BlueSky, October 2026 Part 1

The first half of October 2026 seemed really long for some reason. I kept expecting it to be the 15th and it never was, until finally that day came.

It was two weeks of Trump inciting hatred of Somalis, the raid on Ilhan Omar's home, and reactions to Pete Hegseth announcing the livestreamed execution of the Fort Hood mass shooter. Elon Musk continued to exert and extend his control on society, both through direct financial contributions in the midterm elections and his companies' satellite infrastructure. Trump tried to make a "deal" with Russia about diesel fuel, selling out everyone else in the process. ICE continued to run amok, shooting a dad in New York City. 

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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@bluestormcomin1.bsky.social

When Vance says gratitude, he means servitude.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social

A memo from senior insurance-industry officials warning that insurance modelers are being pressured to downplay climate in their models and that many insurers are already planning their exist from key markets. An explosive fuckup on the scale of the mortgage crisis is building.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

Bound into three exquisitely colored volumes, Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods (1860–1902) features hundreds of species, collected across 42 years by a female mycologist named M. F. Lewis:


The Public Domain Review

just the downpayment required to secure a mortgage today in seattle is as much - adjusted for inflation - as a total purchase price for a typical home just 25 years ago. one generation. 
Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social

between the raid on Ilhan Omar and stephen miller admitting to people in private that he expects to be arrested if the dems win the presidency again, it should be 100% clear that these guys are gonna try to do Jan6 again out of pure self-preservation
pasta ben

My kingdom for Simple Boxes with Ornament:


Spokane Rising

I disagree, categorically, that adding additional justices, even in a "tit-for-tat" way, is a "race to the bottom." I think having a great many *more* judges is actually good for democracy, representation, ethics, and limiting the importance and power of any individual judge. Furthermore, I think that if the court is going to act like a super-legislature, then it should be *treated* like a super-legislature, and tha means every incoming adminstration *should have to* bring with them the amount of justices necessary to have their agenda upheld. That's just democracy, baby.
ElieNYC

You can be married without engaging in the Wedding Industrial Complex.
Polly SinclairLewis Fry

Tech billionaires have added $845 billion to their fortunes this year — more than three times the gains of every other industry combined:


Steve Rattner

Mike Rogers’ wife is handing out $10 gas cards in Michigan while asking people to vote for her husband. Republicans made gas unaffordable. Now they’re offering $10 to keep them in power.
Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social

She's violating both:
18 U.S.C. § 597 (prohibits offering money or anything of value, including gift cards)  and
52 U.S.C. § 10307(c) (separately bans paying or offering to pay anyone for voting in an election that includes a federal office like U.S. Senator.
Penalties up to 5 years in prison.
b9a1baa8.bsky.social

A Texas district canceled a high school production of "Little Shop of Horrors" after a girl was cast as Seymour. Officials cited the state's anti-drag law (which was struck down in court), then offered other lazy excuses. What a debacle.
Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com

It's outrageous that "normal" media keep harping on fraud in Minnesota as a crisis when the Republican-abetted Trump feds murdered two Minnesotans.
Hashnaif

Left calf tattoo maybe:


Tinman @bcmfietser.bsky.social

It is outrageous that many self-imagined liberals ran from Walz because Trump yelled "fraud, Black people, Somalis." There was some  fraud, as is the case everywhere, but there is zero evidence that it was especially large compared to other states.
Dean Baker

Six days after ICE shot him in the Bronx, Oscar Belgal remains in MDC Brooklyn, and still hasn’t gotten surgery to remove the bullet in his neck. “He has experienced a loss of sensation in half of his face, as well as hearing loss in his left ear.”
John Annese

Pete’s got the best beans:


Gail Myerscough

If nobody will cop to turning off Ukraine's Starlink, it should be pretty straightforward to turn it back on right away.
Peter Gleick

REVEALED: The Trump administration gave almost $13 million in family planning grants to anti-abortion physicians. More than $8 million went to projects led by a Pennsylvania doctor who recently said girls should think about future pregnancies as young as 8 years old.
Autonomy News

worth noting that both the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti happened in Ilhan's district, and on top of the obviously racist targeting of her personally this is also an attempt to deny the people of Minneapolis their democratically elected representative 
a birb @rhiolit.bsky.social

