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who wants to start a newsletter of “here is what happened in executive order land that’s relevant to the class you’re teaching tomorrow morning”

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Smoking in restaurants used to be ubiquitous — despite it degrading the experience for everyone else. It was the way things had always been done — it's tradition! Smokers are essential for business! Then we banned it in 2005. Now no one wants to go back. This is a post about cars in Pike Place.

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

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This is freedom. Infrastructure safe enough for kids and teenagers to ride to school & almost anywhere. Netherlands

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Justin Timberlake got to experience the #BikeBus Magic in Portland!!

submitted 40 days ago • 5 comments

this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)

submitted 40 days ago • 165 comments

Look how few cars there are (and how they are zipping along) compared to American school drop off mayhem

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

This paper is a great example of solid evidence of systemic discrimination: "Black taxpayers are audited at 2.9 to 4.7 times the rate of non-Black taxpayers." This reflects a series of choices built into the IRS audit algorithm: focus on the EITC, and overclaiming of credits.

submitted 41 days ago • 24 comments

#goals

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Once you've seen noticed the "Gormless Gap" you see it everywhere Pedestrian space stolen so that careless motorists don't scratch their cars What unintended consequences might emerge from building a world where people are systematically protected from any consequences when they drive carelessly?

submitted 41 days ago • 34 comments

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For more than 40 years, migrating birds have been crashing into McCormick Place Lakeside Center. But this fall, when bird collision monitors performed their usual daily searches of the building’s grounds, they found something remarkable: just 18 dead birds.

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

Republicans worked the ref relentlessly - bad faith accusations of censorship, congressional hearings, Trump threatening to imprison Zuckerberg - and it worked because Republicans also have power to act on their threats. This is what you get when politicians who attack liberal values are empowered.

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

Some 🐔s coming home to roost here. I have long warned about the dangers of putting so much power over speech in the hands of one billionaire. That goes both ways - when Meta intervenes too much (e.g., the Hunter Biden laptop) and when it pulls back from reasonable content moderation (possibly here).

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"The most recent data indicates that abortion bans come at the cost of more than 36,000 residents per quarter...more for single-person households...also suggestive evidence of impacts for states that were hostile towards abortion in ways other than having total bans." www.nber.org/papers/w3332...

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Sharing this piece because I feel it deep in my bones. Jan 6 pardons will hurt the country. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/o...

submitted 48 days ago • 16 comments

91 years old

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Tesla Cybertruck sales are disastrous - despite 1 million pre-orders, demand has evaporated - Tesla delivered only about 10,000 cybertrucks in the 4th quarter - this issue isn't production, it's demand electrek.co/2025/01/02/t...

submitted 51 days ago • 770 comments

Cycle lane for 8-80 yr olds alongside a main road between two villages 👌

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if you're on the fence about buying and riding a bike, this website was made for you if you're thinking of replacing your car with a bike, this is for you if you are thinking of getting a used bike, this is for you shouldibuyabike.com

submitted 51 days ago • 6 comments

End stroads!!!!

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Anyone sitting in a warm car honking at the guy slinging heavy garbage cans into a trash truck on a freezing day gets assigned to trash truck duty in their next life

submitted 51 days ago • 6 comments

The AEA is having a panel for the first time on socoieconomic diversity in economics! w/ @johnlist.bsky.social @luciegschmidt.bsky.social @ronjarmin.bsky.social Chris Campos Jason Faberman & me & lots of time for audience discussion Please join us Saturday at (gulp) 8am

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

A special thank you to our AERA Open editorial board!!! Unfortunately, I couldn't list them all here but you can find them at this post: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Or on our webpage: journals.sagepub.com/editorial-bo...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

This is as maddening an illustration of the baseline problem as you’re likely to see. “Effectively enhanced”—measured against what? A post-Dobbs baseline. Why is that the baseline? Because rights gains/losses are measured with reference to what the court last said. Why? Because—huh.

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

'the market will solve our affordable housing shortage' the market:

submitted 56 days ago • 11 comments

RIP President Carter. people.com/jimmy-carter...

submitted 55 days ago • 35 comments

May his memory be a blessing

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The evidence for more solid, controlling car infrastructure design details are everywhere if you just look for them. There is no PSA or sign that will do the enforcement work of solid design.

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

A core memory for me is finding my first fossil in a sandbox at the Nebraska State Museum and learning about sea urchins. Museum educators: sometimes the 3-4 year-old really does keep their free fossil forever and advances beyond junior paleontologist. Thanks for all you do. #fossilfriday

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

As the car-centric suburban experiment intensified, more and more parents became convinced that it was unsafe for their kids to walk or bike to school. So parents increasingly drove their kids, paradoxically adding even more traffic, making streets even less safe.

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

K12 teachers never underestimate your positive impact both small and large on your students. If they remember you and speak to you as adults when in public, you've done good. 😊

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

Here is your regular reminder that there is no such thing as unskilled labor. There is only unvalued labor.

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

It’s hard to dunk on cyber truck owners any worse than what they regularly do to themselves

submitted 58 days ago • 200 comments

'please limit apartments to the dangerous roads' if the city continues to prioritize the demands of privileged homeowners at the expense of everyone else, our housing crisis will only get worse.

submitted 58 days ago • 5 comments

warming ticks above 1.5°C globally, right as many of our governments are pulling back on even the middling action they were taking to cut emissions

submitted 59 days ago • 4 comments

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The physics of a spinning dreidel is quite a bit different in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station, as demonstrated by astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli. 🧪

submitted 59 days ago • 17 comments

Is there a bigger endorsement of the relevance and importance of sociology?

submitted 60 days ago • 7 comments