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Carl

@cmwd.bsky.social
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Cargo bikes and public transportation, left-wing politics. Bronx Fietser.

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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 45m
Antonio Reynoso with extremely important testimony on today's micro mobility City Council hearing. I am waiting for a hearing the danger on what is actually killing New Yorkers (cars and trucks).
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People will look at this imagery and still deny there is genocidal intent here
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Still can’t pay on the rear doors either! Stop putting up barriers to using and paying for the bus.
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I undid a repost because I didn’t thoroughly read the post, obviously banning diesel for personal vehicles is not feasible but suspending the gas tax is monumentally stupid.
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jesus after being served butter pecan ice cream
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So this is what the people who park directly in crosswalks next to a school are doing with their apparently large amount of free time
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a Clickbait bit
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Leavitt-Palmer @leavitt-palmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thankfully this wasn't an e-bike.
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My representative, Ritchie Torres, nominally a “progressive”, voted for Laken-Riley months into 2025 and I am certain this is why
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In my experience the people in their car being blocked by another car will still blame the cyclist flying past them
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Going back to the era in which men died at the ripe old age of 36 to own the libs
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026
Every time one of these stories comes out, it's shown that the parents were actually abusive. There is an asymmetry where the parents are given a platform by Christian nationalist orgs and Fox News while the state cannot discuss any details due to privacy. So the narrative is set by the parents.
Screenshot of a Fox News post on X reporting on a Massachusetts family whose daughter was placed in state custody over gender transition disputes, with an embedded Fox News broadcast segment titled "Gender Treatment Lawsuit."
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I mean this is just indisputable.
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
”fuck cars” is actually the most rational position for people who like to drive sometimes (I include myself in this category)
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I fucking love journalism
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is correct, and true nationally too. All the things we argue about on here relating to what gets Democrats elected or not won't be why Democrats win. They're going to win because Republicans are destroying the country. And that's why Democrats shouldn't be shy about policy.
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Kind of funny to see the same people who say we can’t criticize politicians during an election attack at least half the base of the party out of bitterness during an election
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
talarico reminds me of how democrats spent years trying to "moderate" on immigration and getting nothing in return and now we have the best funded paramilitary force on the planet disappearing people across the country while running a system of concentration camps with no oversight
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This morning as I was crossing the street with the light taking my four year old to school a car ran the red light and drove right in front of us. The driver community really needs to take responsibility for this behavior.
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I know no one ever looks at these but I’m never going to stop replying to them
It’s a fundraising text message for DGA from Gretchen Whitmer. I replied with a photo of Whitmer in the White House covering her face
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A helpful key here for understanding what wingnuttery is and how it works, here. I 100% guarantee you this did not happen and that the boys she’s talking about - she later clarified they were “Pakistani” - do not exist. And yet, I can also assure you Eve is *absolutely convinced* she saw this.
Eve Barlow
@Eve_Barlow
X.com
On 9/11, school was dismissed at noon. My mother came to collect me because the school bus wasn't running. We went home and watched the television all day and all night. The next day I returned to school. Everyone was sad except a certain group of young boys in the corner of my form class. They were celebrating like it was the greatest day of their lives. I will never forget.
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New York Focus @nysfocus.com · 09/09/2026
New York’s biggest upstate cities are making room for bikes. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany — three of which are headed by progressive mayors elected last November — are reshaping their streets to make cycling less dangerous and more practical.
nysfocus.com
Upstate New York is Building for Bikes
Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany are starting to invest in safer streets for cyclists, advocates say.
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Policy Vibe · by NoMAGA @policyvibe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The trap is that concessions don’t end the attack; they move the baseline. Once trans people’s rights are treated as negotiable, the next demand arrives as the new “moderate” position.
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Onion article "Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People"
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I know lots of people now use LLMs as a companion, and I do not think it is ever healthy
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bing bong @brianvan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As many are saying, the idea of “helmets are helpful” is not the point of controversy, but instead it’s “why do so many people want to furiously argue with strangers about helmet compliance?”
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Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Most speakers so far have avoided naming the government officials who withheld info about the air quality. But Rep. Jerry Nadler names and shames former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, calling his post-9/11 claim that the air in Lower Manhattan was safe "blasphemous."
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 07/09/2026
i present to you: today's new york times lead opinion piece. if this doesn't make you realize whose side the times is playing on, you're dense and i can't help you. they are doing free advertising for fascists. there are very few places we can turn to for propaganda-free news now
ny times headling