I really thought I was going to die with student loan debt. I sent the final payment today. I took my last class in 2006. 20 years. Fuck off forever, I made it.
K, here and there

United States Postage stamp. It All Depends on Zip Code 10¢ - 1974:


Cory Doctorow

What's it going to take for people to realize that Elon Musk is trying to ruin our country – and the rest of the world too?
Mark Jacob

boy Trump fucked the American auto industry. first he yanks their EV subsidies, leading them to slash production and write off tens of billions in investment, then he jacks up the price of oil by 50%, leading to skyrocketing EV demand going almost entirely to China bc GM et al left the market
ryan cooper

One of my pet theories is that we're going to see combined and uneven development of green technologies. The world is going to be entirely off of fossil fuels while the United States is going to be this weird backwards thing where you can buy cars that are powered by lighting barrels of oil on fire.
Kevin McClean

The Republican dream scenario for society is a complete absence of government oversight and corporate regulation but every private citizen beneath a certain wealth threshold is filmed at all times and has to check in with multiple probation officers per day 
Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app

Musk unilaterally shut off a defensive capability just as Russia attacked power plants with winter approaching. I don't know why anyone trusted him before, but certainly nobody can afford an Elon Musk dependency after this
e.w. niedermeyer

Sacramento knows what's up!


Tom Flood

Someone I've known for a long time got hit while riding and is badly hurt. Everyone who rides a lot knows people who've gone through this (or worse). This is the backdrop to reading stories about drivers who want to rip out a protected bike lane because it's so hard to look both ways. Infuriating. 
Peter Flax

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social

The Terrazzo at the 1920s Blackpool Winter Garden was quite wild:


Darren McLean

The only way to prevent geoengineering turning into a giant shitshow is to have a robust and credible planetary governance structure, but if we had one of those we would have already stopped climate change
Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social

Why oh why has it taken Dems so long to thrash and humiliate Republicans, whose behavior has warranted exactly that for generations?
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social

Probably a bad thing that the right can come up with a totally nonsense conspiracy theory about James Talarico and journalists have to spend valuable time 3 weeks before the election debunking it instead of covering Paxton actually going to Dubai with his mistress on a trip paid for by a criminal
James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social

It’s true…


Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social

- 170 newspapers closed or merged in the past year at a rate of nearly 3/week 
- The number of news desert counties rose by 26, the largest single year increase of Medill’s research 
- The newspaper industry lost more than 7,500 jobs between 2024-25
Chelsea Harvey

The wealth of the world’s 500 richest people has more than doubled since 2020 — to $12.9 trillion.
Steve Rattner

The idea that Ilhan Omar's house in DC has immigration paperwork that DHS doesn't already have is how unintelligent the most prolific liar in recorded history thinks you are.
Erik Noonan

Excessive car infrastructure sterilizes cities:


Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social

"AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO"
Carl T. Bergstrom

We seem to be in an era of unprecedented stupidity, but this may be the single stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
Brent Toderian

“Trump Announces Ceasefire” is not journalism.
“Trump Lied About Ceasefire Deal” is journalism 
Grudgie the Wail

The Las Playas Intaglio is a 272-foot fish carved into the Arizona desert 6,500 years ago, older than Stonehenge, the oldest geoglyph in the Americas. It survived every civilization on 2 continents. In April a border wall contractor scraped a 50-foot path through it. CBP: "inadvertently disturbed":


tomwellborn3rd

Will someone, anyone, please stop these stupid, stupid people? They’re killing trees in D.C. They’re destroying historic landmarks. Instead, we’re getting crappy wading pools, whorehouse-level decor and a huge bill for the “improvements.”
Dwayne Fatherree

I’m gonna vote for Klobuchar for governor, fine. But when she runs for president—and she will run for president—i will vote for an actual blue dog before i vote for her. She’ll disappear into mediocre obscurity
Wes Burdine

"WE ARE ALL ILHAN" is what I say because if you're looking for paperwork my dad filled out on my behalf as a child in the 90s, I can't help you. Shouldn't you have that? I guess you'll have to raid my home.
Wedge LIVE!™

