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Émile Darkheim @rntropy.bsky.social · 4h

The more I think about it, the more I feel that what makes the American post-war development model so weird isn't necessarily car-dependence. It's the idea that once a farm is turned into a subdivision full of SFHs, it can never be anything else for the rest of recorded time.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 5h

Belatedly reading about this and as always really important to remind people in *every breath* that when the right talks about “woke” and “DEI” they are talking about the cultural and political wins of the civil rights movement. This arrangement existed for 52 years because of historical activism.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16h

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

www.dailytarheel.com

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Bob Ratz @ratman1967.bsky.social · 9h

This doesn't just affect rural areas. All those rural people who survive the 2+ hour transport are going to drown the capacity of remaining hospitals. There will be pain, injury, and death for everyone to share.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 9h

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Susan Collins is the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which means she has considerable power to influence the administration but she prefers to mumble weak protestations to the media

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 14h

Despite all of Susan Collins’s **concerns**, Russ Vought, who she voted to confirm, still went ahead and fired a boatload of hard-working Americans.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

SUSAN COLLINS, Wednesday: "I've made very clear that I do not believe there should be firings of furloughed workers."

RUSS VOUGHT, Friday: "The RIFs have begun."

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Émile Darkheim @rntropy.bsky.social · 14h

Why do you need a special district for decentralized finance? Doesn't that kind of defeat the point of decentralization?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

"Argentina Bailout" is tautologically objectionable, all that's left is to attribute it to Trump. I think peppering in descriptors like "$20B" or "massive" can help too but isn't strictly necessary

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

It is a good sign for us that the effective-for-our-side framing "Trump's Argentina Bailout" is how it's being referred to in NYT headlines. If that's the language being used we've already won the argument on the issue. Trump's Argentina Bailout

Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 14h

When the bailout for Argentina…is actually a bailout for the Treasury Secretary’s hedge fund billionaires.

They get richer…and it just gets harder for you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

www.nytimes.com

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Émile Darkheim @rntropy.bsky.social · 14h

I think a lot of people who are opposed to the state incentivizing people to have children through tax breaks and other policies don't understand that many of the safety net programs people enjoy and rely on — such as Social Security — simply do not work with a shrinking or even static population.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

Mississippi teenagers reported this story.

You can support the Youth Media Project and work like this by donating here: givebutter.com/PLg4mr

Mississippi Youth Media Project

givebutter.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans are fighting to ensure that Americans in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and a raft of other red states pay DOUBLE what they paid before for healthcare.

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Émile Darkheim @rntropy.bsky.social · 15h

This is a great metaphore

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 1d

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”

—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 1d

FROG 🐸 SEMIOTICS 🐸 REDEMPTION 🐸 ARC

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 15h

The closest thing dude has to a belief is that we're all suckers

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 15h

After attacking the Vaccines...

Trump Receives COVID and Flu Vaccines at Health Check-Up www.today.com/video/trump-...

Trump Receives COVID and Flu Vaccines at Health Check-Up

President Donald Trump visited Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Friday for his second check-up in the last six months. His doctor said Trump underwent some tests and got a COVID vaccine booster and ...

www.today.com

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 15h

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16h

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Émile Darkheim @rntropy.bsky.social · 18h

"First and foremost, you were not brainwashed. You were validated.… Trump did not put the hate in you. He harvested it."
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMDPQc6J/

If you still subscribe to white Christian nationalism, then there can be no #purplerevolution 🤷🏽‍♀️ #foryou #taylorswiftsnewalbum #badbunny

TikTok video by Kiki Rae Real

www.tiktok.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

the list of things that needs to be done to repair this country is extensive but high up on it is breaking the power of the tech lords

they are convinced they are untouchable feudal barons whose money allows them to dictate everyone else's life and they must be disabused of that notion

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Émile Darkheim @rntropy.bsky.social · 1d

I heard this song on TikTok and think it's an absolute banger open.spotify.com/track/0hEWvz...

大展鴻圖(Blueprint Supreme)

open.spotify.com

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

rightist plutocrats are doing politics. liberal plutocrats are doing charity. it’s an entirely different mindset.

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Chemical Ali @turdguy.bsky.social · 1d

Americans love to mock the French as pussies but I can guarantee you if masked federal agents were disappearing journalists they would have 18-wheelers blocking every highway and protests throughout Paris

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 1d

That feeling when the Governor signs your bill allowing more homes near public transit & you then walk from your 39-unit apartment building to get on the subway.

Housing + transit = perfect combo

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