Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Lesbian bar mask fiasco” is not a series of words I thought I’d be googling this year, but here we are. 000
Reposted by Marta HubbardSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22/09/2026It's honestly bizarre to me that abolishing the jackbooted fascist paramilitary shooting people over paperwork is considered extreme and radical but having a jackbooted paramilitary shooting people over paperwork isn't. 71224312
Reposted by Marta HubbardQuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026i cannot say i really understand the derisive commentary about the Kennedy center protests. much of the negative reaction is “why aren’t libs protesting ICE or detention centers?” when there’s been constant, ongoing protests from liberals on these issues in DC and elsewhere for two years 391762222
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Merz and the CDU must be scrambling right now. Today has been such an embarrassment for them. Imagine getting the same share of the vote as BSW. 000
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 20/09/2026With a broadly left coalition (presumably), does this mean we get more bike lanes? If we’re being totally honest, I have some mixed opinions (especially at the federal level) on Linke’s platform. I still think this is an overall good sign. Also good that AfD underperformed compared to polling. 000
Reposted by Marta HubbardCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation. 2742241002
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This headline makes it sound like they’ll be governing, which is almost definitely not going to happen. They are still 13 points away from a majority. Unless one of the center or left parties breaks the firewall and decides to build a coalition with them, they won’t be in power. 151
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Trump continues to just destroy good things. There’s no reason to do this, but it doesn’t have his name on it, it must be destroyed. 001
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Dems should support Trans rights because it’s simply the right thing to do. It’s also the strategically correct thing to do. Even if Dems moderate or go against Trans rights, Republicans are going to use it as an attack against you anyway. Might as well just take the moral and honest position. 020
Reposted by Marta HubbardGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026People are rarely just pedestrians or just cyclists. We're often both and should be allies against cars. There's a difference between discussions about improving infrastructure and safety for people on foot, and the outright vilification of cyclists I'm seeing lately. It's unproductive and harmful. 315619
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When I think of Dems I really hate, Newsom is right at the top of that list. In that regard this is welcome news. I don’t think it’ll be either him nor Harris though. I think Ossoff is going to end up being the more centrist candidate of choice. (Based on nothing but just a vibe) 100
Reposted by Marta Hubbardhammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Imagine your internal polling being so bad it’s telling you you can’t beat Kamala Harris 42994153
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Bold use of the word “unflinching” here. I’d argue that “lukewarm at best” would be a more accurate assessment. 000
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I know that we shouldn’t be defeatist about combating climate change. There is still a lot of work that can be done in the areas of adaptation and mitigation… but some days is just really really hard not to be defeatist. 000
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 07/09/2026To be clear the signal should be that serious push is needed against the far right and it’s going to need to come from the left. The center right parties, including CDU, have already tried capitulation and more moderate version of far right positions… it has not been successful. 000
Reposted by Marta HubbardMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Both Trump and Russia supported the victory of the neo-Nazi AfD in Saxony-Anhalt, so we know where everyone stands. 451506582
Reposted by Marta HubbardTim Smedley @timsmedley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"Merz has made the mistake of trying to push what was a popular centre-right party under Angela Merkel much further to the right in an attempt to win over disgruntled voters." This never works. And seemingly politicians never learn. theconversation.com/even-if-it-d...theconversation.comEven if it doesn’t form government, the far-right AfD has shaken Germany’s political establishment to the coreVoters in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt punished the major parties for their handling of the cost-of-living crisis. 36657198
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The Venn diagram of people who oppose safe bike infrastructure but will bend over backwards to defend Elon Musk because of Tesla for the sake of “sustainability” is a circle. 100
Reposted by Marta HubbardTodd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I feel very much like a cranky old man saying that everything is busted these days and blaming it all on this newfangled A.I., but, I don't know that I'm wrong 2372970
Reposted by Marta HubbardKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold. 6244831094
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Why do people treat speeding as if it’s some inalienable characteristic? It is in fact something you have complete and total control over and can just stop doing. Genuinely, just go the speed limit. The world around you will not come to a halt. 193
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This news could not have come at at better time as I’m in the middle of my West Wing rewatch. Eternally funny to me that when this show came out the “liberal wing of the Democratic Party” were the extremists everyone was worried about. 000
Reposted by Marta HubbardDaniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it. 14120763351
Reposted by Marta HubbardMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The feminist movement that Steinem did much to mainstream and expand is in retreat, with women’s rights and status eroding conspicuously, and I’d like the usual suspects to consider this before they go on their ahistorical little rants about how she was a CIA stooge or whatever. 401335223
