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I lived in this neighborhood for years and never noticed this house… because it is utterly obscured by trees maps.app.goo.gl/J1vdHR95bgyg...

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pundits: “Trump supporters just had valid concerns about the economy” actual Trump supporters: “i don’t care if Trump destroys the economy and kills my business, as long as he keeps the immigrants out. also I am an immigrant”

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Veterans have, by law, preferential hiring in the federal government. Disabled veterans get higher preference. Among other things, it's a pipeline to help them adjust post-service. So if you're roasting all the new hires, you're roasting a lot of veterans, with a lean towards disabled vets.

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Screens in cars was a giant mistake.

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My 2nd proudest moment as a father is listening to my daughter in the bathroom by herself singing a doo-wop song about pooping that I made up

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Duo isn’t an owl but rather a phoenix

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There were great plans for a bridge connecting Marin to Telegraph Hill via Angel Island. 🖼️ by @alfredtwu.com

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We don't want to hear "the pedestrian was wearing a black jacket" ever again

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I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

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I worked at an agency that got all of its funding from the federal government and we couldn’t even buy food for community meetings. Staff meetings/events were all paid through donations

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Riding the light rail in Sacramento, at some point station announcements stop and you have to press the button to open the doors. A heads up would’ve been nice 🙄🙄🙄

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Former home of Ida B. Wells, 3624 S. King Dr., Chicago. 1889, Joseph Thain, architect. #BlackHistoryMonth

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Sacramento has a street light arboretum on their riverfront promenade

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Israel is holding 21-year-old Afro-Palestinian artist, student, and activist Shaden Al-Qous hostage. Israel’s military kidnapped her from her home in East Jerusalem on January 6, after five days of forced house arrest. Soldiers ransacked her home, confiscating her laptop and phone.

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The reason Jevons paradox applies to coal but not to AI is because coal is a useful product

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Congestion Pricing is creating tremendous benefits. Subway Ridership: ⬆️ 13% Bus Ridership: ⬆️ 6% (⬆️ 21% weekends) Transit Crime: 🔻36% Fatal Car Crashes: 🔻44% Trip Times: 🔻10-30%

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This is so good.

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Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.

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…for the last time until 2003

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Please kill me

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The second time a former residence of mine has been featured on mpls photo bot (the sliver of balcony, not the food mart)

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Car dependency has been so normalized that most people don't know that putting a child into a car is more dangerous than putting them on a bike. In fact, car trips are the most dangerous activity that most children partake in.

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Just the <checks notes> Chair of the House Appropriations Committee going on the record to say that appropriations statutes “are not a law.” The United States Congress, ladies and gentlemen.

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More “very fine people”

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@ofpedacitopan.bsky.social

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Since nobody asked, here is a map showing where polar bears have been found in Iceland after drifting over from Greenland on icebergs.

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I lived in this house! No way it was built before the 90s

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Portland looking particularly apocalyptic today

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The mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, apparently worked all morning before going to the hospital to have a baby in the afternoon. 😳 That is some dedication. (Also, congrats Mayor Wu and family!)

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Likely nicer and denser than what’s there today maps.app.goo.gl/v2yMQRjAfz8F...

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NEW: A study by Yale University and other institutions has found that the Gaza war death toll is likely 41% HIGHER than Palestinian health officials reported. It also found that over 59% of those killed were women, children and people over the age of 65. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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Two key figures about the #LAFires. The estimated cost is now US$57 billion: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/b... ExxonMobil's 2023 profits were US$36 billion: corporate.exxonmobil.com/news/news-re... Fossil fuel companies are now only viable because others pay the costs of global warming disasters.

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This is actually looking east on Essex; the buildings on the left in the picture still exist

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