Rudi "Cooler Weather = Better" Riet
@randomduck.bsky.social
Transpo analyst. Political activist. Cycling advocate. President of Potomac Pedalers. Alpine ski racing coach. All views my own. Mastodon: @randomduck@thepit.social (not there too often) #bikeDC #ClimateChaos #AlpineSkiing #RoadCycling #GravelCycling
Viewers at home never saw Sigrid Haugset’s stage-winning move at #TDFF2026 - that’s because the TV cameras began rolling 5km after she attacked I spoke to riders and team staff to hear their thoughts on the race’s limited TV coverage: www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/parti...
'Partial coverage is no longer enough' – TV broadcasts of Tour de France Femmes criticised after missing stage-winning attack
Only two of the nine stages are set to be shown in full
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During the height of America's homelessness crisis in the 90's, Robin Williams asked if he could testify before the Senate. Whoopi Goldberg was by his side. It's the most powerful two minutes you'll see today...
This is the likely approach of @janeese4dc.bsky.social, which is a marked contrast from what @mayorbowser.dc.gov has done, especially over this current term. I can't wait to see this kind of approach in action, even within the challenges of the District and it's fiefdom/colony status.
What I think Mamdani and others have tapped into is the necessity of communicating that you take operational excellence—the exact word he uses—seriously, along the margins of money, time, and quality. If people don’t trust you to do that they’re not going to be on board with ambitious programs
The District of Columbia can - and should - do what Montreal has been doing with the REV: a connected and protected arterial network of low-stress bike/micro-mobility lanes. DC has some glaring disconnects and all-too-many substandard builds. This can be fixed! 1/ #bikeDC youtu.be/jTTIqyPVxLA?...
More cities need to plan bike-lane networks like this
YouTube video by Shifter
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The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.
According to anti-cyclist replies, here's evidence that cars and bikes are equally dangerous: 🚗: They kill ~40000 people in the US annually 🚲: I saw a cyclist run a red light 30 years ago
The only downside of a well designed city is that you can’t blame your lateness on traffic.
You can also walk, bike, or take Metro (bus or rail) to interact directly with these eating establishments. Either dine-in or take-out, these are valid alternatives to DoorDash (or the equally repugnant UberEats). I know not everybody has the time to do so, but delivery need not be the de facto!
DoorDash is deleted, but we still have options. #DeleteDoorDash and support local restaurants and DC food delivery services. #JoinRobertWhite #JoinRobertWhite
Any Democrat who doesn’t support DC Statehood now should be kicked out of the party
A GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
this guy (doomloop dispatch) literally killed a biker with his car… and he’s posting on twitter how it just made him even more anti-bike lane. The NIMBYs are not OK.
Move over zucchini lady, this guy calling 'bike lanes white lanes' and calling the Terner Center the 'Gentrification Center' is my new favorite Berkeley Council moment. #berkmtg
Way more than enough evidence in these papers not only to get Comey’s charges 86’d before trial in federal district court, but also to get Blanche—and Trump—86’d at an impeachment trial in the Senate.
There are clear medical reasons to doubt any words coming out of the mouth of Tuberville. In fact: he probably assisted in the cognitive decline of thousands of football players on his watch - far more than Fauci is even remotely connected to search causality. Tuberville is a sham. #resist
Tuberville: "I'll be the governor of Alabama and I promise you we will find out if there's a possibility that we can bring him to Alabama to put him in front of a court and a jury to see if we can put this guy in prison. He killed millions of people, folks."
Point number 4 on this is particularly good imo. I will gladly take on the sins of every bad cyclist out there, if any motorist complaining about cyclists will take on the sins of the millions of deaths caused by drivers every year.
“10 reasons your anti-cycling ranting just sounds daft, even if some people are nodding along.” A definitely Irish way of making some reasonable points, via @irishcycle.com. Think it’s too aggressive? Try reading some of the rants that the article is clapping back on.
