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VANCE: "Our view has been very clear that we don't want a regime change." HEGSETH: "This mission was not and has not been about regime change." RUBIO: Regime change is "certainly not the goal of what we're working on here." TRUMP:

submitted 4 days ago • 266 comments

Former President Bill Clinton, who was first elected governor at 32 years old, says that 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani doesn't have enough experience to be NYC mayor.

submitted 3 days ago • 152 comments

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

submitted 4 days ago • 405 comments

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

submitted 4 days ago • 660 comments

ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A. After realizing he’s American, they just slink away. Their only explanation: “Why were you running?” Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.

submitted 5 days ago • 1221 comments

A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.

submitted 12 days ago • 687 comments

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 301 comments

A perfect ad. Pass this along to everyone you know in New York.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

submitted 15 days ago • 311 comments

i just watched a clip of stephen miller talking to hannity from a few days ago and my god is that guy a stone cold freak. like, everything about him is profoundly off-putting, like a bug in an eggar suit

submitted 15 days ago • 1035 comments

A damning pair of charts. People on lowest incomes own FIVE TIMES fewer cars than the richest do. Meanwhile kids in most deprived areas are FIVE TIMES more likely to be injured by cars.

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today. I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children. Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us. One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.

submitted 16 days ago • 144 comments

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

submitted 18 days ago • 382 comments

The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

submitted 18 days ago • 308 comments

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 19 days ago • 329 comments

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

submitted 21 days ago • 284 comments

It's impossible to make sense of American zoning, historically or today, without understanding that it has almost nothing to do with separating residential and classic nuisance. It's a mechanism of segregation, that's it.

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

Today I saw the executive director of the American Enterprise Institute attempt to address a conference room full of leaders of state human services agencies and I have never seen a speaker more reviled. Big swaths of the audience (myself included) simply walked out because he was such an asshole.

submitted 23 days ago • 37 comments

“Inclusionary zoning” is one of those policies that sounds great at first but then when you look at the actual impact it ends up just being a massive tax on new apartments that exempts single family homes, accomplishing the exact opposite of the intended effect

submitted 39 days ago • 24 comments

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

submitted 58 days ago • 31 comments

More data supporting the need to restrict vehicle sizes. Car bloat is killing people, plain and simple.

submitted 55 days ago • 6 comments

This UCLA psychiatrist's expert evaluation of ex-sheriff Alex Villanueva is ... really something. (The county hired Cohen to do this eval to determine whether Villanueva had really suffered emotional distress as a result of being put on a "Do Not Rehire" list, as he alleged in his lawsuit.)

submitted 58 days ago • 93 comments

My God. BREAKING: Several people killed, others injured after vehicle [not vehicle, driver] drives into Vancouver street festival crowd: police. Vancouver police say the driver is in custody after incident near Fraser Street and East 41st Avenue.

submitted 60 days ago • 22 comments

and this is a policy choice.

submitted 73 days ago • 5 comments

Detroit-style pizza is better than NY or Chicago-style.

submitted 71 days ago • 32 comments

i agree with this

submitted 71 days ago • 269 comments

me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

submitted 78 days ago • 403 comments

My whole life has been, “democrats are better at equity/environmental/climate stuff, and republicans are better at the economy” but there’s honestly never been anything republicans are good at, certainly not the economy

submitted 78 days ago • 10 comments

On Fri 2/14/25 4:02 pm the driver (62/F) of a 2014 Honda CRV who was turning left from Congressional Plaza to Halpine Rd hit & injured a pedestrian (60/F) crossing properly in a median/crossing island. Rockville police (DD5653004H) did not find anyone at fault. Left on green🟢 across WALK.

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.

submitted 83 days ago • 5265 comments

yall we can’t collectively screech that “no one’s doing anything!” and then say “no not like that” when someone actually does something. is Booker’s filibuster gonna save the world? of course not. but since courage begets courage it could lead to more. I’m fucking cynical as hell but come on.

submitted 86 days ago • 209 comments

California's new daylighting law prohibits parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk approach (even unmarked). This important law protects all road users: children, people on foot and bicycle and drivers. Most crashes are at intersections. This law will save lives. Photo credit: @bfurnas.bsky.social

submitted 87 days ago • 7 comments

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 91 days ago • 2058 comments

i am going to force jon stewart into a hot dog costume at gunpoint

submitted 97 days ago • 39 comments

Share the media. The news is compromised. We're starting to boil over.

submitted 103 days ago • 16 comments

Traffic evaporation happens every time you narrow roadways or charge tolls, but we still have to convince electeds and planners every single time that it works because they never believe it.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

There's a Sustainability version of this too: Advocate for change to greener lifestyles and you'll quickly be told this has to be a "Just Transition", yet I don't recall anybody ever explaining how the status quo is just

submitted 111 days ago • 8 comments

Cost of living is a problem throughout the country, but it’s off the charts in California. Why? Because of our obscenely high housing costs, driven by a massive housing shortage. We make it way, way too hard to build new homes & that needs to change. 🧵

submitted 114 days ago • 28 comments

MEUSER: You've got Trudeau saying how the president is making a dumb move. That's bad diplomacy. SANCHEZ: I'm not sure how it's good diplomacy to say that a neighboring country should be the 51st state and that you're gonna impose economic hardship to achieve that goal.

submitted 114 days ago • 1539 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 126 days ago • 258 comments

HOT RESEARCH NEWS! Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor... Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

submitted 129 days ago • 42 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 131 days ago • 2901 comments