Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward 18195041815
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA 227147262819
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Official monthly data is in today, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 20% compared to this time last year! 161504292
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Trump promised Americans a new golden age. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a golden age for diarrhea and white-collar crime www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-gif...thebulwark.comTrump’s Gift to the Money LaunderersTreasury isn’t merely shutting down an anti-corruption database. It’s deleting the data so future investigators can’t use it. 20618177
niorio.bsky.social @niorio.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Aren’t Nissan and Renault sort of the same company? Are they in that different a place? 000
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialConor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Risk-taking coming back to Hollywood is one of the most encouraging cultural trends of the year — not all of these are going to work but at least they’re trying stuff again: youtu.be/TrMGdrCJ5Ck?...youtu.beBEHEMOTH! | Official Teaser | Searchlight PicturesYouTube video by SearchlightPictures 3504
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 28/06/2026RECORD YEAR: 2025 was the biggest year ever for renewables. A record 692 GW was added, mostly solar. More importantly, non-fossil sources generated 43% of the world's electricity and fossil generation fell. More in Bright Spots: open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...open.substack.comRenewables just had their best year ever2025 was a record year for clean power but still falling short of what is needed 24877294
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 02/06/2026Here’s an idea for Zohran Mamdani to create more jobs in NYC: he could ask Julie Menin and City Council to relegalize the construction of new hotels, which Bill de Blasio banned citywide as a parting gift to the hotel workers union on his way out of office in 2021 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/n...nytimes.comMamdani Is Under Pressure to Act Amid Slowing Job Growth in New York 2242253
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/05/2026i genuinely hate how internet culture has become so normalized and widespread. i do not want a white house deputy chief of staff saying "it's white boy november" or a secretary of state tweeting that he's "locked in for this banger." grow up. 159100781218
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialNicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 20/05/2026SunZia, one of the world's largest wind power and transmission projects (3.5 GW), has started feeding power into California's CAISO. New wind generation records are now being broken every other day. The US should build on this clean energy leadership instead of abandoning it! 637878
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 07/05/2026every day Trump wakes up and tries to find another “make prices higher” button 528767
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialIgnacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."nbcnews.comPancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trialScientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later. 15997352890
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialJason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 16/04/2026It may seem paradoxical but a key to accomplishing (1) will be to deflate the psychological importance that Americans attach to their voting decision. Casting a particular ballot in a particular election needs to become understood as a small practical matter, not a titanic moment of self-expression. 491163212
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 11/04/2026Here’s @leftliblucy.bsky.social in December www.liberalcurrents.com/medical-rese... 5285107
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialJon Orcutt @jonorcutt.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Somehow Charlottesville is ahead of NYC in considering this key procurement change. NYC arguably would benefit far more than smaller, lower density cities in terms of emergency response and less constraint on people-oriented street designs @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 34411
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialGuy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This is your congressional political strategist speaking, I am asking you to keep saying this shit 236877
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialMaia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026asking chatgpt what kind of haircut best suits my hair texture and it tells me it needs 600 hours of licensure training 0395
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Reuters: U.S. APPEALS COURT REJECTS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BID TO OVERTURN NEW YORK TUNNEL FUNDING RULING 252832590
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 06/03/2026Holy crap, Mamdani is finally doing something to bring down sidewalk sheds that will actually sort of work! Sheds will no longer be required more than 40 ft. away from buildings, which will be a help to NYCHA and other towers-in-a-park complexes www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...nyc.govMayor Mamdani Launches New Efforts to Take Sidewalk Sheds Down, Require Fewer Unnecessary Sheds 932435
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 01/03/2026Something wild about public procurement in NYC is that the comptroller illegally sets prevailing wage (minimum for public procurement) at the union rate, despite the law saying you can only use that if the workforce is 30% unionized, which everybody knows it's not www.nysenate.gov/legislation/... 3839
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/02/2026The US now spends basically as much on data center construction as on office construction 29421
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 15/02/2026The hyperempowerment of quacks and pseudoscience is not a gotcha game. It is going to kill American children. The children of Conservative Americans and Liberal Americans. 07220
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialrat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 15/02/2026pause menus are so fucked up now what do you mean the queen wants a chicken shack like crazy 2897271
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2026i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions 1003691656
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 12/02/2026“At least nine companies, many of them focused on rare or hard-to-treat diseases, have said Prasad’s team has surprised them in recent months with rapid shifts in its decisions, in some cases rejecting their products after previously blessing their approaches.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...wsj.comWhy the FDA Blocked Moderna’s New Flu ShotThe head of the agency’s vaccine division, Vinay Prasad, has overruled pushback from career staffers. 04014
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/02/2026I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...nbcnews.comFDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shotUnder Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology. 4887622709
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialAmbivalent Dictator For Life @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026 25155555652
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/01/2026cynicism is basically orthogonal to accurate knowledge, in part because it's such a tempting shortcut around actually learning anything 525632
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialGB Metz @notthegiraffe.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Honestly great news, but shame on the Senate + Assembly for letting it get this far. 0557
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialSecond Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 26/11/2025The context of all of this is that the Trump Administration has undone a Biden Era rule requiring U.S. airlines to reimburse passengers for lengthy delays, and they want you to talk about airplane dress codes, slippers and snacks instead. bsky.app/profile/nyti... 216051
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialCollin Pearsall @cpearsall242.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US. 6231741077
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialOpen New York @opennewyork.org · 05/11/2025NEW: ALL FOUR PRO-HOUSING BALLOT QUESTIONS PASS!!! For the first time, New Yorkers had the chance to choose more housing at the ballot box—and they chose it overwhelmingly. This is a historic victory for housing that will help make NYC more affordable. 🧵 13713
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialHoward Slatkin @hslatkin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Great piece from @errollouis.bsky.social about how important a yes vote on ballot questions 2, 3, 4, 5 is to NYC’s ability to take on our affordability crisis. You’ll see obfuscation and name-calling, but no solutions from those who say the current system is just fine. nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comThe Ballot Question That May Matter More Than the Mayoral RaceVoters have the chance to eliminate one of the central obstacles to New York’s housing crisis. 12011
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Is he just gonna steal $230 million dollars from us? 6503667896
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2025very cool that trump is singularly dedicated to making everything in your life more expensive 1164678869
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialMaia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Kind of insane that corruption is just legal in the US 1645
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens. 9441191237
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialMatthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Operation Warp Speed saved millions of lives and should be a model for future pandemic prevention, instead Trump is throwing away the best part of his legacy to appeal to paranoid losers. www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-awf...slowboring.comTrump’s awful turn against mRNA vaccine researchOperation Warp Speed, we hardly knew ye 611000302
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 11/08/2025Trump’s tariffs are a huge political loser, and he’s underwater on his handling of inflation in 48 states www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-is-u... 37716
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville” 424299605914
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/08/2025really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not 154117612206
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialJ. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 08/08/2025I think the media's cardinal sin in our era was going from the initial, correct instinct of ignoring what randos say on social media to even mainstream sites reporting on it. A significant proportion of culture wars don't really exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b...nytimes.comHow the Right Shaped the Debate Over the Sydney Sweeney Ads 24112
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/08/2025Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity. 538179696695
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialJason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 28/07/2025The head of NYPD's Aviation Unit is so corrupt, so incompetent that his own unit is willing to report his actions to the FAA and NTSB. That's a real high level of hate. Wow. 1434
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Things are going great when the deputy FBI director is concerned about the effects of the bureau's actions on his podcast audience www.wsj.com/politics/jus... 391395313
Reposted by @niorio.bsky.socialLizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 12/07/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c... 28485733658
