It's the first half of September 2026, and the Trump regime dumpster fire is still burning.
There has been way too much about AI this month, though I tried to ignore it as much as possible. Some Germans voted for fascists. The mainstream media (and the right-wing media, of course) continue to be structurally one-sided. Gas and diesel prices hit new highs as the war in Iran continued and a pipeline used by Saudi Arabia came under attack. The Trump family gave a glimpse of its membership application to join the Russian mob.
The 25th anniversary of 9/11 came and went, with outrage from idiots about whether the mayor of New York should attend the commemoration. Trump's Treasury Department made some illegal coins, and he held a party for himself in Texas where he promised illegal things. It looks like the USPS will not be able to interfere with the midterm elections, after the Supreme Court ruled against Trump's ridiculous executive order.
News came out that DHS stole 50,000 people in August and it barely got any attention.
Everything below the line is quoted from the attributed account, and is in reverse chronological order, except some of the images, which I move up or down for better visual balance.
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Quebec separatists usually come from a genuine belief that Quebec is a distinct culture and nation that should be a country. Alberta separatists seem to think of separation as a big "I'm mad" button that will magically force Ottawa to write them checks for being very special boys.
Glonzo In Exile
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn:
Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social
Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine.
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social
Step 1: gain control
Step 2: mismanage
Step 3: bankruptcy
Aaron Sojourner
Iconic American institutions like The Kennedy Center have no place in a society governed by Project 2025. Expect more closures (museums, institutes, etc.) in the coming months. I predict the Smithsonian will close, once all is said and done. It will start with a particular exhibit and expand to a full shut down. Fascism relies upon full and total capitulation from cultural institutions like universities and museums. Political scientists know this.
J.P. @johnathanperk.bsky.social
the best sweater ever:
Ramin Nasibov
The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources.
Ed Zitron
tl;dr the LLM is a dangerous tool, not a living entity
Tom Tomorrow
I'm old enough to remember when the Christian right fear-mongered that marriage equality would lead to bestiality and now it qualifies you to be an FBI agent.
Sarah Posner
I think billionaire solipsism is inevitable. The mere fact of dealing with people as mass statistical abstractions - hundreds of thousands of Amazon workers, billions of social media users and Google searchers - turns the majority of the world's other humans into phantasms.... Solipsism is a deadly, conscience-eroding occupational hazard of the rich and powerful. No visitor to Epstein Island could have made the visit if the pain of those young women was as real to them as the pain of their own daughters and friends. There's a short line from this solipsism to billionaires' enthusiasm for AI. When you don't think other people are really *real*, it's easy to believe that they can be swapped out for chatbots.
Cory Doctorow
“If the move survives expected legal challenges, it could also prevent future administrations from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.” Absolutely fucking demonic:
Dr. Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive.bsky.social
Seems bad to base our entire transportation system on a volatile commodity [gas and diesel], but what do we know?
The War on Cars
if donald trump stole the constitution from the national archives and torched it on the white house lawn those two would say that clearly the president has the authority to do so
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
If Trump wanted to crown himself emperor in the national cathedral alito and thomas would support it
Adam Serwer
Macklemore has been dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour for advocating for a free Palestine, which a growing majority of Americans support. Meanwhile unrepentant abuser Chris Brown was just presented with a congressional honor on his tour
Kat Tenbarge
Buddha oversees all kitchen activities:
Elizabeth @palm1elizabeth.bsky.social
The entire Trump administration is a master class in how smashing/breaking things is so much faster and easier than building them or fixing them. We're facing decades of slow, costly efforts to repair the massive destruction Trump and the GOP have caused this country. If we even get the chance.
Peter Gleick
I did not realize that Trump Jr's Russian friend is literally the guy who started the hate campaign against women's Olympic boxer Imane Khalif. Holy shit.
Katelyn Burns
The whole second term has been very mafia-like. I'm gonna do a thing, not try to hide it, and there's not a thing you can do to stop it. They seem to really relish the broad daylight aspect of it all.
