I bet all of these democratic senators that snapped, all had a grandkid calling to say, “I’m not coming to Thanksgiving because I don’t want to get stuck at the airport for three days.” And so they thought, hey, I know how to fix that!

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Pellegrino is so much better with San Diego than he was with the Quakes. Such a stark difference.

My son wanted to go to the amusement park with his friends, so drove a bunch of kids to Six Flags, and honestly, this is what all cities should be. Walking promenades with trams running around, lots of vendors. Allowing cars on city streets was a mistake.

Me wondering if the plan is to return the entire country back to an agrarian society except for the uber wealthy. No trains, no planes, highways unfunded. News organizations gutted. Communications next. The only people who will be able to travel and talk over long distances will be the Oligarchs.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

What the hell, I have to worry about cars coming at me from above as well now?

I hate sharing his BS, but him telling the Republicans to compromise and deliver single-payer healthcare feels like a win.

I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation

She was there before Sauron, and before the first stone of Barad-dûr; and she served none but herself, drinking the blood of Elves and Men, bloated and grown fat with endless brooding on her feasts, weaving webs of shadow; for all living things were her food, and her vomit darkness.

Thanks to Trump & the GOP! Major Farmville (Virginia) hospital will no longer offer labor and delivery services "...Centra, like other rural healthcare providers, must adapt to significant financial and operational challenges, including recently enacted reductions in federal healthcare funding..."

#Rust-lang folks, I've not been doing much with WASM in the last little bit. I want to build a WASM library for use primarily in a Javascript/Typescript environment. So this is not a 100% Rust environment. What are people recommending these days for that use case, Trunk or wasm-pack?

NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts. www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Think about how the left told Biden, and then Kamala, that their campaign would 100% lose if they did the exact opposite of what Mamdani's would be. They literally plugged their ears and said shut the fuck up, and then she lost by doing the exact opposite, in every way on every issue, of Mamdani.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Not every politician can be as good as this one, but they better learn quick how to get close. This is next level, in 15 second bites showing how approachable and interested he is in other people. It makes you feel like you can be part of something greater.

Wow. Democrat Taylor Rehmet heading to a runoff with Wambsganss after getting 47.5% of the vote in a +18 Trump district. More than $4 million was spent by/in support of her two GOP opponents, with big checks from Miriam Adelson and billionaire Tim Dunn. Rehmet spent $68,000.

Recruit a Democrat. Every seat. Every state. Waves need someone to ride them. Call your state party, sign up to run, or volunteer. Make the GOP fight for every inch. Let’s go! No seat left empty!

I’m going to stop now, at this same question. Bluesky is all blue skies ahead.

there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics

Every race. It’s basically been every race. Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers. Just everything.

The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?

Congrats to Charlotte & my former colleague Dave Campbell on this massive win! I remember our first attempt to do the same thing here in Alameda County which “failed” with 66.54% yes votes.

Huge news from California: "Prop 50 represents Democrats’ first significant victory against President Donald Trump’s unprecedented plan to rig the midterms" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Before people say, “well that’s just one city in all of the country that the Social Democrat, Mandani, won”, Here’s a list of the 38 states (and DC) that all have fewer people than just NYC: Wyoming Vermont North Dakota South Dakota Alaska Delaware Montana Rhode Island District of Columbia

“What is most shocking is that the biggest threat to the citizens of Metropolis in 1939 was not a monster or alien invader nor even Superman’s famous archenemy Lex Luther… It was the car.” The car is the monster, it always has been. #LifeAfterCars

I just dug out this "degradeable" plastic bag from under 2-year-old compost. #plastic #plasticemergency #plasticcrisis

The car is the albatross around the neck of all Americans. It’s the one thing you can’t do without to participate in the economy in many places, yet it’s also the thing that consumes so much of your income and life that you are a chained to supporting it.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

The entitlement in this piece is unsurprising (from Marin? no way!) but reprehensible. Start up a Casual Carpool system and quit your whining. (That said, thank you, “woman from Santa Rosa” and @carterlavin.bsky.social, for your excellent contributions.)

CA, 17 billion dollars goes to highways, 1 billion to transit. We need to do this exact same thing. Flip the spending on its head.

I hate that I read something like this and I can’t say if it’s true or if it’s some BS made up to support the ICE operations.

So the Trump administration lied to federal courts about its ability, authority, and willingness to continue to fund SNAP because it wanted to spend Halloween and Thanksgiving using hungry kids as pawns. These people are monsters. And none are Christian.

Looks almost the same, but: 🦆 less draw calls (partially custom GPU instancing) 🐇 less entities -> less transform propagation etc. 🐿️ less data cloning 🦞 downside: disabled 'indirect drawing' #rustlang #bevyengine #gamedev

Congrats on a great year for housing! Thanks to our housing and transit champions! @jessearreguin.bsky.social @victorfloresbart.bsky.social @cecilialunaparra.bsky.social @cayimby.bsky.social

Three of my neighbors in district 1 were killed in three separate car collisions last night. We need action now to reduce pedestrian and cyclist deaths. YOU need to do more to improve your own driving. Do better. Keep your neighbors alive.

Read about this and the other outrageous ways the California DMV enables deadly driving in the excellent @calmatters.org License to Kill series. calmatters.org/investigatio...

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Amazing how our public health infrastructure will get mad about food dyes Because Chemicals Are Bad For You but look away from the clear health impacts of very definitely Bad For You chemicals.

I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.

🚴🚴🚴Berkeleyans can apply online for a monthly lottery to get $400 to $1,500 off the purchase of a new electric bicycle – with larger amounts helping lower income residents. Apply now for a chance for a subsidy to purchase an electric bike:

Graham Platner’s campaign thought they could silence me by offering me money and calling me a liar in the press. I was going to let it go. It has become increasingly clear they are unfamiliar with Maine women.

I love Rebecca DOWN. Known as Dollar Tree Dinners. Her “Meal in a Bag” is meant to provide ppl with a complete meal that is $8 or less, is shelf stable, & can be made without access to a full kitchen. I love this as a direct aid option. Good for neighbors & elders who can’t/wont go to a pantry.

I have a first-cousin-once-removed, my dad’s cousin, that I’ve always called “aunt”, because that’s a lot easier than “hi, first-cousin-once-removed Mel!”

Nextdoor is now a place where we can troll car drivers for all demanding they get rid of the bike lane on RSR bridge and now the traffic is worse than ever.

People talk about how empty bike lanes appear to be. But I’ve never seen similar comments about train tracks. Empty like 80% of the time.