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Remember the old platform shooters when you got to the final boss and you could tell where the vulnerable spot was because it would start flashing when hit? Project 2025 is Trump's vulnerable spot. Hit it every day from now to November.

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Electric vehicles can save lives by polluting the climate less than fossil-fueled vehicles in most places. Yet EVs are much heavier and accelerate faster, so are more dangerous in crashes. @costasamaras.bsky.social argues that increased car-crash deaths could be on par with lives saved via climate.

Make electric vehicles lighter to maximize climate and safety benefitswww.nature.com Tax heavy cars and shrink batteries to consolidate the gains from electrifying transport. Tax heavy cars and shrink batteries to consolidate the gains from electrifying transport.

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the other thing is that people have no sense of how much space cars and so they imagine that a road full of cars must be a lot of people when it very often is not. a well-used bike lane transports like twice as many people during a given time as does a road

I've become convinced that one of the biggest obstacles to better road design in commercial areas is well-off business owners who drive their BMW to work every day and find it impossible to imagine a customer who uses any other mode of conveyance to arrive at the shop.

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Watching the British election returns I feel compelled to point out that the 650 person House of Commons represents 67 million people and the 435 person House of Representatives in the United States represents 333 million. Replace the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. We deserve representation.

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Among other factors, it turns out that running against Low Traffic Neighborhoods and Ultra-Low Emissions Zones isn't a winning campaign strategy.

Breaking News: The Labour Party is headed for a landslide win in Britain’s election, an exit poll shows, putting an end to 14 years of Conservative rule.

Live Updates: Labour Party Is Set for Landslide Win in U.K. Electionwww.nytimes.com A nationwide exit poll indicated a decisive end to 14 years of Conservative rule. Labour’s center-left leader, Keir Starmer, was poised to become prime minister.

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Had dinner with an attorney friend of mine last night who told me that when the immunity decision was announced, he threw his constitutional law book in the trash. After reading this brilliant indictment of the Trump/Roberts court by @ryanlcooper.com, I understand why prospect.org/justice/2024...

The Supreme Court Has Murdered the Constitutionprospect.org America’s founding document is now an all-but-meaningless scrap of paper. Happy Fourth!

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oh, you might say, the president can’t issue corrupt pardons. ah. but john roberts says that not only can he issue corrupt pardons, but if he tells his staff they are corrupt in the course of issuing them, that evidence is inadmissible in the event that you could somehow prosecute the corruption

If the president tells federal workers to illegally imprison me and hands them all presidential pardons, they're all safe from prosecution but in theory maybe a judge can get me out eventually. Somehow. If I can even talk to a lawyer. But if the president instead tells federal workers to kill me...

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CHIEF JUSTICE V. THE WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES The MAGA majority wants to deliver Trump a government conscripted in an “effort to belittle and degrade women,” and GOP men would like women to stop being so “hysterical” about it, writes Dahlia Lithwick.

Don’t Be Hysterical, Ladies. Daddy Chief Justice Knows Best.slate.com It is pretty jarring to hear this kind of condescension trotted out by Chief Justice John Roberts.

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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes

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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Courtwww.theatlantic.com Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.

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When I say the Supreme Court went beyond law, I don’t mean that I disagree with their interpretation of any legal text. I mean their immunity grant isn’t based in any. The Constitution does not address it either way. They invented new powers from nothing.

The Roberts Court Boosts Trump’s Attack on Constitutional Democracywww.arcdigital.media The overreaching, absurd, un-American decision granting ex-presidents a large degree of immunity is an exercise in power, not law

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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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I know everyone says "their reporters do great work" and that's true, but over the course of my life, the New York Times has institutionally had multiple points at which it was important to choose "be evil" or do the right thing and they've fucked it hard every time

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“The Court’s conservative majority has revealed itself to be the most direct threat to American democracy and any Democrat who is not ready to shelve old fears about “court packing” and get serious about expanding and reforming the Court isn’t made for this moment” @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

The Radical Roberts Courtkevinmkruse.substack.com The current Supreme Court of the United States has just cemented its place in history as the most radical Supreme Court ever. For a century and a half, that dishonor has gone to the antebellum court l...

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Inviting you to ponder the craziest takeaway from Roberts’s opinion in the Trump immunity case, which is that if Trump had ordered the military, instead of the mob of his supporters, to march to the Capitol and murder Mike Pence, he’d be legally bulletproof ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

The MAGA Supreme Court Is All the Way Hereballsandstrikes.org John Roberts's opinion in the Trump immunity case should be the end of the fantasy of Roberts as the Court's committed institutionalist.

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Under today’s immunity decision, Biden could order AG Garland to immediately prosecute Thomas and Alito for corruption and insurrection. (Official act). If Garland refuses, Biden can fire him and replace him with someone who will. (Official act) I would suggest Elie Mystal.

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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A dream response to gutting ALJs would be to immediately ram through legislation creating like 2 new circuits and 100s of new judges, since so much shit is now going to flow into an already overwhelmed article iii system

oof initial reaction to jarkesey is that the SEC is fucked

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🚨 Tuesday City Council will be finalizing the transportation levy. There are a lot of amendments being floated, but the main message they need to hear is that YOU want see an INCREASE in the levy for SAFETY and ACCESSIBILITY. Call/email/or use this form NOW: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

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"New York City is the world’s most-congested urban area for the second year in a row, costing the city an estimated $9.1 billion in lost time, a new report shows."

NYC Has the World’s Worst Traffic Congestion, Costing $9 Billionwww.bloomberg.com New York City is the world’s most-congested urban area for the second year in a row, costing the city an estimated $9.1 billion in lost time, a new report shows.

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Mask bans are evil and dystopian and I am appalled that they’re even being proposed. Wearing masks to protect your health and the health of others needs to be recognized as a right for all and an absolutely essential protection for those who would otherwise be unable to participate in society

Where are we on mask bans? www.patreon.com/posts/mask-b...

Mask Bans | Matthew Cortlandwww.patreon.com Get more from Matthew Cortland on Patreon

We’re only one of five families at the park right now with cargo bikes. There are also three strollers and a few adults with their own bikes here as well. There was also a bakfiets here when I first arrived.

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When people say that traffic engineering is fundamentally broken, this is the sort of thing they're thinking about. "Analysis by [Caltrans] found the I-80 project would cut greenhouse gas emissions by reducing congestion." www.latimes.com/california/s...

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the answer ultimately comes down to whoever has the political will to do it, i think. that is one of the lessons of reconstruction, imo. without a political coalition willing to enforce the constitution whatever it takes, the laws and rules of the game are just words on paper

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They also held, 6-3, that it was okay for a football coach to hold mandatory prayers by pretending that he wasn't doing that

if you think this is definitely going to be held unconstitutional, please note that in 2019 the Supreme Court held that a giant cross on public land did not violate the Constitution

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In Austria, the government now confiscates and sells cars driven by reckless speeders. Austria's transportation chief: “If you use your car as a weapon, your speed could kill people… You deserve to lose your car.” My latest, in CityLab www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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