Duck @tjgeige.bsky.social
Eugene Ionesco wrote a play called "Rhinoceros" which is about a guy going crazy because all of his friends keep turning into Rhinoceroses like it's a totally normal thing to do and he's said that this was his experience living through the rise of Fascism. And like. Yeah.
Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social
A sleek black Squirrel of the Day for September 13, 2026:
Artologica aka Michele Banks
the lesson from the right is not that their obsessions with trans volleyball, anti Haitian blood libel, or reversing the change in teen pregnancy rate are actually the well framed kitchen table issues of the volk but simply that political discourse becomes about things people say often and loudly
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Used Small Cages as ‘Calming Areas,’ Report Says
Hamed Aleaziz
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
Anne Applebaum
It's fascinating, to me, how many columns and articles were written after Biden's withdraw from Afghanistan about the looming humanitarian catastrophe that Biden caused and how many fewer were written about Trump slashing US humanitarian aid still being sent there from $3B/year to $0 in 2025.
mtsw
Step by step:
Tom Flood
Women are 73% more likely to be seriously injured in a car accident. Research says it’s because the crash dummies used are designed around the average build of a man.
Jacob Soboroff
We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.
Courtney Milan
Democrats should be targeting crypto, as a Republican constituency, with the same zeal that Republicans targeted universities for being liberal-coded. But they won’t, because it might jeopardize the crumbs that industry throws their way.
Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social
crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
Nikes | AlexLeeDee
You don't get to argue that the number of trans people is so small that our rights can't be a major priority, while also claiming there are so many of us that we are going to destroy the whole country by withholding votes.
Jene @luckymud.myatproto.social
It’s alarming how much influence Hasan Piker may potentially one day have in the Democratic Party.
by Laura Loomer, Nick Fuentes, David Duke, Thomas Rousseau, James Fishback, and Alex Jones
NY Times Pitchbot
Finally making my way through the UNEP report and surprise! It pisses me off. I'm so fucking sick of people telling us all these ideas that are terrible for humanity are "inevitable." Overshoot, AI, CCS/CDR...we could just as easily decide that energy transition and socialism are "inevitable"
Amy Westervelt
I love Berkeley. People will build their entire politics around the idea that mitigating climate change requires radically restructuring the world economy, but they draw the line at a 12 story building a few blocks away or replacing some parking spaces with bike lanes.
Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city
"Clean energy is an expensive luxury favored by wooly-headed liberals" has a 30-year head start and the full weight of the RW media machine behind it. A few Dems saying "clean is cheap" a few times — even as other Dems back off from their clean-energy commitments — is not going to turn that around.
David Roberts @volts.wtf
If anyone was wondering how the economy was doing, I just had to explain plasma donation to my kids because we saw an ad for it on Disney+.
Maggie Koerth
Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
You can have a free press, or you can have billionaire media ownership. But you can’t have both. There was a time when the big newspapers afflicted the powerful. That was the actual power of the press.
David Fenton
The entire right wing has been furious that the mayor of New York City had the nerve to be Muslim on 9/11, while their president is out here bragging about what a terrific relationship he has with the Saudi royal family.
Kevin M. Kruse
We might get somewhere as a nation if we realize that each new calamitous Republican administration is an extension of, and not a departure from, the prior one.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social
If humanity goes extinct from technology we created, I think it would probably be a perfect distillation of life on earth. Personally, I am far more concerned about environmental destruction from our own stupidity than killer computers.
Pedestrianize MPLS @mplsdromomania.bsky.social
JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains.
Kyle Cheney
Charlie Kirk’s murder remains the only school shooting Republicans have ever cared about.
Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social
Who funds political campaigns today? Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and about two dozen other tech bros:
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Look at what’s happening all across the white people world. Does it look to you like The Sensible Moderates are fighting the far right to their last breath? No, it absolutely does not. Does it look exactly like they are trying to manage an orderly transition? Yes, it does. There you go.
flyingrodent
I think we stopped repeating the basic arguments about why racism is bad, and it turns out you have to keep relearning them. The racists sound certain. Certainty is intimidating. Liberals often don't seem to have an immediate, 'common sense' comeback. We worry about looking stupid.
ktk @ktk66.bsky.social
"don't you care about fairness in sports?" No actually, I don't. Nobody does
Ian Boudreau
So that massive crypto donation to Reform is all over the front pages. Have just been reading the Nerd Reich by Gil Duran where he states: "...crypto is a weapon for capturing government through the maximization of political corruption."
