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Oh, for new Bluesky followers. As were going into the baseball season, we refer to Rob Manfred as "Pig Lawyer" in this house because when Martha heard his name she said: That is the name of a pig lawyer. Like a pig who is also a lawyer, but he went to a bad law school. And he still didn't do well.

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They want you to believe transphobia is the norm. It isn’t. Most people don’t hate us. The norm is cowardice. They goal is to scare you all into compliance. You rebel by just not being a coward.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Hey was it a good idea to cede control of our cities to massive garrisons of cops who drive in from the suburbs

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"Trump Wants a Monarchy, Not a Presidency. He Must Be Stopped" Writing for Zeteo, constitutional law professor @kimwehle.bsky.social says we are in danger of losing our democracy over the president's false claim to unlimited executive power under Article II. Read/share: zeteo.com/p/trump-mona...

submitted 5 days ago • 160 comments

I wrote about Elon Musk and Gavin Kliger and acknowledging the reality of what they are: Nazis.

submitted 5 days ago • 113 comments

The Trump admin is trying to pressure Romania to lift restrictions on the human trafficking and child rapist Tate brothers. It seeks to ease their travel restrictions so they can escape prosecution on rape and organized crime charges. #OpDeathEaters www.ft.com/content/3f95...

submitted 5 days ago • 72 comments

Larry David was always the brains behind Seinfeld

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Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.

submitted 9 days ago • 219 comments

Protest at Stonewall tomorrow. You can’t spell Stonewall without the T.

submitted 9 days ago • 100 comments

Trump’s latest executive order (that was no doubt written by psychopath RFK Jr.) goes after antidepressants. As someone whose life was saved by them, you will pry my prozac from my cold dead hands. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 9 days ago • 464 comments

🚨NEWS: Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) pressured federal regulators to let banks charge Americans higher fees as he raked in cash from donors who'd benefit, according to documents FOIA'd by @levernews.com. Scott today proposed killing limits on overdraft fees.

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In today's newsletter I pondered how MLB is gonna react once the racist, segregationist regime and its supporters begin to target it, which it inevitably will. Short version: I do not expect much courage from Rob Manfred. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

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Few things better summarize the fact that "tough on crime" is about social control, not actually fighting serious crime, than the contrast between these two stories, both of which came out today.

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“A new study of early separated lane projects in the U.S. across six cities finds a rise of ridership between 21% and 171% after the lanes were installed.” The pretty strong and convincing case for protected bike-lane networks in cities. In @fastcompany.com

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Kudos to the editor that selected the lead photo

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Donald Trump is trying to shut down the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children. This will lead to mass child abuse on an unprecedented scale. This would be the single biggest move to directly help pedophiles that any President has ever done in US history

submitted 16 days ago • 46 comments

It’s outrageous that Elon Musk thinks he has the authority to access private data on workers. He has NO business raiding the Department of Labor. With this lawsuit, we intend to stop this power grab. www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

USAID isn’t about federal bureaucracy. I’ve been to several of the poorest countries in the world and seen the lifesaving impact it has on some of the world’s most desperate people. The richest man in the world is illegally snatching medicine and life preserving necessities from the world’s poorest

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Emails show how Saints leadership offered to help local clergy with damage control amid sexual abuse crisis:

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK LIKE STRIKE SEASON, FRIENDS

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

Hard to beat a yummy-ass smoothie after a long run.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 20 days ago • 821 comments

NEW: WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s DOGE project. By @telliotter.bsky.social

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Their names: Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

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800 doctors submitted a letter of support for RFK Jr’s HHS secretary nomination. It turns out most signatories weren’t real doctors, or were doctors who had their licenses revoked or suspended. Using fake experts to create an illusion of credibility is a classic anti-vax tactic.

submitted 21 days ago • 22 comments

i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.

submitted 22 days ago • 452 comments

In 2021-2022, at least 234,000 people died in the US because they did not get a COVID vaccine. Politicization of vaccines & misinformation was a major contributor. If an antivaxxer becomes HHS head & something like bird flu becomes a pandemic, even more people will die. RFK must not be confirmed.

submitted 23 days ago • 9 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 📉

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What he's announcing is a concentration camp. A deeply illegal, unconstitutional, anti-human rights atrocity. Anyone who supports this is complicit. Anyone in any federal service, military or otherwise, is morally obligated to refuse to carry out any orders related to this deeply criminal act.

submitted 24 days ago • 98 comments

I spent four years investigating these sorts of claims. Children aren’t being taught they’re inherently victims or oppressors. Teachers aren’t leading kids to change genders. Instead these claims are used as a pretext to sanitize history curricula and impose conservative Christian ideas in schools

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The campaign against trans rights is also about stripping away everyone’s protections against discrimination, reviving, as Douglass put it “the moral blindness” of those who “persuade themselves that they are safe, though the rights of others may be struck down.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 24 days ago • 88 comments

Given The Horrors, it seems the right time to post this again. Stay safe. Keep fighting. You deserve to live just as much as anyone else.

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

Instagram and Facebook have recently blurred, blocked or removed posts from two abortion pill providers. Instagram also suspended the accounts of several abortion pill providers and hid the providers from appearing in search and recommendations. nyti.ms/4h3PF1x

submitted 30 days ago • 327 comments

In 1933, Nazis issued a decree that required Germans to snitch on anyone who spoke against the party, its leaders, or the Govt. In 2025, MAGAs force federal employees to snitch on anyone who does "DEI in disguise," or suffer "adverse consequences." My analysis: www.qasimrashid.com/p/federal-go...

submitted 30 days ago • 26 comments

Mood

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We, the sports-watching public, need to have a different conversation about the sole unanimous Baseball Hall of Famer. lawsuit here: www.gnvinfo.com/content/file...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk biographer here. The "missing context" from the op-ed below is that Musk has been spreading racist and antisemitic memes, screenshots, graphs, charts, unsourced narratives, tropes, and buzzwords for 18 months now. Publicly. Daily. The Post either knows this or should not be in business.

submitted 32 days ago • 397 comments

Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed

submitted 33 days ago • 787 comments

Mr. Trump commits to malice in public policy, but it will not change the simple fact: I am, and I am trans. As I have been since I figured out I was #trans in the '70s as a child, & as I acted upon planning my transition in 2001, achieving it in 2002-03. sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

I don't do this a lot, but BLOCK THIS MAN. Block this man IMMEDIATELY. He is a long time known predator in the #WritingCommunity on Twitter. He does his stupid "boost" posts on women without consent and then gets creepy as fuck like they "owe" him, including a few minors. Block, spread the word.

submitted 103 days ago • 208 comments