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We did it! *wipes tear from eye*
The real message of Jurassic Park is that you get the Unix and IT support you pay for. Also, Jurassic Park is a cautionary tale about how you compensate your IT staff.
The meltdown of the House Republican caucus is simultaneously dull and distressing. Dull because entirely predictable conduct from all. Distressing because a dysfunctional House of Representatives can cause real problems for so many people. Of course, so can a functional House with a Republican majority. At bottom, what is distressing are all the House Republicans, whatever their position on Kevin McCarthy for Speaker.

The biggest barrier to biking is fear of cars, a new study confirms. And it’s by a large margin.

3 of the top 4 reasons people gave for not riding bikes were directly related to riding near cars or being injured or harassed by them.

#Cycling #BikeTooter #Study #BikeLanes #BikeSafety #TrafficSafety #CarCulture

https://www.treehugger.com/fear-of-cars-biggest-biking-barrier-study-6979522

Biggest Barrier to Biking Is a Fear of Cars

If we are serious about getting people on bikes, they need a safe place to ride.

Treehugger

Semafor said today that "a critical mass of conservatives do not trust McCarthy to lead them..."

Conservatives. Is that what they are?

John Boehner's description of the same crowd in his memoir:

"What they're really interested in is chaos... They want to throw sand in the gears of the hated federal government until it fails."

Are the sowers of chaos properly called "conservatives?"

Is MAGA conservative?

Why do #journalists with a commitment to accuracy maintain this fiction?

#uspolitics

A quick reminder that law enforcement *responds* to crime, but a living wage, food and water security, accessible healthcare, and public education *prevent* crime.

If you want safer communities, invest in people, not punishments.

Of course the other part of the story is that the Federal Reserve is taking extreme steps to crush the labor market specifically to make it easier for firms to hire workers without raising wages. Insanely anti-growth and counter-productive economic policy but the business class claps like seals for it