DanC
I used to train law enforcement officers to spot violence before it starts. The reliable tell was never posture or hands. It was grievance…
…the instant a man casts himself as the victim.
He's not attacking anymore.
He's “defending.”
That's when it goes bad.
Now…look at our president.
Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social
Don’t be fooled, the same applies in Australia
CarlaExotic
Futurists, 20 years ago: one day you’ll be able to upload your brain and live forever.
Tech, today: we will put you to work and treat you like our slaves….for eternity
Joseph Gruber
Dear Democrats,
You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.
Kevin M. Kruse
I find it interesting that many of the people who claim to want smaller government often want bigger churches.
Joey McAllister
I do not really know what to do about the reactionary core, their values are so alien to mine that I fear we can only have conflict with one another. But I will say that all the people who get psy-oped into adopting their positions or aesthetics are betraying their best selves and sending us to ruin
lastpositivist.bsky.social
Damn. The Florida mosquito-borne disease tracker update is out for the week ending September 5th, and Hillsborough County now has 95 diagnosed dengue cases, with a total of 111 cases statewide. That's unprecedented in the US in the modern mosquito control era.
Kathryn Brightbill @kebrightbill.bsky.social
it's two things, to me:
1) trans rights matter because trans people matter and deserve rights, not just because failing to stand for trans rights is a bellwether for inauthentic progressivism more broadly
2) if you can't be trusted on trans rights you can't be trusted on anything
Claire Willett
It’s the 90th anniversary today of the publication of a children’s book which Franco denounced because its lead character was a pacifist. Hitler ordered the book burned as “degenerate democratic propaganda”, and various Americans saw it as promoting fascism, anarchism, or... er, communism:
Odd This Day
so the president and the vice president got on stage last night, did some blood and soil fascism, and told their supporters to cheat to win the midterms
jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social
Not only did the Edsel outsell the cybertruck, it sold almost twice as well.
The Edsel sold about 116,000 units over two years.
The cybertruck? 63k.
Stephen Blackmoore
Edsel comprised about 1% or US car sales. Cybertruck about 0.2%
everybodybcool.bsky.social
I think it's under-appreciated how much the threat of physical violence by Trump supporters is an undercurrent in our politics, keeping a lot of people who might otherwise speak out quiet.
David Roberts @volts.wtf
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans:
ProPublica
Red states kill women with ectopic pregnancies. Pregnant women do not have a "right to life."
Diane Ravitch
A handful of weird white dudes say that AI will kill us and everyone is like, oh no AI apocalypse. Thousands upon thousands of Black, Brown, even white people say the police ARE killing us and ....
Jessica Pishko
As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
Helen Czerski
I feel like I’m losing my mind. The president of the United States is promising $5000 payouts if his party wins the midterms, and the discussion in the media is “but what about the deficit” rather than “vote buying is illegal”?
Rivka @rivka-otter.bsky.social
Remember when Joe Biden proposed canceling student debt and every single Republican accused him of "bribing voters"?
Kevin M. Kruse
you can be arrested if you give water to people waiting on line to vote
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
My favorite doorknobs are the ones the New York City public schools installed at the turn of the 20th century. You can still occasionally find one on eBay!
Joshua J. Friedman
BREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
Alex Ip @alexip718.com
Fun facts and definitions:
- a BOG is a wetland that is acidic
- a FEN is a wetland that is alkaline
- a SWAMP is a wetland that can support trees
- a MARSH is a wetland that cannot support trees
Now you know!
SpryOldLorax
Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths.
Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social
The rights you partition are drawn with borders that people of bad faith will exploit.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social
He is so dang cute I can’t stand it:
Rachel @rachmarie.bsky.social
“I’m a Democrat, and therefore I’m here to protect all rights, including trans rights.” Say that, repeat that. Reset the moral ground and never cede it.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social
What does it say about us that we believe that the first thing a super-ingelligent AI would do is ... wipe us out? It speaks to an incredible amount of suppressed guilt and self-loathing.
