It amazes me that as I look at the earliest BlueSky posts for this second half of December 2025, I can't even tell that the primary topics at the end of the first half of the month were mass killings and the murder of the Reiners. Those topics have dropped completely out of conversation in this list. There's just so much churn in the news.
Trump, the person, continued to deteriorate before our eyes, both medically and mentally. He renamed the Kennedy Center; maybe keeping the word "memorial" is aspirational. There was more escalation toward war with Venezuela, with more dead people on boats, mostly in the Pacific, rather than the Caribbean. The Epstein files were not released on December 19 as was required by law. Turning Point USA had a meeting where the Nazis partied and slapped each other, or slapped each other on the back. And we ended the month with anti-Somali raids here in the Twin Cities, with right-wing chuds invading child care centers. Because fraud is such a concern among Republicans, as Trump demonstrates every day.
All that, of course, with a mix of holiday and New Year's posts.
Everything below the line is quoted from the attributed account, and is in reverse chronological order, except some of the timeless images, which I move up or down for better visual balance.
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I think the second quarter of the 21st century will be much better than the first. I think this post will age well.
Tom Cochrane @doctorcochrane.bsky.social
They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social
The quiet dignity of a self-confident nation:
Philip Bump
One of my furthest beliefs is that the next democratic administration needs to hire half a million IRS agents. 70,000 was far too few.
Sky Marchini
if anyone was actually interested in running government like a business this is one of the first things they’d do
post malone ergo propter malone
This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a government site:
Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social
Trump won’t admit it but Los Angeles absolutely beat his fucking ass when he tried to take over LA. We’re still dealing with ICE raid bullshit but at least in North Hollywood we made it fucking KNOWN you do not fuck with us.
kylie @kylie.hater.club
When Nick Shirley arrived to "test" if he could enroll his son "Joey" in Minneapolis day cares, his viral video omitted that he showed up with an entourage of masked men acting like security, multiple vehicles including vans, cameras, and men who wouldn't identify themselves. One day care owner /
Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social
Damn if they're concerned about pedophiles and mass fraud maybe they should take a look at the thing they elected
Skeletal Minion
You know you’re winning when you’re dispatching never-loved 20-something white dudes whose faces scream “I need therapy but daddy said it’s for weaklings” to knock on daycare doors and scream, “SHOW ME YOUR CHILDREN!!!”
Rex Huppke
zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social:
Why do people think you can walk into a daycare or school without permission or film children without parental consent? These same people would be furious if their kids' schools allowed any of this.
Octobermystic
Elon Musk promised a lot of things by 2025
- colonists arriving on Mars
- xAI achieving Artificial General Intelli
- Tesla robotaxis serving half the U.S.
- completely driverless robotaxis
- a Tesla Roadster demo
- DOGE cutting trillions
Matt Binder
Yes, if you speak out against ICE they'll say you're a lunatic who wants to open the floodgates to scary immigrants. The correct response isn't cowering in a corner, it's asking whether people want to be terrorized by armed masked thugs as a part of daily life
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social
orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing:
shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social
Poseidon i know i haven't been very devout but if you could just hear my prayer...
Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social
My most extreme and radical opinion is that US suburbs are inherently anti-social and bad and should all be ripped out and replaced by much denser infrastructure that enables the movement and autonomy of people who cannot drive *above* anyone behind the wheel of a car. To be fair to myself, while my opinion is radical, checking out the rhetoric of the policymakers who enabled this more or less confirms that US suburbs were explicitly formed to increase anti-social behavior and foster both racial segregation and individualist capitalism. The real villain (which people absolutely do not want to hear) is the prioritization of single family homes and the build in pattern that endorses sprawl, lawns, and car dependency, which inherently creates scarcity. No one accepts that single family homes are basically small mansions. *Multiple generations of white voters* raised on “American dream” suburban propaganda that we should all be property owners and that having your own house with a lawn is the ultimate form of prosperity even if it chains you and drags you under, to say nothing of car dependency (100 month loans)
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com
If I were actually a free thinker who questioned everything I might get to wondering why my government tries to make me mad at Somalis every time something new comes out about Epstein
Slow Ominous "Auld Lang Syne" Cover @gonebabygone.bsky.social
daily routine:
Li Chen @exocomics.com
The fall of Weimar Germany was a failure state of democracy, but it was not 'by democratic means' that it failed — the streets were claimed by thugs, and the administration that put Hitler into power — because the Nazis never won an election before banning their opponents — was Monarchist.
Kane @kanexan.bsky.social
I’m trying to think what would have happened if, during the Mississippi welfare fraud scandal between 2020 and 2023, the Biden administration had halted *all* federal welfare funding to Mississippi. The right would have lost it; Fox and GOP would have called for an armed revolt.
Mehdi Hasan
Lol. Pam Bondi deleted that post crediting the Trump admin for ending fentanyl overdose deaths after Ted Lieu pointed out that the chart's data ended during the Biden admin, showing the decrease was under Biden.
Mike Masnick
Pete’s latest thing is knocking all the Christmas cards off the sideboard:
Gail Myerscough
If you leave a Waymo’s door partially open the company has to pay a human $20 to come close it, please use this information responsibly.
Daniel Kibblesmith
so much of the bike infrastructure debate is shaped by the presupposition that people who drive cars need their cars, whereas people who ride bikes don’t really need them
Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net
On this day in 1907, depicting Black men as violent and subhuman, a former U.S. senator argued for the death penalty as punishment for interracial relationships.
