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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼

@rollonyouchairs.bsky.social
878 followers 2.7K following 2.2K posts

Oakland-based dude with a spinal cord injury. Disability, urbanism, climate change, human rights in general, Cal sports, Niners and Warriors. I do policy and PR consulting on those first 3 topics. Available for partnerships. www.disabilityimby.com

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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Germany Is Building a Digital Noah’s Ark for US Climate Data Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands.
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Germany is building a digital Noah's Ark for US climate data
Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands.
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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼 @rollonyouchairs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And additionally, this non-existent past America was devoid of people with disabilities. (Granted, in prior decades disabled folks were locked away in institutions, out of sight and out of mind of the general public.. a scenario conservatives in power are trying to bring back)
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“USDOT said the ​regulation will reduce manufacturers' average cost per vehicle to comply by $1,289 but increase fuel costs by more than $1,600 over the ​life of the vehicles.” 🤌🤌🤌 www.reuters.com/business/aut...
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US finalizes new lower fuel economy standards in boost for gas-powered vehicles
The U.S. Transportation Department on Monday finalized sharply lower vehicle fuel economy standards, President Donald Trump's latest effort to encourage ‌sales of gasoline-powered vehicles and reverse...
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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼 @rollonyouchairs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It just feels like if you've had 3 horrible offensive performances in 3 FBS games and the ENTIRE FAN BASE wants your OC fired/demoted for his horrible play calling, the O's failed execution, and the reversion of your star QB, you should fire or demote the OC. @calfootball.bsky.social
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
Trump fucked up the *American* renewable transition but he might have had the largest positive effect on the global transition of any president ever
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Page One in Milwaukee: @mcbridetd.bsky.social
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is bad that the White House demonstrates casual disregard for the rule of law.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
sfchronicle.com
Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad
Stanford University is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a dining hall advertisement.
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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼 @rollonyouchairs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This whole thread is beautiful
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“we need courage to make that connection to people and join the dots” Please.
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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼 @rollonyouchairs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's actually 100% appropriate to constrain the governor's power to approve extraditions for these kinds of charges
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Every single one of these states went for Trump.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The atmosphere just hit a new water-vapour record: 27.35 kg of water vapour per m2 in August 2026, ~20 trillion litres more water than the previous record. Warmer air holds ~7% more moisture per °C. More water vapour means more energy to fuel extreme weather.
theguardian.com
El Niño and global heating pushes water vapour in Earth’s atmosphere to record levels in August
Global heating contributes to record, with a warmer atmosphere able to hold more water, scientists say
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2026
ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
RFK Jr. has decided to change the way measles deaths are counted at the CDC. As @drdebhoury.bsky.social says in this article by @melodyschreiber.com: “The change doesn’t make any sense”. It only makes sense if you’re RFK Jr. and you desperately need to manipulate data to hide your malfeasance.
theguardian.com
Trump administration changes how it counts measles deaths amid Pennsylvania outbreak
CDC announces changes to how it reports measles deaths as Pennsylvania continues to confirm more cases
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
bring back shame
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026
my bet is that he'll flip if it's a 50-50 or 51-49 dem senate, so dems need to somehow get to 52 to be safe
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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼 @rollonyouchairs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Conflicted between getting the sleep I need and watching the best tennis I can remember seeing while it's in the fourth set
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is one reason the #water used for cooling at #datacenters is a problem: this scale and concentration of energy demand requires massive cooling, which in turn will require massive amounts of water, depending on the cooling method.
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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼 @rollonyouchairs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Surely everybody saying Mamdani shouldn't be a part of 9/11 remembrances will start going after Trump for this, too
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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Michigan can still win if Mike Pence has the courage.
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
An El Niño-induced coastally-trapped Kelvin wave will likely raise water levels about 9-14 inches (relative to 1993-2025 averages) along the California coast in early October. Water temperatures will also increase. The sudden increase will be as much as “the entire climate change anomaly in one go”
sfchronicle.com
El Niño-driven wave to raise California sea levels by a foot — in weeks
A slow-moving wave driven by El Niño is creeping up the coast of North America and should hit California within weeks.
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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼 @rollonyouchairs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Blame Canada
Alt: Nearly every adult in South Park marching arms raised, some wearing t-shirts with a crossed out maple leaf on them, and chanting blame Canada (scene from the blame Canada song in the movie South Park: bigger, longer, and uncut)
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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼 @rollonyouchairs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Coming soon to a map app near you
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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼 @rollonyouchairs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Damn good tennis going on right now in Queens
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026
I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What do you do when you've launched a moral panic about transgender athletes in the WNBA, but there has never been an active trans player in the league? Simple: you start a conspiracy theory about every single woman on the court.
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There Are No Trans Women in the WNBA, so Right-Wingers Are Making Some Up
As culture warriors continue to stoke the flames of a gender panic in professional sports, wild conspiracy theories are coming into play.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“News value criteria”, “news relevance”, “newsworthiness”? These are increasingly obsolete frameworks in an era of accelerating earth system changes. If the below isn’t “news” while it affects all “news” you’ll ever hear - what is?
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Lawrence Graham @lawrencegraham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Trump is flatly incapable of seeing a "win-win" scenario. In his mind, if Canada is "winning" - in anything, really - that necessarily means the US is "losing" and he cannot accept that, no matter how wrongheaded it is.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.” BRUH.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 23/08/2026
🚨 Preliminary daily data shows we just broke the all-time highest global sea surface temperature in this record... Download high-resolution graphic at zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... This data (extrapolar ocean) is provided by @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5. 🌊
Graph showing daily global mean sea surface temperatures for 2026. This is also compared to the daily data from the 1981-2010 average and 1991-2020 average. Annotations are also shown to the current year with the other years from 1940 to 2026. There is a seasonal cycle. There is a long-term warming trend. 2023 and 2024 are also indicated, which were the warmest years on record. Data is from ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis and updated through 21 August 2026.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/08/2026
BIg Beautiful Bill
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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼 @rollonyouchairs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In addition to being illegal and anti-democratic, this is an unambiguous attack on people with #disabilities living in the states that are least hostile to them
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It is February 2025. I am watching the US impose a bunch of stupid tariffs on Canada. It is March 2025. I am watching the US impose a bunch of stupid tariffs on Canada. It is July 2025. I am watching the US impose a bunch of stupid tariffs on Canada. It is August 2026. I am watching the US impose a
a picture of dr Manhattan sitting on Mars from Watchmen
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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼 @rollonyouchairs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Racism and economics propaganda all in one
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 09/08/2026
July 2026 set a new record for the month for near-surface air temperatures across the Tropics. Note the long-term warming trend as well (in all months), as indicated by the shading of the older (blue) to more recent years (red). Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Tropics region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to 2026. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year.
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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼 @rollonyouchairs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...
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Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering
These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
theatlantic.com
The Coming Food-Stamp Crisis
A looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.
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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼 @rollonyouchairs.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
People on nextdoor want to organize peaceful protests to protect parking on one street.
A post on nextdoor. 

