Austin Wu
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer
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my hot take on zohran is i like the guy but there’s about 7 million times as much ink spilled about him than could ever be warranted by a mayor, because all of our media live within 2 square blocks of each other in nyc and have had their brains destroyed by Online
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Anna O. Law
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I'm at
@askhistorians.bsky.social
this morning, answering questions about the history of US migration and citizenship laws and policy.
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Robert Borden Stan Account
about 5 hours ago
Public Safety Canada has announced a plan to strengthen Coast Guard presence on the Great Lakes, including new sensors, intelligence fusion and the use of unmanned aerial and undersea systems. This is allegedly being done to counter smuggling and illegal immigration. I have my own suspicions.
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Minister Anandasangaree announces investment to strengthen Canada’s maritime security in the Great Lakes
Press Release + Noah Note
https://www.truenorthstrategicreview.ca/p/minister-anandasangaree-announces
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Roosevelt Institute
about 23 hours ago
As our President
@elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social
argues, the anti-tax framing makes it all the more difficult to make the case for the kinds of public investments that ordinary people rely on to survive:
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Kat
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James D'Emilio
about 14 hours ago
Several parks and national monuments in Arizona have exhibits about life in their camps and about their work: trails, buildings, restoration. This is a plaque at Chiricahua National Monument put up by CCC alumni: "The President's Tree Army" "It was the best thing that ever happened to me"
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William B. Fuckley
about 17 hours ago
Donald Trump is president and Graham Platner is a senate candidate, I know what world I live in, I'm just saying it fucking sucks and I don't like it.
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American Century of Humiliation --> American National Salvation
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about 14 hours ago
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Kelly Guinan
about 16 hours ago
New, fun, one-minute learning, and celebration of American History
#250to250
by
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team Narrated by Harrison Ford Civilian Conservation Corps
#WeAreAmerica250
#NewDeal
#CCC
#PublicWorks
#Hiking
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Civilian Conservation Corps, Narrated by Harrison Ford
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Materialist Gnostic
about 15 hours ago
don't be pessimistic! there's going to be an autocoup attempt *when* the Dems win Congress
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Laurie! Live!
about 16 hours ago
the free public beaches and general ethos that the lakefront should be free is a critical Chicago W
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Sharon
about 16 hours ago
i'm not pulling this out of my ass:
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Sharon
about 16 hours ago
indistinguishable from Yoon thinking the DPK are all Northern traitors
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Streetsblog Chicago
about 17 hours ago
Divvy docks across from City Hall has been renamed “Riley O’Neil Memorial Station" in honor of the fallen CDOT planner. See post from Divvy's GM below. A Lyft spokesperson told SBC just now, "any community memorial stickers at the site will remain in place."
www.linkedin.com/posts/seandm...
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Sam (ABeardedPanda)
about 18 hours ago
anyways, where I'm landing on data centers is they're more or less the same as every other form of light industry (outside of some outliers) but they're politically very toxic, largely because of how the tech companies act toward everyone so it's their job to convince people to build them, not ours
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"Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me!"
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Yonah Freemark
about 24 hours ago
US cities face 3 parallel crises: 1—Rise of remote work 2—Fewer young adults in upcoming generations 3—Less immigration due to Trump admin A new report
@urbaninstitute.bsky.social
shows how cities can improve their economies by improving life for people with kids:
www.urban.org/research/pub...
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ESC Discord
1 day ago
🇨🇦 CBC/Radio-Canada has become a full Member of the European Broadcasting Union. This allows Canada to participate in future
#Eurovision
editions without invitation.
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Jjinandtonic
1 day ago
Honestly just bar lawyers from doing history at this point, and exorcise this ridiculous and deformed originalism
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Jake Charles
1 day ago
We very quickly get more anachronism. It’s hard to explain how ridix it is to think that firearms were primarily viewed or used as personal self-defense weapons at the founding. Most weren’t efficient or reliable enough for that purpose until long after.
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Highways!
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Decades ago, corrugated steel huts staunched a national housing shortage on short order, and provided living accommodations for thousands, that are still fondly remembered today. Would a repeat be worthwhile to address contemporary urban issues? Probably not. Glad to have this out in
streets.mn
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As a minor point of reference, "public trans" does appear as a phrase in Sufjan Stevens' "Oh Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head", which was released in 2003 ... 23 years ago 😮
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Thorne 🌸
1 day ago
One of the reasons I'm a passionate YIMBY is that it's a form of real environmentalism. You know what is genuinely horrendous for the environment? Suburban living. It's too sparse to be efficient but too dense and manicured to let ecosystems thrive amongst it.
