BlueSky Part 3, November 2024... Finally Done

And now Part 3 of BlueSky November 2024 (at 7:40 p.m.). (Here are Part 1, Nov. 1–6, and Part 2, Nov. 7–19.)

As with the two previous posts, and in contrast to my usual practice, these posts are in chronological order, beginning on Nov. 20, which is where I left off in Part 2. I thought it was too confusing in this messed up month from hell to go in reverse chronological order.

There was a lot more "usual topic" stuff and randomness in this part of the month, but it's still mixed in with post-election pain and news/commentary on Trump's planned [terrible] appointments and possible effects of his administration. There are some takes on the Democrats' missteps, too... I apologize.

Some of the images, unrelated to the election and Trump administration actions, have been moved up or down for better visual balance. One thing I notice since the big influx of users into BlueSky this month is that there are a lot more images. It's hard to space them out evenly!

Everything below the line is quoted from the attributed account.

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Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.
Thomas Lecaque

Since 2003, the United States has built 2.4 subway stations per year, while China has built 200 per year. We gotta get serious about building things as a country again.
Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear – it wastes public money to NOT do it. HT @modacitylife.bsky.social:


Brent Toderian

I found it sad and hilarious that RFK Jr cited Dutch life-spans at his 'health summit' as evidence that 'chemicals in food' were killing Americans prematurely.
No mention of universal health care or of transport policy that encouraged active modes.Nah, it's 'chemicals'. Somehow.
AotearoaCraig

I know the Democrats haven't learned anything about this election because they still have James Carville sending me emails
Mary Annaïse Heglar

I wonder what a society that encouraged us to be our best selves would look like, especially if best wasn't defined by productivity or wealth.
Kendra Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com

We’re not talking enough about the fact that New York City has had 300+ brush fires so far in November. This is not normal.
Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social

The best-selling vehicle in France vs. the US:


David Ho

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

The United States now has:
• 45,020 reporters
• 275,550 public relations specialists
For every reporter, there are now six PR people. (data via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Mike Baker

Mikhail Zygar explains why Trump's victory is being celebrated in Moscow. Not just because of a change in Ukraine policy, but because "to many in the Kremlin, a Trump presidency might bring about the collapse of the American state"
Anne Applebaum

TIL the House office buildings on Capitol Hill didn't have a women's restroom on the first floor until 1962 (46 years after the first woman Representative was elected) and the Senate didn't have them until 1991 (59 years after the first woman Senator was elected). Bathrooms in Congress were racially segregated until the 1964 Civil Rights Act and after 32 Black members had already served. The first wheelchair accessible bathroom wasn't built until the ADA was passed in 1990.
Gillian Branstetter

Hope I'm the first to post this all-time classic on this platform:


Oded Rechavi

If ever there was a time to 'dance with systems' being agile, conserving energy, saving what you can, planting seeds as you go, shoring up what matters, and improvising with your eyes on the north star of the world you want to see and the values that you hold, now is one of those times.
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social

Today, attorneys for SpaceX and Amazon are arguing before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional. Both companies had been found in violation of workers' rights by the NLRB.
More Perfect Union

I just wanna point out that the existence of the NLRB and labor unions *are* the “moderate compromise” option and prior to that things like “running gun battles in the street” and “burning the boss’s house down with everyone in it” were on the table as negotiating tactics
Classy Warfare

I know what’s happening but it’s kinda wild we are debating these worst-ever nominees when the guy doing the nominating is flatly ineligible to be President
Grudgie the Whale

It is a little funny that the United States spent the better part of the last quarter century on nation-building misadventures around the globe only to collapse internally from illiberal democracy metastasizing to the body politic
Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com

It’s not true that there are “two warring camps” in the Democratic Party coalition trying to exclude one another’s messages. The feminist and anti-racist elements have never been hostile to the economic populism messaging. The hostility is exclusively the other way around.
Moira Donegan

The nasturtiums will never give up, and will never stop flowering, until the Earth freezes over:


Dr. Robert Barry Mason

Matt Whitaker [Trump's nominee for NATO ambassador] is a kook with no foreign policy or military experience, but he’s a Trump loyalist. Each nominee is selected to degrade and/or dismantle the institution over which they’ve been given influence, and undermining NATO has long been a Trump goal.
Leah McElrath

I just learned that peacock in Spanish literally translates to "royal turkey," and I must say, that feels like a much better name than whatever the heck "peacock" means.
M. Nolan Gray

I know a lot of people don’t want to hear this but one of several key reasons the Me Too movement was met with a successful counter revolution was because there ended up being a bipartisan elite consensus that this was getting too annoying and that our powerful men getting accused, well we like them
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social

Perennial reminder that we know what we’re losing when we push out abusers whose contributions we admire or rely on… but we’ll never know what we lose by keeping them, what could have been contributed by the people they drive away
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

it's incredible how evangelicalism seems to be evolving into a new religion that has basically little to do with the actual Bible:


Sharon Kuruvilla

Nothing quite as deflating as appearing before college students and having to utter the words "before the web..."
Eric Roston

One of the worst effects of car-dependent city design isn't that there are a lots of cars, it's the valuable urban land given up to thick roads and parking... in order to make a city accessible to cars, it has to basically stop being a city:


Jamie H @wight1984.bsky.social

Let me get this straight. I was accused for more than a year of grooming students in the library w/ books. Now, actual groomers with witnesses and court convictions of sexual assault are being given the highest leadership positions in our country, and these same people are silent.
Kim Cassetto @kimmersc.bsky.social

the simple truth conservatives always ignore: every "traditional" social norm was invented by advertisers in 1957 and every "newfangled social phenomenon" has been around for 3000 years (quoting another account from Twitter called Snarls)
Bonnie (#1 pigeon fan) @bennie.gay

