Alex Holt
@skatingtomato.bsky.social
Still your friendly neighborhood geek/“propogandist.” Baltimore/Maryland correspondent for GGW. He/him. Vocal advocacy classist. Tranist. #ActuallyAutistic
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Alex Holt
@skatingtomato.bsky.social
· Feb 20
What to watch in the 2025 Maryland General Assembly
Between a budget crunch, a housing crisis, and a new appetite in Annapolis for tackling longstanding energy and environmental issues, this year’s Maryland General Assembly session could be a very prod...
ggwash.org
My latest article for @ggwash.org takes a look at some of the biggest urbanist bills of #MDGA25, especially in transit, housing, & even the environment. Check it out, there's a lot of good stuff being discussed in Annapolis, even amidst all the chaos in Washington: ggwash.org/view/98490/w...
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tidbit from David Wildstein this morning: if Analilia Mejia wins, as is likely, she will be just the tenth woman to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House, out of 321 representatives in total and 128 total since the ratification of the 19th Amendment
February 9, 2026 at 1:10 PM
tidbit from David Wildstein this morning: if Analilia Mejia wins, as is likely, she will be just the tenth woman to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House, out of 321 representatives in total and 128 total since the ratification of the 19th Amendment
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Imagine what these numbers would look like if there was a concerted effort by the opposition party to talk *up* immigration as a good thing that strengthens our country and enriches the cultural fabric.
Striking from Marquette poll:
Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.
That's data given to me. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.
That's data given to me. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
February 9, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Imagine what these numbers would look like if there was a concerted effort by the opposition party to talk *up* immigration as a good thing that strengthens our country and enriches the cultural fabric.
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Trump/MAGA have long regarded pro football as "their" part of the culture. They used to post video of stadium crowds cheering Trump. He tried to shame black players kneeling for BLM out of the sport.
This is why Bad Bunny doing Super Bowl cuts so deep for Trump. 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
This is why Bad Bunny doing Super Bowl cuts so deep for Trump. 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
February 8, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Trump/MAGA have long regarded pro football as "their" part of the culture. They used to post video of stadium crowds cheering Trump. He tried to shame black players kneeling for BLM out of the sport.
This is why Bad Bunny doing Super Bowl cuts so deep for Trump. 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
This is why Bad Bunny doing Super Bowl cuts so deep for Trump. 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
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Striking from Marquette poll:
Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.
That's data given to me. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.
That's data given to me. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
February 8, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Striking from Marquette poll:
Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.
That's data given to me. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.
That's data given to me. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
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The system breaks when you fight against it and force its contradictions into the open, not because you decide to hold back and do their work for them.
Axios reports @governorwalz.mn.gov won’t call an eviction moratorium because it is “legally fraught” yet the definition sure sounds like one. www.mprnews.org/story/2023/0...
![What is a peacetime emergency?
In Minnesota, a peacetime emergency is an executive order that can be called when cities and counties don't have the adequate resources to address an emergency, defined as "an act of nature, a technological failure or malfunction, a terrorist incident, an industrial accident, a hazardous materials accident or a civil disturbance [that] endangers life and property."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2yhglxsi2owchryafic2gmr3/bafkreicfdeipsblnzb3oxnfnqh45fkzjo5p2s32ar3oqtgpnc46chd2ff4@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM
The system breaks when you fight against it and force its contradictions into the open, not because you decide to hold back and do their work for them.
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This is identical to what Thune and the National Republican Senate Committee would be typing if they want to ratfuck us in Texas
February 9, 2026 at 5:46 AM
This is identical to what Thune and the National Republican Senate Committee would be typing if they want to ratfuck us in Texas
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the results of this referendum came with 63 percent turnout (near identical to the gubernatorial race) you simply cannot argue that abstention is meaningfully changing the expressed views of the people of the island
this is the most recent data we have. even assuming a certain degree of abstention, this is a plurality of Puerto Ricans voting against independence bsky.app/profile/howl...
The most recent PR referendum (2024) has Statehood at 56.87% and Independence at 30.84%
February 9, 2026 at 7:40 AM
the results of this referendum came with 63 percent turnout (near identical to the gubernatorial race) you simply cannot argue that abstention is meaningfully changing the expressed views of the people of the island
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Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
February 9, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
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rich white northern Bloomfield and middle-class diverse southern Bloomfield voting roughly the same way is. hm. well, it's not good for the machine, I can tell you that lol
February 9, 2026 at 12:56 PM
rich white northern Bloomfield and middle-class diverse southern Bloomfield voting roughly the same way is. hm. well, it's not good for the machine, I can tell you that lol
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You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?
February 9, 2026 at 3:24 AM
You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?
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We are a Latin American country (laudatory).
If you were to run down a list of all the things distinctive about the United States in contrast to Old World Europe, most of it is stuff we instead have in common with Latin America. That's not some woke novelty, it's a deeply embedded centuries-old aspect of our culture and national identity.
February 9, 2026 at 3:41 AM
We are a Latin American country (laudatory).
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I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 5:09 AM
I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.
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the fact of the matter is that disaster relief for Hurricane Maria doesn’t get illegally withheld during the first Trump administration if Puerto Rico has two senators
I really genuinely want to know what PR independence people think would ensure a higher quality of living without statehood because a lot of people who don't live on the island seem convinced the American boot is all that stands in the way of sovereign prosperity and it sounds like bullshit.
February 9, 2026 at 5:43 AM
the fact of the matter is that disaster relief for Hurricane Maria doesn’t get illegally withheld during the first Trump administration if Puerto Rico has two senators
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“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
February 9, 2026 at 5:46 AM
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
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At least the ticket sales are tracked; the kind of ratings he’s talking about aren’t tracked on devices or on the platforms where this is being aired.
Just like MAGA buying Melania tickets in bulk to try and make it look like it isn’t a flop.
February 8, 2026 at 5:21 PM
At least the ticket sales are tracked; the kind of ratings he’s talking about aren’t tracked on devices or on the platforms where this is being aired.
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I guarantee that Mike Johnson only knows 1 Lee Greenwood song, too. The number of people who could name a Lee Greenwood song that's not "God Bless the USA" is probably pretty low.
February 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
I guarantee that Mike Johnson only knows 1 Lee Greenwood song, too. The number of people who could name a Lee Greenwood song that's not "God Bless the USA" is probably pretty low.
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I keep thinking about when Mike Johnson was asked about the NFL getting Bad Bunny to play the halftime show and he responded by saying they should find "someone who appeals to a broader audience" like... 82-year-old Lee Greenwood.
Really shows how much of a bubble the right lives in.
Really shows how much of a bubble the right lives in.
February 8, 2026 at 2:46 PM
I keep thinking about when Mike Johnson was asked about the NFL getting Bad Bunny to play the halftime show and he responded by saying they should find "someone who appeals to a broader audience" like... 82-year-old Lee Greenwood.
Really shows how much of a bubble the right lives in.
Really shows how much of a bubble the right lives in.
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"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.
www.lemonde.fr
February 8, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
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Shoutout to the one person watching Melania during the Super Bowl
February 8, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Shoutout to the one person watching Melania during the Super Bowl
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The grifting will continue until morale improves
PERSONAL NEWS: I’m exploring a run for Congress! It's an open seat in NY's 12th Congressional District--which is in Manhattan. My article explains why I giving this some real thought. Hope you check it out. I'd love to hear what you think. Thanks! deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/im-explori...
I’m exploring a run for Congress-here is why!
NY's 12th Congressional District in Manhattan
deanobeidallah.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:20 PM
The grifting will continue until morale improves
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I’m here in Minneapolis and in a few groups responding to the attacks - observing, recording, warning but also getting groceries to people in hiding.
The post below doesn’t ring true to me at all. The volunteers are amazing (most do more than I do), and NOBODY is worried about protestor behavior.
The post below doesn’t ring true to me at all. The volunteers are amazing (most do more than I do), and NOBODY is worried about protestor behavior.
Friends in Minneapolis are very worried about this development. Both in terms of state police's role in arresting protestors and the worry that this could set off the kind of spiral of distrust and destruction that followed George Floyd's murder.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
At Least 50 Arrested After Protests Escalate Outside Minnesota Federal Building
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:54 PM
I’m here in Minneapolis and in a few groups responding to the attacks - observing, recording, warning but also getting groceries to people in hiding.
The post below doesn’t ring true to me at all. The volunteers are amazing (most do more than I do), and NOBODY is worried about protestor behavior.
The post below doesn’t ring true to me at all. The volunteers are amazing (most do more than I do), and NOBODY is worried about protestor behavior.
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I never noticed this either.
February 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I never noticed this either.
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Just once it's nice seeing the side facing a bunch of felony criminal trials lose
February 9, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Just once it's nice seeing the side facing a bunch of felony criminal trials lose