Oh it's going to be awful but I can dream can't I
Sacramento area. Hard core but very slow cyclist; loves transit, walking, cycling, & housing & wants more of all of that! Former public works commissioner. Ex-Board of Directors, Amnesty Intl USA; loves human rights & economist #startrek fanatic. (he/him)
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Oh it's going to be awful but I can dream can't I
"I have experienced medical death, and am now deceased. My body has died."
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
Someone please kill me right now.
I wish people would stop blaming COVID mitigation policies for the acceleration of right wing extremism, and instead acknowledge the fact that we endured a mass casualty and mass disabling event that was mismanaged by narcissistic authoritarians who shifted the blame to marginalized communities
My argument is simple-- East Berlin had a much lower crime rate than West Berlin. Which part of Berlin would you have preferred to live in?
Looking forward to hearing why **experts** such as those in B'Tselem don't count and why despite them losing family and friends on Oct 7th they are still doing the work of documentation and reporting.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
He's upset only by pushback from the left.
Schatz is very much the front runner for senate majority leader after Schumer retires and he has very clearly cooked his brain on twitter
I wish every family was able to have their kids walk or bike to their school like my kids. It makes me sad that most families don't have that option.
Ok so you and others want to ignore that B'Tselem an Israeli human rights organization also calls what is happening in Gaza genocide. What excuse will you use for them? www.btselem.org/publications...
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
One reason for Democrats to ditch their reflex to say "You have a point" to the other side is the right wing hasn't had a good point about anything in most of our lifetimes
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
Schatz is having his brain cooked by nazis on Twitter. He needs to detox before it's too late. I'm serious.
Schatz is having his brain cooked by nazis on Twitter. He needs to detox before it's too late. I'm serious.
When they said they didn't cover Biden's age and health enough, they meant Biden's specifically, not old presidents in general.
It was effective because it was the *first* to do it. It's approach was novel in 1961. What specific things are wrong about Amnesty or B'Tselem's report on genocide in Gaza?
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
A plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU's executive arm, suffered from jamming of GPS navigation while flying over Bulgaria. The authorities believe that Russia was behind the operation, European officials said on Monday.
Why aren't those their "core" issues? Aren't those human rights issues?
She was arrested on the morning of Feb. 20 at her home in Charlotte while caring for her three younger siblings — the youngest of whom has autism — while her mother was at work.
Happening now: protesters in Chicago are interrupting a hiring fair at the Congress Hotel, where U.S. Customs and Border protection is recruiting today. Banner reads, "stop kidnapping our neighbors!" It's quite the scene in here, and the DHS table has been blocked for several minutes already.
If we have to become an authoritarian state, can we at least get eco-cities, bullet trains, and renewable energy?
Hey @mollyjongfast.bsky.social thank you for pushing back on misogynistic bullshit other guests on MSNBC The Weekend were spewing about the victims of Jeffrey Epstein being somehow UNFIT to testify in court because they were PAID for SEX. They were all WRONG, and you were the only one to call it out
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
lol- for the love of cycling and country, let’s obliterate the schoolyard rack forever. Bad design is bad design.
You can read the full report of the ISRAELI human rights organization B'Tselem and why they call it a genocide. Their brave work should be applauded especially since many lost family and friends on Oct 7th. www.btselem.org/publications...
"I look forward to watching the videos of soldiers entering Chicago" Republicans are copying antebellum Southern rhetoric and should be treated as the Confederates they are
Eh, while I respect Tom's broad knowledge, the actual academic scholars of genocide are very much engaged in this debate on both sides. Presenting the caricature that it's a bunch of college students surfing Wikipedia is not contributing to an intellectually honest debate.
Did you read the report? It's comprehensive and thorough. What do you disagree with them about?
You can read the full report of the ISRAELI human rights organization B'Tselem and why they call it a genocide. Their brave work should be applauded especially since many lost family and friends on Oct 7th. www.btselem.org/publications...
FBI but they are being purged.
I’m with you. I think the problem is when one says “listen to experts” and then litigates who the experts are as it suits oneself. I won’t try to parse the difference between ‘genocide’ and ‘war crimes,’ but what Netenyahu is doing seems pretty openly genocide-adjacent.
This is a despicable uninformed comment and it's disappointing to see Nichols repost it. Genocidal scholars and experts of which I know several INCLUDING IN ISRAEL have concluded it's genocide not because of vibes but because of mountains of evidence.
that smile when she realized she was gonna get away with it
Lol missed that one.
Sorry I'm just annoyed that people ignore Israeli experts who have called it a genocide.
People at the Radio Television Milles Collines were found guilty of guilty of genocide in the International Criminal Tribunal for Genocide in Rwanda for their incitement. Joseph Goebbels killed himself before facing Nuremberg on the same charges. Incitement is absolutely part of a genocidal campaign
As I noted elsewhere, B'Tselem is an Israeli human rights organization and people who worked for B'Tselem lost family and friends on Oct 7th.
