Garrett (he/him)

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

The standard fare position of MAGA Republicanism is that people of certain genders and minority groups should be removed from public life. Their project is to ensure transgender people and migrants of color, for instance, do not live here with them. Those groups are not given a chance to disagree.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey

I think it’s cool that we made a machine that gives entire towns asthma so it can turn your uncle into the dad from Frailty

How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States?

this analysis, the largest of its kind, released today.

the part that stood out: "among U.S. adults, 0.8% (over 2.1 million people) identify as trans. among youth aged 13 to 17 in the U.S., *3.3%* (about 724,000 youth) identify as trans.

our future quite literally depends protecting trans youth 🩵🩷

guys it’s really not funny that the fbi agent took a footlong to the chest. stop laughing. it’s NOT FUNNY that an fbi agent in head to toe tactical gear tried to chase the guy who hucked a sandwich straight at his bulletproof vest but couldn’t outrun him

*watches big tech light tens of billions of dollars on fire yearly*

no one can stop this juggernaut of profit

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

Yesterday, Governor Polis announced that Colorado’s General Assembly will be convened on August 21, 2025 for a Special Session to address the impacts of the Federal budget bill, H.R.1. 1/7

I am already blown away

[opens windows, Scroogely]

Me: Boy! You there! What day is this?

Urchin: Why it's Tesla Get Fucked Day, sir!

Not nearly enough damages, but it sets the stage for more to come. The first bite that puts blood in the water.

Dersh is so insufferable he made the police Woke

stick to being a transit nerd pete

From Bucketlist Denver… More details on the student killed at 38th and Tejon.

People are dying and mayor Johnston has $0 for protected bike lanes in his $900mil bond proposal.

But there's at least $100mil for the new broncos stadium! 🙃

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. For many months, these independent journalists have been the world’s eyes and ears on the ground in Gaza. They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering.   Journalists endure many deprivations and hardships in warzones. We are deeply alarmed that the threat of starvation is now one of them. We once again urge the Israeli authorities to allow journalists in and out of Gaza. It is essential that adequate food supplies reach the people there. Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

The Associated Press, AFP, BBC News & Reuters issued this joint statement about journalists in Gaza today with alt text:

No aid supplies left, staff starves in Gaza, Norwegian Refugee Council says The Norwegian Refugee Council, one of the largest independent aid organisations in Gaza, told Reuters on Tuesday its supplies were exhausted and some of its staff starving, and the group accused Israel of paralysing its work.

No aid supplies left, staff starves in Gaza

"Our last tent, our last food parcel, our last relief items have been distributed. There is nothing left," Jan Egeland, the secretary general of the council, told Reuters
@sg-nrc.bsky.social

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Colorado officials have turned over records to ICE four times this year — including once by mistake “We are implementing procedures to ensure that erroneous sharing does not happen in the future,” a spokeswoman for Gov. Jared Polis wrote to The Denver Post.

Colorado officials have turned over records to ICE four times this year — including once by mistake https://trib.al/DTHhDVC

Do Something No matter what, you can do one more thing to help fight climate change.

I didn't vote to raise my taxes so the city could pay for an ad campaign telling me "do something" about climate change. I want *the city* to do something about climate change. Like, I dunno, fund things that actually make it easier to walk, bike, and take transit.

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

screnshot of CNN interview with Rahm Emmanuel. You can scan a QR code "for Full interview with Rahm Emanuel"

They're calling it the least scanned QR code of all time

in fairness to andreessen he has had to overcome this country’s very real discrimination against coneheads

Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State: 2024 Preliminary Data (January-December) Drivers struck and killed 7,148 people walking in the United States in 2024, down 4.3% from the year before and the second annual decline, but nearly 20% higher than the 2016 level.

Most interesting finding from new US pedestrian crash report:
🔹 65% of ped deaths occurred in places w/o sidewalks
-- This is often an easy fix. Sidewalks cost virtually nothing vs highways.

Least interesting finding:
🔹 29% of killed peds had consumed alcohol
-- What are they supposed to do? Drive?

It’s fucked up the @nytimes.com is okay with using anonymous race science accounts to smear Zohran with hacked bullshit, but isn’t okay with Jamelle Bouie criticizing them for it.

That’s, like, four different levels of racist simultaneously.

The budget for border fascism implementation is $170 billion which is larger than the MILITARY BUDGET OF RUSSIA, A COUNTRY CURRENTLY FIGHTING AN ACTIVE LAND WAR

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

the great mistake we made after WW2 was letting way way too many Nazi party members live.

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.