Bob 🇪🇺

🚨 REPORT: Marco Rubio regularly sending WhatsApp voicenotes that last 15, maybe 20 minutes “When he fires up WhatsApp and switches to Spanish he just doesn’t stop, he talks so much it’s like he’s recording a podcast. He’s also been video calling his cousins for hours at a time”

There is a great deal of hubbub about a collective “middle powers”strategy these days. At DoW, we are not concerned that this is a serious possibility. Rather, we are more concerned that a few allies and partners will *think it is* and waste valuable time, money, and political capital on a distraction. 1/

we are tapped in

Seeing Austrians and Germans march down Champs-Elysees as friends of France reminds us how beautiful Europe has become. Tears in my eyes man.

What the fuck are we doing here. Why is the policy director for an urbanist organization opposing something that will make pedestrians and bikers less likely to be run over?

There is a great deal of hubbub about a collective “middle powers”strategy these days. At DoW, we are not concerned that this is a serious possibility. Rather, we are more concerned that a few allies and partners will *think it is* and waste valuable time, money, and political capital on a distraction. 1/

Technology is making the world worse. Nothing good has been invented in the last 25 years. Superfluous, spurious innovations that seem impressive at first, like the iPhone, take back more than they give and ultimately benefit only oppressive governments and their oligarch allies.

There is a great deal of hubbub about a collective “middle powers”strategy these days. At DoW, we are not concerned that this is a serious possibility. Rather, we are more concerned that a few allies and partners will *think it is* and waste valuable time, money, and political capital on a distraction. 1/