David Roberts @volts.wtf
3 separate people asked me about my e-bike today while I was out running errands. My answer to all three of them when they asked how much it cost: "more than you think, but probably less than you'll pay for gas this year"
Tab C @drtcombs.bsky.social
In what universe would a white Mayor be told he could not attend a commemoration in Oklahoma City because "Timothy McVeigh?"
Prisonculture
The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has ruled there is no constitutional right to clean water.
The UN has declared a human right to water, but that has no sway here. If there's no "constitutional" right, federal and state laws must provide that protection.
Peter Gleick
According to the current media consensus, as far as I can tell
Diversity = bad, a mistake, what were we even thinking
Concentration camps = maybe ok? a sign of strong leadership at least. let's see what the polling of white working class men thinks.
Evan Urquhart
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel:
Berin Szóka
It's always the way, isn't it
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social
I think one of the very best things we can do for society is get people out of cars and and using modes of transportation where they engage with other humans, whether that's biking, walking, rolling, or using public transit. Cars isolate. Active transportation builds and strengthens communities.
Gravel Influencer
I think something really important about this is that private motor vehicles make everyone else "in the way." When I use active transport, I'm looking out for other people using active transport and they're (by and large) looking out for me. When I use public transport, we're all in it together.
Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social
One of the saddest aspects about living in the U.S. during current Federal fascism is how clearly bored so many people are. Bored and feeling profoundly powerless. How else can the daily social media pile-ons for every and anything be explained?
Prisonculture
All the plastic humanity has ever produced is ~10 billion tonnes. Humans emitted ~10 billion tonnes of CO₂ into the atmosphere in the first three months of 2026. When we appreciate orders of magnitude, we see how intractable the CO₂ problem becomes once we dump it into the atmosphere.
David Ho
The Marge Simpson bollard:
World Bollard Association™️
"Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022.... In a large majority of states (40), undocumented immigrants pay higher state and local tax rates than the top 1 percent of households living within their borders." –Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
David Roberts @volts.wtf
Trump claiming he was at Ground Zero on 9/11, rescuing people from the rubble until the second tower fell? That's just him "adding to a disputed account." But Mamdani checking a box on a college application? THAT SON OF A BITCH WILL PAY
Kevin M. Kruse
For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.
David Roberts @volts.wtf
True of the slaveholders, true of the segregationists and true of their racist descendants and ideological heirs today.
Kevin M. Kruse
The SEC is officially arguing that banning private equity from bribing public officials "stifles free speech." First Citizens United equated campaign donations with free speech, and now anti-corruption guardrails are being erased under the exact same logic.
Dan Miller
this is really it and it's basically what I've told students
AI devalues your work
AI tells people that you did not have the talent to make the thing yourself
AI tells people that your standards are too low and you'll settle for slop
AI tells people that you're lazy:
Tube Amps for Justice @curiousaudio.us
I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too
victoria scott
On my very short ride to/from dropping my kids off at school this morning I saw two bus drivers run red lights (different intersections). Just now, working from home, I saw a bus driver go the wrong way down our one way, one lane street. Big yikes.
Laura G Mitchell
Trump is depleting our oil reserves to offset his stupid, unwinnable war, while paying renewable energy firms to stop production, while waging an equallly stupid trade war. Presidents are often unfairly blamed when the economy goes south. But we’ve never had a president *try* to ruin it.
Radley Balko
What a ridiculous question. Once again the BBC drives a nail into its own coffin:
Paul Hebden
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social
In leaked audio recordings, Peter Thiel revealed he told JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral issues, including the development of ethical AI. He also suggested the American pope was a tool of the Antichrist.
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social
“Ignore the Pope” seems more like what the Antichrist would tell you to do.
Patrick Chovanec
Man I wish you'd all shut the fuck up about AI for like ten minutes
Tom & Lorenzo
do not into that good night be gently guided:
Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social
Wouldn't it be weird if the racist billionaire who bankrolled and took credit for the neo-Nazi victory in Germany was somehow involved in American politics too? Can you even imagine? I bet the media would have a field day asking politicians who aligned with him and took his money for statements!
