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submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

the kids are alright, even if the state government is indescribably fucked

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Is it too much to ask to want the government to stop the president from doing the illegal stuff?

submitted 2 days ago • 496 comments

Republicans are really just mounting a full-on war against the First Amendment. Today Florida's new "how did this guy get a license to practice" AG filed a lawsuit against Target for the Pride merchandise it sold in 2023, alleging harms to FL's retirement fund. floridaphoenix.com/2025/02/20/f...

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 3 days ago • 556 comments

There's a lot going on right now, but this story from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social is horrifying. Basically, in contravention of its own policies, Google's ad technology allows clients to identify and target people identified as, say, struggling with opioid addiction or gambling debt.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

This is embarrassingly stupid. This is literally Senate Dems handing censorship power to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. WTF are they thinking?

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

On this day in 1942, FDR signed Executive Order 9066 which rounded up and imprisoned 125,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps. As a Japanese American, it has never felt more urgent to protect and share our history — especially as we risk repeating it. densho.org/catalyst/the...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 4 days ago • 1007 comments

I am not kidding when I say Madison intended impeachment to be used on the first, next, and last President who referred to themselves as a king, and we ought to do him right

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

devastating, but important reporting from @justcalma.bsky.social this morning www.theverge.com/features/611...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

-The Question: How the hell did we get here? -The Answer: Citizens United.

submitted 5 days ago • 1141 comments

The clarity the tech press is applying to the current political moment is such a contrast with the obfuscation and double-talk driving establishment journalism right now. Given how strongly the tech press has been captured by industry, it makes the contrast of outspokenness even more remarkable.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 6 days ago • 8253 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 6 days ago • 609 comments

This is why I laugh when people say the media supports fascists for clicks. That is not it. It’s because ownership is ideologically aligned with fascism.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

audible boos for the US National Anthem in Montreal before the USA-Canada 4 Nations Face-Off hockey game

submitted 8 days ago • 1837 comments

you can look at this and say we're divided or you can look at this and say that a majority of americans oppose every one of these things

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

once again, a "constitutional conservative" is without fail a bootlicker looking for a boot

submitted 9 days ago • 318 comments

school shootings and measles

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

I've always said that NYT (and other headline writers) live in a strange and terrifying world totally alien to us. A sentient legal case attempts to provoke a government agency. Bullets, cars, and other things -- of their own free will -- attack unsuspecting humans. Everything is alive and hostile

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Wait, I thought that Chair Gillett was big evil and making Eversource poor and jacking up our rates Are you telling me their elaborate media campaign is one giant lie? Cannot wait for her to be reconfirmed, we need her more now than ever. Fuck Eversource www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/ever...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging? Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

submitted 11 days ago • 1875 comments

i cannot stress enough that at the very least everyone in leadership needs to go. all of them. probably most electeds over 70 too. primary them all. while we're at it can we just drop the entirety of the ny dem party on a deserted island

submitted 12 days ago • 88 comments

Turns out that centuries of economic thought are correct: increasing the supply of a good will, all things being equal, lower the price of the good. Weird that people talk themselves out of this obvious insight when it comes to housing.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

The reason there are a lot of court orders telling Trump he can't do things is because he's been doing a crazy huge amount of illegal shit in his first three weeks in office. This isn't rocket science. It's basic physics - action and reaction.

submitted 12 days ago • 183 comments

This is how bad it is in the US. The American Bar Association had to put out a statement in support of the Rule of Law. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 13 days ago • 25 comments

Kathy Hochul could still remove Eric Adams from office right now. 'Let the process play out'? He just corruptly traded the powers of his office, and the people of the city, to subvert that process. Leaving him place is allowing him to deliver his end of the quid pro quo and makes her complicit.

submitted 13 days ago • 41 comments

Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate Kendrick: actually

submitted 14 days ago • 119 comments

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

submitted 17 days ago • 45 comments

Sharing out a project @urbandispatch.bsky.social and a small group of us worked on: CT Parking Reform. How over-parked is CT? We (w/huge help from @parkingreform.org) mapped it—check out your town! And of course—thank you to Professor Shoup for his lifetime of advocacy. ctparkingreform.org

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

@theverge.com @reckless.bsky.social I’ve noticed this a few times in your RSS feed recently - seems like apostrophes aren’t being encoded properly. Maybe related to your platform migration?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

School shootings and measles

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

There is a new undercurrent of fear and aggression in Trump 2.0 caused by Elon and DOGE but the essential nature of Trump 1.0 is still there: these dummies don’t think anything through www.theverge.com/news/608441/...

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Who fucking cares about ByteDance, this is what we should be focused on.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

extremely jealous of this story, very smart reporting. Wild shit. SEO baby www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

How ppl still don't understand "meeting expectations" is wild to me. If your town has a serial killer & the police aren't doing enough to stop it, do you yell at the serial killer? No! The serial killer is doing what you expect him to do; the police are not meeting your expectations to stop him.

submitted 17 days ago • 40 comments

It’s a coup. Musk and his gang are breaking laws. They should be arrested. This is not complicated.

submitted 18 days ago • 214 comments

This is your daily reminder that both Merrick Garland and Mitch McConnell can go fuck themselves forever and ever.

submitted 18 days ago • 1147 comments

Murphy: "The reality is this could get dystopian very quickly. If you were to start speaking ill of Elon Musk on social media, Musk might be able to stop or delay your tax refund, or your mom's Social Security benefit, in part because we have no window into what's happening at Treasury right now."

submitted 18 days ago • 248 comments

Congestion Pricing is creating tremendous benefits. Subway Ridership: ⬆️ 13% Bus Ridership: ⬆️ 6% (⬆️ 21% weekends) Transit Crime: 🔻36% Fatal Car Crashes: 🔻44% Trip Times: 🔻10-30%

submitted 18 days ago • 46 comments

i’m beginning to think putting the billionaires in charge of the news media was the wrong idea

submitted 19 days ago • 18 comments