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Josh Skelekrahn @joshkrahn.bsky.social · 5h

Hell yeah he did!

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 6h

To understand what was at stake here: in VA, the AG gets to appoint university counsel. From Jim Ryan’s forced resignation to the (mercifully) reject “Compact” to the odious and bizarre “settlement,” UVA has been hamstrung by counsel chosen by the state’s GOP administration. That’s about to change.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

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Updates Key Races N.Y.C. Mayor

Va. Gov.
County
Margin

Shift from 2024 pres.
T Votes
Loudoun

Spanberger +29
* 12 pts.
164,366
Prince William

Spanberger +34
× 16 pts.
161,419
Portsmouth

Spanberger +47
* 8.1 pts.
29,956
Washington

Earle-Sears +49
* 4.5 pts.
20,927
Louisa

Earle-Sears +20
* 6.5 pts.
18,719
Orange

Earle-Sears +15
* 9.3 pts.
17,127
Powhatan

Earle-Sears +40
* 4.4 pts.
16,957
Pulaski

Earle-Sears +38
* 7.1 pts.
12,466
Dinwiddie

Earle-Sears +17
~ 6.3 pts.
11,974
Harrisonburg

Spanberger +41
× 15 pts.
11,753
Manassas

Spanberger +30
* 16 pts.
11,514
Carroll

Earle-Sears +57
~ 6.1 pts.
11,277
Wise

Earle-Sears +59
~ 4.6 pts.
10,962
Fairfax City

Spanberger +45
* 11 pts.
10,232
Fredericksburg

Spanberger +43
* 11 pts.
10,191
Salem

Earle-Sears +12
6.9 pts.
9,374
King William

Earle-Sears +34
* 7.1 pts.
8,999
Russell

Earle-Sears +63
* 4.9 pts.
8,860

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Josh Skelekrahn @joshkrahn.bsky.social · 7h

Haha it’s working again 😅

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Josh Skelekrahn @joshkrahn.bsky.social · 7h

Is vpap.org broken? Did I hit refresh too many times and break it?

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A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 11h

Twin Peaks: A note ‘LOOK INTO THE MEALS ON WHEELS’.

A note ‘LOOK INTO THE MEALS ON WHEELS’. Twin Peaks S02E01 - May the Giant Be with You.

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 15h

"we never recovered from things Dick Cheney did to United States. and now the precedents he established have empowered a madman" @emptywheel.bsky.social

www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/04/d...

Dick Cheney, Gone But Not Forgotten - emptywheel

The precedents Dick Cheney established as Vice President have empowered the madness and authoritarianism of Donald Trump.

www.emptywheel.net

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Josh Skelekrahn @joshkrahn.bsky.social · 15h

Stop the child murder

Keaton H @keaton-hawk.bsky.social · 1d

Drivers never look for pedestrians when they leave parking lots. We need raised crosswalks or speed bumps to be standard.

#yegbike

5-year-old killed after being hit by vehicle in northwest Edmonton - CityNews Edmonton

Edmonton police say a 5-year-old boy has died after being hit by a vehicle Monday morning in northwest Edmonton.

edmonton.citynews.ca

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Yes, Dick Cheney is Dead! @ischeneydeadyet.bsky.social · 16h

YES! DICK CHENEY *IS* DEAD!

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats can keep hunting for The Blueprint for winning candidates who know what The People want.

Or they can adopt election rules that foster competition and let vision and ambition do the rest.

Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 1d

Should they be searching for more Mamdanis? The Democrats are torn.

(Also: a reminder that he has been helped by running against "the two most disgraced figures of New York Democratic politics of the last 40 years.")

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Mamdani’s Edge Has Democrats Wondering If He’s a Model or a Fluke

Zohran Mamdani’s lead heading into the New York mayoral election has withstood a furious push from Republicans, establishment Democrats and a coalition of Wall Street dealmakers, leaving Democrats to ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Josh Skelekrahn @joshkrahn.bsky.social · 2d

Reluctantly agree

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

NYC is normal, it's the rest of you lot that are weird.

David Noll @david.noll.org · 2d

I really think it's just this and being attuned (and giving the appearance of being attuned) to what voters care about. NYC is so weird, there are no generalizable lessons.

