit too squirrelly. I envy every roadie zipping by right up til I need to jump the next pothole or dodge an SUV.🙄
Never had a drop bar bike and the very thought of riding that low is unnerving. Flat bars mean a sufficiently upright position to evaluate the constant threat of drivers out to kill me. #urbantransportioncycling
Roof top solar seems the lowest of low hanging fruit with the greatest pay off. Reduces the need for transmission infrastructure, works even when the local grid is damaged, clean & quiet. Why aren't we mandating it on new builds & subsidizing the crap out of it on existing structures?
Happy birthday to Lyudmila Pavlichenko (born July 12, 1916), Soviet sniper in World War II, with 309 confirmed kills. A true role model for today.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, & there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political & cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"
Fell off my bike but my shoulder bag gave its life to save me from more serious injury. While buying a replacement bag online I realized the vendor was a gun store so I clicked on the AR15 listing...just to look. Things in this country are getting weird when the hippies are looking at gun adverts.
The number of businesses actively seeking to generate ill will toward their operations continues to grow. Walmart may not be able to control what ICE does in the public areas of their stores but store security colluding in an ICE seizure & removing customer witnesses won't sit well. #Walmart stock
Evergreen reminder that wind turbines are not even remotely a leading cause of human-driven bird mortality. This is classic concern trolling in the interest of fossil fuels - if they really cared about birds they'd focus on domestic cats and building glass. And what's not shown here: climate change.
That feint dripping sound you hear is the result of urine running down the legs of the editors of NYT at the thought of angering Trump.
Welcome to fascism theatre
If there really were a god it would have taken Jimmy Swaggert out a long time ago.
SENATE FLOOR UPDATE: HALFWAY. At 7.50am, after 8 hours and 42 minutes, clerks reach page 470 in reading the 940-page GOP budget cuts bill. 🚨BUT - there no Senators in the Chamber. If Dems want to delay, why is no-one demanding a quorum call? Tag your Senator!
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. archive.is/2025.06.27-1...
Fetterman is peak 'seemed like a good idea at the time'
The level of screeching about imminent Sharia law in NYC is starting to eclipse the handwringing over a christian nationalist pumping eight rounds each into four Dem pols in their homes. Who is writing this timeline we're stuck in?
Never a bad time to remember that under Eisenhower the top marginal income tax rate was 92%. You know back when the US economy was so successful, back before they discovered trickle down.
Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets. He'll make a great mayor
Sometimes even the WSJ can be entertaining
Fun fact. It’s safer to ride your bike in 105F temps than it is to ride near motorists in air conditioned cars.