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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/55967000

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/44995054

The Department of Transportation is proposing bringing a network of bike lanes to Portage Park

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/complete-streets-chicago/home/featured-projects-and-innovations/projects0/PortageParkNeighborhoodBikeNetwork.html

They are holding a community meeting to discuss the bike lane network at 6 p.m. March 5 at the Portage Park Senior Center, 4001 N. Long Avenue.

Attendees are encouraged to register here

Posting things online isn't enough. Pro-car people actually show up. We need supporters of bike lanes to also show up.

I do not believe that the genocide has ended. What we are seeing is a continuation of the same process in a different form. Most Israelis are largely unaware that the violence continues. Ongoing air strikes, the destruction of schools, and civilian deaths — often including women and children — are either not reported or are framed almost exclusively in terms of “terrorists.” This dynamic is not new. Even before October 7, Gaza was treated as something distant — an issue best ignored, to be handled by others, without demanding sustained attention or moral engagement from Israeli society.

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It is difficult to measure acceleration in this regard. What matters more is the process itself. An hour away from where I live, roughly two million people are living amid a humanitarian catastrophe. Most have lost their homes and livelihoods. Hunger and deprivation are widespread. Yet daily life in Israel feels normal.

Even closer to Gaza, life can appear normal as well, punctuated occasionally by explosions — air strikes, demolitions, or detonations whose nature is often unclear. Unless someone actively chooses to pay attention, it is remarkably easy to forget that any of this is happening. As a historian, I find this deeply instructive. It resembles situations I have read about for years: people living in close proximity to mass suffering, later claiming they did not know. The reality is that not knowing, or choosing not to know, is easier than we like to admit.

The Washington Post reported that activists are working with the White House on an executive order to declare a “national emergency” over America’s elections and pave the way for a power grab.

“Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting,” reported the Post‘s Isaac Arnsdorf. “President Donald Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID and ban mail ballots in November’s midterm elections, and the activists expect their draft will figure into Trump’s promised executive order on the issue.”

Peter Ticktin, a MAGA activist in favor of the executive order, told the Post that “we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” and that “the president has to be able to deal with it,” including by banning mail-in ballots and certain voting machines.

She only lies down on me when I'm covered with her favorite blanket

Hillary Clinton has told Congress she had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's or Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal activities while giving testimony as part of a congressional probe into the convicted sex offender.

"I had no idea about their criminal activities. I do not recall ever encountering Mr Epstein," Hillary Clinton said in an opening statement she posted on social media.

She also called on politicians to question US President Donald Trump about Epstein while under oath.

"If this Committee is serious about learning the truth about Epstein's trafficking crimes, it would not rely on press gaggles to get answers from our current president on his involvement; it would ask him directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in the Epstein files," she wrote.

The russian tank economy is tanking...

Birds in the United States are not only declining, but they are declining faster, especially in areas with intensive agriculture, according to new research. Overall drops in bird population, measured from 1987 to 2021, were sharpest in warm and warming areas, suggesting that climate change may play a role.

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. “What we found is that any metric of agricultural intensity was always the best predictor of acceleration of the decline.”

Inspired by a post I saw in /c/firefox

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