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Understanding traffic
I bike to work and to lots of other places because I don't like traffic (and the Boston area has traffic) and I don't like looking for parking.  Lots of other people choose to drive despite the traffic, but almost every single person in traffic complains about traffic.  I don't want to just go with the glib "you ARE traffic", but instead, maybe help people understand what causes traffic congestion and why, because if we don't understand t…

Understanding traffic
I bike to work and to lots of other places because I don’t like traffic (and the Boston area has traffic) and I don’t like looking for parking.  Lots of other people choose to drive des…

What @… said:
Providing employment after deployment = supporting troops
Providing housing = supporting troops
Destigmatizing mental health care = supporting troops
Preventing armed conflict = supporting troops
You know what’s NOT supporting troops? Starting wars as political cover for a failing president. Deploying National Guard just to terrorize people and provoke a backlash. Issuing illegal orders. •That• is not supporting troops.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/115634994186527377

Ukrainian military: Russian troops in Pokrovsk lie low as they await reinforcements: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/ukrainian-military-russian-troops-in.html

Trump’s Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs.
His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them
A subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald,
which is run by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick,
is letting clients essentially bet that Trump’s tariffs will be struck down in court
https://www.

Trump’s Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs. His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them
A subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, which is run by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is letting clients essentially bet that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will be struck down in court.

Cognitive decline: Creepy Johnson doesn't like it that people are quoting Trump's actual words.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-comments-sending-troops-american-cities-cherry-picked/story?id=126109613

Two things are worth noticing right now:
1. The military brass *did not* respond well to Trump and Hegseth.
2. The deployment to #Portland keeps getting delayed.
The military will never say "no" to the president (unless he's literally ordering them to open fire on unarmed civilians or something equally obviously illegal). But there are ways to not comply that don't necessarily involve refusal. Brass showing that they aren't aligned with Trump may weaken his billionaire backers, who might be realizing now that weak dictators who can't lead their militaries tend to get toppled... and their oligarch-backers tend to end up against walls.
If folks being ordered to send troops to #PDX don't want to comply, delaying until the there's an initial response from the lawsuit would be basically impossible to detect. The deployment to LA went far too fast, running into logistical challenges like troops sleeping on the floor. The delays we've already seen could indicate either a more careful approach or quiet resistance.
Trump will continue to escalate at every chance he gets. I would be surprised if PDX didn't give him a fight. I doubt the troops will become more interested in serving a guy who's stabbed them in the back and wasted their time at every opportunity.
It is still possible troops just won't deploy. Trump will make something up about how just the threat of an intervention was enough to make things safe or something like that. If we see that, it's 100% the military telling him to kick rocks because he's not competent enough to know when to back down.
Honestly, I think Trump wants revenge for the resistance PDX put up at the end of his last term. Any backing down from that is absolutely a big loss for him.

Travis Hunter was on the verge of breaking out at WR -- now a knee injury has put everything on hold

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/travis-hunter-injury-jaguars-wr-breakout-on-h…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk bats for H-1B visas, says tariffs distort markets
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-bats-for-h-1b-visa-says-tariffs-distort-markets-.html

Trump tariffs add $40 billion to holiday costs, Lending Tree says
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/02/trump-trade-holiday-shopping-lending-tree-tariffs.html

Extrajudicial killings within the Russian military are becoming more widespread,
according to an investigation published by the Russian independent outlet Verstka.
The practice of "nullifying" (Russian: "obnulenie")
— the Russian military's term for executing its soldiers
— increasingly involves sending personnel on deadly assualt missions without proper protection

'Zeroing out' — Russian troops carry out torture, executions in own ranks, media investigation finds
"You know, what's happening there is that... You never know where the bullet will come from: from your own side or from the Ukrainians," Dmitry, a Russian soldier, told the independent outlet Verstka.