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Kristen Vala retweeted
Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
Kristen Vala retweeted
People love saying that Philadelphia should tax the rich. What rich? The wealth in this region lives in the suburbs. Even if you spent every penny of Brian Roberts' and Allan Domb' money, you wouldn't cover a year of city services.
Kristen Vala retweeted
The lies he's telling grow more outlandish by the day but it's left to local reporters to talk about them because national reporters are so numbed (or disinterested) they don't even bother mentioning them.
President Trump told former New Orleans news anchor @rooprajfox2 during a live interview in Michigan yesterday that everyone in a Louisiana community got $10,000 checks from a neighboring data center. My @WWLTV fact-check finds no such checks exist. wwltv.com/article/news/inves…
Kristen Vala retweeted
Car culture has sterilized our urban landscape. Our street details went from prioritizing people and nature to accommodating the convenience of cars and their inconvenient geometry.
What a melancholy comparison. It’s time, lavishly & liberally, to replant street trees, widen pavements, rip out ugly lights & reclaim streets from their highways officer overlords
Dickens Street, Toxteth, 1911 vs 2023
📸 via the great @keithjones84 who is very worth following
Kristen Vala retweeted
the thing abt “men aren’t allowed to cry” is that women aren’t really allowed to either. women get mocked and berated for crying, and their momentary tears are used to justify their exclusion from “serious” workplaces, environments and activities
Kristen Vala retweeted
People who oppose "luxury apartments" eventually need to answer the question "where do well-to-do people who want to live in cities get to live?" Because if you don't let those units get built, then those people will still move to the cities and outbid people who can't compete.
Kristen Vala retweeted
A modeling agency is ideal cover for a sexual predator. It gives him access to girls, helps him identify the most vulnerable, and gives him insight into their families.
The sordid history of teen beauty contestants at Trump's Plaza has yet to be fully told. Here is one glimpse: people.com/former-miss-switz…
Kristen Vala retweeted
They still don't get it. It is not the science and discovery of new drugs that are the road block. Its the 5 years it takes to run clincal trials to prove it works and its safe for humans. It will always take 12 months just to get FDA approval. I know of at least 5 to 10 drugs developed by tech bio companies over the last 5 years that all failed in clinic.
Kristen Vala retweeted
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @StreetsblogUSA @StreetsblogNYC
usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/…
Kristen Vala retweeted
People who spin the "both parties are the same" bullshit are not just nihilistic, they are actively helping do things like this
Kristen Vala retweeted
You all need to understand that there is a well-funded movement to kill Wikipedia as an institution. The dream of an internet that provided universal access to knowledge was a mirage. It threatened too many powerful people, so now we have AI summaries and illiteracy.
Kristen Vala retweeted
What's interesting about the book on Jared Kushner is that the massive corruption it exposes, verifiable at so many levels, is now simply understood as the U.S. "doing business" to make "peace deals"... except the business benefits the Trump family, not the U.S.
Kristen Vala retweeted
i know it’s been said a million times but american infrastructure is so pathetic. like why is there no high speed rail between nyc and chicago that’s a 9 hour drive and you’d be connecting the top gdp cities in the country
Kristen Vala retweeted
Built kinetic potential is hard to rebuild when starting from a stop on a bike. For the mode to remain efficient, it's far better to yield when walking at conflict points as the energy demands are far less. Basic physics in mobility can't be argued with.
Kristen Vala retweeted
Another group of people who got exactly what they asked for. Joe Biden? BORING! Kamala Harris? TOO JOYFUL! No no, they wanted Daddy Trump back to feed them an endless stream of ~ content ~ they could monetize and cash in on via book deals and now they're mad. Fuck them.
NEW: Press groups on Monday sued the Trump administration, alleging in federal court that attempting to bar media outlets from the White House violates the First Amendment rights of ordinary citizens to access information about the U.S. government.
washingtonpost.com/business/…
