Biking in Metro D

Loves bikeable, walkable neighborhoods, transit, & density. Hates bigotry. Believes in the paradox of tolerance. If we tolerate intolerance, it destroys us.

[Hoover Detroit @hooverdetroit]

Why every politician in Michigan is not bitching loudly 24/7 about the Gordie Howe Bridge not being open is a travesty. It's a perfect example of "the swamp" MAGA complains about. A wealthy family is stopping the entire state from benefiting from something we received "free"

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

It was actually the multiple Nazi salutes, constant use of Nazi rhetoric, and vocal support for Germany’s far-Right political party which includes Nazis.

[Dawn Clancy @dawnmclancy]

"We must stop normalizing the abnormal," said @1james_elder

'Again this week, a 12 year old girl in her tent, shot in the chest with live ammunition from a crane mounted gun. A three year old girl, again in her home, shot in the face by a bullet from a quadcopter drone. Doctors in Gaza are treating brain hemorrhages, devastating injuries to children's chests, abdomen, and life changing trauma."

He added that nearly all of these deaths "are by Israeli forces, a handful by unexploded ordinance, even less by militia, but again, nearly all by Israeli forces, air strikes, bombs, quadcopters."

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed Mona Khalil in South Lebanon.

On June 6, they dropped a bomb on her home in Mansouri — flattening it.

Mona, an environmental activist, dedicated her life to protecting endangered sea turtles along Lebanon’s coast.

She died of her injuries today.

[Nada Maucourant Atallah @MaucourantNada]

Very sad to learn that Mona Khalil died after weeks in the ICU following an Israeli strike that levelled her home in Mansouri. She was a very well-known environmental activist and dedicated her life to saving endangered turtles. She stayed in the south despite Israeli strikes because of her love for the land.

She was a civilian, a renowned figure but Israel targeted her house.

CNN profiled her in 2017 here: https://t.co/ZaMRnuS4zf

“I live every day to the fullest and don’t worry about tomorrow,” she told the newspaper.

[Kyle Whitmire @WarOnDumb]

An administration against windmills because the president says they kill birds is pouring hydrogen peroxide into a home for ducks and geese.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

They raped a man.
They gang-raped him.
They raped him so brutally that he had to be hospitalized.
Doctors documented the injuries.
The video of the assault was leaked.

Now the rapists are free.

This is not just unlawful and immoral. It is sick!

#ThisIsIsrael

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If you were to write this headline or article in a variety of US, UK, German or French media outlets, your career might be on the line and you’d probably be accused of antisemitism.

And yet the author of this piece is a former prime minister for Israel.
https://t.co/xUqPAHxsab

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

A real catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes in Gaza City, yet it feels as though no one cares. The world seems unaware of what is happening here, or perhaps it has simply stopped paying attention.

Today, I walked a long distance to the only drinking water station serving our area. When I arrived, I was shocked to find that it had completely stopped operating. The reason was not a technical failure, but the lack of fuel and engine oil needed to keep the desalination plant running.

Imagine a facility that provided clean water to more than 20,000 people living in displacement camps suddenly shutting down. This is happening as summer begins and the heat grows more intense with each passing day. Thousands of families are now left without access to safe drinking water.

And the tragedy does not end there. Dozens of bakeries have also stopped operating or drastically reduced production because they can no longer obtain the fuel and lubricants needed to run their equipment. Every day I stand in long lines under the scorching sun for two or three hours, and many times I return to my tent empty-handed, unable to find a single loaf of bread for my family.

The situation here is becoming more desperate with every passing day. No aid, no water, no bread, no homes, and increasingly it feels as though our lives have no value in the eyes of the world. What we are experiencing is no longer just a humanitarian crisisit is a disaster that is worsening by the hour.

Sometimes I feel as though I am writing these words into a void, as if our voices can no longer reach anyone. But the reality is that the situation here has spiraled completely out of control, and people are being left alone to face hunger, thirst, and unbearable heat.

Is anyone listening to us? Does anyone truly understand the scale of this catastrophe before it is too late?

[ProPublica @propublica]

Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican.

After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges.
https://t.co/G29lph1tnE

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump cut kids cancer research by $190 million because it was “wasteful” spending.

Now taxpayers are paying $300 million for his giant ballroom so he can throw parties for his big political donors.

[Homeland Dems @HomelandDems]

Unless your name was Alex Pretti.

[SPIEGEL English @SPIEGEL_English]

A young woman from Germany vanished without a trace 11 years ago. Now, her name makes several appearances in the Epstein files. Her family wants to finally learn what happened to her. https://t.co/cwnleksESl

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Suleiman Obeid, known as the “Pelé of Palestine,” was killed by an Israeli tank while standing in line trying to secure food for his five children.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

"We're here because you had the audacity to exercise your 1st Amendment rights"

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

The richest man on Earth dismantled the organization that feeds the poorest children on earth.

The definition of evil is being a trillionaire in a world where millions of children are starving.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Musk is the leading example of an illegal immigrant living off public welfare in human history and the man spends every day pretending the real problem is a woman cleaning motel rooms in West Murfreesboro

Our species has let this evil man prosper and we will pay the price for it

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Oh my god. A SECOND person died of exposure last winter after being released by DHS in the middle of the winter and far away from where they lived.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

The same man who cut children’s cancer research is now a trillionaire.

[Katherine Clark @TeamKClark]

I think Americans would rather have affordable groceries and health care.