do you care about trans people? cool! cancel your new york times subscription! oh, but you just play the games? thats the worst argument you could've made! go fuck yourself!

Right now today this is great because it gets trans people valid ID so they can keep working until they can leave, and I trust the person organizing it to do maximum good with every dollar given bsky.app/profile/utop...

*takes a big sip of coffee and logs on to see what fun pieces of reality people are posting today*

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

The demographic reality is unrelenting. What happens when you have 70 million baby boomers pushing 80 and still driving big SUVs on North American roads? A whole lot of accidents waiting to happen. lloydalter.substack.com/p/we-may-soo...

repost to infuriate international best practices guys

police unions when one of their guys executes a mom in the middle of the street in broad daylight on camera? well, policing's complicated. police unions when a cop gets hit with a snowball when they walk into a snowball fight? Blood And Soil. most bitchmade fascists on the fucking planet lol

Just a reminder while this is a victory, it's not over yet until Discord completely gives up on the age verification nonsense. Don't resubcribe to Nitro immediately.

Cybertruck is more explosive than the Ford Pinto the data proves it fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending *** As of the end of January, there have been no convictions."

Happy "brown line is partially closed so CTA has no idea where it's train are" day to anybody who mourns. The line is closed south of Fullerton. Your best estimate for when the train may come is the beta tracker www.transitchicago.com/traintracker....

too many people will be mad the new xbox CEO is a woman and none of these people will be mad about what really matters is that she’s an ai maniac

Do not let Brett Kavanaugh's increasingly reactionary politics distract you from the simpler fact that Brett Kavanaugh is a dullard and a shitty writer whose colleagues all (albeit for different reasons) very obviously have nothing but contempt for him

Florida abolishing property taxes and effectively defunding their cities is crazy but thank god florida municipalities aren't all hurricane prone suburban ponzi schemes built at sea level drawing water from aquifers that are rapidly becoming more saline every year.

its cool that instead of tech focusing on things like this its going all in on racist AI

Can we please make sure we keep this in mind when everyone decides to make fun of people concerned about their safety in regard to civil disobedience.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

how does someone mow down a family of four, blame the car (no issue was found), transfer real estate to Nevada LLCs to avoid compensating the victims' families, and then walk away with nothing more than probation?

pretty stunning chart

What's up with Rep. Hirschauer trying to modify the ban on parking minimums near TOD (People over Parking Act) to make it apply only to Chicago? If you want to slip against this (ilga.gov/House/Hearin...) ilga.gov/Legislation/...

This is what getting trucks off local streets looks like.

San Diego rents fall 5.5%—proof that building housing works. Add 6,000 apartments, prices drop. This eases pressure on voucher programs, helps low-income renters, makes the city more accessible. Want sustained affordability? Keep building. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/04/r...

Going to make a thread of every reason to NEVER vote for Newsom. Let's start with:

you can’t reform this.

When you give money for official Harry Potter merch/ watch the shows/movies on official channels, engage with anything officially monetized, you are directly funding this JK Rowling personally funds the efforts that lead to the bans that have increased suicide and suffering. Knowing something

Just take a look at this and remember, Pam Bondi's concern here was not with any of the victims of these crimes but with the nosy Democrats who actually gave a shit about them.

Don't share this with a Class 1 it'll scare them.

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart 1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks 2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

Yeah the right wing of the country got way more openly racist and the secret police have been emboldened to tear gas random children whenever they feel like but at least the labor market is terrible and we'll all be poorer forever

maybe California should stop throwing tax dollars at a scammer who won't shut up about how much he hates the state, just a thought

If you live in the US, call your fucking representatives and tell them that repealing Section 230 is a horrible idea. If Section 230 is gone, you can kiss Bluesky goodbye.

Join a union.

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

The only reasonable implication of saying this is he must be removed from office. That's a binary yes/no. To explicitly say no would be insane. To studiously avoid saying either way makes the allegation seem cynical and insincere. There's no splitting "he's a child rapist" from "he must be removed."

@chicagosmayor.bsky.social has demonstrated a truly insane incapacity to lead. The @ctulocal1.bsky.social and United Working Families should be absolutely horrified by this. Sadly I feel like two of the biggest progressive political orgs in Chicago also don’t care.

every time I want to like MBJ when he drops an anti-ICE banger I'm reminded he can hardly be bothered to accomplish basic mayoral governance (and the bangers are toothless anyways since CPD will continue to collaborate with ICE anyhow)

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

If you're a business owner who fires someone you have assigned to an overseas job and you don't buy them a plane ticket home you should actually go to prison

Man with no connection to Minnesota posts photo not taken in Minnesota to claim that a thing is happening in Minnesota.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth. goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...

This is why they must be challenged every single time. Not accommodated. Not bargained with. Just challenged.

Current state of Republican Party politics: The president posted an image of the first black president and First Lady as apes; no one at the White House will publicly say that is not appropriate; the most likely person to face consequences is the party’s sole black senator — for calling it “racist.”

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

i like that the press corps will have no follow up questions to this, like who the staffer posting Official Government Communications at 1am is supposed to be, and what consequences they are supposed to have suffered for doing this

what the fuck man

“jeffrey epstein helped invent the 4tran brainworms” is a sentence that sounds insane (and is insane) but is at least somewhat true

I know I'm occasionally a frothing sadist, but I really cannot understand the lack of killer instinct among these people. With the Trump admin scrambling to get away from narratives even large swaths of their own base utterly despise, how do you not go in for the kill? Pathetic!!

Incredible. @bryanculbertson.com noting that AC Transit operators are forced to cover the Clipper readers with their hand for the first minute the system boots up in order to avoid a system crash.