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sometimes car writer. seen in Car and Driver, The Autopian, US News & World Report, also kept The Drive’s lights on for a few years

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In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A | Fortune The CBO estimates that benefit reductions would start at 8% in 2040 and steadily climb to a 10% cut by 2056.

Why isn't this a WAY bigger story? Planning to be retired in 2040? Or still alive and on Medicare any time after that? Good luck with your healthcare.

26.02.2026 07:29 — 👍 959    🔁 537    💬 24    📌 32

this post sent me down a rabbit hole but here’s what you need to know:

1. one of the observation parlors from the Hiawatha Line - the Cedar Rapids - has been restored to operating condition
2. you can rent it for stuff

261.com/cedar-rapids/

26.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 138    🔁 30    💬 8    📌 3

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

26.02.2026 06:02 — 👍 3425    🔁 1011    💬 32    📌 36

It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0

26.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 5744    🔁 1581    💬 39    📌 32

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

26.02.2026 01:30 — 👍 10492    🔁 5109    💬 84    📌 334

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

26.02.2026 01:11 — 👍 4621    🔁 2134    💬 15    📌 36

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

26.02.2026 02:06 — 👍 6146    🔁 1535    💬 31    📌 27

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.

They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

26.02.2026 03:14 — 👍 4227    🔁 2303    💬 93    📌 109

The core of right wing governance--really the only thing it does effectively--is tormenting people

26.02.2026 02:10 — 👍 2359    🔁 470    💬 19    📌 10

Said it earlier today: The job of the Billionaire Fan Club is to manufacture consent for rule by wealth. In exchange they get elevated in status and enough money for comfort, but not independence.

For them, being damned because they bowed and scraped for a rich pedophile is an existential crisis.

24.02.2026 17:21 — 👍 351    🔁 139    💬 7    📌 1
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

24.02.2026 15:48 — 👍 11661    🔁 5001    💬 148    📌 274

>implying you’d only be a minor character

24.02.2026 06:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ll take “what the fuck is a transaxle” for 500

23.02.2026 22:39 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

they don’t make a big enough W for this moment

23.02.2026 22:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

make it longer

23.02.2026 22:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Great illustration of how fucked up longtermism is as an “ethical” framework. By making AGI, space colonies etc the holy grail, it sets up a permission structure for dispossession and oppression up to and including genocide. We shouldn’t trust any industry with this kind of sociopath at its helm.

23.02.2026 22:24 — 👍 97    🔁 34    💬 2    📌 0

miss: jenga
do not miss: the minigame with the slur in its name

23.02.2026 20:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

girl I’ll send you some executive dysfunction recipes of mine

23.02.2026 19:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

dude’s wearing a 90s camo pattern for reenacting the 40s. fascists not beating the historical illiteracy allegations

23.02.2026 18:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
23.02.2026 04:21 — 👍 4908    🔁 2106    💬 28    📌 10

It's good for this to come out, though by now I assume we already were aware that behind the propagandic patina this lady was raaaaaaaaaaaaacist.

23.02.2026 11:47 — 👍 452    🔁 103    💬 9    📌 3

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

22.02.2026 23:01 — 👍 18491    🔁 6553    💬 432    📌 174
A red X3M Comp on black HREs with a full Asuka wrap at a lakefront car show on a rainy morning

A red X3M Comp on black HREs with a full Asuka wrap at a lakefront car show on a rainy morning

get in the fucking BMW X3M Comp on HREs, Shinji

22.02.2026 18:57 — 👍 108    🔁 19    💬 8    📌 3

Look at this photograph

22.02.2026 17:50 — 👍 2154    🔁 332    💬 50    📌 4

the e-bike was always the inevitable future. it’s so efficient and simple that it’ll win even without the massive federal subsidies EVs got

22.02.2026 16:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this is taking eco fascism logic of culling humans until an arbitrary CO2/externality per person metric is achieved and then turning it into something somehow even more sinister

22.02.2026 07:23 — 👍 41    🔁 4    💬 6    📌 0
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Sharing “genderless burger experience” here for those who haven’t seen it

21.02.2026 17:25 — 👍 6300    🔁 2126    💬 36    📌 49
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Last weekend.
This weekend.

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

21.02.2026 23:43 — 👍 2465    🔁 1036    💬 58    📌 35

good thing it’s a vaporware technology with such limited real-world applicability that we don’t need to worry about that

21.02.2026 18:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Passenger-mile is a common metric used in transit

21.02.2026 18:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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