It’s not “despite” for them

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 1h ago

Many Republican voters are remaining loyal to Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) despite accusations of domestic violence and a public declaration from his former father-in-law, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), that Miller is unfit to serve.

Trump's guy is losing to someone who isn't even running anymore because his name is Amir Hassan and though he's an evangelical Christian, MAGAts assume he's Muslim. Who could've seen that coming?

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 18h ago

Seems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.

i support [$democratic_candidate] for [$public_office] and believe that their politics is a perfect fit for [$state]. I would drag my [$genital] over [$harmful_object_or_substance] to vote for [$democratic_candidate] this fall.

Keith@mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 20h ago

I support the winner of the Michigan Democratic primary as the future senator from Michigan.

A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)

What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off

In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.

bloomberg.com

Suburban sprawl in the West is having a reckoning. What we are learning is that half-city, half-wild is a recipe for conflagration. You have to either build a city, or not a city at all. Otherwise you're just providing the fire a new fuel type.

Kelcie Moseley-Morris@kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 3d ago

I was expecting a high number. I wasn't expecting it to be that high.

Nah that’ll buff right out

(((Tendar)))@tendar.bsky.social · 4d ago

The Wildberries facility in Novosemeykino, Samara region, in Russia is 178,600 square meter (1.9 square feet) in size. Judging from the multiple videos showing the extent of the fire the logistics center experienced catastrophic damage.

republicans spend all day calling us soyboys and saying how they need to protect all the women in their families from immigrants and then... do nothing to protect the women in their families

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d ago

it really bears repeating over and over and over that the child who allegedly had her collarbone broken by her congressman dad is the granddaughter of SENATOR bernie moreno who has refused to stand up for her, or for his daughter who was allegedly abused, too. what a sick fuck.

“After all, if he hears Shapiro’s nasal whine coming over the Alborz mountains, there’s a chance Mojtaba Khamenei might kill himself out of sheer annoyance.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/send-be...

Send Ben Shapiro to Iran

Why should other people’s children be the ones who die in the wars he promotes?

currentaffairs.org

YIMBYs, a new moment of triumph is upon us! Atherton, the Silicon Valley enclave that prohibits all but single-family homes, one of the most exclusionary towns in the country, has just received its first multifamily housing project (ever!) under @scottwiener.bsky.social’s SB79!

Ah yes, new homes, famously associated with blight

Abundant Housing Illinois@abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 5d ago

"This isn't blighted, they're going to make it blighted. If the developer has its way, it's not going to be 3 stories or 4 stories, which is the zoning. It's going 6 stories, three 6-story buildings," said Save Downtown Northbrook organizer Susan Nelson. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/n...

I've been seeing a lot of people responding to this with "there ought to be a law," but importantly, we haven't needed a law for this sort of thing because no prior president wanted to be known as a leader who would literally kill people in their hour of need for not voting for him

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something

It turns out insurance companies believe in climate change whether you do or not

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 6d ago

MIAMI'S COST OF LIVING SURPASSES NYC FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER

just a reminder that Bernie Moreno is covering up the domestic abuse *of his own daughter*

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

Shout-out to the real one at the @amtrak.com media office that included McIver’s statement about trump cutting funding to the Dock Bridge project media.amtrak.com/2026/07/amtr...

remarkable how it's consensus within all realms of transportation academic/professional/political pundit spaces that transit projects cost too much and how rarely it's coupled with "we spend orders of magnitude more on highways which also suffer from exorbitant cost overruns and consultant grift"

Benjamin Schneider@benschneider.bsky.social · last wk.

There's some truth here: Transit projects cost too much and the urban transportation market is getting more competitive. Withholding transit grant money, as the Trump admin is doing, addresses neither of those things, of course. But what would help? t.co/cZmiMFc6yf

open enrollment starts three weeks before the election

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · last wk.

“The decision means that millions of Americans 65 and older could face higher Medicare drug premiums next year, when the cost of living is already a major concern… In the weeks leading up to November, Medicare beneficiaries could experience sticker shock while shopping for next year’s drug plan”

In America, mass transit is widely considered to be an alternative of last resort for the extremely poor rather than a safer, cheaper, cleaner and more efficient means of moving people around a metropolitan area.

CAHSR's Strongest Soldier@emoscientist.bsky.social · last wk.

One thing that stands out about the Metrolink fight is how much pressure there is to center transit-dependent riders. That's the only demo journalists or board members want to hear from, which is pretty hard to do for a commuter rail line. Nobody cares about giving people options or reducing VMT

Bass promoting fare-free LA metro is a really funny example of a politician attempting to pander but instead landing on a proposal that, within the community of people who care a lot about the issue, is a specific shibboleth for not knowing what you're talking about: bsky.app/profile/mayo...

Mayor Karen Bass@mayor.lacity.gov · 2w ago

As Chair, I’ll build a long-term financial plan to make Metro fare-free. I’ve fought for a world-class transit system my entire career because public transit should create opportunity for everyone.

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

like gravity is a theory

We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory

The connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.

liberalcurrents.com

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w ago

NEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom. GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.

cops hate automated enforcement *because* its fair. They conceptualize their role not as punishing rulebreakers but punishing "bad people" (poors and minorities). They dislike red light/speed cameras because they wind up punishing "good people" for doing something they see as essentially harmless

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2w ago

it's fucking insane that so many people get away with hiding their license plates so that they can get away with running red light cameras and cops mostly don't care (I'm sure some of them do on their personal vehicles too). like this is something where broken windows policing actually makes sense.

general elections are community input

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2w ago

what's really funny is when they go through multiple cycles of community input until they get to the layer that tells them "no," and then that's the one that counts as the community

In the least surprising news ever

Andrew Tate charged with possessing child abuse images

Social media influencer and brother appear in Miami federal court, where lawyers say they will fight extradition to the UK

telegraph.co.uk

The demographic reality is inescapable: We are going to have millions more older drivers with diminishing capabilities, in cars that are too big and too dangerous for everyone around them, with few satisfactory alternatives to driving. It will not end well.

How will we live when we reach the end of our drivespan?

Our cities and suburbs are not designed to cope with the demographic time bomb.

lloydalter.substack.com

PEDRO PORRO IS A WORLD CUP CHAMPION VAMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSS

love them or loathe them, there's one thing you can't deny about the Argentinian football team: they're a bunch of cunts

New from me: Mayor Brandon Johnson's top criteria for NITA is not relevant skills. It's better to be a friend than be an expert. He makes a mockery of the positions advocates spent years fighting for. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/19/o...

Nik Hunder: Brandon Johnson shows us again that he doesn’t value transit but rather cronyism

Two of Chicago’s representatives on the Northern Illinois Transit Authority don’t ride the system enough to know its problems.

chicagotribune.com

The epic investigation in the New Yorker by Heidi Blake seems to have lit a fire under UK criminal justice bureaucrats, who'd messed up last time they had a chance to prosecute the Tates (including some pretty horrendous victim blaming Blake recounts). Journalism matters for justice.

Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse

How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.

newyorker.com