beep beep taking a trip over Does Its Best Bridge, wow I really hope this bridge does its best because it’s a long way down The Consequences Chasm

"we believe the U.S. government is an institution that does its best to follow law" not a history buff I take it

Listening to the NYT Daily podcast episode about Iran when the ad read starts "this podcast is brought to you by the American Petroleum Institute"

"they were killing innocent people" yes and who is our leading partner in this war again

Honestly a more impressive move would have been covering the missed income of transgender drivers now out of a job

If President Trump wants to send American armed forces into conflict, he needs Congress to declare war or authorize force. That hasn't happened. This week, Congress will vote on whether to stop this unconstitutional war: They must vote yes.

Only Congress has the constitutional power to authorize war. Yet, the Trump administration is once again taking unilateral and reckless military action against Iran, putting both servicemembers and civilians in danger. This is unconstitutional.

Every data center is a war machine

Sam Altman says OpenAI could have helped better target which school girls to murder

Your tax dollars at work

At least we know in the hours before the attack Hegseth was laser focused on keeping Americans safe

Never forget who you’re fighting for.

Most Americans manage to go their entire lives without worrying what's inside the pants of Boy Scouts and I'm simply asking Pete Hegseth to do the same

This 30-year-old transgender man, who can’t swim, jumped into Lake Michigan after a wind gust blew a baby in a stroller into the freezing water. He’s being called a hero. But now he has medical expenses, and people are donating to a fundraiser to support him. www.advocate.com/news/lio-cun...

This state court challenge is being led by @harperseldin.bsky.social

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

I just love it when a girl gets paid

I'm interested in what was traded if anything, but this seems like a huge victory for Mamdani's ability to advocate effectively on behalf of his constituents even on contentious issues

As someone who does comms with attorneys on sensitive matters all the time this is why you must, in fact, listen to legal

BREAKING: Trans inmate's lawyers claim "egregious retaliation" in violation of court order. Trans woman involved in a lawsuit challenging anti-trans policies says federal prison official told her on Feb. 22: “I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.”

This effectively forces every trans person in the state to out themselves while applying for a job, renting an apartment, or being stopped by police. It's part of the same law that allows anyone to sue anyone else they suspect of being trans and using the "wrong" bathroom.

In which a minor cannot consent to birth control but can consent to pregnancy

In general think they overestimate how many of their fellow Americans are stewing in the same agitprop as them so all this looks like is "Trump & Vance cut Medicaid"

and they'll continue to blur the line between abortion and birth control www.vox.com/24087411/ant...

Important insight. ALSO, I have no patience (and I mean ZERO) with people who say "they won't ban birth control." They will eventually try BECAUSE WHAT THEY WANT IS TO CONTROL YOUR BODILY AUTONOMY. We need to be proactive about BODILY AUTONOMY IN GENERAL.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "The president talked about protecting Americans, and I just had to remind him that his administration was responsible for killing two of my constituents."

"AI, help me build a monthly budget to save up for a down payment on a condo in the next five years" "Sure thing! Have you considered a nuclear holocaust instead"

I've been a political news junkie all my life and instead of watching the SOTU I read in bed for an hour before falling asleep and it turns out I have wasted so so much time

horrific statistic i didn't know about: it's going so badly for russia that wounded troops are being sent back to the front line after recovery, including 80% of amputees

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

Disagree with the very concept of the debate but it's less that we care what people think and more that we're punished if we don't. Men are generally rewarded for sociopathy.

Brown was fired from her job as a state employee after temporarily posting a meme on her private Instagram account following the death of political figure Charlie Kirk. State-sanctioned suppression has no place in a free society.

Freedom for capital, not for people

He's so Weimar

Subtle

“Lorth Sim, a Cambodian national, died in ICE custody on Monday, the seventh since the start of the year and nearly the 40th since Trump took office. ICE has not updated its website to reflect this latest detainee death as of the time of this writing.”

Ramadan Mubarak

The first is that we will get our asses kicked

Today I'm remembering the courage of Jesse Jackson across his life, including the 1984 DNC when he called for the Party to support the inclusion of queer people in their coalition at a time both parties and the public were indifferent to our suffering and opposed to our equality.

Do I need a bigger pet carrier or will she be okay in here for a three hour car ride

Moving to New York at 37

What are the best books you've read (fiction, history, memoir, you name it) about New York City

Packing up my apartment and rediscovering every impulse buy of the last decade

Oh my

I think I'd be more inclined to believe the worst predictions about AI replacing everybody if the people making the predictions were lobbying for universal basic incomes and expanded safety nets instead of giving them personally $20/month