← Feed

Posts

• Post #4041389

  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org that’s for the best. If they want the benefit of off-duty communications they should pay for it and avoid all of the hassles about policy rather than expecting you to subsidize them. There’s always going to be a conflict because security teams want everything locked down, GPS tracked, remote-wipeable, etc. which increase the risks to you for their benefit.

• Post #3717898

  “A bike share and transportation planner for the city of Boston and a cycling advocate was struck and killed by a driver near Roxbury Crossing Thursday morning when she was riding her bike, her family and the Boston Cyclists Union said.” https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/09/metro/pedestrian-struck-killed-in-roxbury-crossing/ #bicycling #CarsRuinCities #CarsRuinLives

• Post #2880873

  “The writings, obtained by The Associated Press, include hateful rhetoric toward Jewish people, Muslims and Islam, as well as the LGBTQ+ community, Black people, women, and both the political left and right. Both express beliefs that white people are being eliminated, and one writes about mental health struggles and being rejected by women.” https://apnews.com/article/islamic-center-san-diego-shooting-mosque-hate-d81d87793aa3eea836d45a9d5b1f297b

• Post #2880872

  Really glad my grandfather sold his house before the chemical tank became the thing his old neighborhood in Garden Grove is known for…

• Post #2880871

  Just a few types of plastic waste account for most ocean pollution: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/food-and-drink-related-litter-dominates-global-plastic-pollution

• Post #2880870

  “The immigrants said they wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between assailants posing as ICE agents and real agents, “because now they all come hooded,” one of them said” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-impersonators-immigrants-raids-violence-trump-administration-rcna265653

• Post #2880869

  Mental health treatment should be more accessible than guns: https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/who-is-nasire-best-alleged-white-house-shooter-killed-secret-service-DJ2CR6XFCREWHBEAUA2WBHAK4Y/

• Post #2342213

  Remember all of those people who used to constantly talk about the risks of “cancel culture”? https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/trump-admin-censors-more-studies-conflicting-with-rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine-views/

• Post #2342212

  Who among us hasn’t held all of the cards and hoped to end up where we started? https://xcancel.com/HQNewsNow/status/2051752576127750324

• Post #2342211

  The climate and microplastics crises are the same crisis: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02620-1 That’s basically synthetic textiles and car tires going most of the damage, so “cars ruin cities” and “polyester ruins planets”?

• Post #2342210

  It’s quite possible for both sides of a war to lose while victory goes to a non-combatant: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/business/war-energy-china-iran.html “Chinese solar panel exports more than doubled in March compared with the previous month, while electric vehicle exports also rose despite tariffs aimed at keeping them out of many markets.”

• Post #2342209

  This is impressively scathing from someone who defends some earlier SCOTUS decisions: https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/05/the-supreme-courts-indefensible-evisceration-of-the-voting-rights-act/

• Post #2342208

  The contrast in priorities is stunning: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/trump-drives-across-reflecting-pool-to-inspect-blue-coating-he-ordered/4101737/ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/world/asia/trump-xi-china-us-iran-munitions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.g1A.Urcw.ctNRBuFG7CEz&smid=url-share

• Post #2342207

  “At this point, you’re probably thinking, Uh, isn’t gathering to praise a giant golden statue textbook idolatry? I’m glad you (hypothetically) asked because this was actually one of the very first things Burns addressed in the captions to his Instagram posts on the event. “Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf. We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone,” he wrote.” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/gold-trump-statue-doral-false-idol.html

• Post #2342206

  Ah, Takoma porchfest! #takomaporch #Takoma

• Post #2072414

  "This is the second home I've lost," he says. "In the last war [in 2024] I lost a home. And in this war I lost another. "I wish it was just my home that I lost, and that my son survived. This brick can be rebuilt. But nothing will bring back my son." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c202652vvnjo

• Post #1653319

  Today in #CarsRuinCities: use a HEPA filter to reduce the mental impact of pollution. https://theconversation.com/hepa-air-purifiers-may-boost-brain-power-in-adults-over-40-new-research-280885

• Post #1113284

  The only thing more shameful than the people who spent all of 2024 lying about the competent black woman supporting genocide is their silence now: https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-trump-lebanon-april-7-2026-421ee64fdc9a5c26460df8119c7d1b3f

• Post #1113283

  https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-war-takeaways.html - beyond the Netanyahu details, I have to wonder whether the details about Vance are going to feature in a 25th amendment play. I think a lot of people would accept a “mental illness exploited by trusted advisors” narrative if it came with an off-ramp…

• Post #1113282

  “It doesn’t make any sense — they’re going to get arrested for following the law? That’s stupid,” Stock said. “It’s bad for morale, it disrupts the soldiers’ readiness.” https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/07/us/immigration-military-bases

• Post #1113281

  “Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said that media reports that the Strait of Hormuz has been closed are ‘false,’ but then called for the strait to be reopened ‘immediately.’” https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/08/world/iran-war-trump-news/b41d69b4-6c7b-586f-b217-fc2da9a02081

• Post #1113280

  “But the blatant intimidation tactic is the first of its kind ever made by American officials to the Catholic Church. There are no public records of any previous meetings between Vatican and U.S. officials at the Pentagon, let alone an instance in which the world power suggested that it could force the Bishop of Rome into captivity. The Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s warning that Pope Leo cancelled his plans to visit the U.S. later in the year” https://newrepublic.com/post/208820/pent...

• Post #1113279

  “The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a rule designed to make it harder to sue retirement plan fiduciaries that invest in risky, more volatile assets. The rule is also President Donald Trump’s administration’s latest giveaway to the Trump family’s favorite industry: Cryptocurrency.” https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/new-labor-department-rule-trump-crypto-retirement-401k

• Post #1113278

  “Breaking from past precedent, the Department of Defense did not give any kind of warning or hint to the vessels, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy or the Department of Transportation that the U.S. was going to strike the region, three sources close to the situation told NOTUS.” https://www.notus.org/defense/us-cadets-vessels-stuck-persian-gulf-trump-bombing-iran-war

• Post #1113277

  “Two months ago the global news story was Tehran massacring its own people,” said Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Today the global news story is Tehran successfully resisting America and Israel.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/middleeast/iran-war-leadership.html

• Post #1113276

  You don’t say: “The error, which the administration admitted first to The Associated Press, prompted health analysts to question how many of the Republican administration’s sweeping anti-fraud efforts around the country were based on faulty findings.” https://apnews.com/article/new-york-medicaid-fraud-dr-oz-trump-342285a3c5d5b71f36ce3f3c77ec72c5

• Post #1113275

  Headways on the Maryland purple line look brutal:

• Post #1113274

  Orbán realized that if he won, he’d have to spend more time with Trump and Vance: https://apnews.com/article/hungary-election-orban-magyar-trump-1a4eb0ba6b94e0c80c3cd18bd36254ab

• Post #1113273

  “Rights groups, however, have said these mass remote detonations could amount to wanton destruction: a war crime. The laws of war prohibit the deliberate destruction of civilian homes, except when necessary for lawful military reasons.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/how-israeli-offensive-destroyed-entire-villages-in-lebanon

• Post #995215

  “There is no way to watch the new Harry Potter show subversively; whether or not you believe you're being responsible, if you're watching, you are buying in. Harry Potter is now a byword for the industrial-scale erosion of the limited rights trans people had managed to win or squat in, and the equally galling mass indifference to that erosion. She has ruined it utterly.” https://defector.com/its-time-to-grow-up-hbo-harry-potter