Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

To all my international friends: SORRY we’ll try to do better, I swear.

@draysbay.bsky.social sigh. Imagine that, a ballpark accessible with decent transit. Some day.

Anyone here use Census quickfacts? It's been down for at least several days. I can't figure out whether this is normal maintenance as they claim or more data shenanigans.

This is for baseball fans! Are you a baseball pacifist? I have never liked the idea of intentionally hitting a batter with a 97mph projectile, but I have friends who think that's part of the game.

Next up, the FL Dept of Bloodletting and Leech therapy.

For the first time, [Nadler] said that when Congress returns later this month, he plans to join a growing number of Democratic lawmakers trying to use congressional authority to block the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel. “ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...

@50501movement.bsky.social Tampa Florida, where organizers were kind enough to hold the protest at 5 pm when it was "only" 88 degrees.

So many of us are looking for leadership and unions can help provide that, as they have in previous eras. I would note however that my union is struggling just to remain recognized after our state passed laws raising the bar for public employee unions to be certified.

Oh no he didn't!! That's appalling.

This whole series of posts reminds me of the time in 2006 (!) when the head of the humane society made a joke that dogs should now be called "canine-Americans" and this got picked up by humorless bloggers everywhere as evidence of left political correctness run amok.

As a sign of how good this campaign is, I have been waiting for this clue to be revealed all day and I am over 1000 miles from New York City.

Trump regularly calls people vermin, calls reporters “nasty,” calls US cities shitholes. But the Democrats are failing because deep in a budget document someone used the term “pregnant people?”

I love to see this, hope we can get this going in St. Pete too.

Before he said "Atlanta" was confused, because the main crazy person kids hear yelling is Trump.

That’s over 1/4 of the population.

First of all, who said anything about “street living?” And second, you think homelessness started in 1980? depts.washington.edu/depress/hoov...

Also, nearly all these monuments were erected decades after the civil war had ended, so the only history they are recalling is the effort to enact Jim Crow laws and terrorize Black residents in the 1910s and 1920s

When @theonion.com turns your last 2 decades of research into a satirical post: theonion.com/real-estate-...

I hope Democratic comms people are smart enough to make Randy Fine the face of the Republican Party. He’s a mean-spirited monster and he’s aching for someone to hand him a mic so can share his vitriol with the world. Who hurt you, Randy?

Tucked away in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' is the requirement that all visitors to the US must pay $250 just to enter the country starting 1 October! For a family of 5 that's $1250! I doubt this will help America's crashing tourism business which is down 10% already since January

What an amazing woman and what an indictment of our detention system.

Why are American Jews so ambivalent regarding Trump's anti-antisemitism campaign, even when many of them are actually worried about the phenomenon itself? Together with my colleague Ted Sasson we discuss this question, and what Israel should be doing about it. Read, comment, and share as they say.

Every liberal SCOTUS dissent kinda feels like this

“Despite his own alleged working class background, or maybe because of it, JD Vance is campaigning as a heartless jerk intent on depriving others of opportunity.”

Both amazing and predictable that the well-heeled old white men are convinced that Cuomo is a good choice.

Not true these are also happening in Florida.

For @draysbay.bsky.social

These rescuers attached a sausage to a drone to lure a stranded dog named Millie back to safety. 14/10 for everybody

This is so true. We had NO local coverage of well attended Hands Off and Tesla Takedown protests.

Rays and Astros pitchers trade complete games. In 2025, a miracle.

There are times when the Rays lose a close game and I'm pulling my hair out in frustration. This one though? I'm just going to tip my cap and hope for a few more pitches to hit today. www.draysbay.com/2025/5/30/24...

For my Florida colleagues: surprise! Post tenure review has NOT made us more productive, but it has pushed the most productive among us to leave.

For Floridians it’s both fascinating and horrifying to watch the rest of the country get to know Randy Fine. Hard to believe the state that gave you Maxwell Frost also sent this execrable human.

When Rubio writes his inevitable tell all memoir about how he actually knew these policies were depraved can everyone agree no buy or discuss his book?

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

I think the main journalistic reason beltway journos are focused on Biden instead of the guy who calls them stupid and kicks them off the plane is because they’re pussies who are afraid of Trump but not Biden.

The one task for which I’ve found LLMs useful is formatting references, the most pointless and time consuming part of any research effort.

When our FL state leaders realize that all those critical race theory essays that are freaking them out have been written by a chatbot and that students in fact have no idea what they mean, will they feel better or worse?

When the Pritzger campaign wants to use this as their 2028 slogan, @willbunch.bsky.social, what will you say?

If you've been to or watched televised games and Yankee stadium you must also find the JC Richards jingle annoying, right?

Opinion: I teach politics, that is all. I would never inject computer science into my urban politics classes. Please clap.

The problem with defund/abolish slogans is that they distract from the question of who controls these agencies with what goals. If we abolish ICE tomorrow, the current administration would find other agencies to carry out similar policies.

Interested in learning more about background interests driving the Trump administration executive order on higher education accreditation? Read my Medium post on the subject from a year ago: livcolemanportal.medium.com/the-fight-ov...

“This more of a comment than a question….”

Expects it to de-escalate because it will magically get better? Or because Trump will back down without admitting he is backing down?

Brings back memories. I had started work as a VISTA community organizer in 1981 when Reagan took office and my position was eliminated. The org I was with was able to pay my $400/mo stipend and kept me on. A Democratic Congress managed to keep VISTA alive but much reduced in scope and budget.

Are the folks who keep reposting things like this really vetting these requests for help? I wish people would not repost if they can't vouch for the account.