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I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
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November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
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Today’s episode of “there is a better way.” Helsinki went a full year without a car-related fatality. For the 90th million time, we ask-why not here? Why can’t we have the healthy, safe, secure, efficient, civilized goods others have: schools free of mass shootings, safe sidewalks, health care…
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Today’s episode of “there is a better way.” Helsinki went a full year without a car-related fatality. For the 90th million time, we ask-why not here? Why can’t we have the healthy, safe, secure, efficient, civilized goods others have: schools free of mass shootings, safe sidewalks, health care…
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Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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Total doofuses who say global warming is fake are climate science deniers
But centrist Democrats who think we can keep burning fossil fuels at this pace until they retire & let the next generation deal with it are ALSO climate science deniers
But centrist Democrats who think we can keep burning fossil fuels at this pace until they retire & let the next generation deal with it are ALSO climate science deniers
CO2 concentrations haven’t been this high in at least 3 MILLION years. The Earth’s temperature hasn’t yet caught up. We need to quickly and dramatically reduce CO2 emissions, but last year’s were the highest ever.
426.57 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 13-Nov-2025
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
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November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Total doofuses who say global warming is fake are climate science deniers
But centrist Democrats who think we can keep burning fossil fuels at this pace until they retire & let the next generation deal with it are ALSO climate science deniers
But centrist Democrats who think we can keep burning fossil fuels at this pace until they retire & let the next generation deal with it are ALSO climate science deniers
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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We are entering a phase when it will be very important to not hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I never thought that fighting to release the Epstein files, defending women who were victims of rape, and fighting to expose the web of rich powerful elites would have caused this, but here we are."
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We are entering a phase when it will be very important to not hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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Reduce the CDL weight requirement from 26,000lbs to 4,000lbs and watch all these monster SUV grocery haulers disappear, while auto makers scramble to produce sensibly sized cars
pickup trucks for the average person should not have been allowed to advance past this. if you need anything bigger, you should have to provide some kind of documentation showing you have the license and need for special heavy machinery, otherwise you get the 1990 toyota hilux
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Reduce the CDL weight requirement from 26,000lbs to 4,000lbs and watch all these monster SUV grocery haulers disappear, while auto makers scramble to produce sensibly sized cars
Jared Fogle was caught too early. Had his crimes been exposed today he could've made an easy pivot to right wing grifter.
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Jared Fogle was caught too early. Had his crimes been exposed today he could've made an easy pivot to right wing grifter.
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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They only view their children as object property. They're free to do whatever they want to their own kids, and that includes exchanging them transactionally to other people. It's why they're so defensive of child marriage.
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
They only view their children as object property. They're free to do whatever they want to their own kids, and that includes exchanging them transactionally to other people. It's why they're so defensive of child marriage.
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It's very hard for normal people to understand this about them! Because we're normal! But people consistently make this mistake, thinking that appealing to their decency or humanity is going to accomplish something, when it very plainly will not.
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It's very hard for normal people to understand this about them! Because we're normal! But people consistently make this mistake, thinking that appealing to their decency or humanity is going to accomplish something, when it very plainly will not.
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this is true but it goes even deeper than this, it’s not that they ‘don’t care’ about their kid, it’s they don’t care about their autonomany and only view their children as property and want to control them. its why we see the modern lavender panic, fears of “kids being transed”, from the far right
One of the things that's very difficult to really take to heart about MAGA conservatives is that you can't get them on hypocrisy about their children because they really don't give a fuck about their kids
Everyone who posts this should note that Megyn Kelly has a 14-year-old daughter. Do not let her off the hook on this.
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
this is true but it goes even deeper than this, it’s not that they ‘don’t care’ about their kid, it’s they don’t care about their autonomany and only view their children as property and want to control them. its why we see the modern lavender panic, fears of “kids being transed”, from the far right
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Read my latest deep dive into the newly released Epstein emails. Guess who was helping Steve Bannon to expand Trump's MAGA: convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The pay off? A MAGA movement that would shield the likes of Epstein from scrutiny.
🚨 NEW Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as a Shield for Jeffrey Epstein
Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Bannon, who offered to help him “stave off" the #MeToo movement in return for support
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Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Bannon, who offered to help him “stave off" the #MeToo movement in return for support
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as Shield for Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Steve Bannon, who told him it could help him “stave off Time’s Up for a decade” in return for str...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Read my latest deep dive into the newly released Epstein emails. Guess who was helping Steve Bannon to expand Trump's MAGA: convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The pay off? A MAGA movement that would shield the likes of Epstein from scrutiny.
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Johnson: The biggest reason there aren’t more walkable neighborhoods in the U.S. is that they’ve basically been banned.
Johnson: The biggest reason there aren’t more walkable neighborhoods in the U.S. is that they’ve basically been banned.
This car-free neighborhood was designed to revolutionize American cities » Yale Climate Connections
A discussion with the founder of Culdesac, a real estate developer devoted to building walkable places.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Johnson: The biggest reason there aren’t more walkable neighborhoods in the U.S. is that they’ve basically been banned.
Johnson: The biggest reason there aren’t more walkable neighborhoods in the U.S. is that they’ve basically been banned.
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New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
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Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
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November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
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[puts on queer radical feminist hat]
I think this is related to Megyn Kelly's not-technically-a-pedophile remarks.
Reactionary patriarchy only cares about sorting "normal" from "deviant".
It doesn't care about sufficiently *normal* kinds of violence, abuse, coercion, harm, etc.
I think this is related to Megyn Kelly's not-technically-a-pedophile remarks.
Reactionary patriarchy only cares about sorting "normal" from "deviant".
It doesn't care about sufficiently *normal* kinds of violence, abuse, coercion, harm, etc.
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
[puts on queer radical feminist hat]
I think this is related to Megyn Kelly's not-technically-a-pedophile remarks.
Reactionary patriarchy only cares about sorting "normal" from "deviant".
It doesn't care about sufficiently *normal* kinds of violence, abuse, coercion, harm, etc.
I think this is related to Megyn Kelly's not-technically-a-pedophile remarks.
Reactionary patriarchy only cares about sorting "normal" from "deviant".
It doesn't care about sufficiently *normal* kinds of violence, abuse, coercion, harm, etc.
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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So true, Queen! The nine most terrifying words in the English launguage are, "I"m from the Government and I'm here to help!" 👏👏👏👏👏
January 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
So true, Queen! The nine most terrifying words in the English launguage are, "I"m from the Government and I'm here to help!" 👏👏👏👏👏
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Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
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If you find yourself thinking "cyclists don't belong on the road" then the logical corollary of that is to support safe, separated cycling infrastructure. But in my experience it is often the same people who vociferous oppose cycling infrastructure who also abuse cyclists for riding on the road.
November 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
If you find yourself thinking "cyclists don't belong on the road" then the logical corollary of that is to support safe, separated cycling infrastructure. But in my experience it is often the same people who vociferous oppose cycling infrastructure who also abuse cyclists for riding on the road.