The G20 has removed language calling for the "transition away from fossil fuels," agreed on at COP28, from its leaders' statement in Rio. You can call this backsliding, or you can call it murderous indifference. Really, up to you.
Dr. Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive.bsky.social

My mascot. From etsy:


Jennifer Mendelsohn

How in the world are you going to say capitalism isn’t the problem when we’ve literally managed to cause climate change and a global mass extinction in less than 500 years of it existing?  Any system that demands constant growth and consumption is unsustainable. Humans have been around for over 300,000 years, and industrial capitalism has been around for less than 200. And we literally broke the planet!
Ashley Fairbanks @ziibiing.com

1835 Black abolitionist and journalist David Ruggles helped found NY Committee of Vigilance to defend rights of Black New Yorkers, including in face of threats from white judges, lawyers, and police in the "kidnapping club."
Zinn Education Project

The fact 15-minute cities got twisted into a conspiracy still blows my mind. Like it's up there with flat earthers, and possibly more prevalent.
Alex Freeman @northernnerd.bsky.social

“I don't wanna go far for stuff.” My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15-minute city:


Tom Flood

the system preceding race- and gender-integrated education and DEI was not even facially "meritocratic" — elite higher ed served as finishing schools for rich failsons, half of admissions criteria were invented to keep out Jews. the naked cronyism is the America they wanted to return to "greatness" [posted along with a video of Trump Secretary of Ed nominee Linda McMahon being slammed to the mat].
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

that’s the right. when they say “meritocracy” what you should hear is “people with a natural right to rule”
jamelle @jamellebouie.net

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say
Grapie Deltaco

Amazing that we’re possibly on track to have an entire government that probably shouldn’t be allowed within 100 feet of a school.
Kashana

The fact that a massive yellow bus that transports CHILDREN with flashing red lights was still not enough that we needed to add an extended arm (with cameras) with a second flashing stop sign to physically block the road from drivers tells me all I need to know about our auto culture.

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Tom Flood

Saw a TikTok wellness influencer suggest boiling your raw milk last night and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since
delaniac @chadnotchud.bsky.social

Feel like one could get pretty far in explaining the Trump restoration as a mass-psychological attempt to retcon the pandemic away and undo MeToo
Tom Scocca

And the BLM protests. For like one year tops it seemed like we might take how women and Black people are treated seriously and the American antibodies kicked into high gear.
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

not a landslide:


Aaron Rupar

pundits keep telling me that trump’s wins aren’t related to racism and yet when he wins there sure seems to be people who see it as license to be extremely racist.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net

no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees [BlueSky] can make a better platform than Meta
Matt Pearce

Gotta find a spot for Herschel Walker in this cabinet and space is running out!
Chris Hayes

a thing that fills me with real dread is when my kids begin to encounter the open racism that has been encouraged and inculcated in this cohort of young people. people who have never experienced open racism – or open bigotry of any sort – do not appreciate the way it can be psychologically destabilizing. and on the main, it actually isn’t healthy to be so resilient and thick-skinned that you don’t react to slurs and dehumanization
jamelle @jamellebouie.net

Captain: I'm really nervous about giving this speech.
Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this:


Father McGee @drinksmcgee.bsky.social

Old country music: Do crimes. Hell, shoot cops even.
New country music: If you ain’t lickin’ boots I will literally try to hate crime you.
illumi-naughty or nice @illumi.meme

No one has grifted more from a once-respected family name. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a conspiracy-theory crank who is a danger to public health, and every mention of him should be quite clear about that.
Laura Helmuth

If trans rights are unpopular then the only solution is to fight to change that. Because if your solution involves my kid not being able to use the bathroom in schools, federal buildings, congress … you’re dead to me.
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social

Here are some nice mushrooms:


lukelukeluke

A new analysis of National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration crash data shows that Tesla has the highest rate of fatal accidents among all car brands in the US.
More Perfect Union

A key reason voters don't believe the fascists are fascists is that major media outlets keep normalizing them with cover stories cueing the public they are just like Hollywood celebrities. Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"


Mark Copelovitch

Just a reminder that if RFK Jr. was named anything else, no one would have heard of him and we wouldn't be dealing with him.
Peter Gleick

thinking again about how Trump's White House corruptly didn't release visitor logs, Biden reinstated the practice, and the upshot of those decisions from the press's perspective is that they wrote a false story about how Biden has Parkinson's using the logs and put it on the front page, timed to damage Biden
Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social

the daily tradition:


Li Chen @exocomics.bsky.social

Suddenly, the grandchildren of sharecroppers and the great-grandchildren of those lynched and relegated to chain gangs are "coastal elites" playing "identity politics." None of us are working class today, or grew up that way! This country's always been absurd. This is just the latest chapter of it.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.bsky.social

If Nancy Mace wants to keep sex criminals out of bathrooms in federal buildings she should introduce a bill to mandate Donald Trump use a port-o-potty in the Rose Garden.
Bess Kalb @bessbell.bsky.social

It has snowed in Chicago and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Time to remind everyone that we light our train tracks on fire to prevent the switches from freezing:


Alison Malört

For Black people excellence doesn’t just have rewards, it has consequences.
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social

The share of Republicans who say that they’re worse off financially than they were a year ago is already down 15 points since the election.
Michael Tesler

We still treat oil like any other industry, and it's not. The very first recommendation in the latest call to overhaul the UN climate process is to stop holding COPs in fucking petrostates; another is to get the *thousands* of oil lobbyists out of the room. Treat it like the pariah it should be!
Dave Levitan

Mainstream Narrative:


Tom Flood

racist fascist bigots are not 'the other side' of 'both sides' what the fuck is wrong with you
darth™️

We don't talk enough about how The Rapture hinders climate progress in the US: "Power in the United States will soon be shared between people who believe they will ascend to sit at the right hand of God…and people who believe their consciousness will be uploaded on to machines in a great Singularity."
David Ho

The real trap here is that the Republicans have made defending civil rights seem like a frivolous thing and a whole lot of liberals are falling in line. Even if it was a culture war, so what? This would be a war worth fighting. What are we even doing here, people? Get it together.
Roxane Gay

A typical European car spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people, and it’s been getting bigger and heavier. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does is needed to move the car itself, not the people in it. Sound efficient?


