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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 5h

New blog by me: The Princeton Planning Board has approved plans for expansion of the Princeton Middle School. The plans call for no new car parking, but much more bike parking, because the consultants found that bike racks were overflowing. walkableprinceton.com/2025/10/09/p...

Planning Board Questions Plans for Parking and Electric Vehicle Charging at Princeton Middle School

The current bike racks at the front of Princeton Middle School, which were found to be insufficient. Plans for new construction at the Princeton Middle School and Littlebrook Elementary were discus…

walkableprinceton.com

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bonque, ben @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 18h

sus

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Vishanti @missdiedra.bsky.social · 10h

IfNotNow is an *explicitly* nonviolent Jewish org. When we begged the mainstream Jewish community to stand w/us against the far-right, they largely threw us to the wolves because we didn't support Israel enough. Now this. Will they stand up for us, or look the other way until it's too late?

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11h

Admin cracking down on Soros, Indivisible, ActBlue, & Jewish peace groups is incredible projection in light of federal contractor El*n M*sk spending more on politics in 2024 than anybody in human history and all the big money corruption of 2025

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 5h

it's kind of wild that a guy died a little while ago and the government swore we would reap the whirlwind and that his widow would lead a howling army of valkyries across the galaxy and then the most you heard about it since was the secretary of domestic war saying they arrested the wife of antifa

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 5h

the stunning hubris it takes to think the only politician to have ever beaten Andrew Cuomo at political and legal hardball is a good choice to be one of the *test cases* of nakedly political prosecution...

Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 5h

Tish James said “there’s a nonzero chance this bullshit turns me into the President let’s go motherfucker.”

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 10h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 5h

She’s been a bellend every since I poached some accountants from her staff.

Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 5h

*sigh* I’m going to drop the chair a line, I‘ve already sent her office a construction timetable that makes it quite clear that the fields will be clear by the ralley

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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 5h

Now granted they are going up in the awful snob single family neighborhood a few blocks over but they are going up

Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 5h

The commissariat for the environment has listened and said the commiblocks are going up

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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 5h

Flatbread is great because you can chuck the dough balls in the fridge and presto hot breakfast/dinner carbs/whatever the nex morning

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 17h

Whilst we're on the subject of shocking living things, did you know police departments routinely shock human beings with tasers until they die and chalk up their deaths to a fake medical condition they call "excited delirium" that was invented by taser companies to absolve themselves of liability?

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5h

The bad kind of parasocial enemy to have is a stranger you hate because of their political posts. The good kind of parasocial enemy to have is a stranger you hate because they’re also on Strava and run in the little park by your apartment and log faster segments, eat shit Francois you motherfucker

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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 5h

In essence we need people’s republic of berkridge plus a ho-scaringly aggressive campaign of throwing up new apartments

Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 6h

Rule 12 of politics: if a place has “people’s republic of ___” as a nickname it will be terrible on housing and amazing on everything else.

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 6h

Probably should be fewer law professors as politicians, then!

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

I think Dems can and should do better than people who are abusive to their staff members

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

It was only a matter of time before these stories started to come out
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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freyja-lynx.dev @freyja-lynx.dev · 6h

lesson learned: always listen to the demon in my head that suggests going to get texmex food. if you don’t listen your train will hit something/someone and you wont get home on time anyways

freyja-lynx.dev @freyja-lynx.dev · 6h

MY TRAIN HIT AN SUV MANNNNN

they at least said that it didn’t have anyone in it? probably broke down on the tracks???

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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 6h

And it has been a disgusting monarchial encumbrance as proposed for approximately forever

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 8h

“Just defer to the executive on the meaning of the law” means the executive is now also the judge.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 15h

Hamilton: “The court doesn’t have to decide what a rebellion is.”
Perry: “I think I do.”

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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 1d

Trump vs. US was the final straw imo. You cannot read that ruling and continue believing they have legitimacy. It is not only against the plain text of the constitution, it is anathema to the national ethos. It is offensively, insultingly un-American and they ceded legitimacy by committing that sin.

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 7h

JeSUS

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7h

And that’s been the story for years—you can’t risk it. Always be harsh, always fear the sensationalization of one case, data doesn’t matter, policy doesn’t matter. If it bleeds, it leads … to defeat.

Fear of a Willie Horton event has been used to justify bad policy for decades.

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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 7h

(For the record: “Obama streetcars” is kind of a term of art for short tram systems built in Obama’s first term mostly and which are pretty controversial for being expensive without really being useful mass transit and mostly being economic development projects)

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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 7h

Aaaand we’re talking about New Orleans in the alan fisher transit discord

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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 8h

Brb get called a Nazi for defending the “Obama streetcars”

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