And now Twitter for January 2024 — still hanging in there. I've locked my account down and turned off video. I guess that means I only see a narrow window of what's on there, which is fine by me. I'm no longer posting anything there myself. But there are too many people who still do, who aren't writing these briefly timely thoughts elsewhere that I can access.
My Twitter likes have once again included more images than BlueSky. Twitter users had tweets about the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire Republican primary (which BlueSky users pretty much ignored). Otherwise, topics were similar.
Everything below the line is quoted from the attributed account and in reverse chronological order that I saw it, except the images, which I often move up or down in time to get better visual balance.
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I love how we have mountains and mountains of evidence that corporations and finance unbound do absolutely nothing but cannibalize every important thing they come across and yet they own our government so completely that there’s just nothing being done about it.
Jared Yates Sexton
YIMBY wins in general elections. NIMBYs win in neighborhood scream fests.
kar nels
White men make up 30% of the population, control 93% of venture capital funds, and give only 1% to Black-owned companies. That’s legal. But if a Black woman tries to help other Black women who have been denied venture capital dollars, that’s illegal.
Keith Boykin
Before 1820, Africans outnumbered Europeans arriving in the Americas by a factor of over three to one. This means that up until the early 19th century, most of the people who arrived in the Americas arrived enslaved:
ChristinaProenzaColes
In 2018 we knew we had to slash emissions in half by 2030 to have a chance of avoiding the worst of climate breakdown. We had 12 years to transform everything. We have used half of them...
Dr Charlie Gardner
Over the past 30 years, battery costs are down an incredible 99%; the density of top-tier cells is up 5 times; and sales are up 30%+ on average each year. Combined impact: 50%+ of fossil fuel demand confined to the history books by 2040.
Assaad Razzouk
Imagine if the government made it illegal to drive anything but a luxury vehicle in your neighborhood. This is what we do with housing. In most neighborhoods it’s illegal to build anything except the most expensive type of housing… detached single family homes. In contrast, housing would be by right with minimum requirements beyond safety standards, massively subsidized, encouraged and required by federal, state and local policy, mass produced but customizable and can go literally anywhere.
Tesho Akindele @Tesho13
Minimum parking requirements not only get in the way of your community producing the housing it needs but also serve as a major impediment to the creation of small, neighborhood businesses:
Jonathan Berk @berkie1
The single best thing the US could do is exactly reverse how we deal with cars and housing: Each new car requires several years of permitting and design review, must pay community benefits and prove it will not negatively impact the neighbors, any of which can sue to stop it.
@bellachu10
26 Republican governors have publicly embraced a discredited legal theory (compact theory) that was previously used to justify secession and resulted in the Civil War. Seems like this should be a bigger deal.
Judd Legum
When Trump openly and repeatedly exclaims that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” he is literally using language from Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Trump is not a “populist.” He’s not a “strongman.” He is a fascist. Use the word.
Robert Reich
More trains serve the forests of Germany than San Antonio, TX (1.452 million) and Columbus, OH (906k).
Hayden Clarkin @the_transit_guy
The Struggle Within: Race Relations in the United States with cover design by Eric Carle, 1965. Uploaded by Katherine Small Gallery:
People’s Graphic Design Archive
In my book Unconditional Parenting I challenged the belief that parents in dangerous neighborhoods must control and punish their kids to protect them. A recent study shows that such parenting is damaging even (or especially) in such places. Yes, children facing racism and other perils may need more structure or closer monitoring, but that doesn't mean they benefit from controlling or authoritarian parenting. In fact, the chance for kids to participate in making decisions may be MOST important in tough areas.
Alfie Kohn
Our DOTs are decades behind peer nations. It’s as if we had cholera outbreaks or gangrene amputations decades after the discovery of sewage, sanitation and penicillin. There are accepted, low-tech, low-cost, proven international best practices. Our DOTs refuse to implement them.
