Annelise
@mxannelise.bsky.social
Gender adventuress, hockey fan, aide-de-camp. Two-time winner of the Miss DomCon Pageant.
In Florida, drag is now banned because it’s a threat to children, or public morals, or something. Thank you 11th Circuit. In other news around the state…
Josh Mankiewicz@joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 2h agoIt’s called “Class.” www.local10.com/news/local/2...
I can think of a whole class of people who are on the verge of resorting to this
InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social · 10h agoThe only way to use the toilet safely and without fear is to bring one with you wherever you go. Buy a portable AMERICAN bathroom now.
Commercial broadcasting is full of heartless people, and the brass at the company that owns KNBR have fit that description for a long time
@eric-branch.bsky.social · 6h agoBroadcaster Greg Papa laid off by KNBR as part of shuffle in mid-day programming www.sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers... #49ers
Drag is no longer legal in Florida, except in limited and slippery-to-define adults-only circumstances. Other kinds of performance? Also slippery All in all this is frightening and ridiculous and a blueprint for federal legislation if the GOP wins in November open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...
Eleventh Circuit, on an 8-5 vote, holds that Florida's anti-drag law is likely constitutional
A majority of the court, however, disagreed with Judge Andrew Brasher that the court should rule on whether the statewide injunction entered in the case was an improper "universal injunction."
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“Protecting youth women’s sports” is fundamentally an issue about denying trans kids access to medical care btw. Because if a trans girl goes natal through puberty they’re a biological male. But if they don’t they’ve had proper puberty and then cannot be a biological male according to their logic.
In this piece the Chronicle reporter asserts that Jocytė is on the platform formerly known as Twitter and I don’t think that’s doing her any favors whatsoever (gift link) www.sfchronicle.com/sports/artic...
Valkyries’ Justė Jocytė opens up on trade rumors, bench role: ‘You start asking yourself questions’
What comes next for Justė Jocytė, the Golden State Valkyries’ 2025 top pick who has essentially redshirted her rookie season after spending last year overseas? For now, continued development.
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This week, the California Legislature adopted two resolutions by state Sen. John Laird. One opposes any new offshore drilling, and one celebrates 50 years of the California Coastal Act.
"This presents a problem for the right: 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 Its 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 p...
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Wyden is breaking some news and naming names here. Will the national media pick up on it? Or will more think pieces about Sophie Cunningham suffice to fill the news hole?
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · 2d agoBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
how not shocking. maybe they should have given Infantino a peace prize or something
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · yesterdayThe US host cities for the 2026 men's World Cup claim that they were *verbally* promised $1 million each by Gianni Infantino and that FIFA hasn't paid up. Truly incredible stuff. www.nytimes.com/athletic/749...
My mom grew up in the part of the city under discussion here, and I spent parts of summers there at my grandpa’s place, digging in the lead-contaminated dirt. Way before any attempts at cleanup. Not ideal in retrospect
Flatwater Free Press@flatwaterfreep.bsky.social · yesterdayThe EPA spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show that years later, many yards still have harmful levels of lead. Read more 🔗 buff.ly/OdKGtdX
Two years ago, California hit a milestone decades in the making: Nearly every person in the state qualified for health insurance, regardless of immigration status and income, pushing the state’s insured rate to a record 95%. Now that progress is unravelling. cal.news/3RJgiBp 📸 Jules Hotz
According to the FBI, at least seven states have now been targeted in a growing wave of cyberattacks on critical water infrastructure across the country. https://to.pbs.org/4wxZZ9y
What we know about the cyberattacks on water systems in 7 states
According to the FBI, at least seven states have now been targeted in a growing wave of cyberattacks on critical water infrastructure across the country. Federal officials now reportedly believe Iran ...
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He's losing words. Anyone with a parent or loved one suffering from dementia will recognize this pattern. Wen he says "moving cameras," it's because he can't recall the word "videos" and so he's stating the component parts as best he can. E.g., a "camera" is involved and the images are "moving"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."
Today my number of followers here, the average current rate for a fixed 30 year mortgage (so says Freddie Mac), and the Mark of the Beast all coincide (with allowance for the mortgage rate being expressed in percentage terms)
really, really great thread, especially for those of us who brush up against academia, publishing, or both
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 3d agoSo, I really hope I get to tell this story in longer form in the near future, but it it’s burning a hole inside me. Most of it comes from an interview with Bob Hirst this weekend. Bob has been Exec Editor of the Mark Twain Project for 47 years, before which he was part of its staff for ~15. 1/16
NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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Oh no. Exactly what everyone who knows literally *anything* about it said would happen did in fact happen. Wow. So now all the other know nothings in other governments around the world who are planning on giving away everyone's privacy will stop and think for a single second, right? Right??
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d agoAustralia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
Athletic competition is about fairness once the competition starts but who gets to even enter is all politics baby
New in PN: Harmeet demonstrates danger of posting through it "The case highlights disintegration of DOJ under leadership of internet-poisoned ideologues who think Musk’s house of horrors is real life. And yet being terminally online is their Achilles heel, undermining their quest to weaponize govt"
Harmeet Dhillon demonstrates danger of posting through it
When being terminally online goes wrong.
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I've catalogued the gayest parts of WPBL Opening Weekend for you. You're welcome:
the gayest parts of wpbl opening weekend
olivia travel, tarps off for the girls, & hot WAGS!
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in which @annaleen.bsky.social asks us to dream big: “What if we gave public transportation the same amount of money that investors have given to AI? With billions of dollars, what could transit do? And how might it transform our cities and lives?” www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
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If you love sports, and you listen to families with trans kids, as Cheryl explains she has done, you might reach some remarkably non-reactionary conclusions
Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 4d agoI love that KPIX doesn’t have a profanity delay running on the Valkyries game and so we get uncensored Janelle Salaün on Tiffany Hayes in the post-game interview: “she’s fucking good!” That’s fucking right!
Heard this on the radio today (as a fossil remnant of an earlier generation, I still have and use radios) and it helped me understand US Senate candidate El-Sayed much better www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tny...
Democratic Challengers: Abdul El-Sayed and Nithya Raman | The New Yorker Radio Hour | WNYC Studios
David Remnick speaks with two left-leaning Democrats challenging not just Trump’s agenda but their party’s tarnished image: Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, and Nithya Raman in Los Angeles.
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