Reposted by Leslie EhrlichSecond Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 6hThe dog carrier rules in the subway - which should be enforced - are for the safety of other passengers and the animals. They're not just suggestions for a reason. bsky.app/profile/magi... 1354
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 6hNew York's economy grew by 4% in Q2 — more than any other state. Want to get your business off the ground? Hire only the best? There's one place to do it: New York. www.newsweek.com/new-york-lea...newsweek.comMap shows which state economies are growing and shrinking ahead of midterms 563740755
Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 30mI would like to believe that anti-trans messaging doesn’t work because enough, even most people, know it is cruel and abhorrent and full of lies Not simply that most people don’t care 000
Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 33mWhile minor in the grand scheme of things, it’s under-appreciated the damage done by making us wonder whether the smallest action by our government is good or evil 000
Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 6hTotally agree. While we could debate the causes of the status quo centrism of The New York Times, it is definitely a thing and wholly inadequate, even damaging in this moment 000
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026Loll Yudkowsky, Soares and such AREN'T SHILLS? The Yudkowsky who founded the eugenicist, rationalist cult? The one who predected singularity to be 2025? The one in the sex parties that women have to attend to "network? The rape orgies with dubious consent mechanisms that Soares coorganizes? 634168
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11hI’m sorry, what? Fraternity brothers at Cornell have a practice of taking away the phones of drunk women at parties? AYFKM? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...nytimes.comCornell Students Question Greek Life Culture After Sexual Assault ClaimWith their university under fire in the wake of a sexual assault lawsuit, students are having difficult conversations about Greek life, campus rituals and the possibility for lasting changes. 24387146
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 19hWhatever one’s opinion of the death penalty in the abstract, the particulars of how it’s implemented and who it’s applied to in the US are moral abominations 171057192
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichBernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 22hWhen all the cockroaches and worms of the Trump admin try to rehab their images after he's gone, we can't let this go. Rubio promised that PEPFAR wouldn't be impacted. It happened anyway. When he tries to be a "Normal Republican" in 6 years, remember he let hundreds of thousands die for no reason. 26010
Reposted by Leslie Ehrlichryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026it was either malicious negligence on a Hitleresque scale or deliberate murder of as many nonwhite people as possible. I think door #2 is more plausible 18711109
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 423719869
Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026substack.com/@klasfeldrep...substack.comAdam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports)The ACLU's Jeffrey Stein called the ruling a "huge step in the right direction." “The public deserves to know how our government is justifying the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of civilians." 🔽 000
Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pass throughs, carried interest, rewards for mischaracterizing investments as experiments Those most able to pay for the good government does get tax cuts While the rest of us pay our taxes despite cuts to health care and food support and more No wonder people think the system is rigged, it is! 010
Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A brilliant encapsulation of our era, embedded here “1. Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units. 2. Anything can be true is someone says it loudly enough. 3. Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is measured by how fervently they believe it.”emptywheel.netThe Nation Learned What Missouri Has Known for Years about Eric Schmitt - emptywheelThis has been a terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad month for current and former Missouri Attorneys General. Today was Eric Schmitt's turn. 010
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160... 131155197
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it 362767497
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichAlaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.akpub.ioMeet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champBackpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world. 161655583
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient 202034615
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense 221201264
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichJosh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This one's a cri de coeur from @gruberte.bsky.social, @jmijin.bsky.social, and I: The coal sector's decline has created strong empirical evidence about how energy transitions play out, but most decarb scholarship and policymaking ignore it. That has to change. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DJ88Z...tandfonline.comHow to Save the Energy Transition: What Coal Scholars Can See Coming, and What to Do About ItThe energy transition requires rapid, coordinated retirement of essentially all fossil fuel infrastructure with careful attention to impacts on workers and affected communities. Experience with the... 25225
Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every single word of the highlighted text The GOP was perfectly happy to cut taxes and starve people and take away health care and wreck higher education. The atrocities and theft were an acceptable by product. 010
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026DOGE was substantively horrible, but only a small part of the story. It's also the only part of the story most Republicans would want to keep, because they supported the objective and the methods, and were willing to take the hit. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru... 27212
Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I guess irreparable harm is only a thing when it’s the Trump administration not being able to commit atrocities Harm to their victims clearly not a thing 011
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality. 12413133
Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Love the idea of accountability for knowingly spreading lies 010
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichBat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's really crucial to remember that a "gas tax holiday" means starving states of revenue. That means fewer resources for public needs. Who do you think wins in a fight between funding for preschools and highways? 02414
Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026All voters should check their registrations, given the extensive GOP efforts to knock people off the rolls 000
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichCNN @cnn.com · 29/09/2026Six Flags announces it's shutting down the world-famous X2 roller coaster after CNN investigation exposed a history of brain injuries and deaths linked to the ride. cnn.it/4hCelj6 86121
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichDan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a huge shift. The data is so clear even Third Way is on board. Strength and clarity beat “heterodox” mumbling and weakness every time. Hopefully next time we have this debate Dems can skip over the years of running ads that help Rs. 114854
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news. 211309425
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Economic issues not cultural wars' produces a party that both loses elections and abandons moral causes and vulnerable people. That’s not a theoretical argument—it’s the story of the Democratic Party of my entire adulthood." newrepublic.com/article/2159...newrepublic.comWhy Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy. 515555
Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This. While it may work as a rhetorical evasion, it’s cowardly 000
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"The 'economic issues not culture wars' frame adopted by much of the Democratic Party is entirely wrongheaded. It’s an example of intellectual dishonesty, moral cowardice, historical inaccuracy, and flawed electoral politics all wrapped together." newrepublic.com/article/2159...newrepublic.comWhy Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy. 2539
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichEmily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.wisn.comSkydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airportFour people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m. 122102812663
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichBen Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What's happened to crude oil flows from the Middle East since the US war on Iran began? 🛢️ Has Iran effectively choked off the Strait of Hormuz? Or is the Strait now basically open as the US claims? & what's happened to other exit routes? Here's a helpful way of visualising it...📊 👇1/8 22815
Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This chart from Fifty Plus One tracking the average of the generic ballot encapsulates everything: Support for Republicans is flat at 41-43% no matter what. (I fear for their souls.) In the face of atrocities on every front Democrats have steadily picked up the undecideds.fiftyplusone.newsFiftyPlusOne - Generic Ballot Polls and Average for 2026A comprehensive list of polls and polling averages for elections and politician approval. 010
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe. 5553326
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026ICE is torturing this man. This is an emergency. 6469232
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichMike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2026For years we've heard that Biden created a "Ministry of Truth," which didn't actually happen. But, I still hear people talking about it. But then Trump directed his FCC boss to be a literal Minister of Truth and the story disappeared within a day or two. What are we even doing here? 6585173
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hard to imagine what that would be like 23875111264
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichPatrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026at least he didn’t take a picture of seashells 16213
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 29/09/2026Another Schumer disaster! They had Republican votes, they could have stopped this! 3032482
Reposted by Leslie EhrlichTexas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Many braille textbooks are transcribed in prisons. For the last 25 years, the Billman Braille Center in Gatesville has prepared women for careers on the outside. Read More👉 ebx.sh/xgz5ek 052
Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In case you had any doubts about how the freedom and privacy folks felt about YOUR freedom and privacy 000