Bianca Walser

People will be like "I would do anything for my kids!!!" right up until you suggest dropping the speed limit to 20mph.

“Come and take it” is the only correct response to fascists. Whether it’s Hochul with congestion pricing or Texas Democrats on redistricting, you have to fight with everything you got.

Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

3 things that are proven to make society better
1) running frequent bus service
2) helping people get stable housing that they consent to living in
3) giving people some consistent amount of money each month

1 thing proven to harm society: drastic wealth inequality

the argument that AI in the context of art is “just a tool” completely elides the fact that the point of art is to participate in the fucking process of making it

We’d be better off focusing less on the presence of a transit route and more on its frequency

I'm finding that helping others, however I can, makes getting through my own stuff easier.

This is cataclysmic in just about every imaginable way.

A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia Officials say a flying osprey dropped its catch, which then struck power lines, causing sparks that ignited dry grass.

Folks often assume that sheer number of wildfires in West must be linked to intentional arson--despite abundant evidence to contrary. But this partly stems from profound underestimation re: just how easy it can be to spark a fire under right conditions... www.nytimes.com/2025...

The best way to know if the tariffs are costing you any money is just ask yourself if you spend any money at all on anything.

Trump likes to push the lie that wind turbines cause cancer, but the only way that would happen is if you grounded them down to a powder and snorted it, probably; kind of like inhaling air pollution from burning fossil fuels.

Not for nothing I think this is precisely why @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s encouragement to find people who are DOING something rather than telling you to BELIEVE something is pretty right on. Tenant, rank and file worker, pro-Palestine, etc organizers are on the move & seeing real opportunity.

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Tesla hit with $243 million in damages after jury finds its Autopilot feature contributed to fatal crash The verdict follows a three-week trial that threw a spotlight on how Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have marketed their driver-assistance software.

A hugely important verdict.

The victims were pedestrians, so Tesla can't argue they knew/accepted Autopilot's risks.

People walking, biking, and inside other cars didn't consent to be Elon Musk's guinea pigs.

Marital rape wasn’t even outlawed in every state until 1993.

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

only in a country with a political press as terrible as ours could a pair of democratic legislators be assassinated by a reactionary conservative and seven weeks later this double murder has been completely forgotten about

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Check out the colossal array of great Murphs in the replies.

You know a fun game you can play in these sorts of situations is "okay so if you were going to amend the Constitution specifically to overrule the bad and dumb case, what would you say?"

In this case the answer is "the precise existing text of the Fifteenth Amendment"

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a…

The surge in smashed windows may be only the beginning.

Speaking about Trump’s signature spending bill, which triples the size of ICE, border czar Tom Homan told a conservative Christian conference: “You think we’re arresting people now? You wait.”

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social & @mckenziefunk.com

Did you say “admitted to the bar in 2024?”

The DEI of it all. This is insane.

“Sidewalks are car infrastructure”

I have always lived in the United States so this is hard to accept but it’s true.

Look closely. No curbs.

If you aren’t familiar, Terence Tao is a Fields Medalist and arguably the most prominent and accomplished mathematician of his generation.

No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.

The *cities* conversation is a proxy for racism. I think people should stop pretending they don't know this. YEARS ago, I said that "woke" conversations were a REACTIONARY TRAP and to look with suspicion especially on the white people who used the term. I was 1000% vindicated in this.

All of this and also Courtney Love who was absolutely right about Harvey Weinstein.

That the modern manosphere is heavily shaped by now divorced Gen X/Xennial guys angry specifically because it became socially unacceptable to behave how they did in the 90's without consequence should be example enough regarding what the culture was actually like back then.

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

They're bringing tuberculosis back into fashion to look just like the grand America they're nostalgic for.