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Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

The ways that Texas NIMBYs are finding to make apartments more expensive to build are are funnier than what coastal NIMBYs come up with reason.com/2025/10/14/t...

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 13m

In Trump's America, pharmaceutical companies co-pay *you*.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "Drug prices went down for the year by 1/8 of 1 percent. Now I'm getting them down, Maria, 500, 600, 800 percent. In some cases even more than that. It's hard to believe."

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 4h

Milhouse's dad pointing to his race car bed, but instead it's a cybertruck. The caption says "her name is aura"

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Greg Shill @gregshill.com · 4h

I spoke to the Washington Post for this article. Nobody wants higher car insurance premiums, but let's not lose sight of what they are supposed to cover: the cost of compensating people, especially those outside of a vehicle, for harms caused by the driver.
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Why car insurance keeps climbing, and where premiums are highest

Auto coverage has surged 50 percent in the past five years, but calculating a driver’s cost plays out very differently from one state to the next.

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 6h

Traffic is also a flow problem, which is why circulation planning matters as much as reallocating space in section.

It is also why buses can be more "efficient" than bikes; in some cases, they need to get priority over bikes and pedestrians, contrary to what the various transport pyramid suggests.

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 9h

Let's hear it for the protester who remembered Shut The Fuck Up Friday:

"Once in custody, Korol declined to waive her Miranda rights and speak with any federal officers before she had a lawyer." www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Band member accused of interfering with arrest of another during Portland ICE protest, feds allege

"Who’s assaulting who is the real question?” said Oriana Korol's dad. “She was on the sidewalk playing music when the federal officers just bumrushed the band.”

www.oregonlive.com

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Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 9h

It’s giving prison vibes. The large windows mean it’s a minimum security prison though.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

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RAIL Magazine @railmag.bsky.social · 10h

Happy Honolulu Skyline Segment 2 Opening Day to you & yours! Follow @hnltransitfan.bsky.social (or especially on the other platform) for the best coverage!
A couple scenes from my July visit, with a train testing near the Airport, and the then-end of revenue service trackage Aloha Stadium station.

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Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 9h

Madison has a diesel heater for interior compartment heat on BEBs.

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 1d

“If Metro were to remove fare revenue from its balance sheet, that move would actually represent a disproportionate benefit to businesses who pay for monthly passes used by their employees.”

The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 1d

The idea of a fare-free pilot on several Metro routes came about as fares have shrunk as a percentage of Metro's overall sources of revenue. But data suggests dropping fares wouldn't be as big of a boon as continuing to focus on expanding transit service.

Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/15/d...

Dembowski Pushes Fare-Free Pilot at King County Metro » The Urbanist

# The idea of a fare-free pilot on several Metro routes, to be implemented in 2027, came about as fares have shrunk as a percentage of Metro's overall sources of revenue. But the data suggests that dr...

www.theurbanist.org

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 11h

Theory of what the generic non-AI company is facing:
-sticky cost pressures in part due to tariffs
-revenue growth from middling (CPG) to solid (high-end consumer)
-extreme Wall Street pressure to maintain/expand profit margins
-possible need to invest in AI
-doesn’t leave room to hire more workers

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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 23h

HOLY FUCK

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 23h

Medicare has stopped paying physicians due to the shut down. Standing right on the third rail www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...

Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 1d

The Po Valley desperately trying to solve its air quality problem with one more seasonal temporary restriction of more polluting vehicles.

"I swear, bro, one more Thursday with no Euro <5 vehicles between 8 am and 9 pm will fix it!"

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 1d

There is a website tracking Urban Access Regulations across European countries and I guess we have a winner for the country with the most Urban access regulations...

urbanaccessregulations.eu/userhome/map

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 2d

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 1d

The Presidential thermostat.

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Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 1d

Notably, at the turn of the *20th* century, battery-powered cars were seen as a “women’s” car. Real men drove cars that belched and smoked and required physical strength to crank start!

Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 1d

As EVs have become more mainstream and affordable, the gender gap has shrunk. A decade ago, men outnumbered women among EV buyers 3 to 1. Now, the ratio is 2 to 1.

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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 1d

As EVs have become more mainstream and affordable, the gender gap has shrunk. A decade ago, men outnumbered women among EV buyers 3 to 1. Now, the ratio is 2 to 1.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1d

The Democratic establishment will certainly give this scrappy progressive upstart a hard-fought battle. You know who else would do that? Every Republican for the rest of his career.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

My personal opinion is that you shouldn't get credit for winning elections until you actually do.

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 2d

"We have a rising new Dem star who really engages with people, and is sure to win their next election."

DEM LEADERSHIP: That's fantastic.

"What are the next steps?"

DEM LEADERSHIP: Simple. Force them to step aside and throw their support behind this 80-year-old lifetime politician.

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Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 1d

Map red bad map green bad map should be yellow at rush hour for efficiency.

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Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 1d

The answer for Democrats is to not apologize, not back down, and confidently own what you said.

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

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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