Mark Wedel

My latest. Micromobility, from e-bikes to scooters to an electrified Velomobile, opening up a new world of gas-saving options.

born with the world at his fingertips and made nothing of himself but a disgusting roadkill-eating moron. scum of the fucking earth.

This guy's good. He should run for president. Or just take his act on the road.

yup

I asked Abdul El-Sayed about his exchange with the GOP plant about religion. El-Sayed has a theory of how to combat MAGA bad faith: Don't let it frame the discussion. Flush out the assumptions underlying the outrage bait. Here's El-Sayed answer. Read to the end: newrepublic.com/article/2169...

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.... Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — Dr. Gustave Gilbert, U.S. Military Chief Psychologist in the Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Diary

Night trail to Vicksburg. (did not go all the way to Vicksburg)

"If Fox News tries to bring El-Sayed on again, they know from experience that he’ll probably just win over even more of their viewers. "MS NOW conducted a focus group with regretful Trump voters in Michigan and found that five out of the six are voting for El-Sayed." www.salon.com/2026/10/19/a...

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

This is exactly the right approach — openly mock the bigots as small-minded and cowardly and weak and proudly embrace diversity as a sign of our strength and success

Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...

Summer 1987: New York City mayor Ed Koch announces a bicycle ban in midtown. Slow-ride protests led by bike messengers fought the ban, & city residents sided with the cyclists. The ban was lifted before it ever went into effect. 📷Carl Hultberg

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

Construction trucks leaving Bloor and Islington area after being successfully deterred from starting work on removing bike lanes in Toronto by a large protest.

Sharing this because NYers who are unenthusiastic about casting a vote for Kathy Hochul need to know that the alternative, Bruce Blakeman, is a genuinely evil piece of shit. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/n...

Velocipede Race in the Luxembourg Garden, Paris 1818

We need backstory. A prequel on how Linus was radicalized into his Great Pumpkin beliefs.

Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

"I'm a Midwest farmboy. I'm a good dude. I don't like their yuck-yuck world." I feel ya, Eric.

A scruffy but cute alien copilot, created by the Henson shop. Unfortunately talked like a combo of JarJar Binks and Speedy Gonzales. Was cut from "Attack of the Clones."

Could do without another "The Man in the High Castle" reboot if I'm being honest

I can’t even remember what Sluggo’s old hat looked like.

I also wrote about a shoegaze festival.

My latest: Can realtors help fix the housing crisis? This Kalamazoo, Michigan, agency is founded by an agent who grew up housing-insecure.

I should not have to dress like a construction worker just to avoid being killed by a driver.

Yes it makes the art bad

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

Some perfect ads coming out this year.

Perfect.

chat is this good www.axios.com/newsletters/...

I have a very important complaint: Amtrak coffee is terrible.

CNN can’t stop complaining this morning about the ban on White House access for 3 news organizations, and while it’s bad, maybe it is not *quite* as bad as the fact that 3,500 local newspapers have folded in the last 20 years. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it

Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.

This is a good deep-dive into AI slop invading what used to be legit media sites. One thing I’m seeing more and more: slop outlets churning archaeology stories from 1-5 years ago and presenting them as news. 🏺🧪

And now these folks want to claim that the vaccine that came as a miracle, saving countless children and immeasurable pain, is a "massive fraud"? The ignorant arrogance of a (subset of) society that has erased its history and replaced it with conspiracy theory.

gif of Gustavo Fring saying, "Do it."

Florida Man misses Michigan Senate debate

Absolutely amazing that Trump is viewed as so untrustworthy that not one in five people will support the promise of free money