@bellachu10
80 year old political comics are still relevant because we live in a capitalist hellscape where nothing ever changes:
Gritty is the Way @Gritty20202
The USA just paused the approval of any new liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal. This will hit 17 major projects which were going to fry the planet, adding more emissions than 500 coal-fired power plants combined — while also poisoning us. Big win
Assaad Razzouk
Research shows a whopping 70% of people were hired at a company where they already had a connection. At the most desirable companies the number is higher, with 95% landing jobs because of connections. But y'all are worried about Black people getting jobs because of DEI?
chris evans @notcapnamerica
I was radicalized by in person interactions with housing foes where they decried two story “towers” (Two. Story. Towers.), intimated anyone unable to afford a $2M home was a threat to public safety and openly promoted Malthusian solutions to preserve views and parking spots.
@bellachu10
NIMBYs always use "human scale" to oppose tall buildings. But tall buildings let more people live close together, which supports transit, small biz, access to amenities — THAT is "human scale" on a HORIZONTAL perspective. Because now you can walk around your own neighbourhood!
Peter Waldkirch @pwaldkirch
People bringing lawsuits to **block** housing are the bad guys. There's no reason to sugarcoat it. They are awful awful people, and they get power from zoning laws.
Andy Boenau
AT&T/Bell Telephone Company employment opportunity ad, 1972:
Cory Doctorow
In the year 125AD, a Greek philosopher named Aristides attempted to explain Christianity to Roman Emperor Hadrian. Here’s how he described these early Christians… “They love one another. They never fail to help widows. They save orphans from those who would hurt them. If they see an immigrant, they take him into their homes and rejoice over him as a brother.” I know very few people who would describe us the same way today. Most folks see Christians primarily as unwavering supporters of a convicted sexual abuser with 91 felony charges, gatekeepers who fight to keep anyone they don’t like out of their churches, and pursuers of political power which is then wielded in ways that harm our most vulnerable neighbors. We have fallen so far. Lord, have mercy. Something has to change.
Zach W. Lambert
A local EV promoter took me to task for speaking ill of the technology a couple years ago. Electrification is essential but the way people have skipped over right-sizing to smaller vehicles, up-sizing transit investments, and building pedestrian and bicycle infra is criminal.
Mary Morse Marti
If Biden wins in 2024 (and is not prevented from taking office by MAGA brownshirts), all the nation's reactionary fury is going to be poured into [things like Texas's right to defend the border, separate from the U.S]. Red states will deliberately try to provoke a constitutional crisis, or even armed conflict.
David Roberts @drvolts
"Air pollution from the Athabasca oil sands exceed industry-reported emissions by a staggering 1,900%-+6,300%. This means damaging pollutants from oil sands are equal to those from all other human-made sources in Canada with severe health implications."
Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island @SRTurtleIsland
A reminder that referring to high and growing migrant numbers at the border as an ‘invasion,’ which has just been normalized and become commonplace on the right, wasn’t always this normal or commonplace, is a new phenomenon, and is literally a far right, neo-Nazi talking point.
Mehdi Hasan
Time to dust off yer Ben Bagdikian and Noam Chomsky folks. No matter your opinion of "the media," a total gutting of the press is not a sign of a healthy democracy.
Amy Westervelt
When the vote in only 2 small states settles the nomination for president, effectively disenfranchising almost the entire nation, maybe it’s time to rethink how we nominate candidates for president.
Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD
Really?
@rsutcliff
“The majority of book challenges in the United States came from 11 people.”
Anthony Lazarus @Sr_Lazarus
Honestly never ceases to blow my mind how powerful the heckler’s veto is in America. So many examples where we allow a tiny group of cranks to impose their will on everyone else
Armand Domalewski
People who claim to follow the teachings of Jesus are fuming that there might not be razor wire at the border to slice up children.
Ron Filipkowski
“Why is it clear to us that it's degrading and objectifying to measure and rank a girl’s physical body on a numeric scale, but we think it’s perfectly okay to measure and rank her mind that way?”
Alfie Kohn
The same people who told me I was an alarmist or a drama queen after the 2016 election are the ones who say today, wow, who could have seen this coming, and then say they have to unplug from the news because it's just to much for them. That's how authoritarians come into power.
@JoyceWhiteVance
PSSST!!!
Yellow Dot Studios @weareyellowdot
IIRC both Goebbels and Kipling were fond of the phrase “thinking with the blood.”