Hey Pete Hegseth…


Whatifisaidit

Re-reading this and, an interesting fraud outcome comparison: Ohio's $1.6 billion political bribery scandal and 20-year sentence for the ex-Ohio House Speaker vs. Minnesota, a nonprofit director convicted for a $242 million scheme and sentenced to 41 years
David DeWitt

"Originalism" is like any other RW ideology: it's a skin suit, to create a pretext that there are consistent principles involved. The more power they gain, the less they need the skin suit. Thus Alito's "conception of law that is unshackled by restraint and focused solely on conservative victory." See also "free market," "free speech," "constitutional," "biblical"...they're all skin suits. The only real governing principle is, "we win." Wilhoit, etc. etc.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

miss magpie:


cj @ceeejus.bsky.social

Some of the escalations we're seeing, including the attack on Ilhan Omar's home (I will not pretend this act was "investigatory"), are desperate acts. But we must remember that desperate people can be very dangerous. A domestic abuse victim, for example, is in the most danger when trying to leave.
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid
Dante Atkins

To give a sense of scale, Musk is spending more on the midterms than he was on the 2024 election, and he was the biggest donor in that election. In 2025 he promised to pull back from politics and do much less political spending. Another lie:


Don Moynihan

The Trump administration is trying to take Rep. Omar's citizenship in order to force her out of Congress. We didn't even do this to the members of the Confederate government.
Craig Johnson

The distance between illegal government raids against opposition party members and planting evidence against  them is about a centimeter
Tom & Lorenzo

not larvae, just turmeric. (Took me by surprise at the coop):


Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social

For my non-Minnesotans, remember: The federal government raiding a sitting Rep's home mid-election is the same one that occupied our streets with thousands of armed agents for weeks, killed two of our residents and injured hundreds, that surveilled our places of worship and invaded schoolyards.
Kat Rohn

It isn't a crime to be Somali. It isn't a crime to be Muslim. It isn't a crime to speak another language. It isn't a crime to disagree with Trump. It isn't a crime to be a woman. It isn't a crime to wear a hijab. It IS a crime to abuse one's office to kill, kidnap, harass, and injure.
KC Momkin

An important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems. 
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

Overdue library books poster. c. 1975 by Tom Eckersley (British, 1914–1997). Image: Tom Eckersley Collection, Digital Collections, University of the Arts London:


Gary Hornseth

As a Minnesotan I am extremely proud of how absolutely *terrified* those buffoons are of one tiny middle-aged woman.
Sigrid Ellis

When I first heard about AI being used for menus and advertisements, my concern was largely that it would be used to idealize the food and make it look better than it actually was. At no point did I imagine that restaurants would willingly put out horrific looking images of their food on purpose
terra firma, terra eterna  @kavi.bsky.social

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners
James Medlock

Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.
Judd Legum

The difference in media coverage between Melissa Hortman's assassination and a fucking inflammatory podcaster getting shot makes me so fucking angry. I actually rage cry if I think too much about it.
@kennedy-reading.bsky.social


Xela Hart

He held a televised orgy of gladiatorial blood sports on the front lawn of the White House, and people are surprised he's moved on to real public executions. I'm kind of surprised we're not feeding migrants to the lions yet. 
Patrick Chovanec

Can we be honest that so called 'wokeness' meant Black people demanding full social personhood and refusing to be silent about getting murdered/harmed by the state? So yes, that is more threatening to many in this country than is fascism. I think that's been clear.
Prisonculture

If you only read the opinion journalism in elite media over the last decade, you would have been convinced that wokeness, not fascism, was the greatest threats to American society. Now some of those authors are retconning by trying to relabel fascism as "the woke right."
Don Moynihan

One way we’ll know if America is headed in a better direction post-Trump: is Stephen Miller preparing for prosecutions, or his next hit on CNN.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social

Do you ever think about how rarely it's mentioned that Musk was found guilty by a jury of his peers of defrauding investors before he launched the largest, and possibly most fraudulent IPO, ever?
LOLGOP


Bichinhos Fofinhos pra quem ta cansado

Republicans have two messages: "Things could be worse" and "give us more time." Combine those, and you have the truth.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social

When most white Christians talk about 'God' or 'Jesus' or 'Christ' or 'Heaven' or 'Christendom' or 'the Church', they just mean white supremacy. This has pretty much always been true since the dawn of modernity.
@timescarcass.bsky.social

