I haven't forgotten Van Hollen being the one real one who willingly left the country to visit CECOT and advocate for Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release in the early aughts of this administration's hellscape so yeah, he'd be a marked improvement imo

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · last wk.

Chris Van Hollen is pumping the brakes on backing Schumer www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A reminder to our fellow citizens across the United States that the nation’s capital remains under occupation

Leah Millis@leahmillis.bsky.social · last wk.

Members of the U.S. National Guard stand at the top of the Lincoln Memorial steps on the morning of the U.S. midterm and local elections, in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 3, 2026. For @reuters.com

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com · 3w ago

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

mmygod

the nintendo shamecube@futuresushi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Jeopardy gonna be huge today for fans of one specific Jeopardy bsky post

I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

I highly recommend you reading and sharing this story btw. We sent our Editor-at-Large to Ukraine for the third time in a year to see what life is like doing basic research in the most challenging of circumstances — and why Ukrainians are persisting despite being abandoned by some of its allies:

Ukrainian Mycologists Are Not Giving Up

As the Russo-Ukrainian war continues, Ukrainian mushroom scientists struggle in their quotidian work.

thexylom.com

Francis Fukuyama keeps the winning streak alive.

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

theverge.com

What's your "He actually broke his toe here" thing? The factoid you can't help but share whenever it comes up. For me, it's how the punk on the bus in Star Trek IV actually wrote and recorded the song that he's playing because he was annoyed the original song they had didn't sound punk at all.

This analysis is excellent, with some interesting data points for the sharp-eyed DC fan. Chatted with Nate a bit. Seems pretty clear that DC has been working on corners as the season goes on. Also pretty clear that Barlett is consistently dangerous, if we can get him better service.

Nate Krackeler@njk30.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Check this out if you love corners, the MLS, or just want to learn something. I put some real blood, sweat, and tears into this one. scnate3.substack.com/p/i-analyzed...

hankgreen.com/smush · Aug 6 409 pts · ★★ pangram first · clean plate 🥞🥞🥞 🥞⭐🥞 🥞🥞🥞

Smush

A daily word game. Each letter gets 5 uses. Except the gold one, which is always required.

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change in societal norms from "a 14 year old is capable of watching 3 kids for an evening" to "a 14 year old can't be trusted to be in public unchaperoned"

So many studies over years have proven again and again: People generally do not want to commit crimes! People are *driven* to crimes when legitimate pathways/lifestyles are made impossible/unsustainable. Give people the ability to live and do things legally, and they do!

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve

yep. modern fascism is in a lot of ways an attempt to fulfill the fantasy of adulthood without responsibility. to act with the impunity you imagine adults have!

Mauricio Pochettino is now, in fact, the winningest USMNT coach in World Cup history

Pochettino already becomes winningest USMNT World Cup coach ever

Two weeks ago, Mauricio Pochettino had never coached a World Cup game. Now he is already the winningest coach the USMNT has ever had at the World Cup.

usatoday.com

Jason Anderson@jasondcsoccer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The USMNT has won a third game at a World Cup, a thing they have never done before

I have more good things to say about FIRE than most people on here, but this stuff is clueless. It assumes that the ideal university is one where faculty contribute equally to the political parties that support and oppose science.

John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 6mo ago

73% of faculty are not in this sample.

The fact that Nature allowed this piece to be published like this suggests institutional capture, much as what happened at the BMJ. That's what the anti-trans side does, capture institutions to silence research into GAC while publishing hackery designed to attack it.

You cannot simultaneously argue the laws were too inactive to matter AND that people talking about the laws is what actually caused the harm. That's an ideological claim designed to shift blame from legislation to advocates by citing other SEGM authors to launder the blame.

Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

Late-stage capitalist worker delivers burrito taxi to aging man in public housing

the governor said more or less directly "we didn't ask for this and we're not going to make our taxpayers pay for hosting it" which i think is a perfectly reasonable take?

The Athletic | Football@theathleticfc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New Jersey’s NJ Transit is currently planning to charge more than $100 for return rail tickets from New York’s Pennsylvania Station to MetLife Stadium for FIFA World Cup games. The 18-mile rail journey ordinarily costs $12.90 for a return ticket. 📝 @adamcrafton.bsky.social 🔗 nyti.ms/3QaZJwX

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

"Good policies aren't good politics unless you take credit constantly for them." Put it on a fkn T-shirt. Yes.

Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 7mo ago

Lina Khan helped Joe Biden set this up, but he never pushed it hard to take credit for it. Now, with Khan working for Mamdani, he's doing it for NYC residents. And actually telling them he's doing it. Good policies aren't good politics unless you take credit constantly for them.

Critically important.

Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I think this is really important, and I'm worried it's never going to filter into the mainstream: Finland is producing studies that their researchers claim cast doubt on gender affirming care for youth, but they hide the ways their idiosyncratic approach itself could be to blame.

we'll see how it shakes out over the course of years, but as of right now, mamdani is definitely showing how the future of good progressive governance means "use government to do good things and then post about it" both parts are important!

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 7mo ago

Ever wonder how to get rid of a mattress? Or how to find resources for a neighbor in need? Call 311.    311 is contacted 100,000 times every day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. No call is too small.    So on the anniversary of 311 (3/11), I decided to answer some of those calls myself.

Thousands of GSA employees lost their jobs during last year's DOGE rampage. Now (surprise!) the agency is on a hiring spree. from @leahfeiger.bsky.social and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

A Year After DOGE Cuts, GSA Now Plans to Hire Hundreds of Employees

The General Services Administration is hiring “approximately 400 positions,” according to an internal email viewed by WIRED. Last year the agency lost thousands of workers as part of DOGE’s rampage.

wired.com

This means that the right wing basically has a way of submitting unsworn, unvetted amicus briefs directly to a member of SCOTUS, unlimited in quantity and content. How—sincerely—can you regulate that sort of vector for propaganda? Alito is cooked, obv, but I mean more generally.

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 8mo ago

And while I know that sounds like crazy pants bullshit to come up at a Supreme Court hearing... remeber that Alito watches Fox News all the time and is NO DIFFERENT than your racist uncle who does the same.