Kate🍉
@katecomplains.bsky.social
Transit lover & McWexler apologist.
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You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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$6 or $7 per pound for ground beef is still way too cheap.
Without subsidies - and taking into account the massive, horrific environmental footprint of beef - it should be 6 times more expensive.
@andrew.heiss.phd
Without subsidies - and taking into account the massive, horrific environmental footprint of beef - it should be 6 times more expensive.
@andrew.heiss.phd
August 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
$6 or $7 per pound for ground beef is still way too cheap.
Without subsidies - and taking into account the massive, horrific environmental footprint of beef - it should be 6 times more expensive.
@andrew.heiss.phd
Without subsidies - and taking into account the massive, horrific environmental footprint of beef - it should be 6 times more expensive.
@andrew.heiss.phd
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Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
September 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
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I haven’t seen it illustrated like this before. Very effective messaging. Of course it actually depends a lot on how fast the vehicle’s being driven, how big the vehicle is and how it’s designed, and how small the victims (too often kids) are. Via @yegbike.bsky.social #SpeedKills #CarBloat
August 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I haven’t seen it illustrated like this before. Very effective messaging. Of course it actually depends a lot on how fast the vehicle’s being driven, how big the vehicle is and how it’s designed, and how small the victims (too often kids) are. Via @yegbike.bsky.social #SpeedKills #CarBloat
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Trump is hiring 18,000 new immigration agents, the largest increase since 9/11.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-want...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-want...
Trump Wants 18,000 New Federal Agents
Immigration enforcement, more than Epstein, threatens the president’s popularity
www.kenklippenstein.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Trump is hiring 18,000 new immigration agents, the largest increase since 9/11.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-want...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-want...
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Just slowing down cars has a significant impact on urban noise. Lowering vehicle speeds from 30 mph to about 20 mph drops noise levels by about 6 decibels. (And consider how many cars in urban areas are going a lot faster than 30 mph!) A lot of what makes cars loud, even EVs, is rolling noise.
July 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Just slowing down cars has a significant impact on urban noise. Lowering vehicle speeds from 30 mph to about 20 mph drops noise levels by about 6 decibels. (And consider how many cars in urban areas are going a lot faster than 30 mph!) A lot of what makes cars loud, even EVs, is rolling noise.
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The biggest dividing line based on this map is that Cuomo did best in neighborhoods with the most people who have cars while Mamdani won among people who take the subway.
June 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The biggest dividing line based on this map is that Cuomo did best in neighborhoods with the most people who have cars while Mamdani won among people who take the subway.
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Among Democrats - "Do you support Democrats like Sanders and AOC who call for a more aggressive stance towards Trump, or moderate Democrats who are willing to compromise with Trump issues important to their base?"
AOC/Bernie: 70%
Moderate Dems: 30%
Harvard-Harris / June 12, 2025
AOC/Bernie: 70%
Moderate Dems: 30%
Harvard-Harris / June 12, 2025
June 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Among Democrats - "Do you support Democrats like Sanders and AOC who call for a more aggressive stance towards Trump, or moderate Democrats who are willing to compromise with Trump issues important to their base?"
AOC/Bernie: 70%
Moderate Dems: 30%
Harvard-Harris / June 12, 2025
AOC/Bernie: 70%
Moderate Dems: 30%
Harvard-Harris / June 12, 2025
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There are many reasons to oppose Cuomo's attempted comeback.
An often forgotten one is that during the pandemic, he tried to hand NY over to the tech oligarchs as their AI laboratory.
Lots of damning clips in this 2020 interview I did on the subject: www.democracynow.org/2020/5/13/na...
An often forgotten one is that during the pandemic, he tried to hand NY over to the tech oligarchs as their AI laboratory.
Lots of damning clips in this 2020 interview I did on the subject: www.democracynow.org/2020/5/13/na...
June 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
There are many reasons to oppose Cuomo's attempted comeback.
An often forgotten one is that during the pandemic, he tried to hand NY over to the tech oligarchs as their AI laboratory.
Lots of damning clips in this 2020 interview I did on the subject: www.democracynow.org/2020/5/13/na...
An often forgotten one is that during the pandemic, he tried to hand NY over to the tech oligarchs as their AI laboratory.
Lots of damning clips in this 2020 interview I did on the subject: www.democracynow.org/2020/5/13/na...
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Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit
June 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit
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I am staying quiet and appreciative about the ways in which people putting their bodies on the line in LA are putting their bodies on the line for the same reason I advise my teenagers not criticize the meals I put in front of them: if they're not cooking, they can say thank you or learn to cook.
June 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I am staying quiet and appreciative about the ways in which people putting their bodies on the line in LA are putting their bodies on the line for the same reason I advise my teenagers not criticize the meals I put in front of them: if they're not cooking, they can say thank you or learn to cook.
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This report 'Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon' is 4 years old, yet I don't think I've ever heard this headline finding:
"Indigenous resistance has stopped or delayed greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one-quarter of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions."
"Indigenous resistance has stopped or delayed greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one-quarter of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions."
Report: Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon - Oil Change International
The report highlights and analyzes 26 Indigenous frontline struggles in the past decade against a variety of fossil fuel projects across Turtle Island over all stages of the fossil fuel development…
oilchange.org
May 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This report 'Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon' is 4 years old, yet I don't think I've ever heard this headline finding:
"Indigenous resistance has stopped or delayed greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one-quarter of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions."