Nobody is more punk than babies. The food is vegetarian mush, and it's absolutely everywhere. No matter where they live, they're effectively squatting. They sleep all day and stay up late. They're completely broke. Their music is mostly screaming and amateur drumming. It's so cool.
Xander Lenc

“It’s a joke” is one of the most tired forms of being shitty. It’s also one of the most cowardly. 
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD

The Art of the Deal, folks. Donald is such an idiot:


Mrs. Betty Bowers

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
Courtney Milan

DHS has known for over a decade that immigration agents shoot into cars willy nilly for no reason, or even specifically jump in front of cars to manufacture justification to shoot people. The shooting in New York on Thursday, Renee Good, so many others – it's by design.
Daniel Suitor

I converted to Catholicism two weeks ago. Here’s why I think Jesus would’ve supported live streaming executions.
NY Times Pitchbot

Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
Robert Reich

KKK:


Cheri Jacobus

You’d have to be a special kind of stupid to bomb a school full of children and still expect to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Hoodlum @nothoodlum.bsky.social

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment.
Jake Grumbach

Cartoon by Michael de Adder:


Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social

Try hating racism as much as you hate Black people telling you about yourselves and your  ancestors and then maybe together we can get somewhere. 
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social

This is clearly not acceptable:


DC Council

"The Flydubai co-pilot who tried to hijack a flight to Tel Aviv is a former cryptocurrency speculator who four years ago was living with his parents and calling women “rotten meat” on a now disabled social media account. "
ae @aelkus.bsky.social

Remarkable how consistently the Trump administration has adopted the aesthetics of mass shooters, from their schizophrenic social media aesthetic to livestreamed executions to masked men with long guns roaming our streets with impunity. Nihilist violent extremism as statecraft 
Gillian Branstetter

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social

#IAmJaneDoe


Maida @emmaidama.bsky.social

Hegseth got the job not because of his clown antics on Fox News but because during the first term he made it his personal crusade to get Trump to pardon war criminals who had murdered civilians and desecrated corpses. That’s who he is and it’s what Trump hired him to be.
Andy Craig

Feels to me like the U.S. government livestreaming the shooting death of a guy in a wheelchair is going to be in all the history books, and hopefully framed as the end of an era that was very bad, and not the start of an era that was much, much worse
Jay Willis

One of the first things Fidel Castro did upon taking power was televising live executions by firing squad.
Peter Sagal

Just today:
- The Trump admin announced the first public execution since 1936.
- Trump tried to incite a race war against Somalis.
- Trump said anyone using the phrase AI is "THE ENEMY"
- The New York Times reported on a potential ICE plan to deport migrants on military boats and ferries.
functional moron
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

The Ask. Photo by bikebustempe:


Tom Flood

the fact that so many somali people traversed to the united states and have chosen minnesota as their home is one of the single greatest things about our state and our community and this is a belief i am extremely prepared to defend in any way necessary
@fiveburger.bsky.social

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves.
Adam Serwer

Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
Aaron Rupar

Organized Chaos, Antje Woolum:


pmamtraveller.bsky.social

It seems apt that on an afternoon when Pew Research shows his approval rating nearing the 40-points-underwater threshold, Trump would try to salvage matters by shouting online: *Look! N––ers!!!* 
Greg Greene

Just the president urging Americans to take matters into their own hands to “fight back” against a small community of immigrants in their midst. No big deal.
Kevin M. Kruse

Women athletes make up ~43-45 percent of the population of athletes, but media coverage typically shows only 2-5 percent, according to the University of Minnesota’s Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport
Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social

New Pew poll has Trump's approval at 30% (!)
68% of the country disapproves of him.
Lowest in his second term, at January 6 levels.
*31%* of Trump 2024 voters now disapprove of him.
Prem Thakker

Citrus juicers as protection:


David Ho

“Do you think that person is a man or a woman?” my aunt asked me, referring to a groundskeeper mowing the lawn of the Walker Sculpture Garden while we walked through. At first I said nothing, and then I kept saying nothing. “I guess it doesn’t matter,” she concluded. Sometimes silence is best.
Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social

Why did NC, SD and NE perform so much better reducing emissions than CA, WA and CT? Because they are less likely to build highways they can’t afford to maintain. In other words, fiscal responsibility might be better for the climate than a climate champion.
bethosborne.bsky.social
 
This hobby is mis-named. It's not 'sewing,' it's 'ironing with occasional piecing.'
Sigrid Ellis

not sure if silicon valley understands this but the overall negative response to AI is mostly because it's the first technology to arrive pre-enshittified.
tim d.o' @tee-dee-oh.bsky.social

Dawg, what?


