@petebuttigieg.bsky.social Just sayin

She gets it. And has all my respect. Very telling what other people will tolerate for a quick buck even when they complain about impingements on their comedy.

A really good timeline cleanse.

Except he doesn't care that it's here for trans people.

This is why click bait headlines and research reported by people who don’t understand data is so dangerous. Thank you for clarifying the data.

When authoritarianism is on the rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards.

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires. shame. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

I truly don't understand how democratic leadership think they are going to move forward after voting to honor a white nationalist who essentially called Black women—the base of the party—stupid. It's insulting. I find it personally insulting.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Crazy thing is the Germans didn’t have a historical precedent to warn them

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

This statement from Ronny Jackson is disgusting. If a Democratic leader can't understand why we should not compromise on the safety of and support for trans people, then they should not be in that leadership position.

The right have launched an all-out attack on liberals and the left, in the wake of the Kirk killing, pushing narratives about left-wing violence and the need to investigate liberal nonprofits and Schumer and Jeffries are totally AWOL. The Dems are leaderless. Shocking.

people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life

@wsj.com I remember when you used to be a reliable source of information. So sad what you’ve become. Horrific to see what damage you have unleashed. Your milquetoast “Editor’s note” was grossly ineffectual. For shame

It’s awful what happened. And I’m sad for his children and widow. True. AND that doesn’t mean we ignore what the man stood for.

This makes me so sad. She kept me company on my stay home sick days. And left me wondering for years what kiss my grits meant. ❤️

RIP Polly Holliday, a.k.a. Mrs. Deagle. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/a...

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them: They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Not a great sign when the NRA is doing more to speak up against trans people having constitutional rights stripped away than a lot of our actual supposed allies are.

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.

Inconvenient facts

@weratedogs.com Thank you for taking this stance and sharing this story. You are a good human being www.youtube.com/shorts/oY92g...

I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein

Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.

I expected that elected Democrats would continue to be bad at this. That would have been consistent, at least. I did not — and I accept that maybe this makes me the fool — but I did not expect 95% of them to so completely, thoroughly, and objectively abandon this country to authoritarianism.

She’s a hero

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

On one hand, Republican officials call themselves "warfighters." On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident. Real macho stuff.

Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right. This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.

Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story. @nytimes.com #CPI www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

Life of a Showgirl 🔐🧡🥵 #TS12

Homelessness is a policy failure, not a personal one.

When Michael Jordan felt boxed in by his success in basketball he tried baseball. When Gary Brooks became synonymous with country he created Chris Gaines. And when JK Rowling created the most successful kids books of all time she reinvented herself as a petty, weirdo transphobia influencer.

Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.

Let’s tell the full story of all the trans folks who you are betraying for your ambition. Lots of statistics to show what happens when we abandon and don’t support our trans brothers and sisters. Do better, Pete. You could do so much more.

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

“A confederacy of Beavises”.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Democrats: What do we need to do to win back disillusioned voters? Voters: Stand up to Trump and fight him like our lives depend on it. Democrats: Alienate our base while we chase bros who will never vote for us. Got it. Voters: That's not- Democrats: Can you give us five dollars right now?

syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.

Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.

I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump

Your regular reminder that most people in this country can't afford to move to another state and the inclination to say they're getting what they voted for in the devastation of a hurricane or flood or whatever the hell is a failure of common sense and empathy on multiple levels.

Thanks to Senate Republicans, 17 million people will lose their health care. Thanks to Senate Republicans, three million Americans, including veterans and seniors, will lose food assistance. Thanks to Senate Republicans, families will see their energy bills go up by $400 a year.