John Lloyd

Boat strikes: War crime or "fake news" hoax? - Salon.com Even as some Republicans turn on the ghastly Pete Hegseth, right-wing media can't handle the truth

As the MAGA coalition continues to crumble, right-wing media is sticking to the core message: If Trump or his allies do it, it’s good. If the media reports it, it’s fake. If critics object, it’s a hoax.

This is the weaponization of racism and hate spewed by the president. It’s so foul I don’t even know where to begin.

Technological Inheritance and the Case for a Basic Income One or another form of unconditional “basic income” has now been advocated by individuals ranging from conservative economists like the…

Some people believe that so long as people displaced by technology can find another job, we don't need universal basic income, but the thing is, a few people get very rich via technology and that should be shared UNIVERSALLY. 4-day weeks are great, and so is healthcare, but we ALL deserve our share.

Our entire transportation policy for the 21st century is just mythical nostalgia and vibes from a 1978 car commercial that Sean saw on YouTube.

Trump is paying back the $500 million campaign contribution from the fossil fuel industry (t/y GOP SCOTUS for legalizing bribery in the Citizens United case).

The National Guard wouldn't have been in D.C. in the first place had the administration not ordered them there as a political stunt in August. trib.al/5Rgc0vi

But Trump, Noem, and Stephen Miller have spent the last week using this tragedy to promote anti-immigration sentiment among the public.

Similar to the racist immigration quota system in the 1920s, and stems from the same kind of white supremacist scapegoating. One day Trump’s presidency will be widely seen for the blot on our history that it is.

Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...

since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

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Two women - one older; one elderly - cycling on a segregated cycle lane in the Netherlands.

In the Netherlands, where the Dutch invest in safe cycling, the over-65s cycle around a quarter of their journeys, while the over-80s cycle around 10% of theirs.

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and cycle lanes don't 'restrict freedom', they expand it.

Opinion | Don’t Fear Self-Driving Cars. They Save Lives.

“There’s a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles.”

Would the author say the same about building bike lanes? Installing automatic traffic cameras? Requiring Intelligent Speed Assist?

All of those are proven to save lives — and at a fraction of AVs' cost.

Followed up by my lecture/rant about how we allowed the auto industry to f*ck up our cities and transportation system. I’m fun at parties, lol.

Always inspiring / heartbreaking to talk to young people who want to bike to school, the movie theater, and transit in their city and be like, that’s great and totally reasonable, but you’re going to have to navigate some seriously f*cked up streets to get there because your city dgaf.

63-y/o knees in a hilly area here. Just did 12-mi r/t for a weekly grocery run on my e-cargobike this morning. If not for the e-bike, I’d have to drive it.

Lately my 52 year old knee has been hurting so I just pump up the level on my e-bike and it goes away

As violent as American drivers already were, we are simply not prepared for the raw carnage of aging suburban boomers behind the wheels of instant-torque, 0-60 in 2.5 seconds EVs.

They're going to slaughter tens of thousands of people and we're doing nothing to prevent it.

Selling out Ukraine for oil and gas deals.

“A big part of the high stock prices is not a reflection of high future growth,” he said. Rather, it is a sign that A.I. is expected to boost productivity and shrink employment. “The firms all think they’re going to shed a lot of labor, and that’s why the profits will be high,” he said. And while the construction of data centers to power artificial intelligence is fueling economic growth now, these centers, once built, employ skeleton staffs.

The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.

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The Supreme Court’s Ethics Code Is a Joke. Big Oil Knows That. Oil companies want the Supreme Court to intervene to dismiss lawsuits about climate change. Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito both have big conflicts of interest on that front.

I wrote about Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito's massive conflicts of interest re: the climate deception cases that Big Oil is desperately trying to get the Supreme Court to step in and dismiss. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.

If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1

Did someone mention state pension plans and climate? @jordanhaedtler.bsky.social @clicabedu.bsky.social

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Nothing makes me feel older than telling people that we used to play football and baseball in the street and ride bikes and skateboards all over the neighborhood unsupervised. People look at me like I’m from a different planet. (Sadly, one of those kids is now a NIMBY who rails against bike lanes).

Get outside kids, enjoy the fresh air with your friends!
Just kidding, stay the F inside.

“Special Redaction Project” = scrub any mention of Trump

Gov. Lamont signs much-debated CT affordable housing bill after vetoing previous version The bill is Connecticut's most significant housing legislation in decades.

Great news! Connecticut governor Ned Lamont, a noted coward, has finally located his big-boy pants and signed the legislature's amazing, ambitious housing bill. Among other things, it nukes parking mandates!

I love this Stranger Things themed Ciclavia!

lol sign worked

Truth

Bicycle counts significantly increased on every corridor where we completed Better Bike Lanes projects in 2024. The number of people biking, and the percentage of all traffic they make up, both saw substantial increases. ▸ We counted over 3,000 more daily bike trips, a 55% increase across all projects. In our prior report on Better Bike Lane projects completed in 2023, we recorded a 44% increase in volume. The latest projects appear to have tapped into even more growth potential by focusing on mostly arterial streets and closing key new network connection gaps. ▸ Bicycles as a share of of all traffic increased to 7% of daily traffic across all projects, nearly doubling from 4% in the baseline condition. Some projects saw bicycle mode share as high as 19% ▸ Boylston Street (Back Bay) topped the list with a near doubling (+83%) of daily bike trips, leading four other corridors that measured growth of nearly 50% or more.

The latest evaluation of bike lane projects in Boston continues to show that if you build bike infrastructure, people will use it.

Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...

Kamala Harris’s nomination at the 2024 Democratic National Convention was both unusual and historic. Not only was she the first woman of color to be nominated for the presidency by a major party, but she also emerged as the party’s choice without having competed in any nominating contests, an outcome made possible by Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the candidacy. National nominating conventions are important opportunities for parties and candidates to draw media attention, and this coverage shapes the political impact of conventions. This was especially important in 2024, given the shortened nature of the Harris campaign. Using a sample of newspapers and TV news programs, we find that the media over emphasized controversial issues such as the war in Gaza and immigration while under emphasizing other substantive policy areas such as the economy. In addition, the coverage tended to amplify attention to so-called “women’s issues” and downplay Harris’s patriotic appeals. These findings highlight the divergence between what the candidate emphasized and what the media reported, with important implications for public perception of the campaign and Harris’s policy priorities.

"These findings highlight the divergence between what the candidate emphasized and what the media reported" hmmmmm
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Yes, and none of this “move on” bs, either. People must be held to account.