Equal Justice Initiative
Exclusive: ICE officials plan to spend $100 million to recruit gun-rights supporters and military enthusiasts through online influencers and a geo-targeted ad campaign, part of what the agency called a “wartime recruitment” strategy to hire thousands of officers, according to an internal document.
The Washington Post
You really can’t analyze Trump as a political phenomenon if you refuse to acknowledge the historic threads of racism, patriarchy, xenophobia, and push towards total capitalism. So yeah I imagine it’s easier to treat him as an inscrutable force if all of that sounds cringe to you.
Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app
Daily bunny no.3186 has been surrounded!
Will Quinn
So Tom Emmer says "Send them home" to Somalis who commit Fraud. Then does the same hold true for Republicans? Like his buddy Rick Scott who oversaw the company responsible for billions in Medicare fraud? Send him to England/Scotland.
quick13
Sorry, still don’t think massive fraud committed by some is an excuse for ethnic cleansing or the spread of a fascist public dementia
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps:
- It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’
- It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’
- It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’
- It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’
- It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’
No worries if not!!!
Merriam-Webster
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social
When it is more profitable to break things than to fix them then there will a world of broken things.
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social
Prior to his shocking ascent to the highest echelons of government, Kennedy was little more than a joke for purveyors and participants in the national political arena, mocked as a brain worm–addled nepo baby with no legitimate prospects in Washington:
The New Republic
Donald Trump’s year-in approval rating is lower than that of any president in the last 5 decades. It’s even lower than Biden’s approval rating when he left office.
Steve Rattner
It is WILD how people are pissed off because a random daycare - in a place where there was a school shooting less than six months ago - isn't letting random adults *with cameras* into their buildings to "see what they're doing."
Dex Anderson
Shame is really good at stopping action but horrible at compelling it
Mzbitca
Border czar Tom Homan didn't receive a normal background check for his role while his bribery probe was still ongoing. Justice officials felt sure Homan would not be able to obtain a security clearance based on the evidence gathered. It remains unclear how Homan was eventually granted clearance.
Kyle Griffin
Everyone knows the biggest healthcare fraudsters in Minnesota aren’t Somali, they’re at UnitedHealth Group. I want to hear DFLers point the finger, accurately, at this entire convoluted dumb HMO system of vouchers and grants (the DFL itself helped create) that somehow makes millionaires in Minnetonka.
Kendal Killian
White dude with camera arrives at daycare and demands to see kids. Daycare workers keep doors and windows closed. White dude alleges fraud. Every Republican backs white dude. That's the current story in Minnesota.
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social
There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid
Adam Serwer
The unique threat of the last decade has been the emergence of a political movement which wants to operate outside of passing bills and governing through regular order.
Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social
The “fun” thing about the kennedy center freakout is that conservatives have been carving out “creative” exceptions to anti discrimination laws so they can be bigots to ordinary people just trying to make a purchase, but if actual artists don’t want to perform for the god king they must be punished
Adam Serwer
Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?
Cities of Lions
“Every additional inch of asphalt is a sunk cost in the twentieth-century notion that a city should be a place for others to drive through, instead of a place for people to live, walk, and thrive.”
No More Freeways
Polemicist is the word we use to describe people we disagree with whose writing we envy.
Matt Seybold
Are white people aware that Trump won twice BECAUSE A MAJORITY OF WHITE PEOPLE WHO VOTED PUT HIM IN OFFICE?????????? Why is this consistently elided???? Stop being ridiculous.
Prisonculture
If a politician talks more about who to blame for a problem than what to do to solve the problem, then that politician is using the problem as a political weapon against their opponent and doesn’t care about solving the problem — or the consequences for people.
Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General
What is the purpose of a postmark other than "this is the date the postal service took possession of this item and responsibility for its delivery"?
William Leisner
We definitely need an imposter syndrome redistribution system
Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social
CARTOON OF THE DAY:
The Tennessee Holler
I wish the legacy media would talk about the fact that almost no one under 40 can buy a house, insurance premiums are set to skyrocket, and most Americans are living from paycheck to paycheck instead of *checks notes* the finer feelings of billionaires.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app
TIL Japan built the bullet train before California built the 5 freeway. The best time to build a high speed rail line was 20 years ago, the second best time to build one is today.
Carter Lavin
Plastic concentrations in our brains are 7 to 30 times those in our livers and kidneys (dementia patients have even higher concentrations): that's Big Oil and the multi-billion plastic industry lobbying their way to an epic health emergency
Assaad Razzouk
Just would like to remind everyone a private citizen with massive foreign financial exposure was brought in to handle sensitive diplomatic negotiations and no indication anyone questioned giving him a clearance again. Life of nepo baby Jared at its finest.
Bradley P. Moss
One nice thing about foraging compared to other hobbies is that no one spends $10,000 on stuff for it
lukelukeluke
The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides:
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Street Roots
Popularists: Do what's popular!
Americans: We fucking hate AI! Go ahead and regulate the shit out of that.
Popularists: Well obviously don't do that.
The Alternate Historian
something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things. they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
Micah @rincewind.run
2026 was a year invented in movies from the 1980s to signify that it’s the future now
tha blue wigga @jazzpomegranate.com
Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him
The Onion
“Climate-related disasters caused severe economic harm in 2025, with the 10 most costly responsible for damage exceeding €100 billion.” The true costs are MUCH higher and rising fast. They want us to think we can’t afford to change to address the #ClimateCrisis. The truth is we can’t afford NOT to.