Like BTselem, an Israeli human rights organization? I might add that people in B'Tselem lost family and friends on Oct 7th.
Not the point but "Lt" and "Captain" should be subsets under police officer. See he should hire me to do memes
Absolutely I agree and I've been VERY unwilling to go there up until recently.
After Oct 7th I absolutely wouldn't have said it was genocidal. It's when Israel began intentionally starving civilians, intending to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, and the deliberate nature of it.
Is he actually an expert on genocide? I've never seen his work in genocide studies.
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
Oh I understand the term genocide very well and personally know many of the experts that have documented Israeli government acts. These *experts* have studied it for decades.
Many Hutus protected Tutsis in the Rwandan genocide but not the Rwandan*government*. It's likely millions of Russians had no hatred towards Ukrainians in the Holodomor. Tom & other pro-Israeli folks want to carve out a special Israeli government exemptions for horrors they've committed.
There are lots of example of Israeli cabinet ministers themselves calling for the extermination of Palestinians. They are quite open about it when they speak in Hebrew.
Israeli cabinet ministers are quite open about wanting to exterminate Palestinians. Here's but a small sampling. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
It's showing a road closure (to cars) not a traffic jam. I love it though.
Ok and the others? You and others have this nostalgia towards Israel that is blinding you to the horror. I actually like you (enjoyed you on the Bulwark recently) but your throwing away your "Death of Expertise" and not reading the experts on this.
What is partisan about Amnesty Intl? Their concern about human rights? I think you are suffering from years of propaganda and bias and are refusing to see what the **experts** in Israel and international human rights scholars have researched.
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
It used to be an excellent paper when it was a paper.
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
Every single thing, EVERY SINGLE THING, that RFK has done was predictable and predicted. He is doing what every other fascist eugenicist has done before him. The disability community has been warning about this for YEARS. It is not in any way shape or form mysterious and unknowable.
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
It's a lie. Stipulating "explicit" carries the implication that he *does* have some other kind of informal, traditional or implied authority over elections, when he does not. Don't print lies in the newspaper.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:
People saying life hasn’t changed must not leave the house. There are checkpoints in my neighborhood, terrified kids & parents to and from school, people calling out of work and not coming into the city anymore. Delivery drivers ripped off their scooters in front of hundreds of angry neighbors.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Congestion pricing is actually the perfect example here. Trump declared that “congestion pricing is dead” (and that he is the king) Hochul and the MTA told him to fuck off, and now, more than 6 months later, congestion pricing is still alive and working exactly as planned
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
In erasing the memorial for the pulse nighclub, DeSantis isn't just saying queer people shouldn't be memorialized. He's saying his administration supports the murder of queer people. 1
Slavery warped the United States.
It's what our family calls these awful racks.
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
Nothing will ever be worse than a cheese grater bike rack up against a wall. At least this one you show is artistic!
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
This Californian loves JB Pritzker.
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
Good thing we built a nation where driving a car is mandatory in 99% of urban environments!
Cyclists, don't forget to wear hi viz!
Garages are where the family bicycles go.
Has the NY Times ever asked Trump or the many other far-right figures in his circle and in the Republican Party whether they would classify themselves as fascist?
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
the demand is always expressed in terms of blue state governments step in and keep rural hospitals open. but why can't red rural county governments step in and keep rural hospitals open?
In an interview with The Bulwark three months after her release, "Cristobal explained that being let out of detention and returning to freedom aren’t the same thing, and that her life now is totally different than what it had been before she was detained."
The same people who villainize Dr. Anthony Fauci, an actual doctor with a speciality in immunology and research in virology, are praising RFK Jr who has never seen the inside of a lab.
The thing about Robert E Lee is he should have been executed in front of the gutted husk of a torched Virginia plantation mansion, and that should have been his official portrait, and we should have put it on our money.
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
I’m really sick of the courts finding this administration broke the law in some unprecedented way, but they get to keep doing illegal things for a few months as a little treat. They’re defaulting to rewarding lawbreaking.
"I don't think he's coping well."
House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and…
The Trump administration **wants** to destroy US science. Everything they've done has made that a specific aim. Is there evidence to the contrary?
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim O’Neill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.
Here’s what appears to be a little girl shackled at the wrists and ankles boarding an ICE flight on Avelo Airlines yesterday. Seattle (Boeing Field) to Mesa, AZ, an ICE detention hub. Not one of those men helped her up the stairs. Courtesy @lalabote.bsky.social
one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
I'm convinced that RFK jr was the reason why Trump was able to win the popular vote. And I think Trump knows it.
no one really cares about hegseth or gabbard or a bunch of these other Trump freaks, but firing RFK Jr. really could torch Trump with a big section of his coalition. The wellness/anti-vax/MAHA people are low-trust and low-info and many will take their ball and go home if spurned.
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