Reposted by Julian MopeNick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 5himagine if elbridge colby was still around to see this 1017423
Reposted by Julian MopeChicago, Bike Grid Now! @bikegridnow.org · 8hWe're hosting a concert with local bands from 3-7p on The People’s Bridge™ (Cortland) in support of the permanent pedestrianization and continuation of bicycle access. The concert is free. Tipping the bands is strongly encouraged. 📍 Cortland Bridge (1420 W Cortland) ⏰ Sunday, October 18th, 3-7p 49430
Reposted by Julian MopeProPublica @propublica.org · 7hNEW: A little-known effort to bring an AI learning tool into Texas public school classrooms began about a year ago, with the help of the state’s top education official. with @texastribune.orgpropublica.orgTexas’ Education Board Raised Questions About an AI Learning Tool. The State Then Helped Pilot It in Public Schools.Just three months after the Texas State Board of Education raised concerns about Alpha School’s AI learning platform, Education Commissioner Mike Morath was in talks about using the tool in public sch... 212153
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 7hThe weather has really worked out in my favor on this trip, but tomorrow I need to bike ~70 miles in the rain, and the first 10 of those will be on roads with little or no shoulder. Time to do battle. 000
Reposted by Julian MopeOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him. 18079811734
Reposted by Julian MopeNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026what are we doing here? just a profound tragedy in the service of cruelty 540641
Reposted by Julian MopeKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A conservative dark money group is running Prop 132 asking voters to put more Coloradans in prison for fentanyl. Is it backed by people who make money off private prisons? Don’t know. It’s dark money. 20661200
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 01/10/2026I bought a cheap bike computer for this trip. No regrets. It doesn't have a touchscreen, which is fine with me. It doesn't have road or topographical maps, but it saves the phone battery and gets you where you need to be. Interfaces with the phone nicely. 020
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 01/10/2026Today I startled a fox munching on a small deer hit by a car, a gopher occupying a well-established network of holes along the canal, and a turkey vulture just hanging out in the road. 010
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 30/09/2026I've been keeping a tally across MAGA country in upstate New York. QAnon signs: 1 Confederate flags: 1 Trump signs: 0 010
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 30/09/2026They're playing Nashville country in this lunch spot in upstate New York. It's obviously not for me, but I still don't get what the appeal is to people around here, aesthetically or otherwise. The bartender can't stop talking about gambling. 000
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 30/09/2026Holy shit. I found their hideout. If you have the money... 000
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 30/09/2026A bridge abutment for the original versions of the canal, abandoned in 1918. 110
Reposted by Julian MopeAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030461071
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 30/09/2026This is so stupid. He's fucking with Pittsburgh now. Also, CMU once levitated a frog. 010
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 30/09/2026I finally learned today where Pittstown, Pittsburgh, Pittsfield, and Pittsford got their names. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. 000
Reposted by Julian MopeJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION????? 1454401443
Reposted by Julian MopeArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 177123802652
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 29/09/2026Nearly got hit by a douche on an e-moto wearing a Stahlhelm-style helmet. Outlaw e-MC. Outlaw e-1%-er. 010
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 29/09/2026We need to do a bracket for the dumbest Republican in Congress. 000
Reposted by Julian Mopeunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/09/2026New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:unraveledpress.comIn plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operationsVideos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol... 8651358
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 29/09/2026The canal is much higher than a lake in Medina. It goes over a waterfall. 120
Reposted by Julian MopeDavid Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026SCOOP A Pentagon influencer called liberal women a "pestilence" who will end western civilization. He's also: • Praised dictators like Franco and Pinochet • Said people without kids should not be allowed vote • Called immigrants "semihuman savages" www.wired.com/story/a-pent...wired.comA Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western CivilizationKurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting. 54727315
Reposted by Julian MopeBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One obvious point about the Republican rats desperately deserting the sinking Trump ship: They're still rats. 361022163
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 29/09/2026Upstate NY really likes the retroflex "R" sound, at least in this diner. 000
Reposted by Julian MopeLouise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Probably more important he's former director of Montana's Americans for Prosperity; founded an unaccredited private school called "Wonder", funded by Charles Koch's son Chase--oh and then married Chase's wife! iowastartingline.com/news/meet-za...iowastartingline.comMeet Zach Lahn: a Koch-connected political operative running for Iowa governorIowa's new Republican nominee for governor Zach Lahn campaigned as an outsider farmer fighting the political establishment. But before he was "Iowa First," he was a Koch-connected political operative ... 25614
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 29/09/2026But let's be honest. It's not the most photogenic area, but that wasn't what drew me. I did see some early 19th century structures today, so that was cool. 000
Reposted by Julian MopeKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752391426
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 29/09/2026Some phone snaps. I didn't bring anything that can process photos from the good camera. 020
Reposted by Julian MopeJames Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"The public won’t even notice until things are gone. A road becomes a line on a map. A drilling lease becomes an economic statistic. A weakened regulation becomes a press release celebrating deregulation." www.explorebigsky.com/dispatches-f...explorebigsky.comDispatches from the Wild: Project 2025’s assault on the wild | Explore Big SkyBy Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST Project 2025 was never merely a campaign document. It was a blueprint for dismantling the laws, agencies and scientific safeguards that protect America’s air, wat... 0149
Reposted by Julian MopeJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If I Were Still Voting in Calif dept: —US needs much, much more progressive tax code, w much more robust IRS enforcement, than now. Doesn't have either, via Reagan/Gingrich-era-onward GOP —Doing it state-by-state won't work. They just move to Nevada —Worked for smog/car emission stds. But not tax 1511121
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 28/09/2026Hoagie country. And superior Reubens and wings. Worth it just for that. 000
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 28/09/2026Lock 35. I have seen plenty of signs for Republican candidates out here, but zero mention of Trump. 010
Reposted by Julian MopeLady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This year I returned to this Black, modernist enclave in Chatham to write about the late Jolyn Robichaux. After the death of her husband, she took over Baldwin Ice Cream, transforming that venerable, small operation into a major corporation, all the while keeping her community centered.southsideweekly.comBest Historical Home for Community Empowerment: Robichaux HomeBest of Chatham 47821
Reposted by Julian MopeDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ah yes the circle of life 13595341595
Reposted by Julian MopeJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026An important follow up to the original bombshell reporting. Link: buff.ly/UEL8tLM 9527152
Reposted by Julian MopeM. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” — Frederick Douglass 0164
Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 25/09/2026Thanks @amtrak.com, for canceling bikes on my train for the bike trip. Super great. 121