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Dodgers win.

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Sorry, Schoolhouse Rock originalists, this League of Women Voters pamphlet predates I'm Just a Bill by eight years.

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Remember how the Black activists were saying that all the "DEI" stuff was really just a cover for "resegregation" back in the Long Ago of... what, two weeks ago? Yeah.

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To all of my #BikeSky people, Blue Lug just release this awesome video tour of the Brooks saddle factory in the UK. It’s so refreshing to see a manufacturer devoted to their community by employing locals and keeping workers on the payroll long-term! youtu.be/LEOpGFaf6ws?...

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I think I’m coming to the conclusion that exceedingly few bike manufacturers make a true step-through frame.

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really excited for @gavinnewsom.bsky.social's next interview with David Duke and an AI chatbot programmed to sound like Hermann Göring

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

So.. I told my students about Mahmoud Khalil at the end of class today and assured them that in case I disappear, I will leave plans for their class with the department head. I, too, am a green card holder. I, too, publicly oppose the genocide in Palestine. I, too, fear disappearance. 1/n

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

A reminder that cities aren't loud, cars are loud.

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Musk‘s daughter Vivian confirmed what many have suspected - that she (as several of his children that were conceived via IVF) was assigned male at birth due to Musk’s use of sex-selective IVF - Vivian writes: „My assigned sex at birth was a commodity that was bought and paid for“

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments

Portland's citywide upzoning has been working — more and more of the development in previously single-family areas is now missing middle housing. The city's recent report also shows many other great impacts of Portland's top-notch upzonings — more charts below www.portland.gov/bps/planning...

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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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Trump: “I think Russia has been acting very well.” Russia:

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It’s pretty interesting that both Tim Walz and Gavin Newsom are clearly positioning themselves to run for President and one thought he should publicize that he’s having diplomatic conversations with Canadian provinces close to Minnesota and the other thought he should publicize that he sucks

submitted 11 days ago • 267 comments

Forced car dependence plays a major role in so many issues ranging from: - social isolation - cost of living crisis - political polarization and extremism - climate change - public health issues The list goes on!

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“I've been biking on and off since around 2019. I was living in another town and started biking to work there in the summer, then crashed that bike, moved towns, got a used bike, and biked to work. And that was tough, because I was working outdoors on rooftops in the summer. . .” 🧵

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Dear Media: Halting all aid to Gaza is not "pressuring Hamas." Collective punishment is a war crime. Starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime. Withholding medical care is a war crime. None of this is remotely controversial actually. Israel is doing war crimes, not "pressuring Hamas."

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🧔🏼‍♂️Ha ha to all the toddlers in Texas dying of measles! That's what you get! You Effed Around, now Find out(TM)! In your face! 👩🏾Are... are you laughing at... dying toddlers? 🧔🏼‍♂️What? No! I'm laughing at their parents! 👩🏾The parents decided, but the children suffer. I'm not sure I understand the joy.

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ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped monday. short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

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Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

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BREAKING: United Farm Workers and Bakersfield residents sue border patrol for unlawful practices. CBP’s January immigration raids terrorized communities and tore apart families. More at ufw.org/united-farm-...

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Cities should be designed for: ❌ A̶u̶t̶o̶n̶o̶m̶o̶u̶s̶ C̶a̶r̶s̶ ✅ Autonomous Kids

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Undocumented immigrants paid about $26 billion per year into Social Security, even though they will get nothing out of it. They subsidize citizens to an extraordinary degree. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...

submitted 19 days ago • 132 comments

Love to become a subservient vassal state for a dying authoritarian nation with 90% lower GDP than your own, to own the libs

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Musk can’t even hold a chainsaw correctly. (I served on a chainsaw crew in the Conservation Corps.)

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okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again

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I find myself watching more feel-good media since election night than ever before in my entire life

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So many people are killed cycling in London and we never even know their name. A man in his 20s was killed cycling in Stratford last month. Come protest next Monday 24 February. Nobody should cycle out the door and not come home. https://buff.ly/4jXzEvO

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Trump Take Egg Trump Crash Plane Trump Lose Hockey

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🇨🇦 wins 3 🇺🇸 2 !!! #4Nations 🇨🇦 GO CANADA 🇨🇦

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Living in the US for me right now is getting civically stabbed every day I wake up.

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hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

submitted 28 days ago • 155 comments

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

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In hindsight, we should have Marshall Plan’d the South.

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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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At the stonewall monument rn

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The year is 2026 A.D. Jimmy Fallon just ate the last egg cooked by Gordon Ramsey in a Amazon sponsored TV special. It’s day 37 of martial law. Dem politicians keep txting you begging to sign up for X, the everything app, only legal way to donate to midterm camapigns (subject to 69% processing fee).

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The two most powerful nations in the world are now on the same side, and it's not our side.

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