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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Riding bikes (or walking) for transportation really does change how you see cars, but also your community around you, because the destruction wrought by cars and car dependency becomes so clear.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Recurring Speed Camera Discourse is a bit exasperating really because, look, we all know what's actually happening is people just want to be able to commit the pertinent crimes and don't like being punished for it, but people come up with obvious post-hoc pseudo-woke rationalisations for this.
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collinmcguire.bsky.social @collinmcguire.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
WMATA has half price fares for anyone on SNAP
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A whole lot of people with otherwise progressive views suddenly get real mad when you talk about doing anything at all to address the scourge of speeding drivers killing people
The Garfield, "You are not immune to propaganda" meme but instead it says car brain
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The Iranian schoolgirl, the cancer patient whose clinical trial was cancelled, the African AIDS patient who can't get treatment anymore — none of these are "real" to our media elites. Can't imagine themselves in that situation or visualize it. But "panic at the fancy gala!" on the other hand,
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2026
it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026
Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.
wired.com
USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew
Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 09/04/2026
DC implemented a new policy for its streeteries that cost restaurants $20,000 to implement. The result: virtually every restaurant eliminated their outdoor dining, many have reduced their hiring, & now a few cars can park more easily. Congrats on the successful policy change, DC government!
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New rules mean many DC restaurants are closing streateries
The District made streateries permanent. But restaurant owners say the rules are too costly and complicated to keep them up.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/03/2026
about to indulge in the greatest privilege bestowed upon only the american cultural and sociopolitical elite: walking to the grocery store
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Da Sp00ky Jew 🎃🇵🇸 @dylanbickers.com · 11/02/2026
“I do understand.” No, you are not capable of understanding. This is like if someone who you told about losing a dog was like, “I haven’t gone through that, but I watched Marley and Me so I understand,” and that someone is also a Roomba.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
“We cannot just abolish ICE!” Bestie, you are older than ICE.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 22/01/2026
One of the things I’m really struggling with about what’s going on in Minnesota is that if you describe what’s going on in plain, factual ways to someone who’s not paying close attention you sound completely, bugfuck crazy
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/01/2026
cold weather is so stupid. why did i ever leave my beloved sonoran desert (remembering other seasons exist) oh right
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/01/2026
the new york times interviewed the parasite living in your small intestine and it expressed resentment that you're not eating enough junk food
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/01/2026
Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...
"Arnoldo had filmed much of the incident, but agents had taken his phone. He used Find My to locate the phone — at a vending machine for used electronics miles away, close to an ICE detention center. The footage, which ProPublica has reviewed, backed the family’s account of the chase."
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
a variant of the trolley problem known as the “obama streetcar” problem in which it is not known when the trolley will be able to strike the victims because there’s a car parked on the tracks
trolley problem drawing with a white tesla model y parked on top of the switch separating the two groups of victims
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 10/12/2025
Most members of the board that manages transit in the Twin Cities—the Met Council—rarely actually use transit, a story that’s all too familiar around the nation. 8 of 17 members never rode over the last year. 2 others took just 1 trip each. www.msn.com/en-us/autos/...
“It is, frankly, demonstrative of the way that too many local and state governments treat their transit systems, which is a mechanism to move poor people around,” Freemark said. “Board members don’t see themselves as users of the system.”
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Conor Shaw @fixcircle.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
DDOT continues to publish before/after analyses of safety projects. The numbers for the 9th street NW bike lanes suggest that we should be doing these projects everywhere we can. Crashes plummeted, pedestrian and bike traffic skyrocketed, and vehicle travel times dropped.
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay
Me on a candlelit vigil for AIDS in 1987. Me last week. Looking pretty healthy for 58 (28 years living with HIV).
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Finally, a beer that is not woke
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KFF @kff.org · 28/10/2025
How much more could ACA Marketplaces enrollees pay if the enhanced premium tax credits expire at the end of the year? KFF’s @cynthiaccox.bsky.social walks through three real-life examples of how people would be affected by the expiration of the enhanced premium tax credits.
