I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

a cartoon fox is jumping over a blue globe ALT: a cartoon fox is jumping over a blue globe

Something like this?

people get hella mad when you say adult drivers should be more responsible than children on our streets.

It is insane that you have to spend money to get the money that the gov't already knows it owes you.

And Republicans nipped the bud of an effective IRS free file system.

A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections: Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again." Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired." •.. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 22m He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." ... Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 20m Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately. "The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

I'm so wary of lionizing individuals, esp. men. But this is so beautiful. Look how much it means to these people that he's staying grounded, accessible, and displaying genuine interest in others.

A set of four images with a single caption "The New Haven Gas Light Company knows from long experience that its Home Economics Department is a builder of goodwill. Upper left—Girl Scouts' class in cooking. Upper right—Mrs. Frances S. Mathis, director, Home Economics Department. Lower left—Miss Ruth McIntosh, assistant director. Lower right—Brides' Cooking class." The director and assistant director portraits are each a full body photograph of them dressed in all white and standing next to a table with cookware and ingredients. Similarly dressed women stand next to an instructional oven and range for the girl scouts class photo.

1927 photo of figures and activities in the New Haven Gas Light Company's Home Economics Department (!!!).

As they moved beyond lighting, the gas company dove into gendered domesticity in order to establish their product as a safe and clean energy source.

found at New Haven Free Public Library

Iran Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

Billboard showing bikes with the message “These Machines FightTraffic.” In smaller letters it says “We fight for you.”

“These Machines Fight Traffic.”

Our own @tomflood.bsky.social did this great ad for @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth showing up in more and more places!

next time the billionaires go to space i think a funny thing to do would be for us to quickly hide the planet while they're gone

It's never been easy to be trans in the US...this is more true than ever today on Trans Day of Visibility.

RFK Jr. et al., are actively attacking trans folks and gender affirming care.

You can send a quick letter to your rep: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/153...

@standupforscience.net

Walz: The president said it's a bunch of radicals. You're damn right we've been radicalized. Radicalized by compassion, radicalized by decency, radicalized by due process, radicalized by democracy.

Bike lanes are a sound public health investment Every $1,300 New York City invested in building bike lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to one additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a ne...

“Every $1,300 New York City invested in building bike lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to one additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.”

That’s a better return on investment than some direct health treatments…”

Gwendolyn Warren and the Detroit Geographic Expedition and Institute Data feminism commits to challenging unequal power structures and working toward justice.

Reminds me of this poignant mapping project.

Trump gets a daily video montage briefing about the Iran war The montage, which typically runs for about two minutes, has raised concerns among some of the president’s allies that he may not be receiving the complete picture of the war.

“Each day since the start of the war in Iran, U.S. military officials compile a video update for President Donald Trump that shows video of the biggest, most successful strikes on Iranian targets over the previous 48 hours.”

War for the spectacle.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Pretty solid evidence that Republicans should stop blocking the proposals that fund TSA but not ICE.

LA TACO NEWS Photo by Sen. Sasha Renee Perez Who Is and Who Is Not ICE at U.S. Airports By Memo Torres

Travelers in the U.S. have been flooding us with messages concerned about ICE at airports, questioning or mistaking other agencies for ICE. Here is a quick guide. 🧵

By @eltragon.bsky.social

Agreed that developing this literacy at some point during high school is important. Being completely unfamiliar makes a lot of written history less accessible.

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Oh, I like this adjustment! Certainly it's what we should be doing if the goal is clear communication. I'm going to look for places I've used "late 1800s" and replace with approximate date range.

Once at a grocery checkout it somehow came up that I'm a historian and immediately the cashier asked why we insist on doing that thing with century numbers. Clearly for her the practice just served to disconnect and stratify.

I've stopped using ordinal numbers for centuries in my K-12 curriculum materials. I only do 1800s, early 1900s, etc. I can think of cases where ordinals are helpful, but I think more often they're unnecessary and potentially confusing. Am I a heretic?

A lightly bearded guy in sunglasses and a running hat that reads The War on Cars stands in the main waiting room of Chicago's Union Station with its soaring barrel-vaulted ceilings and travertine columns with ornately carved capitals.

En route to ASEH Kansas City via plane-train combo. The transition in Chicago allowed me to advertise upcoming Life After Cars shows!

@aseh.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163) | University of Stavanger Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

"The Mansion Test"

Ask your city council and planners:
"is it easier to get a building permit for modest middle income housing, or for a 10,000 sf 'mansion'? "

Development permit? Neighbour review? Affordability requirements? Design Guidelines? Density fees?

Lanefab x HAVAN

Super Basic AI Regulation Suggestion: Software must reject any prompt to "write like a high school student" or similar.

NSA job interview – Good Will Hunting (1997) YouTube video by Weyland

I was 10 when this came out. The first I saw it was ~5 years later, one year post-9/11. People were accepting Iraq as a foregone conclusion. The NSA monologue explained US foreign policy so well that I memorized it. My high school self would be literally pulling his hair out today.

In lighter news, our kids have been using too much toilet paper, threatening functionality of our home's only unit. So now the roll is hidden and atop the tank my partner has placed a stack of pre-torn lengths to be used one at a time.

Protected Bike Lanes Increase Safety, Save Money And Protect The Planet, New Report Finds Investing in protected bicycle lanes has significant potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, lower transport costs, prevent road fatalities, and improve the quality of life for people in cities ...

STUDY: “Bicycle lanes reduce GHG emissions as effectively as highways create them.”

“Investing in networks of protected bicycle lanes has significant potential to reduce GHG emissions, lower transport costs, prevent road fatalities, & improve quality of life for people in cities around the globe.”

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below