Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

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Something that is open for me to join the discussion or is it a space where I should just be observing?

Hi 👋🏻 I’m a self-described agnostic/atheist raised loosely in the anglican tradition. I’ve always been around Jewish families though and am finding myself drawn to some of the work being done by Rabbi’s such as yourself and Rabbi Rutenberg and wanting to explore Judaism more deeply. Is Parsha chat ..

Women’s football is rife with it 😬

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I'm currently writing a blog post about what other countries are doing to address “high gas prices.”

Australia (Victoria): All trains, trams, and buses free for the entire month of April.
Australia (Tasmania): All public buses free until the end of June.

carton of milk labeled 20 min drive run out of milk? With none of those annoying walkable stores, you get to drive 20 mins. there's nothing more freeing than having to drive everywhere for everything. ROVÉLO CREATIVE

It's the inconvenience that I enjoy.

i appear to have asked a question akin to "how do Rebel Alliance schoolteachers feel about Darth Vader?"

BP encourages drivers to save 100% on soaring fuel prices by cycling to petrol stations instead Drivers are being encouraged to cycle to their local petrol stations to buy fuel, as part of a latest effort to drive down demand in response to shortages caused by the war in Iran.Since the conflict ...

BP encourages drivers to save 100% on soaring fuel prices by cycling to petrol stations instead

The initiative is in response to the war in the Middle East that has led experts to warn of oil shortages for cars and homes
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Find The Right Bike Answer four questions to find your right bike, and see how much you could save by biking!

Gas prices are soaring, but people interested in biking don't know where to start. What type of bike do I get for kids? Cargo? Commuting?

Today, we're launching a site for just that - Find The Right Bike!

In just four questions, we'll tell you the bike you need and how much money it'll save you 🧵

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…”

You're Not Overreacting. This Is Actually Fascism. YouTube video by Rutger Bregman

Every time in history that people recognized what was happening early enough, they stood a better chance of stopping it. I made a 15-minute video breaking down the evidence. Watch the full thing here: youtube.com/watch?v=DDf25rNyT1A

Such a great way of thinking about hobbies. Especially considering how American culture seem to despise them as something worthless.

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I have ARFID and rely on Ensure to hit some of my nutrition intake on days when getting all my nutrition from actual food is too difficult and its not that straightforward to find a replacement that I can tolerate. The chocolate Ensure has been my go to for ages and now I can’t get hold of it.

Does anyone in South Africa (in particular the Western Cape) know what is happening with Ensure (the original version not the Gold/Plus version)? It’s been out of stock everywhere and I see on the abbot RSA site they now only list the Gold/Plus versions.

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

no really, holy shit

Just a reminder to men writing about anything that they should read lots of women

just a reminder to white people writing about anything that they should read lots of Black and Brown people

just a reminder to cis people writing about anything that they should read lots of trans people

just a r

Measles *and* TB in a concentration camp.

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"

Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

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“Walkable neighborhoods aren’t scary, they’re convenient.” Picture of a corner coffee shop in Brooklyn street and in a walkable community.

“Car dependency DOESN’T equal freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choice.” Picture of a busy city arterial street filled with car congestion.

Yes, you SHOULD absolutely print off our ads as posters and put them up around your office, home, barber shop, coffee shop…

Plus please just share them A LOT on social media. #UrbanTruth

I mean thats the best kind of osteopathy diploma 😅

Fascinating and deeply satisfying resolution to why adenovirus-based vaccines produced blood clots in 1 out of 200,000 people.

Two factors interacted:
a mutation in an antibody gene + weak similarities between a viral protein & a human blood-clotting protein = induced clotting cascade.

Listen to the poets.

How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero After years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero #SpeedKills

Janet Giddy | If COVID-19, why not TB? Mr President, it’s time for a family chat South Africa had several “family chats” in which President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. He should do the same for tuberculosis, argues Dr Janet Gidd...

ICYMI | Why are so many people in South Africa unaware and seemingly unconcerned about the extraordinarily high numbers of people infected with TB in our country? Could we take TB more seriously as a country?

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Picture of the a plaque at the German Resistance Memorial in Berlin.

You did not bear the shame.
You resisted.
You bestowed the eternally vigilant symbol of change by sacrificing your impassioned lives for freedom, justice and honour.

— The German Resistance Memorial in Berlin

What does that even mean??

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.

The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.

Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

Holy hell, what an obituary