Sanho Tree
Ive already spent more in a single car repair and a month of gas + insurance than I would spend on transit if i rode it every day for a year (~$1,700). Americans do not ride transit because it isnt free, they drive because transit is underfunded, infrequent and slow.
Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking
Banks like Lloyds of London won't insure homes due to climate impact risk assessments but are still happy to insure oil + gas pipelines. That's like refusing to pay for smoking-related lung cancers while investing in cigarettes and expanding the number of smokers. Murderous.
Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island @SRTurtleIsland
No Labels is a bunch of mostly white male conservatives - who thought they would one day be president and have the sads because Rs are MAGA and the Dems are too diverse - so they started their own party. It’s not about fixing the problems in the lives of Americans.
@BlueSteelDC
For decades, Delft was carved in two by a monstrous and deafening train viaduct. Delft’s Phoenixstraat just 20 years ago:
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife
Until they decided to bury the tracks in the early 2000s. Rather than fill this space with motor traffic, it was allocated in a much more humane manner: for trams, trees, terraces and active travel:
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife
It's not just the assault on Diversity/Equity/Inclusion (DEI) initiatives that concerns me. It's the fact that they're being replaced with Sameness/Injustice/Rejection (SIR) requirements. New evidence of the vile values behind the right-wing's assault.
Alfie Kohn
Remember, it’s not about whether you personally want to or need to drive. It’s about understanding the truth that in cities, if everyone tries to move by car, no one moves much at all. So the more of us that are enticed to walk, bike and take transit, the better it is for everyone.
Brent Toderian
This map shows how cheap gasoline would have to be in order to be on par with the cost of at-home EV charging (as of Jan. 16, 2024):
Canary Media
55% of MAGA voters say Trump should prosecute his opponents as "revenge," a new CBS poll finds. As @robertpjones tells me: “Large percentages of Trump voters and Republicans today now understand their political opponents as enemies of the country."
Greg Sargent
“Central to saving the city and responding to converging crises requires
urgently saving it from the car… Roads are so dominant that the places
between them have become incidental. Communities are leftover parts;
places you get to using vehicles, rather than places themselves.”
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife
It is wild how DEI went from this thing for like a decade that was basically just discussed in the corporate world at the national level mostly to being a bugbear of the right that gets discussed constantly in contexts where it's not even present.
@ExileGrimm
whispers: you don’t have to pretend religious texts are historical records just because religious adherents claim they are.
Leah McElrath
“One recent study cited by RMI found that ‘pollution could have been 30 percent less between 2010 and 2022 if cars had stayed the same size’”:
David Wallace-Wells
In my opinion, there are absolutely psychological and physiological reasons people are more impatient and aggressive behind the wheel of a car. Cars grant power and anonymity in a system optimized for their convenience and set motorists in a fight or flight scenario with no physical outlet.
@bellachu10
China railways carried 3.7 b passengers in 2023, of which 3 billion were on high-speed lines. Comparisons:
—Amtrak FY 23 ridership: 28 million
—US air enplanements 22: 853 million
—Japan high-speed ridership 22: 295 million
Yonah Freemark
New: Corporate profits drove 53% of inflation during the 2nd and 3rd quarters of 2023. Corporations line their pockets while consumers pay the price. Why? Because they can.
Groundwork Collaborative
"A soon-to-be published, groundbreaking study from neuroscientists at Columbia University’s Teachers College has come down decisively on the matter: for “deeper reading” there is a clear advantage to reading a text on paper, rather than on a screen."
Holly Korbey
It drives me kind of nuts how vague our conversations about climate change can be, so let's just say the quiet part loud: 40% of US emissions come from the manufacture and driving of passenger cars. Not just "transport," not just "industry"; cars.
@streetsblogkea
Small change, big impact:
@tomflood1
Imagine voting for someone who has to miss the funeral for his third mother-in-law because he'll be on trial for defaming a woman he previously raped.
@Le202nard
You'd think Nikki Haley would tell them folks at that HBCU thank you for hiring her dad so they could own a house. She seems more grateful for the white man that sold them the house and barred Black people as guests.
Junior Walker, Jr. @PettyWakandan
Conservatives are whining that Oregon hasn’t had a Republican win statewide office since we’ve had mail in voting. “VOTE FRAUD!” Ah yes because the place they deride as being a liberal hellhole would… checks notes… be conservative if we had to drive our Subarus to the polls?
