💥 BREAKING: Levi Strauss shareholders voted today to reject a proposal calling on the company to cease / abolish all DEI efforts (tally TBD). LEVI Board: “Diversity and inclusion principles are critical in ensuring that our products reflect and are relevant to our diverse global consumer base.”
💥 BREAKING: Goldman Sachs shareholders voted today to reject two anti-DEI proposals, both by 98-2 percent. GS Board urged shareholders to vote to reject proposals. "We believe that diversity, including diversity of thought, experience and perspectives, is important to our commercial success."
The Busuanga Loop was tough, but I’m starting to miss it. Rough roads offer an interesting experience. #biketouring #bikepacking #surly #coron #palawan
The #bicycle is the perfect mood booster. #surly #surlybridgeclub
Utrecht NL is about to build the largest Dutch car-free neighbourhood.
12K people.
6K homes.
1.8K social rental homes.
1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes.
21.5K bike parking spaces.
250 shared cars.
2 parcel hubs.
Parking structures on district edge.
High quality public transit.
Gracie Abrams, the year’s biggest pop star: ‘Trump has only been in office a month, and everybody is more at risk’
Craig Unger, an American journalist and writer who has written two books on Trump’s connections to Russia’s security services and the Russian mafia, says he is "absolutely certain" that the U.S. president is a Russian asset.
Gripping read. So the relevant model for what's going on with Musk and friends might be Imperial Japan and Manchuria in the 1930s.
RFK Jr said he wants to send folks who are taking antidepressants and ADHD medications to "wellness farms" in rural America where they will be forced to labor by growing organic food to "cure their addictions."
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The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans.
Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.
Interesting read! It’s main point? By doing less, you see more. #travel
#biketouring brings you to beautiful places. #busuangaloop
JUST IN: The U.S. added 256,000 jobs in December, surpassing expectations and bringing the total for 2024 to 2.2 million. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.1%, and wages grew 3.9% over the past year, far outpacing inflation.
Happy moments. #cycling #biketouring #surly #surlybridgeclub
The population of Plains, Georgia is 573. Jimmy Carter knew his neighbors and they turned out to bid him a final farewell. 🇺🇸
To paraphrase Lauren Groff, editor of the 2023 Best Short Stories (O Henry Prize Winners): If heaven exists, it must exist in the form of a hut on the beach, a hammock near a dusty or muddy #bicycle, a cup of arabica #coffee, and a book of short stories.
Do you not know with how little wisdom the world is governed? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/never-unde...
One thing I noticed in 2024: everywhere you go (GenSan, Davao, Cebu, Siargao, Iloilo, Coron, Puerto Princesa, Bohol) the airports are crowded, bursting at the seams. I think that's the #economy growing at 6%. We need to expand our #airports if we intend to attract more #tourists.
So tell me, what do you expect from #2025? It’s going to be same s—t for me: hike a few #mountains, cycle a few more islands, read a few more #books, sleep on a few more #beaches, and contribute more to the world through honest #work. Laugh more often. If I can, I’ll plant a few more #mangroves.
Comic strip by Jen Sorensen mocking cars becoming humongous
Mandatory repost. Barely a parody now
A federal appeals court upheld a $5 million verdict that E. Jean Carroll won against Donald Trump when a jury found the US president-elect liable for sexually abusing and later defaming the former magazine columnist reut.rs/4fzAiMt
‘Today, America and the world lost an extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian,’ said President Joe Biden of Jimmy Carter, who died at 100. Here is what other world leaders had to say about the former president reut.rs/3ZSzQDr
#biketouring can be both Type 1 and Type 2 fun. #travel #outdoors ##coron #busuangaloop
It appears Musk came to US on a student visa, did not attend school and worked illegally here.
If he lied in his subsequent immigration applications he committed a felony level crime and could be stripped of his citizenship and security clearances.
Musk's brother: "We were illegal immigrants."
Thrills me to see a young mother and her son (probably 10) heading for Coron on their bicycles loaded with panniers. They just landed on #Busuanga #Island assembled their #bicycles, pedaled straight to town. My kind of people. (Probably from either Europe or US.) Good luck to both of them.
Because #biketouring brings you to beautiful places using the power of your legs. #surly #adventure #cycling
This guy is stark raving mad. Hopefully President Musk will ignore his ravings paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-gre...
