@rktfist.bsky.social
A pro-transit car enthusiast who supports infrastructure improvements for bicyclists, buses, and pedestrians alike over more car friendly choices.
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USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later

Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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SCOOP

I spoke to the leader of a doxing-for-hire group who showed me how it took just minutes for them to get sensitive personal data from Big Tech companies—with virtually no pushback

www.wired.com/story/doxers...
Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People's Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.
www.wired.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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If the current administration ever ends, many people in (and around) it will need to be prosecuted. From influence peddling to flat-out murder, their crimes seem to accumulate each and every day.
October 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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There's a lot of things I don't comment on because they're dumb, the rest of the things I don't comment on is because I'm dumb.
September 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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US rural bus service needs some reforms ... Here are my thoughts, in two linked posts:

humantransit.org/2025/03/what...
What's Next for Rural Intertown Bus Service in the US? — Human Transit
My friend David Bragdon (the former head of TransitCenter and former elected head of the Portland area’s regional government) has a good, through article at Eno on the problem facing rural bus service...
humantransit.org
March 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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I noticed that Vanity Fair ran their own Amy Chua story last Friday, and I just want to re-up the one we ran two weeks ago that goes deeper into Chua’s ideological mentorship that shaped Vance into the white ethnonationalist views. theemancipator.org/2024/10/23/t...
The Tiger Cub
Yale professor Amy Chua’s White supremacist apologia shaped J.D. Vance’s xenophobic politics and sugarcoated nationalism.
theemancipator.org
November 4, 2024 at 2:12 PM