OPINION
GUEST ESSAY
ERIKA KIRK: WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT GRIEF
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/09/2026
I'd take the NYT more seriously here if they'd shown any interest whatsoever in the way the right wing and corporate power had spent the last quarter century building the biggest and least transparent agitprop machine in human history progressives adopt a similar playbook and it's crocodile tears
damemagazine.com
America’s Propaganda Apocalypse Was Decades in the Making - Dame Magazine
Americans have always had a strained relationship with factual reality. From early efforts to redefine genocide as the justified expression of deity-sanctioned exceptionalism, to generations of market...
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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
You're not at greater risk of harm from cyclists than from motorists where you live. You're just not.
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Times is so mad they can’t sink him
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
One of the many problems with LLMs is that most people don't really understand what they do and what their limitations are. That's pretty dangerous in many contexts.
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fewer people driving makes the city more livable in a myriad of ways
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
NYC now has rainy season and extra rainy season
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Vote for Seth Moulton, he'll throw you and people you love under the bus if some voter in Iowa tells him to
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yeah, that's what causing it. We're all dupes for commie propaganda yet again
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 29/08/2026
We have legacy media (including the NYT) to thank for this. They picked up the drumbeat by the right and covered it as a legitimate concern rather than the prurient obsession of a few extremists about a vanishing number of cases.
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The connection between demand for GPUs to power AI garbage and having to pay $900 for a new console needs to be made clear. AI sucks on so many levels.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Nothing against this guy but this is surely what happens when you spend your whole life assuming that the left are talking nonsense about the Empire, and none of that stuff is true. And then, the Empire sets its sights on your country.
Ricardo Hausmann
@ricardo_hausman
X.com
Secretary Marco Rubio: You have just lost any trust Venezuelans ever had on you, and it will come to haunt you. You opted to use US power, not to free Venezuelans, but to go to bed with our oppressors. You opted to push an asset grab, an unconstitutional deal with an illegitimate oppressive government, instead of using US leadership to re-establish constitutional rule and democracy first, and then deal with a legitimate government that could have made credible long-term commitments, in due course. This announced deal will not stand. Delcy, contrary to what you boss just stated [see below] is not "highly respected" by any Venezuelan I know, or by any American outside of the Mar-a-lago kleptocracy. She has no legitimacy or constitutional power to commit Venezuela to any such deal. Venezuelans will not respect this illegitimate deal and no major US oil company will take it seriously because they know it will not last. No wonder you are using wanted criminals - like Aleiandro Retancurt - to make
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Because the other perennial truth is “The Democratic Party is awful at doing electoral politics”
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Mamdani’s DOT needs to stop letting council members acting in bad faith have veto power over safety infrastructure
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/08/2026
Hey, @mayor.nyc.gov, did you see the study of 26,000 kids that showed "A.i." use causing a DECREASE in exam scores of up to 24 POINTS? Don't leave our kids behind by pushing "A.i." on them! Please declare a 2 year moratorium on "A.i." in the public schools NOW! cc @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social
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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I want bollard or Jersey-barrier protected bike lanes everywhere. I want cars banned from the “downtown” Riverdale/Johnson Ave business district I also want bicyclists to wear helmets and the cops to pose as trees to catch drivers who text None of these things work in opposition to the other
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I think this gets to the core of why the helmet discourse bothers me so much. I already wear a helmet. The things that put in danger when when I'm on bike have nothing to do with wearing a helmet, but so much energy gets invested in that one think that most cyclists already do.
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Carl @cmwd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I think people who care about Democracy should take note of which Democrats are willing to put the midterms at risk to protect a foreign country that is carrying out a genocide from criticism. It's pretty bad!
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
it's time to let these people out of the tent. nothing can be gained trying to appease them, but an awful lot can be lost.
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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I hope people understand that a lot of the focus on Hasan is just about making one person the face of opposition to Israel so that they can act like it's just a fringe agenda being pushed by a single streamer.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 25/08/2026
I went to look at what Hasan Piker’s latest on the stream, and the taking out of context is worse than I suspected. He was sympathetically answering a question from an Anti-Zionist Jewish listener frustrated with how hard it is to convince his Reform congregation to distance itself from Israel …
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 24/08/2026
One of the biggest reasons Abdul's election to the US Senate would be seismic is because he'd be one of the only people in that chamber of Congress who is willing to say the plain and open truth about Egypt and Pakistan.
Speaking today at a Pakistani-American event in metro Detroit, U.S. Senate Dem nominee Abdul El-Sayed called for democracy in Pakistan, currently under military rule: “On the 79th anniversary of Pakistan, we also have to be clear that right now, democracy is not being allowed to take its place.” El-Sayed cricitized the jailing and intimidation of politicians such as ex-PM Imran Khan.
U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed criticizes Pakistan’s military dictatorship, referring to the military dictatorship in Egypt, where his parents immigrated from, calling for democracy and human rights. He spoke today in Southfield at the Pakistan Association of America’s annual event celebrating Pakistan’s Independence and US Independence.
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Ravioli Ripple 🌹 @ravioliripple.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
River otters are kind of killing it this year www.bxtimes.com/river-otter-...
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River otter sighting after 100 years offers hope for Bronx River’s recovery – Bronx Times
A North American river otter has been spotted in the Bronx River for the first time in nearly 100 years, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society at the
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