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how many of our kids and seniors have to die before our city makes actual change unfortunately connie chan is spending her political capital fighting for car brained reactionaries to try and remove Sunset Dunes park instead of making streets safer and improving transit in her district

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

"Why do New Yorkers live longer? One answer is that city life — which involves a lot more walking than suburban life — is generally good for you." Via @pkrugman.bsky.social

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

“What has been missing so far is a mayoral administration that makes Vision Zero a priority.” Mayor Daniel Lurie: We need YOU to be our safe streets leader. www.kqed.org/news/1204124...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

submitted 5 days ago • 279 comments

This is a great read from @walkerbragman.bsky.social on the real reasons—and they are not good—for why COVID19 vaccines are now being restricted. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

Hard not to notice that ICE isn't breaking up drug rings or gangs (because we would ABSOLUTELY hear about it if they were), but instead are dressing up like bank robbers and doing the laziest shit possible, like hanging out at immigration court or grabbing people for busted taillights. Worthless

submitted 11 days ago • 535 comments

Thank god we got rid of DEI and brought back the meritocracy am I right?

submitted 11 days ago • 44 comments

SF NEEDS congestion pricing it wil fund our transit systems, make the bus run faster, make the city safer, and make it less miserable to walk bike and enjoy the city

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

submitted 18 days ago • 361 comments

The wellness industry has always been a grift.

submitted 18 days ago • 19 comments

i wrote about rfk jr's dubious supplement advice, hypervitaminosis A in the antarctic, and contend that no one deserves to be lied to, and no child deserves to be made ill on the strength of those lies: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

Happy 75th Birthday, Stevie Wonder. 🎉 To celebrate, here is a list of the soul visionary's best 50 songs

submitted 21 days ago • 177 comments

It's official. I filed a Senate Resolution of Disapproval. RFK is CLEARLY in violation of his constitutional oath. He must resign.

submitted 20 days ago • 746 comments

The media & the right made SF a proving ground for harm reduction - which was never even implemented at scale - and claimed rising ODs (from the emergence of fentanyl) meant harm reduction “didn’t work.” Since cutting harm reduction, deaths are up 50%. Cause harm reduction works & policing doesn’t.

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

“Glue that holds America together” is no exaggeration. Besides the ~80M people who need it for healthcare coverage, it’s one of the primary funding sources for most healthcare facilities across the country. It’s not just that addiction treatment will now be 80 miles away, the hospital will be, too.

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

There are legitimate issues with the pharmaceutical industry and how it's regulated; the wellness industry is even more predatory, like it's not even close. Woo woo bullshit on par with leeches and humors

submitted 25 days ago • 122 comments

Casey Means is an ableist grifter who thinks disease and death are your fault for not buying the $45 olive oil from a “regenerative farm” that she has an affiliate link for. She did not complete residency and is not board certified in any recognized medical specialty.

submitted 26 days ago • 36 comments

I have a lot to say about the resurgent young men / masculinity discourse but for now will confine myself to: I wish I knew how to convince teenage boys/young men is how little of the world actually requires or even invites the hypermisogynist "tough guy" aesthetic

submitted 30 days ago • 178 comments

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

submitted 34 days ago • 611 comments

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

submitted 34 days ago • 31 comments

Transit agencies must do everything possible to avoid service cuts. Longer waits and reduced networks push even low-income riders to get a car – and to abandon transit for good. Me in Bloomberg CityLab 🧵

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

hahaha, wow!

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Oh god why is Larry Baer talking?

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

It cannot be said enough that a major reason for declining birth rates is the plummet in teens giving birth—something that we generally agree is a good outcome for society

submitted 43 days ago • 26 comments

New from me: As RFK Jr. fearmongers about autism being an "epidemic," the Department of Health and Human Services terminated a grant that would have researched how to reduce suicide among LGBTQ+ #ActuallyAutistic people. via @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 46 days ago • 17 comments

It’s weird that I’m on a freeway in LA and all I’m thinking is: “No way Sandra Bullock could keep a bus going 55mph on this thing.”

submitted 46 days ago • 279 comments

Seth Rogen said President Trump had “single-handedly destroyed all of American science” while presenting an award at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony — sometimes called the “Oscars of Science” — where Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg were in attendance. Rogen's comments were cut from the broadcast.

submitted 47 days ago • 172 comments

One of the profound changes to society in my lifetime is the move to see disability not as a problem to be eliminated or hidden away, but a difference to be accommodated. We're now seeing a push to reverse that from a man whose aunt was lobotomized and institutionalized for developmental delays.

submitted 47 days ago • 8 comments

Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing: - Complaints about car-honking are down 70% - The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48% - 6 million fewer cars - Half as many traffic-related injuries - 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year

submitted 48 days ago • 67 comments

Wazzup Backstreet Boys

submitted 48 days ago • 84 comments