If you can’t handle the truth, at least be polite enough to listen and learn. Of course the Trump administration has cut off any listening or learning from its daily practice. This is not the country I once loved. I can’t defend these petulant actions. #resist #neverGOP
"The US delegation walked out of a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, in protest at comments made by France that compared Washington's voting on human rights to that of authoritarian states." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Jon Stewart on the White House Correspondents Dinner: “This event is worse than pro forma. It’s actually an act of submission… Trump “gets to shake hands with leaders of a profession whose members he has subpoenaed, arrested, sued, cut their funding, barred their access, and even had deported.”
NEW: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has a message for Sen. Mitch McConnell: Explain your prolonged absence from the Senate and provide an update on your health, or resign www.cnn.com/2026/07/27/p...
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s message to Sen. Mitch McConnell: Disclose more about health or resign | CNN Politics
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has a message for Sen. Mitch McConnell, his state’s senior senator: Explain his long absence from the Senate and give details about his health, Beshear is insisting, or resi...
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No matter how many flowers you put on a pile of shit it remains a pile of shit. This is bush league coverup. Fuck these numpty halfwits in the Trump administration (and the GOP in general these days). May they get their karmic just desserts, sooner rather than later. #resist
The Pentagon has reclassified service members who were killed and wounded during renewed hostilities with Iran in a way that separates them from other troops, a move that critics say obscures the human cost of the Trump administration’s war.
Not even pretending to have liberatory or democratic intentions. Literally just looting other countries because we're bigger and we can. The pretense that the US is a force for democracy in the world used to be *so central* to GOP foreign policy. It must sound crazy to young people these days.
Trump to press on Airforce One: “We are taking billions and billions of dollars from Venezuela. “That will happen with Iran too.”
So you mean the government can just find money to house people? Because they always tell me that’s impossible. www.notus.org/defense/nati...
National Guard Signs $292M Housing Contract for Troops in Washington, D.C.
The deal would provide 2,000 “apartment-style lodging units” for service members deployed in the city.
notus.org
Musk: I think we should murder people I dislike and genocide all legal and illegal immigrants Media: Critics of Musk claim he might be right wing, but continued encouragement for EV cars keep us wondering what is true
There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
Donald Trump has not been asked about E Jean Carroll since a judge called him a rapist. If you want to know why, just look at all the pictures and videos of the White House correspondents laughing it up with Trump’s staff.
"When did you first suspect your friend was a serial killer?"
As a boy, my grandparents wouldn't dream of buying a Ford b/c Henry Ford—who was long dead by then—had been a rabid antisemite. 40 years later, I'm amazed that so many people who deplore xenophobia remain willing to buy a Tesla.
It also meets the UN definition of genocide.
AWFUL. Ordering ICE to target an ethnic group the president has repeatedly attacked is bigotry as official government policy. TPS recipients are the most vetted immigrants here. They have to pass background checks every 18 months. Most Haitians with TPS entered legally also!
attach one side of a hook to a truck and the other to any car parked in an alternate side parking spot on sweeping day. use the truck to pull the car to a lot on the other side of town where the owner has to pay to retrieve their car. repeat this half a million times. how’s that for a pilot
Will Prospect Heights drivers move their cars for one less day of alternate-side parking? gothamist.com/news/will-pr...
In 75% of US industries, fewer corporations control more of the business than 20 years ago. That's especially true in the food industry. Just four corporations control 54% of the fresh-cut salad industry, including Taylor Fresh Foods. We're seeing in real time the danger of monopolization.
Taylor Farms Produce Is Sold Everywhere, Making Outbreak Difficult to Escape
Taylor Farms produce is everywhere, and comes from everywhere.
bloomberg.com
Great news! Jim Vance’s interviews with Barack Obama & Michelle Obama, which were both recently unavailable online, & feared lost, are now back online Vance being Vance, he was sure to ask them both about DC voting rights www.nbcwashington.com/video/news/l... www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...