Brent Toderian
'we can't afford climate action' says country whose annual car and car infra costs are over twenty times this
Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social
Now he can judge you with increased efficiency:
Cats with Jobs @catworkers.bsky.social
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
Philip Bump
My opinion of the New York Times is distinctly outside the mainstream among journalists. Most think NYT is mostly excellent journalism with some flaws and blind spots, I think it's mostly a vehicle for laundering right wing propaganda with some excellent people who put out good work.
Evan Urquhart
One of the most successful propaganda campaigns of our time is the right-wing claim that liberals dominate the media. The right has pushed this myth for decades on Fox and other outlets. You know about it because RIGHT-WING MEDIA HAVE A HUGE MEGAPHONE.
Mark Jacob
Reducing the wealth of the top 1% by half through taxation would not change who the top 1% are. It would mean that we could have universal healthcare, better education, feed the poor, provide affordable housing, and safeguard veteran benefits and Social Security Security.
Large Johnson @flytyingguy.bsky.social
“Trump babies” is a phrase I never needed to hear, and would prefer to never hear again.
Radley Balko
St. Paul, Minnesota (2025). Nocturne for a Four-Arched Loggia:
Bob @actualbob.art
If you ask someone when they were forced to apologize for being white, they will absolutely name a time when they were asked to apologize for doing something racist and they conflated doing racism with being white because they have a vague understanding of the power dynamics of white supremacy
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
A program designed to force a white supremacist society to include people who are being unnaturally restricted is not discriminatory, and is good. White christian conservatives wouldn't be able to handle actual discrimination. They can't even handle equality. Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it. None of them have ever done any such thing. I think what they object to is that other white people have started talking publicly about how whiteness as a concept creates inequality, and they feel the social pressure that truth creates, which they experience exclusively in terms of blame management.
class war clown
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
If ever something was deserving of a "satanic panic" it is GenAI. And yet only the reasonable and rational show appropriate concern.
@anothersockpuppet.bsky.social
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products and redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in *9 billion* long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
Anil Dash
it is extremely funny that RFK both does not believe in the germ theory of disease and is a lab leak truther
rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social
Trump's net worth increased by $4 billion. All of the wealth was gained by manipulating his power as president. Nothing like this has ever happened before:
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social
"rich asshole says something" just shouldn't be news.
Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
Jim Alwine
Agrivoltaics boost crop yields even when the solar panels aren’t generating power. New research from Canada shows that shading crops with elevated solar panels creates a cooler, wetter microclimate that can lift yields and improve performance across dozens of crops.
Ada Palmer
People not in the US routinely downplay the degree to which law enforcement in this country is willing to kill us. In grad school I referenced this analysis that found that cops in the US kill more people than "criminals" do in other countries. And that's routine.
Kendra Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com
Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
Don Moynihan
In 2019, the rate of fatal police shootings in the US was 3.1 per million residents. By contrast, the rate in France was 0.14 per million, and in Germany, it was lower. In Germany, police officers discharged a total of 85 bullets at people in the entire year of 2011.
Chad Loder
Car doodles from holiday travel:
rubylith @rubylith-art.bsky.social
Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods: what the latest evidence tells us": behaviour change. 24% said they walk more, 18% said they visit local shops more frequently, and 17% said they had made more use of public transport.
Barnsbury & Laycock Community Streets
October-7th and what followed have radicalized me very hard against ethnonationalism. Just legions of people on every side who should and absolutely do know better saying “ok but [attrocity] is good when it’s us tho” and being taken seriously for some reason. Fuck your blood and fuck your soil.
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social
All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social
On this day in 1837, Congress renewed and expanded a rule that prohibited any discussion about the abolition of slavery. The rule remained in effect for seven years.
Equal Justice Initiative
History, as they say, might not repeat exactly, but it certainly does rhyme
Kay Coughlin
You know something I don’t understand? Golf course “views.” I’ve never looked out a window at a soulless expanse of cultivated grass with a golf course on it and thought, “oh yeah that’s relaxing!” Maybe the ones in Scotland or something but not in Boca.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.
Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app
My latest cartoon for The Guardian books:
Tom Gauld
In 1932, FDR was elected with 57.4% of the vote. He brought us the New Deal.
In 1964, LBJ was elected with 61.1% of the vote. He brought us the Great Society.
In 2025, Trump was elected with 49.8% of the vote. He's attempting to destroy everything FDR and LBJ built.
The rest is commentary.
Paul Rosenberg
Your regular reminder that normal, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform. “Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections”
Mark Copelovitch
Every 3 years, China builds a brand-new "Total US Grid" from just additions to its solar capacity
Assaad Razzouk
obvious but still significant that one of the primary and most socially tractable ways some people experience their own “whiteness” is when they decide they’ve been personally deprived of something they’re owed, whereas when they get or have things, it’s what they’ve personally earned as an individual
Pat Blanchfield
It's annoying to see the hand-wringing over a small number of wealthy people making empty threats to move because of tax increases, when there are actually people leaving desirable places en masse because they can't find affordable places to live
Gravel Influencer
Never forget that the Times thought this story [of Karoline Leavitt expecting a second child] belonged on its front page while the huge No Kings Rally story and many other stories about Trump corruption get buried deep inside. The Times is badly broken.
treeesq.bsky.social
While U.S. families struggle through an affordability crisis, mass incarceration still costs taxpayers $182 billion a year. That's a lot of money that could be spent on communities instead of cages:
Prison Policy Initiative
It never ceases to amaze me how many people who (correctly) ardently support universal healthcare then turn around and oppose universal right to free counsel. IT'S LITERALLY THE SAME PRINCIPLE. And no, we don't already have this. The public defender is only for criminal cases where incarceration is a possible punishment, and 42 states charge for the public defender (and use those fees to fund cops, incidentally). In most states, there are no public defenders for evictions or foreclosures or debt collections or family and child custody cases. But every time I bring this up, there are objections from people who insist that it's different from healthcare. It's absolutely not. The idea that you can just choose not to get caught up in the world's largest legal system, the system that evicts and forecloses on and locks up more people than any other on the planet, is a farce.