Morgan Godvin
My son asked why is there a movie called “NOOOOO”:
@dmgdeeb
There are few things I see people get more consistently wrong than the bizarre assumption that if everyone switched to plant-based diet, we would require more cropland. NO. In every scenario, a shift toward plant-based requires not just less pasture land, but less cropland too:
Liz Specht
Roberts is really trying to tell himself that none of this matters because Chevron isn't important anymore. Roberts is good at... inventing a world that doesn't exist and then living in it.
Elie Mystal
I can’t be normal, so I'll be something else.
Nnedi Okorafor
The GOP belongs to MAGA. They have obstructed both governance and justice at every possible turn. The fact that their Big Boss got 51% of the vote in a caucus with extremely low turnout is not evidence of a rout. The MAGA agenda is not driving people to the polls.
Rachel O’Leary Carmona
Look forward to wind farm opponents changing their position based on this new data…
Alec Stapp
The real climate and ecological crisis, is if you truthfully and honestly say what the situation really is, and what the only solutions to it are, you're seen as an extremist, because it's contrary to the lies and narratives peddled to society by the media and politicians.
Stephen Barlow @SteB777
Only 1 in 13 registered Iowa GOP voters favored Trump in the caucuses. Almost as many favored anyone else. Politics reporters describe this as a huge victory even though about 85% of eligible voters stayed home. My view: the cult is with him, but otherwise support is weak.
David Cay Johnston
The guy who just bought the Baltimore Sun has also been a big funder of Project Veritas and Moms for Liberty.
Bill Grueskin
The presidential field for Republicans is a bunch of clowns. Except they are the sort of clowns you find in a Stephen King novel
Paul Thomas @plthomasEdD
The first stop Trump is making tomorrow, after his Iowa win, is a trial where the court has ALREADY determined he has committed sexual assault. The Republican frontrunner is a sex offender. Full stop. How can a man like that lead anything? That is the story tomorrow. Democrats on TV can say: "I don't think US is going to elect someone who is a sex offender; lead an insurrection vs US; committed massive financial fraud; stole America's secrets, lied to the FBI; took more money from foreign governments than anyone else ever." Name and shame now folks.
Simon Rosenberg @SimonWDC
a majority of white voters in this country are unwell and unfit to make governance decisions, it is the worst most dangerous thing facing our country. Its really the thing that should be all hands on deck to face this existential threat to America, this kind of bizarre psychopathic politics, but instead we need to pretend defunding the police is the danger:
D.A. Bullock @BullyCreative
Military emissions are not counted in global stocktakes — initially at the behest of the USA. It isn't only through burning fossil fuels that war and preparedness damages the environment, it occurs in many ways.
Extinction Rebellion Global
It will never not be weird to me that actual Nazis marching in American cities gets less coverage and outrage, including from the ‘liberal media’, than the statements of college presidents or the placards of student protesters.
Mehdi Hasan
UPS workers are getting MLK day off as a paid holiday for the first time ever tomorrow thanks to their new union contract.
@RyanElward
Rubber is now a worse deforester than coffee or cocoa and is closing in on palm oil for the top spot. And the damage could be about to escalate sharply, thanks to EVs, which wear out tires faster than conventional cars, thereby raising demand for rubber.
Yale Environment 360
“Settler colonialism is just a term woke academics invented. It’s all about identity politics. It doesn’t really exist”
Me:
Jairo I Fúnez-Flores
According to an early 1968 Harris Poll, MLK Jr died with a public disapproval rating of nearly 75% — after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, King pursued a more expansive socioeconomic and political agenda which included anti-war — white Americans vilified him for this
D.A. Bullock @BullyCreative
One black male President of the United States and one black woman President of Harvard and they want to set fire to diversity, equity, and inclusion because for them, even one is too many.
