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@carriebradley.bsky.social

Catholic, ecosocialist/integral ecology, humanist, urbanist, art museum and old church explorer, personalist, car-free, football (soccer) fan. #FPL #waroncars

“We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles and endangering pedestrians. Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.” Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.

Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar

Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar

theguardian.com

Cincinnati’s Archbishop Casey to the Haitian Community in Springfield: “The present moment in our nation invites us into an examination of conscience about how we treat good people, now living among us, who have so few options left to protect their lives and dignity.”

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“Koch brother groups have tried to derail public transit plans in other cities around the country, from Little Rock, Arkansas and central Utah, to Nashville and Michigan. They have frequently called such projects ‘wasteful spending’. The Koch organization is also heavily invested in fossil fuels.”

Why are Koch-funded activists trying to derail a US city's public transit?

Phoenix will vote Tuesday on a light rail system expansion. It faces opposition from business owners backed by activists affiliated with the Koch network

theguardian.com

Woke Jesuit school had speeches calling for free Palestine/Sudan, admonishing SCOTUS and the destruction of the VRA, lionizing Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and the President telling grads that their education is to make them pause and ask better questions, not to go faster and make money with AI lol

This week marks the return of Open Streets season in Montreal, featuring some of the best pedestrian streets in North America. It’s a powerful example of what’s possible when we prioritize people over automobiles on even just a small fraction of our streets. 📍 Montreal 🇨🇦

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $270B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $210B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

“Cities across Europe saw a boom in cycling & bike-friendly infrastructure during the Covid-19 pandemic but have suffered setbacks amid a political shift to the right and the emergence of conspiracy theories that have unexpectedly taken aim at ideas such as having amenities within walking distance.”

How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets

Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance

theguardian.com

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

- The booted racket-tails are a small group of three species of hummingbirds in the genus Ocreatus (family Trochilidae), endemic to the Andean cloud forests of South America. - Photo courtesy of James Gan, Equador.

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One of my favorite games to play as an adult is: Did I take Tylenol 30 minutes ago or did I just think about taking Tylenol 30 minutes ago...

This is (I think) a Greater Blue-Eared Starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus) & the amazing chrome job is their super-power. They've evolved to manipulate light in VERY specific ways, attracting mates, intimidating rivals. Let's look at the nanostructures that bring this bling into being.

About 40 books that were written in Chinese by Jesuit missionaries centuries ago and were stolen from an archive in Rome sometime between 1999 and 2002 were finally returned to Italian officials this week.

Rare Books Stolen From a Jesuit Archive in Rome Are Returned to Italy

The books, about astronomy and other topics, were written in Chinese by Jesuit missionaries who shared information on science as part of their effort to spread Christianity.

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The sun starts to rise towards mid-archway now as we head towards Summer. The first one I have had this year as it was so quiet up there this morning. Taken in St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.

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"We need to [be]...transitioning away from a car-centric transportation system and toward more dense, walkable, affordable neighborhoods. Not only are vehicles one of the major contributors to our climate crisis, they're also dangerous & are killing our neighbors" @cmeddielin.bsky.social 🎯 as always

Seattle, King County Leaders Promise Climate Action — Accountability Next

Seattle and King County's new leadership promise climate action — from cleaner transit to more tree canopy — but South Seattle communities are watching for the data and accountability to prove it.

southseattleemerald.org