Sheryl Weikal @leftistlawyer.com
Painted cycle lanes are the non-smoking sections of today's urban landscape. Both recognize a problem and the harms it causes, but are designed without the will or imagination required to implement a real solution.
John Munro
At this point, I hope we learn that Trump really has been blackmailing A.G. Sulzberger the XXVI all this time, because if that failgreatgrandson has been kissing his ass like this on his own free will it’s going to be depressing as hell.
Kevin M. Kruse
The New York Times is like Gollum. They're constantly switching between stories exposing Trump's corruption and sanewashing it, and it's hard to tell if they're trying to help us save our democracy, or help Trump kill it.
Bumbles Bounce
Just so much BS that this planet has to put up with. Tech is out of control:
Jake @jp1102.bsky.social
You know how racist a country gotta be to give everybody a 60 year taste of what being closer to equality could potentially look like and then just roll all that shit back?
Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social
No one’s asking for apologies; we want the white supremacist lies and violence to stop, an admission of past crimes, and reparations. You don’t have to say “I’m sorry” at all.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social
Every single white person on North American soil is an immigrant, and if you've tied your brain into a stale enough pretzel to convince yourself otherwise, you're part of one of the greatest ongoing cons in human history.
Ethan Nichtern
Is there some reason the crusaders against antisemitism aren't screaming about the Department of Homeland Security tweeting that as a nation we are all united in having the same savior? Saying Jews (and Muslims, Hindus etc.) are not citizens seems pretty damn antisemitic.
Dean Baker
Yes, this!: "this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning." I'm finding that I don't have just to change assignments. I have to **abandon my entire teaching strategy**, which has always been built around scaffolded independent projects across the semester.
Michael Yarbrough
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
Sonja Drimmer
My Xmas present to you all. The book cover that shows the most mistaken assumptions about the content of all time, I believe:
Jo Wolff
Texas Universities are now like police departments who would prefer to pay out the inevitable lawsuits rather than stop breaking the law
Don Moynihan
Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post published stories about Trump writing 200 unhinged posts on Christmas Day
Adam Cohen @axidentaliberal.bsky.social
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
Chris Gardiner
It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk
Kat Tenbarge
271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.
Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social
This line from The City in History might be Mumford’s
most famous: “The assumed right of the private motor car to go any place
in the city and park anywhere is nothing less than a license to destroy
the city”:
David Zipper
Republicans want to kill the post office and the media is there for it, which is why you have never seen a news story about how the police department has never turned a profit and is a waste
Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social
RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
Tim Carvell
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
Parker Molloy
The Archdiocese of New York says its insurer owes it hundreds of millions of dollars to pay off sexual abuse settlements. The insurer says you don't get coverage for crimes you knowingly enabled. No wonder the Catholic Church is furious.
Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com
To all friends, supporters, and both people shown this randomly by the algorithm: Merry Christmas! Here’s to ongoing adventures on two (or any other number of) wheels. From all at Diagram HQ (me):
Dave Walker
US coal generation has collapsed from about 50% of electricity in 2005 to just 14% today. It’s one of the fastest energy transitions in modern history. Operating a coal plant now costs more than building new wind and solar in every state.
Ada Palmer
low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like. we forget these things at our peril
post malone ergo propter malone
Harkens of Nazi Germany. We must stop this horror show. The Trump administration is seeking to overhaul the U.S. immigrant detention system and hire contractors to renovate industrial warehouses that will hold more than 80,000 immigrant detainees at a time.
Susan McPherson
CBS destroying a brand they built up over the course of like 100 years for one criminal idiot is a pretty funny bit
Coach Finstock
After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
Robert Reich
(Energy transitions can happen faster than we think): In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark’s electricity was from fossil fuels, but in 2024, that number was a mere 10%. No addition, just transition.
Ada Palmer
UK is not so impressive but we have gone from 40% coal as recently as 2012 to zero coal in 2025. Fossil fuels just under 30% of electricity supply at present.
Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion:
Mark Jacob
If tech had "created riches on an unprecedented scale" we'd have much bigger productivity increases than in the past. We don't. So it's more accurate to say tech *captured* wealth on an unprecedented scale than created it.
Jon Schwarz @schwarz.bsky.social
"The federal RFS [Ethanol mandate] adds about 30 cents per gallon to the wholesale cost of gas, on average. Consumers pay more for each gallon and use more gas because of ethanol’s lower energy content, which leads to about 3% lower fuel efficiency for E10." –Minnesota Reformer
Ben Maas
I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Using polyester (and acrylic and nylon) for *clothing* was the second stupidest thing we did with them when we invented them in the 30s-50s. (The first stupidest was filling our flammable houses with petroleum foam and petroleum fiber and laying petroleum wicks (carpet) all over the floor.)
CZEdwards
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
And it wouldn’t even be all that hard to make US roads safer and save those lives. It only SEEMS “hard” because the US has chosen to make it hard, in part because they’ve convinced themselves those deaths are unavoidable. All they’d have to do to change all that is change their minds. That’s it.