Brent Toderian

People should be able to go to the bathroom. This isn't controversial or weird. It's weird to make a law to say that people can't use the bathroom in a federal building. We all own those buildings.
Costa Samaras

Gonna make a prediction that before March many of the largest climate organizations including some philanthropies in the U.S. are under investigation by the IRS and are being threatened with revocation of their nonprofit status.
isaac @sevier.io

I am noticing in myself and others a distinct pre-exhaustion in advance of the incoming Trump administration that was not present in 2016. Are you feeling it too? There has been an intense and intentional firehose of demoralizing bullshit, but we experienced that same phenomenon in 2016 and people responded differently. This time it feels like our adrenaline is depleted, and coalitions are dissolving rather than forming. “If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit”:


Leah McElrath

New Georgia Power load forecasts just dropped. Your jaw will, too.
DATA CENTERS: 31 GW
MFG'ING: 1.2 GW
OTHER: 1.2 GW
CLEAN TECH: 1 GW
Simon Mahan

The big petro companies have been running a high-profile campaign to "end plastic waste." A new investigation shows that, during the campaign, these companies have produced 1000X more plastic than they have cleaned up.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

I don’t think it will all fit in there:


Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social

How to resist tyranny tip #2: Tyrants thrive on our natural tribalism, replace justice with vengeance, and offer easy solutions. Adopting universal empathy is hard, it requires us to build bridges, and to want for all others the same good we want for ourselves.
J. @philosofire.bsky.social

Tesla Cybertrucks are being mistaken for trash dumpsters by raccoons, and they’re getting thrashed as a result. Honest mistake.
Christopher Webb

easy to understand the confusion
Dean Baker

there have been about 4 million motor vehicle fatalities in the United States since 1924 (about 3x more than all United States military deaths in all wars in the nation's history combined)
Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social

A new print:


Roger Peet @toosphexy.bsky.social

Research is showing that white women were more active in buying, selling and enslaving of individuals prior to the Civil War than was formerly assumed.
Patty Hankins

"[Hegseth] wrote that in the event of a Democratic election victory...there would be a “national divorce” in which “The military and police … will be forced to make a choice” and “Yes, there will be some form of civil war.” Yeah maybe not Secretary of Defense.
Elliott Lusztig

Don't limit the political perspectives you read, instead have an open mind and read the political perspectives served to you by the algorithm controlled by the billionaire right-hand man of the billionaire president-elect of the United States of America
Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social

Hegseth: "...[V]accines are 'poisonous'; climate change is a hoax (they used to warn about global cooling, you know); George Floyd died of a drug overdose and was not murdered; the Holocaust was perpetrated by 'German socialists.'"
Jamie Barnett

If you can’t see a meter-high bollard, what else can’t you see?


Brent Bellamy

In San Francisco, Waymo trips are concentrated in the downtown core, where transit is most abundant. Those claiming robotaxis will fix "transit deserts" are either deluding themselves or deliberately misleading.
David Zipper

If any assignment editors are reading — I bet a full accounting of all the financial support Elon Musk and his companies received from the federal government would make for great reading when he inevitably tells all the poors they have to start making sacrifices.
Kevin M. Kruse

Having met a ton of rich people who are nasty bigots and a ton of working class people who are kind and open-minded, I find the framing of “Dems need to adopt the language of the assembly line” to be pretty condescending. It’s like “deplorable” talk for amoral centrists.
Seth Cotlar

As cities deal with the effects of climate change, protecting the tree canopy and planting street trees will be critical:


Brent Bellamy

Super-rich losers want to trick you into thinking an underpaid and overworked federal workforce is picking your pocket, while the losers line up to pick your pocket
Costa Samaras

Reporters who wrote "Trump distances himself from Project 2025" will never apologize for printing what they knew was a lie and will continue printing lies because of their longstanding rule to help Trump: if he says something we have to print it
Matt Negrin, host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social

Not a mandate. I don't care how many times they say it, he didn't even win a majority of the popular vote and barely more than his opponent. A win, sure. But a narrow one. This bluster is meant to bowl over opposition, but the reality is that they have a thin margin that they'll inevitably lose:


Kevin M. Kruse

Your purpose on earth is not to argue with people who intentionally want to misunderstand you
Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social

Mike Johnson: WOMEN DESERVE WOMEN’S-ONLY SPACES!!!!!!
Women: uh…we just want bodily autonomy…
Johnson: YOU GET GENITAL INSPECTIONS BEFORE USING THE BATHROOM
Aubrey Hirsch

Generative AI has some uses but it's like if bicycles gave off more emissions than an airplane and also required you to steal the wheels from other people's vehicles
Ed Zitron

For 100s of years what children were most afraid of were wolves... Today's wolves? Motor-vehicles. 'Watch out for the car!!' Drivers using them kill over 1.3 million people annually (WHO).
Child friendly cities must have max speed 30kph/20mph on all 2 lane streets and restrict size of motor-vehicles
Gil Penalosa

We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars:


Qagggy!

We’re so screwed for the next pandemic. The government will offer prayers instead of vaccines and white evangelicals will embrace it and all critics will be deemed anti-Christian and I hate this entire timeline.
Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com

“The main question I was looking to answer when I started reading Hegseth’s collected works was whether he would follow a Trump command to shoot peaceful protesters. After having read them, I don’t think he would even wait for the order.”
Ian Bassin

manned space program should be at the top of everyone's cuts list. btw, trashing the manned space program as government waste is not just a dig at Musk, although it is that. On a dollar per dollar basis we learn so much more from things like the Hubbell and Webb telescopes or interplanetary unmanned ships, it is nuts to waste tens of billions on manned spacecraft
Dean Baker

Left-handed cats and flowers from 2022 hehe! I should do this again haha:


Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social

Get ready: Pam Bondi's confirmation hearings will be brutal. Dems will press her on:
*what she'll do when Trump orders prosecutions of enemies
*if she'll back pardon of 1/6ers who attacked cops
*Trump threat to punish media that displease him
Greg Sargent

P.S. Churches are echo chambers. That's how they get parishioners to feel the spirit and preach to get new converts.
Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social

I'd like to submit this picture I took in Tokyo in 2019 of an older woman riding her nifty trike through the streets of (I think) the Ueno neighborhood. In utter safety and confidence:


Sarah Goodyear

Of course I would say this, but I think the failure of many mainstream enviro groups to acknowledge that dense housing development is climate policy has been leading to predictably terrible consequences.
Ned Resnikoff

The fact that we will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence when the president is someone who “has excited domestic insurrections amongst us” is quite the teachable moment.
Seth Cotlar

If you’re ever surprised by how clueless we, as a people, appear to be sometimes, just remember that a scant 25 years ago The Blair Witch Project came out and 90% of the population was like “holy shit is this REAL?!”
Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social

The best thing about this planet is that every few days I'll learn about an animal I've literally never seen or heard of before, like the Nilgai which is just a stupidly massive antelope:


Capn Borscht

I will never accept the rules, or live inside the limited imagination, of my oppressor.
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social

People will talk about generative AI art the way we talk about tamagotchis. It will look so dated and immediately recognizable as an artifact of the early 2020s. Kind of embarrassing: people actually LIKED this stuff?
Charlie Jane Anders

My best Gorka tweet, lost when I nuked my account there:
Wife:  What is a Sebastian Gorka
Me: Imagine if Mr. Potato head got a doctorate in racism from a spätzle factory
Domestic Enemy Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social

Trump really is such a simple creature in many ways. Older blonde ladies for Education Secretary because they look like teachers. "Urban" in the title? Who’s a black guy I like? His mindset is casting The Apprentice.
Emma Vigeland

Tits and Ass:


Olaf Falafel

It's really wild how quickly Trump is rushing to get his nominees named. Most presidents-elect *start* rolling out their Cabinet picks around Thanksgiving and take months to finish, but Trump might be *finished* by then.
Kevin M. Kruse

You know, maybe I don't say this enough but you don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to point out that we all just lived through a year of open election interference that was so profound that if we had witnessed it happen elsewhere the USA would have called for an  intervention
Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social

when Goebbels asked Fritz Lang to make movies for the Nazis, Lang said "but I'm a Jew." Goebbels responded: "*We* decide who is a Jew." similarly, the modern right decides who is a "pedophile," not based on reality, but political expediency and utility.
mega them

I like when the "medicine is satan's work" and "knowledge is ungodly" and "women are broodmares for my seed," soldiers are all like "y'all need to broaden y'all's horizons."
Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social

the American public wanted an end to the war in Afghanistan, but also none of the imagery or consequences of leaving Afghanistan. having your cake and eating it is the basic stance of most voters:


BeijingPalmer

I’m pretty sure that if some CEO got fired from his job and on his way out he told a mob of crazies to show up with zip ties, flag poles and tasers and to bash in the windows and smear poop on the walls, that he wouldn’t get hired back a few years later, but what the hell do I know.
JoJoFromJerz

So, here's two things that are true, and have an interaction effect.
1. Most Americans support deporting everyone here illegally
2. Joe Biden  and Harris lost mostly because of the rise in grocery costs.
This is going to produce a brutal leopards-and-faces moment.
Brynn Tannehill

Many white people who oppose authoritarianism are about to get a crash course in minority experience in America.
McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social
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Wait til people not yet disabled find out what Buck v. Bell is and that it is still on the books
Pookleblinky

Saying there's a war on cars is like saying there's a war on billionaires. Dozens of subsidized highways connect every US city. There are more than 1 billion free parking spaces. There are subsidies for luxury cars. Neighborhoods have been bulldozed or isolated to build roads. Dedicating 1% of the paved surface for other people to not get killed doesn't make you a victim.
Peter Flax

never seen anyone disprove malcolm gladwell more thoroughly than elon. he has spent so much more than 10,000 hours posting and he hasn't gotten even a little bit better at it lol
America's Lounge Singer @krang.bsky.social

Other corvids are nice too:


Carl T. Bergstrom

I think ignored in all [the details of sexual assault against Hegseth] is that even if it wasn't rape, the entire story is a disqualifying incident.  You just can't have the Secretary of Defense be a philandering boob that has a Winnie the Pooh-level ability to get stuck in honey traps.
tomsebald.bsky.social

Republicans: we will protect women from trans people and illegal immigrants. Also, women are frivolous spiteful sluts who lie.
msdavinci.bsky.social

Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Copy editor: Nine pages ago it was described as a "mug"; do you intend the terms to be interchangeable or is this supposed to be a different drinking vessel?
Tom Freeman

NYC had the longest metro system in the world until the 1980s. Now it’s not even in the top 10. Major cities elsewhere in the world are adding new metro lines at a rapid clip and NYC has just a 3-stop extension planned for 2033 or later. The current top 10 of world metros by length (my count):
-Pearl River Delta
-Seoul
-Shanghai
-Beijing
-Hangzhou
-Chengdu
-Chongqing
-Moscow
-Nanjing
-Wuhan
Yonah Freemark

Holy fuck a swan just tried to eat my camera:


Gaijin Mommy

Optimist: the cup is 1/2 full
Pessimist: the cup is 1/2 empty
Excel: the cup is January 2nd
Yechiel

Really just an amazing image of someone losing their mind and, presumably, doing a lot of drugs:


Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co

Let's be clear: the idea that America's military lost wars because it was restrained by spineless civilians is a classic "stabbed in the back" ultra-nationalist (and fascist) trope and it's dangerous bullshit. Where US civilians were to blame was in starting the wars in the first place.
Edward Luce

Con-men count on two simple truths:
1. Some people are not that hard to fool, especially when they really want the obvious lie to be true.
2. Even when the evidence that they’ve been fooled is really clear, people don’t want to admit they were so easily fooled, so they deny the evidence.
Brent Toderian

In politics clarity is its own opportunity. The storm of the 2024 election has created great clarity. The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, and 3rd richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, are currently asking a group of Trump judges to end the right to organize and join a union in the United States.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social

We have nearly doubled [the US] population since 1960 and we’re still administered by the same number of people and maybe this is why our systems are bad at absorbing new immigrants and meeting government obligations???
Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com

Brussels sprouts are absurd:


Ellie and five festive cats @brynstar7.xyz

Losing your mind over being blocked [on BlueSky] could be an entire sociology textbook. It took less than ten years to rewire certain human brains into believing they were entitled to full and constant access to every other person on the planet. A species that, a hundred years ago, would know a hundred people.
Daniel Kibblesmith

I've signed an open letter calling for a reform to the COP process, including only allowing countries actively trying to meet the Paris targets to host, and strengthening the mechanisms to hold countries accountable for their targets and commitments.
Katharine Hayhoe

The party with two people who didn’t attend expensive, elite private universities and worked in public service for almost the entire careers failed to adequately speak to the needs of working people like the campaign of Ivy League multimillionaires funded entirely by a handful of billionaires
Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com

Republicans are more worried about people on hormone treatment using bathrooms than the storage of nuclear documents in them:


emptywheel

Being a successful lawyer after being raised by a single parent is not nearly as aspirational or rewarding as picking the shade of gold accents that I’ll plaster everywhere in my Versailles-inspired penthouse
Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing.
God @godpod.bsky.social

I used to love going to the salad bar but then they put up a sneeze guard and turned it into an echo chamber
Andy Richter

It's apparently breaking urgent national news that a college volleyball player is allowed to play. It wasn't news at all that Trump was going to bag 15k trans people from the military. See what we mean by the New York Times manufacturing consent to eradicate trans people?
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net

Does this parcel contain anything liquid fragile, perishable, or potentially hazardous? Yes:


Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @abbycohenwl.bsky.social

Arguably there has been no larger, more consequential example of Big Government social engineering in the American postwar era than the triple whammy of urban renewal, suburbanization, and gouging interurban freeways through one-thriving neighborhoods.
Ned Resnikoff

A new study finds that growing demand from data centers could jack US electricity prices up 70% by 2029. Hardship for those least able to pay. Slower economy-wide electrification. For what? Shitty AI no one wants. One of the report's recommendations: since studies show that these data centers create very few jobs and generate very few benefits for surrounding communities, those communities should stop lavishing them with subsidies.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

People out here describing protected bike lanes and pedestrianization as massive social engineering project as if the automobile's takeover of American cities was a natural weather event
Ned Resnikoff

There is no doubt people living in dense housing have much lower carbon emissions than people living in sprawl. We need to build. Oh, and that helps mitigate the housing crisis too:


Oliver @ojc.bsky.social

When your goal is to sidestep checks on your power, you do stuff like claim that 52 percent support for a vaguely articulated policy is proof of popular demand.
Philip Bump

I got a paper back from an academic publisher a week ago that had clearly been copy-edited by AI. It took three hours to unpick the issues it had caused and the errors it had introduced. It's very exciting that we now have a product that increases my workload and that my university is mad for.
Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social

Imagine being like “yeah a parking lot here would look so much better”:


Natalia Barbour

One interesting difference between Canada and the US in education: all of Canada’s major universities are large and public. The University of Toronto has more undergrads (78,000) than the entire Ivy League (63,000). We do still need more housing close to our universities though.
Oh The Urbanity!

Thumbs down on all this "save us" talk. Treats it like a switch, that's either on or off. We won't be saved or not saved — not by an institution, not by some public figures, not by ourselves. It's not a binary. There's always better and worse. Or quickly worse v. more slowly worse. It all matters.
Nicholas Grossman

I think a lot of US election commentary effectively Red-Waved itself – basing analysis on immediate outcome rather than a review of Trump's 1.6% margin and failure to break 50%.
emptywheel


Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social

The real culture war is the one that car manufacturers and car drivers have been waging against the rest of us for about 100 years.
Streetsblog NYC

Every time you're tempted to park in a bike lane, just stop your car in the traffic lane instead. It's a tip that could save my life.
Wedge LIVE!™

When a trans woman calls attacks on her dignity a "distraction" she's rising above the attack itself. When everyone else does it they're validating the attacks themselves by not refuting them outright. It sounds like "We all agree trans rights are bad but who has the time"
Gillian Branstetter

It hits different when he’s part of the administration:


Aaron Rupar

unless the Democrats are even more incompetent than they seem, every person that misses a Social Security check, every hospital that gets a late reimbursement, every person whose tax refund is delayed is Elon Musk's fault: Full stop. You KNOW the Republicans would do this.
Dean Baker

“a better future isn’t possible” is explicitly a right-wing view and everyone needs to do a better job rejecting it for themselves and drumming it out of younger people
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

COP29 Groundhog deja vu Day all over again and again all over again:


Climate News

Sounds like the formula for losing democracy is:
1. Demagogic, unprincipled leader willing to break laws/norms.
2. Timid establishment too weak or afraid to constrain said leader.
3. Shitty information environment.
Sound familiar
David Roberts @volts.wtf

Republicans have spent the last 45 years building a massive and hugely effective propaganda apparatus across the entirety of old and new media while the dem gerontocracy just finally figured out that tiktok exists
Karl Bode

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like
Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic:


David Ho

If people are surprised that we realized that bicycles were awesome more than 50 years ago, wait till they learn when we knew that emitting so much CO₂ into the atmosphere was terrible for our climate.
David Ho

“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.”
Brent Toderian

No, Kamala Harris did not lose because of her supposed embrace of “identity politics.” Just the reverse is true: Donald Trump won because of his very real embrace of identity politics. White identity politics.
David Neiwert

It's absurd (but utterly predictable) that so many people believe that if you're not willing to be treated like this on social media,  YOU'RE the problem:


Renée Graham @rygraham.bsky.social

As a parent of a kid who is particularly vulnerable under this regime, every time I read one of those doomy "it's pointless, why fight it" posts from a person of relative privilege, the rage I feel kind of scares me. Get out of the way.
Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social

Hegseth really is carrying the torch of the original Crusaders, insofar as he appears to be a fame-hungry psycho who we might want to ship out of the country for internal security reasons
Ned Resnikoff

One of Trump’s biggest advantages is that he sees every single issue in zero-sum terms, and this is much much closer the median voter’s view of the world than non-zero sum visions of a world where everybody flourishes etc
Chris Hayes

The problem with a lot of ocean "exploitation" is that it's like mining a human for calcium. Yes, a human body contains ~1kg of calcium, and you could take it out, but it's already *doing* quite a lot of useful things, and the human has far more potential to help you if you leave the calcium alone.
Helen Czerski

Unsurprising but still mind-blowing chart:


Josh Nicholas

If you voted out the incumbent because you thought housing prices were too high, got more bad news from you. We import $105B in cement/lime/minerals and $28B in lumber/paper from Canada. We also *already* tariff that lumber to death. Expect construction costs to go through the roof (so to speak).
Catherine Rampell

So Trump will impose tariffs on Mexico on Day 1?? More than 60 percent of US vegetable imports and 45 percent of US fruit and nut imports come from Mexico. Grocery costs are going to skyrocket.
Peter Gleick

Elevated transit can create shaded people-spaces underneath like these sports facilities in Vienna:


Qagggy!

never judge a book by it's cover except sometimes do that
a brick @beeb33.bsky.social

Imagine if 200 countries met for 30 years to eradicate smoking-related lung cancer and they weren't allowed to use the words "tobacco" or "cigarettes."
Eric Roston

Daily bunny no.2785 is stepping on toes:


Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social

when you stop reading "believe women" as "women never lie" and see it as "one of the foundational myths of patriarchy is that women can never be trusted" it makes a lot more sense.
Wagatwe Wanjuki

24 hours after I first saw the stat, I remain blown away that the average American uses their car 48 minutes a day. So much carnage, congestion, money, and other problems all caused by something that sits idle 23 hours and 12 minutes a day. Think about it—it's fucked up.
Peter Flax

Incredible how the narrative changes as soon as the election is over:


Keith Edwards

Inevitably lost in all the discussion over a few instances of gender-affirming care being provided to incarcerated people is the much bigger fact that medical care for those behind bars is almost uniformly subpar, dangerous and deadly.
Tim Carvell

There are, like, a million Indian doctors in America and Trump picked the worst one to head up the NIH.
Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com

this one easy trick [RFK Jr suggesting Black people just need to be more resilient and let racism roll off them] will put a lot of black people into an early grave...i don’t want my children to have to be “resilient” to racism, i want them to not have to experience it
jamelle @jamellebouie.net

When Democrats are in power and the opposition is struggling, they restrain themselves per the principle that "the nation needs a strong Republican party." Has there been a single move by Republican leadership in the past fifty years that was motivated by "preserving a viable opposition party"?
Calixtus

The Weisman Art Museum on East River Road in Southeast Minneapolis, designed by Frank Gehry before his similar but much bigger and more ballyhooed museum in Bilbao, Spain. This was taken yesterday:


Chris Steller

An inspiring thing I learned today is that the more bread you bake, the more your kitchen becomes populated with wild yeast that helps your future breads rise. Brb gonna cry
Anna Merlan

V-jointed cobbles, c1830 western New York State. The most common place to find them in the US apparently:


Darren McLean @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social

John Phelan, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Navy, appears to have absolutely zero relevant experience for the job — other than having hosted a fundraising dinner for Trump at his $38 million home in Aspen. He’s an art collector who runs a private equity firm.
Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social

James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.
Schooley

I adore this, what a fun way to show how much fabric is involved!


S.C. Kaplan @medievallitura.bsky.social

Here's a loosely held, half-baked take about parenting and urbanism: the far-right, Moms 4 Liberty type view that parents "own" their kids is reinforced by sprawl development patterns that confine children to home until they can drive. Like if you're a suburban parent and you think that your kid is basically your prisoner until adulthood, then the surrounding built environment agrees with you.
Ned Resnikoff

Seriously though, for all the self-serving post-election analysis on what Harris should or shouldn't have done, has any major media ran anything noting sociopathic lying was apparently the winning strategy?
Schooley

Do not under any circumstances buy into the myth of a mandate or the idea that "everything has changed."
Franklin Leonard

New Orleans out here innovating in bread shapes. Say hello to the challigator:


Jeff Abraham

Local school put out a sign last week: PARKING HERE COULD COST A CHILD THEIR LIFE. Three days later a parent ran it over and parked on it. I am beginning to wonder whether cars are, of themselves, some sort psychogenic sickness.
Nick Harkaway

Anything for family...


NapoleonXII @crashingbore.bsky.social

Three guesses: who funded all the campaigns against the Canadian Climate Plan? First two don’t count. #OilAndGas
Gerald Butts

In Canada, it turns out that all that "grassroots support" for oil and gas is simply the Conservative Party and the fossil fuel industry in a trenchcoat.
Dave Vetter

The Staircase of Knowledge at the University of Balamand in Lebanon, with the Epic of Gilgamesh as the first step:


Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid

New transit study: Service frequency and coverage both drive ridership, but frequency matters more.
David Zipper

Why does MAGA never get up in arms about goddamn youth pastors? Those motherfuckers are pervy bastards.
@gabimccauley.bsky.social

Oleomargarine tax stamp, Minnesota, c. 1930s. Image: Hagley Library:


Gary Hornseth

We just started the YIMBY Caucus. Here’s a start:
- federal standards on parking minimums
- DOT grants tied to housing and zoning policy
- federal tax incentives to build
- first-time home buyer assistance
- state and city federal support for up-zoning
- expand mission at HUD
Rep Robert Garcia

Magnifique couverture de Vogue Deutsch . Illustration signée Cécilia Lundgren:


Nassira El Moaddem

Really enjoying Gareth Gore's book on Opus Dei. I wanted to know what it is. I started with the idea that it's a secret cult-like org after power and influence. But as I read, it seems increasingly like just a highly aggressive cultural virus whose only purpose is its own propagation.
Paul J Davies

Years ago we had the mayor bike to school with my 6 year old, within the first :30 seconds they were almost hit by a driver on live TV. Every leader should be required to ride a bike (if able) with a 6 year old before they provide any direction on bike infrastructure:


Tom Flood

I think the story of media, particularly online media, in the last couple decades is basically “market becomes more efficient, society realizes inefficiency was load bearing.”
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social

BREAKING: Critical Safety Margin Mistaken for Redundant Excess Yet Again
Ray Radlein

The [political] generals always have lots of ideas about how to win the last war, but the way some of these guys are framing their postmortems strikes me as not just broken but delusional. 2028 is going to be wildly different from 2024, and dorks’ jockeying for position now is going to be utterly unremembered.
Angus Johnston

Yeah, nothing more important to a 1st century Middle Eastern man than where people would pee once indoor plumbing becomes a common feature in public spaces. Plus Saint Paul spelled it all out in his 2nd Letter to the Lavatorians. Jesus would flip this dude's table over:


Amelia Mavis Christnot @amchristnot.bsky.social

Voters: "I want cheaper eggs"
Musk: "The election gives me a mandate to personally execute pro-Ukraine members of Congress"
This is gonna be a looooong four years everyone
Dante Atkins

People who think “the markets” will save us from climate change do not understand that capitalism created climate change.
Mary Annaïse Heglar

Elon Musk walks his dog. via @jackohman.bsky.social:


Gil Duran

My theory on newspapers trying to avoid death — they are going to move right. Because they have been generally left-of-center for eons, and they are dying. Publishers see this and think – why not try the other direction. The Star Tribune publisher signaled this in his post-election column.
brandon stahl

Kinda starting to feel like this hyper focus on gen z “not reading” is priming us to not care so much when they start burning books? But idk I might just be paranoid
Mary Annaïse Heglar

The former head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove says Europe is no longer in a pre-war situation with Russia, but an actual war. "I don't think there's any point in beating about the bush," Europe & the US are in a "very dangerous situation." "We are in an extraordinary situation historically."
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social

Look, this son of a bitch just HATES PARADES:


Mike Sterling, Comics Guy @mikester.bsky.social

One fact that's highly under-appreciated is that, when it comes to politics, nobody knows anything and everyone's full of shit.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues
Birds Are Dinosaurs

Performative femininity is expensive. The hair, makeup, nails, clothes, etc., keep women broke and keep the beauty industry profitable. Telling women strength is ugly is another thing keeping women down. Riley Gaines didn’t complain about the 4 cis women who beat her. It was never about sports.
Sock Puppet Magical Unicorn @sockpuppetpundit.bsky.social

It's finally getting cold, and the birds are becoming r o u n d:


Smeesh, illustrator for hire @asmeesh.bsky.social

Remember when having an illegal nanny scuttled a presidential nomination? Good times those were.
Matt Krasnowski

Pete Hegseth's Mother Accused Her Son of Mistreating Women for Years: Penelope Hegseth made the accusation in an email in 2018, amid his contentious divorce.
New York Times

"I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for many years) and as your mother it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth." –Penelope Hegseth, Hegseth's mother
Dr. Jack Brown (quoting from the NYT story)

Mothers can be forgiving, but I'm curious as to what the mothers of his victims have to say?
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Commit to living your life to a standard that no email from your mom becomes newsworthy enough to publish in the New York Times
Tim Dickinson

amazing use of 45s in Havana:


Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net

The reason cults often restrict calories is because being hungry makes you compliant. Think about that as super thin bodies are being normalized again.
Kendra Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com

“Believe it or not, electric bikes offer more exercise than pedal bikes on average. That fact might sound strange, but the science is clear.” Why e-bikes actually give more exercise than “acoustic”bikes. (but both/either are excellent when it comes to better cities)
Brent Toderian

Nobody builds car-dependent holiday villages:


BikeMN

Every year we celebrate the cozy winter village and worship the bustling holiday markets of shops, vendors, restaurants and a vibrant life full of community and togetherness. What's incredible is that we still refuse to support, build or create this type of vibrant public environment for everyday life.
Tom Flood

If you spend your whole campaign disavowing something, you can’t claim afterwards the voters gave you a mandate to do it:


Geoff Garin

We all think plastic pollution is a problem, and it is. In the nearly 70 years between 1950 and 2019, the world produced a total of ~9.5 billion tonnes of plastic. But all the plastic we have EVER produced weighs as much as CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024!
David Ho

Ten years ago, it looked like we were on pace for 4C warming or more. Now that is closer to 3C. That's not acceptable, the goal is well below 2C! Yet it is still an accomplishment. Could  celebrating rather than denigrating what's been done help in the push to go much further?
Simon Donner

I can hear him hissing "my preciousssssssss"


amityf

Affluent MAGA people will talk about the need to preserve traditional American culture and then spend seven figures to live somewhere that looks like a 3D model that isn’t done rendering yet
Ned Resnikoff

Elon Musk has 12 kids and spent Thanksgiving with Donald Trump
Judd Legum

The persecution by Israel's government of Haaretz, Israel finest, and one of the world's greatest, newspapers, is unforgiveable. Boycotting it—and denying it government advertising—a technique out of the Orban playbook, should deeply worry all journalists everywhere.
Donald Macintyre @donmacintyre-27.bsky.social

By popular demand, I printed a new edition of my Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), here surrounded by plants and a mineral she touted as medical treatments, her invented alphabet and model of the universe. One of my most popular prints this year!


Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social

2024, in a headline: Trump-linked crypto-founder eats $6mn banana on stage
John Reed @johnreedwrites.bsky.social

Electric cars in China sell for as little as $11k apnews.com/article/chin... Just think, if we removed tariffs we could save tens of thousands on buying cars and put Elon Musk out of business. I wonder if DOGE will recommend this.
Dean Baker

lmao robert moses came up at the thanksgiving dinner table (duh) and my dad gets up, retrieves this mug from the kitchen and silently hands it to me. he bought it for himself. I can’t...


Rachel Holliday Smith

"Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, [account] for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally."
David Zipper

The societal definitions of manhood *have* evolved, but in ways that infuriate certain young men, who reject them as cucked and effete. They feel 'left behind' because they've *chosen* to stay behind. They don't want to catch up; they want to force women to regress.
missingjigsaw.bsky.social

The headline for Greg Abbott’s obituary will just be “Christ, What an Asshole”
PNWguy @pnwguy9.bsky.social

It will never stop being weird to me that the nation's most prestigious newspaper lets people just ... say stuff in its opinion section. Societal definitions of manhood have changed a shitload since 1960! Including on the stereotype of the "male breadwinner," the topic under discussion here.
Michael Hobbes

An Iowa pastor put up a Nativity scene outside his church. Right in the middle is King Herod, depicted as an atheist whose “real goal is to kill and destroy Christ.” The image in question:


Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com

We are all collectively grieving. Grieving what was. Grieving what could have been. Grieving the expectations we had for certain people. That’s why the emotions come in waves. It’s all grief
Ying Yang Jess @themindofjessie.bsky.social

Around 60% [of recent solar growth] is from ground-mounted solar farms, while rooftop solar makes up 40%. What’s really astounding about this is the pace of change - it took 68 years for the world to install the first terawatt, and just two more to add the second.
Ada Palmer

This Day in Labor History: November 30, 1932. The American Federation of Labor endorsed federal unemployment insurance. It took a grassroots revolt of the rank and file in the unions to force these union leaders with their 19th century vision of society to do anything about the Depression!!!!


Erik Loomis

What I need Democrats to understand is that they will never, ever be good enough for Republicans or their voters. This is the same paradigm as antebellum politics: Every new concession to the pro-slavery side just emboldened their behavior. They don’t need a conversation; they need a thrashing.
Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com

I just wandered around London today and went to places I've gone tons of times. But today I did it with my sister and her kids and our partners and it was the best fucken day ever. Best part being my 7yo nephew seeing landmarks for the first time and  him being all 'LOOK. A BUS. TWO BUSES. THREE BUSES' while I'm trying to point out St Paul's over here.
GavFromRomford

Growing wine grapes under solar panels can increase yields by 60%. That seems like the definition of unalloyed good news
Bill McKibben

[locking everything up in stores like CVS] isn't to stop shoplifting. its security theater designed to spread the concept the poor are a barely repressed violent mob so the public will support them being put down in ways like a Walgreens security guard shooting a Black trans man (Banko Brown) dead over tide pods. they know whats coming.
Raea @raea.meangirls.online

And the grift goes on! Convicted felon [Charles Kushner] named to the post of Ambassador to France...
Edward Kemper @lorez.bsky.social

Of course Trump picks someone like Jarad Kushner’s father as an ambassador. He’s a convicted felon.
Steven Beschloss

Here is what Kushner admitted to when he pled guilty:


Marc Elias

Really incredible how conservatives and the media have positioned a murder of billionaires from tech to real estate running and exploiting the country as the working class revolution against the elite. They did it the first time and now even more of that class has joined in the looting. Elite at this point just means left-leaning person of influence and not the actual people with money, power, and ability to shape industries and the country to their liking. Taylor Lorenz, elite. Peter Thiel, working class revolutionary. Language and reality has been completely twisted and deranged to the point that it makes no sense to even try to argue as if there’s some common understanding of either.
Zito @zeets.bsky.social

Trump has decided on Kash Patel to head the FBI.
Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social

Who is Kash Patel? You don't want to know.
Steve G @stephenlg.bsky.social

Because FBI directors serve 10-year terms, Trump would have to fire Wray — or Wray would have to resign — for Patel to take over the bureau.
Mrs Harrington @voter1vote.bsky.social

Yikes! Kash Patel is a frightening and crazy pick for the FBI. As crazy as his eyes!


Karen Kenyatta Russell

Patel played a central role in helping Republicans fight investigations into Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election. During his first term in office, Trump “wanted to make Kash a political executioner, to root out and fire individuals on the White House staff who weren’t being as loyal as he thought they should be.” Everything is fine.
Leah McElrath

Sunset St Paul Minnesota:


debgould.bsky.social