as a transportation professional it has been apparent for some time, but this administration is not only making it more difficult with every passing month to do my job, they are _actively_ making roads less safe across the entire country.

Ken McLeod@kenmcld.bsky.social · 4h ago

The USDOT has published a new National Roadway Safety Strategy: www.transportation.gov/nrss/nrss-ac... It no longer has the objectives of Safer Speeds or improved Post-Crash Care "Designing roads to mitigate crashes helps to remove one of the primary causes of unexpected congestion"

Via Kelcie Moseley-Morris: In a conference call hosted by the White House Faith Office on July 30, acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said he was committed to working to ensure that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision “becomes permanent in every single state.” https://ow.ly/5oes50ZwAkz

Minneapolis Public Schools is looking for bicycle mechanics (or even just enthusiastic volunteers) to help tune up the district's fleet so that they are ready for 4th/5th grade bike education this fall! Drop-in sessions are open from August 10-19, basically all day. Sign up here: bit.ly/mpsbike

2026 Summer Bike Maintenance Sign-Up

Help us get MPS bike fleets ready for next school year! Please indicate your availability below and MPS will be in touch with more directions. Thank you! Where? Northeast Minneapolis- precise direct...

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I can't even. I already have a hard enough time explaining to students how there were no formal parties in the early republic and then later the parties change names, stances on subject matter issues, and voters w/ electoral realignments over time. AI: Artificial, but certainly not intelligent.

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy@profciara.bsky.social · 5h ago

OMG Google AI just spit out this crap: "A Federalist Congress refers to the early United States legislative bodies (roughly from 1789 to 2001) dominated by the Federalist Party ..." You all remember the Federalist Party which was really big in the 1990s like Nirvana. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Every single Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota (including Mike Lindell!) makes clear that if Trump tried another Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities, they would support his efforts to brutalize residents

Harry Potter has been on the NYT Children's & Young Adult Series list for NINE HUNDRED AND FIVE WEEKS, in case you're wondering whether anyone gives a shit about giving the terf queen their money. And know that every pull to publish, fanfic, tattoo, pin, whatever the fuck keeps these books relevant.

I think about this all the time. People get mad about bicyclists being on the sidewalk without ever considering *why* they are riding on the sidewalk. (And yes, of course bicyclists need to be respectful and safe when on the sidewalk.)

Tom Flood@tomflood.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Symptom

6:40am commute via Milwaukee Avenue: saw 12 other people biking! A fair number heading northwest. No wind but it is HUMID. #bikechi

Time Traveler Causes of Death xkcd.com/2976/

Happy primary day! We're officially launching Nondriver Action, a c4 that works at the intersections of transportation, housing & climate justice. Tomorrow, we'll send out questionnaires for our general election endorsements to all city and county council candidates on the ballot in WA ndaction.org

KOSA. The SCREEN Act. The CHATBOT Act. The Youth AI Privacy Act. Four different bills, with the same flawed approach: more surveillance, more data collection, and less privacy online. Tell the Senate to reject all four. www.acteff.org/campaign/16...

Tell the Senate: Don't Turn the Internet Into an ID Checkpoint

Tell the Senate to Reject Bills That Expand Age Verification

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I asked my mom a few years ago why we are so much iceberg lettuce as kids (Ontario). “That’s all there was” she said. Surely there was specialty etc but mass working-to-middle class supermarkets….we’d probably be shocked to walk thru a 1982 A&P.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

DDHQ Race Update (est. 25% in): Michigan US Senate Democratic Primary Abdul El-Sayed (D): 199,050 (51.0%) Haley Stevens (D): 177,109 (45.4%) Mallory McMorrow (D): 13,850 (3.6%) Follow more results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/283906

Spouse put on CNN to see election results & I cannot take these people. "Neither party has a center." "Money plays no role in influencing elections." The most idiotic blathering. Do these people belive the crap they spew?

Car with bike rack blocking the bike lane at 3660 N. Milwaukee this morning. Probably an "avid cyclist."

Happy birthday to an actual President, Barack Obama. 💙

This may be Stevens’ strongest result yet. She is even winning the Election Day vote in Shiawassee by 12 points, helping narrow the race. Her better-than-expected performance across rural and small-town Michigan is adding up.

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

So now the next step is to find out what Capital One's months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience discovered about Trump's 300+ accounts...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 22h ago

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

Humorous to me how, when a Dem candidate is a centrist, the narrative is about how leftists have to grow up and support them. When the candidate is a leftist, the question is whether they can rally adequate support. So some people are responsible for running a winning campaign, you say? Interesting.

OMG, I am so happy to see this pre-emptive strike by @djrothkopf.bsky.social against what will surely come out of the mouths of our conservative biased media and the milquetoast Dems like Carville & Co. Beautifully said. Diversity is a strength. A must-read. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

How the Voters Can Overrule Citizens United

The big story of 2026 can be blunting the efforts of big money special interest groups

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🚍 52 Kedzie buses are temporarily rerouted in both directions, due to street blockage near Kedzie/35th.

Also see: Montana’s senate race.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 17h ago

Fetterman is not a moderate or centrist Democrat. Like Sinema and Joe Manchin a few years ago, he wants to announce as loudly as possible that the party has gone too far left and punish it for doing so. trib.al/byNISBB

This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.

‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty. Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states. over alleged caregiving fraud www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #Project2025 #HHS #CMS #OMB #Blues

‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty

Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud

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Healthcare visits : Dentist, Optometrist, Breast Screening 🪥👓👩‍⚕️Easy Peasy and no parking worries! #activemodes #betterbybike

A Kansas ballot measure to change state Supreme Court justices from governor-appointed to popularly elected has failed (69–31% with 32% reporting). Republicans pushed the measure as a way to make the court more conservative.