I do not understand why the default Democratic position on this issue isn’t simply to be opposed to mandatory genital exams for participants in girls sports. Because that intrusive practice is how GOP policy on transgender athletes will be enforced.

There is a very real argument being made in Hollywood that AI democratizes filmmaking, making it available to outsiders. In truth, the cost of effective generative AI is cost prohibitive to all but corporations, leading to no improvement in quality at the cost of jobs both above and below the line.

Why is @patdowell3rdward.bsky.social forcing the removal of protected bike lanes right near where Riley O’Neil was killed?

Growing up, social media was a big part of self-discovery for me and lots of other LGBTQ teens. That's exactly why conservatives want to ban these platforms for kids. They would prefer to keep them isolated and in the dark while surveilling us all via digital IDs. spitfirenews.com/p/social-med...

Musk helping incite fascist violence abroad even as he became a trillionaire illustrates the future he really wants. He envisions something like a multi-continental, Armageddon-like Total War in defense of white peoples against "invaders." 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2119...

NHS England excluded 97% of studies on puberty blockers before concluding there was "insufficient evidence". The evidence exists. Here's what to do when it's ignored 👇

@blockclubchi.bsky.social posting a link to buy tickets for the Nazi concert by the guy with a song called Hail Hitler is certainly a choice

I was genuinely shocked at the distances between crosswalks in some of Toronto's very dense pedestrian-heavy areas. This stretch in Kensington Market on a streetcar line is 1100+ feet (~350m) without a crosswalk.

The richest man in the world controlling a social media platform that he turned into a incitement machine for the purposes of fascism and white supremacy is an everyone problem and until its treated that way he & what he does will keep getting worse & more dangerous.

Twitter/X is an enormous national security threat on a global scale, and a lot more nations need to grow a spine and start blocking it (and taking other active, aggressive measures).

USPS will not deliver mail ballots to voters from any state that refuses to turn over voter rolls to the federal government. Twenty-three states and various advocacy groups are suing to block the unconstitutional trump election EO.

So frustrating when a queer person I want to support is still using Substack in the year of our lord 2026 and I have to decide whether to override my objections to the Nazi platform to subscribe.

Merge two movies: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Deadpool

Just so we’re clear, Trump decided to give himself and his family tax-cheat immunity. Congress didn’t do it. The courts didn’t do it. Trump is stealing tens of millions of dollars from taxpayers because the Republicans in charge of our government refuse to stop him. it’s outright theft.

Just a guess, but it’s the universe where free speech is measured by your social comfort level in saying despicable things in public. You know, the free speech culture universe.

I'm browsing a bunch of creative agency websites this morning looking for creative inspiration and every single agency site is bogged down by maximalist animations that slow my browser to a crawl and unskippable multi-second intros. I just want to view your work why are you making it so hard?

University admins two years ago: all opinions must heard on college campuses even if they threaten our students University admins today: no more student speakers at graduation, here are 40 emails about how to handle “disruptions” at commencement because we don’t want students using these two words

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

I have cancer. mRNA technology is already being used to develop some of the next cancer cures. He’s condemning some current and many, many, many future cancer patients to early, preventable deaths.

AI is ruining the internet part 4,284,293

This is excellent from @jamellebouie.net. The Trump administration is not conservative in any meaningful sense of the word. They are revolutionaries undermining the constitutional order. Any competent response from Democrats needs to face this reality squarely.

This is "mass deportation"

To be clear: the lower court said the map intentionally discriminates against black people in violation of the *constitution* (not just the VRA) and the MAGA Majority of SCOTUS is saying "that's ok now."

this is a core fascist narrative

“Iran is the first 🇺🇸 war the public never supported” www.stephensemler.com/p/iran-war-i...

Last year, Evanston, Illinois terminated its Flock contract and removed the cameras. Flock *put them back up* and reactivated them. Then Evanston put trash bags around them. Flock says: "legal conditions may prevent a city from voiding the contract without grounds to do so"

The Economy being good means nothing to me because it's a measure of how confident assholes feel in their line going up, and everything they do to make the line go up hurts me and devastates everyone who's doing worse than me. This isn't fucking rocket surgery.

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

Guess the #andersonville Taco Bell no longer has a patio. Should have known that was too good to be true.

A masked man in an armored vehicle, dressed as if he is in the middle of a war zone, training a weapon on unarmed protestors. This is simply incompatible with democratic expression.

Our new pied-à-terre tax will have the ultra-wealthy elite — those who own $5 million apartments in New York City but don’t actually live here — pay their fair share.

The United States is at war with Cuba. A blockade is an act of war, imposed by military force. The goal is to cause widespread suffering to get the target to capitulate. If the Chinese navy blockaded Taiwan in an attempt to overthrow the Taiwanese government, that'd be an act of war. So is US-Cuba.

“I’m totally in favor of trans athletes in high school." Tom Steyer demonstrating what being human looks like

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.

"Labour, by implementing this policy, and for their earlier banning of gender affirming care for trans youth, are measurably more extreme on trans issues than the Republican party in the US."

Starmer and @andyburnham.bsky.social are to the right of Trump on trans toilet bans. Labour will lose because it has no purpose other than to cost up to power.

Quote with a fictional band that isn’t Spinal Tap

A duplex is two houses stuck together, if that's enough to upend your style of living then you really need to cultivate some resiliency before life bites your ass for some other reason

Done.

It is very annoying that Starbucks has decided to have its menu boards only show a small subset of the actual menu, expecting you will order in the app. But if you can’t order in the app (e.g. US user at intl airport Starbucks) it doesn’t even let you view the menu. I just want to know what you have

Also crazy: the lack of crosswalks. In this area packed with retail on both sides of the street, the next pedestrian crossing is barely visible in this photo.

Of all the unexpected things about the #Toronto urban landscape I’ve encountered while here, the fact that there is street parking on the super busy narrow pedestrian and street car corridor of Queen St West is way up there.

New from PP: You know those 'Kavanaugh stops,' where justice allowed racial profiling but said they'd be no big deal? Well, ICE agents have now stopped and held this American *3 times* Earlier this month, they *shackled him* He's thinking of moving to Mexico www.propublica.org/article/immi...

There’s a glaring historical inaccuracy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film of The Odyssey: they didn’t have cameras back then. Theatres should have a blank screen and an old man reading out the script

Drop some RUNNING

Letting a trans woman pee in a stall next to one a cis woman is peeing in is "pushing for too much change too fast" but upending the entire world economy, putting millions of people out of work, devaluing entire industries, and killing the environment for AI is inevitable. Got it.

gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders

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.