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

@kenwhite.bsky.social I love Serious Trouble but I really can't support Josh anymore and have to unsubscribe.

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."

I like this "hold up a yes/no sign to answer a yes/no question" thing. This should be a mandatory segment in all candidate debates/townhalls/etc. Sure would spare us a lot of performative politicking.

This article begins "After a year in which the Trump administration has pressed to limit the ways Americans can identify as transgender in public life...". "Identify as transgender". If that doesn't give away the New York Times' whole game, I don't know what will. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up: - all energy sources - all our data - all investment dollars - all new jobs - all capex - all attention - and now, all hardware components with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.

Don Bosco Church - Brasilia, Brazil by Carlos Alberto Naves (1970) r/brutalism

This Brazilian woman hates AI

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The way Marta shows evening service is odd too. Both styles feel like they’re putting an “asterisk” on this part of the line, implying it’s only partial service here. But this is actually the part of the line that is always served. The rest of the line is not served at off hours.

So many strange choices on Marta. They devote so much real estate on the in car maps to repeating the same evacuation information three times for tunnel, grade, and elevated. The top two diagrams seem to be actually identical. The bottom is slightly visually different but doesn’t provide new info.

The bulk of this screen is showing instructions for using an escalator

Strange that Marta shows all arrivals on both platforms. Got excited my train was arriving but it was on the other side.

It is impossible to assault a robot and people who interfere with or damage property are not assailants.

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Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Where do our IL-09 primary candidates stand on section 230 and KOSA? @katmabu.bsky.social @danielbiss.bsky.social @laurafine4congress.bsky.social (My view: section 230 repeal and KOSA are both wins for big tech and people who want to censor progressive and queer voices online)

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

The entire cities of Amsterdam (red), Paris (blue), and Barcelona (purple) can fit inside Chicago. All borders use the same geographic scale (1:175000). The European cities have been rotated and/or flipped, but not resized.

"They told us what they were going to do. They published it. They put it on a website. And when it happened, the press was surprised." Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.

Don't worry it's not sports betting it's prediction markets, everyone! You don't need hotlines for people addicted to predicting the outcomes of events!

Zohran’s messaging is so consistent. Government does amazing things for us all. We’re all in this together, citizens and city workers alike, because we’re one and the same. When people believe in that, they’re ready to ask the government to do more, and more difficult things

Apparently knowing how to spell means your protest is illegitimate?

@durbin.senate.gov Please please please vote against funding ICE. DHS leadership is actively lying to protect ICE agents who are murdering civilians in cold blood. There is no amount of "training" that can fix this. As a constituent I am begging you.

As shocking as the terms of US exit from the international community have been, the terms on which the US will re-enter the system (someday) will be even more shocking to a leadership class accustomed to being the leaders of the world

It’s currently operating totally outside of our constitutional rules. Habeas corpus , due process of law, equal protection, freedom of speech, 4th amendment protections against search and seizure, are all not being enforced in any common sense or meaningful way.

space channel 5, dreamcast (2000) www.mobygames.com/game/5764/sp...

@katmabu.bsky.social @leniann.bsky.social Do either of you distribute whistles? I'm 3d printing some now and want to know where I can give them

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

Seems like "preventing DHS from detaining and deporting U.S. citizens" would be an easy line to stand on, but we're talking about Democrats here. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

1. It's been more than a day since 2 of America's most storied newsrooms, CBS and ABC, reported that killer ICE agent Jon Ross suffered "internal bleeding" based on unnamed sources Since then - No other news org has confirmed the story - No evidence (photos, medical records) has been produced

Delete Spotify

this completely horrifying. ICE is a domestic occupying threat against us all

@schakowsky.house.gov Noem has clearly violated her oath of office and must be impeached. As a constituent I want to know why your name is not on this list

Photojournalist Aaron Marckell Williams was killed in a crosswalk as the result of a police chase over a traffic violation. DC local law had made such chases illegal - House Republicans voted to overturn that law last year.

Working for ICE.

This is so fucked.

Also the target of shame isn't just them, it's people who are still figuring out who they should be like. The goal is to make it really unappealing to be like these extremists.

They are laying the groundwork to eliminate all transgender people.

“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster

I have lost all respect for the @npr.org Politics Podcast. An entire podcast talking about the invasion of a sovereign country to depose its leader, without the permission of congress, lauding the competence of the execution, without a single word about the clear illegality of this invasion.

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

Pretty sure this is accurate for me? 42% of stations

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

New from me! Chicago has far too many bus stops to provide efficient service for its riders—nearly twice the national standard. I reimagined what Chicago's bus network could do to make it look like its peers. citythatworks.substack.com/p/a-plan-for...