"America ought to have bigger aspirations for the future of walking ... Countries that have minimized pedestrian deaths have embraced walking as a wondrous, efficient transportation technology, wrongly sidelined by the automobile." ~ @mbolotnikova.bsky.social
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“What matters to me is that those of us purporting to stand for gender equality reject the kind of cruel, juvenile misogyny on display from Kulinski, Klippenstein, and others.”
@aselrod.bsky.social
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Good piece from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social. Reporting is always better when a journalist is on the ground & has been consistently following a topic (she was standing next to me at the post-action press conference).
Bennett
Mary Nasca
"[such] brutal tactics hadn’t been used on animal rights activists before, and the action’s organizers didn’t adequately prepare. In that sense, the movement may have underestimated its own growing influence and power to elicit such a response from law enforcement"
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A viral campaign to rescue beagles used for biomedical experiments is part of a much bigger fight.
The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened.
This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.
I went to the Midwest Junto for the History of Science last week and the best bus route from Madison WI, to Lafayette, IN required some light trespassing at ORD.
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Hell yeah, border towns rock
Liz Highleyman
Still putting my thoughts together on this (very!) imperfect book, but I think dismissing it as mere "Calvinism" is mistaken. The various contradictions Harden struggles with are interesting precisely b/c she is a microcosm for our conflicting collective impulses
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This NOT FLYING TODAY? sign is in all sorts of stock images for flight delays/cancellations but if you actually read it (or, like I did, violate it) it's also just kinda a bleak statement about what our society imagines airports to be
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My trip to the Midwest Junto for the History of Science, and the untapped potential of suburban airports as regional ground transportation hubs.
I weighed in on the situation (and got to invoke Dinesh Wadiwel while doing it!)
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I weighed in on the situation (and got to invoke Dinesh Wadiwel while doing it!)
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Kathryn Paige Harden’s new book offers a defense of a kind of Scientific Calvinism that converges with the eugenicist ideals of the contemporary Far Right.
really fucking cool to see the arena full of buffalo idiots sing the canadian anthem like that tbh. maybe a little corny but it’s always been really cool to me that we do both
victoria zeller⚔️ (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)
The anthem singer's mic died at the Sabres and Bruins game and all of Key Bank Center knows the words to both anthems and sang it with her.
