Alex Karklins

Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one? The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.

This is a good article, worth reading.

Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?

The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.

Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat

X Post by Michael Adams, Kentucky Secretary of State: "We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry."

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?

This.

This is what you get.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

AG: Anti-dark-money ballot initiative doesn’t meet legal requirements • Daily Montanan Transparent Election Initiative seeks to limit power of corporations to spend money on elections, campaigns or candidates, will appeal to state SupCo

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen has rejected a ballot initiative seeking to limit the power of corporations to spend money on elections, saying it did not meet legal review standards. His decision will be appealed. By @mddrew.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2025/10/30/a... #mtpol #mtnews

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Trump's approval ratings are tanking. He's flailing on the economy. He hasn't done squat to help working people. The Epstein scandal haunts him.

Remember that every authoritarian action Trump is taking must be understood against the backdrop of his declining popularity.

Every dollar spent on SNAP generates between $1.50 and $1.80 for local economies.

Even if you don’t care about poor people (which you absolutely should), you should care about the entirely self-inflicted negative economic impact this is going to have

Happy birthday to the NES, companion to millions of Nintendo childhoods Forty years ago today, the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the US – and a generation of kids were sucked into video games for life

I got to write this nice piece for @theguardian.com about the birthday of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Something that at least isn't full sorrow and horror, you know.

Can't wait to see how the model improves by mining the browsing data of the dumbest, most credulous fucks in the technosphere.

Trump administration demolishing entire East Wing of the White House to add new ballroom Trump said in July that the $250 million project “won’t interfere with the current building.”

Trump has taken a torch to essential federal programs, our public lands, and the rule of law.

And now he’s literally bulldozing the People’s House to build a lavish ballroom funded by billionaire donors.

Share this to make sure every American knows what he has taken away.

An ACLU leader and University of Montana professor weigh in on the new presidential memo on national security — NSPM-7 — and what it means for civil liberties: (meant to repost my story from my account)

Well deserved FG miss by the Eagles after that ridiculous run call on 3rd and 5.

What a fucking joke.

Welp, the offense is still shitty. Inexcusable.

I’m REALLY not in the mood for a Carson Wentz revenge game.

#NoKings 10k strong in Missoula YES!

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Proud to have cast my vote for Daniel Carlino for Ward 3 in Missoula City Council!

This is probably the most important race in the city, as it is between someone actually on the left (Carlino) and a landlord/house-flipper masquerading as a progressive so she can protect her landlord money (Savage)

I discovered Mountain time is the sweet spot and never went back.

James Michael Johnson, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, is fanatically devoted to Donald Trump and expresses his adoration by endeavoring to give Trump everything he wants, despite never having heard a word Trump has written or said or any specific account of anything Trump has done.

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

It's a testament to the Dodgers' industry-leading depth that when one of their accomplished-but-washed chud pitchers duffs a game out of reach they actually have another accomplished-but-washed chud with even worse politics to bring in to mop it up. Most teams don't even have one guy that odious.

Thinking of AI as a Social Problem No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.

"Why would OpenAI and Microsoft spend $23 million to give 'free training' on how to use AI to teachers? Because they love teachers? No. Because they want to get their products into public schools in an attempt to cultivate the education market." — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

An Autocracy of Dunces How stone-faced generals, Wall Street pushback, and a government shutdown may save America’s quickly declining democracy

Always wondered who wrote Krugman's headlines and it's pretty clearly @pkrugman.bsky.social

Love that the Eagles offensive coordinator is either someone who will be a successful head coach in a year or Blurpo Borpo, a guy who led Holy Cross to the 4th best attack in the Patriot League in 2021

Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

Unfortunately, they have not created an AI model that can replace your dignity

YouTube video by Rybar Fred Armisen does the drum break in In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins at the Rock Hall

The buildup and payoff for the weekend’s Trump rumors.