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Pedaling Professor
1 day ago
St. Paul and Ramsey County need to heavily lean on their engineers to do better. SPPW is plagued with outdated engineering mindset. The council should play a much more active role in pushing them to do better.
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Ezra Jack Skeets Wants Expanded Public PreK, 3K, and 2K
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Sharon
1 day ago
"Did becoming anti-immigrant hawks save the European social democratic[Danish social democrats]/far-left [BSW]?" "No, but it might work for us [Labour/left-populists)."
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I am similarly despondent about the slow but inevitable march in urban public school enrolment
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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸
1 day ago
It’s a death spiral. Elites have become increasingly insular and unwilling to accept outside input and refuse to entertain the fact that voters look to them for cues. This has led to an ouroboros of reactionary ideology as they blindly chase the very trends they themselves have reinforced.
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>regarding group chats and X the Everything App (derogatory)
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[Message] Boards of Canada --
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My take about Vancouver is that for Canada, it fulfils the roles of Seattle, Portland, SF, and LA all concurrently (granola + beach + tech + film + shiny + grungy + etc.), and thus ends up feeling somewhat diffuse and disjointed between neighbourhoods and peoples
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈
2 days ago
very on brand for Donald Trump that the first time Congress gets together to pass a major bipartisan YIMBY bill he throws a tantrum and decides he won’t sign it on like two hours notice
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Johnny “We have the meats” Renton
2 days ago
Perfect example of a lost opportunity was how Singh failed to capitalize on the fall of Justin Trudeau and the LPC in 24/25. They gained none of those disaffected voters in the year leading up to the election. The NDP need a leader who is not only ready for go mode, but doesn’t have a low ceiling
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iowa city out there catching strays for the absolute nonsense that this "center" is 😭
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Hari Kunzru
3 days ago
“Moderate” is not a statement about your beliefs, but about your position in relation to others. In a world of runaway authoritarianism that means being dragged rightward like a tin can on a string behind a car
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
2 days ago
But (as I have definitely remarked to my child) Frog himself has a correctly expansive view of willpower. All of his moves involve imposing structural constraints on his ability to access the cookies!
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Frog and Toad Bot
2 days ago
“Yes,” said Frog, reaching for a cookie, “we need will power.” “What is will power?” asked Toad. “Will power is trying hard not to do something you really want to do,” said Frog.
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Robert Borden Stan Account
2 days ago
Friendly reminder that they are still fucking doing it, and that US right wing media, which defines reality for the White House and around 50% of Americans, can easily dial the rhetoric back up at the drop of a hat. For instance, if we were having a referendum, or if oil went to $200 a barrel.
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patrick.kennedy
3 days ago
More freeways means more cars and more miles driven until it kills the local economy.
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Go Greendale Human Beings!
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Matt da Silva
3 days ago
Agencies that have recovered to pre-COVID ridership have done it three ways: 1. Becoming more useful for non-work trips via better off-peak and weekend service. 2. Developing land around stations to add population to the service area. 3. Expanding the network to reach new people and destinations.
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Nathan Goldwag
3 days ago
This man has written for
@theatlantic.com
and
@thenyt.bsky.social
, his views are more acceptable in elite society than yours.
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Lurker Envoy
3 days ago
Love this graph, clearly shows the progress we’ve begun to make recently and also the massive hole we spent decades digging for ourselves
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Keith
3 days ago
This whole dissent is goddamn fire. Out entire immigration system has been a crock of shit since it's racist-ass inception.
supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
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Elliot
3 days ago
The big irony in Vance adopting Catholicism as the backbone of his Christian Nationalist project is that Catholicism has always been internationalist in its political outlook and has a strong humanistic streak.
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Snowden St.
3 days ago
how far off am I in saying Nationalist Identity is itself a Protestant-ish development? it *feels* right
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in general, ime racism or racism-informed judgments are less of a social faux-pas then they have been in the past -- it's not great!
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brent is Astoriapilled 🌹
3 days ago
There are so many social and political effects of COVID that we have not remotely unpacked enough
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