Kevin M. Kruse
Trump’s obsession with remaking DC reminds me of Hitler spending hours with his favorite architect Albert Speer looking at mockups of Germania, the monumental city he wanted to build to replace Berlin.
David Gorski, MD, PhD
Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social
Cultural resentment among the backwards reactionaries is a tale as old as time.
Nevada Jones
trail drive-in theater, amarillo, texas, 1982:
old roadside pics
I guess it’s important to communicate that MAHA is fundamentally an movement by individuals to capture health care dollars by lying to people about having products and services that work
Ed @notdred.bsky.social
we actually have to destroy the alt-health industry in its entirety, much like we also need to destroy car dealerships
grapesmoker
A particularly infuriating aspect of this A.I. bullshit is that nobody seems to remember that we all got along just fine without it for centuries. How are we all suddenly incapable of reading and understanding written words? Of creating art? Of telling stories? It’s madness.
Ward Q. Normal
If Barack Obama had done this, every Sunday show would have talked about nothing else:
Adam Parkhomenko
There are no valid reasons to oppose bike lanes.
David Ho
On the other hand, there are 3 tons of reasons to oppose people driving SUVs to buy a few groceries.
Politics of Cars @thismachinekillsfascists.bike
Genuinely bad bike lanes are an excellent reason to advocate for better bike lanes; they are not valid reason to oppose bike lanes.
Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social
NEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter.
Edward Wong
Democrats who have had absolutely nothing to do with Hasan Piker will be hounded about him, while Republicans who are directly benefitting from Musk funding will be asked about him in the most generic "money in politics" way, if at all.
Schooley
Every week the richest man in the world, who is both an unambiguous white supremacist and the largest Republican donor, posts heinous racist and antisemitic slop to the social media network he controls. Every week, reporters fail to treat this as a scandal worth their readers' time.
Steve @snark.bsky.social
I'm deadly serious about this: every Republican should be shown this photo on TV and asked if they repudiate/reject/renounce Musk. And if not, why not:
Helen Kennedy
Once you notice this, it's the most obvious double standard in the political press. Democrats have to answer for the smallest voice even if it has no actual tie to them, but Republicans never have to answer for the insanely racist billionaire donor driving their entire party.
Kevin M. Kruse
Cyclists were the primary force behind organized political pressure for better, paved roads before the arrival of cars and drivers. Drivers now think they own the road and oppose safe infrastructure for all other road users. What if tanks started using roads and were crushing cars and people? I’m not talking about SUVs, but actual tanks demolishing cars and killing thousands of people the way drivers and cars are doing to pedestrians and cyclists. People in cars would demand protection from the tank drivers and tanks; the kind of protection pedestrians and cyclists want from cars.
David Ho
any system that makes Elon Musk the wealthiest person alive, and Donald Trump the most powerful persona alive, isn't running on "respectable arguments" and should stop pretending otherwise
e.w. niedermeyer
History offers lessons. For example, it teaches us about sore losers who have a history of plotting the violent overthrow of constitutional government and who daydream about building a really big triumphal arch.
Peter Norton
Alex Tomlinson
I get that revving your engine was a sign of automotive power for more than a century, but every time I hear somebody do it now I can't help buy think "My dude I don't care how much you've tricked out your ride, an electric family SUV could probably beat you out of the blocks any day of the week."
Jack Jenkins
Democrats have a cars blindspot. Leftists have a cars blindspot. There's a small cohort of transit advocates that see the horrors very clearly but we're viewed as extremists from across the political spectrum. Car dependency would die if Democrats had any courage to choose transit instead.
Pedestrianize MPLS @mplsdromomania.bsky.social
yep and even among people who realize that transport is a big problem, a lot of them still believe that the issue is with big trucks, not people driving personal cars
Marven @menorman.bsky.social
It really annoys me when people defending car dependency try to minimize the importance of mobility for children. Kids both want and deserve the freedom to move around their communities and they should be able to do so safely.
