a trunk or treat but for cargo bikes

"general purpose humanoid robots are real" is an ancient folkloric tradition that today's tech founders and venture capitalists are faithfully keeping alive

Trump take electricity

seems bad

In case it isn’t clear yet, the fascists are carrying out a project where they drain all programs focused on the public good and well-being and dividing the money between themselves, their friends, and new programs designed to oppress and control.

The particle physicist in me is furious (I am not a particle physicist)

The President is waging war, levying taxes, and appropriating funds without the consent, or even interest, of Congress. We are way past 'constitutional crisis', and into a newly-forged constitutional settlement.

Fossils shouldn't even be expensive. They belong in a museum!

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

The dread of hearing stories about neighbors, congregants, friends being abducted by the secret police creep closer and closer to you really isn’t great for your mental health is it.

I'm sure there are good academic reasons dealing with specificity of language not to call this a state sponsored terror campaign against our own citizens. But uh....it looks a hell of a lot like a (rapidly escalating) state sponsored terror campaign against disfavored parts of the populace.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @nrdc.org "Today, just 1 percent of total transportation infrastructure spending pays for sidewalks and bike paths." AND the Trump Admin is right now trying to claw back what little funding goes to support trails, sidewalks and transit. 😡 www.nrdc.org/resources/wh...

A PR person for ABC asked me to stop asking about Pete Hegseth's speech during this episode about the death of Vanessa Guillén. They emailed me today and asked I not include the interruption in the final show. I will not. So tune in to listen to a lecture from a PR person about Guillén's legacy.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people." Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

not a single news org signed. that's what it takes. stand together. everywhere, every time.

This man (and/or his team) is conspicuously REALLY good at this. Anyone in Dem leadership who hasn't both fervently endorsed him AND taken copious notes is so clearly miles off base. (Jeffries and Schumer especially).

Wheel of Fortune, welcome to the War on Cars

RAHHHH THESE COLORS DON'T RUN

Per message shared w/ me: The State Department just notified certain staff they are to work during the shutdown because their job is "necessary for emergencies involving the safety of human life" or "essential to national security" Except…some people who got this were laid off weeks ago in the RIF!

Russ Vought isn’t really a bureaucrat, he’s an anti-constitutional criminal seizing a bunch of unlawful powers to conduct economic warfare against hundreds of millions of Americans because they live in states that voted against his patron.

State-run extrajudicial immigration black sites like Alligator Alcatraz allows politically connected individuals to make hundreds of millions of dollars off Florida’s taxpayers at the expense of jailed migrants, while those held are stripped of their access to legal counsel and due process.

seems bad

It’s that time of year.

Val and I checked repeatedly because we simply couldn't believe no national or local news organizations covered this letter from 18 AGs in support of trans youth care and against FTC overreach. If you find any stories, let us know, but it seems to be our exclusive.

With the US military's new shaving crusade, Pete Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops

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The GOP House passed a budget that indulged all of their worst ideas, with no compromises whatsoever for Dem votes they wanted and needed. There's no good reason for Senate Dems to help the GOP with such a bill, no good reason to share blame and give them "bipartisan" cover for wanton destruction.

The American pope is biting off Immortal Technique Is a sentence that I never thought would exist.

We're going to lose every cyber conflict for the next 5-10 years if Hegseth fires our literal keyboard warriors for not running a fast enough mile.

You’re laughing? The armed masked unaccountable secret police force we’ve been amassing is going unpaid and you’re laughing?

America this could be us but you play too much

Living in Baltimore rocks because it's actually pretty easy to support local. And there's always so much of it!

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Calling the Governor and asking him to sign SB 79 only takes a few minutes and makes a real difference.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Another epic scoop by @marisakabas.bsky.social. Independent media for the win 💪

1/ Today Boston senior federal judge William Young has issued a clarion defense of the 1st Amendment rights of non-citizens which may go down as the most notable decision of his 47-year career. It begins with an unheard-of preface *above the caption* which reproduces a threat he received in chambers

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By an entire parsec, the Trump administration has undertaken the most sweeping and broad set of illegal budgetary actions of any administration in history. Scalia called Nixon "the Mahatma Gandhi of all impounders." Trump makes Nixon look like a fervent believer in the law.

New OPM guidance says OMB "has determined" agencies may do work on mass firings during shutdowns. This seems like a blatant Antideficiency Act violation, which caries criminal penalties. However, the Trump admin won't prosecute itself, so this is yet more broken budget laws from the Trump admin 🧵

You know what's condescending? Ezra staying outright that he's seeking the right combination of words to fool the rubes of the American public into giving him and his team power, while being explicitly and repeatedly told by his interviewee that it's better to just Believe Something And Say So

seems bad

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

that we have built an alternate media ecosystem in which every American city is an apocalyptic hellhole - completely unmoored from reality - and the political system has collapsed to the point that the president can use this fabrication to send troops against his own citizens is a staggering failure