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I can’t believe this is still his first term, it feel like he’s been pulling this bullshit for way longer than 4 years. How does one abandon any values and turn into a piece of shit this quickly? 170
Reposted by Marta HubbardAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Gloria Steinem's essays, organizing, and institutions like Ms. magazine reshaped American life for women. She understood that progress would provoke resistance, because, as she so eloquently put it... "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."nytimes.comGloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large. 563156811
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 01/09/2026One of the ways I like to measure how my politics has changed over the course of my life is occasionally rewatching the West Wing and seeing which characters I now find most insufferable. 100
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 30/08/2026At the start of 2026, I did not think I’d have to spend this much time thinking about Hasan Piker. 000
Reposted by Marta HubbardAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras. 36099413825
Reposted by Marta HubbardGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026ICE's presence and mass kidnappings have largely been normalized in media coverage. ICE is operating aggressively in Massachusetts right now, and while it is being covered, the stories don't really give the sense of scale and the abuses occurring with regularity. 130184
Reposted by Marta HubbardOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026big change to my material conditions: I am a bike commuter now. I will be updating my transportation opinions dialectically (I am already 27% more opinionated about bike lanes and our school crossing guard comrades) 109265497
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 25/08/2026And if anyone is interested in helping in that goal, maybe consider a donation to Imagination Library or another children’s literacy organisation! Personally, I like Nerds for Literacy 012
Reposted by Marta HubbardDr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly is irreplaceable and I remain sad 0161
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton accomplished many amazing, impressive things in her life. I find the most impressive is that of all her accomplishments the one she is most remembered for is being a kind person who went out of her way to help people. That’s truly something to aspire to. RIP Dolly Parton 000
Reposted by Marta HubbardMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Berlin not beating the "dumbest leftists in the world" allegations www.the-berliner.com/news/activis...the-berliner.comActivists Deflate SUV Tyres in Charlottenburg - The BerlinerThe Widerstands-Kollektiv call the vehicles a "disaster for our world". Activist group Widerstands-Kollektiv have been deflating SUV tyres in Berlin this year as a climate change protest 201906
Reposted by Marta HubbardJake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026We can delete word “cyclists” in this post and then Fill in the Blank and it works for basically any issue in America 419123
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I don’t understand why people are so opposed to the concept of germ theory. Even though they are very very wrong, I kinda get why some people think vaccines are scary, but germ theory? 000
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Anything that could be considered “birth tourism” makes up well under 1% of births in the US, this is not a real problem. But it does fit perfectly into the right wing strategy of using non-existent problems to further attack and take away rights from already vulnerable groups. 08621
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If there was any actual science backing this up it wouldn’t be based on how he feels. But hey, at least now highly contagious and deadly diseases get to continue to run rampant. 000
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Reading through party platforms and choosing a party in Germany is so much more interesting than doing so in the US. 000
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 11/08/2026It’s funny to see some people treating the anti- sunscreen explosion on Twitter as if it’s a new thing. This has been a thing on Instagram and TikTok for ages. It’s been equally ridiculous on those platforms but it’s not new. Wear your sunscreen! 000
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 06/08/2026As someone who has and sometimes still does struggle with disordered eating this entire discourse makes me so extremely uncomfortable. No, I don’t think people commenting on her body are coming from a good place. Nor do I think they care if she’s healthy. 010
Reposted by Marta HubbardJohannes Hillje @jhillje.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Die widerliche, opferverhöhnende Botschaft der AfD zum Anschlag auf den CSD: Selbst schuld! (Martin Reichardt ist AfD-Vorsitzender in Sachsen-Anhalt). #Berlin #CSD 2827277
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Pretty sure I’ve read at least 2 sci-fi books about why this is bad and unethical. 010
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Every time I move apartments I always go through the same internal thought process: “Wow, I have so much stuff. How did I accumulate this much stuff? Now that I’m moving I should really get rid of some of it” Then I proceed to pack it all up, move it, and repeat the cycle when I move again. 000
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 21/07/2026There are like 3 helpful doctors in Germany and the rest of them are not worth the visit 020
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 19/07/2026That was such a well deserved win, congrats Spain! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸 020
Reposted by Marta HubbardChris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 07/07/2026This match, the second half in particular, has been NUTS #worldcup 131
Marta Hubbard @martyh1927.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The fallout from Planter has been fascinating to watch. Not the fallout on him, he’s a pos who should drop out immediately and without the power trip of getting to pick his replacement. Rather that of the commentators and public figures. Some people I have a lot of respect got this one very wrong. 110