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Elle

@biknmusicmama.bsky.social

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She’s a musician, advocate for safe streets, arts & food-filled, walkable, kid-friendly communities w/ great transit. Reader. Cook. Teacher of music and bike riding. Estoy aprendiendo español y buscar #ciclista Feeling pretty salty under fascism

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 28d

I scored 100% on the COVID competency exam.

Do not try your disinformation on me.

Do. Not. Try.

seanmullen.com/covidcompete...

Test results say I got 100% or 20/20 correct and that I am every conspiracy theorist’s worst nightmare at parties

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 4h

So I won’t be at No Kings because I have been pushing this festival to get a good car-lite group of exhibitioners together. @mbta.com will be there as well as @communitypedalpower.org with some e-bikes to check out, and me with Safe Routes to School!

It’s right on the Mystic River path!

Harvest Your Energy Festival – Medford's Go Green Initiative!

medfordenergy.org

Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 5h

You can kill someone with pepper balls btw

Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 5h

I know we have all gotten used to this but it is really appalling that the President of the United States talks about his own people like this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "They have the devil's ideology. They become violent on the left."

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 5h

Apparently just missed it! Darn!!

Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 6h

Hochul isn’t mincing words. Glad someone isn’t.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 6h

I find the angle to begging to catch a bike tire. Why the slant?

Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 6h

Everyone wants it except the billionaires and their lackeys

Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 8h

Overturning Citizens United needs to be very first in line

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8h

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

"There are big structural things we need to confront as a country, particularly around money and politics, that probably can only happen through constitutional amendment," Pete Buttigieg says on this episode of The Opinions.

Opinion | Pete Buttigieg on Rebuilding America After Trump

The former transportation secretary argues Americans need a new sense of belonging.

nyti.ms

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 8h

From the man from Middletown, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati that is decidedly not Appalachia

Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 8h

Not when she worked for the federal government. That was earlier, decades earlier

Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 12h

There’s no such thing as full self-driving cars, folks

Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 12h

Elizabeth Warren was working in the financial departments of the US Government for years and was who sounded the alarm on subprime mortgages years before the crisis of 2008. She wasn’t a political newbie - she had years of federal government agency experience.

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 12h

Why has it taken fifteen years to think of this? Or - is it going to work? And if not, why isn’t it on the ballot in every state right now?

www.americanprogress.org/article/intr...

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 12h

How many people have been elected to the Senate without any political experience? It’s not weird.

Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 12h

Well, yes.

Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 13h

And therein lies the problem: if you choose to go right wing and horrible, there’s often a LOT of money in it for you.

Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 13h

I am originally from Cincinnati and was looking at UC for my kid who is going to be a freshman next year, as they had a good co-op program. And then w/in 2 weeks of inauguration they capitulated to Trump without a peep. I wrote the President a letter telling him UC was now out of the running.

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 13h

Listen, y’all, I was suspicious of Amazon, suspicious of EV cars and suspicious of eating powered and reconstituted liquid shakes for meals. So, y’all should just listen to me. Take the bus, shop at the secondhand store, and eat an egg. Or peanut butter toast.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 15h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 13h

I absolutely think she would!!! It’s the same as John Oliver. He does a valuable thing. I hate that is how most people get “news.” We need reputable journalism that people can trust.

Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 13h

And yet - Cox isn’t a journalist. She’s a historian. It’s a different role and we need journalists.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14h

Who would have thought that 25 times as many people would be getting their daily news updates from a Boston College history professor (Heather Cox Richardson, who has 2.5 million subscribers) than from the Washington Post.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 13h

The state of Ohio passed its own law specifically attacking diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education a few months ago.

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 13h

Just a reminder, they still sell plenty of cars for half that price. You don’t have to buy what the auto industry spends $60b a year to try to sell you!

Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 15h

I mean, I bike in 15 degrees, so I agree with him. But I tend to focus less on calling people “idiots” for feeling scared of weather, and more on the absolute delight that I have found cycling in the winter, and getting outside and beating cabin fever (with the right gloves and merino gaiter) can be

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 15h

This was a fascinating article about how coffee became a staple of American life: keeping soldiers going during the Civil War:

How Coffee Helped the Union Caffeinate Their Way to Victory in the Civil War

The North’s fruitful partnership with Liberian farmers fueled a steady supply of an essential beverage

www.smithsonianmag.com

Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 15h

The absolute apathy from all the public health officials and school nurses in this article is appalling. We were so unprepared for the deluge of misinformation about vaccines, and not having universal health care is a real problem for reaching folks through the medical community.

Some WMass schools fall far behind on childhood vaccines, posing challenge to districts

Although standard vaccines are required by Massachusetts, it's up to local school districts to enforce the mandate - and they really don't want to keep children out of school.