An elderly neighbor came to warn me that people my age want her dead for her house. She was wrong about everything — including the tax system she says is squeezing her: maxmautner.com/2026/05/25/s...

This, +10000 Age-related or otherwise (ahem, @fetterman.senate.gov), we have too many congressional seats occupied by people who are not equipped to understand the issues and make decisions.

We were on bikes so we went from the starting point to the destination on side streets instead of with this crowd, but it was amazing - felt like half the city was there!

#NoKingsProtest #Philly

Scenes from Oakland - an hour and a half after leaving a plaza less than a mile away, the full crowd still hasn't arrived at Ogawa plaza because we are HERE for this

It must be so exhausting being @warren.senate.gov - always right, rarely heeded, the Cassandra of the US Senate.

My aunt in Spain sent me her paella recipe and included the instructions "rest 5-10 minutes under a newspaper - must be left wing." So of course I used my print edition of @theonion.com, the last bastion of liberal thought available in newsprint form in the US!

@bsky.app would love to be able to add my actual interests (housing policy, bikes, socio-historical analyses of consumption) by editing these!

I did actually know this, which is why whenever I have to buy paper goods or mailing accessories like a packing tape dispenser, I go out of my way to try not to buy their products (not always possible). It's hard to boycott them as an individual, but you can share this with businesses you buy from!

Great turnout in downtown Oakland today! #handsoff

@johnbauters.bsky.social any idea who we call to get the bathroom open in Huchiun park?

Enjoy this detailed climate forecast while such things still exist!

Along with @mcuban.bsky.social, @govpritzker.illinois.gov is doing his best to be an exception to the rule that billionaires are corrupt oligarchs who will get in bed with n*zis just to increase their wealth from obscene to vomit-inducing.

For the first time in several years and maybe only the 5th time since 2000, I skipped the SOTU. I did, however, watch this modern classic 3 times, and I suggest you do the same if you are in need of a palate cleanser.

Taxes will go up for the majority of people, while the cost of living and the likelihood of dying from a preventable illness both go up.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @replsimon.bsky.social please push your senate colleagues to resist any budget deal - the only move here is to make Republicans own their failure the same way McConnell did to Dems for the past 10+ years

I cannot emphasize this enough: @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social you lost votes in 2024 not because people thought you went too far, but because people who thought you were not willing to do anything stayed home.

When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

A friend who works as an attorney for the federal judiciary told me tonight that they (and their colleagues) have started wearing Star Wars Resistance-themed tshirts under their work clothes on Fridays. @markhamillofficial.bsky.social any styling recommendations?

I feel like we should be able to put this to the voters as a proposition.

I have historically been really happy as a #tmobile customer for the past 15ish years - the service has been good and the prices reasonable. But if this partnership with #Starlink continues, I will be changing mobile services ASAP. It seems obvious, but I don't do business with Nazis.

Perhaps TFG is in fact creating a jobs program (just not in the way he thinks)! It will almost certainly take thousands of engineers, social workers, lawyers, diplomats, etc to clean up this mess and rebuild our national security and social safety net infrastructure from scratch when he's gone.

We can argue that the election would have gone differently if people had believed Trump when he said what he planned, or that Dems should have been more prepared with a response. But I don't think we can argue against the idea that some things will change permanently (if we ever recover).

A small positive note in the face of overwhelmingly bad news for the fight against climate change: I've officially joined the @bart.gov Bicycle Advisory Task Force to help make it easier and safer for cyclists to navigate the Bay Area! Thanks to @bikeeastbay.bsky.social for the nomination!

Why is @lastweektonight1.bsky.social take such long vacations? Really need John Oliver right now to verbally eviscerate Musk et al, I am too tired of this bullshit to think, let alone talk.

fun fact to lighten the otherwise never ending doom cycle! with a little help from a crayon sharpener, the Hanukkah candles from Floral Society do double duty as mini tapers in these tiny Dansk candle holders.

Elon Musk: "race mixing is bad. Italy for Italians!" *woman next to him moves as far away as possible*

Super excited for every woman who gets laid off at Meta in the next 4 years to join the inevitable massive lawsuit claiming an environment of pervasive sex discrimination with the *CEO's podcast appearance* as the first entry in the evidence docket.

@robertsimonson.bsky.social with yellow Chartreuse in such short supply right now, what do you recommend as a substitute for an Alaska cocktail?

I kind of wonder if #Target even knows that their app search experience has been completely broken for weeks? (iOS, iPhone 15, ymmv). I've gotten this error message on every search since at least early December.

This seems like a lot to live up to, @merriam-webster.com

This might be the first time in his life that Elon Musk actually earns something entirely on his own merits.

@nwslsoccer.com it's so unfortunate that there is no way to stream tonight's #nwslfinal besides the starcam view if you don't have cable to sign jnto CBS - I don't think we've seen the actual gameplay for more than 2 minutes of the first half

This is the first year in my life that I (a person who has previously started my thanksgiving baking in October by rendering my own lard for pie crusts) ordered pies from an excellent local bakery instead of making them myself, and I am so overwhelmingly . . . relieved.

My favorite thing about Waymo rides is the skill with which the car avoids hitting pedestrians and cyclists even when crazy people jaywalk on Van Ness, and my second favorite thing is setting all of them to play KEXP for the next passenger.

Notably, the US government would probably see more economic benefit from *adding* employees rather than removing them; the CBO estimates $5-9 return for every $1 spent on staffing for the IRS.

It's great to see the platform doing the work of detecting and alerting around fraud/hate with the option of just never seeing it.

I am planning out my end of year giving to max out my employer's generous matching program with a focus on organizations that are taking action to counteract the orange monster.

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As soon as you back down on sports you've effectively conceded the argument for trans rights to the bigots. That's how wedge issues work, it's the blade end of the axe-head, and you've stipulated to their basic premise

I'm glad to see the energy picking up over here on the non-billionaire-owned platform that still has most of the people I want to hear from, but wtf is up with all the anime thirst traps @bsky.app?