@BlackKnight10k
South Africa and Namibia — both victims of genocides by colonial states. Canada and Germany — both colonisers guilty of genocides. Hm, I wonder which ones are the better moral authority on genocide? It’s just so difficult to figure this all out
Tiberius @ecomarxi
Seems like a lot of people confuse the benefits they personally get from having a car with arguments about whether or not we should organize society around having cars. There are benefits to owning a nice suit. But we should not make owning a nice suit mandatory
derek guy @dieworkwear
In 1963, the famous photographer Richard Avedon took a picture of a man named William Casby. William Casby, born in 1857, was 106 years old at the time. In his hands, he was holding his great-great-granddaughter, Cherri Stamps-McCray:
@fasc1nate
This is why the anti reparations arguments have always been so hollow. The people who lived through it were here and America not only refused to pay them reparations (though it did find money to help former slave owners), it then terrorized them and their children off the land Even if you wanted to argue against reparations for slavery, what about Jim Crow? Because many of those people are still alive, and the people who benefited from the discrimination during Jim Crow still have the money and in some cases the land that was stolen.
Mikki Kendall @Karnythia
I encourage people not intimately familiar with the Middle East to advocate for the safety of ALL civilians without committing themselves to simultaneously supporting problematic leadership entities who themselves often harm civilians. The dynamics in the region are…complicated.
Leah McElrath
DARVO is a set of tactics used by some abusers when confronted. It stands for:
Deny
Attack
Reverse
Victim and
Offender
Leah McElrath
Cars are basically computers with an engine, why are police departments still using kinetic weapons in pursuits? Automobiles should have remote kill switches, or barring that, officials should be able to use electromagnetic countermeasures to disable motor vehicles.
Joshua Davis
This is dehumanization in a nutshell:
Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman504
"You can’t defeat an opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable," says Bret Stephens. But Bret, Democrats *did defeat Trump in the 2020 election.* Between 2018, 2020 and 2022, Trump presided over the worst string of GOP losses in many years. All of this happened! On a profound level, many in the media elite/punditry simply refuse to accept that Democrats/liberals have defeated or dramatically outperformed Trump/MAGA in the last three national elections. This is regularly erased from the story of the Trump era. It's a remarkable blind spot.
Greg Sargent
Upon its introduction, glyphosate was heralded as a "silver bullet" for weed control. Likewise, glyphosate-resistant crops came with the lofty claim that they would greatly reduce applications of herbicides. IInstead, glyphosate applications increased 10x on US cropland within the first 4 years of glyphosate-resistant commercialization. Its sustained overuse has led to the development of over 350 glyphosate-resistant 'super-weeds,' which cause an estimated $43 billion in crop damage each year. Silver bullet approaches do not work in agriculture, no matter how shiny and promising. More often than not they create more problems than they solve:
Sam Knowlton
Daily temperature anomalies in 2023 relative to 1850-1900 (pre-industrial). The year as a whole averaged 1.48°C warmer than the 1850-1900 pre-industrial level but much of the year was spent above 1.5C and a few days at or above 2.0C
Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf
No surprise that cheap, on-demand, door-to-door microtransit service is "having trouble keeping up with demand." A terrific way to travel — as long as taxpayers pay the huge, growing subsidies required. I'll say it again: Microtransit doesn't scale.
David Zipper
I have read every single court filing, pleading, and briefing filed by Trump in all four criminal cases and NOT ONE argues that he’s innocent. In every single one he says he did it, but that he’s above the law.
Mueller, She Wrote
I loath the phrase “butts in seats.” It’s just crass and dehumanizing, lol. I want to imagine an audience’s faces, not a bunch of asses.
Nnedi Okorafor
Noisy or tranquil…dirty or green…hostile or welcoming. Cities are what we make them:
Qagggy!
Good news: US GHG emissions fell in 2023.
Bad news:
1) not by enough
2) transportation emissions still rising
3) industrial emissions up on higher oil and gas production.
Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony
"We analyzed 5 recent large-scale power failures in the US, including the rolling blackouts caused by Winter Storm Uri in 2021. We found that gas plants accounted for most of the failed capacity in all 5 events." The "reliability" of fossil gas is a myth.
David Roberts @drvolts
There was a week long media freak out when people protested outside the homes of Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts, but Trump supporters are targeting judges, clerks, grand jurors, and prosecutors with harassment and intimidation and it's absolute freaking crickets from the press
scary lawyerguy
"Harassing your public officials into resigning" sadly does work but only for the ones who are basically normal decent people who have something else to live for
flargo @sorkincel
Since everybody is all worked up about 737 plane failures, it's worth pointing out a few reminder facts:
- Plane deaths per 10B passenger miles: 0.2
- Car deaths per 10B passenger miles: 150
That's a ratio of 750, folks.
