Your local transit provider won’t try to assault you and won’t tell you it’s your fault if they do!
onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 2h agoUber is a bad company www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 2h ago
one of the things that gives me optimism about the US in a way I never had for India was how insulated electoral systems are from the central govt
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 23h agoDOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
Remember: in 2006 the dam really broke against republicans when their candidates all turned out to be pedo-rapist-abusers and it hasn’t gotten better!
Casey Seiler@caseyseiler.bsky.social · 23h agoEvery item here should be disqualifying, including the gross response to a female journalist from the Austin American Statesman.
Councilor Worrell tells @devrafirst.bsky.social he'd like to connect more n'hoods by "rail." Worrell is setting public transit back 20 years, opposing a $162M (50% federal $$$) investment in BRT, fully-funded this year. Bus passengers be damned. Is that "rich?" www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/04/l...
Great examples of the perils of engaging in too much price discrimination on busy routes. We’ve got overloaded slow trains with people trading up to an hour each way to save money.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdayA rail nightmare: what it’s like on England’s busiest commuter-only train
Flight from Dublin to Boston diverts to … Lisbon. www.reddit.com/r/delta/s/3s... @universalhub.com
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You’ve got to understand, cars are going to hit you.
David M Levinson ⁂@transportist.org · 2d agoCar into bus video
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
We’re proud to announce our 2026 election endorsements! * Senate, 2nd Middlesex: @burhanazeem.bsky.social * House, 26th Middlesex: @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social * House, 27th Middlesex: @benforward3.bsky.social * House, 34th Middlesex: @wilfredmbah.bsky.social somervilleyimby.org/elections/20...
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Somerville YIMBY is pleased to announce the following endorsements for Massachusetts House and Senate elections. There are multiple strong candidates in many of these contests, and these were not e…
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btw there are reasons to not want to get sick besides not dying?
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d agoWonder will Alex Berenson now change his health reporting? Or will start pushing a "died with" rather than "died from" framing?
This is more Markey performative nonsense. The right answer is to use the money to electrify commuter rail and make it accessible. Way more ROI on that! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/03/m...
Pointing to Massachusetts’s fare-free experiment, Markey, Pressley press for a $25 billion federal free transit plan - The Boston Globe
The proposed legislation points to the success of free bus pilots that federal lawmakers say made Massachusetts a “national leader in fare-free transit policy."
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this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
The streetcar conspiracy did happen but didn't matter … people didn't like streetcars at the time, for a bunch of reasons! bsky.app/profile/ofse... (would reply but OP locked replies so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
Good. Now will the good people of Maine show Susan the door anyway?
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3d agoTHIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
New innovations in rail engineering allow Sound Transit trains to change tracks without crossovers
In happier news, it turns out that blueberries grown beneath solar panels turn out sweeter! 🫐 (via @billmckibben.bsky.social)
In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and tastes
In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above some blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and even how it tastes.
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I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
My my wife’s grandmother was one of the leaders of the effort to build this school after the previous one burned down. Turns out the guy was right, but early. The tax base was not enough to support desired school investments long term, but it will have taken about 90 years to prove it.
Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · 2mo agoNorman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech depicts a 1942 Arlington town meeting where the lone dissenter to the town's announced plans to build a new school is given a chance to speak Jim Edgerton agreed but was concerned about the tax burden of the proposal as his family farm had been ravaged by disease
$166 billion is a big scary number but given that the vig is about 9% the actual amount of money lost, while still big, is probably in the $15 billion range, or $100 per adult. Still a lot, but an order of magnitude smaller.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4d agoThere are simply no words for how fucking cooked we are.
I can tell the bond folks the exact date Kevin Warsh will start advocating for major rate hikes to tame inflation: January 20, 2029
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 5d ago"it’s clear that the bond market reaction wasn’t a judgment on the rate decision itself. It was, instead, a judgment on Warsh." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-bond-m...
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
When you read this article it really sounds like Texas is a lawless hellhole and maybe their politicians should stop commenting on NYC which is an incredibly safe place to live. www.espn.com/boxing/story...
Squealing car tires, an abrupt reverse, and Hannah Rapp's life ends in a flash
A bright boxing future is wiped out in an encounter with Texas man with a long record of police arrests
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Good. Not only did Collins vote for Kavanaugh, she has said she would do it again. My blood boils when I think about what her cowardice and callousness has cost people since Roe fell. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
She Voted for a Justice Who Overturned Roe. Now it Haunts Her on the Trail.
Senator Susan Collins, who supports abortion rights, endorsed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court. It has emerged as a major issue in her campaign for re-election.
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"Taxing the rich doesn't work." Tell that to Massachusetts. Their millionaire tax has raised $3.1 BILLION so far. It's funding bridges, buses, teachers, free community college, and free school meals. This isn't theory. It's working. We've got the receipts.