Govind Acharya 🇲🇽 🇨🇦🇺🇦

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

"They made me build a freaking bridge for approval" - Apartment developer in Davis California

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

Unlike many on this site, I'm a bit more OK with Matt's takes-- some of them are bad, some are fine. But this particular take is frankly terrible.

Incredible (complimentary) that this guy was governor of Minnesota.

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

Butker misses. Blue wave imminent.

Lol this is a great post.

Trump’s Obsession With Somalia Isn’t Just Racist. It’s Been Lethal. theintercept.com/2026/10/21/t...

Uggh, Sam Darnold.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Prediction markets really not beating the "we just reflect information you could easily gather yourself" allegations there

These "prediction" markets are useless. I wish people would stop sharing them.

turns out that voting is a very good way to kick right wing authoritarians out of power

Former presidents are just roasting the hell out of the White House redo today and it’s going to drive Trump absolutely insane

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Bill Clinton: "I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace's bathroom"

Yes and also this sort of 'uniparty' nonsense feels so hollow deployed in the midst of a national stove-touching. It turns out the difference between a 'milquetoast corporate Democrat' and Trump was really big! President Harris would not be driving trans soldiers out of the military!

The Ramaswamy campaign not only tried to capitalize on a child rape victim, they did it by using an old homeless woman who—while vile—is in no mental shape to adequately understand the stakes. And did they pay her? Either answer is bad.

i wrote about the GORP

leftists circling back and ending up on the Republican side of the Elian Gonzalez debate lmao

Davis was a pioneer in adding bike facilities, but it layered them on to auto-oriented zoning that includes strict minimum parking mandates & bans apartments on most land. The resulting housing shortage and parking surplus pushed many workers into long-distance car commutes from other cities.

The Seahawks having two of the most iconic defenses in history winning those 2 Super Bowls.

Anyway, big lesson is when you live in a nice place, you have two choices: -Engage in the constant and hard work of making it nicer for more people. More housing, more density, fewer cars. Cambridge. Berkeley tiptoeing there (also Sacramento!) -Try to hoard the niceness for yourself. Boulder, Davis

Had a great talk about my book last night in Davis. One thing I've heard from riders who live in places like Davis—famous for being one of the best biking cities in the US—is that progress has slowed or stopped and they almost wish they weren't held up as a gold standard.

It's so much nicer to take the bus because of GTFS feeds. Now you know when the bus is actually coming. When I was younger I never actually knew if a bus was coming or not if it was running late.

its worth saying here that Ramaswamy is, along with Paxton likely the *most* transphobic person running for statewide office in America this year. Under a Governor Ramaswamy Ohio will quickly accelerate past Texas and Florida to become the most aggressively unsafe for trans people state

The *second* best thing about a James Talarico win would be how angry this annoying, interfering dork will be at not being able to buy a Senate seat for $200,000,000.

"Building 10,000 in apartments downtown Sacramento next to jobs, Amtrak, light rail, and every possible amenity will be great for affordability, walkability, and climate goals" vs. No it won't.

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RAGBRAI (The Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa) is one of the most celebrated bike rides in the world.

This has to be one of the wildest stories I have read in awhile. Kushner’s phone was hacked by GRU, the Dutch recruited one of the agents & ended up stumbling into screenshots from Kushner’s phone. Then the Dutch hacked into his phone & were able to see everything, including secret bank accounts Wow

It's a choice (a bad one) to tell readers this driver "passed too close to cyclists" when there's video evidence showing he drove his car into them, made contact and hurt someone. Fellow journalists: we can explore the nuances of punishment for drivers without obfuscating their dangerous behavior.

Welp, I guess I didn't do well in the audition.

The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms in order to protect girls from sexual predators are now calling a child rape victim, whose mother lost custody due to that abuse, a liar. loathsome

The president of the united states comes out in favor of a mother helping their husband indicted for child sex abuse abscond from justice and then trash their daughter as a liar after the fact bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump: "What's happened is the press has ganged up on a woman making a horrible statement about her daughter, and I don't why she should be shielded. She said she was a dirty liar ... I say she's fair game."

Trump's defense of perpetrators of sexual violence is consistent.

you're just going about your day and you now get to read stuff like "Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean" and you just have to nod and move on with your day. “Oceans are different, sir.” lmao www.theverge.com/policy/10167...

"The Jews who went to Mississippi didn't take selfies and post tweets." Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.

Yes we need red light cameras EVERYWHERE.

They should make a database of everyone who gets mad at a post like this and permanently strip them of their driver’s license

“Raises questions”?? In this Kavanaugh Stop, ICE agents swerve to hit a US citizen, knock him off his bike breaking his arm, tase him, cuff him as he screams in pain, blame him, lie about everything, threaten to charge him for damage to their SUV. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Q: There's a report that FEMA is telling states to prepare to handle disasters on their own. Any reaction? OSSOFF: So the Trump administration is telling folks across the country to prepare to fend for themselves while taxpayer dollars are sent to back Don Jr & Eric's mining interest in Kazakhstan?

#BREAKING US embassy staff and families ordered to leave Saudi Arabia, with families of embassy staff in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain also ordered to leave, diplomatic source tells AFP

The pedo party

like vance, ramaswamy is a hateful, resentful orc of a human being, and the reason i think this will hurt him politically — where this stuff didn’t hurt trump — is that ramaswamy, like vance, is also profoundly unlikeable. he has no charm or charisma or anything. just a dipshit.