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The more kids are invited to bike, walk and take public transit to school, the safer, healthier and smarter it is for EVERYONE. Itâs shocking how much vehicle congestion in cities is actually âdrivenâ by trips to and from schools. #BackToSchool #LetKidsBike #LetKidsWalk cartoon by Yehuda Moon
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Figure I gotta shoot my shot
Itâs all relative. And all things considered, at least London is a first-strike target. Dr. Stephen Falken taught me the importance of that.
My family were Cavaliers. Surely the Tories would want me back right? (please donât look at any of my social media)
My distant grandfather was captured by Cromwell in 1651 while fighting on behalf of Charles II and forcibly sent to the colonies. Can I please get citizenship back?
You gotta hand it to Mussolini, Kevin.
Looking good, Billy Ray.
âTexas Democrats lost. But they drew attention to Republicansâ efforts to put their thumb on the scale, and demonstrated a valuable tactic for galvanizing their beleaguered party. They lost, but they lost loudly. Losing loudly has been a crucial feature of successful political movements.â Gift:
Reminds me of that Doctor Who episode with the underground highway. This is just the early version.
FWIW my presupposition is that theyâre going to use it anyway, so teach them to be smarter about it.
This should be done at the high school level IMO, but Iâd make them do a research project using AI and an annotated critique/correction of the AI results.
âI love this city fiercely. It has given me every good thing in my life. It has given me my children. It has given me my friends who are now my family. It has given me purpose.â thetriibe.com/2025/08/trum...
Disabled people have been warning about this EXACT SCENARIO since 2016 and raising the alarm that if Trump installs a fascist government *this is what would happen* We very literally predicted all of this. None of it is a surprise. People just donât listen to the disabled so you are caught off guard
I mean it. In the winter, vendors sell alcohol and tasty food. Milwaukee was made for this. Build the housing everywhere to support it. We are a cool city! People want to live here!
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesnât explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
Itâs where one could meet you so
This is appalling. The UN needs to be relocated.
We arenât shocked anymore, right? We are coming to terms with the fact that they just like dead kids, yes?
Children with brain cancer
I can
I like to refer to them as multi-ton exoskeletons that we must wear everywhere
One of my favorite lines from a piece I've written is "In Catholicism, a piece of bread becomes the body of Christ. In suburbia, a human being becomes a car."
Possible band name
When one group of voters is in favor of abducting people off the street & sending them directly to foreign gulags, of ignoring the constitution, and of instituting a dictatorship, then maybe that group being shunned is different than the other group being shunned? FFS, it's not 1994 or something.
Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes. The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.
Frankly Iâm surprised more comparativists arenât saying, âAw thatâs so cute. Americaâs having its first little premature rumor and speculation frenzy about the autocratâs death after his public absence for a brief periodâ (common in authoritarian regimes)
I donât think itâs not-real, but I have no idea how this person is sourcing that information and thus I do not trust it.
Live your life so that people donât consider rumors of your death a form of edging.
Copenhagen winters are not much warmer than Milwaukeeâs, by the way. We could have nice things.
Well John, youâre going to have quite the legacy. You destroyed the country. Side note, I think Iâm done using honorifics for members of this government.
Attention @govevers.wisconsin.gov
The first Nazi book burnings were the biggest archive of trans research that existed at the time.
Meanwhile, when I actually DO see critical coverage, itâs often paywalled. Do we really not understand the effect that this is having on our country?
Over and over and over again I see reporters and news outlets taking MAGA actions at face value. They will say theyâre just reporting the news but they are normalizing every illegitimate action of this administration by Both Sidesâing us into oblivion.
Itâs worth noting that the âzero-sum valuesâ are just classic American racist beliefs.
Walking 10+ miles a day? All I would DO is think, and honestly that is the LAST thing I want to do. All of my thoughts are dark and sad.
The author is a Republican pollster of some note. I donât know if that makes it better or worse.
It was never about prices. It was always about voting in the authoritarian that would make the liberals stop telling you to care about other people.
Well, I should say probably why Putin put in so much effort to get the guy elected. I agree with your assessment of both Vance and Trump
RFK is cutting us off from vaccines.
I suspect thatâs probably the point
White people often have trouble recognizing racism when itâs not intentionally malicious because we were taught itâs about hating people of color, when itâs often about not considering people of color at all or assuming you know whatâs best.
I do not believe for a second that will happen
Itâs like they read every bad political thriller novel and took the bad guys as inspiration. Iâm not entirely convinced Iâm not asleep/dead and in some Tom-Clancy-novel-induced hallucination or dream.
No? Are you expecting the Republicans to start doing it? Thatâs my entire point!
This right here.
It also has impeachment. When neither option is remotely viable, how can we claim the Constitution is up to the moment?
I genuinely donât understand how one can look at the current situation and think our Constitution offers any solution. IMO, the Constitution has proven to be startlingly ineffective at delivering on its promises.
This is literally on my mind all the time--how Americans are socialized to be more psychopathic than avg, to the point psychiatrists have to grade us on a curve on the PCL-R test (score of 25 in the UK vs 30 in the US) And how that makes us menaces for any country we step into
One of the main benefits of doing a US PhD is the extra time you get, that's one of the big reasons I advised my students to apply for US programmes. We offer a four year degree here, there'd be no advantage over us. The US is euthanising its massive advantage in research for no good reason.
