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When traffic levels increase and you refuse to make upgrades like this, after councilmembers push back or nearby businesses complain, you're actually cutting bus service.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

submitted 7 days ago • 1095 comments

great game. Pacers in 5!!!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

What? A C Is for Crank?? In THIS economy?!?! Cathy Moore’s Opinions on Growth and Housing Aren’t New. What’s New is That Most Voters Disagree With Them. publicola.com/2025/06/05/c...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

EXCLUSIVE: City Councilmember Cathy Moore will announce this afternoon that she is stepping down as of July 7, PubliCola has learned.

submitted 19 days ago • 21 comments

Fouling up 3 is smart but I'm not here watching cause I wanna see someone be good at math. Make it an intentional foul that's 2 shots and the ball and it goes away immediately.

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

a lot of discourse on this thread revolves around bullying centrists. That’s too politics-pilled. the reality is that the discover algorithm for this app is just not good enough to keep new users on the site

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Wild that Cathy Moore ran as a yimby and now gets to be the council’s most active nimby

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Frequency is freedom

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

I signed the 10% Giving Pledge this year, and this week, I decided to donate 19% of my annual income to global health charities. It's not going to be anywhere near "enough", but I'm happy to do it --

submitted 71 days ago • 14 comments

The Haunting of Rob Saka

submitted 229 days ago • 1 comment

Op-Ed: Bruce Harrell Is a Failed Mayor on Housing www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/31/o...

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

submitted 84 days ago • 178 comments

We are heartbroken and outraged to learn that Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez was violently detained by ICE while dropping his partner off at work. He is reportedly being held at a private detention facility in Tacoma, Washington. 🧵

submitted 87 days ago • 96 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 120 days ago • 2470 comments

School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content". In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival. www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...

submitted 125 days ago • 91 comments

They made me do video 😬 but for a good reason! We are launching an iOS app–it runs OLMoE locally 📱 We're gonna see more on-device AI in 2025, and wanted to offer a simple way to prototype with it App: apps.apple.com/us/app/ai2-o... Code: github.com/allenai/OLMo... Blog: allenai.org/blog/olmoe-app

submitted 130 days ago • 5 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 136 days ago • 45 comments

It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.

submitted 142 days ago • 72 comments

An anti-CRT movement targeted an accomplished educator — driving her out of two Georgia school districts. The mission began inside a golf community clubhouse on a Sunday afternoon, where parents were coached on how to land a Fox News appearance. Published June 2022 By @nicolefcarr.bsky.social

submitted 151 days ago • 63 comments

The first several speakers at this morning's comprehensive plan meeting have been longtime homeowners in Seattle's wealthy Madrona neighborhood, arguing that a two-block "neighborhood center" where some apartments will be allowed, saying it will destroy their neighborhood.

submitted 166 days ago • 32 comments

It’s a big day for @genesandhealth.bsky.social @samcbhodgson.bsky.social @moneeza-ks.bsky.social Genes & Health, with @ Sam Hodgson, Moneeza Kalhan Siddiqui and I, as we publish our paper rdcu.be/d1vj0 on the genetic basis of #type2diabetes & #gestationaldiabetes (#T2D and #GDM) in south Asians. A🧵

submitted 207 days ago • 1 comment