Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

It was never about fairness or competitive advantages—those arguments collapse under the slightest scrutiny. It was always about banning trans people from participating in public life.

“All the news that’s fit to print”

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

I swear my wife used to be a football fan. But when I told her tonight that the Seahawks were going to the Super Bowl, she asked me “who’s their quarterback? Drew Brees?” 🫠

Love you KAT.

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

🎉

Not enough people are aware of the fact that last year, California ran on 100% clean electricity for the equivalent of 51 days – with the grid running on 100% clean energy for some period on 60% of days. Not enough people support climate action because they've been led to believe it's not possible.

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

ALMOST EVERYTHING about penguins is cute. There is *one exception*: they are champion poop producers. Specifically, they would win the long-distance contest. Humboldt penguins can propel poop well over twice their own height (picture is unrelated). Warning: thread contains penguin defecation.

PLURIBUS is a show about aliens in the same way that Breaking Bad is a show about cancer.

Grand Sichuan, at the base of the Manhattan Bridge. Closed the day after my daughter was born, which I know b/c my recovering wife asked me to pick up dumplings and when I got there they were packing up the chairs. Best ever dan-dan noodles and double-cooked pork, and fabulous hot pot.

$1 BILLION per nation to stay on the Gaza “Peace Board” — with Trump controlling the money. Obscene, indefensible corruption. Monetizing the slaughter. There is no bottom. finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-w...

When the First Amendment says the government cannot abridge your freedom of speech it doesn't mean, like, the government *cannot* abridge your freedom of speech. It means, like, the government can, if it wants, abridge your freedom of speech.

ICE just confronted us in our car saying it’s our first & final warning. There’s nothing illegal about driving your car safely on Stinson, Lowry, or any street in our community. They are purposefully surging at school get out times terrorizing our families. Ice needs to stay away from our kids.

When you’re mean to a mastodon, all the others say, “Throw that husk off your tusk” all day. It’s a mastodon expression and it makes no sense, Unless you are the ancestors of elephants.

Holy shit Matthew Golden

Hey NYC, if you want to yell with a bunch of likeminded NYers that it’s not ok for the government to fucking murder people for no reason, among other terrible things, here’s where they’ll be:

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Men doing this whole “I will vanquish continents for my children” LARP is so goofy in the context of household surveys. It’s nice you’ll kill millions for your daughter, maybe we can start at doing a load of laundry for your wife who does the vast majority of household labor?

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

“Does discrimination drive alienation?” is a great question and it feels like there are some other groups that might make clearer case studies than white men

One annoying thing about the tortured Young Men discourse is that we too often treat them as if they have zero agency in all of this. They have choices. They can choose not to be toxic.

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

This is just plain evil on the part of Uber & DoorDash. There's no legitimate reason to oppose giving customers the option to tip before checkout. "tipping fatigue" gtfoh www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/n...

When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.

By now the broad story of USAID’s ruin has been widely told: The decree handed down by President Donald Trump; Elon Musk and Russell Vought to scuttle the agency and undo decades of humanitarian work in the name of austerity. 1/x

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

We should bookmark this for when all the wingnuts are complaining about the giant street parties that are happening after Trump finally kicks it.

This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants

Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.

7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed A 43 year old married father of two He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland No experience with guns He was walking past He has two bullets in his arm

Video, I believe recorded off of local TV, of a bystander disarming one of the two killers.

A year ago, our lawsuits helped make sure congestion pricing would go into effect on January 1, 2025. Now, the results are clear:  Congestion pricing has resulted in a marked drop in air pollution – not just in Lower Manhattan, but throughout the metro region.

I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress

They're already trying to paint the January 6th pipe bomber as trans despite him being a MAGA believer in conspiracy theories about the 2020 election being stolen.

You will be visited by 3 spirits bsky.app/profile/sepi...

As with everything he says, this is wildly uninformed. Formula keeps getting better and saves lives. And modern research indicates that outcomes are roughly the same. There are reasons to breastfeed but your child isn’t suffering if you don’t

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ

Jokic with a 29 pt/20 rebound/13 assist game last night in yet another Tungston O’Doyle loss. Third time this season the Nuggets have lost a game in which he triple-doubles.

I understand that there are a lot of people out there who think they have good intentions and love to take their ideological opponents in good faith because it makes them seem fair and reasonable and I truly cannot overstate how dangerous this is to trans people and how much they should stop

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

This is the ultimate “bring back a past I’m nostalgic for without recreating any of the material conditions that made that possible.” Peak MAGA brain.