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Being denied a high office of public trust is not a criminal punishment. There is only 1 president and 500-odd Congressmembers in a nation of 330 million. 99.99% of Americans do not occupy an office of public trust at any given time and do just fine as private citizens. We can and should be picky.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
"Cities should remain museum pieces for incumbents and any newcomer is strictly a burden" is the most loser mindset that powers the most loser politics in America today.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23/10/2025
Zoning rules? Tradition, change aversion, + vibes Parking requirements? Egregiously bad science + vibes Traffic engineering? Morally abhorrent value judgments about the level of injury and death we’ll accept in exchange for motorist speed and convenience (vibes) Building codes? Tradition + vibes
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23/10/2025
If I have learned anything from my time in urban planning, it’s this:
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
propublica.org
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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collinmcguire.bsky.social @collinmcguire.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Barring the development of a vaccine with sterilizing immunity, or a global 2-3 week shutdown with 100% compliance, eradication is impossible. It’s not remotely feasible to expect a second quarantine, let alone one with perfect adherence.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt. This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25
"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor.""This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2025
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
apnews.com
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Good morning to everyone who knows how many crosswalks there are at this intersection, according to Maryland law.
An unmarked crosswalk across five lanes of a road with a posted 40 mph speed limit.The other unmarked crosswalk across five lanes of a road with a posted 40 mph speed limit.An unmarked crosswalk across five lanes of a road with a posted 40 mph speed limit, from the other side.The other unmarked crosswalk across five lanes of a road with a posted 40 mph speed limit, from the other side.
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
adjusted to reflect the shorter point spacing, though with the mid day drive time we discussed
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.
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collinmcguire.bsky.social @collinmcguire.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The Pentagon City Costco is the only one I’ve seen that breaks this trend, one block from the metro.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Maybe we should stop worrying so much about the screens our kids are on and start worrying about the screens the adults are on.
driver staring at a phone They came out of nowhere
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
This was the perfect ideal of development - US dollars supporting US farmers to make a cheap product that literally saves starving children's lives. You couldn't get a better story. And that didn't matter. It didn't save it from the cuts. It's gone and children are dying of starvation
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
For most of the last decade, our media and political class has panicked over the idea that progressives were intruding on free speech rights by loudly criticizing people with unpopular views. Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/08/2025
The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.
washingtonpost.com
Kids need freedom. Dangerous roads make it hard to grant it.
Bigger cars, distracted drivers and worried parents mean fewer kids are roaming freely.
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collinmcguire.bsky.social @collinmcguire.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Any idea how much the Union Station - Buzzard Point section is of the $20 billion? Regardless, seems like including National Harbor in phase 1 would be a good idea.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
since 2003 PEPFAR has saved more lives than have been lost in every American military conflict combined, barring the World Wars ending the program will easily be the most suffering caused by any President in history
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
A frequent problem for transit is that it is seen as the vector for whatever passing policy priority exists
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2025
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
theatlantic.com
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 12/07/2025
"I don't hate immigrants, I just hate it when people flout the law," says someone who definitely always drives at or below the speed limit, stops when the light is red, yields to pedestrians, and didn't vote for a felon
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
One of our favorites! Action Comics No. 12. May, 1939. Clark Kent comes upon the aftermath of a car crash that kills a friend of his. As Superman, he takes to the airwaves and declares a... wait for it... war on cars.
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Transit Maps @transitmap.net · 09/07/2025
New on the blog! Phoenix's light rail system has expanded to two lines – is their new diagram up to the task?
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Submission – Official Map: Valley Metro Light Rail and Streetcar, Phoenix, Arizona, 2025
Submitted by a few people—sorry for the delay in getting to this!—including Shameek, who says: Phoenix is opening the new southern light rail extension and splitting the system into two separate lines, so naturally they released a new map! I like some of the ideas in here, especially the downtown inset and treating the streetcar equally, but I wanted to hear your take.
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