@mikecmerritt.bsky.social
Father, Navy veteran, small business owner, bicycling advocate. From Massachusetts to Norfolk, VA. Born at 324.09 CO2 ppm
#PaintIsNotProtection
08.10.2025 02:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It is! But people won’t cycle if they have to share space with cars. People need to feel safe before they start riding regularly.
08.10.2025 02:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Seriously. Norfolk has blown an amazing opportunity. We could be the subject of admiration.
08.10.2025 02:17 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot
07.10.2025 21:37 — 👍 1924 🔁 289 💬 457 📌 639“Waiting for new leadership…”. Didn’t they deliberately elect this current leadership?
07.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How to relieve traffic congestion, guaranteed:
Support density, sidewalks, protected bike lanes, and high quality public transit. Give people more reasons to stay out of cars and the road will open up to you.
No Caligula.
07.10.2025 15:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘Hampton Roads Transit (HRT) is adding Tide light rail frequencies to better connect with Amtrak train service as part of its fall schedule adjustments starting Sunday, Oct. 12.’
07.10.2025 14:32 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A normal drivers license exam but then add a personality quiz that you only pass if you show that you value the safety of others
07.10.2025 04:24 — 👍 144 🔁 20 💬 12 📌 7
Criterion Horror recommendation: Kuroneko (1968) youtu.be/3jRRK-cOdkI?...
07.10.2025 03:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As a longtime @theatlantic.com reader, this is gold.
07.10.2025 00:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?
06.10.2025 20:35 — 👍 7550 🔁 1488 💬 159 📌 42Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social
06.10.2025 23:00 — 👍 22938 🔁 14758 💬 766 📌 1003Heck, even back to Reagan in the 80’s.
06.10.2025 22:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He had a predecessor too, you know. U.S. policy there was all wrong from the get-go.
06.10.2025 22:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
People arguing on this here website that we should structure our force to be able to fight like the Ukrainians.
Don’t worry though we will completely ignore the pivotal early days of the war, or the fact we have a vastly different force structure that demands us to fight entirely differently.
Polisintrovert
05.10.2025 23:54 — 👍 26 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lesson One: The Battle of Hostomel Airport
05.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good morning from Lamberts Point Park!
05.10.2025 14:30 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I’m here for it!
05.10.2025 00:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It is not fascism unless it comes from the fascist region of Italy. Otherwise it's just sparkling authoritarianism.
By Tom Nichols
Yo lo vi!
04.10.2025 23:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here now. 34-0 (halftime). So, I’d say yes.
04.10.2025 23:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️
30.09.2025 14:34 — 👍 630 🔁 298 💬 8 📌 46It’s the CO2 emissions.
04.10.2025 02:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yeah, I wanna know!
04.10.2025 02:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s the CO2 emissions.
03.10.2025 19:29 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m missing it as well, but will aim for next year.
03.10.2025 14:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Are you not going to Pordenone?
03.10.2025 14:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s the CO2 emissions.
03.10.2025 11:55 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