Gravel Influencer
This seems absurdly simple, but: Republicans talk *all the time* about how Democrats are bad. Not this or that individual Democrat, but the party, the ideology, the very idea of Democrats. Democrats almost never do this about Republicans. Not in a coordinated, concerted way.
David Roberts @volts.wtf
Imagine serving your country as a soldier for decades, rising to the height of the profession, and then being forced, by a drunkard TV talk show host with a hairstylist and beautician, to sit for a polygraph like some kind of common criminal
Will Stancil
The road to 4°C is paved with climate guys that want free, plentiful parking.
Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social
Imagine one of these popping open a door as we ride in the ubiquitous door zone bike lanes:
Dr Grace S Peng
The distracted driving discourse is already popping off but I’d just like to throw in: I’ve been an insurance adjuster for almost 13 years. When I started, we almost never saw high speed rear end impacts. Now they’re like the most common type of claim. It’s distractions, this is obvious.
Horatio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social
The mainstream media doesn't agree with MAGA on everything but one of their main points of convergence is that there are too many Black people at important colleges.
Nathan Goldwag
It's vital for pro-democracy voices to emphasize that it's the entire Republican Party – not just Trump – that is screwing up our country. Tattoo Trumpism on every GOP candidate. Don't let them slither away.
Mark Jacob
Had a student confused about how the feds could have suppressed the first KKK. They seemed to think, quite honestly, that racist terrorism is legally protected political activity/a free speech issue. I had to explain that, no, organized crime/terrorism is in fact against the law.
Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social
The public attitude towards AI seems really incoherent. Like, the average voter's attitude appears to be "Data centers ate my baby! Now time to share 500,000 AI generated memes on my Facebook page."
@irhottakes.bsky.social
We’re begging everyone not to look at their 5 inch iPhone screens while driving but also building giant cinematic sized displays in every new car.
Tom Flood
Certainly not over Iran or Inflation:
Stephen Moran.
HHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction.
The Washington Sun
Trump says 18 Americans dying fighting Iran is “small potatoes”
Aaron Rupar
We had *ten* Benghazi investgations
Mark Copelovitch
On this day in 1888, George Eastman patents the very first roll film camera and registers Kodak as a trademark. It revolutionised photography, making it truly portable. The first Kodak cameras produced circular snapshots, only 2.5 inches in diameter:
The Public Domain Review
He’s literally making money illegally. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social
When he’s out of power, these must be declared valueless and trading in them or holding them to be a crime.
Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social
Like it is explicitly *illegal* tender.
The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social
When cities are designed around people rather than cars, a new face to the term "cyclists" begins to emerge. It's one that encompasses all ages and abilities that get to experience the freedom of independent mobility with safety, comfort, efficiency, and enjoyment:
Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social
Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making.
MIT Press
While highway departments drew up plans to devastate city neighborhoods so that suburbanites could drive through them on $10-million-per-mile expressways, residents of these redlined districts often negotiated streets without usable sidewalks.
Peter Norton
Increasingly convinced this is the most important post:
Dave Levitan
STOP CALLING THEM ANKLE MONITORS. These are E-shackles.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social
the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
I’m an optimist because I truly believe one day the normies will understand that “I don’t like this person” is entirely comfortable being true along with “and they deserve safety and dignity and comfort and love and accountability and repair just as I do”
it’s me AC @wellgoshacs.bsky.social
A lot of people who claim they hate the wrong *kinds* of feminism in fact just hate feminism.
Moira Donegan
ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’:
St. John Barned-Smith
Photo caption: “Rodrigo, a 58-year-old Los Angeles green-card holder, was detained for 10 months and denied access to medical care as a tumor in his throat grew to the size of a lemon.”
Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social
Today I learned all the USPS services for the MSP area used to be handled in St. Paul. They are now handled in South Carolina. I learned this, after the change of address system disappeared my change of address form, which I filed in person, with the postmistress, and watched her enter it. Mail's fucked, yo.
