It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

Heads up folks: @thetnholler.bsky.social posted an AI-generated video this morning that was a deepfake of the captain of the U.S. women’s hockey team, and they seem to be promoting it as if it’s a real video. So watch out for that and don’t spread fakes.

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

"The rise of autocracy and the retreat of liberal democracy may well be the dominant narrative when historians look back on the first quarter of the century. So, where does the story go from here?" asks the team at @vox.com in this Flipboard Storyboard. flipboard.com/@vox/america...

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...

🚀 Surf Social (by Flipboard) 🚀 I’ve been using it for days, great potential as a combined social & news hub. Fediverse‑enabled: follow Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, even podcasts, RSS (Substack, news, etc.) Beats OpenVibe with broader reach. Give it a spin and share your thoughts! 🌊✨ @surf.social

Read @carlsullivan.bsky.social's blogpost about why @flipboard.com is strengthening its partnerships with independent and worker-owned publications.

“Illiberal governments tend to live or die by their ability to sustain corruption. They rely for support on a network of oligarchs, who in turn are tied to the administration’s success. It happened in Hungary, Turkey, Russia and increasingly, it is happening here.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

Why do we want to grow the open social web, and for whom? @werd.io says the value is in protocols that allow everyone to build and own communities that address their needs. "The only way to achieve that is to not just co-design with them but distribute equity," he writes. flip.it/zjR0kR

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

It’s weird we never do stuff like this with other terrible decisions. Newspaper doesn’t run “I saw a half empty can of Mountain Dew left on the street and drank the rest of that mfer”, and the guy who drank the Mountain Dew is only hurting himself

NEW: One of the most progressive institutions in the U.S., The New School, has begun destroying its humanities departments. They have cancelled one of their most popular classes, "Global Soccer and World Politics." We are going to teach it anyway. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-new-sc...

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

This thread is the we are going to win thread, is the kids are alright thread, is the STOP ICE thread, is the civil society rising thread; read it through.

Maybe the best day after Valentine’s Day clearance rack find ever?

As the news industry implodes, @flipboard.com is doing everything we can to help independent media and journalists who are starting their own publications. Here's my ode to indy journalism, perfect for Valentine's Day. about.flipboard.com/inside-flipb... #Media #Journalism

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

It's almost Valentine's Day, and we're declaring our love for independent media. Here's why it's important to support publishers like @404media.co, @allrisenews.com, @defector.com, @theankler.com , @talkingpointsmemo.com and @51st.news. ♥️ about.flipboard.com/inside-flipb...

🚌 🚌 Surf builds are like buses — you don't see one for ages, then two come along at once. This week's second release, version 1.0.358, has an eye-catching new wave icon in the sidebar so you can discover other surfers' feeds more easily, plus bug fixes and performance improvements.

❤️ 🥹 Jerry and Tally met skating, then got married, had a family together, worked together and retired together. All the while, they skated. Now their rink is being closed. This is our favorite love story of the day — discovered in @oregonian.com's feed, created with Surf. bsky.app/profile/oreg...

We ❤️ indie media too! Check out @flipboard.com's Surf Feed, chock-full of people and publishers like @parkermolloy.com, @revealnews.org, @parismarx.com, @hcrichardson.bsky.social and more. bsky.app/profile/flip...

That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.

🧵I am co-leading the Writing for Liberation program at @empowermentave.bsky.social, an organization that supports incarcerated journalists, essayists, and poets in publishing their work. Our writers have been published everywhere from the Dallas Morning News and Prism to Rolling Stone and Cosmo.

I'm writing a story for @thebarbedwire.com on the intersection between pro-immigrant and pro-LGBTQ+ resistance... if you you're organizing intersectionally please get in touch... DM or I also have Signal or encrypted email if you need.

RIP, James Van Der Beek. And fuck cancer.

Santa was WHITE Football is OURS Skittles are CURRENCY Nermal was CUTER than GARFIELD Plants are NOT ALIVE Vests should be worn BACKWARDS Lakes are IMAGINARY Jumping is BAD Shoes are for HANDS

Our hearts are in Tumbler Ridge tonight with the families of those who have lost loved ones. Government will ensure every possible support for community members in the coming days, as we all try to come to terms with this unimaginable tragedy.

Tumbler Ridge is a small planned resource community, a winding 90 minute drive from the nearest city of at least 10,000 people. A massive number of people are going to descend there tomorrow. May those that arrive have respect and grace for the unimaginable grief.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I hesitate to ask, but… …is there a theory as to why so many of the Epstein interlocutors seem to be functionally illiterate, to include Epstein himself? Were they trying to match his style? Is it something about being too rich/important to take time to correct typos? Wtaf?

a bunch of social media managers and content creators are working on sending a petition to the DNC, DSCC and DCCC encouraging them to redirect some $ from paid social to organic. To sign it you need to say where your following is and Bluesky is not an option on the dropdown lol

🎉 Version 1.0.356 of Surf is live on TestFlight and Android. Now, you have deeper customization options for your feeds — set your default tabs according to the type of content you want to highlight, filter by @bsky.app or Mastodon, or even use Surf as your RSS reader.

RESULT: Democrat Chasity Martinez wins a special election for a legislative seat in Louisiana, 62% to 38%. This was a district that Trump carried by 13% last year, so a big overperformance by Dems, but the seat was already Dem-held.

These are actual screen shots I just took after reading the Guardian article and checking substack to see if these hate speech substacks were still live: - swastika + substack branding - substack recommending nazi content in "related notes"

New in PN: @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on Trump's betrayal of Europe "They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen. And yes, you do hear Europeans saying, 'why aren’t people protesting?' This all comes as a real shock to people who had a different expectation of what America was."

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Once we make all social media interoperable, our next mission has to be tupperware lids

NEW STORY: Trump admits he was the one who found the video and asked that it be posted from his Truth Social account. Refuses to apologize.

Learned about the depressing trend of describing books as TL;DR (Too Long, Didn't Read) at a conference last weekend. Instead, I propose LR;WI (Long Read and Worth It). What are some long books that you read recently and enjoyed? I'll start: 🗃️ www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

I'm looking for a place to publish state- and congressional district-level Trump approval ratings, overall and by issue. Let me know if you're interested. Data is similar to this: www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/u...

“I worked there for 60 years, and how many people get to say that about any occupation whatsoever?” Martin Weil has worked there since 1965. He was among those laid off, one of the last ties to the paper’s Watergate era.

Congrats to Laila Edwards, the first Black woman to play Olympic hockey for the United States. Read more about her in this story from @the-independent.com. Discover more #WinterOlympics stories in this @surfsports.bsky.social #SurfFeed. 📌 bsky.app/profile/surf...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

NEW: The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today. "I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..." Law Dork:

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “MAGA-style leaders may say that our country can’t handle taking in so many migrants, that this is a suicidal move — the desperate act of a collapsing country,” writes Pedro Sánchez, the prime minister of Spain. “But don’t let them fool you. Spain is booming.”

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

finally, the ICE reform we’ve been waiting for: no masks unless you really want to wear them