Moth @walkingminnesota.com

If Tina Peters had permission from her parole officer to
1) travel out of state, and
2) meet with a convicted felon, ie. Trump, to
3) plot further election crimes,
then her parole officer is guilty of sedition, too.
B Beshoar

come 2028 vance will be cutting ads specifically denouncing his in-laws for coming to the united states
jamelle @jamellebouie.net

walking a city block to my destination is an unbearable burden. walking 500 feet through a target parking lot is my god-given right
skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social

The only book I have ever bought for its cover alone - £1.49 well spent:


Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social

It's so funny when drivers view traffic calming measures as a fundamental attack on their right to use a car. You can still drive! You're just being forced to drive more slowly and safely.
Gravel Influencer

It seems like every successive election in the US is more negative, ie, more about anger toward incumbents rather than any positive program by challengers, but this upcoming election is the most purely negative I think I've ever seen. Can anybody really lay out a coherent Democratic message?
David Roberts @volts.wtf

BREAKING: ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.
Kyle Griffin

Ginkgo biloba, a living fossil, the last surviving species of its genus:


ROWAN @rowanclair.bsky.social

drivers don’t think of themselves as ‘sharing the road’ with cyclists and pedestrians. they think they occasionally donate bits of road to us out of the goodness of their hearts and that doing so is optional
rax king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social

one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them
onion person @junlper.beer

I'm just gonna bookmark this story about the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets. 
Dave Karpf

Wealth increased 37% for Americans 75 and older, but declined 23% for people under 35 during the post-pandemic years, according to a new Federal Reserve study.


comaku.bsky.social

“Your existence violates my beliefs” is not a concept a just society should tolerate.
Dave Andress

Right now society at large is paying most of the bill for people who drive giant pick-up trucks and SUVs, my humble proposal is that we should stop doing that and ask them to pay it themselves. 
Ned Resnikoff

We are going to erase the national debt by selling chances to destroy Trump shit with a sledgehammer 
Grudgie the Wail

one thing tech bros and political journalists have in common is the absolute inability to consider the possibility they’re being played 
Ed Morrish

bob's cafe sign, sioux falls, south dakota, 1980:


old roadside pics

I think if a society has a media ecosystem that is captured by right-wing zealots and a political culture that leans heavily on scapegoating minority populations, authoritarian outcomes are to be expected, and the fact that liberalism ever breaks through is in fact a testament to its appeal and necessity.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social

We will need both carrot (incentives for clean energy) and stick (disincentives for fossil fuels) to follow the needed decarbonization pathway. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something — probably (directly or indirectly) fossil fuels.
Michael E. Mann


Xela Hart

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 
maura quint

Kavanaugh worries that letting municipalities sue oil companies for the harm they cause could bankrupt them. Seems like if you’ve caused so much harm that holding you accountable for it bankrupts you, you shouldn’t be allowed to be a company anymore.
Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social

Prediction. If the democrats win the senate, Alito retires on November 4th so the Republican senate can push thru a new MAGA accolyte justice before the end of the year.
Peter Gleick

In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
Robert Reich

jj court sign, wickenburg, arizona, 1991:


old roadside pics

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of the next post.
mcc @dryad.technology

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
Nicholas Grossman

Just watched a high school kid driving an older Ford Expedition absolutely floor it on a street with a 25 mph speed limit. He had to be going 40+ mph. But he wasn't on an e-bike or e-moto so it's fine and normal. 
Gravel Influencer

Sadly true:


Peter Gleick

The most effective bit of American exceptionalism propaganda has been to reduce the salience of the fact that slavery and segregation existed here, as normal orders of our day – our own fascism – and that keepers of this flame have always been represented by one of our two political parties... 
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social

It's fascinating to learn how many more kids die in ATV accidents every year than in e-bike accidents, then observing that there is a moral panic about kids riding e-bikes but not about kids riding ATVs. 
mtsw

