Of all the things to admit on the internet, “I don’t know how bananas work” is one of the funniest

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 15h ago

Spoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.

Trying to score compassion and competency points by monitoring encampments sweeps from a fancy city hall command center like she's in the White House situation room is pretty gross!

Hey Door is a great neighbor, and has done so much for helping out, esp over the last year. Please reach deep and help out!

Door (angry trans edition)@bananabreadmaker.bsky.social · 16h ago

www.gofundme.com/f/trans-new-... 👉👈 I love yall I would really like for my bed to not be under a tarp bc of the risk of water leaking into my bedroom from the ceiling, and that's only gonna be possible with a large chunk of money Anything helps, you're all awesome.

Guess I’ll be part of the Kaohly Her whisper campaign but a St. Paul knower confides maybe the police aren’t making shit up, they’re just the only department with the political cover to go public. Ask your St. Paul government friends if Her’s treatment of colleagues and underlings goes beyond SPPD.

Door is a super great person. Can we help them get a new roof to keep them and their kiddo dry?

Door (angry trans edition)@bananabreadmaker.bsky.social · 16h ago

www.gofundme.com/f/trans-new-... 👉👈 I love yall I would really like for my bed to not be under a tarp bc of the risk of water leaking into my bedroom from the ceiling, and that's only gonna be possible with a large chunk of money Anything helps, you're all awesome.

Door’s good people. Fully endorse.

Door (angry trans edition)@bananabreadmaker.bsky.social · 16h ago

www.gofundme.com/f/trans-new-... 👉👈 I love yall I would really like for my bed to not be under a tarp bc of the risk of water leaking into my bedroom from the ceiling, and that's only gonna be possible with a large chunk of money Anything helps, you're all awesome.

Cat Power is antivax

One of the things that's going to happen is that people will start to see the horrible tradeoff we made in the post-civil rights era. We sold out cities, transportation, education, environment, taxation, .... everything, in the name of "black and white kids don't have to be in the same classroom."

I only try to remember how every shift at GFS felt like the deepest heartbreak until we learned to remember we're in it for the long haul & in it for good, no matter what. That took 4-5 years, but I did gain the perspective through the discipline. My heart is with them.

Every time the barricades fall my heart breaks a little. And every time we promise to raise them up again. Until we can stop mourning cop murders because there are none.

Wisconsin Watch@wisconsinwatch.org · yesterday

Madison police arrested at least seven people early Tuesday morning as officials moved to clear out the encampment at the site of a July 22 police shooting. Read more from WPR: wisconsinwatch.org/2026/08/madi...

jeeeeezus :( this is somehow both better and much, much worse than i feared :(

Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 2d ago

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

Fuck it We need a fence. We got quoted $1000 for something secure and solid to keep folks out of our yard at 3am. We are a household of mostly disabled trans organizers. We need help. My venmo is @ reedeliot Please help us out. It's getting fuckin wild.

reed eliot 🤌 🤌@reedeliot.bsky.social · 2d ago

Last night yet another person walked through the busted down gate to scream at our neighbor's house. He broke his fucking door down and threatened to kill him. It's fucking scary this shit keeps happening in the middle of the night.

Sure, fine, rock the shirt. But first and foremost, give any discretionary coin you have to orgs in your own backyard who are working alongside trans youth. (HRC= homonorms rights, corp)

Human Rights Campaign@hrc.org · 2d ago

The look everyone’s talking about can now be yours: show your support for trans youth now ➡️ hrc.im/transkidsbelong 🩵🩷🤍

your reminder that HRC endorsed Angie Craig and have not revoked that endorsement. give that tshirt money to Transforming Families or @tigerrsmm.bsky.social instead

Human Rights Campaign@hrc.org · 2d ago

The look everyone’s talking about can now be yours: show your support for trans youth now ➡️ hrc.im/transkidsbelong 🩵🩷🤍

Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Just making sure everyone knows HRC re-released the Coach Reeve-worn t-shirt.

Trans Kids Belong T-shirt

Cheryl Reeve, head coach of the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx, wore this t-shirt during her team's matchup against the Indiana Fever to show her long-standing commitment to trans kids, equality, and inclusion...

shop.hrc.org

Folks I won’t tell you not to feel your feelings, but this is rage bait. He’s talking about expanding beyond politics into things like live sports.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

look at this bird!

TJ | Tacit Photo@tjwestre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Green heron poises to strike 🐟📸 #birds #wildlifephotography #heron

Being dead is not some kind of state line where, if you can just cross the border, all your trespasses evaporate. The flowers still wither where you poured salt. The living continue to suffer the consequences of your actions. People are entitled to say, he made the garden worse, and now he is gone.

a thing that is sort of weird to me (in a "jesus, my brain is bad" kind of way) is that even though, for very obvious reasons, having had blood cancer means they super duper very do not want your blood ever, i still manage to feel guilty about not donating blood.

Elle Ess@viamarsala18.bsky.social · 2d ago

Who is going to find time in their week this week to donate blood? The American Red Cross declared only its second ever national blood crisis in 145 years. There’s only a day’s worth of O+!

does anyone have a stud finder i can borrow? (this is about walls, not about lesbians, although if you are an available stud, hi, wanna come hang some shelves with me and tell me my butt looks nice?)

This is what we mean when we say #transrightsarehumanrights. Laws like this affect EVERYONE. They don't want any women playing sport. They want women trapped in the home.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

[carly simon "clouds in my coffee" voice] 🎵mice in my kitchen/mice in my kiiiitchen🎵

chopping it up with the transphobes before the Fire-Fever game on Friday really hammered this home: they want to endlessly "debate" abstract gender concepts because they have absolutely no way to implement any kind of sports-gender policy that doesn't require a whole lot of child genital inspection

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

I think a lot of relitigation of COVID is people who have spent a lot of their resources (time and money) trying to insulate themselves from the vagaries of luck confronting the fact that big, random things happen and that life can still have unforeseen challenges. Climate change seems similar.

Hmm. It's a stumper. Let's see, which countries are the ones where healthcare (a huge factor as you age) is tied to employment in a society with an unstable employment market with layoff threats always looming and where people over 50 are not so subtly pushed out the door? Is it Sweden? No?

Depresh Mode with John Moe@depreshmode.bsky.social · 2d ago

In some countries, depression, loneliness, and memory issues actually improve in middle age. Almost everywhere else, they at least stay steady. And in only ONE country, they get WORSE . I'll give you three guesses and you have to forfeit the first two. maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...

I don’t post photos on the internet but I need everyone to know I just took the world‘s best photo of me and my kids wearing those weird pore strip things and making silly faces. It’s so stupid and so good.

And (this is the last one I promise) whoever said we’re all fucked up mentally from the Covid trauma is dead on. We haven’t reckoned with it and never will, our grandkids will whisper about us the same way we whispered about our Depression-era grandparents who scooped mold off the jelly instead of

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

I know it's hard but please imagine in the Before Time a senior senator of the same party defending the president in the same way you'd excuse a cranky toddler.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Sen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."