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And deliberately squandering the alliances and respect that enhanced the nation’s influence abroad.
But SNAP was too expensive
"there will be more of the language of surveillance disguised as research; of politics and history calculated to render the suffering of millions mute; arrogant pseudo-empirical language crafted to lock creative people into cages of inferiority and hopelessness"
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Alexandria needs to amend our “no e-bikes or scooters on sidewalks” ordinance to only apply when there is a dedicated (ideally protected) bike lane.
I could also see having it apply anywhere the speed limit is 20mph or less. But we’d have to lower speed limits for that.
This looks factory built. There are companies that make e-bikes specifically designed to carry people with disabilities.
Yup, seeing the whitelash is what turned me from a bright eyes young person into a disillusioned middle age man.
There are lots of reasons to ride an ebike for short trips, but fewer trips to the gas station is a big one. (And less of your money going into the coffers of fascist fossil fuel oligarchs is a bonus.)
An example of why MAGA’s feigned concern for “waste, fraud, and abuse” is just a fig leaf for dismantling parts of government that actually help people. The incompetence further erodes public trust. The purpose is grift and fraud and the vibe is pettiness and cruelty.
What scares me even more is the administration may actually welcome this outcome, as it gives them a ready-made excuse to crack down on dissent and take control of elections under the guise of “national security.”
"I don’t know the moment it happened; it must’ve been a slow realization. ‘My bike is my mobility aid’." Great article from @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social published In Active Travel Studies activetravelstudies.org/article/id/1...
absolutely nuts & partisanly (ntm personally) suicidal that Democrats keep chasing the knuckle-dragger vote instead of pledging to crush it
Trump and Hegseth are war criminals and I pray they are held to account for their crimes some day.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
But he’s a straight, white, conservative male, which passes for qualifications in MAGAland.
I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.
He doesn’t care even a tiny little bit about you.
These Viral Videos are Steering a Fun-Fueled Cycling Revolution.
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Several years from now, a thoughtful scholar will write a book called “Trump’s Willing Executioners” about how a nation of 340 million descended into abject depravity.
(2/2) Consider that coddling bad views has brought us to a very dark place and policy can be reconsidered accordingly
His entire personality is fake tough guy vibe. That’s it. He’s got the intellectual and moral depth of a thimble.
shameful
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[Submitted on 10 Jun 2025 (v1), last revised 31 Dec 2025 (this version, v2)] Your Brain on ChatGPT:
Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an Al Assistant for Essay Writing Task
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Rest assured, the capitalists at the top of the food chain who push AI know it actively causes people’s cognitive decline. It’s working as intended. It’s been the capitalism method since the beginning: make the people less intelligent, the less they think the less they know how to complain.
Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”
Seems relevant to the upcoming war powers vote in the House.
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What a tool
Mount up everybody, we’re doing a 1970s oil embargo-style bicycle boom!
Jesse Singal's logic: "Why are dentists, many of whom have a professional stake in it and many of whom have fancy letters and affiliations affixed to their names, recommending I floss my teeth?"
