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Going to start doing RETVRN posting for basic government functioning. Going “this is what they took from you” and it’s a childhood vaccine schedule and pasteurized milk without any manure in it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 11 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 1 day ago • 561 comments

In one of the most insightful analyses I've heard (part 2), @quinnslobodian.com argues that the racist, authoritarian view of the future that motivates Trump and Musk is not 20th-century Nazis or Fascists, but techno-dictatorships like Dubai and Qatar. www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women. He assaulted some of them. Andrew Cuomo made stupid decisions during the initial Covid-19 outbreak that got thousands of elderly people killed. He lied and abused his power to cover it up.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Ask anyone even remotely non-white

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

This is @misernyc.bsky.social's rally on Saturday ... and it's on the Streetsblog calendar (are you checking it regularly): nyc.streetsblog.org/calendar

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

In many ways it's fitting that the showdown between monarchy and democracy ends up being over NYC congestion pricing. Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space. The cameras are staying on!

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Allowing the administration to define broad swaths of history, programming and civil rights compliance as “DEI” and then regurgitating that language instead of clearly articulating what specifically is being targeted is spreading disinformation and propaganda.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

Part 1 of a series about exactly what has happened over the past month, how it’s happening, and what is likely to happen next This one's about the actual structure of DOGE, which is not an ad-hoc agency overstepping its mandate but a carefully-crafted weapon intended to unmake the government 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

USATODAY/Gannett hiring an "AI-assisted Reporter" to regurgitate "trusted press releases" for $20/hour www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

submitted 6 days ago • 819 comments

does anyone want to buy a studio in Sunnyside? great neighborhood, easy access to the city, and an amazing view

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

submitted 6 days ago • 369 comments

Counterpoint: the Gulf of America thing should be casualy dismissed with "this is bread and circuses intended to amuse the rubes while Musk destroys democracy" and then pivot to talking about that

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Don't bust into people's mentions to say that something potentially good doesn't matter. Don't bust into people's spaces to discourage them from fighting however they can. Why is this hard for some of y'all?

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

Got it. Any noteworthy black person Is celebrated "because of their race." Any noteworthy white person is celebrated on their merits. That's their logic.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Bernie Wagenblast, the iconic voice of @mta.info subways, has a message, the day after the feds took the letter "T" referring to trans people, off websites about the Stonewall National Monument. @thecity.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

@kathyhochul.bsky.social: “...and fight for #congestionpricing, which I wasn’t sure how it’d work. Rachel, people are getting around the city with ease, and more of the commuters are saying, ‘my ride, I shaved 20-30 minutes, and that’s worth the cost.'”

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

wrote about the AP defying Trump, and why it's been a hopeful rallying point for press freedom. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-gulf...

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 9 days ago • 1052 comments

We hear these statistics - there are currently 31 people a day hospitalized for COVID in NYC. What does it mean to be hospitalized for an infectious disease? Unfortunately, I've recently had a front seat. My mom was hospitalized for RSV last Friday night. grieve-smith.com/ftn/2025/02/...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

something for everyone

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

We've marched to defend this city before and we could do it again. We just going to let a rapist felon perpetually blackmail our criminal mayor into betraying us or we going to do something?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

ohhhhhh HELLO!

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

If this were going to happen it would have happened already Musk has publicly challenged Trump's decisions, he's made Trump look like a fool, and he's been the main character of the world since Inauguration Day Trump found an infinite money hack. Turns out that means more to him than ego

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

honestly no idea why anyone would see fit to publish a credulous deep dive on Neuralink today, but here's what I wrote almost a year ago when this was news archive.is/8zTJs TL;DR, brain chips are hard to do

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

What really gets me is the instant switch from “they’ll never seriously try to get rid of birthright citizenship, you hysterical ninny, it’s black letter constitutional law” to “birthright citizenship isn’t really required by the constitution, we should seriously engage with its opponents.”

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

I've seen, and support, calls for direct action in response to Trump's actions. I've heard very little about how Trump and friends are waiting to highlight any disorder, or create it if necessary, and use it as an excuse for more clampdown. I haven't seen anything saying how we should handle that.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

if you're a democratic senator and you're still voting to confirm trump nominees despite him allowing elon musk to gleefully dismantle the government then your brain has fallen out of your ass.

submitted 19 days ago • 107 comments

S. Bear Bergman offers suggestions for practical things that you can do to support the #transgender community as it's come under attack by #DonaldTrump & the forces of #transphobia: medium.com/@sbearbergma...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like I’ve lost so much of my professional circle because I can’t attend their in person events that lack precautions.

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 24 days ago • 3793 comments

When the history of this conditional crisis is written, it should be reflected that the best training ground for flouting laws and reneging on obligations was being an American CEO. The voters got their wish. These guys are running the country like a business.

submitted 26 days ago • 33 comments

A request to my follows: If you post bad political news, please try and link - or at least mention - a resource or an action to oppose, resist or compensate for the bad news. That helps keep us from getting demoralized!

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I think Gustavo Petro became President of the United States tonight

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Pope Francis is working to help trans sex workers in Rome even as he condemns what he calls 'gender ideology' just like Donald Trump, who has launched an attack on the US transgender community; Papa Francesco needs to update Catholic Church doctrine~! www.spiegel.de/internationa...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

"The only way to defeat a narcissistic sociopath is to starve them. Protect yourself from their bullshit, of course, but move away from it. Let them have their stage, but refuse to be their audience."

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to figure out how to balance my desire to stay informed, protect myself and help others affected by the cruelty of Trump and his enablers with my need to stay calm, rest, focus, prioritize and avoid feeling overwhelmed by the onslaught.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

If I were deliberately trying to destroy a modern superpower before they caught on they were under attack, I'd probably try to cripple its scientific establishment, start trade wars, alienate its allies, make food/medicine unaffordable, and try to destroy its military with incompetence at the top

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

“People are equal because they are people; there are no deeper distinctions between us that justify making some superior to others under the law.“ The one thing you should read this week.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

If you have tips about the DEI mandates coming from the Trump Administration, if you are being impacted or know of others being impacted, email me at [email protected].

submitted 30 days ago • 10 comments

Good news: @nycdot.bsky.social provides an open data list of the 119 current locations of raised crosswalks in New York City. Bad news: the units and origin of the coordinates are not specified, and the coordinates are not compatible with OpenStreetMap. data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportati...

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