John M.
@walkingridercycles.bsky.social
Always up for a walk, ready to organize, and needing to be outdoors and creative.
“When the rich rob the poor, it's called business. When the poor fight back, it's called violence.” ― Mark Twain
#BoycottMeta #BoycottAmazon #BoycottMusk
“When the rich rob the poor, it's called business. When the poor fight back, it's called violence.” ― Mark Twain
#BoycottMeta #BoycottAmazon #BoycottMusk
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John M.
@walkingridercycles.bsky.social
· Aug 20
House Reconciliation Bill Proposes Deepest SNAP Cut in History, Would Take Food Assistance Away From Millions of Low-Income Families | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The House-passed Republican reconciliation plan would cut nearly $300 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) through 2034, based on Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimat...
www.cbpp.org
In the US it's cheaper to jam us full of misinformation than it is to actually feed us and our families.
www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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The Redaction This Country Yearns For Most:
December 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The Redaction This Country Yearns For Most:
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
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not releasing it will, in itself, also detract from their winning streak and make the inevitable leak of the text more of a news event.
BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Dem Leaders Decide to Bury Damning Report on Why Trump Won in 2024
The Democratic National Committee has completed its long-awaited analysis on what went wrong in the 2024 campaign. But in a move that will attract intense criticism, it’s keeping the findings secret.
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
not releasing it will, in itself, also detract from their winning streak and make the inevitable leak of the text more of a news event.
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This really is, as Sara says, INSANE memory-holing: Minutes after FCC Chairman Carr told Congress that the FCC "is not" an independent agency (see video below via @atrupar.com), the FCC website started getting scrubbed to remove that description.
December 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This really is, as Sara says, INSANE memory-holing: Minutes after FCC Chairman Carr told Congress that the FCC "is not" an independent agency (see video below via @atrupar.com), the FCC website started getting scrubbed to remove that description.
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Rick Scott is astoundingly crooked
"I love that Rick Scott is on CNN talking about all the waste and deception in the health care/insurance business. He really is an expert since his company paid a record $1.7 billion in fines for Medicare fraud."
December 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Rick Scott is astoundingly crooked
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Our #StopSuperSpeeders campaign is coming statehouses across the country.
Join our coalition to advance anti-speeding tech for the most dangerous drivers in your own state. secure.everyaction.com/KyTgxYfil0qq...
Join our coalition to advance anti-speeding tech for the most dangerous drivers in your own state. secure.everyaction.com/KyTgxYfil0qq...
December 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Our #StopSuperSpeeders campaign is coming statehouses across the country.
Join our coalition to advance anti-speeding tech for the most dangerous drivers in your own state. secure.everyaction.com/KyTgxYfil0qq...
Join our coalition to advance anti-speeding tech for the most dangerous drivers in your own state. secure.everyaction.com/KyTgxYfil0qq...
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This is nuts. Sounds fairly close to a horrific midair catastrophe tied to whatevet the fuck trump thinks hes doing in venezuelan air space. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
JetBlue pilot narrowly avoids 'midair collision' with Air Force plane near Venezuela
A JetBlue Airways pilot said he narrowly avoided a "midair collision" with a U.S. military aircraft that entered his flight path.
abcnews.go.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is nuts. Sounds fairly close to a horrific midair catastrophe tied to whatevet the fuck trump thinks hes doing in venezuelan air space. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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You can’t “fix” X, The Everything App by going back and posting there because the owner has this thumb on the scale of the algorithm to promote the worst ideas and people. It’s not a viable solution, you have to let it go.
Dear Bluesky liberals. Come back to Twitter. Please. PLEASE.
December 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
You can’t “fix” X, The Everything App by going back and posting there because the owner has this thumb on the scale of the algorithm to promote the worst ideas and people. It’s not a viable solution, you have to let it go.
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"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
www.publicnotice.co
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
Go back to Jersey, if they’ll have you 💩🐥
New York mayor issues order targeting Israel divestment weeks before Mamdani takes office
Eric Adams signed orders on boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, and protests near houses of worship
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Go back to Jersey, if they’ll have you 💩🐥
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“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.” -George Will www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A sickening moral slum of an administration
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.” -George Will www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of food stamps are employed, half of them full-time. Nearly 2,500 work for Amazon and another 2,300 work for Walmart. Uber, DoorDash and Tempus Unlimited each have more than 1,400 workers who rely on SNAP www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
‘The government is subsidizing corporate profits’: Who employs the most SNAP recipients in Massachusetts? - The Boston Globe
In Massachusetts, 74 percent of working-age SNAP recipients have jobs.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of food stamps are employed, half of them full-time. Nearly 2,500 work for Amazon and another 2,300 work for Walmart. Uber, DoorDash and Tempus Unlimited each have more than 1,400 workers who rely on SNAP www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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Basically The New York Post these days in New Yorker cartoon form but without joking.
November 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Basically The New York Post these days in New Yorker cartoon form but without joking.
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Five-byline alert: 🚨
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Five-byline alert: 🚨
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Three powerful businessmen—two Americans and a Russian—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war with Ukraine.
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Three powerful businessmen—two Americans and a Russian—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war with Ukraine.
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Putin and Russia are counting on their asset, the US Government, giving them the win in Ukraine that their overrated and incompetent army couldn’t deliver.
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Putin and Russia are counting on their asset, the US Government, giving them the win in Ukraine that their overrated and incompetent army couldn’t deliver.
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absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
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When will car manufacturers be held responsible for dangerous design?
Love not being able to see because headlights are bright as the surface of the sun
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
When will car manufacturers be held responsible for dangerous design?
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PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
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November 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
READ + LEARN + SHARE + COMMENT —> DEFEND!
Together, we will defend our most important wildlife protection law! JOIN US! 💪🏽💪🏽❤️🔥
Comment here: shorturl.at/MuuFx
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The City Council’s term ends in less than a month, and we need Speaker Adrienne Adams to bring this bill to a vote. It’s not the time to play games or water down the bill.
So TODAY, we need your help to call Speaker Adams to demand that universal daylighting pass now...
So TODAY, we need your help to call Speaker Adams to demand that universal daylighting pass now...
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The City Council’s term ends in less than a month, and we need Speaker Adrienne Adams to bring this bill to a vote. It’s not the time to play games or water down the bill.
So TODAY, we need your help to call Speaker Adams to demand that universal daylighting pass now...
So TODAY, we need your help to call Speaker Adams to demand that universal daylighting pass now...
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Mother Jones has been on fire on the John Roberts beat and, man, I'd love to see our national press pick up this ball.
"It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Mother Jones has been on fire on the John Roberts beat and, man, I'd love to see our national press pick up this ball.
"It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...