Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation

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*Union Starbucks workers are officially calling for everyone to boycott Starbucks! They’re calling on everyone who supports working people over corporations to boycott Starbucks until their demands are met and a fair union contract is reached* www.boycottstarbucks.net

Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.

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the specific insanity of “what if i started a perpetually-escalating trade war with Canada two months before control of the senate is determined by voters in Maine and Michigan” is under-discussed here, just wild how unmoored from public opinion concerns the Trump admin has gotten

when i worked at sbux in high school they kept scheduling me for like 35 hours a week and i kept saying i can't work this schedule i have to go to school. turned out they were hugely overscheduling kids to avoid giving enough hours to the adults that they would've qualified for health insurance

pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.

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Seth Moulton ran the campaign Third Way has been asking for and

Seems bad!

one piece of advice i can share as a parent: certain phases can be really tough, but they do pass. around 18 months my son kept demanding that i condemn hasan piker. all day and night too, i was at the end of my rope. now he’s really into fire trucks. it’s always something new

warning.

A friend of mine observed that the New York media report on Mamdani the way J. Jonah Jameson reports on Spider-Man. I can' unsee it.

dolly parton taught me it's ok to be hot and know how to read

Finally got back to clavel after not having been for YEARS and the verdict stands: VERY good, typically not worth the hassle. I was pleased that we put our names in at 520 and were seated by a few minutes to 6. They are def helped by the fact that even mid restaurants cost almost as much now.

I'm joining the war on ice cream on the side of ice cream

This is the conservative strategy for dealing with any institution that they don't control, that isn't part of their cult. Infiltrate saboteurs and destroy it or capture it from within. It's what theyve done to the news media and to universities.

they want to give trump what we wants without creating a precedent that will let a dem president in 2029 use the same powers to undo what trump did

Critical Mass Friday Aug. 28. 6pm meet at Prince Edward Viaduct Parkette (across from Castlefrank Station). Route TBD. Purpose? Well, the Court of Appeal said we don't need bike lanes. We're certain many would disagree. All out.

How long until they drag the resurrected corpse of the wood paneled station wagon out of the nostalgia mines? (To be clear, I think it would sell)

"This shows an ambitious clean air zone can drive pollution levels down, rapidly restoring children's stunted lung growth" 👏👏👏 www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you exceed the speed limit you deserve to pay a fine like a criminal

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

"I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith, as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that'll be a home run. And so that'll make it a 4-0 ballgame."

Finally, I don't have to isolate my frustration to the election attorney or the Orioles manager. It turns out they both kinda suck.

🎨Robert Ariail

Inviting all my friends to my next barbecue (trying and failing to overclock my PC). It WILL involve smoke.

Borrower feedback: "Last year I was able to borrow the electric trike here in Minneapolis. I am disabled and the experience gave me enough motivation to go out and buy my own electric trike that works for my body type." 🚲 ❤️

This “people are mad about the high costs of electricity so we should cancel a bunch of key electricity infrastructure projects” idea from the Trump administration is probably one of the more obvious blow-up-in-your-face strategies from them, which says a lot www.energy.gov/articles/ene...

Thank you to the Beat for doing actual journalism where others won’t

The push for Harry Potter the TV show is going to be completely enormous—they're debuting it on fucking Christmas—and it is the responsibility of TV critics to contextualize this as rewarding the world's most transphobic billionaire (which is saying something) in everything we write about it.

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Jesus fucking Christ covid vax REDUCED miscarriages and stillbirths. Also I'm one of the people who studied menstrual side fx of the covid vax to make sure we didn't invalidate peoples' real experiences, and to better set expectations for side fx. Ultimately the project made me even MORE provax!

Partial solar eclipse tomorrow. Put the glasses on!

1. "They tried to run us over" has been institutionalized as DHS's license to shoot people. They reflexively go to this lie when they draw their guns. 2. Even with a masked man is waving a gun in her face, this woman repeatedly tells them they are full of shit. Hero.

The standard rule of administrative burdens: if you increase the time tax for doing something, you make it less likely that people will do it. That is what the Trump administration is trying to do with vaccines.

After implementing some of the best housing reforms in North America, Edmonton is seeing new 3-bed townhouses for under $2,000 (USD$1,500).

"Drivers struck and killed 7,080 people walking in the United States in 2024, 72% more than in 2009, when pedestrian deaths were at their lowest."