Ugh, national treasure and generally radiant soul Rebecca Solnit is spreading supply skeptical anti-YIMBY housing nonsense on Facebook.

Did I get the night I wanted? No I never want to spend hours waiting on Wayne County to count votes. Did I get the results I wanted? Absolutely, there was Abdul El-Sayed, Will Lawrence, Donovan McKinney federally, along with a ton of statehouse wins including Abbas Alawieh and Chris Gilmer-Hill.

Politico@politico.com · 12h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

It’s true, in the past I would have had multiple editors in my inbox asking me to write about the Cunningham stuff. I haven’t gotten a single assignment request. Trans writers used to be tokenized to write about these things but now that the topic is “mainstream,” those bylines go elsewhere.

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 22h ago

I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.

This is what happened 5-10 years ago in the UK. Journalistic seriousness was stripped from trans journalists and columnists despite trans topics dominating headlines.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2h ago

I pitched both of my usual outlets about the Cunningham stuff, one said yes, one said not right now. In 2019 I would have had a dozen editors competing for my words on this.

Now is not the time to back down. We need an overwhelm of calls going in to lawmakers this week. Call and call again tomorrow! 📲 www.badinternetbills.com

I re-uploaded my eBook HOW TO BE A COMICS CRITIC! Remember when I spent eight years editing comics criticism every day? For award-winning WWAC? And everybody loved the fascinating articles? Well now you can learn to write them too😋✍️✨ clairenapier.itch.io/how-to-be-a-...

How to be a comics critic by clairenapier

A short workbook taking you through the process of developing comics criticism

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"Energy from heaven, not from hell." The best 11 minutes you'll spend today - this week - this year.

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · last wk.

So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...

NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

this result and margin held in the near-final Wayne update this morning, progressive trans activist Joanna Whaley officially (and easily) banishes the Liberati dynasty Downriver

Kevin@reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 15h ago

near-final result with 19/21 precincts is 56-34 Whaley. the current incumbent is Frank Liberati's brother Tullio and Frank himself used to hold this seat

No matter the margin the story is that Haley Stevens got $70M of support, more than $30M of it from a single organization, and still lost.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 18h ago

30,000,000 dollars

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

HOLY FUCK JESSE WELLES COVERED OO-DE-LALLY I'm absolutely crying

Oo-De-Lally - From “Robin Hood”

YouTube video by Jesse Welles

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ@reverendjesus.com · 16h ago

Ok who's ready for some fucking DISCOURSE

Conservative views aren't being suppressed here, they are just A) not being boosted and B) incredibly unpopular because they are odious

People often act as though Mizuki Shigeru is some rare find. We have produced twenty volumes of his work in English

Zack Davisson@zackdavisson.com · 2w ago

His work is readily available in English. www.amazon.com/stores/Shige...?

the lesson of tonight is that everyone needs to lock the fuck in for @peggyflanagan.bsky.social

Hey, folks. There's a @gofundme.com set up for artist Andy Fish, who is going through a very tough fight with two forms of cancer. He and his wife, cartoonist Veronica Fish (my Blackwood series cohorts) could use some help during this very tough time. I'm donating, hope you can. tinyurl.com/4wa86a6c

Donate to Help Andy Fish’s Fight Against Two Cancers, organized by Gina Gabianelli

Help Andy’s Fight Against Two Cancers Meet my cousin Andy Fish, father … Gina Gabianelli needs your support for Help Andy Fish’s Fight Against Two Cancers

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YES. Student loans are a form of inter generational shakedown.

Joey Fishkin@fishkin.bsky.social · 2d ago

When we don't adequately fund public universities, and instead force students to take out loans, what we as a society are really doing is borrowing money from the younger generation—their hard-earned future income—to fund a necessary project that benefits us all: building an educated society.

The Spokane fire conspiracy theories are almost identical to the Altadena fire conspiracy theories. These people have no understand of how fire works, how science works, or why some things burn. I'm writing a book chapter about it, but the people who need to read it don't read books.

LorennaCleary.bsky.social@lorennacleary.bsky.social · yesterday

The internet is filled with really dumb people who right now think the fires in Spokane WA were fake because the houses burned but trees didn’t. What they’re forgetting is that dead, thin, dry wood burns. Wet, dense, living wood is harder to burn. Old living pine and house vs fire: house loses.

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

Except for religious studies, the graduates of these "loan ineligible" majors are disproportionately women. Fans of this policy have probably never considered that social worker, cosmetician, teachers aide, etc might be low-paying jobs *because* women do them. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...

Mandela Station developer is holding a meeting tomorrow at 6:30pm Developer has not advertised this meeting, no signs at BART, no notices to neighbors, and our local neighborhood group found out just now 😔 I am trying to get the word out so people know to join! www.eventbrite.com/e/mandela-st...

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

couple months ago: let's show these assholes why americans are drowning in medical and other personal debt now: wait what we don't even have the weaponry now either

Two more GOP amendments go down to crushing defeats, both in MO. #4 would have made future ballot initiatives impossible to pass by requiring winning a majority statewide *and* in each congressional district. #5 would have eliminated the state income tax.

While centrists continue to think Dems need to moderate on abortion, Kansas overwhelmingly rejected a collateral attack on the right to choose via an amendment (which would have switched to elected justices) after overwhelmingly rejecting an amendment to directly ban the right to choose in 2022.

TrumpsTaxes@trumpstaxes.com · 18h ago

It's official. Kansas Republicans have lost their State Supreme Court referendum attempt, and it won't even be close. Fantastic news.

If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them. defector.com/the-right-ha...

The Right Has Created Their Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector

A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN…

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It's about damn time.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 19h ago

Enjoying former Republicans who escaped their sinking ship and climbed aboard the Democratic Party’s ship and demanded the controls are talking about needing to find a new party now that a handful of primaries aren’t going the way they want. Go knock on Trump’s gilded door. I’m sure he’s waiting.

Good to see Democrats being strategic by withdrawing and supporting independents running for Senate in three deep red states where a Democrat couldn’t win. Utah in 2022 and Nebraska in 2024 saw independents massively overperform the Democratic ticket, and Nebraska is a very real possibility in 2026

Democrat exits Senate race in South Dakota, clearing way for independent

Julian Beaudion withdrew after resisting pressure to step aside, making South Dakota’s contest the third Senate race without a Democratic candidate.

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The New Republic today: Blanche Privately Vows to Take Down Abortion Rights Next Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is promising to roll back abortion rights in every single state. newrepublic.com/post/213939/...

Blanche Privately Vows to Take Down Abortion Rights Next

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is promising to roll back abortion rights in every single state.

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