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if you want to know how cities value the safety of cyclists take stock of where they install bollards to protect electrical equipment or parking payment terminals and then see how they protect bike lanes

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

submitted 18 hours ago • 863 comments

On Earth 2.0, folks on the other side of the aisle would say loud and clear that if "everyone involved in the deal understand the payment as the price of merger approval" then it is a bribe, and all of those people should expect to go to prison if it goes ahead in the next administration

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

It’s sort of funny the article stops short of drawing the obvious conclusion: RFK asked an LLM to cook up a phony report supporting his crackpot notions, and it churned out the usual slop full of hallucinated citations.

submitted 23 hours ago • 14 comments

Today, lawmakers introduced a bill that would allow Chicagoland transit agencies to develop real estate around their stations. This is a 'value capture' model used in Asia to generate profit from transit, which then funds transit expansion. Interactive map: misterclean.github.io/people_over_...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

The entire modern internet has been built on platforms that don’t believe in asking for consent. What if we started demanding a culture of consent online? www.anildash.com//2025/05/27/...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

The only serious alternative is mandatory factory-installed speed limiters

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

SCOOP: ICE, HSI, and DHS are getting side-door access to the nationwide system of Flock license plate cameras by asking local police to perform lookups for them, new public records show. ICE does *not* have a contract to use this surveillance tool itself. www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

I do not want to hear about how Supreme Court justices "aren't politicians" ever again ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

if your neighborhood, like mine (😡), uses automated license plate readers (ALPRs) purportedly to catch the 'bad guys', you might want to circulate this @404media.co story to show folks what they're becoming complicit in -

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If your city can afford to build roads everywhere, it can afford to build cycle networks too. It’s not about money — it’s about priorities. It’s a political choice

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

always amazing to see whole ass fathers lamenting the lack of positive male role models for their sons without an iota of self-awareness

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Is the deal that for every plane that crashes, we get to shred a Director of the company into pieces of twitching meat on the hydraulic press channel

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

BESSENT: OTHER COUNTRIES' CURRENCIES RISING, NOT DOLLAR FALLING

submitted 6 days ago • 98 comments