Brent Toderian
every traffic fatality is a human sacrifice that we willingly lay on the altar of individualism
Ithewin @sladeofyaupon.bsky.social
Folks outside of MSP, and probably many within, may not realize that ring leader of the Feeding Our Future scandal was a White Minnesotan, Aimee Bock. As a White Minnesotan, I do not consider myself liable for her criminality.
Eric Beckman
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
Jeff Asher
Happy Holidays from @designjunket.bsky.social and me:
Drawmark
It is remarkable how many times one can lose scissors or tape while wrapping presents and not moving.
Darin Self
If there was a liberal equivalent to Fox/NY Post every page of the Epstein docs that slightly mentions Trump would be 2–3 weeks of content. Panel discussions, breaking alerts, hell even 3d reenactments. Roger Ailes was an evil genius at such things.
Oliver Willis
One thing to help TOD projects pencil - allow them off major arterials. Rents are 7% higher 100m away from loud roads
Ian Crozier @crowshair.bsky.social
This is the most I’ve thought about a 60 Minutes segment in maybe my whole life so congrats to Bari
Amanda Mull
As AVs deploy and circle for passengers (or for their owners avoiding paying for parking), we will see traffic jams with empty cars regularly. We won't need a blackout. The underlying circumstances, particularly land use and development that makes shared trips so hard and short trips impossible, isn't being addressed. The cost of driving has skyrocketed and car ownership hasn't budged because other options are inconvenient-to-impossible.
bethosborne.bsky.social
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
Mark D. Levine
Chris Stein
The same people who say we don't have money for health care always say we have money for new weapons and warships.
Jonathan Cohn
In retrospect, it was a pretty big mistake to invent a system of representative democracy that had no mechanism for toppling a terrible government before the end of its scheduled term. That's on us, def a whoopsie on that one. Someone is going to say we have impeachment, and if you think about it for five seconds, I'll bet you'll realize how removing one person is not toppling a government.
Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social
Something very funny about de santis praising Calvin Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here.
Adam Serwer
Midnite @m1dn1t31d10.bsky.social
The stadium grift is amazing. Just a bunch of humble, downtrodden billionnaires who are always suddenly short of cash to build more luxury boxes for them and their friends. But at least everyday working people get more heavily taxed.
Kashana
My segment on CNBC today: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’
Scott Gottlieb, MD
Except that we won’t. The social Darwinism and eugenics are a huge part of MAHA. After all, a key idea behind the antivax movement is that vaccine-preventable diseases can’t harm you if you’re healthy and that if you’re not healthy it’s your fault.
David Gorski, MD, PhD
CBS News: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”
Mrs. Betty Bowers
It’s really strange the vice president of the United States is a white supremacist, who says white supremacist slogans, who publicly praises and follows the work of white supremacists, and it’s simply not mentioned or discussed in political media. The guy is running to be president, and even more than Trump, his only real ideological commitment appears to be that white people seize complete political and economic control of the United States. Seems relevant!
Will Stancil
is that good:
the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social
They’re going to destroy one of the best museum systems in the world because they’re triggered by anything that isn’t trump worshipping propaganda
Adam Serwer
People who call kids “bad” usually don’t know Fact One about child development. A lot—A LOT—of adults, despite their authority, want children to display more emotional maturity than they’ve ever modeled for them.
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class.
Adam Serwer
20 people have died in ICE Detention. That's more people than have died in Detention for 8 years.
Jayne4Freedom
Thinking today about this sentence: "Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
Brian Goldstone
JD Vance is a man who called himself an atheist until he was apprised that that was a political liability in Ohio. Now he calls himself a Catholic, while flouting the church's theology and holding the church itself up to ridicule.
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social
These people all go to rich-people megachurches so they have no idea how freaky this looks to normal people:
impembo gabecube
Your husband died like three months ago lady
impembo gabecube
Explicitly liberal media doesn't scale like conservative media because the Democratic base doesn't want perpetual mobilization and red meat, and won't make it profitable like the Republican base does
Chatham Harrison
it’s sort of incredible to me that vance has apparently decided, of his own free will, that it’s his job to be even more viscerally unpleasant and personally charmless than spiro agnew, and that he seems to sincerely believe this will one day make him president
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
It’s quite astonishing that JD thinks that klan-level rhetoric is welcome by enough Americans that he can bank his future on it. I think he’s spent too much time in the echo chamber and it’s cooked his brain.
Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social
There is a Locke, Hobbs, and a Rousseau playing in the NFL. There is also a Luther, Calvin, and a Knox.
Geoff Bowden
If you want that in dry geopolitics terms: Russia knows that soon it will not be able to field an army large enough to secure it existing borders. It needs Ukraine to capitulate, AND the Baltics, and most of Poland to narrow the amount of open ground it has to defend. Same old Russian BS, really.
Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social
suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
Faine Greenwood
I'm gonna be real: many many times when I've watched a sexy TV show and gone "oh wow, this is being surprisingly normal and positive about sex!" I later found out it was a Canadian production. I have *never* thought that about HBO. If I'm uncomfortable and sad, I check to see if it's HBO.
Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com
You just don't see many babies named Verna these days.
quick13
the vice president is a klansman
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
Releasing 100 pages totally blacked out is a fuck you from the DOJ and a huge admission of a cover up.
Freethinker @69eerrr.bsky.social
Does YOUR family have an Edmund Fitzgerald tree ornament??
Chris Steller
But do you have the Edmund Fitzgerald ugly Christmas sweater?
Ian Coldwater @lookitup.baby
Kinda weird/terrible to think about how Mr. Rogers would be considered radical antifa by today's standards and he was a Republican pastor.
