I don't post much about this kind of BS these days but I still read tons of stories about riders hit by drivers and remained bemused and discouraged about the stenography process that leads to garbage news reports like this.

I think I might watch Jimmy Kimmel for the first time tomorrow.

As I've mentioned , I've had a few recent conversations with folks who are voices in the Save Women's Sports movement. I've mentioned how it's impacted how I want to talk about this issue, but now I want to (carefully) talk about things I'm struggling to understand or accept from that new dialogue.

I believe the technical term for this is SuperDooperDomestique

I've had some interesting private conversations this week with folks in the Save Women's Sports world. My views on trans folks haven't changed but in the wake of Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel et al, I'd like to de-weaponize discourse. I can't control what other folks do but I can adjust my own tactics.

For those who don't think this is fascist autocracy, I'd be curious what it would take to cross that line. Like does it have to negatively impact your life personally to cross that line?

Shocked but not surprised to learn how many ~titans of industry~ who probably think of themselves as brave ballsy businessmen are actually cowardly pieces of shit when it counts.

Maybe people will have more respect for dad jokes since now you can get deported for telling one.

Would be cool if Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries did something.

Did you actually watch the segment that got Kimmel suspended? He doesn't treat Kirk's death with disrespect; the bit makes fun of Trump mostly by just playing what Trump replied when asked about Kirk's death on the White House lawn. If that is all the FCC needs, it's very chilling.

I am in an airport and wanted a snack and got a Wendy's Frosty for the first time in more than a decade. Definitely the best decision I've made all day.

Just to elaborate on my convo with Inga, our common ground is that we both accept our views on this issue are totally different but feel that each of us can advocate in a way that is authentic without resorting to personal attacks or allowing other people to draw us into counterproductive hostility.

Had a really great phone conversation with Inga Thompson this morning. To be clear, we definitely don't agree on the issue of trans people in sports. But also to be clear, there's no beef between us and I think we both appreciated being to talk about our positions in a civil manner.

The Save Women's Sports chuds who target trans bike racers don't give a shit that two of the most promising women American cyclocross racers of the last decade retired because there are vanishingly few financially viable paths. You want to "save" women's bike racing? Help it grow. Make it equitable.

If you truly care about women's bike racing, the best thing you can do is watch women's bike racing. Arguing about culture war issues is a distraction from the hard-fought battle for economic equity that these amazing athletes deserve. PS savvy win from Shari Bossuyt!

FYI there is a very good women's bike race on right now—15km to go in the Grand Prix de Wallonie Dames.

Incredible 5-year winning streak. (FWIW Three Days of the Condor is my favorite spy movie of all time)

My man took a very long and strong pull.

Do you ever stop to think exactly why the existence of trans folks frighten and enrage other people so intensely?

Shout out to everyone staying on top of their responsibilities and their sanity as our republic is being dismantled.

Who knows what's true and what's BS—certainly not me—but I think the idea that a big Nick Fuentes supporter might have a trans roommate/friend or a romance with a trans person is totally unsurprising, and anyone who would find that shocking is naive.

Alex, I'll take Things That Eddy Merckx Would Never Do for $400

Harder than normal to find joy in road racing but found some watching McNulty drop Simmons like a phone call in the Lincoln Tunnel.

Halting a large sporting event is an infinitely more effective form of protest than killing someone you disagree with.

Fitting end to the Vuelta.

I don't agree with people who feel strongly that trans women shouldn't play sports with other women but I'd urge them to use their brain and push back on the hysteria being firehosed online. The idea that these folks are violent extremists deserving brutal repression is insanely dangerous fiction.

LOL author of Lance Armstrong's "It's Not About the Bike"

There are many aspects of the disinfo campaign that are unsurprising—like how non-insane GOP folks in congress and centrist media owned by billionaires just shrug. But I'm surprised by folks who are obsessed with one issue that aligns with MAGA who are willing to overlook the dissolution of reality.

I think a lot of people remain confused about the motives of the tidal wave of disinformation that drowns us daily. The point is to annihilate the whole notion of truth. The point is to end the existence of independent media. The point is to exhaust the public's competence at critical thinking.

I'm fascinated by the constant discourse about the radical left. I'm not saying a radical left doesn't exist but most of what's given that title are basic, reasonable left-of-center folks. Opposing bigotry of all kinds and wanting more economic equity and caring about the environment is not radical.

Amazing to see how the revolution was postponed once it was just a basic gun-loving cis white dude from a red state.

National discourse in US is wild right now. The torrent of toxically violent bad-faith BS from the right is at an all-time high and the biggest media entities are parroting it like they have lost their minds or souls. This is going to get worse before it gets better.

My kids have apparently seen video of the shooting. There are so many fucked up elements of our culture.

I don't want anyone to get shot. I want it to way harder to get guns so way fewer people get shot. Apparently a fringe opinion in halls of power.

I have been in Austria this week and wanted to mention one thing I've seen that delighted me. There are a TON of riders who look 65+ pedaling mixte city bikes and many of them do these rolling sidesaddle dismounts that are quietly stylish.

Blueskyism is knowing in your heart that this is fucking bullshit.

I am still watching sports as an attempt to escape this reality but it is hard to fully have my heart in it because of this shit show.

Our government invading our own cities. Kidnapping innocent people to foreign regimes. Helping billionaires get richer—and screwing everyone else. Helping the president avoid consequences for sexual assault. Purposeful destruction of public health, the environment, the economy, critical foreign aid.

This is an incredible story of perseverance. Kate has been through a bunch of ups and downs and I'm very very happy for her success.

If you're keeping score at home. National Rifle Association 1 USA Cycling O

This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want. It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.

How do the people determined to ruin the lives of the eight trans athletes who wish to compete on the NCAA level reconcile their obsession with their disinterest in the president's sexual predation (or all the actual abuse carried out by coaches, priests, and millions of straight men)?

When you really think about how dumb and unconvincing Trump and so many of his proxies are, and actually listen to the gibberish that FoxNews and NewsMax platform daily, it can get overwhelming trying to digest how much we are a nation populated by boneheads.

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.

Best documentary of the century.

“I think that they’re scared shitless of Trump— period. Every Republican is.”

Reminder that this lunatic cause is not about saving women's sports or keeping schools safe or protecting people in restrooms. It's an attempt to erase and harass people.

I was uncomfortable watching the protests that disrupted the Vuelta but I think that's the intent and I also think the lack of similar protest—about the lawless, bigoted fascism that is festering here—at big US sporting events is really striking.

Paul Weiss, Columbia University, Intel and USA Cycling What a time to be alive.

There's a lot to mull over here but I would call out that USA Cycling indicates that they are doing this to comply with one of Trump's executive orders and avoid negative consequences.