The subtext of people discussing polling of transgender issues is always "We need to throw transgender people under the bus and give up on protecting them", which besides being morally abominable has repeatedly been a failure, in both preventing fascists from gaining power and helping liberals win.

Jesse Jackson's "Rainbow Coalition" is still the play. Very far-sighted conception of how we have to band together to fight the bastards

Don’t get me wrong, I think the DSA needs a new cohort of FP thinkers but the funny part is… so does basically the entire literal dem establishment lol. Any criticism you may have of the IC, of which *many* are legitimate, falls a lot flatter these days when you look at what the dems have said/done!

If a Republican were able to pick who was the minority leader they would have chosen Chuck Schumer

got in an argument with this khaki wearing guy who had his pristine f150 parked all the way across a sidewalk (?) and in the course of the argument i asked ‘do you do a lot of backcountry driving in that thing’ and it upset him so bad he had to lock himself in his truck lmao

NPR editorializing straight up news stories to soften the face of fascism is very bad too

When you have a rules-based order where you carve out exceptions to our values, eventually the exceptions become the rules.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

Kids frantically pushing aside the new Pokemon and Mandalorian LEGO sets in Target to purchase the ANE MÆRSK container vessel

it's backwards. obama and biden conceded the republican framework of border obsession, sliding right and setting off a near-inevitable push to where we are today. once again the democrats triangulated themselves into becoming republicans, allowing republicans to publicly embrace explicit fascism.

It's actually very bad this guy either thinks or is pretending to think there are a plurality of elected Republicans that care about democracy

My "Legitimate Law Enforcement Agency" t-shirt has people asking questions answered by the t-shirt

I really need to write about why the two American "parties" are not, in fact, parties So many people -- today, both communists and neoliberals -- get lost in the sauce because they don't understand that the Democratic Party is a left-of-center ballot line with a donation apparatus strapped on

I have two primary vehicles. One is an automobile, the other an e-bike. Automobiles kill approximately 100 people a day in the US. E-bikes, fewer than 10 a year. Guess which one has a speed limiter on it?

Hot take but a lot of opposition to “e-bikes” is just opposition to bikes in general. E-bikes are not quieter than acoustic bikes, when any bike is noisy it’s almost always noisy brakes or chain which apply to both types of bikes

I think it’s best to understand Axios as a PR laundering firm for dark money groups

Next time I’m climbing the hill into my neighborhood with two kids and groceries I’ll be sure to apologize for cheating

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

New paper finds that US bike deaths have "trended toward lower-density suburban areas" rather than central cities Those killed tend to be poor and non-white. Lesson: The suburbanization of poverty could be contributing to the surging number of cyclist fatalities. doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

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“I have deep respect for Mayor Bass. But over the last few months in particular, I’ve really begun to feel like unless we have some big changes in how we do things in Los Angeles, that the things we count on are not going to function anymore.”

Bring double parking tickets back with a fury

Anti-woke messaging is a net negative among Democrats

my most right-wing take is loving my spouse, playing with my kids, and letting my favorite sportsball team make me suffer every weekend is a good life bsky.app/profile/nota...

It's funny these guys can't even take refuge in relatively conservative suburbs anymore

Outdoor dining will return to being a full-year program, Council Speaker Julie Menin announced this morning, after the roadside streeteries were decimated by the seasonal program enacted under former Mayor Eric Adams and former Speaker Adrienne Adams. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/02/04/c...

The article isn't as bad as the headline, it is worth noting. The author explicitly lays out good critiques of an "e-bike crackdown"

Fascinating old blog post from over a decade ago about how NYC superseded state law to make blocking an unmarked crosswalk legal. The hostility towards pedestrians and deference to private car owners in the city with the lowest rate of car ownership nationwide is really remarkable.

I don’t like that we have an untouchable class of people with extreme wealth who can just buy an institution they don’t like and do whatever they want to it. I don’t think it’s a good thing for society.

I hope there are some politicians going to @thewaroncars.bsky.social talk tomorrow night in Toronto, a city where two die on the same day and it gets buried on page 9- that is how common it has become.

This guy can't be gone fast enough

Cyclists and e-bike riders continue showing up to summons court for low-level offenses, despite Mayor Mamdani's stated opposition to the NYPD criminalizing cycling offenses. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/02/03/c...

Your daily reminder: the far right has never stopped talking about climate change. "Don't mention climate change" is a centre-right tactic designed to clear space for these people, not a good-faith piece of comms advice for the left.

Our statement on today's Labor Says ICE OUT rally and the brutal gassing of unionists, families and children by federal forces.

Everybody who perpetrated this while covering it up should be in the Hague www.reuters.com/world/early-...

One thing right wing propaganda relies on is ordinary people’s (understandable) ignorance about complicated bureaucratic processes. Which is what makes these videos by the mayor such an incredible tool!

EXCLUSIVE: Three delivery apps accused of "cheating workers" — UberEats, Fantuan and Hungry Panda — will repay $4.6 million in wages that it held back in violation of the city's landmark minimum pay law for deliveristas, the Mamdani administration will announce this morning.

Some incredible sneckdowns to behold right now

What the hell is supposed to be happening here?

The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

There really seems to be a lot of kayfabe happening right now. Trump is pretending to de-escalate to placate Dems so they don't demand reform, and Dems are making up fake reforms so they can pretend like they made changes while they vote to fund DHS.

The full interview with Stella Carlson is worth your time. In particular, the part around 13:30, about how ordinary people feel abandoned by local and state officials, and are left doing what they can—not much—to show solidarity with their neighbors, knowing local authorities will not protect them.

Watching cars speed down cleared streets while watching pedestrians scramble over three foot high snow banks or having to walk in the street to avoid uncleared walkways has the War on Cars part of my brain very activated

Have you ran into situation with unclear sidewalks, pathways, curb cuts, bus stops, etc? Share your pictures and let us know! We need clear routes and paths and it's required that they be accessible. Let's make sure!

I am so proud and excited that NYC-DSA has endorsed my campaign. Because I am clear eyed that organized people beat organized money; that socialism beats fascism.

This is from the NYT masthead editorial about the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The highlighted line invalidates not just the editorial, but the very idea of newspaper editorials crafted by the consensus of a board. Better to publish nothing at all than to publish a line like this.

I don’t think it is wise to trust anyone who hates this guy

I wrote about this last year when JD Vance pretended to understand Ordo Amoris as part of his ongoing grift in which he pretends to be a Catholic www.hauntologies.net/p/ordo-amoris

The federal government is attempting to gaslight the American people with statements that contradict video evidence and eyewitness accounts. This has to stop. ICE is an enforcer of fascism that must be abolished and those responsible for the executions prosecuted.

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.