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realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · 19h

Hostile architecture puts public social spaces on the bench www.nytimes.com/video/nyregi...

Video: The Evolution of New York City Benches

Over the years, New York City benches have evolved, using designs often described as hostile or defensive to discourage homeless people from sleeping on them. With homelessness in the city reaching a ...

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realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · 2d

They should have pulled it.

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realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · 2d

In Paris they steal the Crown Jewels from the Louvre. In Boston thieves keep breaking into the Lululemon store in Newbury St…

realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · 18d

It's back! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Statue of Trump and Epstein Holding Hands Returns to National Mall

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realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · 19d

And the "new lows" just keep coming from this shameless admin: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Partisan Language Inserted Into Education Dept. Workers’ Automated Emails

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realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · 22d

Agree. As a longtime admirer of @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, I think he has lost his way lately and would benefit from taking a break.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22d

What a fantastic video. Illuminating from start to finish.

Ezra Klein quoted a Buddhist prayer to Ta-Nehisi Coates… right after Coates was talking about MLK’s murder. This isn’t wisdom or empathy—it’s podcast brain + liberal squish vibes. Equipoise is great b...

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realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · 22d

Grateful to HCR for continuing to document the systematic destruction of our democracy by a demented leader without a shred of decency or decorum, enabled by a spineless GOP. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

September 29, 2025

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) left a meeting with President Donald J.

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realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · 23d

Neko Case Closed

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realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · 24d

I know -- that's why I described it as "medically bogus"

realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · 24d

Obviously Trump has never taken a small child for vaccines or he'd know that his medically bogus recommendation to split the MMR into separate shots only inflicts more pain and inconvenience on everyone involved. Or maybe that's the point.

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realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · Sep 7

Can’t afford a #Rolex but I wouldn’t wear one now that they’ve invited “dear leader” to sit in their box at the #USOpen.

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realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · Sep 7

I will not watch a TV broadcast that censors democratic protest against an authoritarian leader in the US. Boycott #USTA #USOpen tennis

April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · Sep 6

Holy fucking shit USTA

Ben Rothenberg @benrothenberg.bsky.social · Sep 6

More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final.

The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance.

Read more here:

www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...

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realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · Jul 2

BIG UGLY BILL: “This place feels to me, today, like a crime scene,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said. “Get some of that yellow tape and put it around this chamber. This piece of legislation is corrupt. This piece of legislation is crooked. This piece of legislation is a rotten racket."

realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · Jun 17

CAN YOU HEAR US NOW? NO KINGS! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

Trump Mobile Phone Company Announced by President’s Family, but Details Are Murky

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realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · Jun 16

This makes me angry and sad and I'm not even much of a team sports fan. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...

Opinion | $4,785. That’s How Much It Costs to Be a Sports Fan Now.

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realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · Jun 14

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS BROOKLINE RALLY FOR DEMOCRACY” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS BROOKLINE RALLY FOR DEMOCRACY · No Kings

🚨 June 14th marks Donald Trump’s birthday—and this year, it also marks a dangerous display of authoritarian ambition: a taxpayer-funded military parade in Washington, D.C., costing tens of millions of...

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realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · Jun 9

Pet peeve: when we’re expected to be able read a text on a phone screen in a TV show. It’s too small! And subtitles don’t include what it says.

realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · May 28

How fitting that 3 men are pictured. No concern for women, children or science.

realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · May 28

“Every authoritarian who successfully destroyed judicial independence did so because civil society failed to unite in time,” Bonica writes. “The key difference? Whether people mobilized.” SO WHERE/WHEN ARE THE PROTESTS?! open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

May 27, 2025

Political scientist Adam Bonica noted last Friday that Trump and the administration suffered a 96% loss rate in federal courts in the month of May.

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CvilleScouser @cvillescouser.bsky.social · May 28

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realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · May 26

he's one sick orange puppy

realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · May 26

His pettiness knows no bounds. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/26/b...

Trump threatens to send grant money for Harvard to trade schools instead - The Boston Globe

President Trump was on social media on Monday with new threats against Harvard, as he keeps up the pressure on the university.

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realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · May 25

When & where are the protests against this cruel travesty of a budget bill and what Trump is doing to education and research??

realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · May 24

Can’t stop laughing as I read the replies…

ceej @ceej.online · May 23

I’m the guy who invents new bathroom faucet designs for every hotel. You might know me from Knob That Goes The Other Way and Joystick That’s Hard To Turn Off. Lately I’ve been lacking inspiration, even thinking about hanging it up. I’ve had a good run, but — wait, never mind: Ball You Turn Diagonal

realjandev.bsky.social @realjandev.bsky.social · May 4

Principled opposition: "The best way to support American democracy is to build the largest possible coalition to defend it. It is to call out all Mr. Trump’s constitutional violations while diligently avoiding exaggeration about what qualifies as a violation. "
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Opinion | There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump’s Power Grab

The patriotic response to today’s threat to American democracy is to oppose Trump soberly and strategically.

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