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Zander🚈🔰

@kohiwonomu.bsky.social

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🚈🔰Mass transit simp, liberal Georgist, New Deal Democrat. | @ridewithdata.org | Be a traveler, not a tourist. Pro-🇺🇦🇹🇼🇵🇸, all opinions my own and not of anybody i work with or am employed by

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · Nov 17

go.bsky.app/HVLZoBr Re-sharing because I’m extending the scope to DFW rather than just Dallas!

Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · Nov 17

First batch of folks added to the Dallas Urbanism/Transit starter pack- let me know who else need to be in! Dallas-area journalists who write about transportation and housing policy in DFW *especially* welcome.
go.bsky.app/HVLZoBr

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1h

Good time to take four hours and watch this if you never have before youtu.be/TIgK56cAjfY?...

The History of the Seattle Mariners: Supercut Edition

YouTube video by Secret Base

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 52m

let's fucking go, nice job mariners

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1h

CONGRATS YOU JUST PASSED THE ALDS TEST

Seattle Mariners
@Mariners
THE MARINERS ARE GOING TO PLAY FOR THE AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP!
#SeizeTheMoment *
SEIZE THE MOMENT.
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MARINERS
GA IT DE
SEATTL
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ALCS
Bound

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 6h

Look at that glorious murder mitten on display there

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah. TikTok is out. It's an arm of the ruling fascist party at this point.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 7h

saw yet another non-service dog in the grocery store today, dog owners are out of fucking control

Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 7h

parking lots perhaps?

Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 8h

do y'all think we could sell the texas lege on a texas version of sb79

we managed to upzone all commercial areas this year, so it seems... not impossible?

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Penny Merman @idesofmerch.bsky.social · 14h

A series of images I found on my computer labeled "Wrestling solutions."

A roof shaped ring, utilizing an incline. Probably deadly.

A full sized ring inside of a double sized ring. Why not? What do you have to lose?

A ring with vertical ring ropes, attached to an unsecured light fixture. An OSHA violation for sure.

A ring with 9 turnbuckles, instead of the customary 3. This one is fine, no one would have a problem with this one except a whiner.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 10h

yall wanna know what ties me to this hell state, well part of it is that at least hell is affordable

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 10h

took a massive W today as my rent is not going up for the third straight year

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 12h

Japanese politics was rocked on Friday as the Kōmeitō announced it would leave its coalition with the LDP after twenty-six years. To understand why this happened and what it means, I wrote a guide for the perplexed.

open.substack.com/pub/observin...

Kōmeitō quits the coalition

A guide for the perplexed

open.substack.com

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 13h

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 13h

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 13h

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 14h

republicans are NIMBYs who want your rents to go up

this is why I have zero time for democratic NIMBYs. We need to forcefully embrace more housing to lower the rents, increase walkability, and boost economic growth

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Ciattarelli: "We've got a severe overdevelopment crisis in our suburban communities because of the Democrats' idea of social engineering."

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 14h

CURRY MATCH

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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 15h

Today I learned that the French equivalent of German’s eierlegende Wollmilchsau (lit. egg-laying wool-milk-sow,” your special unicorn all-in-one solution) is the mouton à cinq pattes (the 5-legged sheep). I love languages.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17h

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 20h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 16h

THANK YOU. THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY EVERY BILLIONAIRE IS A POLICY FAILURE. IT'S THE INSTABILITY LARGE CONCENTRATIONS OF POWER CREATE. NOT THE LOST REVENUE.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 20h

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 17h

It’s not “the Labour argument for controlling immigration.”

It’s just a Far Right position adopted by Labour. It’s that simple, and people need to stop being in denial of that fact.

It is not good for “race relations“ for racialised people to be talked about as a problem. It’s racism.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 16d

This is first time I’ve heard the govt making the Labour argument for controlling immigration.

Mahmood argues that controlling our borders is good for race relations, because uncontrolled immigration is feeding far right rhetoric and tensions.

Expect to hear a lot more of that.

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 19h

brings to mind how civil rights leaders encouraged folks to wear suits/their Sunday best. but in this instance absurdity is the better counter to the message the admin is pushing. the interviewee is very smart

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 19h

Huge news from Japan

Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social · 19h

Big upheaval in Japanese politics. Today (Japan time), after a ninety minute meeting between Saitō, head of Komeito, and Takaichi, the LDP politician who recently won her party’s presidency, Saitō announced an end to their parties’ 26-year-long coalition agreement.

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