Media’s framing of Platner as some kind of manopshere referendum on gender is idiotic. Women actually prefer Platner to Collins, as polling consistently shows, whereas men prefer Collins. You’ll never see this in a headline though because everything has to be culture war bs

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.

Fascists never miss an opportunity to burn things down. Great how they all gathered to say the Lord’s Prayer before smashing windows, breaking into houses and setting fire to a bus.

People will continue to be hit by cars and die because Chicago's government has decided that cyclists and pedestrians dying is preferable to having to listen to drivers whine about how they feel inconvenienced

well known nazi and his friends shout slurs at a woman, shove her to the ground, injure her spine, and they advance on her so she draws her gun and they run off. all caught on surveillance video. cops charge woman with crime.

Once again observing that no one ever ran "President Biden's approval ratings have tumbled. But here in West Baltimore, these black lesbians say he delivered on key promises.

We should see this sort of thing for what it is: civilizational collapse. And it's not just PDX. Transit agencies up and down the West Coast are facing cuts, even under strong Democratic majorities. Totally unacceptable.

Reminder that alderman Nicole Lee is reminding drivers to slow down, but voted against the 25mph ordinance. Aldermen need to take traffic fatalities seriously.

The journalist who reported this piece portraying “trans people fleeing state-backed violence” as an equivalent experience with “moving to Texas for a McMansion after the Black Lives Matter protests pissed you off” should be genuinely ashamed of himself. Fuck you NPR

for cis people, “im just trying to live my life as a teen girl but the government, backed by a vast shadowy web of fanatical religious groups, is hellbent on using its full might to destroy me bc i was born special” is an outlandish YA novel plot for teenage trans girls in america its tuesday

“The technology is simply too dangerous for law enforcement to be using at all,” EFF’s @adamdschwartz.bsky.social told @actionnewsjax.com. “More than a dozen innocent people have been arrested by police because of errors with face recognition.” www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/...

Symbolism aside, renting portable toilets is way more expensive than people think—hence why large public events are often under-supplied—so this is a nontrivial waste of public money.

Just to clarify, today brought Pokémon GO Fest, a sold-out Soldier Field soccer game, and a Northerly Island EDM festival together on the Museum Campus, and the CTA decided this particular weekend was the best time to not only shut down the State Street Subway, but also cut trains across the system?

California ranking ahead of Washington is how I know their sample size was mostly cis gays

Happy birthday to the 'L' 🥳 On this day in 1892, the South Side Rapid Transit railroad company began regular service on Chicago's first elevated train. The line initially ran from Congress to 39th Street (now Pershing), largely using alleys--earning it the nickname "The Alley 'L'."

For Pride I ask you to look at what I think is one of the most powerful pieces of queer art. Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers) By John Boskovich

"fiction normalizes—" idk abt any of that but I think social media has normalized absolutely batshit behavior and social conventions that are inconceivable to anyone that is actually well-balanced and thriving in the real world and that's a bigger problem than fiction will ever be

what do you call mass detainment camps that kill the people who stay in them

we're here at the thing

Happy Pride Month. I picked out a few of Roger Puta photos from across the county to share.

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what it feels like to study even the slightest amount of California's political history

it’s cool how news outlets will misgender and deadname every trans woman who gets murdered in the streets but have no issues using this dude’s stage name and performance pronouns

Becerra's response is carefully designed to be compatible with the UK Supreme Court's ruling that "trans people existing in single sex spaces is a form of discrimination" he is clearly open to the UK Labour strat of smiling and using progressive language while banning trans people from public life

This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com

does he have any democrat policies. like at all

Yes this is somehow real. The BART fare gates went down because Cubic failed to pay the AT&T bill. They had another Clipper outage last month because they let the disk fill up on the database server Just absolute clownshow stuff

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

The People Over Parking Act is now the law of the land across Illinois! WE DID IT!

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Of $2.5 billion of fire relief funds, $0 went to fire victims. $75 million went to the military. $14 million went to pay cops to tear gas civilians who were protesting against ICE. www.nbclosangeles.com/investigatio...

I sincerely beseech you to read this. It is terrifying and important. Repost it, get the word out. Tag media like @npr.org & @nytimes.com @wsj.com and whoever because this is absolutely something that needs to be investigated & reported on ASAP The headline isn't the half of it. READ IT ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Just a reminder that immigrants inside Delaney Hall are on their ninth day of a hunger and labor strike in protest of inhumane conditions and this was Governor Sherrill’s response last night:

Becerra takes money from terrible people and companies. Steyer does this. I know he's a billionaire and that has its own problems, but when you don't take money from terrible people and companies you can do basic humanistic shit without worrying. He's worth your vote, or at least a look.

I love the American strategy on all fronts of civic life that this admin has taken, of putting a loaded gun in the economy’s mouth and fingering the trigger

I'm going to state clearly on this, but this is entirely incorrect conspiracist horseshit. If I was not having a shit night, I'd go into actually responding to this in detail over the misleading nature of it, but its just all horseshit.

lol the California Air Resources Board wants to defund your bus and cut student fare discounts so it can create “affordability” for Big Oil

Deeply ugly rhetoric. Democrats are completely unable to resist pivoting directly into eugenicism when trans people are involved.

FYI Valve's margins on each unit are probably still at or below break-even. That's just how much it costs to buy RAM and NAND Flash memory for consumer hardware now because AI companies bought 70% of the entire world's supply.

Trans. Woman. Two words. "trans woman" shows that this is just a kind of woman, like tall, blonde or green-eyed. "Transwoman" has and will be used to say that we are a separate thing from women. Trans women are a kind of woman, pass it on.

It's been said a billion times already, and it still can't be said enough: I don't see how US democracy survives if blatant, intentional lying remains cost-free

all this stuff is just barely-veiled code for "talarico is a [f-slur] and you're one too if you vote for him"

Never *ever* use products from ULINE, the company owned by the ultra-right-wing billionaire Uihlein family. (Once you know the name, you'll start noticing it in shops, on packaging.) If you see a store using their products, convince them to switch to a company listed at this link. refuseuline.com

I am once again saying that alerts need to be more descriptive. This sounds like a minor issue that will be resolved soonish, not A TRAIN IS ON FUCKING FIRE

notably massachusetts simply added a new top bracket with 4% extra, inflation-indexed what "top bracket" means, and let 'er rip many, many "tax the rich" proposals here on the west coast seem like they're competing to be the earth's cleverest tax and are clearly much worse ideas than this