Do you want options, from a bustling city to a small village that's just as walkable? This one's genuine – You Can in Michigan, and it's one of the most beautiful things about this state. You just can't get between these places. We need more frequent intercity buses and rail.

The US' extensive apparatus of statistics is one of our best secret weapons: we actually just know more about ourselves as a country than most other countries know about themselves, and this is a core part of our ability to be a dynamic country.

Report Finds Americans Need To Cut Emissions By 3% In Order To Tell Themselves They Did Their Best theonion.com/report-finds-a…

If it feels like this election cycle is overwhelming, picture this black hole with the mass of 6.5 billion of our suns ejecting a star-exploding plasma ray 3,300 light years long.

You call this an election? sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/totem-and-ta…

🚨NEW from VoteVets: A devastating reminder of the chaos and cruelty from Trump’s first term. Insults to Troops and Veterans. Praise for racists. Calls for violence. Stripping away rights. Botched crises. Job losses. An economy in free fall. We won’t go back. We won’t let

Halloween Is a Middle Finger to Communists reason.com/2024/10/31/hal… via reason

GO GRAND VALLEY! BEAT TRUMP! (As bad as you - ahem - USUALLY beat Ferris...) washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/… #GVSU Grand Valley State

Some good news from my politically-active daughter, we can enjoy The New York Times games without crossing the IT workers' digital picket line nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-bui…

Executive Actions Biden Could Take....On Cuba, Judicial vacancies, Cannabis, Immigration, Climate thenation.com/article/politi…

This needs to be seen by every American. Download it, before it’s removed.

When the GOP trifecta assumes power in just a few months, they will pass laws, and those laws will be terrible, and they will cast long, long shadows. 1/

"Carrots are for rabbits!" ~ Lola Charlie and Lola: A Refreshing Perspective in Children’s Literature indiependent.co.uk/charlie-and-lo… via @The Indiependent

1. The conventional explanations for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining—fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Before choosing bottled water over tap water, remember it takes more than 10X the water that a bottle of water holds to make the plastic bottle & transport the water. And that’s before considering the fuel & GHGs, the 1000 year bottle life, and how much $ we’re paying for water.

The L.A. Fires Show the Need for Climate Realism on.cfr.org/3DMmlO4 via Council on Foreign Relations

Have we talked about the advantages of extremism lately? What did I miss?