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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 4h

Encourage reading the whole post, which is admirably measured.

TL;DR: We don’t fully understand what’s behind the jump in US pedestrian deaths, but car bloat seems to be an important factor.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 5h

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

www.construction-physics.com

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Francesca Hong 홍윤정 @francescahongwi.bsky.social · 3h

Hey! Team Hong here. Fran is running for Governor because she knows that together, We Make Better Possible.

But we can’t do it without you.

Join Team Hong today and let’s take back Wisconsin for working people.

francescahong.com/volunteer

We want you to volunteer for the Hong campaign.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 20h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 23h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 13h

This is frightening -> "The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 14h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 21h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 23h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as "Federal Agents"), are temporarily
ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
a.
Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.

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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 1d

At a transportation research conference that is still probably about 90% dudes. We miss so much in planning and engineering our communities when everyone in the room has similar experiences of how people interact with you in public space.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 1d

ICE shoots ministers. Pass it on.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 5d

The green cross code is the most disastrous public information campaign in history. It has made generations believe that pedestrians are responsible for avoiding crashes. Crashes are actually the responsibility of the operators of the massive motorised lumps of metal.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 2d

We are at the terrifying point where Doug Wilson is being interviewed by Ross Douthat, and there is no earnest caveat of his extremism.

I interviewed Wilson in 2020. Compare Douthat's interview and this, and you'll see only one is not normalizing his bigotry:

www.hcn.org/issues/52-8/...

As a plague sweeps the land, zealots see a gift from heaven - High Country News

Extremist pastors are using the COVID-19 pandemic to push their conservative religious ideologies.

www.hcn.org

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Dr. Susan G (she/her) @madtownmama.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve met some pretty cool knitters.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 2d

The #1 piece of advice that TransLink's CEO offers other North American transit agencies:

Provide frequent service

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Dr. Susan G (she/her) @madtownmama.bsky.social · 2d

…car dependency itself is the problem.” 3/3

Dr. Susan G (she/her) @madtownmama.bsky.social · 2d

“Much as elaborate but ineffectual cigarette filters were an attempt to perpetuate cigarette smoking when it was clear that smoking itself was the problem, AVs are, more than anything else, an attempt to perpetuate car dependency when 2/

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Dr. Susan G (she/her) @madtownmama.bsky.social · 2d

I’m reading Autonorama by @norton.bsky.social and it’s just chock full of quotable passages. This one sums up the AV problem pretty well: 1/

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 3d

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 3d

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

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...

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.

apnews.com

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Dr. Susan G (she/her) @madtownmama.bsky.social · 3d

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Dems, please talk about this more!! If we can’t agree that pedos are bad and protecting pedos is bad, what are we even doing??

murderedbybluesky.bsky.social @murderedbybluesky.bsky.social · 3d

"Speaker Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House may have more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records."

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

Dr. Susan G (she/her) @madtownmama.bsky.social · 3d

Sending love to Dolly tonight ❤️

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 4d

That feeling when one New York Times headline clearly explains another.

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