Josh Skelekrahn
            
            @joshkrahn.bsky.social
          
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          Left-liberal YIMBY. Anti-fascist. Dreaming of trains across the sea. Avid fietser. 15-minute everything. Legalize Flavortown. A muter not a blocker. (he/him)
      
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      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.")
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          (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.")
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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 ...
        
          
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      NYC is normal, it's the rest of you lot that are weird.
    
        
      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.
    
  
      And on the sixth day, the Lord said, "Let there be free parking" and it was (not) good.
    
  
        
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      "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
        
          
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      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
          
        
          
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      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.
        
          
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      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.
    
        
        
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      Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
    
        
        
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      “We’re trying to cram an awful lot into a single family lot that was originally plotted and laid out to be for a single home,”  the fire marshal said, and then complained about how more people parking on the street because of increased density was impeding first responders.