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Painted bike lanes fail by design.
If safety relies on driver compliance rather than physical barriers, it's not a bike lane, it's a loading zone.
Protection induces demand. Paint does not.
To motor normative politicians, every little incremental change that gives space to non-drivers feels like a “war on cars.” Privilege is a hell of a drug
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.
Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
"Americans prefer a car-dependent lifestyle."
I can't tell you how much I hate this glib sentiment. The only way to determine someone's true, enduring preference is to give them full familiarity with their options. Americans have no familiarity with their options! They've only seen sprawl!
"you may not have experienced it, it may not be available to you, it's often maligned and disparaged, and it's largely only achieved through collective effort rather than individual choice" ... is true of so many good things here in the US ...
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This is a fringe theory. The vast majority of scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus was a real person. Now whether you believe he was the messiah or son of God is purely up to you, but saying he didn't exist at all is pseudohistory.
If you're not shocked by the fraction of city space taken up by car parking, you're not paying attention.
Don't look away. These camps are unsafe for people's well-being and health, unconstitutional, and a stain on the US. If people want to have a convo about immigration, let's do it. This is not the solution. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Democrats still get grief for a decade-old “deplorable” comment whereas Republicans acting like the Klan barely hits the news. Bigotry is a career strategy for them.
The old footage of Trump at a dignified transfer ceremony didn't just air on Fox News -- it aired on local Fox affiliates that are regulated by the FCC. attn: Brendan Carr. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sho...
I think the bigger problem is that there are probably millions of people in this country that don't know we've gone to war, or don't care, as long as the WiFi is on and there's something good on TV.
And it is probably worth noting that Senator Mullin has no experience that would qualify him to be Secretary of Homeland Security. Given that we are at war and counter-terror is already severely compromised, might be worth a thought.
If you care about free and fair election this November, this is the most important story of the day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Texas-your statewide primary is Tuesday, March 3. Take two minutes to check what's on your ballot. Make your voting plan right now. Then share this video and push your circle to show up. Primaries shape the future. Let's not miss this one. #TexasPrimary
The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.
If Biden or Harris or Obama talked about golden drapes when we just lost 6 US soldiers, the @nytimes.com would have physically lynched them.
It’d have been raining articles & editorials, all requesting their resignation
For Trump? Not a word
My anger has morphed into pure hatred for the NYT.
And the pedantic facts are that in the US, cyclists kill 3 pedestrians a year. Drivers kill 7500.
That's 20 people out for a walk a day. Nearly one an hour. 20 people every day on sidewalks and crosswalks who don't make it home.
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
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I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change
The first US Cabinet happened in 1789.
Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.”
They pulled a Target.
US men’s hockey team wins in overtime against Canada.
What’s the tariff on gold medals?
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
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Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.
This is looting.
"We know that this can be done, because it has been done. In his famous Madison Garden speech..FDR declared war on 'Government by organized money,' and he won that war...To say that a comparable project is impossible today is to say that democracy can’t be saved. And I’m not willing to accept that."
