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Yesterday I nervously took my folding bike on a bus for the first time, and ended up in conversation with a fellow passenger about local infrastructure improvements and his time in the Sahara. The bus isn’t always so convivial, nor should be, but that was great! So is this column.

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Just became a witness to car-on-car violence. (Heard, didn’t see. Minor impact, car in motion kept lumbering down the street. “When you’re an egoist, none of the harm you do is intentional.”)

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

I was so excited to see Eric Roper get this column as a regular gig, and he's off to a great start! A car-free strib columnist, what a world

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Still proud of this. As far as I can tell, it’s the first time I’ve written music for strangers to play and they’ve agreed to do it.

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Cafes that put drinks in commercially compostable cups but only have recycling and landfill bins. Why.

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Not only do I not need or want this tax cut, but there is absolutely NOTHING I could do with that money that would even come close to Medicaid and Medicare's positive impact on my community. The GOP is trying to take away my 99% discount on watching out for my neighbors and I'm mad about it.

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In #Edinburgh extending 20mph to more streets is being labeled as a “bad scheme” or “unnecessary”. What’s unnecessary about 40% fewer deaths and 75% fewer children killed on 20mph streets? Are such deaths and injuries worthy collateral for getting to the next traffic lights quicker?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Twenty is plenty.

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🚲👏 Great to see this story in @timesscotland.bsky.social on the huge & immediate impact that new on-street cycle routes are having in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Thousands of people are using these physically separated paths to get around every day - a sign of what can be achieved if we build even more.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Dystopian.

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Worth yelling about this! If you're angry about the decision to deny covid vaccinations to people under 65 (if they're considered "low risk") let them know!

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Funny how this is a bipartisan demographic

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The Racket guarantee: Every wrong thing we publish was written by an actual human who believed it to be true.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Great question and can we have more of that

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Filling this out, I got really excited about Uptown’s potential. Recent bike improvements are stellar. It’s much more pleasant to walk down Hennepin. BRT is coming this year. If we support local businesses and residents and human-scale infrastructure, Uptown can be better than it’s ever been.

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Trump/Musk and the entire GOP has spent the last four months systematically liquidating disease cure research in the United States. Lots of critical cure studies shuttered mid-way through. Research shutdown everywhere. It's all hands on deck to prevent new treatments for cancer, ahlzeimers etc.

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“A review of scientific research has found that pedestrians and cyclists are 44% more likely to be killed in a collision with an SUV or light truck, compared to a passenger car. The outlook is even more dire for children, who are 82% more likely to be killed when struck by the larger vehicles.”

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation.

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Wrote, during history’s fifth deadliest pandemic, that he was sorry he missed the big show back in 1918.

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Only someone who hasn't seriously considered the devastating effects of the public health emergency that the Dobbs decision set in motion would say that abortion is "a state issue." I'd argue that it's more important than ever for cities like Minneapolis to address abortion access. How? A short 🧵:

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Reminds me of when a friend called the cops because her ex was terrorizing her and her kids. Their response was to ask how old she was when she had her eldest child, shame her for having children at a young age, tell her she’d made a lot of bad decisions in her life, and…leave.

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

These are our neighbors.

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Keir Starmer said “we risk becoming an island of strangers” because of immigration, but here a community came together, none of them strangers, precisely to protect immigrants in our midst, precisely because they were not strangers, but neighbours, friends, fellow human beings.

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maybe we are wrong with the “good for the planet” argument for renewables maybe we need to be like “these billionaires want to take away your FREEDOM to harness UNLIMITED FREE ENERGY from GOD”

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Quote post with a picture of the airplane you’ll accept as a bribe

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