No candidate, regardless of party, will ever get my vote if they call me a "biological man" and advocate for laws targeting my community. Its that simple.

A similar case for Seattle’s 3 new grade separated stations went viral back on Twitter and it led the agency to change their standards to get it right for future stations. Posting matters

Jay Cockburn@jaycockburn.bsky.social · yesterday

This stairway at the Dundas St Don Valley Bridge is a great example of cycling infrastructure that was designed and built by people who will never use it. The narrow ramp is supposedly to allow bikes to be wheeled up the stairs easily. It's useless: too close to the rail, pedals get stuck.

I have literally never seen a single politician lose because they campaigned for trans rights, it's such a flimsy excuse for these losers to say it costs votes lol

every single republican election ad on the texas game does not mention the candidate is republican

From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons

Anyone with influence trying to throw trans people to the wolves of the GOP is an enemy.

Anyone who’s seen the way trans people have been treated the last few years and is still doing the “hey, pipe down about your rights” thing is a piece of fucking shit

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · yesterday

It’s like clockwork: three months before a critical election, people start up with the “don’t for Dems! Teach them a lesson by NOT voting” lunacy.

This is our reward for being one of the most reliable parts of the base, btw. The second we say “I’m not sure I can support someone who will kill my community even if they’re from this party” it’s like we’re fucking monsters. Genuinely if you’re still caping for the dems why? Look how they are.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · yesterday

The vitriol directed at me and other members of the trans community for having the audacity to declare our votes are not to be taken for granted. By cisgender people who otherwise have called themselves allies. I wish it weren’t so utterly predictable.

Trans people are simultaneously a tiny minority who can be safely ignored and an all-powerful voting bloc that can swing elections. I seem to recall someone saying something about an enemy that is simultaneously strong and weak, but it's probably not important.

This passage from One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This can be applied

The vitriol directed at me and other members of the trans community for having the audacity to declare our votes are not to be taken for granted. By cisgender people who otherwise have called themselves allies. I wish it weren’t so utterly predictable.

It's a tactic they use with a lot of topics that Republicans want them to push that voters aren't prioritizing. It sets Dems to explaining, and then narrowing it down and specifying, wasting time and getting cornered with controversial remarks that take flight. Many Dems finally figured that out.

Like this here is the bare minimum for not actively promoting transphobia. And it’s not doing anything beyond that, but hey, again, unfortunately still much better than how certain other Dems *cough* Talarico *cough* are answering

WATTERS & EL-SAYED. Watters: Do you think men should play women's sports? El-Sayed: I'm running for U.S. Senate. It's insane. I'm out here trying to take on the health care crisis and big pharma, and you're asking me about who gets to play what sports. It's silly. People can't take you seriously.

September is African Immigrant Heritage Month — a time to celebrate the many African communities that have helped shape New York and our nation.

oh sure bro that's why definitely it's not because SpaceX stock is still barely limping along fortune.com/2026/09/12/s...

Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year, saying an IPO now would come at an 'ill-advised moment' given AI safety concerns | Fortune

"I would say not 2026. Yeah, we got a lot of stuff to do, like meeting this moment of what is going to be required for safety and alignment, and how the industry and governments can work together."

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My favorite genre of resist posting is describing something Hitler literally did that Trump has also done and then claiming that at least Hitler wasn’t THAT bad

The Onion continues to be undefeated in REAL journalism. My god because this can't be real life.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 20h ago

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

2016: omg, Trump keeps saying he wants to run the country like a business... You can't run the country like a Business! That's not how it works! 2026: oh fuck me, Trump *is* running the country like one of his businesses. And I don't just mean bankrupting us.

As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections

I stand by my post here. I’ve watched us go from one or two local dems to 26 national and statewide dems embracing anti-trans views, with some embracing REALLY bad ones. And I’ve watched what happens when you don’t cut that cancer out. One thing though: do present my side fairly please. 1/2

Republicans view this as a team sport; no amount of conceeding policy will win them over. Packers fans aren't going to start cheering for the Bears just because Caleb Williams starts talking about how Wisconsin is nicer than Illinois. It's just going to piss his own fans off!

Never forget that, after 9/11, the US proclaimed it would use the opportunity to take out the governments of 7 sovereign countries: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, and Iran. Never forget, 39 million people became refugees because of this plan.

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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andrew what do you think about trans kids playing high school sports? “i actually dont think about childrens genitals, what a bizarre question”

The IRS should, by statute, funded until the marginal gain of a dollar of additional funding is less than one dollar.

Kane (Minkmoding)@kanexan.bsky.social · 2d ago

also hire several hundred thousand IRS agents

Imagine if the @seattletimes.com and other news outlets were intellectually honest and published, i don't know, charts like this? Seattle is safer than almost all our peer cities, except the other one governed by a Democratic Socialist. Thanks @mayor.seattle.gov and @mayor.nyc.gov!

rondezvousWA@ronpdavis.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today the @seattletimes.com humiliated itself by amplifying a letter from people who don't know/care crime is massively down, demanding a plan to reduce crime& telling the Mayor how to do it. Then not mentioning our crime rate is low and dropping. And pretending that was news. Agenda much?

Eagerly awaiting the nyt coverage of *this* signal auto deletion after all the hubub about mamdani's media liason/pr chief or whatever

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d ago

JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yes, men wearing literal swastikas chose Sept. 11th to come to Manhattan. Because I don't see the swastikas visible in Talia's thread, I'm lifting photojournalist Dominic Gwinn's photo. Credit: Dominic Gwinn. @dominicgwinn.com You must credit him/Talia if you copy images. bsky.app/profile/momu...

talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nazis on the subway with a physical map of the city. They walked in circles before finding the Wall Street station. Elmo is based in NY area, leaders Gregory Conte and Trevor Raein say they’re from Maryland and Michigan, respectively.