cc @mayorwu.boston.gov something to think about: “We've been talking about this for a decade. Let's get it done. My goal is to have the infrastructure investment there and the will to actually deliver on these projects.”
“The loudest person doesn't get to influence basic safety infrastructure that we know works. It's time that we stop believing that everyone has to love an idea in order for an idea to happen," said DC's presumptive next mayor @janeese4dc.bsky.social.
#washingtondc @51st.news
#washingtondc @51st.news
Janeese Lewis George pledges a new approach to transit
The presumptive major is pledging a new approach. But can she push past critics?
51st.news
October 7, 2026 at 2:10 AM
cc @mayorwu.boston.gov something to think about: “We've been talking about this for a decade. Let's get it done. My goal is to have the infrastructure investment there and the will to actually deliver on these projects.”
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Based on the volume of complaints online, it looks like the best thing we can do to improve pedestrian safety is stricter regulation of cylists.
September 14, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Based on the volume of complaints online, it looks like the best thing we can do to improve pedestrian safety is stricter regulation of cylists.
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I do not believe this is an unintended consequence. I think ebikes are a potentially revolutionary transportation improvement (especially for teens) and the people opposed to them hate them for exactly that reason
Unintended consequence of NJ's new e-bike law. Bike shop business is drying up as customers balk at the new law requirements
www.nj.com/news/2026/08...
www.nj.com/news/2026/08...
N.J. bike shops report up to 90% drop in e-bike sales after new law: ‘They are breaking us’
Summer is supposed ot be a busy time for bike shops, but New Jersey's new e-bike law has devastated sales and rents, shop owners said
www.nj.com
August 13, 2026 at 3:30 AM
I do not believe this is an unintended consequence. I think ebikes are a potentially revolutionary transportation improvement (especially for teens) and the people opposed to them hate them for exactly that reason
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It is hard to overstate the lack of seriousness with which we treat the ability to own and operate machines with the ability to kill and maim
The driver that doored Riley didn’t have car insurance, was driving on a suspended license, was parked in a no-parking zone, and opened his door in Riley’s path without looking. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/06/b...
Bicyclist killed in Bridgeport crash was CDOT employee devoted to bike infrastructure
A day after his death in Bridgeport, colleagues remembered Riley O’Neil as devoting his life “to making cycling better and safer,”
www.chicagotribune.com
June 7, 2026 at 2:58 AM
It is hard to overstate the lack of seriousness with which we treat the ability to own and operate machines with the ability to kill and maim
seems like we're due for a rereading of Walter Johnson against "dehumanization": www.bostonreview.net/forum/walter...
To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice - Boston Review
How the history of slavery prompts us to rethink our notion of justice.
www.bostonreview.net
August 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
seems like we're due for a rereading of Walter Johnson against "dehumanization": www.bostonreview.net/forum/walter...
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"Tenants in Kansas City are declaring victory after eight months on rent strike—the longest such action in the city’s history...an outcome that lends momentum to efforts to adapt labor union strategies for housing fights."
inthesetimes.com/article/rent...
inthesetimes.com/article/rent...
Striking Tenants Withhold Rent for 247 Days and Win
A victory in Kansas City suggests that the tactics of organized labor can work for tenants.
inthesetimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"Tenants in Kansas City are declaring victory after eight months on rent strike—the longest such action in the city’s history...an outcome that lends momentum to efforts to adapt labor union strategies for housing fights."
inthesetimes.com/article/rent...
inthesetimes.com/article/rent...
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This is the best thing I've read on the phenomenon. Telling that these trend stories are almost always told from the POV of the parents.
www.issendai.com/psychology/e...
www.issendai.com/psychology/e...
The Missing Missing Reasons | Issendai.com
Members of estranged parents' forums often say their children never gave them any reason for the estrangement, then turn around and reveal that their children did tell them why. But the reasons their ...
www.issendai.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This is the best thing I've read on the phenomenon. Telling that these trend stories are almost always told from the POV of the parents.
www.issendai.com/psychology/e...
www.issendai.com/psychology/e...
unfortunately, many self-described Marxists disagree with this
Marxism is not a conspiracy theory that capitalists are the bad guys in society; it's the theory that the mode of production organizes and determines a society. We're going through a huge crisis about the nature of labor and gender relations, and you pick this time be like Marxism is wrong.
May 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
unfortunately, many self-described Marxists disagree with this
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"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met."
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
time.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met."
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
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Being anti-trans is really an elite phenomenon that elites are mistakenly convinced is widely shared.
March 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Being anti-trans is really an elite phenomenon that elites are mistakenly convinced is widely shared.
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The vox-brained, positivist liberal punditocracy doesn't get what the right-wingers are doing.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-power-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-power-...
The Power of Myth
The Centrality of Narrative in Contemporary Politics
www.unpopularfront.news
February 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The vox-brained, positivist liberal punditocracy doesn't get what the right-wingers are doing.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-power-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-power-...
good case of a writer talking to a lot of people, reporting what they've said, and sticking to their existing perspectives without actually understanding the opposing view. the parents are sad? boo hoo learn to apologize and hold your own negative feelings instead of inflicting them on your child!
