“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
live your life such that millions of people don’t drop everything they’re doing to collectively hope that It Happened at the slimmest of signs
Lots of things to fix out there but a decent argument that a real fix (if such a thing existed) for what can reasonably be called “elite impunity” would cascade out fixes for like 90 percent of the rest of it
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.”
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Dem leaders: if you fight back, we will rally behind you. This isn't complicated. More of this please.
And let me guess what kids they’ll expect to fill these jobs
I spoke with the wife of a Venezuelan man who was deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration. She gave me Venezuelan and US records showing that he has no criminal history and told me he is a family man. He is now in a notorious Salvadoran prison open.substack.com/pub/beyondth...
A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
JUST BECAUSE THE CLOWN CAR GOES VERY FAST DOES NOT MEAN IT ISN’T FULL OF CLOWNS
The rich HATE public land. This administration is purposefully hamstringing national parks so they can cry "wasted money" and sprint towards privatization. They desperately want to strip OUR parks of resources or make them exclusive spaces for the wealthy. We went through similar shit with the USPS
Think about how much money and effort means testing costs versus giving money no strings attached, etc.
Cruelty *inherently* costs more than kindness. The cruel solution will always be inefficient.
Cruel policies are always going to be inefficient, money-burning, self-destructive policies.
The people who propose them, aren't *interested* in whether those policies actually benefit anyone, including themselves.
If they did, at all, they wouldn't be choosing a cruel policy.
A reminder that @scarleteen.bsky.social is 100% queer and trans run and will ALWAYS be providing educational materials, support, and more to youth seeking sex, relationships, and health education from a source who won't casually erase their existence with their political winds.
Ding ding ding! Watch this. He’s laying it out.
My team at Stanford Internet Observatory documented this process meticulously, over & over again, in 2020. The R machine retaliated against us.
When Elon bought X, it became even sharper.
The rest of the political spectrum needs to get in the game.
"Project 2025 approved SSA administrator steps down just 3 weeks into the administration, giving up a GS-15 career in the process, because she knew even one more week on the job would risk putting her in prison for decades" is a very good and comforting sign
(Musk's touching the stove)
States argue that Musk wields the kind of power that can only be exercised by an officer of the gov’t who’s been nominated by the president & confirmed by the Senate under the Appointments Clause of the Constitution & allege DOGE hasn’t been authorized by Congress.
www.reuters.com/legal/judge-...
USAID has been paying for removal of Vietnam-era land mines in Cambodia. Trump's funding freeze has compromised those efforts.
Almost immediately, China stepped in to aid Cambodia instead. Besides humanitarian costs here, how does any of this serve US interests?
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Why does that sound like those "camps" where parents pay people to kidnap their teens and abuse/kill them in the name of "straightening them out"?
... oh, right. Because it'll be exactly like that, including deaths.
And those folks won't believe in the risk until (sometimes even if) they wind up with dead animals, or they and/or their families are sick.
It's understandable but unfortunate; the price of eggs plus the anti-science refusal to understand *why* there's a shortage (I keep reading how "they"/Biden "destroyed flocks for 'no reason'") has led to people deciding to keep chickens w/o any care for the disease risk.
The Trump administration is seeking to halve the workforce of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the agency that houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center. By @scottpwaldman.bsky.social for E&E News (republished here in Scientific American)…
Seriously silly to spend your time making fun of people who want to avoid illness while your country’s infrastructure and government mechanisms to ensure clean air and water are being dismantled
Quick intro to Sydette's amazing "Baby has hat" from a talk she did in 2018!
I think the people in charge of the US govt should know who manages America’s nuclear arsenal, or at least take a few minutes to look that up before removing some people who do it without cause or replacements.
Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel. I’ll try to be less politically biased.
Your regular reminder that measles has a r0 (basic reproduction number) of 12-18, which means that in an immune-naive environment every infected person will infect 12 to 18 people around them: it's one of the most infectious diseases out there. Get a MMR booster or get your titers checked, ASAP.
A woman in Wyoming has been hospitalized with #H5N1 #birdflu, WY's health dept announced Friday. Likely exposure was to backyard poultry. Wyoming said #CDC confirmed the infection, though CDC did not add it to its H5 page today. Not clear if this is B3.13 or D1.1. health.wyo.gov/wyomings-fir...
a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights.
how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com
Brief overview of the catastrophic impact this administration’s layoffs are having on Tribal Nations —to tribal colleges, tribal public health programs, and tribal fire fighting, all which are being amplified with mass layoffs of federal employees the last few days
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