Democrats score big in CT municipal races, flipping GOP seats Democrats made broad gains in Connecticut’s first general election since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, flipping open top-of-ballot seats that had been controlled by Republicans in the Demo...

A lot of wins in CT: www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-11...

Or is it the New York Times which is less significant than they think?

My kid learned on one, and it meant that by the time she was 4 and a half years old she was confidently pedal biking herself to and from school over a mile away up a big hill!

Sure is!

you have my vote.

I know there are lots of people who just don't own cars, or have EVs or whatever, but this is just us trying to make living a little closer to our values a little more fun. Our community makerspace has a vinyl cutter so making the leaves was not difficult, and auto-quality vinyl is pretty cheap!

Photo of the back end of a car covered in green stickers in the shape of leaves.

For the #weekwithoutdriving I wanted to share a pic of our car: this summer we started putting little green leaf stickers on the car to celebrate every time with didn't drive it, when we biked or walked or took the bus instead. We're hoping to cover the whole car. :)

Hey, I really appreciate the work you're doing with this! 🌍⏺️

Nobody needs AI. And I profoundly do not want to be paying for it.

#Trumpflation is going to hit us all hard as we will all have to pay for rising electric power costs.

Amazing! Thank you!

YouTube video by Rosalie Cunningham Rosalie Cunningham - Ride On My Bike OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO

Music and often audiobooks! Here's a favorite: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLnB...

Would you mind sharing this playlist? Or a screenshot of the titles/artists? Thanks!

Oh, wow I love that "I'd be in a bike lane if I had one!"

It's available on DVD! Both seasons are out, and you can probably get it from your local library! Or probably eBay. It's the best television I've ever seen.

YouTube video by More Perfect Union I Took Bernie Into Deep Trump Country. Can He Win Them Over?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP8O... So, I wasn't sure what to expect with this video: did not expect to learn the phenomenal origin of the phrase term "redneck" (spoiler: it's a symbol of worker solidarity!). It literally made me cry.

Totally fair! I think the fact that UMN has 56,000 students and no where near that number of parking spots is effecting my own sample size! :)

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As Covid surges in the US, Americans can’t get vaccinated: ‘terrified I might kill somebody’ The FDA is allowing the vaccine for people 65 and older, but younger people need to have an underlying condition

Just a friendly reminder that Covid is no fun at all, and if you're feeling ill, please get tested. I'm sincerely hoping that we can all get new boosters soon to protect each other. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Although, I realize grad students/faculty are a particular demographic. :)

I'm curious who you were asking about "most people not taking transit" when I attended UMN for grad school nearly everyone I knew did at least some public transit, I think the most common thing I hear was something like, "most weeks I only use my car for grocery shopping."

Restore Public Health Funds to Communities Tell Congress to reverse harmful funding cuts and restore critical public health funding to our communities.

Over half of this year's global health funding has been approved but not spent. Contact your reps here to urge them to keep our Global Health Funding from Expiring:

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You guys. Have you seen that many countries are no longer delivering mail to the US? www.msn.com/en-us/money/... Including NL. 😭

We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is

Sending love to all the academics working on their courses the night before the semester begins.

Yes, thank you!

state fair?

Sometimes the regionality of vocab really helps out. I remember seeing cars at a stop in an intersection before I realized there had been an accident, when my friend's Texan mother, said, "oh, it's a wreck." And I thought, "that is exactly what it is."

Come to New Haven! Just two hours of commuter rail from NYC, and you can use the city ebikes when you get here!

Nor courage. I look forward to a day when people don't say, "you're brave!" when they see me biking.