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It's neat how this happens across the US, possibly thousands of times per day, yet all of the moral outrage and concern is over ebikes, bikes on sidewalks, scooters, and pedestrians wearing headphones.

No joke, it would be cheaper to pay every coal miner $5m every year to not mine coal. There are only 40,000 coal miners, while the coal industry produces >$500 billion in external costs every year, including by routinely burning coal just to burn it despite it costing more ("uneconomic dispatch").

31% of Democrats polled said being transgender is "morally wrong". Five years ago it would have been a fraction of that. The propaganda is working, the silence from Democrats is deafening, & all of this is why every step backward can't go ignored for even a moment. news.gallup.com/poll/710810/...

California viters: drop box info. Pass it on.

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

I have eaten a fresh apple today, even though I deemed it unwise to bite into it. I am now cooking beans and rice with my regular recipe for the first time in six weeks. Nature is healing.

The anticipatory compliance of Vanguard, Fidelity, and Schwab is the exact kind of response that empowers would-be dictatorships, whatever their politics.

You will never get a society worth living in by being merciful to the merciless.

a biological woman is just an applied chemical woman

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

In Kansas, a judge looked at the medical evidence on gender-affirming care and found the evidence simply does not support the state ban on these treatments. Don't believe the propaganda. Youth trans care is not a particularly tricky or nuanced medical question. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

“The increase in Black infant mortality, from 9 to 21 deaths per 1,000 births, means Black infants born in Hamilton County are more at risk than those born in Iraq, Iran, Guatemala, Honduras, Libya or Vietnam, according to the World Bank.”

The CDC is weighing an ICD-10 code for a COVID vaccine injury syndrome with no case definition. Codifying an undefined condition doesn't help injured patients. It produces the appearance of medical recognition without the science behind it. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...

so HUD is proposing a rule that would require shelters to discriminate against trans people the rule proposal is here: www.regulations.gov/document/HUD... the public comment period is open until the end of june please let them know this is unacceptable! comment form here 👇

Seen in Logan Square

I wonder who else out there has both magazines in Esperanto and Skin Two on their bookshelves. If any of them are queer ladies, we should go out or something.

The More We Love got a city of Seattle contract to create a “receiving center” for women leaving the sex trade last year. Women who lived and worked there say the shelter offered few services and exposed some of its clients to harm. publicola.com/2026/03/26/a...

This is the situation I refer to the most when trying to explain a the state of book bans right now. Utah has state mandated book destruction for books like Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and Damsel by Elana K Arnold. The vast majority of the books are written by women.

Do not skip out on jury duty. We keep us safe and this is one way we can do that.

Love that the “why won’t you let us take horse medicine to cure Covid” crowd is (pretending to be) worried about off-label use of medication…

“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Department official. “It keeps me up at night.” Revisit this story from our series “The End of Aid,” a 2026 Pulitzer finalist.

I can confirm the same happened to me. Though at the time RB didn't have control over the scrape (no one knew), but being an image-heavy site made it a target. Not sure if they ever tried to stop it afterwards. Also red bubble never paid out well tbh so it wasn't a big loss to close my store there.

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

@customreplicant.bsky.social I got Thievery Corporation's LP The Richest Man In Babylon. It turns out I already had part of it, which probably means I got it from you. <3!

Cast off nose, tape on nose, breathing through nose, and relaxing at OAK awkwardly early. Looking forward to noodles on Tuesday.

Dinosaur time.

Bandages off, staples out. I look somewhat less scary.

In a Rolls on the way to surgery. I couldn’t make this up if it tried.

Submitted for your amusement park youtu.be/gzodB0Sp6ZI?... #musicsky

now to hold my breath and wait for the major sports governing bodies and news organisations to act and report on this

Folks, I'm less than 24 hours away from heading down to San Francisco for facial feminization surgery with Dr. Jordan Deschamps-Braly. The surgery is scheduled for Tuesday morning. Bay Area people, you know I want to see you, but I'd be a fool to make social engagements for this trip.

In the first eleven months of 2025, 10,109 doctoral-trained scientists left the federal government. The losses were concentrated in agencies that fund medical research, regulate environmental standards and model climate. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/more-than-...?

There going to be an immense political push to look forward, not back, to "heal the nation." But the nation isn't going to be healed if we don't listen to the historians telling us that MAGA leaders must be imprisoned, their entire movement destroyed, the earth salted, real American values restored.

I can confirm that the sundial at Gas Works Park tells the correct time.

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

Please don't tell me again how woke and great the Chicago pope is. There are reasons I have expressly requested to never be taken to a Catholic hospital for any reason whatsoever. This piece touches on some of them.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

The section that the Guardian censored… By Prof Judith Butler

In case it is unclear: your ethical and moral obligation is to refuse to participate in enforcing this. To validate that this is wrong. To push back and stand with trans kids. To offer safe bathrooms. It is not to make it palatable or tolerable for other adults. sentinelcolorado.com/metro/federa...

There are millions of Americans who unironically believe that the civil war was about “states rights” and not slavery, mostly thanks to schools in former confederate states pushing that bullshit narrative

I dream of a Prop 65-style requirement that every site with likely contaminated soil or groundwater to post a plain-language description of what likely caused it, and when. "There was a gas station here for 7 years 80 years ago and now you can't touch the dirt" would radicalize people.

As a native Floridaman, I'd just like to point out that most of the politics that you see from here is mostly from retired... individuals... moving here from places like Ohio. Those that grow up here want next to nothing to do with the BS that keeps getting voted into law.

Remember to make art with your boner. It doesn't have to be a horny boner, it can be a brain boner or a heart boner. Make art that makes you happy and appeals to your own freakish sensibilities. This is imperative.

I greatly appreciate Zeteo.com following up on the Gestapo ICE / CBP invasion here in Minnesota. They’re a bit quieter (sneakier) now but they haven’t stopped! Abolish these thug agencies and prosecute their illegal activities to the fullest. No mercy. (and thanks Zeteo)

a criminal conviction isn’t required to say someone does not have the moral character to run for office and i don’t understand why this needs to be said over and over and over again.

Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.

requesting a more robust astronaut to politician pipeline and a shuttering of the tv to politician pipeline thank you.

The sad thing is to make jobs more "appealing" to men, what they'll do is pay them a bunch more when they do it, pick a few men who do the job & make them "rockstars" of the industry, & then convince everyone only men can do the job because look at those "rockstars!"