NYC is considering 18 bills targeting e-bikes. No bills seem to care about the massive monster truck lifted SUVs.
Miser@misernyc.bsky.social · 11h agoThe recent hysteria over bike and ebike regulation is infuriating, dumb, and counter-productive.
Miser@misernyc.bsky.social · 11h ago
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky'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."
geo group has to be stopped, y’all
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d agoICE has killed another person.
here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?
49% of Americans believe Netanyahu should be arrested on U.S. soil
Nearly half of Americans want Netanyahu arrested on U.S. soil, poll finds
Almost a quarter of Trump voters believe Netanyahu should be arrested during his U.S. visit, a new poll finds. Netanyahu has made several trips to the U.S. over the past year, as Trump has vowed he wi...
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AI is making everyone's life more expensive, according to CNN. "Households must spend just over $375 more to purchase the same goods and services as they did this time last year due to AI’s inflationary impact,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says. www.cnn.com/2026/07/28/e...
AI is making your life more expensive. Here’s how | CNN Business
AI is raising prices for Americans – and not just electricity bills.
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In newly disclosed records, we've exposed what advocates on the ground have known all along: the Trump administration has a pattern of stopping people simply for appearing to be low-income or working-class and Latine.
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · last wk.Immigration agents who descended on Los Angeles last summer referred to Latinos using slurs, according to body camera footage and text messages detailed in a court filing asking a federal judge to bar agents from making stops based on racial profiling. Read more: www.latimes.com/california/s...
this. what’s being done to him is shameful and a clear sign of a country destroying itself
Ilan Schwartz@germhuntermd.bsky.social · last wk.Fauci has “saved more lives, created more amazing infrastructures for developing research opportunities, cured more people, provided health care to more people both in the United States and abroad, probably, than any single scientist in his lifetime” - Larry Corey @fredhutch.org
As I've said many times, the revocation of TPS for Haitians is horrific on its face, but it's *also* going to have a devastating cascade of effects because Haitian workers are the backbone of health and human services supports for elderly and disabled folks, especially here in Massachusetts.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
I am very ashamed to live in a country where people will wake up with the terror that the secret police are coming to kidnap them, separate them from their families, and brutalize or even kill them because they are not white.
Video available online shows police shot this man at point-blank range while he was already on the ground. Police in the United States have killed more than 10,000 people since 2016 alone.
Sami Schalk@drsamischalk.bsky.social · 2w agoPolice murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
This morning we joined our partners to demand New York State push for solutions to federal healthcare cuts like the Invest in Our New York package. @citizenactionny.org @psc-cuny.org @nywfp.bsky.social @maketheroadny.bsky.social @doctorscouncilseiu.bsky.social
Apparently, we're arguing about tipping again, so I'll repeat what I always say: if you're in a culture that tips, you tip. Your theoretical economic reform theory has no bearing on the present reality, and when you use it as an excuse for not tipping, you tell people what a dick you are. 1/2
Does anyone else not like conversing with people becauase you know that you're going to sound like a conspiracy nut by stating demonstrably true things about how society is moving?
"Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture."
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoNew York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy
"To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio. 'Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,' he told the Guardian."
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoNew York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy
My maternity leave ends in three weeks and I think instead of going back to work I’ll just post a photoshop of myself in bed and declare that I have no plans to return to work at this time but still expect to collect paychecks
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2w agoHI HELLO. Mitch McConnell and Tom Kean got longer medical leaves (with literally zero transparency and fully funded healthcare) than I, and most women get after having a baby…including having a baby via major surgery 💁🏻♀️
In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...
The asshole administration is planning to remove the mining buffer around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. This is being done without tribal or expert input and the public comment time is incredibly, and cowardly short. Please comment to help try and save Chaco. www.koat.com/article/chac...
Chaco Canyon public comment period opens, as BLM proposes reopening 336,000 acres to mineral leasing
A new federal assessment could reshape the future of development near Chaco Canyon. Here’s what’s in the plan and how long the public has to weigh in.
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Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
it’s always a good day when rapists are arrested for rape
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w agoLONDON (AP) — British prosecutors announce they are seeking extradition of Tate brothers from US on rape, sex trafficking charges.
Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami on charges of rape and sex trafficking. UK to seek extradition over sexual exploitation, 'extreme pornography' and assault and indecent images of a child. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.
Another stolen summer day
What are we still waiting to learn?
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