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If you rail against bike infrastructure because of the (relatively modest) initial costs, you’re definitively ignorant of how city taxpayer dollars are shoveled into a bottomless pit to support driving as the default, and of how much providing alternatives does to stanch that fiscal bleeding.

So the White House leaked this maybe misinformation to pressure other universities? And it maybe worked on Cornell and Brown? Cool system of mafia government we've got going here.

I think the toilet is my favorite part of this weird AI.

Also everyone who ever gets impeached was legitimately elected, that's the entire point of the thing

I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

It’s incredible how much the collapse of civil society has been engineered by this one single newspaper, constantly trying to highlight everyone else caving as some kind of savvy move by adults

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

The Biden administration had wire and securities fraud charges in motion against Musk for doing this.

Elon Musk bought the election for Donald Trump because doing this, lying about the current and future capabilities of the vehicles he sells, is the foundation of his entire fortune.

My dad and I co-wrote my grandfather’s obituary in January. It was difficult. It was painful. It was cathartic. And it was deeply human. These “tools” are taking away the foundations of what it means to be a person and to experience life.

Noooo… you were just supposed to end all the lib shit! You weren’t supposed to eliminate the reliable statistics and contract law that stem from the lib shit!

Grand Canyon blaze grows into a megafire and creates its own weather. It’s not done yet | CNN The Dragon Bravo Fire exploded in size along the Grand Canyon’s North Rim this week as heat and strong winds drove the growth.

It's almost like gutting the NPS and illegally firing thousands of rangers and wildland firefighters was a stupid idea.

The right’s donors interests are ideologically and financially aligned.

The big donors in the Democratic Party aren’t funding socialists—or even left populists. They don’t want to build infrastructure that moves the party left ideologically.

There is no big money for left-wing projects.

The right has money with it; the left has money against it.

Mainstream Democrats have learned how to represent workers, capitalists, and issue groups. It’s structurally determined to be incoherent.

The left has clear and disciplined operatives, but their aspirations are blocked by the center.

This is exactly right; any answer to any question about “why doesn’t the left do X thing the right does” is always the same.

My friends and I have attempted a version of taking over the Democratic Party from the left. The campaign against us by the establishment has been unrelenting.

If you're ruthless for the right, you get money put behind you. If you're ruthless for the left, you get money put against you.

America First Legal got >$50 million in funding. A left version of the same would get attacked by Dem orgs and donors, and everyone associated with it blacklisted forever.

Also the pain when you patch a drywall thing and then realize you're going to have to figure out what the fuck paint color you decided to use on your walls that you didn't write down in 2012 because "oh, that's a very distinctive name, I for sure will remember it."

It will save you a lot of time and money when you can just say "oh yeah I need a new o-ring it's a Delta Whazzicallit made in 2014" and buy a $1.34 part."

If you buy a home, learn from my mistakes and keep a list of:

* the manufacturer and model of all of your faucets / fixtures
* every paint color + manufacturer + glossiness of every paint you do

I noticed an uptick in the amount of virulently racist anti-Asian American slurs among the anti-immigrant influencers.

Yeonsoo Go is a 20-year-old pastor’s daughter and Purdue student. Tae Heung Kim is a Ph.D. student and medical researcher at Texas A&M.

Both have been taken and detained indefinitely in miserable conditions, and cut off from communication with family.

If you voted for Trump, you voted for this.

YEONSOO GO: 20-YEAR-OLD KOREAN AMERICAN PASTOR'S DAUGHTER AND PURDUE UNIVERSITY STUDENT WITH LEGAL VISA- ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

TAE HEUNG "WILL" KIM: KOREAN AMERICAN PH.D. STUDENT & MEDICAL RESEARCHER AT TEXAS A&M, LAWFUL PERMANENT U.S. RESIDENT - ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

A growing number of the new victims of Trump’s cruel, illegal ICE terror are young Asian Americans with LEGAL STATUS who have grown up their entire lives in this country and are being swept up for minor infractions or technicalities.

I don’t think anyone is going to be able to top the US for sheer self-inflicted fuckery for watching J6 and putting Trump back in the White House four years later

but the Brits following up the absolute shitshow that is Brexit by electing Reform UK and Farage would be as close as we’ve seen

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

That quote winded me.

And sure, we can argue about it: of course culture can exist without modern journalism. But I think focusing on a narrow read utterly misses the point.

Ending local news deals a catastrophic blow to local identity, self-determination & civic capacity.

And it is on purpose.

When we talk about corporate disinvestment in local newspapers, what we mean is that rural communities have been stripped of their local journalism.

When local news dies, “It essentially nationalizes content for those areas, so that local cultures no longer exist to themselves anymore.”

This interview is so clear & quietly devastating. Public media as we understand it is over.

This is not about the end of NPR & PBS. They might be able to find ways to continue to make programs. Instead of content, this is about the capacity to broadcast at all - antennae, transmitters, licenses. 🧵

Having a good time in New Orleans atm, but three different bartenders have told me that this is the worst non-COVID summer they've ever seen—one of whom has worked in the French Quarter for *forty years*.

We also saw, with Covid, the way people would try and downplay the harm by talking about people who "would have died anyway" --that same logic will also be used here to some extent, and probably always has been. "Yeah but those famine numbers include some underweight 93 year old-- does that count?"

But the idea is that years from now, they can argue this is Palestine's fault for not waving the white flag, in a way that death camps or mass execution would be much harder to shrug off.
And with disease deaths, we are seeing, in real time, this dynamic play out.

In the case of Gaza, famine is the "middle ground" tool of execution. The goal of those who want to ethnically cleanse Gaza is to withold as much culpability as possible. Famine *can* be rooted in natural causes, so it *can* avoid culpability.

It won't, here, as history is concerned.