Steve Starcevich

It is atrocious we have to operate under this constant credible and explicit threat from one political party, the fact we keep calling it a “free and fair election” needs some light revising

This study is fascinating. Researchers found that respondents whose views corresponded with "hostile sexism" were by far the most likely to support transgender sports bans. I think people who have advocated on this issue have seen this for themselves. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

How to Start a Bike to Work Program: A Guide for Employers and Businesses. momentummag.com/start-bike-w...

"Venues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: ‘People Don’t Want Him There’" Businesses have begun pulling out of Vivek Ramaswamy’s bus tour with other GOP candidates. ‘It’s that damn ad,’ a top Ohio Republican tells Zeteo. zeteo.com/p/venues-sta...

the contrast between seeing US democrats fall over themselves to embrace idiot transphobia all year and tonight seeing footage of the president embracing my (trans) congresswoman, Erika Hilton, at the election night party

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

In the great news from Brazil, don't sleep on this Reuters investigation which found that Darren Beattie, a racist activist who was fired during the first Trump administration, directly worked to increase tariffs on Brazil to harm the country in hopes that it would elect Flavio Bolsonaro

boy it sure seems like the main threat to democracy everywhere across the globe is right wing media and certain social media companies

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

Not only a vital defeat of the far right, but also a win of inestimable value for the planet.

Obrigado, povo brasileiro! 📸 Ricardo Stuckert

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover. As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible. PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.

"Meta built products to be addictive to users, driving engagement through features like endless scrolling, and designed algorithms parasitic on outrage or even on mental illness, including body dysmorphia and suicidality." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-techlash...

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

Lula's comeback fight in Brasil has been driven by a Carnaval-like atmosphere with people partying in the street. My look at how the happiness of these rallies is driving Lula's comeback fight paydayreport.com/watch-lulas-...

no matter how sure you are that these guys have broken a whole bunch of laws, you aren't nearly as certain as they are

🧵🧵🧵 10 ways the planet’s richest person, Elon Musk, has been busy making the world worse. A thread. 1. Buying crooked politicians like Ken Paxton.

You know what pissed me off about the Ramaswamy ad beyond the obvious grotesqueries? There’s no EVIDENCE disputing Acton’s life story. There are court proceedings backing up her story. And all Ramaswamy’s got is the (accused) mother saying “nu uh” and somehow that’s enough? FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Me: "It cannot be stated often enough or vociferously enough: the Trump Administration is helping Russia to conquer Ukraine. The United States of America has taken the side of an aggressor against its innocent victim. We are helping our actual enemies" www.aei.org/foreign-and-...

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

For fuck’s sake

Total respect for NBC's Monica Alba, who asked Trump exactly the question he needs to answer. By refusing to answer, and attacking her, he has effectively told the world that no, sexual abuse allegations do no mean a thing to him. Imagine if she wasn't there. We'd be the poorer for it.

New — I wrote about Vivek Ramaswamy’s weaponization of Amy Acton’s childhood sexual abuse and how it’s only the latest symptom of a Republican party flush with rape apologists, led by an adjudicated rapist:

“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

Our research team did a deep dive this week on the Wedgewood "fake polls" confession and the different rumors and strategic narratives that have taken shape around it. We expect this story and the rumors around it to continue spreading into and beyond the midterms. uwcip.substack.com/p/from-confe...

Great to see @tinakotek.bsky.social and @melaniekebler.bsky.social get some attention in this profile of progressive YIMBYs running for office from across the country, by @yimbyaction.bsky.social inpractice.yimbyaction.org/p/housing-on...

A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.

This is how you do it. Frame automatic traffic cameras as a safety solution (which they are), and ignore drivers who get mad that they can no longer break the law with impunity.

Do you know how bad the abuse has to be for a judge to remove kids from their birth mother? Just saw Amy Acton’s CNN interview about that Ramaswamy ad and , listen, I lived in NC through the Willie Horton ad era. I’m not precious. This is so disgusting that I wish I believed in hell. I really do.

So reminds me of @parismarx.com reporting on Musk and why he pushed the Hyperloop and Boring Co. tunnels - in part to throw cities off of developing better public transit options that make people not wanna buy cars or need to take taxis.

Truly deeply Veep vibe. Perfection.

“I didn’t attend my son’s wedding because I didn’t believe in his marriage. But now, five years later, I can’t imagine a stronger, more loving relationship, and I’m grateful for the ways that his marriage to a man has provided a stable, secure foundation for my grandchildren.”

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

America can have an oligarchy or a democracy—but not both. When Democrats next have national power, they must restrict the political power of billionaires, even including the so-called liberal ones that help put them in power. trib.al/UbF2XAk

The grifting is off the charts.

Anthropic frantically and mindlessly speed-building massive new polluting fossil fuel infrastructure but then also buying carbon removal offsets to "help address emissions" is such as perfect demonstration of why silicon valley has failed so spectacularly to actually help tackle climate change.

It passed🥳! Here are the very reasonable street management principles the Pike Place Market Constituency adopted tonight. It would astounded normal Seattleites that this remains controversial, and that opponents said it was “similar to Trump’s efforts to tear down the East Wing of the White House” 🤯

For Africa, climate change is not about the future. It's about now. Our crops failing, our lakes shrinking, our people displaced — while boardrooms thousands of miles away count record profits. We don't have a climate problem. We have a justice problem. #ClimateJustice

Rivian's CEO predicts that the self-driving future revolves around personally owned cars— not robotaxis. Indeed, surveys show that's what most ppl want. But it would be a disaster for cities/climate b/c personally owned AVs would massively expand car use and sprawl. techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/r...

Thanks to - allowing single stair buildings - transit-oriented development one can build a 6-storey apt building that fits on 1 single-family lot. *26* units, 6 of them are 3-bed, 18 are 2-bed. https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/2150-w-16-ave #CanadaHousingCrisis

This is precisely the type of building cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles need to allow and *incentivize* in R1 zones if they ever want to end their respective housing shortages.

I worked with hospitals and the legislature to put more money into maternal health care, so rural hospitals can keep their delivery units open. I’ll keep fighting to make sure families in every part of Oregon have access to high-quality care.