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Avid audiobooks listener & avid bike rider. Managing Attorney, Southern Arizona Legal Aid’s Tucson Consumer Housing Public Benefits unit. I defend people being evicted. Former inline speedskater.
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Happy Presidents’ Day! Let’s aim for 100 weird facts about presidents, presidential elections, and maybe even vice presidents. 1. Lincoln and Washington are — as far as I know — the only two presidents to have been sculpted topless. (But please send others if they exist!)

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Donald Shoup was a legend. And we were so lucky to have him in the "Streetfilms Studios" way back 15+ years ago where we had him sit around a street grid with matchbox cars and talk about "The High Cost of Free Parking". www.youtube.com/watch?v=BstO...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I'll be emailing or calling my reps both House and Senate several times a week to start organizing resistance, develop courage, and to stop acting like the Vichy government.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

submitted 26 days ago • 166 comments

Tim: This is Tim from accounting Me: Hi Tim from accounting Tim: Just say Tim Me. Tim Tim: How are you today? Me: Tim

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im ronny at all times

submitted 29 days ago • 21 comments

There's far more idealism in the civil service than people realize. But not for long paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-a-scam...

submitted 29 days ago • 41 comments

Excellent post

submitted 33 days ago • 2080 comments

I don't think I've ever seen this data shown in such a stark way. Wow.

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Owners’ box

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With the discussions about anti-bike-lane laws and congestion pricing, it felt like the right time for this one youtu.be/PdqZsRayyFk

submitted 51 days ago • 6 comments

Trigger warning if you read this

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Like smoking a cigarette, driving a giant SUV/pickup endangers anyone nearby. The narrative power of secondhand smoke galvanized the anti-tobacco movement in the 1980s – and it could do the same for car bloat today. My deep dive, in Vox 🧵 www.vox.com/future-perfe...

submitted 53 days ago • 48 comments

Good stuff

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As a Capitol Police sergeant, Aquilino Gonell was attacked on Jan. 6 by rioters. Donald Trump’s promise to pardon them is an outrageous mistake, he writes, “one that could mean about 800 convicted criminals will be back on the street.”

submitted 53 days ago • 27 comments

From @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social's reflection on January 6. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/o...

submitted 53 days ago • 20 comments

Lots of info on NYC’s congestion pricing

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Terrible

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What an extraordinary, devastating essay. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

submitted 57 days ago • 41 comments

NEWS A Tesla Cybertruck has exploded at the entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.

submitted 58 days ago • 250 comments

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submitted 61 days ago • 119 comments

RIP to the only decent country ass president of my lifetime

submitted 61 days ago • 172 comments

Law prof’s thread describing Carter’s successful effort to diversify the federal judiciary.

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Thread

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My 2024 books, ranked #booksky #books #2024books

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James Thurber's masterful version of The Night Before Christmas in the style of Hemingway

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Things to bring up after your American extended family starts drinking: 1. Cars are absurdly big. 2. They restrict freedom of mobility. 3. Gas taxes don’t fully fund roads. 4. Billions should go to passenger rail. 5. Cars and guns are both weapons. Happy holidays! 🎄

submitted 66 days ago • 16 comments

It also makes it harder for them to ban books.

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