COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4d ago

Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than a few years ago, according to a new analysis. “It really does look like a free fall,” Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology, said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”

We are 24 years away from when the world needs to be at net zero carbon emissions. Fossil fuel infrastructure and even some appliances have about a 25-year design life. That means that every gas power plant, gas pipeline, or gas boiler you install today is a middle finger pointed at your grandkids.

The accuracy 😭

💙🎀 𝑱𝒐𝒐𝒍𝒔 🎀💙@jpep38.bsky.social · 2d ago

😆😂

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

Damn right.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 7d ago

Holy shit.

This was so much fun! We even got a group of people from Milwaukee to join us. Can't wait until next year's gathering.

CUrbanism Club@curbanism.bsky.social · last wk.

We loved being a part of the second Illinois Strong Towns Gathering (STILL). If you're in Illinois and you want to join us, reach out! We'd love to tell you how you can help build a stronger town wherever you are. Thanks so much to Strong Towns Blono for hosting us.

Read this thread to remind yourself that life can be so beautiful and humans can be wonderful.

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · last wk.

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

People love threatening to murder people for legally riding bikes. Of course drivers regularly hit cyclists riding in painted bike lanes or shoulders. It's almost like motorists don't need any excuse to inflict violence upon bicyclists.

I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/

Dammit. I don't want to watch a four hour movie in a theater, but I might have to because I'd like to add to the number of people he knows are laughing at him in public.

Dan O’Sullivan@osullyville.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.

Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office

The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.

wsj.com

I remember being so horrified by the original story, and it sounds like it's gotten even worse since then.

👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻@dave.bzky.team · 3w ago

'"How do you protect a place like this?” “Really expensive insurance,” he replied. “That’s the answer.”' And increasingly, everyplace is a place like this. Great work here by @emorwee.bsky.social

I'm incredibly crabby today, but I'm saving my hot takes for private chats so I don't end up in a social media brawl.

There's no hell hot enough for some people.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w ago

Jesus Christ, this article will enrage you like nothing else

To the two drivers who blew through stop signs nearly hitting me and my daughter as we biked to preschool today: I hope you do something really amazing with those three seconds you saved by endangering us

Your daily reminder that fascist Russia depends on exporting oil + gas + coal to bankroll its genocidal war against our ally Ukraine.🇺🇦 Renewables are good for the climate and good for peace + security! #FossilFuelsFundFascists

Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air@creacleanair.bsky.social · last mo.

In August 2026, the top importers of RU fossil fuels were: 🇨🇳 China 🇮🇳 India 🇹🇷 Turkiye 🇪🇺 EU 🇪🇬 Egypt

It's fascinating, to me, how many columns and articles were written after Biden's withdraw from Afghanistan about the looming humanitarian catastrophe that Biden caused and how many fewer were written about Trump slashing US humanitarian aid still being sent there from $3B/year to $0 in 2025.

I am fully in support of the kids' agenda!

Elisabeth@affabletoaster.bsky.social · 4w ago

#KidicalMassHfx And to the twit who got mad that we were “bringing the kids into [our] agenda,” behold, the kids’ agenda:

I had a wonderful time at the Champaign County Democratic Party Blue Unity Gala! And got to tell IL House Member and Speaker Pro Tempore (and former Illini football player!) Kam Buckner how much I appreciate his advocacy for housing and transportation.

The real goal of the anti-trans movement is the erasure of trans people from public existence, and it's grotesque. Thread:

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · last mo.

so the exact scenario all of us opposing this have warned about for the last 2 years

the thing about vocally refusing to vote all the time is that politicians will, entirely logically, write you off as “those people who refuse to ever vote”

one of the most mind-melting things about this moment is how so much of the media and popular discourse politely ignores or is very vague about the blindingly obvious fact that Trump has rapidly-worsening dementia www.cnn.com/2026/09/08/p...

Sad but very true.

Jake Berman@lostsubways.com · last mo.

In a lot of ways, the environmentalism of my parents' generation didn't ask anyone to sacrifice anything. People still drove (but it was a Prius), lived in the burbs (but with a beautiful garden), bought supermarket food (but bought organic). It was an aesthetic choice as much as anything. 🧵

We just signed up for the mailing list! Can't wait to hear more.

Stephen Jacob Smith@stephenjacobsmith.com · last mo.

The Coalition for Elevator Reform, led by The Kelsey, is up and running. Join if you have any interest in advocacy to bring down elevator costs! Especially if you are a member of a YIMBY group or have the ear of any politician. Email hello@elevatorreform.org, ask to join the mailing list.

Really good thread here! There are a lot of autoimmune diseases in my family, and there are times we know more about some things than our doctors do. Yes, I trust modern medicine. Also, I know that doctors are human and don't know everything and there's more to learn. It's a tricky balance!

🎃 Decorative Gourd Mikell 🎃@mikell.bsky.social · last mo.

Okay I’m going to do a thread on “trust the science” and MAHA, from the perspective of a woman with a uterus who is also the parent of a child with a rare genetic disorder. 🧵

they like him and want to help him. we've seen how the times treats other politicians who they don't like when they are perceived to be dishonest

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · last mo.

Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial."

He's six months away from claiming he walked on the Moon, nine from insisting he survived Custer's Last Stand.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."

What really gets me are the ones who are on this site. Isn't this the reason we all left Tw*tter?

Shepherd@neolithicsheep.bsky.social · last mo.

The number of newsletters by people who are otherwise not terrible that stay on substack and help them pay Nazis is astonishing.