there's a direct line between 'there is an overdiagnosis of gender dysphoria so we must restrict healthcare' to 'there is an overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence so we must restrict healthcare' and i refuse to take any pundit seriously who doesn't acknowledge it.

If some asshole drove past a crossing guard and hit my child with their car, and my child's school used this kind of language about it, I would probably never stop shrieking with rage.

It’s happened again

"I just yelled out to them, ‘Hey, I appreciate what you’re doing,’ because most of Chicago does want this,”" ...Yeah? "said Goone, a suburbanite who works in casino marketing." And there it is, of course.

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Bruh

This will be a boon to Trump's support base of drug-addled VC bros.

We need community notes here to clarify that in fact Michelle Wu ended his campaign

Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot

Nothing could possibliy go wrong when AI intersects with high stakes testing. www.nbcboston.com/investigatio...

"No income tax on cops" has to be the most median-voter-brained shit I've ever seen put to print, it just might work.

these people need to log off. seriously. bluesky this, bluesky that, how about you look at some actual blue skies and get off the internet for ten minutes

Here's some real talk: Dem strategists urging Dems to avoid the "trap" of talking about Trump occupying cities are saying this precisely in order to get quoted in NYT and elsewhere, and everyone involved in this charade knows it. @jamisonfoser.bsky.social and me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...

If a parent can't handle not being in direct context with their kid for the length of a school day they need to work on themself. I don't understand how so many parents ended up like this.

when you have a kid, you are bombarded with contradictory messages. You're told formula is bad. You're told processed is bad. You're told probiotic is good. People who offer simple, comforting messages can very easily turn naive, uneducated people, but not entirely, against their best judgment

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

I grew up in Indy and just sort of assumed everywhere was the same. Then I moved to a small college city with decent transit and I've never looked back. If I had the money, I'd summer in Chicago and winter in New Orleans every year, riding my private railcar between the two.

1000 times this wapo.st/41r8xSn

This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government. (I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“I don’t want to live in a house museum” is my mantra. We need our cities to serve the people that exist now, not the ones that existed when my house was built: 1918

"Separated bike lanes reduce collisions and save lives." It's really that simple. The research is ample. But our leaders and, sadly, our neighbors have chosen to ignore all that to coddle drivers and protect parking. Deaths like those of John Corcoran and Minh-Thi Nguyen are policy choices.

Glad to see @burhanazeem.bsky.social continuing to tell it like it is. There's no way to have a healthy, growing city without building places for people to live.

"Flaherty in 2014 made headlines after he tried to stop a victim of a hate crime from testifying against his client by bribing him with $2,500 in cash, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Flaherty pleaded guilty to the crime in 2016." Lol get the fuck outta here

Highly recommend this article comparing LLMs to psychics: softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme..., which we found via Cory Doctorow.

These folks are directly saying they want my kid to get sicker every cold and flu season and I hope they [redacted].

The Average Suburban Republican Dude's Perception of Risk, Illustrated Canon EOS-1D Mark IV EF 24-105mm f/4L IS

Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to

There's a reason I played old school runescape pretty much constantly the last 4 years of grad school...

I think it's hilarious that, unlike Carnegie and Rockefeller, nobody in 100 years is going to know Musk, Bezos, or Zuckerberg's names, cuz they're too self-centered to give money to good causes even to be able to slap their names on big fucking buildings after. They'll just return to dust.

You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.

Finally.

I'm old enough to remember when the prevailing argument against affirmative action was that it failed to consider the "real" form of unfairness, which was income disparity

parsimonious explanation is that a lot of people, especially women, want kids a lot less than they’re willing to say in any fashion, even on things like anonymous surveys. the taboos are extremely strong, people are psycho about this stuff. once they can opt out they do.

Brightline trains have killed 182 people, significantly more than publicly known, an investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN, South Florida’s NPR member station, has found. Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

The posters code is not to worry about engagement, it is to wildly transmit whatever strange ideas you have until you end up getting ratioed by the menswear guy

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

I’m proud of what we've accomplished. Our “Paris-style” reforms made headlines, from The Economist to The Daily Show. Some said for the first time they have real hope they can stay in the city they love But big wins come with big pushback and a tough re-election Help me raise the $50k I need to win

This is my favorite story to tell that happened to me: I was driving home from some friends’ in south Jersey. I’d gotten a GPS for Christmas so I was following an unfamiliar route home. I was on a 50mph surface highway through the woods when all of a sudden smoke started coming from the engine. 1/9

this story (from April, linked in the NPR story) sure reads like they DOGE'd the guy who makes sure local officials (and other locals) pay attention to the warnings www.kxan.com/weather/weat...

Basically there are many ways AI can help with non core parts of the humanities, but the core part - reading and writing - cannot be automated, because it's *how humans learn things and create things*

Here. This managed to ignite my utter loathing of tech bros enough for me to write this. othermeans.io/p/get-your-f...

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens. Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important". Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. substack.com/redirect/169...

Please share this photo and story widely. There is a window of time to help this person whose life might be in grave danger. "approximately 5'8" in height, with a beard. They were wearing eyeglasses, with a black t-shirt, black pants, white sneakers, and holding a black water bottle."

if we get one or both chambers back, i really do want the new yorkers out of leadership for awhile, i'm tired of petty intraparty squabbles from new york bleeding into national party politics

The problem here isn't just the answer but the question. Mamdani has denounced antisemitism and clarified his position on this random slogan *other people* chanted at a protest numerous times. This is only a "tough question" if you think it's your job to repeat bad faith Republican attacks.