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Josh Skelekrahn @joshkrahn.bsky.social · 3d

rare L for the big guy

Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 3d

And on the sixth day, the Lord said, "Let there be free parking" and it was (not) good.

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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 3d

And on the sixth day, the Lord said, "Let there be free parking" and it was (not) good.

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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 4d

"Neighbourhood interiors were never intended for commercial activity", says one letter writer. To be fair, this is true, if you toss the entirety of human history and modern day Earth outside North America in the trash, and think that urban planning less than a century old is ironclad natural law.

No corner coffee shops: Toronto committee waters down neighbourhood retail plan

It’s the second time in less than a year councillors balked at allowing certain businesses to open on some residential streets

www.torontotoday.ca

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 3d

Such a silly argument. I mean most spare bedrooms were never intended to be home offices but then Covid happened. Circumstances change, people and communities adapt, life goes on. There’s no reason to not rethink the design of even small neighborhoods to make them more accessible.

Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 4d

"Neighbourhood interiors were never intended for commercial activity", says one letter writer. To be fair, this is true, if you toss the entirety of human history and modern day Earth outside North America in the trash, and think that urban planning less than a century old is ironclad natural law.

No corner coffee shops: Toronto committee waters down neighbourhood retail plan

It’s the second time in less than a year councillors balked at allowing certain businesses to open on some residential streets

www.torontotoday.ca

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 4d

I hope people in other countries understand that many of us are trying our best to resist the dictatorship but that the police in one American city will kill almost as many people in a year than all the police departments combined of a typical EU nation.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 7d

US citizen, 67, ‘has ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents after being dragged out of car while driving home into street they’d blocked off

US citizen, 67, has six ribs broken by Border Patrol agents, his running club says

www.independent.co.uk

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

Hundreds of school crossing guards have suffered injuries on the job after being hit by a vehicle, and dozens of them have died, according to an investigation by AP and Cox Media Group Television Stations.

Crossing guards face life-threatening dangers on the job

An investigation by The Associated Press and Cox Media Group Television Stations found that school crossing guards face dangerous conditions, with many injured or killed on the job.

bit.ly

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wesinjapan🦃🦃🦃 @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 4d

So, murder then

Truthout @truthout.org · 4d

Department of Defense officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them. The Trump administration has killed at least 61 people.

Pentagon Admits to Striking Caribbean Boats Without Identifying Victims’ Purported Drug Links

The White House cannot “satisfy the evidentiary burden” to prosecute those they have been killing, one lawmaker said.

truthout.org

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Josh Skelekrahn @joshkrahn.bsky.social · 5d

Same diff

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Nora 🇪🇪 @llcrane.bsky.social · 5d

I’m at the Friends of Downtown Community meeting to skeet about the Flock pilot program results.

Follow this thread for the details 👇

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Josh Skelekrahn @joshkrahn.bsky.social · 5d

The Dream

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Josh Skelekrahn @joshkrahn.bsky.social · 6d

It works! My social anxiety is 20% lower when there are name tags

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Josh Skelekrahn @joshkrahn.bsky.social · 6d

Fair. MVB was on another level that night.

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Josh Skelekrahn @joshkrahn.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah they always kick ass live not sure what yall talking about

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Davis @davisqueue.bsky.social · 7d

Radon Abatement has not played out since June. We should play out more maybe, but in the meantime we have been working on stuff and hope to be able to share some things soon. This show would be great without us, but I am excited to be a part of it. Live music is still the best.

Davis @davisqueue.bsky.social · 18d

Excellent flyer courtesy of @joshkrahn.bsky.social is ready so that means I am gonna post about this show: True Love Always comes through for the first time in 20 years or so on Sat., Nov. 22! The killer Added Dimensions is also playing along with Radon Abatement. I am very excited about this.

Image is of a flyer for a show at Visible Records in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday, November 22. The bands that will play are True Love Always, Added Dimensions, and Radon Abatement. $10-15 suggested donation but no one turned away for lack of funds. The image for the flyer is of a man in what appears to be a skipper/naval outfit jumping up in the air in front of an apartment building.

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