George Chikovani
@ciquna3.bsky.social
Left my home in 🇬🇪 headed for the Frisco Bay. Mostly here for Cal 🐻, Arsenal 🔴⚪️, and 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 updates. #SlavaUkraini #FreeGeorgia #BLM
The replies to this post restoring my faith that this place Has The Juice
That first Nazgûl who lost Frodo right outside the Shire fucking choked
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The replies to this post restoring my faith that this place Has The Juice
I experienced this firsthand driving through the inner Richmond to GG park. Saw at least a half-dozen Waymos sitting like idiots at intersections. Not even hazard lights on to indicate that they were stopped for good, making a fun guessing game of “is it safe to go around this robot”? #WaymoOut
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
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With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
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Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I experienced this firsthand driving through the inner Richmond to GG park. Saw at least a half-dozen Waymos sitting like idiots at intersections. Not even hazard lights on to indicate that they were stopped for good, making a fun guessing game of “is it safe to go around this robot”? #WaymoOut
Dog days of discontent
America is in the mid-summer of its discontent. Smack dab in the middle of it. Plenty of discontent to go before it’s even jacket season, to be honest.
December 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Dog days of discontent
Was just listening to @adriandaub.bsky.social and @moiradonegan.bsky.social clown this column on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social!
Well whaddayaknow
December 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Was just listening to @adriandaub.bsky.social and @moiradonegan.bsky.social clown this column on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social!
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congrats to every "moderate" who cheered on this cruel, unfounded panic. hope you got what you wanted www.npr.org/sections/sho...
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
congrats to every "moderate" who cheered on this cruel, unfounded panic. hope you got what you wanted www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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I showed this to my 14-year-old tonight so that she knows that there are trans adults who are fighting for kids like her. It was a hard and scary day but we both shed some tears of gratitude for @mcbride.house.gov’s clarity, grace and courage.
I was a kid once. And my biggest regret in life is that I never got a childhood without pain.
Politicians should never insert themselves into the personal health care decisions of patients, parents, and their providers—and that includes trans Americans.
Politicians should never insert themselves into the personal health care decisions of patients, parents, and their providers—and that includes trans Americans.
December 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I showed this to my 14-year-old tonight so that she knows that there are trans adults who are fighting for kids like her. It was a hard and scary day but we both shed some tears of gratitude for @mcbride.house.gov’s clarity, grace and courage.
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Gender-affirming care for youth is just simple medical care. It isn’t political, it’s not radical. It is small-c conservative care that is what is recommended by doctors to protect the health and lives of kids and teenagers. Please protect trans kids.
December 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Gender-affirming care for youth is just simple medical care. It isn’t political, it’s not radical. It is small-c conservative care that is what is recommended by doctors to protect the health and lives of kids and teenagers. Please protect trans kids.
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Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez literally have every award, they wrote the songs for Coco and Frozen. But when we invited them on @bullseye.maximumfun.org , they wanted to sing a song they wrote for Kermit the Frog that no one had heard before. Everyone was 😭.
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youtube.com/shorts/p43C1...
Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez share an unreleased Kermit the Frog Song - Bullseye
YouTube video by Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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December 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez literally have every award, they wrote the songs for Coco and Frozen. But when we invited them on @bullseye.maximumfun.org , they wanted to sing a song they wrote for Kermit the Frog that no one had heard before. Everyone was 😭.
youtube.com/shorts/p43C1...
youtube.com/shorts/p43C1...
Spent most of today awaiting word from relatives in Sydney (fortunately safe, but they were at Bondi just the day before, and one of the victims was someone they knew). Lighting these candles with my kids tonight was a needed salve. We will never let hate win. May the victims’ memories be a blessing
December 15, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Spent most of today awaiting word from relatives in Sydney (fortunately safe, but they were at Bondi just the day before, and one of the victims was someone they knew). Lighting these candles with my kids tonight was a needed salve. We will never let hate win. May the victims’ memories be a blessing
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Last Hanukkah, Rabbi Schlanger urged people to celebrate boldly, “to be more Jewish” in the face of antisemitism.
Our menorahs tonight will also be yahrzeit candles–with grief for this grievous loss and rededication to shine brighter than slaughter & hate.
Our menorahs tonight will also be yahrzeit candles–with grief for this grievous loss and rededication to shine brighter than slaughter & hate.
December 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Last Hanukkah, Rabbi Schlanger urged people to celebrate boldly, “to be more Jewish” in the face of antisemitism.
Our menorahs tonight will also be yahrzeit candles–with grief for this grievous loss and rededication to shine brighter than slaughter & hate.
Our menorahs tonight will also be yahrzeit candles–with grief for this grievous loss and rededication to shine brighter than slaughter & hate.
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I say this quite honestly. My view is that the conservative majorities of the Court who brought us here are complicit in all of this. They have blood on their hands and they should be remembered as facilitators of death and suffering.
Guns don't kill people, SCOTUS' 2nd amendment jurisprudence kills people.
December 14, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I say this quite honestly. My view is that the conservative majorities of the Court who brought us here are complicit in all of this. They have blood on their hands and they should be remembered as facilitators of death and suffering.
