this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats

why does this look like a screenshot from Grand Theft Auto

Put this one in the Bluesky Takes hall of fame, tbh

watching the Jersey Mike’s worker make my sandwich

As Lewis Mumford wrote in 1957: "The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is the right to destroy the city." This is doubly true if we allow driverless cars to have unlimited access to streets.

a darkly lit bar and bar stools Local woman who just wanted to be able to walk to a bar to have a drink, now a leading urbanist.

Local woman who just wanted to be able to walk to a bar to have a drink, now a leading urbanist.

it's wild that we spent a century telling people that Driving is the ultimate freedom and now that our cities are such a traffic nightmare we've pivoted to sell the exact opposite, that Not Driving (but using an AV chauffeur) is actually the freedom we all need. something something transit.

To Protect And Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets Yet Remains On The Force - Streetsblog New York City One of the city’s most-dangerous drivers is an officer with the NYPD, which does nothing to stop his reign of terror on Staten Island.

Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022.

The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Lord

Insane any DFL'er would ape that abysmal MAGA slogan for ANY reason

Mets (and their football counterparts The Jets) have the most complicated cheer in all of baseball (and football) ...

Not at all! Just had to get my OTHER kid from club volleyball

Couldn't get kids on board with having a Chinese vs. German insult off

Can confirm ...

homer simpson from the simpsons says " for once in my life i 'm confused . " ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons says " for once in my life i 'm confused . "

Why does that Mets player have a Yankees hat on?

Was at my son's middle school volleyball game this afternoon. Coach for the competing team I couldn't place until as we were halfway home

Sorry, @wesburdine.bsky.social, out-of-context I didn't recognize (and in my slight defense I was sitting a ways away)!

Tolkkinen: I know the lure of a good-paying job in rural Minnesota. But money isn’t everything.

Preserving pristine wilderness from copper mining is important for our children.

www.startribune.com/tolkkinen-a-...

One thing NIMBYs have in common with the MAGA crowd — more than they care to admit — is that they can't imagine people volunteering their time and energy to organize for something they believe in. Everyone has to be a paid lobbyist or part of some hidden conspiracy to pull the strings of government.

She makes Elon Musk appear to have charisma ...

Free Victory+ service will stream 29 Lynx games this season The Minnesota Lynx become the first pro basketball team to air locally-broadcast games with the free streaming service.

Free Victory+ service will stream 29 Lynx games this season

The Minnesota Lynx become the first pro basketball team to air locally-broadcast games with the free streaming service.

www.startribune.com/minnesota-ly...

Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women

Priceless post from the official White House social media

Opinion | Tucker Carlson’s apology for supporting Trump is just hot air Lyz Lenz: The right-wing pundit never cared about the damage his words caused — not when he could make so much money.

Tucker Carlson isn’t actually sorry www.ms.now/opinion/tuck...

A photo of a very young boy from the waist up. He has short blond hair with a curl on top of his head. He is wearing a wool turtleneck with small pom-poms attached to the collar.

22 April 1938 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Gyuszi Ivan, Goldberger was born in Katymár.

In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ Watch our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat” In 1970, Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.

And now our systematic dumbing down and culture of anti-intellectualism has created the perfect conditions for where we are today.

Thanks Roger Freeman

theintercept.com/2022/08/25/s...

A photo of the face of a young girl with dark hair.

22 April 1923 | A Polish Jewish woman, Chana Fessel was born in Sambor. She emigrated to Belgium.

In 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Mechelen. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

Found one

Would take Minnesota from 4-4 to 5-3 (and maybe 6-2)

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.

(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

@mplsfietser.bike

Here are some great examples similar to what you were noting today!

Kash Patel as Lego with big weird eyes and lots of beers

I know we’re not supposed to like the Iranian social media teen meme army seeing us for what we’ve told them we are on the Internet but I like to think this kind of thing is really just them reaching out and saying we don’t like this either and know you’ll appreciate the hilarity

Thanks!

No more opening two windows, adjusting sizes for side-by-side, and then still having a little overlap and having my frustration exponentially increase