Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks Known U.S. strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific since Sept. 2, 2025 STRIKES 52 KILLED 180 RESCUED/SURVIVED 3
So like at what point are we gonna ask how many extrajudicial executions at sea it’s supposed to take before they’ve won the war on drugs? Because if they have to keep doing it, doesn’t seem like it’s working.
"Automania 2000," 1963, an Oscar-nominated animated short that satirizes America's automobile-obsessed, consumerist culture. A scientist builds absurd cars to satisfy "the public's ever-increasing demands for novelty & status consciousness, with predictable environmental consequences."
Chicago DPD Bronzeville Trail Framework Plan Wednesday June 3 5:30 - 7:30 Wendell Phillips Academy High School
Bronzeville Trail Framework Plan Open House on June 3rd 👀
www.eventbrite.com/e/bronzevill...
Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
Bike lanes do take space away from drivers.
Why not get rid of sidewalks too, hell school zones really slow drivers down..get rid of schools! While we're at it i'm kind of tired of those pesky residential areas with their people and stop signs - no more homes! Nothing but roads and parking lots.
Welcome to the flooded future, Chicago. Brought to you by burning fossil fuels.
But we have the tools to change, and stop making the crisis worse - from heat pumps to ebikes, induction stoves to EVs, we don't need to do things the way we always have.
She is awful and should be fired but man that is three women out of the Cabinet and not a single guy
Thread on a fake story about Platner sieg heiling. He did NOT do this. Rightwingers drumming it up, tho, because Platner brings so much actual trash to the table that they know some will believe it. Which is a good reason not to support people w/ *any* Nazi trash. Not even just a li'l bit of Nazi!
If this were an ebike, the community would be really upset.
I watched the Buffalo game for love. I’m watching the Vegas game for hate (of Carter Hart)
All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.
That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech
How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...
I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.
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Last session of the day at #Lifesavers2026
I moderated a very well attended session about e-bikes and participated in an interactive workshop (my role was mayor)
So, this is the first breakout session I've been able to post about - "Using Speed Safety Cameras to Protect Vulnerable Road Users"
This is such an important quote. If we slow down the streets and separate vulnerable road users in protected lanes on high-traffic roads
“When we think about e-bike crashes and deaths related to e-bikes, the vast majority are cars and trucks killing people on e-bikes as opposed to people on e-bikes injuring somebody else”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS SITTING ON A SMALL STOOL, AND SHE HAS HER HEAD PROPPED UP IN HER LEFT HAND SHE LOOKS WORRIED, SHE IS THINKING OF A JAIL P2- NANCY HAS HER HANDS OVER HER EYES AS SHE THINKS OF MUGSHOT PHOTOS, THE FIRST ONE IS AL CAPONE THE SECOND IS JOHN DILLINGER AND THE LAST MUGSHOT IS A PICTURE OF HERSELF P3- FRITZI SEES NANCY SITTING ON THE STOOL, NANCY IS COVERING HER FACE AS. SHE THINKS OF HERSELF IN A STRIPED PRISON UNIFORM FRITZI: WHAT'S WRONG, NANCY? P4- NANCY: THIS BOOK IS SEVEN DAYS OVERDUE AT THE LIBRARY
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 19,1947
As Bolts has reported in the past, many cities nationwide have been changing their local election schedules to sync up with state or federal races.
In diverse neighborhoods, speed cameras result in fines for speeders of many races. They also save lives – and the lives saved will belong to people of many different races:
"Between 2018 and 2022, Hegenberger Road saw over 200 crashes — 80% of the collision victims were Black or Hispanic..."
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.
www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...
With the #NJDevils out of the playoffs, who are you rooting for?
Sabres is an easy one for me. My 5-year-old cousin is discovering sports and is big into the Penguins, so go Sid, too, I guess.
If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit
"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV
Under Trump, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been all but destroyed.
That means less oversight of shady financial actors — including the booming "Buy Now, Pay Later" industry.
Former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra explains how consumers are paying the price.
The Sky announce they will host training camp at UIC through the end of May.
The team is still awaiting the completion of its training facility in Bedford Park. Wrote about that last week:
calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...
Hey, so ICE is still kidnapping and disappearing people in the United States.
Just because they got quieter about it doesn't make it okay.
Abolish ICE. Chinga la Migra.
