The new mayor of #Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, celebrated his victory last night by riding to city hall on a Vélib' bikeshare bicycle.

He's promised 60,000 new social housing units 15 express bus routes, 1000 new pedestrian streets, completion of bike path network...

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Things the rest of the world has learned:

1) The United States is not a reliable negotiating partner. There’s no reason to concede anything in negotiations.
2) The US will happily accept fake things in exchange for real concessions so that it can pretend victory on cable news.
3) The US navy cannot secure and protect global trade routes.
4) America’s allies don’t really trust it.

I dunno, maybe the effect of gas prices on the midterms is less important than other things right now.

"There are few spectacles these days in America more predictable than the reflexive absolution that MAGA world and most conservatives grant to Donald Trump. Accuse Trump of anything—fraud, corruption, or the mistreatment of women—and his defenders respond with speed and certainty. They insist the facts are irrelevant, the accusers are presumed liars, and the matter is settled before a single document has been read."

~ David Shuster

#Epstein #Trump #FBI #JaneDoe
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https://www.blueamp.co/p/the-fbi-believed-her

For the Same Cost as Another Mideast War, We Could Make Oil Irrelevant.

The price tag for building enough renewables to power the grid is eerily close to America’s typical price tag for the kind of war it would take to fully secure the Strait of Hormuz. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #globalWarming

https://newrepublic.com/article/207946/iran-war-oil-hormuz-price-energy