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”What’s really striking,” @paulkrugman writes, “is how few people actually stand to benefit from New Jersey’s attempt to block or delay congestion charges.” nyti.ms/44vMych
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"71 percent of the 4,734 Denverites who received an e-bike subsidy last year reported that their new rides helped them reduce the amount they drove, replacing an average of 3.4 gas-powered vehicle trips every single week."
👏Hell👏Yes👏
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...in ways that traffic models did not accurately predict. When lanes were reassigned from car traffic to higher-capacity modes – sidewalks, bike lanes and bus or rail lanes – traffic issues were less severe than expected, and traffic volumes were significantly reduced."
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I get that many people don't believe that "Traffic Evaporation" happens, but 20 years of case studies say it is real. "People adjusted their behavior ... thecityfix.com/blog/traffic-…
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There’s a huge difference between self sacrifice and a man choosing to let you die actually. That’s horrible
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Lessons are being learned now. Christ Licht is out of a job and Elon Musk is out a shit ton of money and both are missing chunks of reputation and dignity. If the plan is to lift post-fact horseshit and intolerance from the gutter and mainstream it? You're in the gutter yourself.
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the other day I hear a *big* sigh of relief way across the bookstore so I look up from my corner and chris is beaming, holding up a book and a magnifying glass, saying "it's okay, everyone, it's not human skin!" and that was our win for that day
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Messi refusing Saudi Arabia’s offer of $1.6 billion in favor of a riskier deal in the US, in part, because his wife was very reluctant to move to Saudi, is yet another example of how the liberal values so many deride as “soft” are actually quite the competitive advantage
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I guess we're lucky that the city is actually doing well-enough in general that we have some resiliency to the bad things that he's completely botching?
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I keep typing and untyping tweets about Eric Adams. What a bleak situation. His fate really ought to mimic what happened to Lori Lightfoot
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and on an aside, it’s genuinely funny that the same people screaming about “immutable biological evidence” to justify their transphobic beliefs also fundamentally believe you can create an entire woman out of some dude’s rib?
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and if those kids speak up, they get punished and called liars, & if you actually get caught they’ll just send you to another parish with a fresh batch of kids 🤷
just seems easier than risking being murdered at the grocery store for wearing heels
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conservative logic is weird, if you’re a groomer why would you go through all the work it takes to live as a trans person in a transphobic society when you can just become a priest and the most gullible adults on earth will just hand you their children on a silver platter
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Every time I push a conservative about the concerted, authoritarian project to tilt electoral democracy to the Republican Party, they get incredibly annoyed or even block me. But all of this stuff is designed to do just that. How well it works is not the point—the effort is. – at Washington, DC
Houston has a mayoral race in a few months.
GOP just changed elections rules ONLY for this part of Texas, & they'll come into effect JUST WEEKS before the race. Groups are warning this may create chaos that GOP may then weaponize for more oversight. boltsmag.org/texas-republica…
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I've never understood how most working stiffs freak out over the idea of tax-funded Medicare-for-all, then meekly pay exorbitant premiums (with 'employer contributions') to profit-oriented Health Insurance companies out of each paycheck. For shitty coverage! Premiums=Taxes.
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This post arrives on my timeline on the EXACT day of the year when, back in NYC, I would celebrate the start of summer by leaving work early, going one N stop past my apartment, buying a huge Big Gulp at the 30th Ave 7-11, and walking home drinking it in the sunshine
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Put this in a time capsule:
“I’m not a reader. I’m not a book person,” says Florida woman who was caught promoting a Nazi propaganda book on her Facebook page.
This is the same non-reading woman who just got Amanda Gorman's poetry restricted in a Florida public school. jta.org/2023/05/24/united-st…
