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we now turn to former Councilmember @loridroste.bsky.social for comment:

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

It's done!! On a unanimous council vote, and after 6+ years, countless hours of public comment, and more than 40 community meetings... ...Berkeley has officially ended single-family only zoning and legalized multifamily housing citywide!!!

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

This process lasted two years longer than the Confederacy. But it's done.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

“I Am Going To Hunt And Capture Santa Claus Once And For All” declares Masayoshi Son

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

We found that a 2006 Children’s Health Defense (CHD) article and the 2025 ACIP presentation share extensive textual overlap. The CDC slides don’t just echo CHD’s claims—they replicate them, word for word in some cases, along with many of the same citations. infoepi.substack.com/p/gold-stan... 1/10

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

I think this is really important. We need to take back the phrase “common sense” in city-building, from those who have weaponized it against actual common sense and pragmatic ideas for better cities.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

This lays out very clearly that Sex Matters is an organisation whose entire rationale is the elimination of trans people. Government ministers who meet them are condoning what will become genocide. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

😡Trump’s USAID shutdown—marketed as “efficiency” by Musk and Rubio—just blew a $6.1 billion hole in the budget. Not leaner. Not smarter. Just wreckage: canceled contracts, lawsuits, wasted taxpayer $$, global chaos. The lie of savings is now undeniable. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

The idea that the president can randomly fire everyone in the administrative branch is toxic. It’s enabling a slash and burn mentality across the federal government. What will be left in a couple of years? Is anyone reporting on what’s going on at NASA?

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops

submitted 12 hours ago • 242 comments

Notably, he supported the executive in Trump v Hawaii. Anyway, on the 10th anniversary of Obergefell, we should all recognize him as an enemy of democracy and justice and for the love of God stop quoting him at your wedding.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Nonexistent tourist sites. Ghibli slop. Fake disasters. Propagandists have always spread disinformation about Japan. Now, AI is making it ten times worse. We look at the impact and how, in some cases, it can even put people's lives in danger. #japan

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million. If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000. Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.

submitted 17 hours ago • 148 comments

PARIS: In the last 20 years, 44ha of Paris car parking has been transformed, making room for wider sidewalks, bikes & buses (15ha), bike racks, EV spots, accessible space, & 2.2K new patios/terraces for outdoor dining. 90% of Paris trips are via walking, biking & transit. V/@villedeparis.bsky.social

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

👀 Now would be a great time to call your Senators, especially if they're Republican, and crush the public land sell-off provision for good. Call script here: 5calls.org/issue/public...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

New details in the HUD/Scott Turner bogart a new headquarters story. Folks at NSF who've seen the plans for the Turner Sky Mansion think he plans to have him and his family live there. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/on-th...

submitted 21 hours ago • 31 comments

Is free and open inquiry important? Yes. Is noting its importance a good response to criticisms of an academic working with Trump on his agenda to trample vulnerable people? No.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I listened to this. She said “jihad” like twelve times. No one is talking about jihad lol. She kept talking about what it takes to govern a diverse city like NYC (as if she had a clue). What about the Muslim population of the city, which is roughly as large as the Jewish population?

submitted 15 hours ago • 22 comments

On Tuesday, New Yorkers delivered a mandate for a Mayor who puts working people first and makes this city affordable for all.

submitted 15 hours ago • 235 comments

“New York City’s congestion pricing toll has cut Manhattan traffic delays by 25% and reduced gridlock in nearby New Jersey counties by as much as 14%, undercutting fears the policy would worsen traffic outside the city, a new report from the Regional Plan Association shows.” Again, it’s working.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

“Correcting norms around ‘Car Brain’ includes policy decisions around planning laws, environmental laws and policing standards: “Build a street where people can’t speed, and there will be a period of brief moaning and complaining. But you won’t have speeding.””

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I work with people from across the U.S. and in the past few months they've been like, "What is going on in Minneapolis?! You sharpen a big pencil AND there's a cat tour?!" These events have a gigantic reach!

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

the NYC mayoral election might be an opportunity to reset some terms. the Cuomo faction are not “liberals” but “centrists”. the Lander faction are “liberals” the Mamdani faction are “leftists” if you’re mad at centrists but complaining about liberals you are mostly pissing on the wrong people

submitted 15 hours ago • 61 comments

Burnett: Do you like capitalism? Mamdani: No, I have many critiques of capitalism. Yes! For too long it has been taboo to discuss legitimate critiques of capitalism in mainstream US media. This has shut down any chance of implementing real solutions to social crises. A new day is coming.

submitted 13 hours ago • 56 comments

More evidence from Deutschland and Spain that businesses and your pension system need migration at scale. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s trite and corny, but truly it’s because if we try something and it succeeds in New York, it seems like an idea can succeed anywhere

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

David Hogg is cooking lately

submitted 1 day ago • 217 comments

"I will spend two hundred thousand to bribe politicians so I'm not taxed two thousand." They don't really care about "losing money," they care about people who NEED it GAINING money.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Please keep calling!

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

My favorite Zohran moment of this campaign. And why, more generally, he won:

submitted 23 hours ago • 46 comments

DO NOT LOOK AWAY ICE arrested a 6yo boy with leukemia at #immigration court

submitted 17 hours ago • 44 comments

Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"

submitted 15 hours ago • 58 comments

Zohran Mamdani says, "For too long, politicians have pretended that we're spectators to that crisis of affordability. We're actually actors, and we have the choice to exacerbate it, like mayor Adams has done, or to respond to it and resolve it, like I'm planning to do."

submitted 13 hours ago • 44 comments

This is what Trump’s mass deportations look like. Iranian Christians seeking asylum being handcuffed by masked ICE agents in front of their pastor.

submitted 14 hours ago • 59 comments

And disgustingly, Gillibrand during her Lehrer interview substituted "jihad" for "intifada," entirely inventing a situation in which she implied Mamdani was somehow advocating for jihad. Inexcusable.

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

submitted 13 hours ago • 13 comments

it's wild how people just do not see that the more unhinged and misogynist they behave in their opposition to a leftist candidate, the more they are rallying support for that candidate, sometimes enough of it to get the candidate elected, because the one thing that unifies the left is "die mad"

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Catch Sachiko Kashiwaba and me on our upcoming tour to launch The Village Beyond the Mist in the US! #SachikoKashiwaba #kidlit #japankidlit #worldkidlit #translation 🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Those who organized Colored Conventions rallied for democracy and citizenship rights as state and national forces sought to deny them protections clearly outlined in the constitution. They were often forcefully dissenting voices. We will soon make public a new trove of Reconstruction conventions.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

The Destroyer novel series was adapted into Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins and it is about a guy who secretly works for the government eliminating corruption from within. A little on the nose and a total badass.

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

They could fundraise so much by making Zohran The Destroyer shirts

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments