Ben Rosengart

@nberlat.bsky.social A strategy that might have worked in a different media environment, will not work today.

[US Pol: those future democrats]

@futurebird The Republican-lite strategy is invariant, while justifications for it come and go.

@evanurquhart.bsky.social 🎯 A world where trans people are not as free to be jerks as cis people, is not a world where trans equality has been achieved.

@nberlat.bsky.social OK

@nberlat.bsky.social Do you have a link to that, please and thank you?

one big problem with community is that it involves other people.

@robinhouston @Cdespinosa How did you decide between twenty-five and twenty-six s’s?

(I checked that twenty-five doesn’t cause another s to appear after one round of updates, but I didn’t check for full convergence.)

@nberlat.bsky.social Again, even Josh Marshall is saying this, and he’s usually not what I’d call a radical.

@nberlat.bsky.social That implies large-scale organized violence, most likely, no? I feel like once that bottle is opened, many many things become possible.

If SFPD won’t protect us from these thugs, then it’s completely legitimate for someone else to step up. I’m just saying. https://sfba.social/@MLNow/114996554084162687

@nberlat.bsky.social "Phantom lib syndrome" is fucking perfect.

@evanurquhart.bsky.social I agree with this. AND we need an intersectional understanding of the contexts for that career choice, when it’s marginalized people making it. AND there are strategic and moral imperatives to defend everyone from fascist attacks — everyone, no exceptions.

@evanurquhart.bsky.social Personally, I see value in these designated days/weeks/months. A person or company which participates is implicitly promising not to discriminate against whichever community. And if they break that promise and then try to participate again, there's a focal point for […]

Headline: New Tariff on 'Transshipped' Goods Mystifies Importers

One assumes the dumbest possible thing happened here.

@evanurquhart.bsky.social They love the idea of a digital "worker" who never asks for a raise and never says "no", and increasingly they're so confident that they say so in public. Of course there's a shorter way of describing such a worker, which they won't utter or maybe even think, but which […]

This is shameful. How could one counsel a trans kid, or even just a kid with any kind of a moral compass, to apply to Brown?
https://progressivecafe.social/@MariaHill/114982982549113579

So - Where are those little NYC Police Dalek subway patrol robots now? Can they be donated to an arts organization and given kind of Red Grooms bodies and have them wander the streets on NYC?

Sydney Sweeney and Evaluative Aggression Men think they get to judge women's bodies.

and this on the time the right decided Sweeney was mid. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/sydney-swe...

Clint (he/him) (@conejoclint@m.ai6yr.org) Attached: 1 image US citizens jailed in LA Ice raids speak out: ‘They came ready to attack’ Exclusive: Andrea Velez and Adrian Martinez recount their capture by immigration officers and its effects on their lives https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/05/us-citizens-jailed-ice-los-angeles

LAPD broke California law in helping ICE kidnap this woman. #immigration #fascism
https://m.ai6yr.org/@conejoclint/114976978813028256

SCAM ALERT

An elderly adult may go up to you and pinch your nose without your consent then claim to have stolen your nose

Do not attempt to pay them to reacquire your nose

They do not have your nose

Their supposed proof is just their thumb in between two of their fingers

Do not engage them […]

[US Pol: "Dark Intellectuals" on consent]

@futurebird I told my kid this and I always put her down or stopped tickling her whenever she said to. This not only made her safer but it set her up for social success bc other kids feel safe around her. Animals do too.

@NaClKnight Happy birthday!

@boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com @evanurquhart.bsky.social how do I get this job

Photograph caption dated May 8, 1948 reads, "Vice Sgt. C. W. Bates examines name-cards confiscated in raid on alleged house of ill-repute."

"Little black box" nabbed in vice raid https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11160

A lot more of us are gonna have to get comfortable with this kind of intervention over the next year or three. https://ruby.social/@veganstraightedge/114963487320304404

@davidnjoku https://kolektiva.social/@BetaCuck4Lyfe/114966908638995776

we can't move forward if we're unwilling to say, "this is wrong and we need to sweep it away."

Simple ingredients but the process is a bit involved. You will need a klutzy osprey, a poorly maintained power transmission infrastructure, and a dry forest. The recipe *will* fail if the forest is not dry. #Futurist #cuisine

Now this is what I call #Futurist #cuisine. Alt: a grilled-looking unidentified river fish on a charred landscape. The Canadian authorities believe it was dropped by an osprey onto power lines, sparking a wildfire.

Attorney General Bonta Files Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Unlawful Attacks on Gender-Affirming Care OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, leading a multistate coalition, filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s efforts to restrict access to healthcare for transgender, intersex, and nonbinary youth. The lawsuit targets recent federal actions — including President Trump’s Executive Order 14187 and its implementing memoranda from the U.S. Department of Justice (U.S. DOJ) — targeting the provision of medically necessary gender-affirming care for individuals under the age of 19, even in states like California where such care is legal and protected.

Attorney General Bonta Files Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Unlawful Attacks on Gender-Affirming Care https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-files-lawsuit-against-trump-administration%E2%80%99s-unlawful