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“Microscopic particles emitted from brake pads can be more toxic than those emitted in diesel vehicle exhaust, a study has found.” People generally associate pollution from cars as being from exhaust pipes… but that’s only part of the problem with cars.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Trump: "Eggs. I'm hearing so much about eggs. You'll figure it out. You gotta figure something out fast. And we inherited all the problems ... the big things, really, we can blame other people for."

submitted 2 days ago • 431 comments

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

submitted 3 days ago • 1420 comments

NO KINGS, ONLY TRAINS is a pretty great 2028 slogan for anyone who wants it

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

fact check: since congestion pricing started, subway crime is down 36%.

submitted 3 days ago • 245 comments

That’s how you write a headline, people.

submitted 4 days ago • 568 comments

Referring to himself as the king would have been a red flag once upon a time

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in his statement "cancelling" congestion pricing, sean duffy calls people who ride the subway "an elite few" and i just feel as a communication professional that they gotta decide if they're going with that or crime-ridden drug den homeless shelter

submitted 4 days ago • 110 comments

When they imprison Chuck Schumer, I plan to send him a letter about how, as a Democrat, I favor bipartisanship and think the party should focus on kitchen table issues.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Run these guys for Congress in every district in America www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

The one jerk fully cutting off the cyclist really completes this

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democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

submitted 6 days ago • 455 comments

It’s not too late to improve the situation until we’re all dead. This is another of my own key takeaways from reading a lot of history.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

“We put in a bike lane but no one uses it. I guess we’re not a biking culture.” (To paraphrase @tomflood.bsky.social 😂)

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

the riding at dawn has been indefinitely postponed but if you sign up for the mailing list your department could win a waffle party

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The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

submitted 6 days ago • 136 comments

With”friends” like these you need no enemies.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

i guess i never posted about it here before but president's day seems like as good a holiday as any to bring it back up: we don't have nearly enough federal holidays. that's why i think we should create around 30 more, each anchored to the friday or monday around a significant union army victory

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

"There was also no opposition." Holy shit, read a book.

submitted 7 days ago • 101 comments

jeffries is, apparently, incredibly stupid.

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

the reason YIMBYs are so incessant about YIMBYism is that there is literally One Simple Trick to fix the housing crisis that actually raises government revenue and is environmentally friendly. we just need to legalize housing

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

Great example of the impact of the Affordability Unlocked compatibility waiver @ 1309 Chicon. Without the waiver a quarter of the lot would be in the no-build buffer and another quarter would be limited to 40 ft.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Still cannot decide how I feel about Conor Bradley’s facial hair

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Is Jota not getting booked for that? Outrageous dive lol

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you can look at this and say we're divided or you can look at this and say that a majority of americans oppose every one of these things

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

Amazon, McDonald’s, Target, Lowe’s, Tractor Supply and Walmart are all named in the advisory

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

gotta say I can’t blame Canada for booing us after our president keeps threatening to invade and annex them

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Info for protest on Monday if you're in Austin or nearby. If you make a sign, I recommend something simple on foamboard & anti-Elon. Firing Elon is a limited, achievable goal. Dems will need people on the ground to show them their base is on board for playing hardball with the March 14th shutdown.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

One of the resigning DOJ line attorneys wrote a really good letter and it's literally done more to drive attention to the plight of his office than the entire Democratic Party which represents ~150 million Americans

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

Ever since Deadspin, I have kept a folder of all-time-great principled resignation letters. This may be the best one I've ever seen.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Everyone should speak negatively about ICE. Often.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

gonna run for president in 2028 on a platform of “we will toss every one of those fuckers off the top of the washington monument and you can all come and watch”

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

If I die in a plane crash please politicize the hell out of that

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I’m not super concerned about this but not having a list kinda feeds into my “what exactly have you been doing for 5 years?” question

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Big news from this week’s city council meeting: It’s now illegal to park in bike lanes! 🚴🏽‍♂️ Keep scrolling to watch my statement from the dais and read the great piece from @kutnews.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging? Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

submitted 11 days ago • 1875 comments

when are we gonna call this Trump's war on breakfast?

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Help I’ve been circled back to

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"You pay every time you board a bus, and that makes you think about whether you want to ride it. If you paid every time you used a parking space, you'd also think about whether you want to drive. Free parking doesn’t mean free markets; it often means freeloading." —the late Donald Shoup

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

One of the worst pedestrians-to-walkability ratios in Austin. Very excited there’s progress there.

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First of all, don’t talk like a fucking loser. I’d start with that.

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

they just lied they lied, and they lied, and they lied, and they won because of it and now they're claiming they had a mandate to do all of the things they lied about not doing and many more besides the press bears an enormous amount of responsibility for all of this

submitted 15 days ago • 83 comments