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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

darrellowens.substack.com/p/voting-… "I forgot that not everyone understands how privileged the Bay Area is to have public transit, which regardless of whether you use it or not, keeps traffic levels from becoming unmovable in a growing region that’s […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

"So really, you can't be a [feminist, environmentalist, Christian, whatever] unless you also subscribe to x viewpoint." 1) Not everything needs to be turned into an in-group/out-group fight. 2) The goal is not to wrangle every opinion into a single mega-ideology. It's actually really healthy […]

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Kevin Leecaster @greenfire.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

According to the IEA Electricity 2026 outlook, non-hydro renewables will supply around 21.8% of global electricity in 2026, edging past natural gas (21.6%) to become the second-largest source of power after coal […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Today's stray opinion: GMOs were a tremendously irresponsible experiment carried out on the public, and the experiment worked out. It turns out they're pretty safe.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 06/10/2026

Dungeons & Dragons, Duel Masters, and Magic: The Gathering teams unionize at Hasbro aftermath.site/magic-the-gath...

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Androgoneous Spacecraft docking because neither the US or Russia wanted to be the "Female" docking part. I know a lot of stupid Space shit, but I was today years old when I learned this.

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I dunno, man. Maybe I hate CEQA an unreasonable amount, but none of the anti-prop 45 arguments are really persuading me. Yeah, it will streamline projects I think are bad. But I don't really think the opposition to those projects should take the form of rich people filing lawsuits about noise […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

At the risk of reawakening the world's most frustrating discourse . . . it's kind of funny that the Democrat is the spoiler candidate in Montana, and no one seems to mind.

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@glynmoody/11730337… "For every 10cm of vehicle height, the odds of a pedestrian death rise by 11 per cent."

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Did you hear those AI critics are in a SEX cult? Not sure about this AI stuff, but man, if it's just a SEX cult that's worried, whew, what a relief. And did you hear they're all having SEX with each other? I'm a firm believer that people should have whatever SEX life they want, but if there's […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

For my friends, everything. For my enemies, CEQA.

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

The way a human system talks to itself is so, so different from the way it talks to the outside world. I've been researching a government agency to try to make its work more legible to the outside world. While I'm looking for things like the details of work at a particular location, the data is […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I've been learning more about the California High-Speed Rail process lately. (Did you know they're about to start laying 119 miles of track? I didn't!) I'm trying to get a coherent picture of why it's been so delayed, and on one hand the broad strokes are easy: there's not enough gov't support […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

There's a whole category of issues that I think of as Cheek by Jowl problems. All the stuff that happens when you live near other people, whether it's slightly irritating or deeply distressing: loud noises, someone using the soccer field you wanted to use, urine on the sidewalk, people having […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Not gonna lie, feeling slightly smug about having bought an ebike last year

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

The people who freak out about trans kids in sports are breaking an important bit of kayfabe about sports. If kids' sports were really about the things we say when we justify them--teamwork, physical health, mental health--welcoming trans kids would be a good thing *even if their ability levels […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Was there a lost cultural moment for play in the US in the 2000s/2010s? We had an upswell of big, participatory, playful events--but it was met with intense hostility, centered around a rejection of Millennial "hipsters" living in cities. In retrospect, it seems like we stunted a move toward […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

buttondown.com/thene/archive/charit… Historian assumes graphic novelist must be too dumb to have done her own research, incites a bluesky dogpile on a queer creator.

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

One thing I've gotten less and less patient with over the years: people hopping on social media to announce that [group they're part of] has politics all figured out. If being a Marxist allowed you to predict the future, you'd be winning more.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

The thing that really gets me with the Wikimedia Foundation's response to their staff wanting a union: Imagine you're charged with running the world's biggest free knowledge resource, which is only possible because of an army of nerds who love nothing more than fact-checking. And then decide to […]

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A dark day for human rights.

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

"Wealth that might once have flowed to a foundation is instead being used to create institutions that primarily serve the donor’s own family and community. The giver may still understand the project as socially beneficial, as an investment in education or a better model for schooling, but the […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

The problem with solarpunk is that the genre is pretty much a delivery method for shiny ideas about how to arrange society. And if your shiny ideas were any good, you'd be out there making them happen.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/07/2026

In the latest NDAA amendment votes, five Dems crossed party lines to ban Tricare coverage for ttrans care for dependents of military members: H. Cuellar (TX) V. Gonzalez (TX) D. Davis (NC) S. Figures (AL) And Terri Sewell (AL) becomes the newest Dem to do so. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Five Dems Crossed Party Lines To Strip Health Care From Trans Servicemembers And Their Families

“It's not just an attack on transgender kids.”

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

On some level, I can see why policy wonk types would want to use AI slop for images on their blog posts. It's a fast way to get an idea out of your head. But I see the slop and think, "Hm, did AI also write your policy proposals?"

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

It's interesting hearing about trouble people are having with AI agents ignoring instructions and editing forbidden things, wasting resources on pointless tasks, etc. Humans spent a long time evolving ways to work together. We have a lot of baked-in mechanisms for keeping our decisions in line […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Paper of record proposes we resolve the Iran war by eating Irish children

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

It's painful, but the solution to a poorly-informed electorate has to involve giving them *more* responsibility, not less. People don't know the difference between state and federal government because they don't *need* to know. They don't know why independent agencies are important because […]

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/07/2026

1. TERF activist J.K. Rowling is threatening to bankrupt Amnesty International (UK) with lawsuits because the org dared release a report criticizing anti-trans organizaitons. The UK's laws are designed to allow rich people to suppress speech they do not like. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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TERF Activist J.K. Rowling Threatens To Finance Wave Of Attacks On Amnesty International Over Report On Anti-Trans Groups

“They have sued organizations into the ground.”