The Wurst @oldandmoldier.bsky.social
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport:
Daniel Moser
The next step now that congestion pricing in NYC has proven to be a success is a combination of a ultra low emissions program and car reduction strategies. Let's go, @mayor.nyc.gov
Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social
Any time you hear someone seriously suggest there’s a “war on cars,” remember that the real war in cities has been the century-long WAR ON WALKING, and in recent years an increasingly obvious “bigger picture” war on BETTER CITIES.
Brent Toderian
Bikes are an economic disaster. The only things I bought for my bike in the past year were brake pads. At this rate, how are corporations going to make money? How are they going to buy politicians? How will I ever go into debt? Who are we going to bomb? The whole foundation of our economy is shot.
Qagggy!
Imagine inventing something so awful that the world has decided to call it “pervert glasses.”
Brent Toderian
the CEO of Flock said he started the company because people in his neighborhood in atlanta were having guns stolen from their cars and i guess my reaction would have been…uh, asking my neighbors why the hell they were leaving guns in their cars instead of manufacturing a mass surveillance machine?
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com
Are Waymo cars safer? Maybe. But will they make our streets and neighborhoods more livable? Way no.
Streetsblog NYC
The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?
mtsw
How many white male Republicans does it take to lavish praise on their special little boy of a president?
Kevin M. Kruse
Astounding that somebody could write "Are We Engineering Physical Activity Out Of Daily Life?" [about e-bikes] and not be talking about decades of making cars the easiest way to get around cities
Prof. Ian Walker
I think we haven’t begun to grasp how fictitious and artificially constructed, bot- and money-driven the entire influencer and right-wing ecosystem is.
Aimai
Sad how quickly we’ve lost interest in caring about a secretive federal agency taking people without warrants and holding them indefinitely in unsanitary conditions. Nothing will change if we stop giving a fuck.
Aly @catastrophicblues.swifties.social
smalley's jewelry store sign, ogden, utah, 1980:
old roadside pics
So if my math is right, the amount of money Trump made in 2025 alone (2.2 billion), is roughly equivalent to the combined net worth of all 44 other presidents at the peak of their wealth. (~2.5 billion). His current net worth, mostly from the last three years, is 3x all other presidents combined.
Radley Balko
Car-centricity is already astonishing if you live it here, but experiencing a place [Ireland] with so much less of it and designed beyond singular use inherent to the ways PEOPLE move around and live puts it into an additional dimension of stunning and ridiculous. I also kept walking around infuriated at the vastly more sensible size of the vehicles there as well. Even the extraordinarily few large anomalies are dwarfed by most vehicles here. Our smallest crossovers/whatever that one really doesn't even see here anymore are their giants. Sedans abound!
Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social
Wikipedia has an AI problem, but that AI problem isn't "theft" - it's *denial of service*, the aggressive act of intentionally or recklessly flooding a server with so much traffic that it crashes.
Cory Doctorow
A 30% cut to international enrollment is lights out at many public R1 universities. And: once again, this is not bungling on the part of the administration, or unintended consequences. It is *precisely* the intention.
Matthew Kirschenbaum
The value of Graham Platner is that right up until all his red flags came toppling down upon him is that he is the most naked example of the amount of grace and credibility Simply Being White grants you. Compared to Abdul El-Sayed, who has to re-earn every ounce of credibility he has on a daily basis.
Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app
Englewood - 63rd and Halsted vs Now:
Emily Hugan @changeurbanlife.bsky.social
When they tell you that walkability and public transit can't work here, just remind them that it once did until we let a single industry dismantle it.
Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social
Nihilism is boring. Care about stuff.
Sara Nović
Republicans have made their election strategy very clear:
1) Islamophobia
2) transphobia
3) blatant lying
4) cheating / suppressing votes
5) throwing endless dark + corporate $$ at all the above
When I see Democrats HELPING them on 1 & 2 - or barely mentioning the rest - I want to break bones.
Bill Corbett
When the story of Metro Surge is told in media, don't for a moment, through the outpouring of solidarity and community building, despite the heroism, forget that it sucked ass every single day and some days it was like the sun had been blocked from the world
Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social
The federal government does not administer elections. It does not have the personnel to suddenly take over the elections by force, either. It can only cause chaos and undermine its own legitimacy.
Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social
