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Chicago, you’re next.

These work great in blocks with pre-war walkups.

Yeah, GCN gets a lot of crap (some deserved), but they've absolutely done a lot to normalize utility cycling among an audience that is mostly recreational riders. I think it helps that many of the presenters are also bike commuters!

Jamelle Bouie has reached out to apologize for the harassment I received for the past week as well. just got his message today.

i wanna reiterate that i don't think he's at fault for the worst things that have occurred and i don't want people harassing him on my behalf. let's just be adults. 💖

a very important and completely unacknowledged part of this is "latin american racial relations" where people americans consider the same ethnicity don't actually see themselves that way - they see their own people as white and the others as some old timey slur

Iranian-American Rep. @yassaminansari.bsky.social opposes Trump’s “illegal” war: “My family & friends have been brutalized and murdered by the Islamic Republic… but Trump has shown freedom for the people of Iran is not his priority. I will be voting YES on the war powers resolution.”

I can hallucinate things at you too comrade.

i’m ngl xi “aren’t low prices good for people?”ing his way into a deflationary spiral has been my favorite economic development of the 21st century

Sitting here crying about a dad mourning his murdered daughter and this guy wants to argue semantics about how the IDF killed her with a tactic invented by the IRA, so actually it's wrong to blame Israel. If you ever want to know what 'completely missing the point' looks like:

Thank you to @ericadler.bsky.social for the concise and accurate explanation of public, private, and personal property
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Vibes are immaculate

Kamala Harris campaign told how to win by UK Labour strategist Deborah Mattinson — a fixture of the U.K. polling scene — will travel to Washington D.C. next week to brief the Harris-Walz team.

But for real, here's an article from 2024 after Labour's win. They completely misread why they won, attributing it to them shifting rightward (instead of the reality: they were Not The Tories), and Dems solicited disastrous advice from them. www.politico.eu/article/kama...

worth noting imo that support for the Iraq War 2003 at the start was upwards of 70% in some polls

globalaffairs.org/commentary/b....

It's like white blood cells, moderating how you can talk about the US, and it can't be like you'd talk about Russia or Israel, despite identical crime committed.

"Rules for thee, but not for me"

Why, when I write "Fck [Israel] for settler colonialism & expansionist invasions" or "Damn [Russians] for collective inaction" or "Boycott [Israeli] products/institutions" everyone is alright. Share the same sentiment about the US, and I get jumped by US people telling me off for crossing the line.

I'm still annoyed they slow-walked the War Powers Resolution but what today's vote pretty firmly says is that it would have failed even before the strikes were ordered. Literally only Democrats even pretend to care about congressional war powers at this point.

Sums up this country

Also worth noting that downstate Illinois is already in a severe drought, and as climate-change-driven storm intensification means less ground infiltration even if precipitation increases (since downpours result in more runoff to streams and rivers rather than aquifer replenishment through the soil)

There’s going to be a major reckoning within the next decade or two when rural/exurban aquifers start drying up and they start putting political pressure on tapping into Chicagoland’s lake supply.

All the more reason why today’s growth strategy needs to be sustainable infill, not infinite sprawl.

Silence meeee

Me to the careers of anti-trans Dems:

Democratic state lawmakers in New York to back tax hike on rich The state Senate and Assembly budget proposals are set to include plans to boost taxes on millionaires, a plan opposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.

lets fucking goooooooo LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO

Steel Yard commons in Cleveland has been enriching nuclear material I have proof

I genuinely struggle to think of a worse, more doomed with massive collateral damage way to half-ass regime change

beloved friends, if anyone ever tells you that soldiers have no choice, please feel free to throw this AND your hands their way.

if you think the greatest threat to effeminate gay boys is the trans movement and not the cis straight men who overwhelmingly exclude and brutalize them then you should walk into the ocean immediately

Capitalists target teachers and schools in the hopes of keeping the masses illiterate and ignorant so that they can’t read the contracts, loans, or paperwork they’re signing their names to. That results in more than just wage slavery but also literal contract slavery. We are seeing this right now.