Any man who uses “merely” regarding women has revealed his true misogyny. What a terrible man [Samuel Alito is] to have power over our mere little lives.
waterybint1952.bsky.social

I’d like to counter far futurism with extreme presentism, and a focus on all that is lost thanks to the oppressions we accommodate and promote.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social


Miaganga

Gerrymandering is cheating and election-stealing. The massive money advantage is corruption in action. Neither of these represents “an upset.” The media really needs to stop normalizing and enabling cheating, election-stealing and corruption.
Brent Toderian

'Autumn' entered English in the 1300s. 'The fall of the leaves' was shortened to 'fall' in the 1600s.
Merriam-Webster

why is that cyclist swerving and hogging the road? the road:


Ryan @pyry.lutefisk.online

Somehow we’ve survived 250 years with the military not being called in to oversee elections. 
Patrick Chovanec

It’s genuinely remarkable how complete the consensus around anti-Black racism as an unremarkable feature of public and political life has become.
@chadstanton.blacksky.app

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
Ben Collins

Twin Cities Marathon 2026:


Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social

I do my best proofreading right after its to late
lukelukeluke

I lived in Oregon in the 90s and one night on radio a young woman was interviewing Joni Mitchell about an art exhibit she had at the time. During the interview she found out that Mitchell was also (!) a musician, and told her that was great, something to fall back on if the art didn’t pan out.
@eileen4ever.bsky.social

GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.
Taniel

sometimes it's still hard to believe the government decided the license that lets you drive this fiat should be the same one that lets you drive this truck:


Collin Woodard

Should Republicans distance themselves from their top donor, who is fighting a ban on AI-generated nude images in court 
Thor Benson

the United States has such a large Spanish-speaking population that there are quite a few regional American dialects of Spanish 
Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social

The post-World War II "peace dividend" owed its existence to three factors: industrial capacity, political freedom and pent-up demand. 
Cory Doctorow

I don’t think city planners and architects understand cities at all if they can illustrate this type of graphic without asking the question of why that space isn’t used? Freeways are loud, unpleasant gashes in cities and the only way to create this level of vibrancy is to remove them:


Push The Needle

Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history
Will Stancil

Have effective altruism folks tried just being effective and also altruistic
Costa Samaras

I've known ever since I first encountered the Limits to Growth in the 1980s that collapse was possible. What I didn't have the ability to imagine was how stupid and small would be the conductors of the trip down the last miles of that road. 
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social

The fallacy of the climate movement's electric car advocacy is belief it's faster to get people into EVs than into walkable homes where they can drive less. The reality is it's probably ten times faster to build homes in walkable neighborhoods than to convince people to buy electric cars. 
Matthew Lewis @mateosfo.bsky.social


Nick @enough-already-86.bsky.social

I should not have to dress like a construction worker just to avoid being killed by a driver.
Adam Roy

the only thing – and i mean that literally, the ONLY thing Trump could do to make his base hate him – is to take their big gas guzzling cars. not killing a school full of children, not food prices, not staging a coup, not rape, not child rape, not insulting a disabled man on live television. only gas.  fuck cars and what they do to the human brain and society, they are a menace that needs to be destroyed and removed from our civilization entirely, period the end.
Craig Johnson

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.


Ryan CrawCour

Literally the most stressful part about raising a three-year-old is cars and roads
West Seattle Bike Blob

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put her vision for the city like this: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"
mtsw

I would really like to see more videos of two people in chairs talking into mikes about shit. Great stuff.
Robert Simonson

Are robotaxis really "green"? 
- "They're EVs!" Sure, but cars can go electric without autonomy.
- "They'll be shared!" Doubtful. Shared ride hail has fizzled. 
- "They'll boost transit!" Ride hail made the same claim. Nope.
In fact, AVs could worsen the environment by inducing much more driving. 
David Zipper

so incredibly massively fucking tired of this: 


Musicology Duck

Urban blue voters need to understand that if farm workers could vote, rural farming areas would turn blue overnight. But they can’t. Stop punishing rural America just because only landlords control the vote.
@the17thqueen.bsky.social

Tennessee remains a horror show run by the world's most repulsive people.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

Nice! Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, was launched 69 years ago today.


The Spaceshipper