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

I should dig deeper into the history here, but one "wrong turn" I think we see a lot over the last century is a preference for libertarianism over democracy. In a lot of corners! The food movement coalesced behind a vision of small farmers doing whatever they want. Huge chunks of internet […]

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026

In March 2025, Trump met in the Oval Office with oil & gas executives. They listen their grievances and, on the spot, Trump leapt to address them. The executives were, in their own words, "stunned." Read these extraordinary excerpts. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/c...

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Saw the factoid again for the first time in a while, so I'm going to remind everybody that "100 companies create 71% of carbon emissions" is not true. A think tank tried to do some clever messaging around the fact that 100 companies produced 71% of fossil fuels, journalists misread it, and now […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

It is very funny how many contemporary activists believe we can't win if we ever speak sharply to each other or criticize each other's methods. When you go back and read famous organizers and revolutionaries, half their stuff is them shouting, "Listen up, you stupid motherfuckers--"

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

I don't know if I have the clearest way to put this yet, but: If the response to AI art is, "people can't make a living doing art anymore" . . . what we've discovered is we think making art is a social good . . . . . . which means we should be funding it publicly, rather than relying on the […]

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/07/2026

Fox News is blaming climate change for the heat-related deaths in Europe ... hold on ... [finger to ear] ... I'm being told it's blaming climate *policy* for those deaths ...

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Fox blames climate policy for Europe’s climate-exacerbated heat deaths

As Europe reeled from a deadly heat wave, coverage on Fox News and Fox Business made air conditioning the story, claiming that climate policy had made it harder and more expensive for Europeans to sur...

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

It's interesting that I'm still hearing people in various industries talk about the aftershocks of the "covid money" disappearing. For a brief moment, we had some of the benefits of a government that actually supported us. And then it went away again, and we don't know what to do.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/07/2026

Great news everyone! New Jersey finally passed a trans healthcare shield law. It becomes the final blue state left to pass such a law. This will help fight back against out of state subpoenas targeting gender-affirming care providers and patients. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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New Jersey Finally Passes Trans Care Shield Law, The Last Blue State Left To Do So

“New Jersey is drawing a clear line, requiring health care providers in this state answer only to the laws that already govern them—not to hostile actors in other states.”

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

I like social media, but we need to figure out something about the way it has collapsed venting, serious conversation, and doing messaging into a single slurry

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/06/2026

Trump: “Mistakes are made. War is nasty.” This is in reference to children slaughtered by his military in his war of choice, which he started for no reason other than his own ego and which has been a net negative for virtually every country in the world.

‘Mistakes Are Made,’ Trump Says About Deadly U.S. Strikes on Iranian School

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Honestly, I think progressives would do pretty well if we spent the next two decades focusing on playing deep canvass wack-a-mole with whatever bigotry the right wing dreams up. The more you shrink the number of scapegoats available, the more you deny them their only tool for base-building.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/06/2026

1. The Texas GOP platform has just been released, and it includes many draconian policies towards trans people: - Absolute ban on name changes and care up to 26 years old - Absolute ban on trans teachers - Repeal of Obergefel - Ban on businesses supporting trasn people And more Our latest.

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Newly Released Texas GOP Platform Calls For Ban On Trans Teachers And Trans Care Under 26 Years Old

The platform is one of the most extreme documents voted on by any party towards transgender people.

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

As long as people have talked about social change, there has been a voice saying we don't need to build big organizations. We can disperse to communes, we can decentralize, we can garden our way to victory. Unfortunately, pulling back from the conflict and mess doesn't cut it. We have to learn […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Recognizing that emotions are a load-bearing part of decision-making puts you in a funny place. You can't look at a choice anymore and say, "I need to put my feelings away and think *rationally*," but . . . You do still need some way of articulating when you're losing track of reality because […]

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Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Cynicism and idealism are both ways of dismissing complexity. Whether you're trying to understand a politician's behavior or plan an outreach campaign, you need to stare the real-world, thorny evidence in the face.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/06/2026

As @ryanlcooper.com points out, it's a particularly bizarre time for self-styled moderates & centrists to be arguing for Dems to support oil & gas -- cheap electricity is cheaper than ever & winning everywhere! The argument for getting off fossil fuels has never been stronger.

Better Affordability Through Climate Policy - The American Prospect

It turns out fossil fuel prices are liable to increase suddenly and without warning. Who knew?

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Don “Dr Mabuse” Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“At the height of the #GildedAge, around 1910, the 4 largest #American #fortunes owned wealth equivalent to 4% of US GDP. Today, that same tiny fraction of the population, the top 0.00001% … could buy 14% of everything produced in a given year in #America.” open.substack.com/pub/gzucman/...

Chart by Gabriel Zucman indicating the wealth of the height of the Gilded Age, around 1910, the top 0.00001% richest USians, 19 households, could buy 14% of everything produced in a given year in America.

Fighting for Democracy @earthlightning.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Occasionally you will see someone announce that the *real* reason for the Civil Rights Movement's victories is that it made politicians nervous about an armed uprising. The person making this announcement somehow never manages to quote JFK, LBJ, a member of Congress, or any of the local leaders […]

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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants’ Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker www.404media.co/ice-appears-to-be-b…

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/06/2026

When did Democratic leaders ever "vow to stop oil & gas"?

Democrats Once Vowed to Stop Oil and Gas. Now They’re Not So Sure.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Believe trans youth.

poster of the character from Assigned Male comics Stephie, with her arms crossed, who says : The longest and most extensive study on the matter (pagefoot note : the Lancet Journal of child and adolescent health, oct. 20th 2022) recently found that out of 720 trans teenagers who started hormone therapy half a decade ago, 98% were still continuing their treatment today. Desistance and detransition myths are lies designed to create a moral panic and a transphobic backlash. believe trans youth.