Ben Wheeler

New research on the causes of irregular bus arrival times:

"The most significant contributors to the variability of headways are variability in schedules and dispatching at terminals." Bus operator experience matters, too.

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Somerville YIMBY 2025 Election Endorsements and Voter Guide Somerville YIMBY endorses Willie Burnley Jr. for Mayor, emphasizing his leadership and housing initiatives. Other endorsements include Scott Istvan, Ben Wheeler, Will Mbah, and Jonathan Link for Ci…

Somerville YIMBY’s 2025 election endorsements are here! We’re pleased to endorse these candidates:

@willieburnleyjr.bsky.social
@scottistvan.com
@benjiwheeler.bsky.social
@wilfredmbah.bsky.social
Jon Link
@benforward3.bsky.social
Naima Sait
Emily Hardt

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Thanks for your thoughtful analysis.

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

Who are the police and national guard supposed to be protecting? It seems like the rule of law is under constant assault—by our own government—and that the path to peace is a return to lawfulness by our authorities.

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Thrilled to announce that my film "Confessions of a Jumbotron Addict", directed by Mickey Duzyj, is the Short of the Week on shortoftheweek.com !

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This is horrifying and very, very illegal. The federal government is a criminal enterprise now.

Decency and basic rights are more than vibes, but still -- folks -- the vibes are shifting. We should be clear about that.

I have been regularly stolen from by guys who dress like the dude on the left but never in my life by someone who dressed like the guy on the right

This administration sent 200+ fathers, sons, and husbands to be tortured in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives. 9 in 10 have no criminal record. None received any due process.

If you *aren’t* outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.

Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.”

(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)

Being asked to send our money to states that continue to elect leaders who deny help to our states is totally intolerable. Something has to give.

We’re going to have a masque, an incredible masque, a masque of death, even, if you can believe it. They say “oh you can’t do it you can’t do it in the castle” but we are going to do it I can tell you, we are doing it with so many colors but mainly red, red the most beautiful red you’ve ever seen

I think the 2020 Harper's open letter on "justice and open debate" really holds up. A huge danger was always that tools of excluding speech would be seized by the powerful and used against the powerless

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Inside Cory Booker’s Plan To Disrupt ‘Business As Usual’ On The Senate Floor A member of the U.S. Senate took the floor at 7:00 p.m....

Good morning. Cory Booker has now been speaking on the Senate floor for 12 hours straight. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

If this happened in the U.S., fully 75% of the pundit class would be calling it the death of American democracy. Meanwhile, Musk is buying votes in Wisconsin, Mike Johnson is casually floating the elimination of district courts, and Trump insists he’s not joking about a third term.

A frequent point by Michael Marshall (need to see if he’s on here) is that at flat earth cons there are widely varying mutually exclusive models of the Earth (hollow, flat, curvy) that cannot possibly be true together but the important thing is that They are wrong about the Round Earth

Partisan bias is so out of control. Just learned that 100% of college students say they wouldn't date someone who is actively deporting them without due process

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Horrific. Unconstitutional.

One less obvious way that Gawker foreshadowed this moment was by showing how people and institutions crack when they're under malicious, pervasive, and unreasonable assault—you can see Columbia University following Nick down the path of trying to bargain and to rationalize having been made a target

I’m not sure these people should ever be deprogrammed out of the Trump cult. Their shame and remorse would be too much for them to bear.

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

Well, touché

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

That is, this is not merely an issue of the separation of powers, and checks and balances -- though it is an issue of those!

Trump is violating **all three branches of federal government**.

By the exact same logic, it violates not just the legislative branch **but the executive branch** when Trump breaks laws passed by Congress and signed by, say, Gerald Ford.

Literally everyone agrees that Trump couldn't broker a compromise a law on Monday agreeing to fund Medicare for All in exchange for banning abortion after 12 weeks, and then on Tuesday reverse **just the Medicare funding**.