Hillary Monahan
The possibility of Minneapolis adding autonomous vehicles that don't know what to do outside of normal conditions is bad. The current status quo of completely lawless and antisocial behavior from human drivers is also bad.
votenanocratic
We are in the maelstrom of a multi-century struggle for this nation. If we don’t understand that, then we will fail to understand what’s at stake. And we will under-react to the danger of this moment. That is why we need to know how history brings us here.
Sherrilyn Ifill
By now any news outlet that directly quotes trump or trump officials in headlines without fact checks and context is intentionally spreading propaganda.
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)
honestly, “it’s because they’re still mad about the New Deal” is a pretty good guiding hypothesis for a lot of stuff
Eric Rauchway
What are Firebricks, and How Can They Help Save Our Planet? They can replace furnaces that run on coal, oil, gas, and wood for 90% of industrial heat. Industrial heat is responsible for ~17% of all CO2 and pollution.
Mark Z. Jacobson
The Emperor of Lawsuits: As of 2022, USA Today found, Trump had been a plaintiff or defendant in 4095 lawsuits. I wonder how many as of now?
Diane Ravitch
Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social:
Among the many ways that AI is inept at summarizing scholarship, it's particularly bad at identifying bad-faith, biased and self-serving arguments and ideas. Even worse at navigating the debates they form a part of. AI has no bullshit detector.
Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social
It will also never include information we (humans generally, often marginalized folks) know but is not stored in a way that's accessible from the internet. You'll never get an accurate oral history from an LLM, it's a self-perpetuating "winners are the writers of history" machine. Ugh.
Paul Bloem
Now would be a great time for a 10 episode, 20 hour prestige series about the ten years between 1916 and 1926, covering the establishment of the 8-hr work day and 5-day work week, in the US. Each episode would be one year and the middle episode should be entirely devoted to the Battle of Blair Mountain.
Dr. Damien P. Williams @wolvendamien.bsky.social
nothing condemns Our Times more than the fact we appear to have *mostly democratically* elevated to power some of the most stupid assholes who have ever lived. something is wrong with a country and system that ferrets out its most undisputedly horrible citizens and then gives them nuclear codes
Faine Greenwood
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout. With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
Mission Local
THE U.S. HAS KILLED MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE IN BOAT STRIKES. WE’RE TRACKING THEM ALL. The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
Nick Turse
Happy Caturday:
Leah McElrath
There really isn’t anything quite like primary research. People have no idea the treasures that exist in archives.
Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social
We must operate under the assumption that EVERY redaction is a detailed account of Trump raping children. It's the only reasonable conclusion until he proves otherwise.
Feral Maui Hermit @mauigreg.bsky.social
One more thing. Economic statistics count commutes as consumption. So someone today who drives an hour each way to work at a cost of $1000 per month is said to have a much higher standard of living than someone in the 1960s who earned (inflation-adjusted) $1000 a month less & walked to work.
Ben Ross @benrosstransit.bsky.social
"slavery was so long ago, I'm not responsible"
vs.
"we built this place it's ours"
Aaron Blackshear
Rail $395 million
Public transit $753 million
Debt $1.7 billion
Highway upgrades $5.3 billion
someone who is good at transportation planning please help me budget this. my state is dying
Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social
Anyone who says "California is trying to take away your cars" has obviously never been here or is simply lying:
OB Cycler
"village" mentality is what sustains conservatism. not being able to do anything without the Grandma Gestapo reporting your every move. depending on the easily withdrawn kindness of others instead of impersonal but reliable services. and of course obeying aristocratic landowners
@aelkus.bsky.social
Cities are liberatory because it’s hard to control people who have a lot of options.
Max Dubler, AICP
Do you feel safer now that anyone wearing a balaclava and a jacket that says FBI can come into your house and rob you?
Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social
Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?
Seth Cotlar
Barcelona... lovely! It's NOT tech or $$. Common sense people over CAVEs (Citizens Against Virtually Everything). An 8 80 City, for Everyone • AAA: All Ages and Abilities.
More children, olders, people with disabilities? Not really. Some cities make it safe and joyful to be outside. Everyone:
Gil Penalosa
Honestly incredible that horses have not been domesticated yet as a species. Individuals have, yes, but every single horse comes out feral and unwilling to be ridden. Stay strong foals
lukelukeluke
They’re trying to establish a hereditary nobility. The founders themselves made issuing titles of nobility illegal. We should mock these fools, who think a tiny drop of founders’ blood makes them better than other people. Tom Paine: Noble blood is a bad way to choose leaders. I’m sure glad America’s founders did away with that nonsense. Today’s right wing: I deserve to lead, l’m descended from the founders
Jason Kuznicki
3yo: “daddy’s phone is in his pocket!”
me: “that’s true!”
3yo: “why isn’t mummy’s phone in her pocket?”
me: “… buckle up, kiddo, we’re gonna discuss five hundred years of fashion and misogyny”
mari-lwyd odent @oldenoughtosay.com
In YouGov polling this week, less than half of Republicans said they strongly approved of Trump.
Philip Bump
From a reddit user, commenting on the words "Defend the Homeland" emblazoned on an ICE vehicle parked in downtown Minneapolis: "The irony of being parked under the 'You are on native land' banner on the lightpost":
fluxt
From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.
Greg Pak
"Has feminism failed women" is just like asking "Has freedom failed black people."
