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One thing I loved about this convo is about how it went kinda deep on allyship.
This Olympian who made waves for speaking out about Trump did so strategically: as an older white man (and alternate) he felt like he could take the heat for his team. And: he GOT heat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLlV...
Gotta read @alexkirshner.com on the men's team post-gold locker-room talk with Kash Patel and Trump at the expense of the women's team. "A particular bummer here was the visible, bent-over laughter of overtime hero Jack Hughes, whose mom literally works for the women’s team."
“One day, a woman wrote to me on Signal, asking me not to respond. She lived alone, she messaged, and planned to die that weekend. Before she did, she wanted at least one person to understand: Trump had unraveled the government, and with it, her life.” @hannahnatanson.bsky.social essay:
I don’t know what to say except that human beings deserve better than whatever this is
“.. they carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn’t even have a stretcher," Heller said. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes."
“This was horrific and will change my life forever,” she said. “I feel so scared."
@nbcnews.com
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The only time people on TV can imagine a vehicle being dangerous is if it’s in the vicinity of a cop. Every cycle commuter has been closer to death by vehicle that that border patrol murderer
Damage calculator output: https://roaddamagecalculator.com/?vehicle_one=longtail-cargo-bike&vehicle_two=small-suv
When mad drivers tell you that you, a cyclist, don't belong on roads because you don't pay registration and the gas tax, show them the Road Damage Calculator. Compare, for example, the damage made by a small SUV and a longtail cargo e-bike. Very different orders of magnitude roaddamagecalculator.com
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Your annual reminder that US streets and vehicles are generally not designed to keep pedestrians, especially small ones, safe.
So wonderful Halloween is the most likely day you’ll kill a child with your car, and someone will kill a child you care about with theirs.
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"Even in the face of incredible horrors, Palestinians in Gaza never gave up on our cats."
From Lamar Alhuwaiti, a very brave 17 year old writer and photographer from Gaza.
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what a beautiful keffiyeh!
Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.
She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
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"But fundamentally, crime of any kind is a minor risk for a white man in D.C., which classification applies to Mullin, Duffy, Scott, and Trump. Overwhelmingly, the largest source of danger for people who fit that description is vehicle traffic, which killed 110 people in the D.C. area in 2024..."
lots of people already said my big favorite things but one of my little specific fav things is biking past a group of daycare kids all walking in a line together behind their teacher, saying "good morning neighbors!" to them and then hearing all their little voices reply "GOOD MORNINNGGGGGG"
186 journalists killed in Palestine since Oct 2023, for daring to tell the real story.
Is the government planning to privatize our national parks like Yosemite? Are you going to have to pay a for-profit company to visit Yellowstone? Today on Slate's What Next podcast, I talked to Jon B Jarvis, former director of the National Parks Service. He's sounding the alarm about a sell-off.
My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
As Trump’s massive bill rolls ahead, it’s truly wild to me how little of the coverage of the GOP’s cuts to Medicaid/work requirements talks abt what happened when the GOP TRIED THIS BEFORE! They’ve tried in two states! It didn’t go well! Anyway we covered this back in May: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
The nonchalant tone and extremely vague content of the episode description is so gratinggggggg
It's important to pay attention to the lack of food in Gaza - what it feels like for those on the ground, and why millions are feeling that way in the first place: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
When Trump encounters a demographic he doesn’t care for, he “disappears” them–in many cases, the very record of their existence.
Meet America’s new “missing persons," and the govt campaign to delete statistical evidence of anyone who doesn't fit Trump’s idea of our new golden age.
w/ @ashendruk.com
This week on @ThisAmerLife: I reported on Gaza’s severe food shortages and what it means to live through starvation.
Features my own experience and voices from those surviving it now.
Reverend William Barber walks with two canes and is *still* showing up to the Capitol to pray (and getting arrested for it). Reason enough to listen to him about why: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
The GOP is *saying* "work requirements". What they really mean is deep, and probably cruel, cuts. We know because they've already done it: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
got some good screenshots of the replies while this was still live
Spoke with @maryharris.bsky.social about the Supreme Court's assault on secular public education—simultaneously giving religious parents a veto over curricula AND demanding that states divert taxpayer money to parochial charter schools run by the Catholic Church. Insanity. slate.com/podcasts/wha...
I acutally looked at the books that Sam Alito thinks are pro-gay propaganda designed to "indoctrinate" children. I've read my kids a million stories like these. There's nothing objectionable about them, unless you find the *existence* of LGBTQ people objectionable ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mahmo...