Elliot’s multi-year transition from twitter hot take merchant to purveyor of boring but accurate wisdom is something to behold. What else online has gotten calmer and smarter in the last 10 years #growth
I think it’s okay to believe that winning a game like this is all that matters, and to celebrate the win wildly. In fact, you absolutely should do that.
But I also think it’s totally okay to believe the performances since Bayern are concerning & will lead to more dropped points if not corrected
But I also think it’s totally okay to believe the performances since Bayern are concerning & will lead to more dropped points if not corrected
December 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Elliot’s multi-year transition from twitter hot take merchant to purveyor of boring but accurate wisdom is something to behold. What else online has gotten calmer and smarter in the last 10 years #growth
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thanks brett kavanaugh!
Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
thanks brett kavanaugh!
Straight up fascism 😡
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Straight up fascism 😡
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Sean Hecker, Kilmar's attorney, once hailed how much courage it took Kilmar to challenge what DOJ/DHS is doing to him. That stuck with me. Kilmar Abrego is just some guy, vulnerable in a way most of us are not.
But he has taken on Trump and ... thus far at least, prevailed.
But he has taken on Trump and ... thus far at least, prevailed.
"Today’s ruling is a powerful affirmation that the rule of law still matters," Sandoval-Moshenberg said. "The Court made … clear that the govt cannot detain a person indefinitely without legal authority, and that every agency involved must now comply fully and promptly with the Court’s directives."
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is released from ICE custody following judge's order
Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court in Maryland ruled that the Trump administration lacked the legal authority to continue holding Abrego.
www.nbcnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Sean Hecker, Kilmar's attorney, once hailed how much courage it took Kilmar to challenge what DOJ/DHS is doing to him. That stuck with me. Kilmar Abrego is just some guy, vulnerable in a way most of us are not.
But he has taken on Trump and ... thus far at least, prevailed.
But he has taken on Trump and ... thus far at least, prevailed.
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Looming over all the details here of dishonesty, etc. is that in the first weeks of the Administration's deportion push, they deported a man in error.
And rather than simply admit that and bring him back, they have gone to Kafka-esque lengths to punish him for the effrontery of being innocent.
And rather than simply admit that and bring him back, they have gone to Kafka-esque lengths to punish him for the effrontery of being innocent.
BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis orders the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration custody
December 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Looming over all the details here of dishonesty, etc. is that in the first weeks of the Administration's deportion push, they deported a man in error.
And rather than simply admit that and bring him back, they have gone to Kafka-esque lengths to punish him for the effrontery of being innocent.
And rather than simply admit that and bring him back, they have gone to Kafka-esque lengths to punish him for the effrontery of being innocent.
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In my parents' generation this gesture meant (with the hand held at waist level): "this joke already had a beard this long 🫴 when I was only this tall 🫳"
One of the things we've enjoyed the most about the six-seven phenomenon is the way it comes with a gesture, which we've also seen represented in emoji form as:
🫴 six-seven 🫳
🫴 six-seven 🫳
“6-7” belongs in the dictionary, actually
In defense of @dictionarycom.bsky.social's Word of the Year
Website: linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/67/
Substack: linguisticdiscovery.substack.com/p/67
In defense of @dictionarycom.bsky.social's Word of the Year
Website: linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/67/
Substack: linguisticdiscovery.substack.com/p/67
December 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
In my parents' generation this gesture meant (with the hand held at waist level): "this joke already had a beard this long 🫴 when I was only this tall 🫳"
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just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
If Immigrants Don’t Have Due Process, No One Has Due Process
How do you prove you’re a citizen?
www.everythingishorrible.net
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
Always hoarded my little plot on “Shaq is an underrated actor” Island, but didn’t know he could do such a spot on Titus Andromedon. 🫡
December 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Always hoarded my little plot on “Shaq is an underrated actor” Island, but didn’t know he could do such a spot on Titus Andromedon. 🫡
Movie you’ve watched six times + with a gif. Thanks to my old man for this one.
December 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Movie you’ve watched six times + with a gif. Thanks to my old man for this one.
This is good more of this please. I’m not Somali but I am a (naturalized) immigrant and the wholesale attacks on entire communities are enraging to a whole extra level. The minimum bar for elected leaders is full throated support for immigrant contributions to America 🗽🇺🇸 👀
I don’t normally read the comments, but these ones give me hope. I know we are all seeing a lot of hate toward our Somali friends and neighbors, but I wanted to share these.
I hope they bring a smile to your face like they did mine.
I hope they bring a smile to your face like they did mine.
December 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is good more of this please. I’m not Somali but I am a (naturalized) immigrant and the wholesale attacks on entire communities are enraging to a whole extra level. The minimum bar for elected leaders is full throated support for immigrant contributions to America 🗽🇺🇸 👀
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Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
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These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
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Hope the couch doesn’t find out
December 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Hope the couch doesn’t find out
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December 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
lots of @coyotemedia.org news today: our paywall's down for the month, so read everything you want! subscriptions (for you and for gifting) are 15% off! we're trying to get to 2,026 paid subscribers by 2026!! now's a GREAT time to finally subscribe 💖 www.coyotemedia.org/media-coop-m...