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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 16h

“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 · 20h

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.

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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...

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 48m

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 · 12h

HOLY FUCK

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 1d

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 · 23h

The Presidential thermostat.

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Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 23h

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 · 23h

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 · 1d

"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 · 23h

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

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Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 1d

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.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

If Barack Obama had sent the National Guard into Texas against the Texas Governor’s wishes, @seanhannity would’ve gotten so worked up he’d a had a heart attack on air.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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daviss @chaddavis.photography · 1d

More from today's initial light rail vehicle roll down the Southwest LRT route. Construction began in 2018 and Metro Transit says passengers will ride in 2027. Over the Kenilworth Channel, leaving W Lake St Station, arriving at W 21st St Station, exiting the Kenilworth tunnel.

light rail train over the Kenilworth Channel

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Bjorn @zmapper.bsky.social · 1d

I was thinking earlier this week about how private railroads left passenger service just a decade before airlines started Yield Management.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 1d

I feel like there's a reporter omerta about online stuff, like they think that it's everyone's god given right to be a secret reactionary online

Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 1d

“I need to stay on Twitter because that’s where the conversation is, but I can never actually report about Twitter specifically, because Twitter isn’t real life.”

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 1d

a popular X "transit researcher" has completely misread and misrepresented simple statistics and has claimed that 17%+ of transit riders in germany are fare evading. because that is the percent of people who have evaded, not the evasion rate.

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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 1d

My vehicle costs are around $4000 per year for about 15000 miles per year.

Because I'm comfortable driving a small, unpowerful, older car.

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 1d

When I lived in the Bay Area, the biggest value difference I noticed was how much less accepted it was to be visibly stressed. There was a California cool you were never expected to break. Combine it with Silicon Valley grindset culture and it can be quite lonely and isolating.

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 1d

Here's the deal, SNCF workers

SNCF exists to transport passengers. It does not exist - primarily! - to keep you in work
france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/normandie/se...

If you want to make the case against régions giving contracts to others, BE BETTER jonworth.eu/connecting-t...

Ouverture du train régional à la concurrence : "Ce sera beaucoup plus compliqué et beaucoup plus cher, il ne faut pas se leurrer"

Suite à l'attribution des liaisons TER de "l'étoile ferroviaire caennaise" à RATP Dev face à l'historique SNCF par la Région, les syndicats de cheminots normands se mobilisent contre l’ouverture à la ...

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