It is not very difficult to learn true and useful things about the new congestion pricing toll system that New York City switched on last weekend, but it is much easier to learn untrue things about it. The program itself is easy to understand; this post at Gothamist, to pick one of many, lays out […]

These news outlets and the hideous news influencers mimicking them exist not so much to misinform people as to keep people who refuse to learn basic shit in their preferred state of furious unknowing—not just uninformed, but vigorously counter-informed and convinced that something both terrible and vague is being done to them.

This article is too fantastic not to share.

Madison, WI recently added a BRT route to its bus system. Holy hell, that sentence captures the reaction by so many residents.

  • Drusas@fedia.io
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    18 days ago

    Bloviating. This article is clearly inflated for word count. It needs less bloviating.