With the City Council's recent decision regarding the Hopkins Street bike lanes, many of us are deeply concerned about the loss of parking, the impact on elderly residents accessing the MLK track/pool, and local business survival. Strong citizen voices—and even peaceful protests—can make the council rethink this plan, but we need to act collectively.

Can someone step up to be the main contact to help write a formal objection letter to the city council and coordinate gathering signatures?

I am more than happy to help organize, but we need a dedicated point person to centralize the effortthis specific issue.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼 @rollonyouchairs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
More impeachable actions by a criminal administration
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Page One. @nytimes.com
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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼 @rollonyouchairs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
My gosh, NIMBYs are a fascinating kind of delusional...
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Michelle [redacted] 21m Elmwood 

David The housing crises is NOT a housing crisis. It’s an affordability crises. It’s very expensive to live here, but that’s the case in other nearby towns like Pacific Heights or Mill Valley or Palo Alto yet nobody ever is picketing those towns and screaming for affordable  housing! 

For whatever reason, there is some sense that Oakland and Berkeley DESERVE to be affordable—it may have been at one time, but it’s not anymore.  Look at any artist commune among the coast of California where people got shacks and bungalows to live and find inspiration, and those towns have all become Mendocino and Laguna Beach and even Stinson with multimillion dollar restate. It changed over time. Nobody is hollering the unfairness of affordable housing there. The good news is that there’s ample towns nearby that ARE less expensive to live in. 
I’ve lived in a a handful of them myself before settling into my current one.

And given that the recent town meeting about these “senior towers”  stated that the rents for these apartments will be somewhere between $4-10k a month, I find the idea of these two massive shiny modern structures on 2-lane College Avenue as an absurd solution to any housing crisis. I don’t know one senior who could afford that…. let alone a typical resident. 

And as an aside, unless you’re in Manhattan or Hong Kong, nobody wants to live in high-rises. They do make sense near CAL for student populations who have a set timeframe to exist in those structures or renters who want downtown appeals on much wider streets like Shattuck and University. No structures built in small enclaves like Rockridge or Elmwood will ever be affordable—land costs and building costs dictate that. If you want to build “affordable housing” you need cheaper land and cheaper building costs  or government subsidies. Or you do what people have done since the dawn of time, you migrate. Or commute.  

Notice how many high-rises have gone up in our local vicinity with cranes on every corner, which supplied numerous units in the area and yet there is still all the screaming of a housing crisis. Nope—it’s affordability because those units are all very expensive to live in.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /
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Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼 @rollonyouchairs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Oh FFS www.bbc.com/news/live/cd...
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Trump says US being 'invaded by filthy air' as he threatens Canada with tariffs over wildfires
Earlier, Ontario's Premier Doug Ford said America should send support rather than complain as smoke from more than 850 Canadian wildfires blankets parts of the US.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
theatlantic.com
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 11/07/2026
"Mr. Rubio has become the de facto viceroy of Venezuela, holding sway over a sovereign nation in a way that no American official has since L. Paul Bremer III arrived in Baghdad in 2003 to run U.S.-occupied Iraq." Well that sounds promising.
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