yellow for visibility. and for whimsy!

collecting smiles and good mornings from my neighbors as i ride my bike into work every morning like pokémon (and returning the gestures, of course!)

yes, yuck!

ralph wiggums of the simpsons shown in a school cafeteria with a tray of meat and saying “when I grow up I’m going to bovine university”

GGWash Picks 2025: A driver hit me and my dog, and here’s the proof GGWash Picks 2025: This year, my dog and I became members of a not-so-exclusive club: the 60,000 pedestrians who will be injured in a car crash each year. In the process of writing about this I get st...

"She points to my shirt, which is for a podcast. 'Wait, what does your shirt say? The War on Cars?' she asks. 'Well, that’s right. Now you have a war on cars.'"

my 14yo son snatched it up as soon as it came in and i haven’t had my turn to read it yet!

you’re defiling my files!

maybe they’re better off with a rebrand featuring the old man from cracker barrel

omg same, i know better. not like aldi to be off their game but it was chaos they had the lift out in the baking aisle whyyyyyy

corey can’t fly commercial

that was how i did it too! i started with an ebike and then realized i could handle the acoustic.

At a Blowout Party for Unsung Republican Heavyweights, the Men Were Drunk—and Anxious A journey into the Republican soul in 2023.

this is a very entertaining and informative article on this subject

slate.com/news-and-pol...

Respect for Life and Conscience. The CDC should eliminate programs and projects that do not respect human life and conscience rights and that undermine — 455 — 2025 Presidential Transition Project family formation. It should ensure that it is not promoting abortion as health care. It should fund studies into the risks and complications of abortion and ensure that it corrects and does not promote misinformation regarding the comparative health and psychological benefits of childbirth versus the health and psychological risks of intentionally taking a human life through abortion. The CDC oversaw and funded the development and testing of the COVID-19 vaccines with aborted fetal cell lines, insensitive to the consciences of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people who objected to taking a vaccine with such a link to abortion. As evidenced by litigation across the country, it is likely that thousands were fired unjustly because of the exercise of their consciences or faith on this question, which could have been avoided with a modicum of concern for this issue from CDC. There is never any justification for ending a child’s life as part of research, and the research benefits from splicing or growing aborted fetal cells and aborted baby body parts can easily be provided by alternative sources. All such research should be prohibited as a matter of law and policy. CDC should update its public messaging about the unsurpassed effectiveness of modern fertility awareness–based methods (FABMs) of family planning and stop publishing communications that conflate such methods with the long-eclipsed “rhythm” or “calendar” methods. CDC should fund studies exploring the evidence-based methods used in cutting-edge fertility awareness.

Data Collection. The CDC’s abortion surveillance and maternity mortality reporting systems are woefully inadequate. CDC abortion data are reported by states on a voluntary basis, and California, Maryland, and New Hampshire do not submit abortion data at all. Accurate and reliable statistical data about abortion, abortion survivors, and abortion-related maternal deaths are essential to timely, reliable public health and policy analysis. Because liberal states have now become sanctuaries for abortion tourism, HHS should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother’s state of residence, and by what method. It should also ensure that statistics are separated by category: spontaneous miscarriage; treatments that incidentally result in the death of a child (such as chemotherapy); stillbirths; and induced abortion. In addition, CDC should require monitoring and reporting for complications due to abortion and every instance of children being born alive after an abortion. Moreover, abortion should be clearly defined as only those procedures that intentionally end an unborn child’s life. Miscarriage management or standard ectopic pregnancy treatments should never be conflated with abortion. Comparisons between live births and abortion should be tracked across various demographic indicators to assess whether certain populations are targeted by — 456 — Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise abortion providers and whether better prenatal physical, mental, and social care improves infant outcomes and decreases abortion rates, especially among those who are most vulnerable. The Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 20239 would amend title XIX of the Social Security Act and Public Health Service Act to improve the CDC’s abortion reporting mechanisms by requiring states, as a

But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.

i’m not in nyc but i love a campaign that seeks to serve the people who actually live in a district rather than the commuters

what a fantastic night for a drive in!

he goes first

i feel like the red cross around here pushes healthy snacks too much, dang it i want gummy bears and oreos. maybe i’ll pack my own at the next donation!

Shitbag tweet: Illegal in Hawthorne, California, is arrested for deportation. Angry protesters demand ICE releases her because she’s pregnant. Being pregnant doesn’t exempt women from following the law. And if this pregnant woman cared at all about her baby she would’ve self-deported.

A pregnant U.S. citizen went to the hospital after immigration agents detained her Cary López Alvarado, who's nine months pregnant, said that after being released from immigration custody she experienced sharp stomach pains and was hospitalized.

Turns out the "illegal" pregnant woman was a US citizen, and she's since been hospitalized.

strong odds he’ll also increase the price of fuel 🚲

love that there is a stream nearby but they just think it’s fun to drink at the fountain!

but if you make oatmeal cookies with craisins you can share them with your dog!

i do! i have a 5 mile ride to work, i bike year round. i love that i have energy when i get in and basically the whole day, plus i sleep much better bc of the exercise so a real virtuous cycle

NEW: Friends of Neri Alvarado, rotting in a Salvadoran prison on Trump's orders, made a video highlighting his volunteer work helping neurodiverse children learn to swim. Neri was sent there after someone at ICE thought his autism awareness tattoo was a gang tattoo.

Vid posted by Noah Lanard on X.

i love your basket, comrade!

DOGE D’oh: Nuclear Waste Facility Edition As DOGE continues it’s federal government wilding spree, purportedly searching for examples...

So don't want to be the bearer of bad tidings: but DOGE canceled the lease on the facility that processes and stores all the nuclear waste created by the US military. Sorry. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

i bought my subscription back in the fall on that bonkers story about musk pd canvassers being moved around in unmarked vans - my kid loved the stickers that came with the print sub, keep up the awesome work!

that bear gave me nightmares as a kid!

that happened to me last year, i was also very insulated in my own bright yellow down jacket! glad you’re ok!

that 1928 election sure was a blowout!

the thing that gets me when i drive (occasionally) is how much the environment is built to cause anxiety and fear, from the billboards to the roads to just waiting at a traffic light, and even in the cold or rain or uphill or whatever, biking is fun!