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I like safe streets, infill housing and trees. Find more ways to say yes. YIMBY, MeFite, Smithie. (ambrosiamonkey over on the old place)
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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

This is bad enough on its own but it really has my Comstock Act senses tingling as well www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

responses to this have included -grow all your own food -buy organic -check labels -go to the farmers market -check for recalls -make your own food from scratch etc WRONG. none of you have read the article

Not wrong!

Cars don't need to be everywhere that people are. Urban space allocation is a choice.

“didn’t get into the college of their choice” as a grievance always tells me how few bad things have happened to that person in their life. I didn’t get into the college of my choice either and it is barely a blip on my radar

One thing about being a lawyer is realizing over time how many absolutely terrible, crappy, incompetent lawyers are out there.

Auto loan debt recently surpassed student loans as the second-largest consumer debt category in the U.S., trailing mortgages. Americans owe a record $1.66 trillion in auto loan debt, up 20% since 2020. The average monthly payment on a new car is now $754, up from $570 in 2019.

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

So many people upset at the idea of corn on pizza, and after all the "nothing yellow on pizza" talk, nobody mentions the Swedish banana-curry pizza? Amateurs.

More streets like this please.

silver lining.

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

you know, we research whether the baby stroller has all the features and amenities we like, not whether it will kill the baby

yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone

The baseline anxiety in a city drops when multi-ton vehicles don’t dominate the landscape. Every summer, I see this man and his dog cycling nearly every day and it brings me a quiet joy he may never realize.

For most of my life, Very Serious People maintained the polite fiction that conservatives are motivated by concern over the size of government. It was always this: an atavistic thrill at the suffering of marginalized outsiders. Always. That's the engine that runs the conservative movement.

The US used to have free to low tuition until schools couldn't discriminate based on race

I think this is how the media should approach this one... what does this incident say about him and his staff, and dig in deeper to the nature of a 4chan presidency.

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone

for centuries there have been stories by Māori about a green glow from the forest floor, which were written off as superstition because no Europeans ever saw them ... it turns out there's a bioluminescent fungi, mycena roseoflava, whose dim glow can't usually be seen due to light pollution.

Amazing how before cycle lanes were invented there was no way for a business to fail.

Le matériel qu'il a fallu installer dans cette cour intérieure pour protéger cet arbre des voitures !

Let’s normalize putting the name of the corporation that owns the private prison in the headline whenever something like this happens

Stephen Miller is the president

How come “shrinking government” always involves taking away school lunches and building 3,000 more prisons.

Spotted at Union Station

The U.S. Postal Service has quietly begun assisting Trump's 'mass deportation' effort, sources and records show www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Is anything more perfect than republicans being like, “we are going to ban anti semitism unless it’s from christians, then it’s ok”

While most Americans oppose making Canada the 51st state, a majority of Joe Rogan listeners favor it, saying they would like to live in the same country as their girlfriends.

Every American that goes to Europe, comes home telling everyone about how beautiful, quiet, and scenic their cities are, and then going to the city council meeting to fight like fucking hell to preserve the "neighborhood character" of street parking and single family zoning.

Automobile dependence erodes public health in many ways: blunt force trauma (#1 cause for children and young adults), air pollution (CVD, asthma), noise pollution (QoL, dementia) but perhaps the most pernicious is that it has almost completely displaced walking. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...

They are just stealing babies - *we* are stealing children, in our name with our money. "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" is part of the UN's definition of genocide. There must be international trials of US electeds & the agents who follow their orders.

“police kidnap de blasio’s daughter and issue veiled threat demanding the mayor authorize specific tactics” is a thing that happened and was a blip in the press

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

Dear god let this man cook.

your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

extremely normal & fine headline

every word of this kfor.com/news/local/w...