Coastal Cyclist

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Recumbent Trike rider, riding near oceans & rivers. Bread baker, spicy cooking & BBQ smoking. Retired. MT 25:31-46!! Progressive Dem. DMs, $ requests, body pics = block. Asking question with reply off= XX ..-. ..- -.-. -.- / - .-. ..- -- .--.

#bikesky Finally they're coming after bikes. When gas is $10 a gallon & AI eats all the connected devices, cyclists will still be going. Just one more stupid gesture from stupid people, including those Dems who are piling on. (No alt text on NYT pic is a bike lane) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...

Do D.E.I. Bike Paths Exist? The Trump Administration Says Yes. (Gift Article)

The administration has revoked funding for bike paths, and encouraged removing some. A cycling advocate said it is playing on the idea of “that dork on a bike.”

nytimes.com

There plan is best exemplified in the film "Elysium" where the rich live in an edenic like space ring & everyone else lives on a trashed earth. Peter Turchin's "End Times" documents the patterns of elites rising and falling. He accurately predicts that the 2020s will be embattled by the rich.

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 3d ago

Describing the thesis of journalist and podcaster Gil Duran’s new book, “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy,” makes it sound like a work of conspiracy theory, writes the Biblioracle.

In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record: The Resistance Libs Were Right.

IT WAS NEVER THE IMMGRANTS IN SMALL BOATS The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is It will never reach you

An executive order is not a law. An executive order is not a law. An executive order is not a law. An executive order is not a law. An executive order is not a law. An executive order is not a law.

At the 100 lowest-paying major corporations — including Walmart, DoorDash, and Amazon — CEO pay averaged $17.5M in 2025. Median worker pay was just $36,571, a ratio of 614 to 1. Those same 100 companies spent $108.6B on stock buybacks last year. How can anyone defend this?