Trans rights are human rights and this administration is an abomination of hate and greed.

I'm always so confused about the thought that the medical establishment only wants to give you drugs. Every time I go to the doctor they want me to cure myself by talking a walk and eating a piece of fruit.

Guess we have to get rid of the St Patricks Day parade and Italian food and Oktoberfest and British pubs. Oh those people don't need to assimilate? Weird.

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

We have to dream bigger and our political leaders must start speaking to these dreams. This was the roadmap of conservativism. We need our own.

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only

Aside from the embrace of Wellness Eugenics I think RFK jr's moves all make sense if you are trying to destroy actual medical industries and replace them with wellness snake oil. We can all agree on the greed of the former but at least they create actual usable products

Turo customer support made me so angry today that I am physically exhausted now. Shoutout to the host for being the considerate and reasonable one, but I will likely not be renting from Turo again after what they pulled today.

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

Figure #transitsky might be interested in this!

This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

Courts had deemed Republican gerrymanders illegal in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Ohio several months before the 2022 elections. The Supreme Court and other courts let the GOP use those maps anyway, and it handed them the House. Now SCOTUS is doing the opposite thing for the same goal

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

What is happening in Louisiana right now is both a redistricting power grab and a dry run for authoritarian election subversion this Fall. The governor has declared a state of emergency to suspend the congressional elections because he doesn't like the current map.

Residents of an Atlanta suburb learned that Flock had been accessing cameras in the town—including in a children's gymnastics room—to demonstrate the company’s surveillance technology to police departments around the country. The city renewed the contract anyway. www.404media.co/city-learns-...

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

. @aoc.bsky.social responds to this trend: "BOOOOO" "This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me, calling it an uninspiring message. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together."

I have... issues with the current UX of the passenger info displays on the new @chicagocta.bsky.social trains. Took a stab at what I think would be a better solution, inspired by the new Paris Metro trains and NYC Subway.

Like I said: the civil rights era never ended. You are still in it. The most important form of free speech, is the right to vote. Racists don't want Black people to vote. So they wrote down a plan to stack the Supreme Court with people that would make it harder for Black people to vote. It worked

The BBC making up a fake report, in order to stir up hate of a minority? Surely not!

@the48thward.bsky.social anything you can do?

WIP #shinkansen map. Not 100% sure how I want the final to look but want it just to be made of station names. Playing with the idea of overlapping two misregistered inks for transfer stations.

Trust me, disabled people feel this hostility acutely.

Many people are viewing the VA gerrymandering vote as "revenge" for GOP gerrymandering. Revenge is something you do that doesn't actually solve a problem. "Two wrongs don't make a right." The VA gerrymandering is fixing the problem the GOP created. It is untilting the playing field. Not revenge.

This is so fucking annoying. Gerrymandering in and of itself is not “a wrong.” Tilting the playing field is. Republicans tilting the playing field in their favor by gerrymandering is wrong. Democrats re-leveling it by using the same method is not wrong, it is right.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

@aresluna.org windows did end up using ctrl+shift+esc to open task manager, which serves a similar function to the Mac dialog you show. I wonder if that came before or after Mac did it.

@jbpritzker.bsky.social please look at how this kind of policy backfires & protects no one. Please stop pushing scam technology on Illinoisans

2.5mi/20 min on the Clark/Southport bike lanes today: Body shop parked car completely blocking lane Utility crew put “bike lane closed ahead” sign blocking half the lane USPS van parked unnecessarily in lane (plenty of parking around) 2 cars swerved in front of me to park Almost doored twice

@andrefor40th.bsky.social anything you can do to help get the Al Medina body shop to stop blocking the Clark St bike lane? I don’t think there’s been a single time I’ve ridden that lane where they didn’t have cars parked completely blocking it.

In an active lawsuit against the FDA, the state of Missouri is arguing that access to the abortion drug mifepristone has reduced teen birth rates, thereby harming its political representation in Congress. It’s an argument being made in federal court not just on Fox

Apparently Fox News considers it a problem that 15 year olds are having fewer babies.

I hate RFK as much as I think I’m capable of hating someone but I feel weird about all the harping on a medical condition he has (spasmodic dysphonia). Also Diane Rehm hosted a popular NPR show for decades while dealing with spasmodic dysphonia.

25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

Been thinking about it since I saw JK Rowling posted this yesterday about the IOC's new policy, calling Imane Khelif a man. Imane Khelif was born female. She was raised as a girl. Her original birth certificate says female. She's always been a woman. But sure. "Men punching women."

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.

Would this law classify the Mrs. Doubtfire musical and As You Like It as adult entertainment?

🇫🇷 French ICC judge Nicolas Guillou, sanctioned by Pres. Trump in Aug. because of the court’s warrant for Netanyahu, says he has been cut off from basic financial & digital services. “I discovered that almost all payment methods in France today are American,” Guillou said. “The only cards we have...

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

A first-time candidate who came onto the scene as a young TikTok’er getting over 25% in a crowded primary against other elected officials seems like an objectively strong electoral performance, whatever your thoughts on the candidate might be. She did something right with voters:

Yes more of this please

Made a new poster of the Yamanote Line in Tokyo. Prints available in my etsy! www.etsy.com/listing/4468...

This really hit me 😭

If he thinks the reason people have stopped shopping at target is because it doesn't have things they want, he's doomed from day 1

Hey @chicagocta.bsky.social any reason a 22 bus would just drive by a bus stop with 4 people waving them down without even slowing down? It didn’t look particularly crowded and now everyone’s stuck waiting an extra 10 minutes.

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports