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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4h

WaPo deserves the grave it has dug itself

Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 4h

I can’t believe there are not one but two articles, in major papers, with this dumb framing. It is not NIMBY to express dismay when a big part of the White House is suddenly rubbled

Washington Post editorial:
In defense of the White House ballroom
Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 5h

ICE is tear gassing schools

MARIA HEAVENER HAD opened the windows of her first-grade classroom to let in the unusually warm October breeze when the sound of helicopters, sirens, and a flood of notifications compelled her to slam them shut. During a raid on a nearby grocery store, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had hurled tear gas canisters into a parking lot across the street from Chicago’s Funston Elementary School, spreading a thick, choking smog toward the building while class was in session.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

part of what gets me is the particular double-think involved in left-nimbyism. left nimbyism has been the dominant mode of thinking in urban governance for like fifty years, they won the war and achieved total control of policy, and they *still* think they're the plucky upstarts fighting The Man

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 6h

what if vietnam era discontent, but the president was -far- less popular and had 0 institutional support?

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3h

A reminder that losing SNAP will be particularly devastating to those whose disabilities require them to have special diets.

The disability tax is real.

Everything costs more when you’re sick, and special diets are no exception.

Boost & donate to mutual aid. People need help.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 5h

The average voter in America is like forty something woman nurse, iirc

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 5h

good news, though, the GOP are looking at extinction level numbers in just.... little over a year!

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 5h

Generic Ballot Polling Among Men:

🔴 Republicans: 45%
🔵 Democrats: 43%

Quinnipiac / Oct 20, 2025

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caffeine anxiety literal death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 5h

I hope the ghost of D.C. Fontana curb stomps this guy in his nightmares while the ghost of Lucille Ball watches and jerks off

Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 1d

okay grandpa, let's get you to bed

To understand this problem, first, you have to understand the demographics of Star Trek viewers. Trekkies are and always have been men. Women are not usually interested in science fiction, but that’s doubly true of Star Trek in particular.

I hear you, random guy who once knew some lady who watched every Voyager episode. I see you on Instagram, attractive girl cosplaying in Starfleet miniskirts. Unfortunately, you very cool Trek-girls are the exception, not the rule.

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 23h

I do think that reformed neo-cons have more of a stomach for what needs done than most liberals do.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 9h

huge problem with a lot of political analysis is that people think coalitions are fixed when they're really, really not

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2d

just to play this out: losses geographically concentrated among expected partisan voters are catastrophic for gerrymanders, because they violate the efficiency assumptions of your cracked districts.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 3d

This is the dumbest thing I've ever read and this person needs to be launched into the sun.

6-8 point rural swing is how you get an absolute apocalypse for the GOP

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12h

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

capital-a Abundance types have a laughably bad theory of the mind when it comes to their coalitional politics tbh

Urban Land Rent🚰 @handle.invalid · 8h

This is one of my biggest beefs with “Abundance” advocates at least so much as it defines a certain genre of punditry. Constant prog/ left NIMBY punching but they won’t address the elephant in the room: mainstream, centrist, establishment democrats are responsible for urban housing shortages.

Urban Land Rent🚰 @handle.invalid · 8h

This is why Hakeem Jeffries and his intransigent coalition is so toxic. Calling Mamdani’s supports “Team Gentrification” gives the whole game away.

Their shitty machine politics gave us these shortages and they lost many of their own voters because of it! www.newsweek.com/hakeem-jeffr...

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 8h

His brain is getting worse

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8h

The scope is growing: Trump is now calling for the criminal prosecutions of perceived political foes Christopher Wray, Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, and Lisa Monaco — mischaracterizing records and falsely claiming they'd rigged the 2020 election.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 6h

cartels going lethal with drones in response to the admin doing dumb shit is probably one of the worst tail case scenarios tbh, talk about american years of lead

In My Defense @inmydefense.bsky.social · 10h

Been saying this for months, no one is ready for Blackhawk Down 2: FPV edition or a Beslan-style hostage crisis at a resort full of Americans.

In My Defense @inmydefense.bsky.social · Jan 17

Like what are we gonna do if there's basically a Beslan-level incident at a resort in a previously "safe" part of Mexico and there are hundreds of Americans held hostage? Is anyone prepared for that? Are we ready for the aftermath if it gets bloody? This can go so horribly wrong, so quickly.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 6h

I think the level of unhinged behavior from CBP/ICE demonstrates just how much the constant pressure is getting through to them.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

Video from today's first gas attack.

Saturday morning in Chicago.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 6h

Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute

Photos: White House East Wing Demolished For Trump’s Ballroom

The privately funded ballroom will be approximately 90,000 square feet, much larger than the White House itself.

www.forbes.com

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 8h

This is, in fact, just about the only indication right now that the country can be saved, that government of the people, by the people, for the people might not vanish from this land

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 9h

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 10h

More from the scene

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 11h

Republicans in Congress have access to this same data

But instead of separating themselves from Trump, they’re doubling down on his disastrous policies

Now, they know they can’t win with these bad ideas

That’s why they’re trying to gerrymander every state they possibly can

#VoteYesOnProp50

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

New in PN: @gelliottmorris.com on Trump's dire polling

"Trump has the unique problem that he started off a lot lower than other presidents. So as he loses ground — and he has lost ground at about the normal clip — he just continues to be worse and worse than every other president before him."

G. Elliot Morris on Trump's dire polling

"He just continues to be worse and worse than every other president before him."

www.publicnotice.co

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 9h

Tear it down and build a new executive office building for all the federal workers we'll need just fix what Trump broke.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

You know what day should be a national holiday in 2029?

THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.

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Urban Land Rent🚰 @handle.invalid · 8h

This is one of my biggest beefs with “Abundance” advocates at least so much as it defines a certain genre of punditry. Constant prog/ left NIMBY punching but they won’t address the elephant in the room: mainstream, centrist, establishment democrats are responsible for urban housing shortages.

Urban Land Rent🚰 @handle.invalid · 8h

This is why Hakeem Jeffries and his intransigent coalition is so toxic. Calling Mamdani’s supports “Team Gentrification” gives the whole game away.

Their shitty machine politics gave us these shortages and they lost many of their own voters because of it! www.newsweek.com/hakeem-jeffr...

Hakeem Jeffries reacts to reported primary threat from Mamdani allies

House minority leader brushed off recent CNN report that said allies of Zohran Mamdani are looking to primary him in New York.

www.newsweek.com

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 9h

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 10h