🧵 Our mutual aid hub has been a HUGE draw for our immense volunteer base, many of whom have never wanted to be involved politics before now. This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!

I disagree with Will here, obviously, and the primary reason is someone in need got to use one of those 5,600 tampons. Win or lose, lives got easier. But also: her campaign manager's car was literally clown-car level FILLED with tampons, and we did spend the night praying he'd get pulled over.

So much for the 'special relationship'! The UK needs to get back into the EU asap. "Destructive moral ideas"? Does he mean LGBT? or not being racist shites? or letting women have the vote? America is becoming Gilead, and fast!

This afternoon's doodle features 3 species of Mole Salamanders. The females of some populations of Mole salamanders exist only as females, and mate with males of multiple other species. They then patchwork those genes into their daughters. This process is called Kleptogenesis.

I'm not going to try to tea leave the White House's relations with Israel. I will note that, for the first time in two decades, the Saudis and their allies are not primarily worried about Iran and see Israel, not as a reliable buffer, but rather as a risky disrupter. This strikes me an important

I won’t tag them but there are a few fairly large science-adjacent accounts on here (who are followed by a lot of y’all) who have been bashing the work and person of @irisvanrooij.bsky.social for the last few days. I feel it important to note that, as far as I can tell, those people are full of shit

And FFS neither Turkey nor Israel is anything approaching a hegemon, or likely to become one

A lot of people are overstating the rivalry here. What we’re really seeing is Israeli regional overreach and Turkey taking advantage of those missteps to reintegrate itself. The same dynamic helps explain the growing complexity of Turkey–UAE relations.

Russia fears Europe more than the US. Interesting.

Look at his loving touch to the back of Putin’s paw. These two turds have done so much harm. May all of our national nightmares end and both be held accountable!

We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼 Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech. Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼

Trump’s fortune jumped $3B in nine months. Biden’s grew $3M in four years. The disparity is shocking. Adam Mockler walks through the numbers

Europeisk demokrati betraktas alltså som ett nationellt säkerhetshot mot USA.

Ceasefire: They cease, we fire.

This should once and for all remove the "Russia has justified security concerns because of NATO expansion"-narrative. Russia's concern with NATO was always that it would prevent Russia's imperial war. NATO was never the cause of the war. The NATO-argument was meant to slow support for Ukraine.

Don't forget, today we are remembering the birth of a very important person. Without him, our lives would be poorer and less filled with knowledge. Happy birthday sir Isaac Newton.

Goodbye, Monkey Cage - not as infinite as I imagined

Eid er ikke før mars neste år, så jeg tipper det er fake news. Ikke at det hadde vært galt av Freia å feire Eid, men dette lukter høyreekstrem løgnpropaganda lang vei.

I usually say that this will never be repeated because it's unlikely it will.

Tonight you will be visited by three ducklings. What lesson will they teach you? 🪶 🐣

Hvis nissen finnes fikk Ulstein kull i gave igår. Fra en som har jobbet med både barn og ungdom: Barnas behov skal ALLTID prioriteres over foreldrenes. Pedagogisk personale skal aldri tvinges til å undergrave barns autonomi og personvern. Fuck deg, Dag-Inge, og den importerte kulturkrigen din!

Kan ein omsetje "armed settler" med israelsk terrorist i norsk presse? Eller blir Dagen-miljøet sinte då?

The Telegraph highlighting - yet missing - two vital points here. 1) We're not calling for £476m to be spent. It already is - this is about diverting it to actually helping. 2) Why "cruelty" in question? The £476m we're spending is part of an operation tear gassing babies.

The arrest of Greta Thunberg for peacefully opposing genocide and supporting those on hunger strike is wrongful and disturbing. This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.

Yesterday, the temperature in Seyðisfjörður here on this subarctic island we called Iceland reached a balmy 19.8°C https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2025-12-25-desemberhitamet-fell-a-seydisfirdi-thar-sem-maeldust-198-stig-462311

I hear there is a wave of people coming from twitter? I have a starter pack of non-AI cat accounts that post their own images and use alt text. go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN

We need to get our arms out of the US machine. Regulate US companies out of our countries. It’s as big a security threat as Russia.

@astarkvedja.bsky.social Hepp Hepp kjære Åstan vår! 🎉🎈🎂✨️

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Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

Good thread from Greg. Some detail is particular for the US, but most/all is universal. And I add my own principal grievances: bsky.app/profile/sarc...

Roseate spoonbill wins for me 🪶

What a lady! Only one with more than one Bond tune - officially 3, but were expected to have a fourth - Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - for Thunderball. The melody is in the movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqNc...

This is America. EVERYONE deserves the freedom to get the health care they need & buy products that make them feel good in their own skin. This admin is obsessed with controlling all of our bodies, especially trans Americans, and we need YOU to take action. Send a comment to HHS: hrc.im/Comment

Ulven blir bare mer og mer relatable desto eldre jeg blir

I put together an analysis of potentially troubling development: I fear (and really hope it's only my paranoid fear) that Finnish prime minister may be tempted to throw Ukraine under the bus to win the 2027 elections - and challengers to his party leadership. jmkorhonen.net/2025/12/23/i...

It’s Christmas, so the grifting TERFs are in the “news” again 🙄 Sullivan yesterday, Stock today… who will it be tomorrow? Reindorf? Joyce? Queen Terf herself?

If this 25th January 2025 selfie doesn't get me above 3K followers, nothing will. Need 4 more. Lipstick can't solve all problems, but it's a pretty good start. And my best Christmas and New Year greetings to everybody, with the usual exceptions. None mentioned, except the "researchers" at NBTK.

It’s Trans Joy Tuesday again! And let’s make it holiday themed. For all the trans people out there, please share something happy going on with you, especially for the holidays. But whatever it is, please share your joy and drown out the bad! 🏳️‍⚧️

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

“Levy fails to tackle the most fundamental problems with the gender clinic system: gatekeeping, pathologisation, and dehumanisation,” @notrightruth.bsky.social The changes the Levy Review recommends are not radical enough to give Trans+ people the care they desperately need. Our full analysis 👇

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was arrested by UK police under the Terrorism Act at the Prisoners for Palestine lock-on protest outside the offices of Aspen Insurance in London, which insures the Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems.

Don't forget Gaza now, for it is now under the rubble. Gaza now wants you to keep your eyes on it. Gaza loves you, so love her.

Thanks for having me "Eastern European Youth Empowerment Space" #EEYES #UDONation "Russian Disinformation in the German-Speaking Region" youtu.be/V5g0heAeRNo?...

Likewise, it's very obvious that she considers "conversion therapy works" narratives from parents and "I used to be a tomboy but today I'd just be transed" narratives from randos to be much more compelling than any actual testimony from trans people.

It is a distant echo of claims "gender critical" folks often make about Iran. But they never, of course, explore in detail the realities of life there.

This is an actual assertion in the Cass Report, designed to foster the "transing away the gay" conspiracy narrative

Les. Les!

Dette er litt av en salve. At hovedpersonene i denne skandalen er gitt monopolmakt til å bestemme over medmenneskers liv og livsmuligheter, vil for alltid være en skamplett i historien til offentlig helsevesen. Og, som jeg skrev i Morgenbladet 20.5.22: 1/