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I’m in The Economist about the Trump/Musk breakup www.economist.com/united-state...

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In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

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yes! tried to make this point in my most recent column with a reference to "the king's two bodies"

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“People preferred to drive,” some experts kindly explain to me. “That’s why street railways declined.” But in the historical record I find decades of requests for streetcar stops (“safety zones”) that reasonable passengers could not ridicule as “death zones” or “suicide zones.” ...

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Bernie: "What that is all about is that if you're rich in America, you can make campaign contributions, you are entitled to massive tax breaks because you're superhuman beings. But if you're a poor working stiff, working at McDonald's, struggling to put food on the table, you're entitled to nothing"

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Streetcar ridership did not merely decline. It was deterred. Streetcar passengers did not endanger motorists, but motorists endangered them. In every city, people boarding, alighting from, or waiting for streetcars accounted for a large fraction of pedestrian traffic casualties. ...

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If you want to astound a younger American today, tell them that thirty years ago there was actually a years-long investigation into a president's personal business dealings and, even better, it centered on a real estate venture where he lost money.

submitted 6 days ago • 188 comments

the staggering human cost of the cuts to biomedical science. an estimated loss of 82 million years of life in the US over the next 25 years. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Hail to the thief

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All those old guard conservatives who incrementally moved closer and closer to MAGA are now members of a party that worships a draft dodger, hates NATO, loves Putin, started a trade war, passed record deficits, pardons criminals who beat cops, and hates the Federalist Society.

submitted 10 days ago • 170 comments

In all seriousness, this is another reason to not rank Cuomo. We've lost out on some crucial years with the incrementalism of de Blasio and the chaos of Eric Adams. We can't afford to lose any more. New York should be a global leader in fighting climate change. Don't elect a car guy as mayor.

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They really are the whiniest bunch. And it’s actually diagnostically relevant, if we want to understand their political project: A movement of people who feel victimized by a society they believe owes them constant adulation and deference, whose self-pity inevitably turns to authoritarian cruelty.

submitted 10 days ago • 108 comments

Openly negotiating the price of the bribe being paid to the President to grant approval to a regulatory merger. Happening right in front of us.

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

trump tried to do something illegal, the MTA refused to comply, and the MTA just won the lawsuit. congestion pricing survives. this is a lesson for every organization and institution battling Trump: DO NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

This is Trump's vision of the Presidency. He can cancel appropriated tax dollars, and repurpose it as he sees fit to settle his personal vendettas. Its akin to how he sees his pardon powers, or the DOJ: government power to offer favors and settle scores.

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

yes. they literally blame higher education for a social order that doesn’t give unquestioned deference to people like themselves

submitted 11 days ago • 192 comments

Police departments that do this deserve public shame. They’re the worst offenders because when they block bike lanes, it signals to all of car culture that this is acceptable and consequence-free. That message is deadly, and they know better.

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Facts: "Since 2008, Congress has taken an additional $275 billion from taxpayers (on top of all gas taxes) to cover the difference between gas taxes and their spending." t4america.org/2025/05/22/t...

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Pregnant women sicker and at more risk because of Susan Collins. #MEpolitics

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here’s a crazy statistic: more people work for the MTA (~70K employees) than are coal miners in the entire country (~42K)

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4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

submitted 11 days ago • 980 comments

No, @nytimes.com, an anti-vaxx grifter is no longer recommending #Covid vaccines. Many of us in the US with actual medical credentials still recommend it.

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments

I’m thinking InfoWars.

submitted 12 days ago • 1152 comments

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to bar government scientists from publishing in major medical journals, saying on a podcast that three top journals were “corrupt” and influenced by pharmaceutical companies.

submitted 12 days ago • 1133 comments

An ominous precedent: "Richard Hughes IV, who teaches vaccine law at George Washington University Law School, said he cannot recall a previous time when an HHS secretary overruled the advisory committee and the CDC." What will he change next?

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When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody." But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies. Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.

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Ethics aside, this is what municipal bankruptcy looks like. Trust funds get raided to pay the Finance Bros, so it never quite shows up on paper as a legal bankruptcy. The real bankruptcy is lived by the city’s residents locked out of critical public services, surrounded by crumbling infrastructure.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

The pro-family president, taking away childcare options one by one

submitted 12 days ago • 29 comments

More "groceries" (remember that outdated term) at all time record high. Trump take beef

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Since I speak fluent Trump, let me explain this. Trump announced his Golden Dome thing without checking with Canada. He can’t do it without Canada’s cooperation. Now Canada is using it as leverage in trade negotiations. So dumbass Trump is clowning to find a way to make it work.

submitted 12 days ago • 679 comments

Judge Leon issues a full on permanent injunction against the WilmerHale executive order and in the process deploys more exclamation points than I can remember seeing in a judicial opinion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

Our criminal justice system is just for Democrats and the poor If you are rich and/or a Trump supporter you know exactly what to do to get your Get Out of Jail Free card

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New video time! A whole lot of folks keep forgetting about closed captions on DVDs, and as time has marched on this means they're getting less accessible. youtu.be/OSCOQ6vnLwU

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In case you don't get your news from a site that has spread "Heil Hitler" to millions, Bobby Jr. has decided unilaterally to stop recommending Covid boosters during pregnancy, which means many new moms won't have it covered and won't be able to afford it.

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Never forget and never forgive the people who voted for this. Never. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

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Breaking news: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ending his agency's recommendation that healthy pregnant women and healthy children receive the coronavirus vaccine.

submitted 12 days ago • 735 comments

Today, Secretary Kennedy is putting paranoia over science. He's making it harder for families to make healthy choices. Removing the COVID vaccine from the CDC’s recommended immunization schedule shows his anti-science mindset has taken over.

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Christian Nationalists pretend that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, but the Constitution never mentions Jesus or Christianity. Not even once. Instead, it bans government promotion of any religion. Don't be fooled by their lying propaganda.

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Meet Mary Davis, who was critically injured by a motorist at S. Central Avenue and 75th Street in Los Angeles. Nineteen weeks later, from her stretcher, Davis defended herself against a charge of jaywalking. Found guilty, she was fined $25 (about $330 in 2025 dollars).

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Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

submitted 13 days ago • 838 comments

FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value. There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

submitted 13 days ago • 448 comments

We should regulate pollution directly instead of indirectly with land use policy because the latter approach guarantees that polluting land uses will be located exclusively in marginalized communities with less power to block them.

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have you considered the fact that 25 year olds should be investing their money in index funds, not crypto scams

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Even after all this, the @nytimes continues to normalize it

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Headline from The New York Times in 2020. "US deaths near 100,000, an incalculable loss." #covid As of today, that "incalculable loss" is 1.2 million Americans. And RFK Jr is taking away our vaccines.

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In other words, he promised repeatedly during the campaign he had a secret plan to end the war in 24 hours and he was just bullshitting everyone because he doesn’t have the first clue what to do, he gave away all negotiating leverage months ago, and his special envoy is a dope.

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