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Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...

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"The increase to Musk's wealth since Trump was elected president three months ago is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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François Heisbourg, one of the world’s leading strategists and a cool head:

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Such hostile nonsense from Americans in power just now. I wish we would listen to people who have suffered for reporting the truth, like Stanislav Aseyev, combat veteran and survivor of a Russian torture camp.

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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

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"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

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share.newsbreak.com/bme4kx29 How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

submitted 3 days ago • 674 comments

I think industry taking advantage of men (sports betting, loot boxes, online dating, body issues like below (manorexia?)) has really come into its own recently, and whereas beauty standards for women have at least gotten feminist pushback, the male equivalent just furthers the grift.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

I don’t know EU tech regulation at all, but unlike the US, EU regulation of housing actually allows people to build walkable neighborhoods at scale, including factory-built homes. Each regulation (or lack thereof) is only as good as its results, and the details matter.

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DOGE By The Numbers theonion.com/doge-by...

submitted 2 days ago • 182 comments

hey @mattyglesias.bsky.social, the piece that you link to here — my piece — does not say that “all DEI critics want to reimpose segregation” and i would appreciate it if you didn’t lie to your audience about what my work says.

submitted 3 days ago • 355 comments

⚠️Are you over 65 or have a #disability? A Cut to #Medicaid is a Cut to #Medicare! Tell Congress don’t cut Medicaid! Use this # 866-426-2631 Say no to any Medicaid cuts: whether it’s work requirements, eligibility changes, or reduced funding, a cut is a cut! www.medicarerights.org/medicare-wat...

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the hypocrisy of saying "america first" while helping a company that makes it hard for US factories to pay fair wages

submitted 14 days ago • 55 comments

me buying an egg with the money i get back

submitted 11 days ago • 50 comments

I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

submitted 2 days ago • 110 comments

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

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 3 days ago • 556 comments

Everyone needs to see this. Be ready to deny access, even if you don't know any immigrants. Let them waste time and you might save a family somewhere else. #Disobey #blue #fotus #FBR #immigrants #TruthWarriors #theresistance #resist #FBPE #FuckICE #SaveOurDemocracy #sanctuary #organize #fucktrump

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

Guess which law enforcement agency is tasked with enforcing judicial rulings?

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

Please read and share. But especially share with folks that might not realize how critical Section 504 is to so many people. I tried to write a simple clear explanation at the break. Gift link here: www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

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I heard the NEA is only considering proposals related to 1776 & the USA’s 250th birthday & I was feeling intensely patriotic, so I’m printing these really big posters inspired directly by the Founding Fathers The cut was carved from the masthead of a 19th century newspaper

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

submitted 3 days ago • 967 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 858 comments

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

submitted 3 days ago • 178 comments

CISA controls the .gov domain registrar and the national public key infrastructure (PKI). This means Elon Musk has the ability to shut down any federal, state, or city government using a .gov domain. Musk can also now prevent .gov agencies and officials from registering their .gov BlueSky handles

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The silent killer. 100 daily deaths of children under five linked to air pollution in East Asia & the Pacific. @ChildInTheCity1 bit.ly/4k0vJhI Schools in Canada, US, UK, AU... with drop-off zone close to schools, have 2 hour poisoned air in close-by classrooms!! #EndIt!

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This is incredible reporting that must shock the conscience of each and every one of us.

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By a 42-6 vote, the Washington Senate just approved a bill directing the state to adopt standards for passenger and freight elevators that are more reflective of global standards, including a specific requirement to allow smaller elevators in buildings with fewer than 25 units.

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lmfao do you know how unpopular you have to be to poll 4 points behind international aid and 12 points behind the IRS here

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Single family homes do not have to comply with ADA 30% of people with disabilities cannot drive due to their disability It is a no brainer to legalize dense, urban, mixed use neighborhoods as a solution for accessibility

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📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

submitted 3 days ago • 571 comments

Garcia: "I find it ironic that our chairman, Rep. Greene, is in charge of running this committee. In the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our Oversight hearing, so I thought I'd bring one as well. This, of course, is President Elon Musk ... "

submitted 11 days ago • 896 comments

Wherein Elon says the quiet, corrupt part out loud: He intends to steal the private IRS data of his political enemies. How soon before he does the same to his economic competitors? Or you?

submitted 5 days ago • 696 comments

New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

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Federal employee terminations will cause widespread economic damage even beyond the hardships for specific employees How many federal workers live in your state or county or congressional district? I made an little interactive site to tell you economic.github.io/federal_work...

submitted 8 days ago • 123 comments

my real fear (articulated last november) is that Musk following the Twitter playbook doesn't just mean chaos and organizational dysfunction and firings...it means not caring at all about the financial health of the organization bc the ultimate goal is creating a political weapon

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Many people predicted something like this, but Charlie had the most accurate prediction last fall that I have seen from anybody, and I am inclined to think he is right here as well.

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Godless, antichrist worshipping nation.

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Finland had a general strike over a few hundred workers being reclassified into lower pay and brought down a government.

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changing $8M to $8B the classic thing that guys who only have read-only access do with government databases

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“This is a money grab” Musk has gotten 1 billion in new government contracts in just 2 weeks.

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Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

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U.S. media: Interviewing retired Democrats about whether taking over Canada would help them electorally Canadian media: Interviewing retired counterinsurgency advisors on what a campaign of resistance against an armed invasion would look like

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#Dallas “City planners say doing away with minimums will free up considerable time and resources for staff, saying 50% - 70% of the time permitting new builds is spent on developers meeting specified parking minimums.” www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/d...

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all the clearance trainings about what to look out for as signs of possible recruitment are about to become demands

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There's no unemployment if we fire everyone at BLS!

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