@psomdecerff
I ride a bicycle and walk and I 100% endorse charging pedestrians/biklings full cost for use of public infrastructure. Make it proportional to spatial needs/impact, let drivers do same. As a show of good faith: I'd gladly pay $100/year! That puts driver fees at $16 million. Each:
Matthew Lewis @mateosfo
"A new study has found that the average bottle of water contains nearly a quarter million fragments of 'nanoplastics' — plastic particles so small they can potentially gum up the machinery of human cells."
David Ho
Israel’s war on Gaza has produced more planet-warming gases than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in a year, causing “immense” impact on climate
fatima bhutto
"Almost half the total CO2 emissions were down to US cargo planes flying military supplies to Israel."
Christian Henderson @CjvHenderson
In any normal world, the former Defense Secretary of the United States saying his former boss, the former President and current GOP presidential frontrunner, is a ‘threat to democracy’ would be a huge national story and maybe even end that frontrunner’s campaign.
Mehdi Hasan
This all started in early Oct. when Bill Ackman went ballistic and tried to ruin the lives of some 18 year old Harvard students, get them blacklisted over an Israel letter, and got upset university leaders didn’t help with this project, so he escalated — very pathetic news cycle.
Lee Fang
The Harvard situation did not start as DEI/plagiarism issue. It began as an effort to punish students for expressing political views. When Harvard kind of/sort of supported their Constitutional rights, a Zionist billionaire had a hissy fit and brought down its president.
Leah McElrath
the differences are obvious:
Ed Mendoza @orangutanagram
So weird to see commentators moralise about relatively trivial things during a vast, ongoing genocide that they can’t bring themselves to mention
Frankie Boyle Updates
Jared Kushner says he’s tired of hearing people complain about not being successful because when he’s been faced with obstacles in life he doesn’t give up and always finds a way to overcome them.
Ron Filipkowski
In the United States you can get a $7500 tax credit to buy a $55,000 electric car but you can’t get a $7500 tax credit to rent a condo in a walkable neighborhood where you don’t need a car. And they call it “climate policy.”
Matthew Lewis @mateosfo
On this day [January 6] in 1959, Richard and Mildred Loving were convicted of interracial marriage in Virginia, given a one-year suspended sentence, and banished from the state.
Equal Justice Initiative
The number of annual US pedestrian deaths increased by 46% over the same period:
Yonah Freemark
School shootings are so regular its hardly even a news story anymore. I remember after Sandy Hook it felt like the whole nation stopped. Now if Sandy Hook happens its the second item under the latest Harvard scandal.
Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking
Data shows an almost immediate – and steep – rise in mass shooting deaths in the years after the assault weapons ban expired in 2004.
Jess Piper @piper4missouri
There's a profound disconnect between how FHWA thinks the MUTCD is used and how it's actually used.
FHWA: "It's just a guide. Don't take it so seriously".
Principle Engineers: "I will be sued and my life will be destroyed if I deviate from this book by one inch."
Mark R. Brown, AICP @CompletedStreet
The medium is the message and the message of cars is sociopathy.
Aaron Naparstek
Festive hostile architecture:
Cory Doctorow
In case you missed it. The NYPD spent $150 Million *extra* last year to catch people who weren't able to afford to pay the subway fare. They owed just $104,000. $150 million could buy free fares (at going rate) for 95,000 poor New Yorkers per year.
Scott Hechinger
Lest we forget: The people claiming they want the most “qualified” people in presidential positions think Donald Trump is the most “qualified” person to be president of the United States.
Ibram X. Kendi
Nearly 40% of Harvard college grads go straight into consulting or finance. 90% of Harvard Law School grads go straight to big corporate law firms. Elite schools have an ideology, but it sure isn’t communism.
Sejal Singh
About Universal Basic Income and inflation: Alaska has had a UBI since 1982, providing everyone "free money" every year. If any UBI automatically led to inflation, CPI growth should have increased after 1982. Did it? No. The opposite happened.