Why So Many People Are Going “No Contact” with Their Parents
A growing movement wants to destigmatize severing ties. Is it a much-needed corrective, or a worrisome change in family relations?
apple.news
September 14, 2024 at 11:21 PM
good case of a writer talking to a lot of people, reporting what they've said, and sticking to their existing perspectives without actually understanding the opposing view. the parents are sad? boo hoo learn to apologize and hold your own negative feelings instead of inflicting them on your child!
book! book! book!!!
I've got a big announcement tomorrow I'm so so excited about...
September 11, 2024 at 7:31 PM
book! book! book!!!
the only answer to this question is a six-fingered hand
Apple joins the race to find an AI icon that makes sense
No one knows what AI looks like, or even is supposed to look like. It does everything, but looks like nothing.
apple.news
June 16, 2024 at 3:06 AM
the only answer to this question is a six-fingered hand
honestly prefer this to the horizontal consolidation taking place within the studios (and the streamers); hopefully Sony finds a way forward for theatrical—that exec's interview in Deadline a couple weeks ago suggested a positive vision
and what a great time for a renewed unionization push!
and what a great time for a renewed unionization push!
CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) — Sony Pictures Entertainment acquires popular dine-in movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.
June 12, 2024 at 6:12 PM
honestly prefer this to the horizontal consolidation taking place within the studios (and the streamers); hopefully Sony finds a way forward for theatrical—that exec's interview in Deadline a couple weeks ago suggested a positive vision
and what a great time for a renewed unionization push!
and what a great time for a renewed unionization push!
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there are dozens of us
really fucks me up that "chartreuse" is a kind of green. I don't care what it was named after, that ought to be a dark red
May 12, 2024 at 3:48 AM
there are dozens of us
truly if you think the byzantine calculations that our welfare system requires people to make—will this job push me out of that relief and set me back more than i'll earn, etc—just wait til you introduce abusive ex/belligerent fathers to the mix. this is good. bsky.app/profile/prop...
More States Are Allowing Child Support Payments to Reach Children
Since a ProPublica investigation found states were seizing child support headed to families as reimbursement for the mother having received welfare, at least 6 states have changed their policies. Others are debating doing the same.
Since a ProPublica investigation found states were seizing child support headed to families as reimbursement for the mother having received welfare, at least 6 states have changed their policies. Others are debating doing the same.
More States Are Allowing Child Support Payments to Reach Children
Since a ProPublica investigation found that states were seizing child support headed to families as reimbursement for the mother having received welfare, at least six states have changed their policie...
www.propublica.org
May 3, 2024 at 5:23 PM
truly if you think the byzantine calculations that our welfare system requires people to make—will this job push me out of that relief and set me back more than i'll earn, etc—just wait til you introduce abusive ex/belligerent fathers to the mix. this is good. bsky.app/profile/prop...
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More States Are Allowing Child Support Payments to Reach Children
Since a ProPublica investigation found states were seizing child support headed to families as reimbursement for the mother having received welfare, at least 6 states have changed their policies. Others are debating doing the same.
Since a ProPublica investigation found states were seizing child support headed to families as reimbursement for the mother having received welfare, at least 6 states have changed their policies. Others are debating doing the same.
More States Are Allowing Child Support Payments to Reach Children
Since a ProPublica investigation found that states were seizing child support headed to families as reimbursement for the mother having received welfare, at least six states have changed their policie...
www.propublica.org
May 3, 2024 at 1:17 PM
More States Are Allowing Child Support Payments to Reach Children
Since a ProPublica investigation found states were seizing child support headed to families as reimbursement for the mother having received welfare, at least 6 states have changed their policies. Others are debating doing the same.
Since a ProPublica investigation found states were seizing child support headed to families as reimbursement for the mother having received welfare, at least 6 states have changed their policies. Others are debating doing the same.
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Domestic violence is a kind of small-scale terrorism. What OJ Simpson did to Nicole Brown Simpson was not the event of one night—it was a years long campaign that thousands of women suffer at other men’s hands. Read Andrea Dworkin’s memorial to Nicole: evergreenreview.com/read/in-memo...
In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson
Evergreen Review
evergreenreview.com
April 11, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Domestic violence is a kind of small-scale terrorism. What OJ Simpson did to Nicole Brown Simpson was not the event of one night—it was a years long campaign that thousands of women suffer at other men’s hands. Read Andrea Dworkin’s memorial to Nicole: evergreenreview.com/read/in-memo...
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HOLY SHIT NEW POMPEII BUILDINGS EXCAVATED; NEW FRESCOS AND MOSAICS DISCOVERED; ALMOST PERFECTLY PRESERVED
www.bbc.com
April 11, 2024 at 10:28 AM
HOLY SHIT NEW POMPEII BUILDINGS EXCAVATED; NEW FRESCOS AND MOSAICS DISCOVERED; ALMOST PERFECTLY PRESERVED