If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.
For what it is worth, I have also submitted a letter to the editor to the New York Times.
I doubt it gets published, they rarely ever publish trans journalists on this topic.
I can't compete with this.
These people are, to be blunt, substantially less intelligent than they believe they are.
OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...
A New York Central J3-A steam engine pulling a long train near passing Foundry Cove. Cold Spring, NY, 1946. (Photographer Donald W. Furler)
Something different: A New York Central J3a 4-6-4 streamliner near passing Foundry Cove. Cold Spring, NY, 1946. (Photographer Donald W. Furler)
It's early yet.
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
New — My case for why it’s not enough to call this “Trump’s war” when violence abroad implicates us all, and how we don’t need hindsight to know that unequivocally opposing this war will be the correct (and only morally defensible) choice:
Leeches one and all.
As Maine’s first woman District Attorney, Attorney General, and Governor, I'm proud to wish everyone a happy International Women’s Day.
I’m running for the U.S. Senate to continue fighting for women to be heard, seen, and respected — and I will always stand up for our rights.
I see one of them on various forums quite a bit, usually talking about stuff that's very niche. I mean, it's nice to know all the stats about the 1969 Pontiac Tempest/LeMans/GTO and I appreciate their dedication, but is LinkedIn the right venue?
Yeah, this is a story of famous dogs
For the dog that chases its tail will be busy
These are clapping dogs, rhythmic dogs
Harmonic dogs, house dogs, street dogs
Dogs of the world unite
Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago
www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
I wasn't going to make a fuss about this because I didn't want it to overshadow the work, but having someone take credit for something you worked on for nearly a year just really blows. The reporter made sure to say he hadn't heard of me before this. He clearly did not respect a "blogger."
It was also harder to watch NASCAR back in the day. If you didn't have access to TNN in the 90s ...
Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.
We need to acknowledge the vulnerability of trans refugees to safer states. Not only do we struggle with employment and housing, our circumstances put us at risk of mistreatment and abuse.
We know this broadly about refugees, but often downplay it when discussing trans people within the US.
Today’s three true things: Elana is the very bestest (and I adore her), we need more women in Motorsport!, and you should read this profile by @kristenlee.bsky.social
I'm just daydreaming now about how I once filled up the tank in my 1974 Pontiac Grand Prix with gas that cost 97 cents a gallon. I guess I'm ancient now. (Vanishes into a cloud of dust.)
Gas is now a minimum of $4.23 for regular 87 in my neighborhood — from Costco. There are already stations with $5 87-octane gas.
That's *such* a good looking design. Designed under the late, great Jerry Hirschberg, with Al Flowers doing some of the sketching I think. I know he did the facelift.
Me: Adobe broke a single feature and I want to boycott the entire company.
AI folks: AI destroyed all our work for the past five years and emptied my personal bank account. Sure, there are drawbacks, but I see AI as the bright future that will bring joy to us all.
SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY
look ima need white people to stop explaining to me that every white dude is prone to get obvious Nazi tattoos in their 20s. the shit is not true. I know plenty of white military dudes who didnt get Nazi tattoos. This is not a widespread phenomenon.
Hear me out: F1 dirt short track racing at Hickory Motor Speedway.
Hm, what an unusual set of games.
Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.
I'm wincing at the thought of rolling up to the ethanol-free Spirit station. 😓
The questions were, uh ... pretty wild questions, even though they clearly had no idea what had happened. An side, but an important one nonetheless.
