I would like to point out that Golestan, and many of these other sites that are being destroyed, are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Part of the beautiful history of ALL HUMANITY. We are literally destroying our own human cultural heritage.
The Trump administration has yet to sign a contract for a single new transit project www.urban.org/urban-wire/r...
Even so, Congress designated 21 transit projects for funding in a recent spending bill.
I did a little more investigation to understand the status of some of these projects 🧵
Stay tuned, we are hoping to be able to announce something soon!
Impressive that this is not just 250% growth in biking
It's 250% growth in biking and the "number of reported bike crashes is on a downward trend" with bicyclists almost twice as safe on a per miles traveled basis
with reduced sidewalk riding too
Great work @cambridgemass.bsky.social!
Really looking forward to this!
“You can feel it rattling your eardrums,” Devan Jenkins, who lives in Memphis’ Whitehaven neighborhood, said while describing the sound of the turbines that power one of Elon Musk's xAI data centers. “It makes you feel like you're going insane.”
Do people really like being trapped in an autocentric system? We talked with the authors of a new study showing that on the contrary, nearly 1 in 5 American car owners is “strongly interested” in living car-free, and another 40 percent are open to the idea. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Something @sgoodyear.bsky.social points out that I'm reminded of each time people post about the war, gas prices and the need to switch to EVs is that the V in EV stands for "vehicle," not "car." E-bikes are EVs and cities need to create the conditions that will allow more people to adopt them.
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My last two reposts are related. The targeting of children is institutionalized.
These are letters and drawings from children at the Dilley Detention Center in Texas.
Trump isn’t going after the “worst of the worst.” He’s going after kids — who should be home, in school, and playing with their friends.
This is absolutely heartbreaking — and it must end.
Maybe they relied on AI to pick targets. But they bombed the school twice, hitting it again 40 minutes after the initial strike, in order to kill survivors and first responders. The mere *existence* of AI means no one has to be held responsible for this crime against humanity
This speech is a reminder that publishing is capitalist, profiteering, and performs censorship. It calls for writers to take action against the market & the state. So you know what to do.
What comes before & after this qu:
"Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art...
We who live by writing & publishing want & should demand our fair share of the proceeds; but the name of our beautiful reward isn’t profit. Its name is freedom."
A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year
I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth
Americans are addicted to cars, but in many ways it's a forced addiction. Decades of policy have made cars the dominant mode of travel at the expense of others, and marketing reinforces the car as the "best" choice. This isn't to excuse individual choices, but car dependency is a systemic issue.
"Many Americans seem to have forgotten just how catastrophic US regime change wars have been in the past. So, with the risk of history repeating itself once again, here is Zeteo’s list of seven of the US’s most disastrous attempts at regime change, ranked"
Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.
Telegraph in even-a-broken-clock-right-twice-day moment:
Here's the first-ever Linkedin message from this company, which seems to be a small company run by two millennials with some background in migrant shelters.
Four months ago they suggest they won a contract to run a "mass care site" in Lexington, KY, but this is their first-ever federal contract.
“This is no longer just a human rights violation. It is truly anti-human behaviour."
Looks at sky high gas prices and ponders what could have been if we had only invested in safe bike infrastructure, public transit, and massive rebates for e-bikes
“It’s insane because in the night it looked like day and in the day, it was so dark, it looked like a new moon night. So, so dark, just like our futures. I noticed there wasn’t a single bird in the sky and you know what they say? When the birds abandon you, you are truly on your own.”
How do you even begin to recover from a disaster like this? How do you clean up even after the acute phase is over? This is horrific.
OTOH, it's useful that JD Vance's muse is confirming that Trump-Vance-MAGA see continuity between their desire for militaristic aggression against the enemy abroad and the enemy at home (us). They *would* bomb Brooklyn if they could (they already committed paramilitary murder in Minneapolis).
key questions for journalists to ask: did the military consider any of the risks to human life or the environment when bombing an oil facility in/near a city of close to 10 million? if US did it, was it a result of hegseth's rejection of the law of war?
Way overdressed to run outside today 🥵but the @thewaroncars.bsky.social hat serves as a pylon still
The CIA-backed coup against Prime Minister Mosaddegh which installed the Shah is also key for understanding why some Iranians invaded the U.S. embassy in 1979 (tragically taking the employees hostage). Many believed the prior coup was planned in the embassy and feared another would happen.
No words.
