M E Single Hockey Stick 🌹

Crazy male living space

“All parades have the right to exist” might be the best line I’ve heard in a debate since the 2016 Republican primaries

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns this

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

“It was unclear why Admiral Holsey is leaving now, less than a year into his tenure... But one of the U.S. officials, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity…said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats.”

Yoooo

she edge on my water til i upzone on her broadway

The future of being trans on the internet The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?

@theverge.com did a really cool series of stories about the internet + being trans, highly recommend taking a look. Also just love the visuals they did with it
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

the west wing is why we’re in this mess to begin with

last night’s ekko show had our SECOND “fuck aaron sorkin” audience chant of the tour

That one Executive Committee member who's too woke

Photo of Graham Platner, candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine. Photo courtesy of grahamformaine.com.

🧵 The United Auto Workers have endorsed Graham Platner for the United States Senate in Maine.

As a U.S. military veteran, oyster farmer, and proud lifelong Mainer, @grahamformaine.bsky.social is a true fighter for the working class.

I found the free speech*

*Limited hours, subject to change. Again.

Chicago DSA and Chicago Transit Justice Coalition sounded off on the fiscal cliff and job conditions at CTA Worker and Rider Town Hall - Streetsblog Chicago Usually in news stories about Chicagoland’s looming transit fiscal cliff, which Springfield legislators resumed tackling in the fall veto session today, you hear from agency officials, public transpor...

Chicago DSA and Chicago Transit Justice Coalition sounded off on the fiscal cliff and job conditions during the CTA Worker and Rider Town Hall.

@chicagocta.bsky.social @ctaction.org @betterstreetschicago.org @chicagodsa.bsky.social

they are voting to endorse in the next like 48 hours, otherwise all organizing around it has been local chapters

By any votes necessary

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Jesus

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SAME I have had such a strong urge to pull them out of their lawns

I cannot wait for the Broadway upzoning plan to pass so I never have to hear about it again. Completely anodyne proposal with impacts that will not be felt for years and which will likely not result in the transformation that either said keeps screeching about

Can confirm. Spouse works in Cicero and she noted this morning how eerily uncongested Cermak was today. ICE is very intentionally destroying the livelihoods of Latino/a communities.

Democrats Must Kill Their Inner Cops Who needs the National Guard when your state troopers are perfectly willing to crack protester skulls all on their own? Listen, Illinois governor JB Pritzker is not perfect, but he's my guy. Or at le...

For my newsletter today, I wrote about the American police state and how Democrats are going to have to kill it if they have any hope of rebuilding from the authoritarian Trump regime. www.burnsnotice.com/democrats-mu...

I can't believe this is real

How trans visibility became a trap People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

State of the polycule address, delivered by the ethical non-monogamy czar

Federal agents arresting a journalist in Chicago, in direct violation of a federal restraining order that went out yesterday.

Like the timing is similar and it's another must-pass bill, but the political considerations are just different.

Reminder that this lady asked Israel to invade her own country and approved of the U.S. strikes on innocent Venezuelan fishermen.

What do you like most about her? Her virulent anticommunism, her desire to return her country to petro-oligarchs, her support of the Trump administration, her celebration of the bombing of fishing boats by the US military, her cooperation with right-wing insurrection, or her support of Israel?

It's so fucking good