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SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏

Trump negotiating with "Iran"

Anonymity is the keystone of freedom. If the founders of the U.S. could not post opinions critical of King George, III anonymously they would have been arrested and executed.

Among other problems, the bill would impose or incentivize age-verification systems, restrict young people’s access to lawful information, and create risks that adults could lose access to accounts or data after being mistakenly identified as minors. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites

The Senate Commerce Committee is set to consider S. 737, the SCREEN Act, a sweeping age-verification bill that would require online services to verify users’ ages before they can access any sexually e...

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The SCREEN Act is the biggest threat to your right to free, anonymous speech, ever. That this bill is very likely to be signed into law should send a chill down everyone's spines. Within the next month (or sooner), it will be the single most talked about topic in America - and rightfully so.

I've built a map displaying where on the Amtrak network you can take your bike, line-by-line and station-by-station. This data isn't available anywhere else, check out where you can go! amtrak-bike-map.transittools.dev

Amtrak Bicycle Access

Explore carry-on, checked, and station-level bicycle access across the Amtrak rail network.

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If you want IDOT to do more for ped and bike accommodations, local transit and Amtrak, you can speak up here.

Municipal Corporation@nikhunder.com · yesterday

You must pay the bicycle and transit tax by filling out this survey (since they ask about both)

We haven't listed to this @wbez.org segment with @sashaannsimons.bsky.social yet, but if Mendoza blamed the Archer Traffic safety project for congestion in Brighton Park without mentioning this massive, multi-block water/sewer project on Archer in the nabe, that's just silly.

Papa Rides a Bike@paparidesabike.bsky.social · yesterday

Susana Mendoza just slammed the Archer Av. bike lanes as a debacle that has made traffic worse, saying that Archer used to be a great shortcut & a fast thoroughfare. On @wbez.org with @sashaannsimons.bsky.social Anyone who has ever traveled on Archer knows this is BS. It's always been a car sewer

You'll have to look closely, but you can see this Ruby-throated Hummingbird's head through her wings as she sips nectar.

Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.

The DOJ is now 0-20 in court trying to access states' voter files. They've lost in: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

Congrats to Beverly's Horse Thief Hollow on winning another beer competition. #bikechi friends - they are worth a visit for excellent beer and food. Cheers!

Sixty-nine million American women changed their name when they married. The SAVE Act was written knowing exactly what that means for their paperwork. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Your Senators: Protect our Democracy, Vote NO on the SAVE Act

Contact Congress today!

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​New research shows that the US has been a global laggard curbing crash deaths. If the US had merely matched improvements in 14 peer nations, 500,000+ lives would have been saved from 2000-24. doi.org/10.1080/1538...

The people who know which ridge burns first and where the water comes from are being told to move across the country or quit. Wildfire season doesn't wait for them to reapply. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service

Contact Congress today!

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Our thoroughly corrupt electoral system.

When there’s no bus service to the city council hearing about bus service. Car dependency was not a choice. It was and is the deprivation of choice.

The only good part of that bill was the creation of a reporting mechanism for family members to notify the Secy. Of State if a relative is no longer safe to drive. The rest was pandering.

Jeremy Glover@jgrantglover.bsky.social · 2d ago

An elderly woman mistook the accelerator for the brake and plowed her car through somebody’s home. Alexi Giannoulias thinks drivers don’t need to retake an on-road test to renew their license until they’re 87.

Republicans have been gutting education for decades. This is what becomes of an ignorant society. How do you wake up a person who is too dumb (w/ a b) to know they are dumb?

Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause https://mrf.lu/2Zrth

He should run. He is one of the many Dem prospective candidates that I would be very happy to ultimately vote for.

HuffPost@huffpost.com · 2d ago

Buttigieg also mentioned that being a father this time around will factor into his decision.

Some AI companies have already lost control of their AI models. With every passing month AI models get smarter, faster and more cunning. This is why we need to pass the simple, bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act. Humans need to be able to turn these machines off when they go rogue.

CBS News Sacramento@cbsnewssacramento.bsky.social · 2d ago

CEO of AI firm Hugging Face calls last month's hack by OpenAI model "very weird and unprecedented"

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NEWS: Michigan health officials have reported the first two deaths linked to the state's ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak.

China's future is on BICYCLES. They realized cars were too big, created gigantic congestion, polluted the air, etc. CHANGE! 10+ yrs creating SAFE BICYCLE infra. Everywhere. Connectivity. Chris Bruntlett, Int. Relations Dutch Cycling Embassy has been showing transformation. Below, Beijing. Thanks!

When you provide the infrastructure that gives people safe, efficient options outside of the car, people will use it.

Happens every time.

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Trump Doesn't Want You To See This Jobs Study Trump swore deporting immigrants would open jobs for everybody else. A new study proved him wrong. Nobody wins. Not the immigrant. "ICE activity lowers the employment rate of US-born male workers." Thread. 🧵 www.commondreams.org/news/is-ice-...