You can have a good faith debate on the upper marginal tax rate, foreign policy, or greenhouse gas emissions. You cannot have a good faith debate on who gets human rights.
It is only barely hyperbolic to say NIMBYism and the downstream effects of making affordable housing inaccessible are why Democrats have lost so much ground.
Far as Iâve seen. Totally agree with you, fwiw
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They don't feel shame, but they care deeply about status. Wanting to be liked--or at least envied--is their Achilles heel. We can use that against them:it's cheap, non-violent & effective. Social shunning of elites supporting Pinochet helped bring down the Chilean dictator: it can work here too.
The entire press corps has been so damn awful I canât even be surprised anymore
Yes but how can we know if we support basic human dignity until we see some polling
all of this makes total sense when you recognize that âfreedomâ here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and âtyrannyâ is when someone threatens that âfreedomâ or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals
This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. âBy signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail â it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.â This will kill people.
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
The CDC is one of Atlantaâs crown jewels. Dedicated public servants who are tireless advocates for public health. They deserve better than this administrationâs disregard for science. We deserve much more from our government than conspiracy theories and indifference towards individualsâ well-being.
âGhassemi and her MIT colleagues found that AI systems were more likely to leave female patients untreated.â
I keep thinking about how Hochul deployed the national guard to the subways for the totally fake made up crime crisis and now sheâs trying to claim Trump shouldnât send troops to NYC and her arguments are completely poisoned by her own previous absurd fascist actions.
This assumes dad is as having a good sleep. Dad was not.
Go touch grass
Proportional representation would actually help Republicans in MA. Massachusetts is an example of a state where geography favors Dems since the rural areas are more Dem than elsewhere. With PR theyâd get 2-3 seats out of 9, but with districts youâd have to gerrymander like crazy to get that result.
And I wish I had gone to UT. I got in but no financial aid.
Why does the race scientist who runs that outfit sem determined to treat the occupation of a majority black city as no biggie? The world will never know.
Yes, sure, fine, please vote. I will. But we've got to stop living in this fantasy land where we pretend that the admittedly gerrymandered & repressive participatory system of a decade ago still exists. Or that we'll be safe in "blue state" havens. That's not how any of this works. It never was.
People keep telling me to wait for the next election & I genuinely think this reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of whatâs happening. What we are experiencing is fascist state capture by a fascist political party, one destroying institutions, civil liberties, & the rule of law.
That's a fireable offense. Jettison them into the sun.
The Wisconsin State Fair is literally right off a bike trail, but instead of secure bike parking, they CLOSE THE TRAIL during State Fair. And the city of West Allis wonât push WisDOT for protected bike lanes on 84th Street because it would reduce residentsâ ability to charge fairgoers for parking.
the thing I love about Zohranâs campaign is that instead of âthis place fucking sucks and I alone can fix itâ his message is âbeing a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, letâs make it even better togetherâ show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.
"many ... wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from 'democracy' to 'authoritarianism.' Instead, this is exactly how it happens â a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning and our country is different."
No one wanted to hear this years ago when @tompepinsky.com said it. Maybe now.
lol, economists.
They should have let him cook. We could have had nice things.
1. Fight him on everything. Get him to back down wherever we can. It won't always work, but sometimes it does. 2. DC has limited ability to fight this because they're not a state and the federal government has more control over them than it does states. DC statehood is an absolute necessity.
Friends, have you heard the good news about ebikes?
Unbelievable. The day I got my first shot felt like a "we're all in this together" moment. Was proud of all the scientists that got this work done while the world was crumbling around them.
The framing here is one of the grossest acts of normalization Iâve seen yet. WTAF.
i think one issue is that this approach has proven to be a total failure. a partisan who sees the right as morally deficient will have had a better track record at predicting the events of the last few years than someone who is endlessly trying to demonstrate their nuance.
Robot meets bollard. Nothing beats the #WorldBollardAssociation
Still waiting for someone of prominence to admit it was not about eggs.
The Dems should just run on the Declaration of Independence next year.
kitchen table issue: stop kidnapping my neighbors!
once again, i'll suggest that perhaps the reason the broad public thinks democrats are weak is that when confronted with situations that demands that democrats loudly and proactively stand up for their values, democrats shirk from the fight
Itâs a little frightening to watch the Democratic Party cede reality to MAGA. If the law and order lie moves Trump voters the most, we are pretty fvcking cooked if we just accept the lie and attempt to pivot. What are we even doing?
The funny thing about David Shor is that he made his name as a victim of Cancel Culture, but if you read between the lines it was clear that none of his colleagues could stand him, so they just gave him the boot once people started shit-talking the guy.
The Democrats should just run on the original Declaration of Independence next year.
If it is legal, then our system of government isnât up to the task of governing us, and we need to be talking about that.
âAh, but itâs legal!â doesnât make it any better. Weâll all die of legalism.
This is exactly the porous line between state & civilian violence weâve been warning about, contra the mainstream rhetoric about political violence, which canât imagine a relationship between them due to misplaced systemic faith.
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
