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There is a belief, which is touched on in this episode, that cars somehow naturally won out as the dominant force on our streets, but the reality is that car dependency is the result of deliberate policy choices to take streets away from people and give them to cars.

This episode should be required listening for anyone who has ever said, "America has always been this way!" with regard to car dependency. People in the early 20th century recognized the danger of cars but the auto industry fought hard to build infrastructure and develop policies that drove sales.

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:

“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

Yesterday, I pleaded not guilty to the charges that Trump’s DOJ has hit me with in federal court.

This administration is targeting me because they can see that I’ve spoken out against them and will continue to stand up to them.

It’s funny that Harvard has been a consistent target for reactionary campaigns, and not one has been dedicated to ousting Larry Summers, an openly political figure who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein; meanwhile, it’s a fine-toothed comb for *checks notes* Black women.

We loved Foundation! Cast, costumes and spaceships!

If child sexual abuse and an Epstein link can turn a prince into a former prince, it can turn a president into a former president. Release the Epstein files. @crustnews

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao

x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

Someone shares a delicious take on green bean casserole...
White people in the comments:

"Too much seasoning. All you need is salt and pepper."

"It should be drier than that."

"Why are you adding mushrooms & bacon?"

"Condensed soup is better than homemade roux and sauce."

🗣 STOP EMBARRASSING US

Also Al Jazeera why are you not calling this war what it is
Doctrine of Discovery, God given lands on repeat. This type of colonism never ended it only chaged lables and religions.

Call it what it is. Religious justified colonism.

Useless

just gonna swoon over BARRY LYNDON's slow grand messiness

it's not a coincidence that the 21 Savage song fits so well

tweet from The Monster @therealmonster Victor is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human. with a poorly stretched pfp of the monster in Frankenstein. this is a joke tweet.

Frankenstein (2025)

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

More money than anyone alive and he's whining that someone's being mean to him.

Such a useless creature. He couldn't even be good fertilizer, given all the drugs he's on ...

S/O to all the real, not-a-bot, human babes who follow me.

It’s real all right -

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

It's so telling that no Liberal MP has left the party, despite it now being a full on rightwing party. Centrists really don't believe in anything, not even centrism.

I thought he was just a guy from LI who didn't want to have to live in NYC under Mamdani. I was wrong, he's from NYC. He has financial ties to Israel and no firefighting experience (he was appointed last summer and uhm a lot was going on). From wikipedia.

NBC News: Voters in Maine approved a ballot measure that will impose a red flag law across the state — allowing people to petition courts to temporarily confiscate their family members' firearms in certain cases.

you can win without billionaires supporting you

you can win without party leadership endorsing you

you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch

we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

I want the rest of us to know this.

I want folks to speak to their lives , to the diversity of who we are, the sustenance of our future and the immediacy of this moment

That if you start talking and seeing and LISTENING to people

who work ?

We can do this

I want a tracker, with arrows! I want interviews with their current and new neighbors! I want weekly followups until they get a new driver's license in their new state!

The biggest difference by far watching the various campaigns as a New Yorker and all of the messaging we were targeted with I think is an important takeaway for the whole country:

Cuomo’s entire message was threats and fear and cynicism.

Mamdani’s entire message was lightness and joy and hope.

President #Zelenskyy praised Ukrainian Railways for maintaining vital logistics and connectivity during war, transporting 135M+ tonnes of cargo in 2025 and ensuring 90%+ passenger trains arrive on time despite attacks, calling them a pillar of national strength.