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The Real Reason the Far Right is Demanding Action on Transportation Violence — Streetsblog USA A series of brutal deaths on U.S. roads and trains is sparking outrage on the far right – and a push for some disturbing policy solutions that will only make our country more violent.

The “transit is unsafe” narrative is both false and part of a larger anti city, anti transit ideology -
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Investments in public transit have failed to provide the right incentives for infrastructure projects to get completed in an affordable and timely manner.

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The world is divided between supply skeptics who believe high hard costs are an intractable problem and those that have looked at US codes and buildings in other developed countries.

Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

The second thing is what I call "militant liberalism." Not violent revolution or counter-authoritarianism--but a liberalism that is bold and asserts its values and isn't frozen in a permanent defensive crouch. Another excerpt:

I'll be there!

Electrolink: Modern Passenger Rail Service for Southern California Californians for Electric Rail September 2025 Cover shows a series of blue arrows in Metrolink livery and the Californians for Electric Rail Logo

Today, CER launches our paper “ElectroLink: Modern Passenger Rail Service for Southern California.”

ElectroLink shows how electrification, level boarding and through running can speed up trips, improve access for all riders, and bind together the region. ⚡♿🚴
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There is a very sad thing happening in right wing, largely adult convert Catholic spaces. It is an attempt to turn Catholicism the same direction as some American Evangelical & Reformed churches, in which God is displaced by politics, aesthetics and human hierarchies as the center of religious life.

It is incredibly simple to acknowledge that violence in any form is awful and erodes society.

Indian Point owner floats restart of shuttered nuclear reactors Holtec, the company decommissioning the plant, says it would need state and federal backing to rebuild the plant.

Andrew Cuomo was a climate disaster for New York, and cleaning up his mess is going to cost the state billions: “Five years after Indian Point started shutting down, the company charged with dismantling the nuclear plant says it could still be restarted — at an estimated cost of $10 billion.”

I’ve lost part of 2 teeth in a crash in Cambridge.

And I was glad to be lead sponsor of the 2020 Cycling Safety Ordinance—

It’s added protected bike lanes to Hampshire & Brattle Streets, Mass Ave & more.

So I’m proud to be endorsed by @cambbikesafety.bsky.social as a bike champion!

JD Vance & @JDVance • 1h Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military. • 2.5K 174.4K O 40K Ill 975K 企 Brian Krassenstein @ IK @krassenstein • 1h Killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime. @ 1.1K 2> 175 企 JD Vance v @JDVance • 1h I don't give a shit what you call it

Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations

Because this project will be fully grade separated, it should be built as automated light metro (e.g., Toulouse Metro, Milan M5, Honolulu Skytrain). This can enable:
—More reliable & often faster service
—More frequent service
—Shorter platforms (& thus cheaper-to-build stations)

Please email Kathy Hochul and tell her this. She will ultimately be making the decision. The union is going to lobby hard against driverless, so the governor needs to hear from New Yorkers that we want better service and lower costs: www.governor.ny.gov/content/gove...

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Exclusive: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History removed references to President Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit — an apparent change to its plans to update its collection of artifacts about the historic U.S. proceedings.

I'm not a big "civilization is in decline" guy, but man, Google Docs moving Footnotes to an opaque submenu while maintaining an Emoji button sure does have "civilization in decline" energy.

Lessons from the forgotten history of Democratic abundance Moderates and leftists misunderstand the 1990s. That is stopping them from seeing their joint path forward.

This from @henrymjtonks.bsky.social is v good. "Abundance need not be an instrument of Democratic factional competition. Instead, it has the potential to unite the liberal-left together around a vision for how to implement grand Democratic ambitions." hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/lessons-fr...

The case against debate It's a skill, but it's not the same as truth-seeking or persuasion

This is all 1000% true.

The truth is, good design is an industrial policy question.

You can’t build beautifully if you can’t build within your industrial strengths.

my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.

The earlier you donate to candidates the better; it helps them kick off a self-reinforcing cycle of volunteers->canvassing->more volunteers->more canvassing->more voters.

Cambridge has been a bright spot in a not-great year for policy, and Burhan's been making it happen. Let's prove that good policy is also good politics!

In addition to being at the forefront of the urbanist/YIMBY movement, Burhan is one of the kindest, most thoughtful officials I have ever met. Please donate to his campaign if you can: secure.actblue.com/donate/commi...

South Korea’s Amorepacific Weighs Faster US Manufacturing Pivot South Korea’s leading cosmetics maker Amorepacific Corp. is accelerating efforts to bring manufacturing to the US as Donald Trump’s tariff blitz threatens to upend the company’s reliance on its major ...

Glad to see we're really moving up the value chain here

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I don’t really give a shit how much of a conservative this makes me sound like, but the United States has suffered an existential collapse in the civic virtue of our citizens necessary to sustain a liberal democracy.

Broke: evil BBB
Woke: evil IRA

congrats!! now time to start substacking about annoying undergrads

new electrical transformers here already had 3-5 year lead times when foreign capacity was included