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When you ask voters to approve taxes for public transit, what you mostly get is a map of residential density. Here's the latest from Spokane, WA where the measure narrowly leads at the moment.

The framing around El-Sayed's win is misleading. He is one of the most well-qualified candidates for any race this cycle. He has a PhD in public health and was a professor at Columbia until he left to run Detroit's health system. He's not just an ideologue. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...

El-Sayed’s Michigan Senate Primary Win Sets Up the Left’s Biggest Test of the Fall (Gift Article)

Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate candidacy poses a critical challenge for Democrats’ ascendant progressive wing: Can an insurgent candidate, with unabashedly liberal positions, win a general election in a mode...

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No one tells you that street safety activism is largely saying “it’s neat when kids are safer” and being met with an entire leadership class telling you “yeah but have you considered the thorny issues like ‘where will I park my car’ and ‘what if I want to drive fast’ and ‘fuck off loser’”.

Bbikeverywhere.bsky.social@bikeverywhere.bsky.social · 23h ago

That feeling of tension leaving your shoulders when your kid finally makes it to the safe protected bike lane and you can breath out. Rochester, NY

the biggest presidential scandal in history. jeffrey epstein was a close friend and business associate of trump and they did crimes together! against children! its all pretty much out in the open now but its a smaller story than hillary's email server was for some reason

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 8h ago

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

Home sales are slumping, renovation spending is losing steam and yet lumber prices have risen this summer to their highest level in four years on.wsj.com/4gfbq00

Home-Building Is Sputtering, but Lumber Prices Haven’t Been So High in Years

Steep duties on Canadian lumber, wildfires and sawmill closures have cut supply and pushed up prices.

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I've seen this happen to my generation in Italy. The results? Delayed family formation, folks having fewer kids or no kids, and folks having their first kid later in life (late 30s-early 40s). And it's not just the housing costs. It's the ever-increasing gap between housing costs and earnings

High Housing Costs Are Keeping More Young Adults in Their Parents’ Homes

The share of young adults living with their parents has increased across all metropolitan areas and all income groups, with the highest increases in more una…

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Some things I've learned about legislative advocacy, and I think my record speaks for itself. 1. Start by asking for everything you want. Stop preemptively negotiating against yourself. The process of passing the bill will whittle it down. Why started with a whittled down product?

He should totally keep using this line of defense. Keep repeating in great detail the accusations against Trump. Don’t forget the convictions too.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h ago

Max Miller on why he's staying in the race: "When we go back to 2015 and 2016, & people in the media looked at President Trump, & everyone came out with allegations. Dozens of women, dozens of crazy allegations, dozens of nasty criminal misconduct. And you know what he did? He stayed in the fight."

It's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...

“Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city,” [says Jean-Louis Missika, Paris’s deputy mayor for urbanisation]. “They are parked 95% of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70kg. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is.” www.ft.com/content/882e...

How Paris beat the car

Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model

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* Workplace standards. Sexual harassment wasn't even a concept in law til the 1970s. The Anita Hill hearings were 1991, just 35 years ago. * Extreme poverty - worldwide, 40% of the world's population was desperately poor in the 1980s. Now less than 10%. Worldwide inequality is narrowing.

Broke: The populism of the unwashed masses Woke: The populism of the unwashed asses

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Stolen valor from Mr. Bone Spurs. An insult to every man and woman who has worn the uniform.

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC

Our Team

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Politico@politico.com · yesterday

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

Got a new paper out today... "Urban areas with lower commute mode share by car and, to a lesser extent, lower VMT are most strongly associated with lower per capita transportation fatality rates." (and it's open access if you are the type of person who wants to read a research paper)

What drives urban transportation safety? Exploring the role of modal composition and travel exposure

Purpose. Past urban transportation safety efforts have largely focused on controlling road user behavior through tactics such as speed management and separating users in space and time. This research ...

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Boat Strikes: "A careful review of the available evidence suggests that the United States has killed individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” writes @kaine.senate.gov. “They are murder victims.”

Kaine Presses President on Military Strikes in Caribbean and Pacific, Calls for Accountability | U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, sent a letter to...

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in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

VT musical director of planned 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' created fake threats, police say

The director of a planned production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" admitted to sending himself threatening texts that eventually got the play canceled out of safety concerns.

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"But without the show being made public, major corporations really did spend millions sending Duffy and his family on some sweet vacations for no legitimate reason." www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...

What the Hell Happened to Sean Duffy’s Road-Trip TV Show?

Three months after it was announced, the secretary of transportation’s summer show—funded by companies he regulates—hasn’t aired a single episode.

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Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase likely violated federal anti-money laundering laws by failing to properly screen and report payments from Leon Black to Jeffrey Epstein, and underreporting Epstein’s suspicious activity to the Treasury Department.

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

About a month ago, it emerged from upstate New York that DHS was targeting online critics of ICE by trying to force them to sign a heretofore unheard of “Warning Notice” admitting that their criticisms were unlawful. Now the WSJ reports that those cases ... talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

REVEALED: The Scope of ICE’s Surveillance of Its Online Critics

ICE’s Round-the-Clock Digital Dragnet About a month ago, it emerged from upstate...

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Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterday

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Gerald McCoy stole the show in his Get Up debut... or at least his messed up fingers did. awfulannouncing.com/espn/gerald-...

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "