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Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 2d

of course, still less than the totally-out-of-control MPD overtime! I get the impression Bowser has functionally no control over that spending, even if she wanted to

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Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 2d

with the caveat that I only like Mendo when he's hitting at Bowser, it is really genuinely eyebrow-raising to suggest reprogramming from debt service. I'm sure there are some accounting tricks involved but surely there are consequences from not spending a planned $84 million on servicing debt

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 2d

The #1 piece of advice that TransLink's CEO offers other North American transit agencies:

Provide frequent service

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Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Hearing this sort of thing, I wonder how much is about DSA as such and how much of this would be pretext for say, attempting to illegally denaturalize a prominent DSA member

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Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 3d

should go without saying but the Posobiec has the causality of antifa in that context utterly, completely backwards. he is a moron after all!

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Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 3d

The cookedness of the far right brain is that their respectability politics is literally still about agreeing with Nazis, just in a pseudo-intellectual way

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Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 3d

This is almost a trivial observation but for a long time on the right, not even the especially far right but just the historically minded of them, “Weimar” has been a code for degenerate progressivism that would prompt a violent reaction - that’s the audience he’s speaking to

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 3d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 3d

lmao I would simply like to know what single, anonymous donor funded the $10-ish million new chancery that he had built in Rochester immediately after the diocese came out of bankruptcy

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 3d

and this is borne out by public opinion! People's views harden on immigration when they stop seeing what their alleged preferred policy looks like, and as soon as it's implemented they realize they hate everything about it, except this empty platitude they hold onto.

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Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 3d

I think liberal politicians really overestimate how much they need to accept the premise that people should be deported. The fact it's such an enduring public sentiment isn't because it's bone deep, it's because it's a total palimpsest of a view - scraped of any reality, just a patina of a view.

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 4d

So almost the entire D.C. Council is now meeting being closed doors to negotiate how to proceed on the expanded youth curfew emergency bill. It seems pretty clear they are negotiating legislation behind closed doors, in violation of the spirit of the city’s Open Meetings Act.

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Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 4d

'new legal analyses' all of these lawyers involved in claiming the law, that says to pay workers for their work, instead means the opposite need to be disbarred

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 8d

One of the things I always find telling is the idea that we have to judge past people by the standards of their time, as if the fact that they did bad things means that everyone thought it was okay. They didn't. Pretty much every obviously evil act had people saying that it was, in fact, bad.

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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 8d

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Aubrey Nagle @aubsn.bsky.social · 8d

Sadly, the reigning epistemology of journalism only acknowledges "true" or "real" (and thus speakable) motive when it is explicitly stated by the speaker. It can in no way, shape, or form be attributed via logic, history, or pattern. This bans news from naming anything one would like to hide.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 8d

It's almost as though all he did last year was brazenly lie, and it should have always been covered as brazen lying. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals

President Donald Trump is now openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign.

apnews.com

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Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 9d

this raises an important question: how much further can someone fail upwards? are we looking at president bari "failson" weiss?

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9d

Sort of amazing that Weiss doesn’t understand that she’s in a no-win position. MAGA will get mad about something and she will be blamed and the whole effort won’t have helped CBS anyway.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 9d

Ross Douthat trying to claim Hasan Piker by repeatedly calling him a post-liberal is quite goofy. not sure how else to read an extremely conventional anti-US-hegemony social democrat like Piker being lumped in with all the other tendencies Douthat would call post-liberal!

Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 9d

as far as I can tell the guiding principle of "anti-woke" "right populists" is just anti-humanistic alienation. the only intrinsic value that a person has to them is as a weapon with which to bash an opponent. a zombie militarism in place of a soul.

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Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 9d

Nadeau entering Silverman levels of reality-warping intra-progressive delusions.

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Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 9d

Nadeau blaming the Uncommitted campaign for Trump is such tired bullshit. Uncommitted voters, of which I am one, were largely loyal Democrats who wanted to influence their party and were all but expelled for their tenacity.

Alex Koma @alexkoma.bsky.social · 9d

In a preview of the bruising fights to come, Nadeau has already begun attacking @aparnafordc.bsky.social, the former DSA organizer, over her pro-Palestinian advocacy.

Raj has rejected her comments, saying she's a loyal Democrat and they're reminiscent of Trump's attempts to divide the left.

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 9d

"Only the privileged, those elevated by the social contract, or by their social status - itself only a simulacrum, and one without even the value of a destiny - can judge such aleatory practices as worthless when they are quite superior to their own."
- Seduction

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Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 9d

my suspicion is that AI companies actually think they're above copyright law - they invested in a lawless presidency, their bubble is the only game in an otherwise stagnant economy, and when they get sued, they expect the laws to be warped to accommodate and regularize their theft

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Sam Myszkowski @sammyszkowski.bsky.social · 12d

'on agitation' but martov is urging you to create AI slop to reach the workers

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 12d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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