Reposted by Lisa GarbrickAmy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 3hThe timing of this raid and reports that a White House official was involved raise serious questions that should concern all Americans, regardless of political party. 908792208
Reposted by Lisa Garbrick[MS] @rockoperapenguin.bsky.social · 25/05/20265/X Most excess fertilizers polluting our waterways come from residential lawns. Most tire dust comes from the excessive amount of cars on the roads. Most of the blockages to fish passage are due to roadway culverts. Excessive sprawl is the main fish killer, not cutting down a few trees in Seattle. 14213
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?lithub.comRebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis HalfwayWhen Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them … 522233536
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Great stuff from the Telegraph. archive.ph/r2nTA 901784313
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10hI think Ds have largely avoided big discussions of Musk because the other messages they're concentrating on our landing so well and you can only concentrate on a few things. But it's worth saying clearly that the GOP is the tool of maintaining Musk's power over American society. 551247362
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21hlisten i won’t shed a single tear for kim or any of the women who work for trump, but it remains interesting that only the women in his orbit suffer consequences for being pieces of shit 1073931572
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 8hAbout fifteen years ago I made the joke that everyone had to decide which tech corporation would own their data: Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, or Google. Now I know I was wrong, they all trade that data like Magic the Gathering cards 2582091
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 9hI think it's bad that a South African Nazi can spend almost 300 million on the U.S. midterms (gift link).nytimes.comInside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history. 223990
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9hTo give a sense of scale, Musk is spending more on the midterms than he was on the 2024 election, and he was the biggest donor in that election. In 2025 he promised to pull back from politics and do much less political spending. Another lie. 231083404
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Read this thread & weep In our bioethics classes, we’re all going to be teaching our students about this grotesque RFK Jr-funded trial for decades to come White Danes flying in to Guinea-Bissau to withhold a proven intervention—the new Tuskegee And it’s happening in the year of our Lord 2026 🤯 6254128
Lisa Garbrick @garblisa.bsky.social · 20hI watched a neighbor break theirs down and was shocked at how compactly it fit in a closet. Didn’t take up nearly as much space as I thought it would. 010
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickMomentum Magazine @momentummag.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The government of Ontario is set to begin the costly, destructive and, let’s face it, ill-informed plan to actually rip up millions of dollars worth of cycling infrastructure in the city of Toronto. momentummag.com/city-takes-t... 22710
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026They aren’t just stealing everything that is left they are making sure only men can hoard it. I don’t know what else to tell you. 2667109
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years. 2750153
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it. 6839114
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This looks like a carjacking. I think any reasonable person would hit the gas. 381954363
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026He also lost the Nobel Physics Prize, Chemistry Prize, Physiology or Medicine Prize, and Literature Prize.axios.comTrump rages over Nobel Peace Prize lossThe award went to former international judge and UN official Navi Pillay. 2336746
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I’m finishing up a book about how the Civil Rights Division built itself up from nothing in the 1960s and it looks like that’s going to be something we have to do again soon 501831397
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026My latest @newscientist.com cartoon 2944841627
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickProf Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is shameful. The controversial Guinea-Bissau truck RFKJr wants to fund has been given ahead. Now a life saving vaccine will be deliberately withheld from newborns in a country where hep B is endemictheguardian.comControversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-BissauRecommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers 512161
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026Car infrastructure make our world less walkable not just by taking up space, but by sapping the joy (and safety) from our environment. 423426
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026But the reason cars are easier and faster is not because cars are INHERENTLY easier and faster as a form of transportation. It is because we have built this place for cars. We can unbuild it, and step ONE in unbuilding it is imagining hard infrastructure that you can build around. 124831
Reposted by Lisa Garbrickderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution 12192781711
Reposted by Lisa Garbrickalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026wild to be living in a world with live-streamed state executions and legal daylight kidnappings, but every time you turn around some loser is saying, hey man, what if art were completely frictionless? what if we killed even the possibility of human connection?? 141525332
Reposted by Lisa Garbrickalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know 392821781
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Three weeks ago: @pbsnews.org #Russia www.pbs.org/newshour/sho... 681162433
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026So the issue is “allow people to…“ which supposes an authority without naming one. Name it and then explain why Anthropic or any of the rest of them should have that authority. 547067
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026We are conceding the very possibility of democratic governance to allow a corporation to determine the moral rights of a machine. surely moral concern for actual humans and how we relate is better preserved democratically than it is by a corporation. 2670124
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It’s not socialism that they hate, it’s pluralism. 811826
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Pay to play, baby... 26801191
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickKasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...gadgetreview.comOne of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data CenterA rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land. 8537282226
Reposted by Lisa Garbrickrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026a little louder for the cheap seats in the back 3256191950
Lisa Garbrick @garblisa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I make pizza for friends and neighbors once a week. It’s fun! 020
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is just kidnapping children 217060
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money! 731924715
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This piece highlights something that doesn't get talked enough: Progressives should put forward a proposed set of rules for a new congress to facilitate defeating the far right and actually legislate. 019957
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickBiblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 04/08/2025A close pass is a way to say you care more about 5 seconds than about the safety of other people 🚲 229829
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickRyan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The driver who is both using this road all the time (and can confirm current conditions on it) and yet not using the road because there's too much congestion. 41158
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sometimes I think about how the last ten years started as a publicity stunt for a fading reality show that went sideways. 772423415
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026As climate scientists, it sucks to be defunded. But it adds insult to injury to be defunded by this moron who has access to the best climate science and data in the world and still says asinine things like this. 8529113
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickKeith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026There's not much better than riding with little ones. 021
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickDamon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026@cfiesler.bsky.social points out the resource asymmetry between one random Twitter user posting fake news vs a dozen legitimate news orgs having to write stories to rebut the lie. 14910
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently. 612436440
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickDamon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026Kant’s Categorical Imperative includes the Formula of the Universal Law and the Formula of Humanity. Act as if your choice/act will be repeated by everyone; treat other people as an end not a means. AI is the perfect tool to violate both laws. 117045
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickDamon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026A negative externality is a shifting of costs. As the cost of a transactional communication shrinks to zero for a business they are incentivized to massively scale their funnel and so massively increase the time wasted by 99% of the recipients of a message. We only have 24 hours in a day. 213226
Reposted by Lisa GarbrickEarn @nregib.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If this was from a movie that came out in 2016 set in future Trump’s America people would’ve called it alarmist and laughed but now it’s just life 220650