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In 2025, Democrats Flipped 21 Percent of GOP-Held Legislative Seats - Bolts At the start of Donald Trump’s first presidency, in 2017, large Democratic victories in New Jersey and Virginia, paired with overperformances in special elections, foreshadowed the blue wave of the......

NEW, from me: One startling stat captures just how badly the year went for the GOP.

Democrats flipped 21% of all GOP-held legislative seats at play.

That's thanks to gains they made in six states this year, and I break it all down in my latest:

Feel like I have seen more this week than ever before. GTFO

Men under 30 are far more likely today than in 2022 to view legal sports betting as bad for society % who say the fact that betting on sports is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, among .... Men Women 60% 40 - 46 39 31 48 65+ 47 Ages 18-29 43 50-64 43 30-49 45 C 50 Ages 65+ 42 50-64 36 30-49 35 18-29 36 C 271 25 22 20 - July 2022 July 2025 July 2022 Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted July 8-Aug. 3, 2025. PEW RESEARCH CENTER July 2025

Everywhere you look there is an opening for leadership.

What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility

DC Orioles? C'mon folks.

11th NW between K and Massachusetts.

WMATA charges a lower parking rate if you exit the garage using your SmarTrip card within 2 hours of taking a Metro trip, in order to reduce other uses of the garage.

Yeah this was part of the old deck, so I assume it wasn't built to have an office building?

A metro bus that is specifically avoiding the empty bus lane

When ur doing it wrong #BusLanes

It would cost the country

n o t h i n g

for the next transpo authorization bill to take discretion away from USDOT to grant permission to pursue cordon pricing.

It’s been proven here, let our cities cook.

Ooh also Buchanan is missing - those pre-civil-war losers are forgettable anyway.

Who could forget the famous presidents like:
The Other Tyler
H.W. Harrison
J O comma Adams
Theodore Roosev-

And the presidents left off because of space constraints and I guess adding some guys who weren't president:
Both Bushes
Pierce (frankly I always forget about him too)

Would you rather ride on a train where you can walk away from someone who's behavior bothers you, or a train where you have to wait for the next stop to do so?

this should be completely illegal and punishable with exile

The top 5 U.S. transit agencies (under 3m trips) by ridership growth are:

1. Virginia Railway Express ⬆️ 42%
2. @smarttrain.bsky.social ⬆️ 36%
3. Delaware County Transit ⬆️ 35%
4. High Valley Transit ⬆️ 28%
5. Billings MET Transit ⬆️ 28%

#TransitWrapped2025 is fall 2025 to fall 2024.

The top 5 fastest growing U.S. transit agencies (3 million to 15 million annual trips) over the last year are:
1. @caltrain.com, CA ⬆️ 56%
2. GoRaleigh, NC ⬆️ 42%
3. Blacksburg Transit, VA ⬆️ 26%
4. Airtrain JFK, NY ⬆️ 23%
5. Golden Empire Transit, CA ⬆️ 20%

#TransitWrapped2025 is fall 2025-fall 2024.

The top five fastest growing U.S. transit agencies with 15 million to 50 million annual trips are:
1. @sound-transit.bsky.social, WA ⬆️ 21%
2. Lynx, FL ⬆️ 10%
3. CATS, NC ⬆️ 9%
4. Metra, IL ⬆️ 9%
5. @valleymetro.org, AZ ⬆️ 8%

#TransitWrapped2025 data is fall 2025 to fall 2024.

Of the largest U.S. transit agencies (50 million+ annual riders) here are the 5 growing fastest:
1. @wmata.com, DC ⬆️ 15%
2. @mtalirr.bsky.social, NY ⬆️ 14%
3. @mbta.com, MA ⬆️ 10%
4. @mta.info @nyctransit.bsky.social, NY ⬆️ 10%
5. Port Authority NY/NJ ⬆️ 9%

#TransitWrapped2025 is fall 2025 to fall 2024

Grinchballs the Cereal

Decline in share of Republicans who support vaccine requirement for children to attend public schools % of U.S. adults who say the following about childhood vaceines for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) U.s. adults • Rep/lean Rep : Dem/lean Dom 82 82 83 Healthy children should be required to be vaccinated to attend public schools because or tre potental Tsk for others 85 79 79 70 57 Parents should be able to decide norto vaccinate Their children. even it that may create health risks for others 17 16 12 28 19 20 15 14 42 Jun Oct Mar '16 19 23 Oct Mar 16193 Note: Respondents who did not give an answer are not shown source. Survey conducter March 13-19. 20231 "Americans' Largely Positive Views of Childhood Vaccines Hold Steady"

democratic leaders need to make a huge deal about the antivaxx insanity coming from RFK Jr.

like, in addition to being fucking insane, immoral, and dangerous, antivaxx is significantly less popular than even the most unpopular dem policies. we need to ceaselessly hammer them for it

Ludicrous Speed!

Yeah, I wrote "people" but really I meant "older dads."

I disagree. I think adaptive cruise control has made some people content to just put on cruise control and sit behind cars on the freeway going *under* the limit.

Three people have died there (sounds like more injured) in the past decade. Sounds like a lot for something that is decorative. The article describes removing the catwalks/ladders and leaving the structures, which the preservationists opposed.

I am so fully here for the rage in this thread. Fixing it seems so hopeless, but it’s also beliefs we need to replace with other beliefs. Not to let him off the hook. He could choose to think critically any time and consider who wants him to believe this bullshit, and why.

The Boca Raton Bowl of mayoral administrations

They have attempted to adjust for the 2nd part of that, by using data only from the cities they operate in and attempting to account for the freeway/streets difference. waymo.com/safety/impac...

Giant puddle in the bike lane/bus alighting area from leaves jammed in the gutter

These bus bump outs are great but we gotta do better leaf management

A basic and intuitive understanding of the law is that punishments should not be retroactive upon a policy change.

This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.

It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:

• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).

• Sex criminals.

• War criminals.