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Lich 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 10h

Only reason I could think a request to join hostilities against Venezuela wouldn’t be an immediate no is if they’re hoping leaking this to the world will cause someone to rein in the trump admin.

Lich 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 10h

The absurdocene

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 21h

California housing legislation update: SB 79 (upzones to allow apartments near many rail stations) has been signed, along with many other bills, details in thread! 🏘️🥑

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 23h

Learn more about the bill: cayimby.org/legislation/...

SB 79 (Wiener): Transit-Oriented Development and Upzoning

SB 79 will make it faster and easier to build multi-family housing near transit stops, like train and rapid bus lines, by making it legal for more homes to be built in these areas and streamlining exi...

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Lich 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 22h

I keep coming back to my favorite essay/talk ever.
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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Lich 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 23h

This is it - you can’t argue someone out of a position that feels to them like supporting their home team. Your audience for any argument is outsiders witnessing and forming an impression of your community’s values.

Lich 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 23h

One of our biggest cultural challenges is a widespread belief that cruelty is strength. (reinforced by lots of media, starting perhaps with 24)
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Lich 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · Aug 24

Oh this is exactly what’s behind the Newsom fervor, isn’t it - there’s a set of people who see decency as weakness but are smart enough to realize trump is purely destructive, so Newsom is exactly their guy.

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 1d

Going to be honest: Threads going to bat for Katie Porter is one of the most 🫠 things I've seen today...

And really speaks to my ongoing belief we shouldn't stan politicians. At all.

Fellow Dems, hold politicians accountable for their work, not for who you THINK they are only on camera.

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Lich 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 23h

I appreciate Ukraine’s very direct and shrewd “we will nominate you in exchange for cruise missiles.”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Lich 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is unironically it - TRON speaks to the same fantasy of computer-people as LLMs, which are currently propping up our economy.

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Like explain to me what else I needed to do? I showed them the math. I showed them the budgets. Now they're all like "I didn't trust you, person whose extended family lives here who invested time in local politics, I trusted a new York city pedophile rapist who loves firing people"

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Lich 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 1d

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Lich 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 1d

Your honor I request that the consequences of my actions be put on hold, as I am at imminent risk of having to experience them.

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Lich 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 1d

The beatings will continue until the nonviolence award is bestowed.

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Lich 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 1d

I think it was 2007 I was in a short term rental office across from a fashion events planner and still clearly remember her voice saying “It‘s got to be all flash. Html is historic.”

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2d

One of the things that's terrifying about what's happening now is the number of Republicans who won't stand up to Trump because they're cowards who are terrified of backlash. MGT strikes me as just unhinged enough to not be sensitive to that, which turns out to be a liability for them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

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Lich 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 1d

Scan and Streisand them.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 2d

Kids are a massive material resource drain, they make you lose vast quantities of free time, and also they are the best fucking thing in the world IMO.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3d

I think the thing with the debate about ‘Pro-Natalism’ is that everyone kind of dances around saying explicitly is that revealed preferences show lots of people think having kids of sort of sucks for the parent but is clearly necessary for society.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 2d

It would be good for society if it was easier to have kids and if we had more children. Sharp population decline is going to cause intense social and economic dysfunction. And also reproductive autonomy is sacrosanct. So we should make it much easier to become and be a parent.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 2d

Income transfers that make Scandinavian benefits look puny. Mandatory parental leave for everyone. Lower and more flexible work hours. Free or heavily subsidized group-setting care. A Manhattan Project for making pregnancy safer and easier (and maybe robo-wombs).

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 2d

Housing! So much more family-sized and oriented housing!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Lich 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 3d

If I learn that someone’s idea of vacation is “Ahhhh, finally to get away to the kind of violently enforced permanent hierarchy I crave,” I’m gonna wonder about them.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

NEW: When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider.

Here are six steps experts suggest to help you through the external appeal process.

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

You may have the right to get a denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here’s how experts suggest you do it.

www.propublica.org

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