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Boston Data Show Streets With New Bike Lanes Successfully Shift Traffic, With Fewer Cars and Way More Bikes - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/05/b...
Boston Data Show Streets With New Bike Lanes Successfully Shift Traffic From Cars to Bikes - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Mayor Wu has hard evidence that her bike lane projects are helping reduce traffic – but her administration is reluctant to share it.
mass.streetsblog.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Boston Data Show Streets With New Bike Lanes Successfully Shift Traffic, With Fewer Cars and Way More Bikes - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/05/b...
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It’s not just that they’re getting got by an army of professional Wallet Inspectors, it’s that they’re actively looking for the Wallet Inspector to hand over their wallets to
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
It’s not just that they’re getting got by an army of professional Wallet Inspectors, it’s that they’re actively looking for the Wallet Inspector to hand over their wallets to
Lol funny, and really just nails the whole sitch
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Lol funny, and really just nails the whole sitch
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"Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car... is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one."
I reread this every so often and I'm struck every time by how great it is unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-...
The social ideology of the motorcar - Uneven Earth
by André Gorz The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and natur...
unevenearth.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car... is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one."
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does the new york times have a special room where they go huff each other's farts
October 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
does the new york times have a special room where they go huff each other's farts
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important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
bit.ly
October 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.
f*ing cesspit. It's worth reading how utterly simple and disgusting the tech we have come to rely on is. The collages really capture the mood.
www.wired.com/story/silico...
www.wired.com/story/silico...
I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
www.wired.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
f*ing cesspit. It's worth reading how utterly simple and disgusting the tech we have come to rely on is. The collages really capture the mood.
www.wired.com/story/silico...
www.wired.com/story/silico...
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I've been sitting with this piece of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for two days, reading it, re-reading it. You should too. #EzraKlein is the avatar of a new kind of liberal indulgence for the worst of the far-right, embracing bad-faith as a practice. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I've been sitting with this piece of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for two days, reading it, re-reading it. You should too. #EzraKlein is the avatar of a new kind of liberal indulgence for the worst of the far-right, embracing bad-faith as a practice. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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Now that you're (justly) angry about Jimmy Kimmel, did you know that Palestinian Americans were evicted in 2023 and 2024 for flying Palestinian flags in their windows?
It's true. I have a case before the Seventh Circuit about it.
It's true. I have a case before the Seventh Circuit about it.
September 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Now that you're (justly) angry about Jimmy Kimmel, did you know that Palestinian Americans were evicted in 2023 and 2024 for flying Palestinian flags in their windows?
It's true. I have a case before the Seventh Circuit about it.
It's true. I have a case before the Seventh Circuit about it.
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Gayle King: “… Michelle Obama always says, ‘when they go low, we go high.’ Is that your philsophy?”
Cardi B: “No.”
Cardi B: “No.”
September 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Gayle King: “… Michelle Obama always says, ‘when they go low, we go high.’ Is that your philsophy?”
Cardi B: “No.”
Cardi B: “No.”
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Once again I am asking small business owners, artists and artisans, and anyone else who purchases packaging to do it anywhere but Uline
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.
Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
www.propublica.org
September 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Once again I am asking small business owners, artists and artisans, and anyone else who purchases packaging to do it anywhere but Uline
The import of this history has never been clearer than in this moment when the hard question must be asked: If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The import of this history has never been clearer than in this moment when the hard question must be asked: If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?
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“i can’t cancel my nyt/wp subscription, where will i get my news?!”
September 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“i can’t cancel my nyt/wp subscription, where will i get my news?!”
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Just thinking about all of the time and resources that Josh Kraft consumed these last few months, so that he could indulge himself publicly. This is what happens when people have too much money; when a country allows people to become billionaires
September 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Just thinking about all of the time and resources that Josh Kraft consumed these last few months, so that he could indulge himself publicly. This is what happens when people have too much money; when a country allows people to become billionaires
I would prefer not to see RFK's face anymore. Every single time it's like a jump scare.
September 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I would prefer not to see RFK's face anymore. Every single time it's like a jump scare.
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You may have noticed: American politicians are really old.
You may not know that American politicians are exceptionally old compared to other democracies.
Congratulations, USA: we are the world's most advanced gerontocracy. American exceptionalism, indeed.
open.substack.com/pub/leedrutm...
You may not know that American politicians are exceptionally old compared to other democracies.
Congratulations, USA: we are the world's most advanced gerontocracy. American exceptionalism, indeed.
open.substack.com/pub/leedrutm...
September 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
You may have noticed: American politicians are really old.
You may not know that American politicians are exceptionally old compared to other democracies.
Congratulations, USA: we are the world's most advanced gerontocracy. American exceptionalism, indeed.
open.substack.com/pub/leedrutm...
You may not know that American politicians are exceptionally old compared to other democracies.
Congratulations, USA: we are the world's most advanced gerontocracy. American exceptionalism, indeed.
open.substack.com/pub/leedrutm...
crickets from @massgovernor.bsky.social on this:
Snubbing Kennedy, States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
crickets from @massgovernor.bsky.social on this:
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The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to:
•admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states
•abolish ICE
•grant citizenship to any immigrant
•disband the 5th Circuit
•expand the Supreme Court
Seriously: Why the hell not?
•admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states
•abolish ICE
•grant citizenship to any immigrant
•disband the 5th Circuit
•expand the Supreme Court
Seriously: Why the hell not?
September 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to:
•admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states
•abolish ICE
•grant citizenship to any immigrant
•disband the 5th Circuit
•expand the Supreme Court
Seriously: Why the hell not?
•admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states
•abolish ICE
•grant citizenship to any immigrant
•disband the 5th Circuit
•expand the Supreme Court
Seriously: Why the hell not?
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I saw a post recently asking where all the serial killers have gone since the 70s and 80s.
They're cops. They're literally cops. If you want to kill people for fun, you become a cop.
They're cops. They're literally cops. If you want to kill people for fun, you become a cop.
We, rightly, still talk about horrors like Mỹ Lai and Mỹ Khe. 504 killed.
Cops average double that every year, and that’s just the ones we know about.
Cops average double that every year, and that’s just the ones we know about.
People shot to death by U.S. police by month 2024| Statista
As of December 31, the U.S.
www.statista.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I saw a post recently asking where all the serial killers have gone since the 70s and 80s.
They're cops. They're literally cops. If you want to kill people for fun, you become a cop.
They're cops. They're literally cops. If you want to kill people for fun, you become a cop.
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‘Whatever Graeber is writing about, whether it is the history of democracy or the relationship between slavery and debt, he is usually trying to solve a problem in the present or to expose its latent potential.’
@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
‘Whatever Graeber is writing about, whether it is the history of democracy or the relationship between slavery and debt, he is usually trying to solve a problem in the present or to expose its latent potential.’
@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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We have some questions for Josh Kraft.
August 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
We have some questions for Josh Kraft.