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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 12h

Not only do they blame children for the sins of their fathers, they invent sins to assign. "Must not be working hard enough"

Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 12h

Public infrastructure shouldn't be privatized. The rails should go back to being publicly owned and operated, given they're headed to monopoly *again* anyways

Op-Ed: The Norfolk Southern–Union Pacific Merger Is Wrong for Rail — Streetsblog USA

This advocacy organization argues it's time to reject Wall Street's massive power grab and re-nationalize America's rails — before it's too late.

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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 13h

Its the office Halloween party day on the Tuesday before Halloween so you know what that means! Working in excel dressed like I should be doing something way cooler

Man wearing devil costume working in cubicle decorated for Halloween.

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alt4trees @repinuj.bsky.social · 2d

I painted ur dog

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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 1d

The correct takeaway from this graph is that as unpopular as Trump, Kamala is just as unpopular in the public consciousness

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 1d

if Trump tries to run for an illegal third term Kamala is still only up by 2% god wtf is wrong with the American voter

49% of Americans would literally rather have an unconstitutional dictatorship rather than a normie liberal

Who would win a Harris vs Trump matchup in 2028?
If the 2028 presidential election were between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald
Trump, who would you vote for?
Kamala Harris
Donald Trump
Kamala Harris
51.0%
Donald Trump
49.0%
The Argument's survey of 1,530 registered voters was fielded nationally between Oct. 10-16, 2025. The margin of error for the full survey is +2.8%.
Chart: Lakshya Jain/The Argument • Source: The Argument

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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 1d

Policy is complicated and requires wielding arcane language. Let the nerds figure out how to implement what you want! If it doesn't go as planned, do it again! Close the gaps!

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills every time I see these deranged centrists try the same things over & over & over

merisa @cambrianera.radical.town · 1d

When it comes to the landscape of the discourse, I believe that you should always lead with principles. Not because people are principled but because it's easier to reiterate core principles than policy, which can be complex and confusing.

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merisa @cambrianera.radical.town · 1d

When it comes to the landscape of the discourse, I believe that you should always lead with principles. Not because people are principled but because it's easier to reiterate core principles than policy, which can be complex and confusing.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 1d

The report says dems put, "too much emphasis" on democracy. These people need to seriously sit down and think about why we have democracy in the first place and what happens when it goes away. The solution is notto give up on it, the solution is showing why democracy is the best way forward. Christ.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

Li'l scoop at Semafor: A new report endorsed by Biden's former campaign manager, former DCCC chair Cheri Bustos, and other centrist Dems blames the party's broken brand on post-2012 left-wing language and ideas - not just "the groups" but adopted by whole party www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Left-wing ideas have wrecked Democrats’ brand, new report warns

The center-left group Welcome relied on polling of hundreds of thousands of voters over six months for its findings, shared first with Semafor.

www.semafor.com

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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 1d

I blame our never-ending thirst for oil and pollution

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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 1d

"The only *real* Americans are rural Americans." Despite most farms being corporate and growing alfalfa for the never-ending meat addiction this country has

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NYT puts farmer pain on Page One:

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

"“A lot of what we’re arguing for is a return to Obama-era positioning on issues like immigration and crime, and prioritization of the economy over cultural issues,” he explained."

Consultants returning to their core ideology: make it 2008 again through science or magic

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

Li'l scoop at Semafor: A new report endorsed by Biden's former campaign manager, former DCCC chair Cheri Bustos, and other centrist Dems blames the party's broken brand on post-2012 left-wing language and ideas - not just "the groups" but adopted by whole party www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Left-wing ideas have wrecked Democrats’ brand, new report warns

The center-left group Welcome relied on polling of hundreds of thousands of voters over six months for its findings, shared first with Semafor.

www.semafor.com

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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 2d

The difference between a good band name and a good trivia name is purely academic

Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 3d

AI generated images look like visual plastic. I'm more or less glad they're so easy to spot because of the particular fairness it gives off but I also hate seeing it used by various public figures because it screams laziness and inauthenticity, a thing politicians already struggle with!

Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 4d

Urban streetcars being bought and then abandoned by car/oil companies happened, again, across the US

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 4d

The JP voice actress for Hinako streamed Silent Hill f and I can’t stop laughing at her reactions.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 4d

Always astounded that MattY can claim the mantle of liberalism despite telling everyone not to be liberals in order to win and then sneak liberalism into people's lives or something. People don't like to be deceived and its a bad long-term electoral strategy, the thing he cares the most about!

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 4d

The Matty solution is that the liberal regions and populations of the country should stop having liberal politics, but that doesn't seem like it's going to happen either, which is why he's increasingly demanding that the politburo step in and dissolve the people. Also not going to happen, sorry.

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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 4d

I won't but I should

Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 4d

I have a million thoughts all the time and like 1% of them make it on to paper and I think I should fix that sometime

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 4d

Painting of Thomas More with a speech bubble at the bottom.

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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 4d

One of the fun things about having a post do numbers is seeing the wide variety of people and peeping their bios and seeing where the cross-follower pollination is.

Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 4d

Correct, which means the system of facilitating predominantly car-based travel and assuming public transit is for poor people has led to basically the same outcomes across the US (basically except NYC but also Robert Moses still tried) and LA is just the biggest version of that.

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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 5d

Defending LA in the replies is crazy. Who is it for? Like every city developed differently obviously but somehow the end result for the American city has been sprawl and car over everything, don't you think we can draw some larger conclusions?

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 5d

A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.

Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 5d

Spin this out a bit?

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