Butlerian Jihadist @shimminykricket.bsky.social
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
forced birth but then you also have to watch all those babies die of preventable diseases. the only policy goal republicans have , as far as I can make out from what they’re doing with power, is to kill as many children as possible
@duckyaisha.bsky.social
Everything that Pete Hegseth is doing to impose his personal religious beliefs on our servicemembers should worry anyone who cares about our military.
ffrf.org
It should have been statewide front page news for multiple days that the elderly, the disabled, the media, and a sitting city council member of Saint Paul were hit by irritants and riot munitions.
Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social
This is literally one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen, anywhere:
Brent Toderian
President John F. Kennedy didn’t name the Kennedy Center for himself. Eisenhower signed legislation to create a “National Cultural Center.” Eisenhower and Kennedy fundraised for it. Congress and Johnson only named it in honor of Kennedy after he was assassinated. Democracies tend to name notable pieces of infrastructure in honor of political leaders who have passed on. Guess what kinds of governments name them for current political leaders?
Leah McElrath
We're so much closer now to Trump ordering his face carved into Mount Rushmore.
The Alternate Historian
Only a person easily bribed would think that everyone else is easily bribed. $1776 to the soldiers. $1500 to you, to cover a lifetime of medical expenses. $2000 tariff refund.
A man with billions of dollars thinks you can be bought for 2 grand.
TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." -tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Shane Anderson
Consider: the overwhelm you feel is the signature product of extractive systems that require exponential growth to continue.
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social
Cars are now being programmed to violate traffic rules. What could go wrong? It’s easy to criticize car co’s for programming vehicles to break traffic and parking laws. But human drivers do it constantly. Two big differences:
• Humans make context-specific decisions (i.e., is it an emergency?). Software doesn’t.
• Humans are liable for their actions. Car co's often aren’t.
David Zipper
1976 photo with some real "live-action Miyazaki film" vibe:
Paul Tobin
Back in high school I was in a magnet program that used to admit 50% boys and 50% girls. Right before my year, parents of boys complained and demanded strict merit-based admission. My year was like 80% girls so shoutout to the boymoms for making sure their sons didn't steal my slot.
Annalee @flowerhorne.com
The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
Karen Attiah
Damn. This knocked me sideways. The more I think about it, the more reasons flood my brain about how right this is. We carry on with little regard towards having lost the vast majority of what we had in our heyday. It’s basically just elderly people taking indoor walks and $5 massage chairs.
chicagopatrick.bsky.social
The thing white (and non-Black) people need to understand is that the past was exponentially more racist than we are allowed to understand in present day. Why is everything about race? Because white people put race into *everything.* You don’t know because it was too embarrassing to explain.
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com
Rand Paul: "We've never in our past decided just to shoot smugglers who are unarmed without even proof they're smuggling anything. So I think this is a horrendous thing that should stop. I think it's illegal and immoral... the kids in the military - I'm not for sending them down there to die for oil"
Aaron Rupar
The US has already lost 12% of its current income due to climate change. Most studies project future losses, but new research from the University of Arizona has calculated the costs to date.
Dr Tom Harris
85% of CEOs are white men.
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
Grudgie the Whale
These look like cake decorations:
Rose Porn
What I hate about guns the most is the unearned power it gives losers. I've seen it since I was a kid and dumbass boys carrying pistols around. You take the gun away and these people are fucking nobody. And they look so pathetic.
Darrell Owens @idothethinking.bsky.social
We all pay for crashes. NHTSA says that 22% of adults aged 19–64 with hospital-admitted crash injuries became Medicaid-eligible. 35% of those who converted to Medicaid stay on Medicaid indefinitely with lifetime Medicaid costs of $316,000 (2019 estimate)
Ken McLeod
“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia. It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
Imani Gandy Cane @angryblacklady.blacksky.app
Only Donald Trump could find a way to take money that was supposed to be given to the troopies tax free and find a way to fuck them over by now making it taxable lmfao
Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social
I know this is like 1,274 on the things to be shocked/outraged by, but the former presidents mockery wall is something straight out of a Sacha Baron Cohen movie.
Tara Goddard
Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.
Mark Harris
All in the name of "protecting kids" 24 hours before we learn exactly how close Donald Trump was with Jeffrey Epstein
Gillian Branstetter
Love coming home from a meeting to see this:
Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social
Notice how Trump and Republicans were having the worst couple weeks in the administration's history and they decided to pivot to hardcore attacking trans people?
Parker Molloy
Re gender-affirming care for youth: They will come for the haircuts and the clothes next. And it won’t stop with kids or trans people. And I’ve been telling people this for a decade and now here we are with lots of cis people shrugging and saying it’s unfortunate. How are you going to save a life?
Racheline Maltese
FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.
Parker Molloy
"In effect, Trump took to the airwaves [for his Christmas address], pointed his finger, and said: 'Quiet, piggy'." —The Atlantic
@real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social
Not sure why we have the 25th amendment if this [Trump's Christmas address] doesn’t qualify.
SarahBCalif
Good news: The number of people traveling to the U.S. illegally has plunged.
Bad news: The number of people traveling to the U.S. legally has plunged.
The common thread: Nobody wants to come here.
Patrick Chovanec
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war — that's been a slippery slope for decades — but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
Kevin M. Kruse
No matter how you slice it, US police officers are safer on the job and paid waaaaay more than other countries' police despite doing a…less than stellar job. The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
Jake Grumbach
Is it really an "immigration crackdown" when they're targeting citizens?
Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social
The Trump regime wants to make it a crime to oppose war crimes.
Mark Jacob
I know why they don’t care but it is always funny to me how when trumpists and others bitch endlessly about other nations “sending” lethal drugs our way, they never seem to reckon with how we are sending all these other countries our demand for it, hence fueling violence, crime, and corruption in those nations. Seems like if one country is the aggressor here, it’s not them.