Scott Santens
Steady decline in European pedestrian deaths, 2010-2019
Marcel Moran
When people tell me PBS has a left wing bias I laugh because I keep a spreadsheet of every single guests and keep track of how long each guest appears on the program. This is the breakdown of Fox News vs. PBS for elected official guests by party affiliation for 2023:
Decoding Fox News
It's really pathetic how the courts are all scared to apply the law to Trump.
Dean Baker
The slugs get it:
SLUGS GET IT
David Cay Johnston
"Were Trump to be excluded from a ballot, Trump voters would of course claim they have been cheated. But they will claim that anyway, in any possible scenario in which Trump does not win reelection. He will lie about the outcome, and they will believe him."
David Roberts @drvolts
To assume merit is the reason White people are overrepresented in positions of power and influence is to assume White people are superior. To assume peoples of color in positions of power and influence are unqualified and unmerited is to assume peoples of color are inferior.
Ibram X. Kendi
Incredible: 64% of Republicans say Donald Trump is a "person of faith." Only 34% say Mitt Romney is.
McKay Coppins
The land used just for free car parking in NYC rivals the cost of its entire mass transit system! (ignoring pollution and congestion) We're so accustomed to subsidizing car parking spaces, but imagine the possibilities if we invested that in public transport instead.
Phil NYC @PhilWalkable
Some of London’s coolest spaces are under railway arches. This would be a lot harder to do under a freeway interchange:
Qagggy!
I’m old enough to remember the photos from Abu Ghraib being an enormous, historic scandal—it wasn’t just the abuse of Arab prisoners that stunned, it was the joy of the smiling American soldiers. Today we see similar every day on TikTok uploaded by IOF goons and nobody blinks.
Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet
Israel talking about the "voluntary migration" of Palestinians from Gaza after deliberately making Gaza uninhabitable is like mugging a guy at gunpoint and saying he gave you his wallet of his own free will because you didn't physically reach into his pocket and take it from him.
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz
Our schools aren’t for sale. Our bodies aren’t up for discussion. Our books won’t be banned. Our land and water won’t be polluted. Our neighbors won’t be oppressed. We won’t back down from our rights as citizens, and if you’re not with us, get out of the way.
Jess Piper @piper4missouri
Sure, I go to the library for books, but also sometimes I go just to exist in a space that's welcoming, organized, comfortable, judgement-free, and run by knowledgeable, helpful, passionate people, because that energy is straight up medicinal.
Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere
This is considered a ‘normal-sized’ car and is therefore legal for a 16-year old to drive on a learner’s permit:
@HowSenChong
I truly, deeply wish the NYT, WSJ etc covered K-12 education with the same fervor that they do internal politics at a university with 20,000 students.
Nathaniel Styer @necs
If Trump is re-elected, the US system of government will come apart with a speed that shocks the world. Perhaps the most frustrating part of it all are the people telling me there's no difference between Biden and Trump.
Brynn Tannehill
There are a lot of important things going on right now. Why are we talking about this and not any of those? We know why: the right is expert at ginning up these artificial controversies and manipulating media. Again, they brag about it publicly!
David Roberts @drvolts
I don't care about Claudine Gay's "citational practices" because they have nothing to do with why any of this happening. Bad citational practices from university presidents don't randomly get front page news for 2 weeks straight in the New York Times.
@adamjohnsonCHI
Whoever designed the Mac pointer hit a home run 40 years ago and it hasn't touched ground yet:
Lucas Pope @dukope
Can you guess what happens when young men are kicked off Medicaid? They are more likely to commit a crime. Why? In part, because they lose mental health services
John B. Holbein
If you hate librarians this tells me all I need to know about you
Allison Wiltz Psy.M. @queenie4rmnola
This is something I want to dig into this year. Fire departments in the US often oppose safe streets yet our fire safety is considerably worse than EU and Asian nations with small fire trucks, narrow winding streets and much older infrastructure. It’s worth understanding why.
@bellachu10
Fire deaths are going up because traffic is getting worse, increasing response times. Yet fire marshals oppose initiatives to reduce car traffic like bike lanes and pedestrian streets because they think driving is awesome.
Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking
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