alecbikes (he/him) 🇵🇸🇵🇸

A cyclist on a sidewalk is usually a symptom of bad infrastructure.

As I often say, cyclist vs. pedestrian conflicts arise because both are fighting over the scraps of space not occupied by cars. But what if we took that space from cars to make biking, walking, and rolling safer?

Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) Don Davis (NC-01) Chris Pappas (NH-01) Laura Gillen (NY-04) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) Jared Golden (ME-02) Josh Riley (NY-19) Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) Pat Ryan (NY-18) Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) Kim Schrier (WA-08) Adam Gray (CA-13) Eric Sorensen (IL-17) Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Tom Suozzi (NY-03) Susie Lee (NV-03) Gene Vindman (VA-07) David Min (CA-47) George Whitesides (CA-27)

These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.

Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.

They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.

Polymarket tweets: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals." Laura Loomer replies: "You know things are bad when you can't tell if this is real or a joke. Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?"

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

Screenshot of an Atlantic article about Rahm Emanuel running for president with two photos of him posing in downtown Chicago. One smiling and the other kinda looks like he’s giving us the finger…

The best thing we can do when we see articles about Rahm Emanuel is to not click on them. Show no interest at all. The Atlantic actually paid to promote this article on IG.

Even Republican women at BU want nothing to do with broccoli-hair Florida Boy and his man-baby College Republican supporters dailyfreepress.com/11/15/19/216...

Lowtech vs hightech.

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.

Unprecedentedly corrupt.

UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.

They unilaterally canceled a faculty hiring initiative so successful it’s become a national model. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

They are, right now, considering new rules to limit what we can say in public and share information on our conduct with the police. Now. This is what they are doing. While we console panicked students and try to put our work back together. senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/under...

Under court order, UC publicly releases Trump administration's $1.2-billion settlement proposal The California Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from the University of California to block the release of a roughly $1.2-billion Trump UCLA settlement, leading UCLA to publish the document o...

I mean we had to sue them to *see the demand letter*. And when they lost they appealed to a higher court! www.latimes.com/california/s...

Sorry, I’m sure I sound abysmally negative in a celebratory moment, but it’s important to know that UC admin have fought us every step of the way as we attempted to stand up for our university. It’s become very clear to many of us that they view the values we cherish as impediments to their work.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps

Wow! The lengths Trump will go to just to make Americans starve. His administration has ordered states to “immediately undo” any steps taken to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families.

The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

One of the Greatest Wall Street Investors of All Time Announces Retirement Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio.

what a headline www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi...

Being in Boston 8+ years and only taking @mbta.com maybe once per month (choose to bike for health & reliability) I get to really see the change over time. Impressed by the announcements for passengers on the Orange Lime right now telling us all why we're standing by. Repeated regularly and clearly.

lol

As someone who knows a child sex abuse whistleblower whose career was derailed by telling the truth, this is bravery. She could not be sure her truth telling would end this way

My great grandmother was haunted by the fact that the man who bought her prior home murdered his wife there

ACECO Engineering & Construction Prepares Legal Case Against President Donald Trump Over Unpaid Balances Tied to the East Wing Demolition, Potential Lawsuit Could Exceed $75 Million

Arrested Development "but it might work for us" meme

GOOD MORNING

Apropos of nothing at all related to this, of course, the current admin is really funny (not ha ha) because we know there are all these men who have jobs because the president thinks they are pretty — a thing we do not comment on enough, if I’m honest

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

You can’t gleefully cheer on the demonization and firing of civil servants in the place they all live then be upset that your neighbors don’t care if you live or die. Vogt said he wanted government employees scared to go to work, this is the political environment they built.

A New Era for NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is ready to work to make New York safe and affordable for all of its residents.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.”

www.transition2025.com/apply

As Mamdani Surges Ahead, Schumer Risks Finding Himself Left Behind The rise of New York City’s mayor-elect comes at a complicated moment in the career of Senator Chuck Schumer, who is in danger of looking out of touch with the prevailing energy back home.

“in danger of”

Zohran didn't go far enough. They should pay you to ride the bus.

🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

Mamdani's speech ends and Steinway goes wild.

Big result for bicycling in #CambMa! From 3 down to 2 avowed opponents, Patty Nolan no longer the swing vote.

Personally, I’m selfishly celebrating that Mass Ave north of Porter will actually get rebuilt, and our Bike Bus kids will get their safe route to high school.

Council takeway:

AL-ZUBI IN
FLAHERTY IN

WILSON OUT