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
ICE is harassing the shit out of my hometown in suburban St. Paul and I think it's just so incredibly fucked. My heart breaks.
Lexie @prostatemonk.bsky.social
Federal records show CBP is moving from testing small drones to making them standard surveillance tools, expanding a network that can follow activity in real time and extend well beyond the border.
WIRED
*watches white men complain about ‘meritocracy’ while watching incompetent white men burn the US to the ground*
Shintaro Melodrama @are0h.blacksky.app
My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
Kat Tenbarge
In 1969, 41% of K through 8th graders lived within 1 mile of their school; 89% of those kids walked/biked there. In 2009, the percent K thru 8th graders living within 1 mile of their school had only fallen by 10%, but the percent of those children walking or bicycling to school had fallen 54%.
Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social
Seen on the back of a tanker truck on the road yesterday. I am still puzzled:
Stephen Coles @stewf.com
In other words, most schools are still within what could be walking/biking distance to where many students live, but a lot of what this country has built over the last three or four decades is sprawl with road environments that make even a short walk or bike ride impossible for kids to do alone.
Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social
Kristi Noem's family's Homestead act land grant was taken from inside an Indian reservation. Well, knock me over with a feather.
Jennifer Mendelsohn
WTF? ICE is arguing in court that US CITIZENS can be detained, handcuffed, and biometrically screened unless they can prove citizenship on the spot. And that a REAL ID isn't enough. This isn't border security.
Melissa Combs
A single-percentage increase in public funding of research leads to a rise in individual firm productivity of 0.14 to 0.21%. Reductions in federal funding in any given field of 40% or more reduce the chances of a researcher in that field founding a startup by 80% and cut publication rates by 15%.
Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
Trump voters, man. “Many participants weren’t familiar with U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, nor did they know why he’s been in the news so much lately.”
John Robinson
A Washington Post investigation found U.S. Forest Service trails are deteriorating due to staff cuts under the Trump administration.
The Washington Post
Gavin Newsom is Mitt Romney for the Democrats, a department store mannequin who will lose in a general election
Jesse Hawken
The media will be more mad at Biden for ending a war than Trump for starting one. Wars create ratings after all.
Potionseller
The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”
Brian Tyler Cohen
Whenever a country with strict gun laws sees a mass shooting there’s always some dumb fuck that goes “HOWS THAT GUN CONTROL WORKING FOR YA???” when America will see more mass shootings in a week than they see in ten years.
Tomokocchi
One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides. The Coke cost more on the Black side.
Kendra Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com
Minneapolis has FIFTY YEARS of inclusive laws protecting trans people, allowing them to self-identify, and ZERO cases of trans people attacking women in the bathroom. ZERO. Over FIFTY YEARS.
Dex Anderson
He also insisted the federal government had no enumerated general power to restrict immigration at all, which indeed you will not find anywhere in the text.
Andy Craig
Madison not only thought noncitizens had constitutional rights, he wrote that deportation was such a severe punishment that the federal government had no power to do it absent a war or jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment
Niko Bowie
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
Acyn
Employment growth since April ("Liberation Day"):
United States: +119,000*
Canada: +166,200
* The U.S. number is expected to be revised down.
Justin Wolfers
The U.S. has 8X Canada's population
Aaron Sojourner
When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
Evan Simko-Bednarski
I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. 
Mike (1 of many) @chicagomike.bsky.social
I am losing my mind
DO ANY OF THESE JOURNALISTS KNOW THAT VENEZUELA IS NOT ON THE PACIFIC? THAT THE CARIBBEAN SEA DOES NOT TOUCH THE PACIFIC. THAT IN FACT THIS IS WHAT THE PANAMA CANAL WAS BUILT FOR . WTF IS THE EASTERN PACIFIC. PLEASE LOOK AT A MAP
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Nationally, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration primarily funds enforcement and leads most traffic safety messaging. It doesn't seem to interact with the Federal Highway Administration, which is far larger, funds road building, and influences traffic engineering. As long as "traffic safety" is owned by enforcement and not linked to engineering, the US is going to struggle to reliably have safe streets. Behavior is important, but the biggest determinant of important safety behaviors like speed is the design of the street.
Ken McLeod
Interestingly, you never see road rage incidents involving two people riding bikes
Alessandro Rigolon
AI radically lowers the cost of polluting our information ecosystem. Our ecosystem was already stressed and under attack across many fronts. This unleashes new floods of slop. Slop swamps high-quality info, forcing us each to pay more for costly discernment or accept losing our way in the flood.
Aaron Sojourner
The third time in 2 months that the official DHS account has tweeted a Nazi term which means "ethnic cleansing" of all people of color from America and Europe:
Wajahat Ali
Trump is entirely bereft of even a single redeeming human quality. He is a golem formed from the distilled essence of the seven deadly sins.
Such a Kevin @kevinkohler.bsky.social
He’s cobbled together out of character flaws. Not a single redeeming virtue.
SMH @segdohs.bsky.social
So cool how the US ultra-wealthy were so stupid they didn't realize that FDR saved their asses from being hung up in the streets and they spent the next century trying to fuck up all the things he did to compromise and save US capitalism.
Kronecker Delta
This is a point I keep coming back to. You cannot defend a high-trust society by orchestrating hate campaigns and moral panics against disfavored groups and harassing the populace with masked paramilitary thugs.
Paul Crider
Charlie Kirk’s assassination was bad — and i’m not mourning someone who thinks my taxes should pay to remove me and my family from a whites-only restaurant
Adam Serwer
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