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Walking is a right; driving is a privilege. Not the other way around. All views mine except for the ones I picked up at a thrift store. Also, I RT ducks.

#DriverNotCar
#PlowSidewalksToo
#WindshieldBias

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Historical Newspapers from the 1700's-2000snewspapers.com The largest online newspaper archive. Used by millions every month for historical research, family history, crime investigations, journalism, and more.

#CongestionPricing

do we think this guy from New Jersey would have driven his pickup truck to Manhattan to get drunk had there been a $15 congestion pricing fee in place?

NYPD: NJ man charged with drunk driving after 3 killed in July 4th LES crashgothamist.com Responding officers say they smelled alcohol on the driver

#CongestionPricing

more lives that would have been saved by congestion pricing?

Hoping today is #CongestionPricing Lawsuit day

Not that it'll change a single anti-vaxxer's mind, but you can show it to them anyway www.politico.eu/article/germ...

German man receives 217 Covid-19 jabs, shows no ill effectswww.politico.eu Researchers made it clear that they “do not endorse hypervaccination as a strategy to enhance adaptive immunity.”

How the RW hacked American media: flood the zone with so much appalling behavior that reporters will search high & low for ways to discredit your opponents for you. Because of mandatory balance.

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CDC Recommends Multi-layered Protection Against #COVID-19 as it recognises SARS-CoV-2 is a Year-round Threat johnsnowproject.org/primers/cdc-... by the @johnsnowproject.bsky.social

CDC Recommends Multi-layered Protection Against COVID-19 as it recognises SARS-CoV-2 is a Year-round Threatjohnsnowproject.org The US Center for Disease Control now recommends immunization, hand hygiene, clean air, isolation, treatment, face masks, social distancing and testing to prevent and protect against COVID-19 and tell...

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When you see the way the press is treating Joe Biden for aging in public, you see how they could treat Donald Trump for committing fraud, rape, espionage, and insurrection and never, ever will.

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USians, the 4th of July is a great time for us to call our electeds and leave voicemail asking them to support AOC in calling for impeachment of the 6 right-wing SCOTUS justices.

You could also call up your US rep and demand they join AOC in this move for impeachment. Can't pass the R House, but they HAVE to use their bully pulpit and rally the public. www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/01/a...

AOC calls for impeachment of ‘corrupt’ Supreme Court after Trump immunity rulingwww.nydailynews.com Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Monday said she would push to impeach what she called “corrupt” Supreme Court justices after they granted substantial immunity to former President Trump. T…

Please enjoy this raccoon in a yellow plaid button-down shirt

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Saw an AI fireworks show and a guy lost all 7 fingers on one hand.

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Nothing says #July4 like a juicy slice of watermelon. This delicious fruit doesn't just appear on our picnic table. It takes a lot of work. An average watermelon weighs 20 lbs. It's 100+ degrees in Bakersfield today. Can you imagine harvesting them in high temps? #WeFeedYou

#CongestionPricing

I've been thinking about how NYC could accomplish the traffic-reduction goals of congestion pricing without congestion pricing. And here is my Crackpot Idea: Model a circulation plan after Ghent's, but for Manhattan. stad.gent/en/mobility-...

The Circulation Planstad.gent Ghent’s Circulation Plan was implemented in 2017 and aims at banning through traffic from the city centre.

People often mention how hard it is to do threads on here or that they somehow don't work. I don't understand this complaint. It's the same process as doing them at the bird site.

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I think the bigger threat is not so much that the Right will go after internet porn but that they’ll define porn as “the existence of LGBTQ+ people in popular media such as books, TV and movies.”

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Sums it up…

Authors & publishers, you need to hire this artist. 📚

Orange Soda

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Feb. 12, 1869: “It will be a strange sight to see these two wheeled machines kiting around our city.” The Minneapolis Tribune reacts to what it reports as the city’s first bicycle.

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In 1953 the Chicago Motor Club issued a report for the city of Aurora, Illinois. Called School Crossing Protection, the report cautioned against “over-protection of the school child.” This excerpt is from page 1.

Analogy test: Your metropolitan area is like a huge public park. The basketball court is like your city, a lot of people successfully using a small space. The golf course is like your suburbs, a lot of land limited to the use of a few.

Some amusement for @paulbarter.bsky.social and @tonyjordan.bsky.social

www.pcgamer.com/games/city-b...

In this satirical city builder, your goal is to convert walkable cities into parking lots and use propaganda to convince everyone it's what they wantwww.pcgamer.com In city builder Car Park Capital, why walk when you can drive… and park.

🏳️‍🌈 www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/s...

Subway station renamed Christopher Street – Stonewall Station by MTA as historic visitor center opens next doorwww.nbcnewyork.com The subway station near the historic Stonewall Inn has been renamed in honor of the location’s importance to the LGBTQ rights movement and in support of Pride, the MTA announced Friday. The station, f...

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The fur caveman vest of the late 1960s fascinates me because it became the mainstream media's go-to symbol of hippiedom -- right down to Sonny Bono sporting one to fake countercultural cred -- and yet it was nowhere to be seen on actual hippies.

Thread of the day

In good, Declaration of Independence form, the Heritage Foundation has not only declared their support for a 2nd American Revolution in the form of Trump 2.0, they are also assembling a long list of grievances, er, enemies to explain why that revolution is justified. newrepublic.com/post/183015/...

Team Trump Is Creating Blacklist of Enemies in Federal Governmentnewrepublic.com Worried about Republicans’ Project 2025? Meet Project Sovereignty 2025.

Here's what I celebrate on July 4: Public parks Public schools Public libraries Public hospitals Oh, and Pride parades. Those are awesome.

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It is the force of the impact created by the velocity of the vehicle mass that demolishes the soft human body. Not the make, age, distraction or anything else that kills. No one has ever been killed by a parked car. It's the moving vehicle's speed that kills.

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Yes! “Replace Biden” is a catastrophic political miscalculation. Are Black voters screaming this? No. This is whiteness culture perfectionism playing out, yet again. Self reflect white Dems. Get your heads on right. Trump has always feared Biden. He still does. #BlueWave2024

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Congressman Joe Morelle (D, NY-25), lead Democrat on the Committee on House Administration, has announced he is introducing a constitutional amendment to reverse the SCOTUS’s decision on presidential immunity.

CONGRESSMAN JOE MORELLE AUTHORING CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO REVERSE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S IMMUNITY DECISION | Representative Morellemorelle.house.gov (Rochester, N.Y.)—This week, Congressman Joe Morelle announced he is introducing a constitutional amendment to reverse the United States Supreme Court’s decision to provide former president Trump with...

The is THE essay you need to read on the 4th.

“We need a strong institution that sits outside of electoral politics, that is not at the mercy of right wing courts, that has its own inherent form of power that can be exercised on behalf of the public good, that will naturally work towards progressive goals.… [T]hat is the labor movement.”

The End of Liberal Institutionalismwww.hamiltonnolan.com Excessive belief in institutions is a proven failure.