“The city’s transition away from the car, tho fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model. Under mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, Paris was ‘the most influential city in the world’ says Canadian urbanist Brent Toderian. Hidalgo, stepping down after 12 yrs, exulted: ‘The bike beat the car.’”

Welp www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

I think especially because the news media has recently demonstrated what "we think the president is incompetent and that he should not be in office" looks like in how they covered Biden post-debate and don't do the same for Trump

Gonna have to reset the “days since Bluesky got consumed by a thinly sourced ‘fuck Dems’ story from a Republican ratfucking outlet” counter to zero again.

A President simply cannot do this. It’s not like “controversial” or “breaking norms.” The President not controlling our money is the main structural support beam of American democracy. It’s the whole fucking thing. You let him do this, you have ended the separation of powers.

Great example of bad science policy communication 👇🏽 This post does not communicate that they don’t propose cuts to the Artemis program. In fact it proposes an increase to their budget. The cut is to the science programs: the curiosity and saving planet earth programs. 🔭🧪 #scicomm

Lebanon is 33% Christian. Israel is illegally invading Lebanon & bombing Christian villages. Moreover, Israel has warned Lebanese Christians & Druze to forbid any Muslim from hiding in their homes & Israeli troops are now hunting for Muslims hiding in attics of Christians. These Are War Crimes.

What this study actually demonstrates: trans youth carry elevated psychiatric burden regardless of treatment pathway. That's an argument for integrated psychiatric + gender-affirming care, not against affirming care. The authors intentionally chose the opposite frame to mislead people.

Senior author Kaltiala sat on the Cass Review advisory board and was the architect of Finland's restrictive protocols. She's been accused of abusive practices. She worked with DeSantis and other Republicans in Florida to ban care there. www.erininthemorning.com/p/abusive-pr...

This is going around on X, a new study by SEGM member Riittakerttu Kaltiala (the abusive head of a clinic in Finland) is getting picked up as proof that gender-affirming care doesn't work. The data actually shows something very different from what the authors claim. It's purposefully distorted. 🧵

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still don't know whether this is a funny or not

Makes sense to me. I put nothing past this bastard.

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

This is just unabashed white nationalist Great Replacement rhetoric from the White House.

Not sure two lifelong Republican operatives are the best people to debate the Democrats' path forward.

1/2 🚨 Here we go...it's not about his ballroom — Grandpa Chaos also wants his bunker. Right now. (Remember, the taxpayers allegedly aren't paying for the #Epstein Memorial Ballroom. He didn't say anything about the military bunker). 🧾 www.yahoo.com/news/article...

This is very very big. Like a big deal and massive cuts. These can’t even be seen as budgetary since you don’t get much savings in the context of trillions budget. They want the US out of R&D out of science research.

my generation sucks

They’re spider opossum dolphins. They’re pizza spaghetti sandwiches

A very informative breakdown of the carnage the regime has planned for the Forest Service Also & more imp, info on actions to take & who to contact (aside from everyone u know that is, the regime's shameful actions affect all of us) "These forests belong to you. Every single acre. Fight for them"

We OGs told you...a long time ago, it's not over. Marriage equality, esp w/this SCOTUS, is hanging by a thread (Obergefell). States like SC are eager to discriminate again, even w/the fed Respect for Marriage Act. 🧾 is.gd/b8j2ZF @holybullies.bsky.social @msignorile.bsky.social

Fucking embarrassing. It’s like my generation forgot that we hated Reagan and instead became a bunch of Alex Keatons.

Ridiculous that Trump can say the Strait will “open up naturally” and the coverage doesn’t straight up mock this with a comparison to when he said COVID will disappear “like a miracle” in… February of 2020, after our first death. He repeated the same 38 times over 8 months and 200,000 deaths.

I thought this was an interesting thread, and I think you should care that scammers are siphoning money from people who believe it’s going to people in need

We are screwed….

Tapping the sign

Mother Jones draws on historians to describe the true nature of right-wing transphobia. Elite media like the nyt do something entirely different 🧵

every veteran organizer i know says this and does this Mamdani is going back on explicit promises to fund libraries, too. ppl are pushing back hard. i wish ppl would stop pedestaling politicians.

International law is wild because it's basically 90% of the world's countries being like "hmmm, we can agree kicking puppies is bad," the US and a couple of our vassal states saying "actually our puppy kicking machines are vital to national security, we're not agreeing to this,"

1. I've written a few times about Mamdani and what he can do for trans people to uphold his promises. But there are disingenuous people who apparently do not read articles, so I figured I would lay out his power and what other trans journos want him to do here directly and what is in his power.

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What could we be doing instead of blowing things up? From the @ragingmoderates.bsky.social podcast:

incredible that there's any doubt about what Trump is doing across the world in the name of climate denial and fossil-energy dominance

Apropos of nothing, it's fascinating how religious extremists of every stripe only ever insist that the harmful stuff has to be taken literally. No one ever says "I am a literalist for my Holy Text. I COMMAND WE FEED THE POOR IMMEDIATELY!"

I rest my case.

Food policing poor families isn't a win for nutrition--it's a loss for dignity and joy. As Brea Perry and I find in our research (see reply), low-income parents buy food treats for their kids because they want their kids to feel happy and normal--and they can't afford to do so in bigger ways.

Pink News have now: - Made journalists redundant in search of a ‘reporter-free newsroom’. This includes one of the UK’s only trans reporters covering our community, and many other talented queer reporters. - Uncritically platformed Wes Streeting spinning taking healthcare away from trans kids.

one of my strongest and clearest takeaways from spending all of Lent knee-deep in ICE death reporting is that Camp East Montana should be razed to the ground and every single person who built it, worked there or approved their decisions deserves criminal charges. it is beyond what I imagined.

On the next episode The Music of Kelan Phil Cohran: Listening Position Interview Sat, April 4, 7-10pm(ET) @wfmu.bsky.social STREAM ▶️ wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Can't reply in-thread, but I think you all should know about the German company LGB. Some bad news though: until recently they referred to themselves as LGB Trains, but a few years ago they chickened out and went with LGB Model Railways. I stopped following them after that.

getting really tired of this kindergarten brained fixation on Fairness. no fair your kid goes to free preschool when you can afford to go to restaurants sometimes! no fair you use EBT to buy rich tasting food! whence the idea that every fucking thing must be means tested and rationed to death my god

the irrational hate is off the charts

They don't need there to be an actual divide, just the perception of one among the cis hetero population so they can justify crackdowns and rolling back rights to themselves. They can have their pick mes they can point to and say they're not hateful because they have a gay friend.

Whenever I'm in LGBTQ spaces, it's never like this though. There's so much solidarity among everyone. The anti side is frustrated it hasn't worked that well yet but they're not going to stop. They're going to astroturf the divide narrative as much as possible and put all the money behind it.

One of the stated goals of the ADF, Heritage, and Family policy council was to drive a wedge between the LGBTQ community to divide and conquer it. This pick me is willingly doing that work for them and is constantly being platformed by major media like the Atlantic and the WSJ.

we all know how; it's quite pedestrian and depressing

... from Republicans?

Toward the end she tried to target more innocent people, but it was too little, too late.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “This time, we will no longer be deceived by America. Twenty-three years ago, they dragged us into a Middle East war under the pretext of Saddam’s weapons and spreading democracy, but the outcome was the exact opposite."