Travis R. Eby

AN ENTIRE FAMILY. Not an entire building, or block, or even neighborhood. Cancel a train that will benefit millions for generations for ONE FAMILY. Yes they need to be taken care of, of course. But my god people’s political commitments are so f-ing myopic. Teach your kids to care about society!!

Cannot put into words how much I loathe people who think we shouldn’t build a better society if one person is inconvenienced along the way

Until we pass a nationwide ban on gerrymandering (which we need), Democrats should gerrymander every state to the fullest extent. 52-0 in CA, 17-0 in IL, and so on. No more unilateral disarmament. Time to get serious about fighting back.

popular anti-fascism as taxpayer revolt...might have some legs

6-0 Dem Oregon

47-1-4 Dem California

10-1-1 New Jersey

7-0-1 Maryland

read theory

Breaking911 @Breaking911 : REP. MIKE FLOOD, (R-NEB.): "Do you think that people who are 28-years-old, that can work, & refuse to work, should get free healthcare?" TOWN HALL CROWD: "YESSSSSSSSSS!"

lmaooooo this dumb shit just doesn’t fly anymore

Every time Hakeem endorses Democrats somewhere else in the country it draws into focus his failure to endorse one in his own city

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

It’s incredible how much the collapse of civil society has been engineered by this one single newspaper, constantly trying to highlight everyone else caving as some kind of savvy move by adults

Take notes Chuck f-ing Schumer

OMFG

Texas House Democrats offer a brief response to Gov. Greg Abbott's threat of arrest and expulsion: "Come and take it."

Fuck yeah

Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.

Bill Burr Says ‘CNN and Fox News Are a F—ing Disease,’ Fires Back at ‘Horrible’ Conservatives Bashing Him as ‘Woke’: ‘They’re Racists’ and ‘Cowards’ Bill Burr says the conservatives calling him "woke" are "racists" and "cowards."

You don't need a Joe Rogan for the left. What we all need to do is take Bill Burr's lead. Every time a Republican goes after him, he doesn't debate him. He just insults them and tells them to go fuck themselves. We don't need one person to do this. We should all just do this.

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

Applebaum on Autocracy Anne Applebaum warns that Sudan’s descent into chaos shows what happens when institutions fail—and why a free press is essential to prevent America from following the same path.

Anne Applebaum: "If American media can’t convey how dangerous this behavior is—for our prosperity, for our health, for our democracy—then American media will eventually cease to exist."

More from our convo in @status.news: www.status.news/p/anne-apple...

When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard that President Trump was holding small group dinners with major donors, he saw opportunity. Mr. Schiermeyer reached out to a lobbyist with connections in Mr. Trump’s orbit, who arranged for him to attend a dinner with the president at his private Mar-a-Lago club on March 1 in exchange for donations to a pro-Trump PAC called MAGA Inc. totaling $1 million. The personal and corporate donations were among dozens of seven- and eight-figure contributions to MAGA Inc. from crypto and other interests revealed in a campaign finance filing on Thursday night that hinted at the access Mr. Trump accords those willing to pay. At the dinner, Mr. Schiermeyer, who had never given a federal political donation before, presented an idea for a cryptocurrency called “U.S.A. Token” that would be distributed to every citizen, according to interviews and a flier he distributed to attendees that sets out details of the proposal. He hoped it could be su

Cryptocurrency interests, which have benefited from the Trump administration’s dismantling of a yearslong government crackdown and from the Trump family’s financial interest in the industry, appear to have been the most generous industry, accounting for nearly $45 million in donations to MAGA Inc.An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each. Ondo Finance, which has a partnership with the Trump family’s crypto company, donated $2.1 million to MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Mr. Trump’s inauguration.

The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.

When does the next bus come? GoTriangle reduces wait time on its busiest routes The regional agency joins GoDurham and GoRaleigh in offering bus service at 15-minute intervals between Durham and Chapel Hill.

Raleigh increased bus service from every 30 min to every 15 min on its route serving Glenwood Ave. Ridership then doubled in the year that followed.

Over last year, city’s high-frequency routes have had 89% ridership growth.

People will ride when you give them service that they can rely on!

They’re coming after cities, universities, professional bureaucrats, and markets. They want to flatten all countervailing institutional power that may exist outside of the executive in order to remake America into their single image.

definitely a top 5 album of all-time for me

Yep further east has a somewhat legitimate claim at transit-deserthood (though still plenty of bus/SBS)

But godspeed trying to remove parking or install a bus lane in Gravesend or Sheepshead Bay, served by five train lines!

I am planning weekend food adventures and just felt like starting shit.

The lines even connect!! And there's an SBS line in there connecting them too.

It’s funny how outer-Brooklynites whine about needing cars so bad because this is legitimately one of most rail-covered parts of the entire country

I also heard this one! More distinct noise than the one last year.

Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal webpage. At the very top is the newspaper’s nameplate, followed by a blue “SUBSCRIBE” banner. Below that, the article is labeled “POLITICS | GEOLOGY.” The large headline reads: “New York Earthquake Puts [a New York politician] on the Spot Over Tectonic Views.” A sub-headline underneath says the 3.0-magnitude quake that began in New Jersey “highlights potential weakness for the democratic socialist.” A byline shows the reporter’s name and the timestamp “August 2, 2025 10:47 pm ET.” Beneath the byline are icons for sharing, saving, a reading-time indicator, and an option to listen to a 2-minute audio version of the article.

There have been a lot of terrible days in the last year, but August 1 stands out for how clarifying it was in its shitiness.