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Using my white male privilege to rabble rouse companies and govt agencies into doing more. Midwest-grown, California-schooled, Senator-less citizen of the Douglass Commonwealth. This is a personal acct, but I'll still be mad about transportation issues.
None of this spiel at the front about Tesla is correct in this @usatoday.com article on fuel economy ranking. There are no extra credits here! IT'S NOT COMPLIANCE DATA. Gah. Nat'l pubs misrepresenting even the most basic information will never stop bothering me. www.usatoday.com/story/cars/r...
02.03.2026 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Car Culture ≠ Financial Freedom
27.02.2026 19:25 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
The Automobile: The ultimate machine for independence and freedom. No government infringing on my civil rights in MY metal box!
Unless I’m trans. Or Black. Or Brown. Or disabled. Or poor. Or an immigrant.
The biggest effect I see from people still spending time on X—which many deny or don't even notice—is how it shifts their perception of what's normal. Such as:
Actively anti-trans is speaking like a normal person
Objecting to Nazi symbols turns off the working class
Epstein knew a bunch of Jews
etc
SCIENCE FIGHTERS!
Join us in Washington D.C. on March 7th to TAKE BACK OUR SCIENCE!
Visit this link to see when and where!
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SAVE SCIENCE. PROTECT HEALTH. DEFEND DEMOCRACY.
Graphic showing a busy urban arterial clogged with cars and trucks. The text says that car dependency does not equal freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. The image is tagged with the Urban Truth Collective logo.
They still want us to think cars equal freedom. But car DEPENDENCY is the opposite of freedom.
Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices.
#UrbanTruth
Every New York Times column & Atlantic thinkpiece, every Guardian broadside led us here. Jesse Singal and Ben Ryan and all the others "just asking questions" led us here.
Every bit of coverage that's treated us as suspicious outsiders and punching bags helped speed this day.
You are responsible.
🧵 In its Endangerment Finding rescission, US EPA chose to ignore the effects of the rule on public health and the environment by refusing to even quantify them or report them in the rule.
So I dug into the docket to quantify those costs myself, using EPA's own models.
Automakers aren't caught in the middle of anything -- they're directly culpable. You don't get any sympathy around uncertainty when you explicitly lobbied for the actions causing that uncertainty. FAFO. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
23.02.2026 15:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Their opinion side of the business may be total and utter garbage, but WaPo's reporters have still got it. Why are car prices so damn high? It's profit-chasing automakers building a market for the rich over the past decade-plus.
18.02.2026 21:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And yet, every day, our most prominent Democratic politicians, scholars, public intellectuals, universities & university leaders, & other civil society organizations continue to use his platform as their primary social media outlet. One cannot help but notice this & draw conclusions.
17.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 2420 🔁 581 💬 43 📌 21And, because of the way lab testing works when it comes to different driving modes, the ability to turn a feature off will shift how EPA considers it in evaluating the lab test. It is still in manufacturers' interest to boost fuel economy by making stop/start the default, much to Zeldin's dismay.
17.02.2026 14:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Please, @nytimes.com, just ask me next time so you get your facts correct. Yes, credits are gone, but THIS TECHNOLOGY IS CREDITED VIA TESTS ALREADY, just not for the full real-world benefit. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/b...
17.02.2026 14:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I feel this in my bones.
16.02.2026 21:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Quote from a New York Times article on how the U. S. auto industry has fucked itself into global uncompetitiveness by seeking to eliminate all meaningful environmental and emissions regulations on automobiles: "Matthew Beecham, a senior research analyst at S&P Global Mobility, an automotive company, said that given the uncertainties, automakers were likely to hedge their bets. They might expand their gasoline car lineups, he said, but most likely would not abandon electrification completely. And despite no penalties for violating the remaining fuel economy standards, there was unlikely to be “wholesale lawbreaking,” he said, because state rules and investor scrutiny could keep companies in check. “Expect tactical shifts toward profitable trucks, not open defiance,” he added."
If you're going to be quoted as an automotive expert, you should at least know that GM and Stellantis have been "wholesale breaking the law" for years so to pretend like these supposed constraints exist is to deny reality. US auto industry is a dead man walking.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...
The Response to Comments doesn't even pull text from the comments! They just responded to what is presumably just an AI summary of comments.
13.02.2026 15:40 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1As far as I am aware, no preprint of the rule has yet been made available.
12.02.2026 22:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yeah, sure, there'll be LESS credit, but this is one that shows up on the label tests for consumers as well as the lab certification tests because it does, in fact, cut fuel use in a very testable way.
12.02.2026 21:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The least significant part of today's endangerment presser, but elevating it as they did really just begs the question: What vehicle in particular pissed Zeldin off? He's going to be sad to learn that stop-start gets credit on fuel economy tests so this won't make much difference in its deployment.
12.02.2026 21:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Today, Administrator Zeldin took a chainsaw to the Endangerment Finding, undoing this long-standing, science-based finding on bogus grounds at the expense of our health.
12.02.2026 19:06 — 👍 71 🔁 47 💬 5 📌 5“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.”
12.02.2026 19:29 — 👍 200 🔁 94 💬 2 📌 6
You can repeal an endangerment finding.
You can’t repeal the endangerment.
Truly the absolute dumbest shit. I think the only factual statement I heard in this whole rollout was that yes, the endangerment finding was established under President Obama.
12.02.2026 19:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
The new WaPo is wrong, wrong, wrong in so many ways. Let's count:
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
I found some folks @washingtonpost.com should have actually fired. What a bunch of rubes. wapo.st/3ZpW4Nj
11.02.2026 14:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The 51st is great and anybody who cares about news in DC should subscribe
04.02.2026 22:55 — 👍 74 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 0
#Ward4, @transpobingo.bsky.social boards are live! 🚴🏾🚄🎱
Over the next week, you can find events happening across the District at transpobingo.com. As always, safety and care for one another comes first, so make sure to travel safely and look out for your neighbors.
See you out there!
OK, @mayorbowser.dc.gov , it's now on you to thwart this stupidity and protect the infrastructure investments made by @ddotdc.bsky.social under your watch. It's VISION ZERO, not VISION ZERO-TO-60. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
30.01.2026 19:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This would definitely explain the gigantic pile of excrement that NHTSA proposed in December repealing what were already baby-soft level fuel economy standards. The logic in that rule is inconsistent AF.
26.01.2026 14:03 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0US domestic auto manufacturing is just this meme now:
22.01.2026 21:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0