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"Public investment" vs "Wasteful Subsidy." The only problem with this clever Singer cartoon is that some people might actually not get that it’s sarcastically illustrating the incorrect perception problem, NOT telling the truth. Just in case it actually needs to be said, the truth is the opposite.

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I'd be ripping this down and plunking it forcefully on the table at the next city council meeting. Instead of designing safe streets for people, incompetent leaders put up a sign to absolve themselves of responsibility when the inevitable happens.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

They wouldn’t let you run procurement like this at a private company, they’d correctly assume you’re defrauding them and have you arrested.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 197 comments

Hats off to the Journal here. This government has no respect for the most fundamental value of governance: honesty and transparency.

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NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left. www.ft.com/content/29fd...

submitted 8 days ago • 202 comments

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left at even higher rates.

submitted 8 days ago • 440 comments

The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 9 days ago • 239 comments

HOT RESEARCH NEWS! Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor... Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

submitted 15 days ago • 32 comments

Winter riding guide: How to bike in the snow. momentummag.com/winter-ridin...

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Hot crackers! A new Climate Town video is out and if you watched the bullshit spewing series "Landman", then you're gonna want to check this one out. Also: @climatetown.bsky.social 👈

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

If you think Amsterdam managed to avoid being overrun by cars, you’re wrong. They too surrendered their streets to cars for many decades. But the people fought back, and forced leaders to see their mistake. There's nothing magical about #Amsterdam. They just saw their mistake, and changed it.

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

even when it's nazis doing nazism, the press has to call them communists

submitted 24 days ago • 85 comments

broke - Kamala Harris: “i will follow the law when it comes to transgender individuals” woke - Stephen Smith:

submitted 26 days ago • 256 comments

Of course it’s a coup.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

the full list doesn’t include “male” or “man” but saying “female” or “woman” gets you blacklisted lmfao. the patriarchy is more powerful than ever

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“An Italian investigative journalist who is known for exposing young fascists within prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party was targeted with spyware made by Israel-based Paragon Solutions” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 33 days ago • 3790 comments

Magic pasta in Europe. Interesting. Now do car dependency and the deliberate designing of physical activity out of daily life in North America.

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One of the most important things to remember about very smart financial, public heath, transportation, public space, equity, economic development and climate policy like this is that it SAVES AND MAKES PUBLIC MONEY AND IS A SMART INVESTMENT WITH A PROVEN ROI. Stop seeing it as a cost.

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 36 days ago • 1092 comments

"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

submitted 37 days ago • 67 comments

“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx.com in @gizmodo.com

submitted 37 days ago • 11 comments

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

submitted 38 days ago • 31 comments

So how’s it going so far?

submitted 38 days ago • 513 comments

If you live in Seattle, you have a chance to fund Vienna-style social housing right now.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Right out of the gate they are detaining U.S. citizens and saying their “papers”are fake. It was always a lie.

submitted 40 days ago • 1520 comments

"Ambushed" by a plea for mercy is a real language choice.

submitted 41 days ago • 121 comments

Amazon is shutting down its facilities in Quebec — coincidentally not long after 300 workers at one of its warehouses there formed a union. They’re the only unionized Amazon workers in Canada.

submitted 41 days ago • 15 comments

We did it!

submitted 41 days ago • 26 comments

READ THIS: How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world. In the 1960s, Dutch cities saw cars as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths — and fierce activism — to turn #Amsterdam into the urban biking nirvana of today. It took leadership.

submitted 41 days ago • 9 comments

With my friends from @laconverse.bsky.social who train young journalists from Montréal-Nord and the east end. So pumped to be offering a tiny bit of mentorship as we prepare to spend a cold night looking at the city’s homelessness crisis from the ground up.

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them

submitted 42 days ago • 497 comments

nominally “liberal” mainstream media is now running cover for an out and about fascist. these are dark times we are living in and we truly cannot rely on these fascist sympathizers anymore

submitted 42 days ago • 88 comments

Fifteen years ago today, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations & billionaires like Jeff Bezos & Elon Musk can spend infinite amounts in elections to buy influence. Citizens United must be overturned so our democracy works for working Americans, not the 1%.

submitted 42 days ago • 70 comments