"Indigenous resistance has stopped or delayed greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one-quarter of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions."
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Matthew Miller on Israeli war crimes
June 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Matthew Miller on Israeli war crimes
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“This moratorium would mean that even if a company deliberately designs an algorithm that causes foreseeable harm — regardless of how intentional or egregious the misconduct or how devastating the consequences — the company making that bad tech would be unaccountable to lawmakers and the public…”
Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' would create 'unfettered abuse' of AI, 141 high-profile orgs warn in letter to Congress
The signatories include Georgetown Law's Center on Privacy and Technology, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Alphabet Workers Union, and more.
www.businessinsider.com
May 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“This moratorium would mean that even if a company deliberately designs an algorithm that causes foreseeable harm — regardless of how intentional or egregious the misconduct or how devastating the consequences — the company making that bad tech would be unaccountable to lawmakers and the public…”
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Here’s how the Virginia Democratic Party Chair responded to to my reporting on Connolly in December
May 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Here’s how the Virginia Democratic Party Chair responded to to my reporting on Connolly in December
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Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.politico.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
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Glorious.
Columbia University Acting President Claire Shipman welcomed to Columbia College's graduation ceremony with sustained jeers and boos.
Minutes later, students break out in loud chants of "Free Mahmoud":
Minutes later, students break out in loud chants of "Free Mahmoud":
May 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Glorious.
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I mean, ideally you'd want people to come for the games and then stay and travel around the country for as long as possible to spend their tourist dollars but I guess Trump and Vance have to find as many ways to torch the economy and our reputation as is possible.
VANCE: We'll have visitors from close to 100 countries. We want them to come, we want them to celebrate, we want them to watch the games. But when the time is up, they'll have to go home, otherwise they'll have to talk to Secretary Noem
AUDIENCE: 🦗😳🦗😳
AUDIENCE: 🦗😳🦗😳
May 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I mean, ideally you'd want people to come for the games and then stay and travel around the country for as long as possible to spend their tourist dollars but I guess Trump and Vance have to find as many ways to torch the economy and our reputation as is possible.
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Concerning, but all too predictable:
The NYPD's bike crackdown has only just started, and overreaches are already piling up. Police are falsely writing criminal summonses for crossing with the walk sign, and are possibly even engaged in entrapment, according to @nyc.streetsblog.org:
The NYPD's bike crackdown has only just started, and overreaches are already piling up. Police are falsely writing criminal summonses for crossing with the walk sign, and are possibly even engaged in entrapment, according to @nyc.streetsblog.org:
As NYPD's Criminal Crackdown on Cyclists Expands, It Grows More Absurd: Victims - Streetsblog New York City
The new policy has unleashed the worst instincts of individual cops — including one cop who allegedly entrapped a cyclist.
nyc.streetsblog.org
May 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Concerning, but all too predictable:
The NYPD's bike crackdown has only just started, and overreaches are already piling up. Police are falsely writing criminal summonses for crossing with the walk sign, and are possibly even engaged in entrapment, according to @nyc.streetsblog.org:
The NYPD's bike crackdown has only just started, and overreaches are already piling up. Police are falsely writing criminal summonses for crossing with the walk sign, and are possibly even engaged in entrapment, according to @nyc.streetsblog.org:
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It's one of my constant refrains: We need leaders who understand that "cyclists" are not a fixed constituency but that "cycling" is a thing that should be cultivated.
A personal pet peeve: Politicians and car owners who talk about “cyclists” as though they’re a distinct human species.
In reality, urban cyclists are just regular folks who decided to travel by bike. Many, many more people will make that decision if a city provides high-quality infrastructure.
In reality, urban cyclists are just regular folks who decided to travel by bike. Many, many more people will make that decision if a city provides high-quality infrastructure.
April 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
It's one of my constant refrains: We need leaders who understand that "cyclists" are not a fixed constituency but that "cycling" is a thing that should be cultivated.
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Replacing the battery & using an iPhone 13 for 5 years rather than 2.5 could cut emissions 49%, "which could prevent 15.6 million tons of CO2 emissions per year." That's as much as a small country. www.wired.com/story/back-m...
Most People Buy a New Phone Every 2.5 Years. There’s a Better Way
Back Market and iFixit are partnering to encourage consumers to keep their phones in service for at least five years—and to pressure manufacturers to extend smartphone support to 10 years.
www.wired.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Replacing the battery & using an iPhone 13 for 5 years rather than 2.5 could cut emissions 49%, "which could prevent 15.6 million tons of CO2 emissions per year." That's as much as a small country. www.wired.com/story/back-m...
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leave our kids alone.
RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
leave our kids alone.
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"Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships...effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions."
apnews.com/article/ship...
apnews.com/article/ship...
Major nations agree on first-ever global tax on greenhouse gases with plan that targets shipping
Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships, if their planet-heating emissions are not already accou...
apnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships...effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions."
apnews.com/article/ship...
apnews.com/article/ship...
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Another SUV making a right turn hits a pedestrian! This is a huge issue - these big cars can't see people. I walked by a truck that had a grill as tall as me.
Pedestrian struck by SUV, seriously injured at busy Rochester intersection
Anyone with information is asked to call 911.
www.democratandchronicle.com
April 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Another SUV making a right turn hits a pedestrian! This is a huge issue - these big cars can't see people. I walked by a truck that had a grill as tall as me.