Brock Winstead

@brockwinstead.bsky.social

My laptop is old. I get a different Internet than you.

I just realized that when It Happens, Fox News is going to be so weird to watch -- solemn, tear-filled tributes to America's Most President™ interspersed with angry coverage denouncing the millions and millions of Americans celebrating in the streets.

We keep doing this (broad definition of "we" here) and it keeps working. Close the streets to cars, or limit them significantly, and _people_ replace them. People spend money. People connect with other people. People generate new ideas when they bounce off one another. Cities are made of PEOPLE.

Urban Truth Collective@urbantruth.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Madrid closed its central business district to cars for the first time during the 2018 Christmas period. The result was a 9.5% increase in retail spending on Madrid’s main shopping street, the Gran Vía. Plus there was a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #UrbanTruth

elon musk spends two-thirds of his time spreading racist pseudoscience and hating trans people and here is Ezra Klein in 2026 saying Musk is relentlessly focused on the only things that matter to him: EVs and going to Mars. I'm sorry but the guy's just very very dim

What I find laudable in Elon Musk, amid the many things I find not laudable in him, is the relentlessness with which he tries to achieve his goals. That guy believes in getting us to Mars and creating an electric vehicle transition and all the rest of it, and nothing else matters to him. He tries to create organizations that run through walls, and he actually does make tremendous things happen in the world.

Why is this dodo telling his younger self about proposed bills? The intertime communication device can only stay on for so long before it starts over-timeheating and warping the reality around it like a Solo cup in the dishwasher. He should be giving himself stock tips. Get yourself rich, Andy!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

Rep. Ogles: "The next bill we're working with the White House on is to put more teeth in the denaturalization process so that we can start denaturalizing these people like Mamdani who came into the country under false pretense, and kick them out of the country"