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Portsmouth, NH City Councilor. Devoted dad and husband. Avid reader who transitioned from international work to making a local impact in the 03801 community, hoping to create meaningful change.
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I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

submitted 17 hours ago • 231 comments

Macron says he’s prepared to open discussions about France providing a nuclear umbrella for all of Europe.

submitted 47 minutes ago • 15 comments

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1632 comments

If your Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be unwelcome, the elderly on Social Security to be called a "parasite," all while billionaires get richer, maybe, just maybe, you've profoundly misunderstood the most basic elements of Jesus' teachings.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

my powerful and eloquent rebrand of the 15 minute city.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 7 days ago • 489 comments

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 12 days ago • 273 comments

goodness me

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 13 days ago • 411 comments

This was generally true, but, specifically, if you are at SDNY, Public Integrity, or elsewhere at Main Justice and know what's going on re: Adams, please do reach out.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Valor Danielle Sassoon, Acting U.S. attorney for SDNY - refuses to drop Adams charges and resigns John Keller, Acting head of DOJ Public Integrity Section - refuses and resigns Kevin Driscoll, Acting head of DOJ Criminal Division - refuses and resigns www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 15 days ago • 1083 comments

“Dear Parking Reform Community, It is with a very heavy heart that I share with you the news that Professor Donald C. Shoup, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning at UCLA passed away at age 86 this Thursday evening. He was with his wife at home and passed peacefully.” 😥

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

submitted 21 days ago • 96 comments

This thread is a RIDE. Accidentally leading the rebuilding of a community

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

It is the position of the administration that a post saying “Free Palestine” or talking about diversity should ruin your life, but a post calling to hate people from India should not. That’s their moral sensibility. Nazi scum.

submitted 21 days ago • 136 comments

Lots of special animals and pets buried in the PDSA London animal cemetery. But my first visit is always to Able Seacat Simon. Only feline recipient of the animal Victoria Cross. "During the Yangtse Incident, his behavour was of the highest order." Thread below. #navalHistory

submitted 22 days ago • 19 comments

It’s VERY important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against downtown bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of the evidence that they are better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Bike-lanes mean business.

submitted 24 days ago • 16 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 25 days ago • 1697 comments

This is a great time to follow WIRED journalists here bsky.app/starter-pack...

submitted 26 days ago • 17 comments

This feeling as a Mavs fan... it's like you went on Twitter and that election dude tweeted "I've seen enough: a golden retriever named Michael Jackson is the 48th President of the United States." You're not awaiting new information, you're wondering when you died and why the afterlife has Twitter.

submitted 27 days ago • 28 comments

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

submitted 26 days ago • 490 comments

It’s pretty fucked up that China probably had some really intricate plan to become the worlds dominant superpower and now it’s just like “guess that was a big waste of time, didn’t even have to do anything”

submitted 26 days ago • 35 comments

the majority of US housing markets seeing a 30-50% increase in home prices since before the pandemic is incredibly bad. www.fastcompany.com/91270321/hou...

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

Compared with any other major country, the United States has been extremely fortunate in its two immediate neighbors, Canada and Mexico. Now, incredibly, it is declaring economic war on both of them. This is a war no one can win, and from which tens of millions will lose. This is insanity.

submitted 27 days ago • 193 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 28 days ago • 510 comments

Mad people are giving her the finger instead of Elon’s favored salute most likely.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

With the price of coffee and eggs going up, looks like we swapped a War on Christmas for a War on Breakfast

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

NYT tomorrow: How Colombia’s Harsh Diplomatic Stance Just Made Your Coffee More Expensive

submitted 33 days ago • 574 comments

Latest from @dvnjr and me. *How Dan Snyder views Commanders' run from afar: 'He f—-ing hates it' *How Snyder tried to blow up the sale to Harris at the eleventh hour *Nee stuff on legal cases, his life in London, and why Jerry Jones says "It was time for a divorce.” www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

submitted 35 days ago • 90 comments

Never feel bad about reposting your stuff on here because for the first year of this website we had an entirety of 20 daily posts that we all had to share and reheat like a communal soup

submitted 35 days ago • 253 comments

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want walkable streets.

submitted 38 days ago • 27 comments

Photo by Will Zimmerman of Portsmouth, NH this morning. Look at those Sneckdowns! #urbandesign

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

this is accurate

submitted 40 days ago • 17 comments

World-famous aircraft structures engineer John Hart-Smith, who years ago pointed out to Boeing leaders the folly of their business strategy, died last month at 84. Story by Dominic Gates www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

We are reaching new levels of "the Founding Fathers drove their Nissan Sentras around New York City" that I didn't think possible. bsky.app/profile/paul...

submitted 53 days ago • 12 comments

Massive snowball fight happening in DC right now:

submitted 53 days ago • 136 comments

LOL! 🐕 🤣

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

a remarkable statement from someone who six months ago announced that the president cannot be governed by law when performing his "core" responsibilities

submitted 58 days ago • 93 comments

“It’s no secret that Canada is facing a major housing shortage. But could the sheer amount of space used for parking vehicles be part of the problem?” Spoiler: Obviously. A big part. The real question is whether we’re willing to fix it, and fast. #ThePowerOfParking globalnews.ca/news/1028493...

submitted 60 days ago • 9 comments

my favorite part of reading about the nyu email debacle is how onions has become an overnight celebrity. i did not know onions existed an hour ago but now i would give my life for that pup

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment