BlueSky, November 2025, Part 2

Well, it's the second half of November, 2025. We left off the first half of the month just after a bunch of Epstein emails had been released and Megyn Kelly was saying it was okay for middle-aged or older men to have sex with 15-year-olds.

Since then, whew, it's been another few weeks with the Trump regime. More people blown up in boats in the Caribbean, but that's starting to be recognized as illegal, what do you know? We had two significant ICE raids here in Saint Paul, complete with street battles. Two National Guard members were shot (one killed) in Washington, D.C. by an Afghani former CIA child soldier, so now the Trump regime wants to stop all immigration and reverse naturalizations and who knows what other racist, illogical b.s.

Oh, and he spent his time pardoning drug overlords, making death threats against Democrats, taking gold bars and other bribes, and entertaining royalty who have had journalists dismembered. While the Department of Justus implodes. At other points, he was sitting behind a tiny table with his brains leaking out of his ears, calling women reporters "piggy" and "stupid."

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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In 1880, the age of consent in the U.S. was 10 years old in 37 states. In 10 states, the age of consent was 12. In Delaware, it was 7.
Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social

I mean this with all due respect, but if you believe that the Bible (or any other religious text) has all the answers you'll need and that nothing you'll learn at a university can change that, then you should not be going to a university. It's a waste of your time and it's a waste of theirs.
Kevin M. Kruse

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.
Santiago Mayer

Do not forget that this was one of Trump's first pardons after he was sworn in. Trump loves drug traffickers and has spent the first year of his second term releasing them back into the country:


Denise Wheeler

Imagine if billionaires just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
Molly Jong-Fast

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
Kevin M. Kruse

If you think “illegal aliens” are the source of diseases like measles (they are not), that is all the more reason to vaccinate
Adam Miller @ajm6792.bsky.social

To put it in perspective, the time period between Stegosaurus and T Rex is about 33% longer than the time period between T Rex and today
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social

The appellation "third world countries" is meant to implicitly justify violence against lessers — ie when they say US cities are like "third world countries" they mean they're filled with savages, it's ok to kill. It's just the theology of slavery all over again
Adam Serwer

To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Sherrilyn Ifill

Still wild to me that companies got together and lied about a mass shoplifting epidemic and fundamentally changed things in all stores so that it’s worse for everyone, and then we found out they lied, and no one fucking did anything about it, and this is just life now
Vexx Vixen @thenoirgal.bsky.social

it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
Ted McCormick

The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
Seth Cotlar

I think about this tweet a lot:


Max Berger

I think a big thing I struggle with, and something that is an important thing for people of my generation to attempt to understand, is separating toxic nostalgia from knowledge of the actual ways in which American life has gotten appreciably worse in my lifetime
good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social

Trump doesn't give a shit about Drugs, [FAKE] Narco Terrorists, or YOU! He's pardoning a REAL NARCO TERRORIST! How much clearer does it need to be?
@hedahunter.bsky.social

According to the Wall Street Journal article, Witkoff traveled to Russia six times this year, and never visited Ukraine once.
Patrick Chovanec

One of the major reasons we are here right now is that the white electorate does not reward politicians for making their lives better if that improvement also benefits non-white people.
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com

Good front-paging:


Philip Bump

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
Gil Durán

The Nazis used the term "Lying Press" (Lügenpresse) to discredit and censor all dissenting media, simultaneously targeting journalists, and seizing, and giving their political allies control of news outlets to crush any opposition. Just mentioning that now for no reason at all.
Melanie D’Arrigo

I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer
ceej @ceej.online

I got off the internet today and touched moss (far more pleasant than touching grass) and I am now both exhausted and happier
Diana Soreil @silencedrowns.com

A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social

Who’s gonna tell ’em:


Catherine Rampell

The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua — are provably, obviously false. Lots of people are going to die.
Radley Balko

Americans love capitalism and hate socialism in theory (caricature)  
Americans love socialism and hate capitalism when personally experienced
PL Thomas EdD

Posts about urban biking in Dutch cities are routinely replied to with comments like “well, they have the big advantage of being relatively flat.” The Dutch also have the big advantage of not constantly making excuses about why they can’t make clearly smarter city-making decisions.
Brent Toderian

I'm persona non grata at CNN, a place that used to have me as a commentator, but Katie Miller, the fragile, racist wife of the fragile, racist Stephen Miller, has an open invitation. I wonder why. Hmmm.
Wajahat Ali

i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones
rich traditions @helldude.bsky.social

Every time someone jumps on socials and says there is no point to mass protest days and visible reaction in the streets, share this chart with them. The approval ratings are tanking not just because they're doing bad things but also because protestors won't let people forget it either:


Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Trump offered a full pardon today to the former president of Honduras, who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of drugs into the United States.
Molly Ploofkins

I’m beginning to think that the real crime these boats in the Caribbean committed was not buying enough TrumpCoin.
Patrick Chovanec

I think Pete Hegseth is gonna wish he had lived out his professional life as a third-tier Fox News on-air talent
Denny Carter

The media treated Biden's pardon of Hunter for trumped-up gun possession charges as more scandalous — far more scandalous — than Trump's pardon of war criminal serial killer Eddie Gallagher. And here we are.
mtsw

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened. Also, Hegseth is coming for Sen. Mark Kelly because he reminded troops that they have a duty not to commit crimes *like this one*. Making an appropriately big deal out of this blunts that attack and demonstrates the need for what Kelly and company did.
Kevin M. Kruse

There might be no better example of the war coming home than a CIA-trained teen death-squad recruit getting asylum in the US and then shooting a bunch of soldiers who were deployed to DC for no reason other than Kabuki Security Theater
Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social

really went dark for the sequel:


Chris Mohney

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social

Strange how the ideology of the Minnesota assassin was pretty much dryly noted and dropped, not used as an excuse by politicians to blame half the country for the murder.
Schooley

The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda. And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
Sherrilyn Ifill

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy and religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Seth Cotlar

It was considered a scandal, by some, when Netflix contracted with the Obamas to produce films on some very interesting subjects unrelated to them personally, AFTER they had left the White House and politics. Paying the sitting President's wife $40 million for a self-produced "documentary" about herself is ... a bribe, pure and simple.
Patrick Chovanec

Trump’s second administration is like a rewrite of All in the Family in which a reactionary bigot from Queens who basically wants to be liked by the people he meets is instead influenced by his wife Ann Coulter (not the lovely Edith) and his child Nick Fuentes and his live-in “friend” Stephen Miller. The premise of All in the Family was that the moral arc of American culture could bend toward justice as long as we tapped into our fundamental human decency (Edith) and the idealism of young people (Meathead and Gloria) so as to gradually drag scared reactionary bigots into the modern world.
Seth Cotlar


Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social

Immigration is good on the morals and also essential to our economic and national security.
Costa Samaras

To people saying “just following orders, huh?”: there are lawful orders and unlawful orders. Unlawful orders must be disobeyed. Lawful orders - however misguided or unwise - must be obeyed, or else the military becomes a law unto itself. Pay attention to the difference.
Patrick Chovanec

The response to one shooting. “Permanently pause” migration. “Denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility” and remove those deemed not a “net positive”. Or “not compatible with Western Civ.” A regime where every event is a Reichstag Fire, an opportunity to demand new, expansive powers.
Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social

Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.
Will Stancil

Killing is bad, and to that end I'd like to call attention to the dozens killed in small boats in the southern Caribbean by the Trump Administration and the estimated 600,000 who've died of preventable disease and starvation thanks to the administration's destruction of USAID.
Rebecca Solnit

Drivers: "Speeding 10mph over the speed limit is ok as long as I'm doing it at 11pm and I'm not targeting pedestrians." Also drivers: runs over the stop sign at my kids’ bus stop:


Stephen @stephen.int42.org

Imagine paying a large monthly fee to shop at a supermarket, then paying again for the actual groceries, then getting an extra charge months later because one ingredient in an item you bought came from a farmer associated with a different store. This post is about healthcare.
Melanie D’Arrigo

When ecologists argue that nature underpins the economy, they are over-simplifying. Nature underpins the survival of humans on Earth
James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social

The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..
Sky Marchini

Average American Thanksgiving: President declares total ban on immigration, calls an esteemed democratic governor a slur, and then goes on TV to talk about Somalis like animals when asked about a mass shooting by a former child soldier and member of a CIA associated death squad.
utopia deferred

Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.” As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

Four of Trump's five children have an immigrant mother, and the one who doesn't is married to the son of two immigrants.
Daily Trix

"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1 billion/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals." An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
Katharine Hayhoe

What’s left of this man’s brain is just a Rube Goldberg machine of racism
Jonathan M. Katz

He is risen:


Viktor Winetrout

I would like more headlines like “journalists show a fucking backbone”. Rather than endless “Trump lashes out” stories. Cmon yall!!!
Karen Attiah

Really can't overstate how problematic robotaxis become at scale: "Urban traffic is constrained by the fact that getting around by car either requires (expensively) paying someone else to drive or (inconveniently) driving oneself. Without such constraints the result could be brutal gridlock." A city with a few hundred robotaxis is cool and futuristic, but with 100,000+ it'll be gridlocked and dangerous. All the more reason for local leaders to adopt congestion pricing and automatic traffic enforcement ASAP.
David Zipper

In Chinese, American football is called "olive ball" because of the unique shape of the ball.
Patrick Chovanec

"Sean Duffy Longs for the ‘Golden Age’ of Air Travel." More like the continuing golden age of wealthy, white privilege.
RecoveringXtian

there should be more thursday-based holidays, based purely on their ability to utterly fuck up a work week. according to my calculations, moving all the major holidays to a thursday would effectively end capitalism
e.w. niedermeyer

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social

Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years. Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
Adam Bienkov

Republicans will blame Democrats for the shooter. Don't let them.
Democrats:
- allowed Afghans to seek refuge after aiding the U.S. and fleeing the Taliban
Republicans:
- approved shooter's refugee status in April 2025
- allowed shooter to access a gun
- placed National Guard soldiers in the line of fire
Brandon Friedman

Inter-city rail with charging for e-bikes on-board. Love you, Italy:


Robert Haider

With the DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social

As many, many former counterterrorism analysts and officials said was the danger. Not spiking the ball. Just saying, professionals saw this potential and said don’t go this route. The administration chose a different path.
Josh Manning

What I've learned at my advanced age is that I rarely have the full story about anything.
Prisonculture

I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, especially in business, struggle with literacy.
mtsw

Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there and trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

It’s important to note that Triump's golf games are out of town so MUCH more tax money and time goes into them (Obama primarily played locally and was back in the office shortly after). Further, some of the tax money goes to HIM since he drags secret service to his properties.
Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social

All of the Democrats around the U.S. proposing more pretrial detention and fighting reforms to the cash bail system should be thinking about why, across modern history, authoritarians are obsessed with increasing the power of the government to detain people before any trial.
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social

NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...


David Bier

If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media
@samthielman.com

you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert [JD Vance] is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
jamelle @jamellebouie.net

Is anyone checking in on Peter Thiel to see if he's OK? If a family member kept seeing the antichrist everywhere you'd worry about them. I guess no one worries about the mental health of billionaires
Paul Kelly

Interestingly enough, prosperity gospel is based on Calvinistic predestination doctrine, and Calvinist congregations were historically most opposed to the Catholic "pomp." Anglicans and Lutherans kept some of the Catholic aesthetics, but were vehemently opposing predestination  doctrine. So no, there really isn't a mainline historic Protestant alternative for these guys. And it's always guys, female Catholic converts are likely to become nuns and work on a mission among the poor.
tuikkunen.bsky.social

“oh no, I’m such a good Catholic, I’m not sure whether to listen to the pope or the Rich guy giving me money!”
Sarah Steegar @paperandairplanes.bsky.social

Photo by Kerem Yücel of MPR News:


Conrad Lange Zbikowski @czbi.org

The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes [to El Salvador] around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics." If you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic."
Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social

To recap:
• Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives and $450B annually
• Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies and small businesses
• The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
Qasim Rashid, Esq.

Spending a week and a half in Paris and Madrid really drives home the point that the (American-ish) concept of a "one-seat ride" is overrated, and frequent headways at nearly all hours of the day is the true gold standard.
Second Ave. Sagas

Musk built a 2 million units/year automotive business, and then leveraged it all into all-in bets on the fourth-ranked chatbot and a robot that will never work... when the AI bubble pops he'll be in the weakest position, without a source of cashflow to fall back on, and then the unwind will begin
e.w. niedermeyer


robbieray.bsky.social

Those teevee news stories about holiday travel give the false impression that EVERYONE is traveling. Instead, how about:
* An immigrant/refugee family's 1st Thanksgiving in the US
* A profile on folks who work on the holidays
* What does a pro chef serve on Thanksgiving?
There are other stories...
Robert Moffitt @justplainbob.bsky.social

Trumpism is a sort of inchoate cloud of antisocial resentments that tracks with SUV bloat & gun sales; incoherent as ideology, impracticable as policy, but "simple" in a way that white jingos who harbor these resentments toward "woke" can understand
Amateur Expert Opinions

You have to keep giving money [to AI] to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
Philip Bump

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Dave Levitan

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
Perry Bacon

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all:


It’s “Mrs. Powers” during my day job

Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Uber and Lyft only added more cars to our streets
DoorDash and Ubereats added even more
Waymo will just do the same while human labor continues to fight for the the dwindling scraps of money
“When the system starts to crack, we’ll have to be ready to give it all back”
Moth @walkingminnesota.com

I did this for apartments a few years back:


Dan Bertolet

"Please wear a mask to protect yourself and your fellow humans" = tyranny
"Wear a suit when you fly" = freedom, baby!
Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social

When Rand Paul starts sounding like the adult in the room on more than one issue you know how cocked up this country is.
quick13

It’s amazing that you have a political party that’s pretty explicitly pro-political violence, meanwhile you still have beltway media continuously speaking about political violence on “both sides”
Erick Fernandez

you know what would *really* help men in America? getting a party that has become corrupted by crypto, gambling, and bro podcasters out of washington
ae @aelkus.bsky.social

We’re still DRAMATICALLY understating how completely batshit-level unhinged this is. Seriously. Imagine this happening in any other presidency. You can’t, because it’s completely inconceivable that it could happen, or that it would be allowed:


Brent Toderian

"Kennedy is a 'liar' and a 'terrible human being,' Paul Offit told me. 'If he has data showing he’s right, then fucking publish it. He can’t, because he doesn’t have those data.'"
Scott Stossel

Calling for the arrest and prosecution of members of the military who refuse to comply with illegal orders is the reddest of red flags.
KD @kdnerak33.bsky.social

The Trump regime is seeking to join a lawsuit by the cruise ship industry challenging Hawaiʻi’s new green fee, a 14% tax on tourists aimed at mitigating climate and environmental impacts.
David Ho

The fascist right doesn’t believe that American Jews belong in America. They want us to live in our own ethno-state — not here. People like Zohran believe America is a multiracial democracy in which everyone should belong. It’s insane the latter is treated as antisemitism.
Max Berger

we told you with extreme specificity what would happen if you did brexit and you did not believe us and did it anyway and then it all came true and now youre going to elect nigel farage?? same guy who made the whole country poor once already? sorry but you're just a good punchline right now
mel! @mel.bzky.team

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis
Max Read

A middle class guy with $5k in guns is essentially buying a luxury-priced feeling of safety.
Bog Mummy

I really need to practice saying “what a weird, rude thing to say” to the people who say weird, rude things to me
Anne Thériault

these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors:


rich traditions @helldude.bsky.social

Major sources of hate speech are located outside the US. Well yeah, we have this conversation every few months. And every few months people reject the bright shiny evidence that easiest way to ruin America is to feed the hate and bigotry that already exists here.
Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social

My son has got me going on this fan theory that all the Hugh Jackman roles set in the 1800s could be escaped clones of his The Prestige character. So PT Barnum, Javert, Van Helsing and one of them that went a little wrong and got a mutant X Gene and became Wolverine, all part of the Prestige extended universe
Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info

Airstrikes don’t “test” a ceasefire. They break a ceasefire. Language isn’t that hard, media. Neither is professionalism and bravery.
Brent Toderian

DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals. Its goals were never efficiency or saving money. Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi. DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
En Buen Ora

"Domestic cats finally crossed the Alps with the Roman conquest of Gaul." Huh. I never really thought about the connections between animal populations and military campaigns before.
Foghorn Leghorn @foghorn453.bsky.social

35 year-old Monstera in my care:


prairieczar

no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.
Joshua Erlich

Countries with DEI and abortion are human rights violators, says country where armed and masked government forces are invading neighborhoods.
Don Moynihan

27,000 KILLED IN SUDAN’S DARFUR IN 3 DAYS – Darfur governor Minni Arkou Minnawi says 27,000 people were killed in just three days after the RSF captured El-Fasher late last month — a massive jump from earlier estimates of about 2,500 deaths.
Drop Site @dropsitenews.com

“Medicare spends about $80 billion more annually for Medicare Advantage enrollees than it would if they were enrolled in traditional Medicare…” In other words, your taxes being looted by insurance  companies- viz. United Healthcare and other greed-mongers.
Froward Fountain aka Plain Kate @frowardfountain.bsky.social

Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive, publicly subsidized, and publicly consequential form of human habitation in human history:


Brent Toderian

Humans will NEVER colonize another planet. Never. If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
David Ho

The thing with car culture is that you create a social model where every human being is, by default, disabled and cannot meet their daily needs without a mobility device. People have a relationship to their car more akin to a wheelchair than to a train. That's a problem.
Alice In Wunderland

Bitcoin gave up all its gains for the year, and cryptocurrencies as a whole lost $1 TRILLION in value recently
Gabe KP @emg8.bsky.social

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social

With every passing day, America needs a bigger third reconstruction.
Anthony Michael Kreis

Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
Jacqueline Antonovich

Teapot Dome was child’s play
Adam Miller @ajm6792.bsky.social

It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
Kevin M. Kruse


Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social

Wow, an article published by NPR in August 2024 accused Harris of lying about: Trump wanting to jail his enemies, Trump enacting Project 2025, Trump cutting healthcare and social welfare programs, Trump cutting taxes for rich, Trump raising taxes for working families with tariffs ...
David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social

Friendly reminder; anyone not treating climate collapse as an immediate threat of unimaginable scale and violence should be ignored, fired and/or voted out. The creeps and duds who occupy our government, corp news media and boardrooms need to go FAST.
Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
Collin Pearsall @cpearsall242.bsky.social

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
Dave Vetter

DOJ is now recruiting for immigration judges by calling them “deportation judges.” That’s seems really bad.
John Pfaff

Bought and sold:


Gillian Branstetter

On this day in 1927, the Supreme Court upheld Mississippi’s power to force a nine-year-old Chinese American girl to attend a "colored school" outside the district in which she lived.
Equal Justice Initiative

It takes 225 million years or so for the Solar System to make one orbit around the galaxy. Sharks evolved long enough ago that they’ve done it twice.
Andy Rivkin

It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social

This is nuts. Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment. Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.
Anna Bower

to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated.
The New Republic

The federal government is faking evidence in major criminal cases and then lying when caught. In addition to that they are destroying evidence of their crimes against humanity and the population.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social

A customer just returned this because her airline said it could be a weapon and so not allowed in carry on:


Present & Correct

I don’t ever want to hear any Republican anywhere ever complain about someone instigating political violence against them ever again. They are a political violence party. They just object to splashback onto themselves of the environment of political violence they’ve created.
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social

not sure I even need to say this, but Trump threatening the lives of Ds in Congress is in itself an impeachable offense for which he should be removed.
Noah Berlatsky

it just seems plainly clear to me that if you serve the country in any capacity, civil or military, and you are not a conservative white man, the Trump administration wants to make the workplace as hostile an environment as possible so you remove yourself
Adam Serwer

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Radley Balko

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function!


Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social

The more cornered he feels, the more dangerous he will become. That does NOT mean he should not be cornered. It just means we should be prepared.
Leah McElrath

This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.
Kevin M. Kruse

Me, leaning against the time machine; So - richest man ever, people keep piling money on him no matter how badly he fails BUT ALSO he's a laughing stock everywhere, everyone can see he's miserable; he has no love in his life, not even his kids
Aesop: slow DOWN lady, my stylus can only go so fast
@scriblit.bsky.social

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com

Imagine if tech companies had made a wild capex bet on chasing clean energy, instead of inventing a plagiarism machine powered by **checks notes** extending the life of coal plants
Tim Dickinson

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
Jack Mirkinson

St. Paul, MN. ICE abducted someone here yesterday:


geri katz

Almost half the Waymos on California streets are driving around empty. They're either waiting for the next customer or en route for a pickup. If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
David Zipper

In Minnesota police set up a sting operation to catch child sex traffickers. They caught 16 men. No immigrants. No trans people. All US Citizen Men. One was an ICE fascist who said, "I'm ICE boys" when arrested, perhaps expecting to get special attention. He was arrested anyway. So much winning.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.

one thing about [all the people persecuted for not being reverent enough about Charlie Kirk's killing] is that in the wake of all of this, kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net

Stained glass window made from sliced agate at the famous Grossmünster Church in Zurich:


Architecture

UNREAL. Former White House aide Sarah Hurwitz warned that Holocaust education was “confusing” young people into sympathizing with “weak, skinny Palestinians” instead of “powerful Israelis.” And she said this on camera and in public!
Dean Obeidallah

Chicago has had one 9/11 worth of people disappeared since the attacks began in September. Los Angeles has had two 9/11s since June.
dan sinker

Meanwhile the President just yesterday said an assassinated journalist deserved it and celebrated his killer
Grudgie the Whale

Christian Nationalist, Doug Wilson, confirms that children who don’t accept and follow their parent’s religious beliefs should be turned over to the State for capital punishment (be put to death). This fanaticism is real:
Philosopher Jersey Flight

Pete Hegseth’s church is part of Wilson’s sect, and Hegseth has praised Wilson.
Radley Balko

One of the ways social media messes with our psychology is that we all think everyone is seeing the same thing — despite the exact opposite being the case. Not sure our brains can really deal with it.
David Evans

So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout:


Anders @annesh.no

Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways
Doc Vivi Leandra

I'd like to ask Trump if he believes incriminating evidence about him will come out if the Epstein files are released. But I can't, he doesn't take questions from citizens. So I rely on professional journalists to get the answers for me. Trump just told me (and you) to be quiet & don't ask questions
brotherjack.bsky.social

So much in the world would be so different if men could just be normal about women.
lastpositivist.bsky.social

Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation.
Center for Climate Integrity

With the world heating up [and more pedestrians being killed], why are more SUVs being sold? “It’s the industry that has driven the demand through huge marketing & advertising campaigns in recent years. SUVs offered the industry a simple way of charging more for a vehicle that does the same thing.”
Brent Toderian

no it isn’t!!! fuck you!!!


niki grayson

One thing that’s so frustrating living in a city center is the pervasive belief among suburbanites that your neighborhood is nothing more than a consumer experience for them and that the city should bend over backwards to ensure they can speed as fast as possible on their way to buy treats in it.
Urban Land Rent

Urbanism — the notion that cities are good, that we should build housing in the dense walkable neighborhoods where people want to live, and that urban governance should prioritize city residents’ quality of life over suburban drivers’ convenience — remains a radical political program in America.
Max Dubler

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
@bitterkarella.bsky.social

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around.
Naomi Klein

holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years”
Joanne Hammond

An interesting thing about autonomous vehicles is that the empty repositioning trips between passenger journeys mean they decrease the average number of people moved per vehicle trip, which is already barely above 1. Traffic that doesn't even transport. Not good!
Thomas Leeper

"But I saw a cyclist run a stop sign once!"


Pedaling Professor

Flying cars would produce more accident deaths than AI is producing now through suicide. SF depictions of flying cars never get into the gritty details of transport and never to my knowledge depict crashes.
@alonlevy.bsky.social

It’s pretty simple. When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
Grudgie the Whale

Sexual harassment is a productivity tax on women in STEM
Needhi Bhalla

guarantee you the ICE goons themselves have a higher percentage of criminals among them than the people they're ripping from their homes
horse massacre @torqpenderloin.bsky.social

It’s kinda wild the President is openly corrupt, Nazi sympathizing, and very likely a pedophile — and most Republicans in Congress are still willing to ignore the Constitution whenever he asks.
Max Berger

Hard, fast rule from a veteran police reporter: Excepting anyone engaged in infiltrating a criminal conspiracy in an undercover capacity, any law officer who hides his identity from the public is a shitheel is doing vile shit and is, in fact, actively destroying the credibility of law enforcement.
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social

four aces bar sign, mullan road, superior, montana, 1987:


old roadside pics

You can think it’s good that Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Green are stirring up shit within the GOP caucus without thinking their politics in general is good. It’s not hard at all in fact?
Kevin M. Kruse

I don't think the president should accept gold bars from foreign governments
Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Nicholas Grossman

People see Jesus Christ in slices of toast, tea stains, patterns in carpet and damp stains on walls. We are not psychologically prepared to show the required caution in the face of computer software that can mimic human language. People are already surrendering reason to the Jesus in the toast.
Oisín McGann

I saw someone describe Twitter Nazism as "secular Satanism," and that's kind of the vibe I get from a bunch of the modern far-right.
spherical-cow.bsky.social

"We are not our ancestors" is not gonna yet us through this moment. You better wish you were your ancestors who survived the middle passage, chattel slavery, who consistently revolted, who made ways as maroons. We definitely need to connect with Black legacies of survival for now.
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app

Exactly, very hard agree. Whenever I see the smug "this isn't our grandparents movement" Takes it's like... my grandfather's generation did *decolonisation*. I bloody wish we were that level ambitious and accomplished!
lastpositivist.bsky.social

We might have FINALLY met our match…


World Bollard Association™️

Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice Wong is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of San Francisco would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
Steven W. Thrasher @thrasherxy.bsky.social

Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor
Claire Willett

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
mtsw

The economic sense is so extremely in favour of renewables now, Pakistan is even paying Qatar penalties to rather NOT deliver the LNG that Pakistan already placed orders for, because their Solar PV and batteries make much more sense. It saves them money to cancel their gas imports and pay!
Climate News

Remember a simpler time, when kids knew it was time to come home when the street lights came on, everyone you passed said "hello," and the wealthiest people in the world preyed on children?
I Love Pets Four Hundred Twenty

Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans. by Megyn Kelly
NY Times Pitchbot


Rob Mellow