i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

Pregnant people have almost no options for pain relief. Ibuprofen, and other NSAIDs are off-limits, so is aspirin. Tylenol is it, for all the headaches, backaches, and joint pain that come along with almost all pregnancies. This isn't about autism, this is about making pregnant people suffer.

This is either a day late or right in time: my cover of "September" by Earth, Wind, and Fire! Includes special chorus shout-out to some past theatre fun youtu.be/C5CYCkW6BB8?...

It’s 10000% appropriate for Fergie to be canceled and for Ghislaine Maxwell to rot in prison. I just want the police and the public to bring this same energy toward the *men* who were besties with and enabled and abused women and girls with Jeffrey Epstein. Is that too much to ask?

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

We're Antifa. We are 10000% antifascist. We deplore fascism. Seems it's a bad thing to be antifascist under a fascist. They're admitting they're fascists. Antifa isn't a group. It's a defense mechanism. It only exists because fascism exists. #Anonymous #antifa

There can be some gatekeeping in the cycling community so just remember that when it comes to biking there are only two rules: Wear what you want. Ride what you want don't let anyone tell you differently. Via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Metamucillini was disappointed in his birthday military parade, so now he targets and watches people get destroyed with his "big toys"

Additionally, blue city district attorneys should be prosecuting these crimes. Right now. We don't have to wait until it's over.

Stipulating that 100% of this is violence, the physical violence is really frightening. There is no world in which ramming a car, breaking a window and assaulting the driver is necessary. Even if the subject was suspected of a crime, which this guy wasn't. There must be trials when this is all over

honestly, kudos to him for this

They picked trans folks because there are so few of us they think they can get away with it, and they are perfecting a playbook they will use to go after more groups of people until they've concentrated enough power to be unstoppable. It's entirely up to cis people to stop this. Please help us y'all

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

Who’s with me? George Floyd and Charlie Kirk both have a birthday on October 14th. MAGA are going to honor Charlie Kirk online all day for his birthday, and I think we should FLOOD THE INTERNET honoring GEORGE FLOYD instead.

Indeed. And their debate tactics, notably the Gish gallop/flooding the zone, were developed and honed in the creation/evolution “debate” for decades. It was always a spectacle to score points and recruit people to their cause, never any honest engagement with scientific theories or evidence.

The best thing the next president could do is break all these Trump era mergers into a million little pieces and tax the shit out of the C-suite types who profited off the deals

Trans rights are human rights, and we won't let people be treated like this, and can't stay silent while we protect people who need it, no matter what this dangerous, bigoted, motherfucker thinks. Fuck his nazi bullshit ass.

The United States of America is a fascist state, bending to the knee of a fucking lunatic dictator. No real Congress, no real Supreme Court, no real media. Anyone pretending this is still just "democratic backsliding" or a "threat" to democracy is kidding themselves. It's over.

Kimmel got fired for basically nothing, should've gone for broke and mentioned how Trump doesn't even need to get shot in the neck to shit his pants like Kirk did

Listen, some of the behavior described is annoying, but this moral panic over kids on bikes is so silly compared to the behavior of drivers and the death and injury toll they leave behind. But the harms of car culture are rarely covered because we've just accepted all of that as part of our society.

UNHOUSED PEOPLE ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE THE VICTIMS OF CRIME THAN THE PERPETRATORS People are so bothered by someone drinking a beer in a park or trying to sleep on a sidewalk they froth at the mouth screaming about how they are a danger to society. And this is what fucking happens.

the Colorado school shooter from the same day that Charlie Kirk was killed posted himself holding his gun on Twitter / X where he followed multiple far right accounts weird how you wouldn't call on Elon Musk too to testify at an online radicalization hearing

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

UN official says Israel's "deliberate shooting" of the single building where a fertility clinic was "immediately reminded me of the Rwanda genocide where I was a judge and where they ripped the bellies of pregnant women, pulled out the fetuses because they wanted to kill off the entire Tutsi group."

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

Now do the confederate flag.

I know that cognitive dissonance is part of the whole deal, but "defenders of free speech" telling you how to talk about someone's death, The "fuck your feelings" crowd angry that we don't mourn or act gleeful about a hateful person's death, CONT

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

Just absolutely fucking vile that Charlie Kirk getting murdered is some kind of watershed, beyond the pale political murder while two sitting Democratic legislators being *hunted to their homes and murdered in cold blood* barely merits a post on the President's third rate Twitter clone.

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

I think a disorienting thing is that the generally accepted definitions of violence, and who matters when it happens, mostly follows the norms of the right and is used to scold everyone to the left of centrists, when by any other definition the right spends most of its time cultivating violence.

I want to note, because the initial article doesn't make this clear, that the professor being taped in the video is calm, clear, and patient with the student. Furthermore, the professor appears to be teaching absolutely basic medically accepted science & history of gender expression.

If you exist outside a car, you are all too aware that everything could change in a second, at any time. My sweet child said later "I just stopped because I was checking if it was safe to go." As @tomflood.bsky.social says: we ask kids to do everything right so adult drivers can do everything wrong.

New cover video! "She's Electric" by Oasis youtu.be/ilHRiuKiN_Q?... Enjoy!

we should bring back corruption as a liability for politicians

Yeah I'll bet you'll get where you're going souch faster by passing me (I was going 30, the speed limit was 30) and then waiting six feet past the stopping line. Earbuds included as added bonus for distracted driving.

You have to be ready to ignore those who claim that pushing back against abusers and oppressors makes you just as bad as them, or that it is not worth the hassle. Know your truth and fight for what's fair, because peace is not worth it when it comes at the cost of justice.

Love watching pilot program after pilot program determine over and over and over that UBI is an unambiguous positive that does not ruin economies or neighborhoods or lives and everyone nods and goes "wow, cool, interesting" and then does fucking nothing until the next pilot program 15 years later

Your 1,623,647th reminder that appeasing Trump not only doesn't work, it makes things worse.

If what we hope will happen ever happens, we'll watch as many, many people in the world of politics, overnight, go on to pretend they were always against what preceded it. This era has been a highly effective acid test for character. Take notes now, so that you don't forget in the future.

The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.

"These damn bicycles are taking over the streets!" NEW MCGILL STUDY: Data from world cities shows cars get lion's share of street space. Cars now get 79.6% of the infrastructure area (roads) in #Montreal. Pedestrians (sidewalks): 18.3% Micromobility (lanes for bikes, scooters etc.): 1.57% 🧵

this is how his ideas about vaccine safety and infectious disease prevention should be received but he’s a Kennedy so the New Yorker ran a piece saying that he was “enchanted by science” and the times recast his quackery as “skepticism”

A progressive Democrat flipped a staunchly Republican seat in *Iowa*— won it by 10 points, in fact— by running *As A Progressive* focusing on issues of education, and making housing, child care, and health care affordable. Stop running to the right. Stay left, and fight.

Probably a good idea to call your Senators and your Rep tomorrow to push them to call for RFK Jr.'s resignation. This includes any Senators who thought he might have good ideas about food.

Ex: "In a flatly fascistic power grab, Trump has threatened to send the National Guard to [CITY]. He's trying to hide behind unfounded claims abt crime but in [CITY], we know that while we still have work to do, crime is down [2-3 *brief* stats]. We won't be fooled or silenced. [YOUR MSG HERE]." 2/2