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🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 23h

Exactly. Universal benefits give everyone a stake in the quality of service. Conversely, by drawing arbitrary income boundaries we divide the constituencies for those services and wind up creating perpetually underfunded charities instead, with needless costs and paperwork of bureaucracies to boot

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🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 1d

This means-testing fixation is such a rightwing canard—divide the working class between the have-littles and the have-leasts to distract from the have-alls robbing everyone. No one should care if a millionaire’s child gets free transit, college, or healthcare, so long as they’re taxed accordingly.

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🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 1d

Port Jervis = far… that’s about as detailed as it needs to be.

🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 1d

Here it’s clear that Atlantic Terminal is actually not in Sunset Park.

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🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 2d

I would also love to see his numbers rise, but what it shows is that he’s basically perfectly efficient with his voter base. In other words, anyone who would vote for him will vote for him, regardless of who else is in the race. He doesn’t have votes locked behind some other candidate.

🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 3d

What an awful decision. Pure retaliation against workers.

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Comrade Golem 🕎🇵🇸🌹 @redpleb.bsky.social · 4d

The liberal zionist consensus is gone now. This is the chance for the Jewish anti-Zionist left to chart a new path for American Jews www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid

Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformed

www.theguardian.com

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 The federal watchlisting center is quietly implementing NSPM-7 amid a 300% increase in domestic terrorism cases by the FBI
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/secretive-...

Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7

“We’re expanding the watchlist,” FBI director says amid 300% increase in domestic terror cases.

www.kenklippenstein.com

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🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 4d

It shows that even a modicum of resolve and strategy can force the regime into blunders.

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 5d

News you can use: NYC ballot questions, explained www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/06/b... via @thecity.nyc

Your Guide to NYC’s Ballot Questions for 2025

Voters will weigh in on housing reforms, a change to election years and an Olympic Sports Complex in upstate New York.

www.thecity.nyc

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🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 5d

“Let’s just flail around and hope things get better rather than using our analysis of history to guide us through this crisis.”

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🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 6d

Moral actions are symmetric: what you do impacts others, but also reflects back onto yourself. LLMs and the pernicious tech oligarchs who force them onto us obviously deserve our scorn. But it’s good to remain cognizant of how our interactions—even with inanimate objects—condition our own behavior.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6d

i don’t think it should be very controversial to think that LLMs are not conscious beings while simultaneously thinking that people who prompt them in hateful or abusive ways are likely hateful and abusive people and it is very strange to me that people actively choose either far end of this

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🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 8d

Here’s the Zurich example, from a different article. bsky.app/profile/tara...

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 11d

On Sunday, #Zürich residents voted 52.8% in favor of increasing parking fees for cars according to weight.

The owner of a BMW X2 (Diesel), which weighs 1,675 kilograms, will now pay equivalent of €717 Euros per year to park on a public street. (Before, about €321.)

Direct democracy!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

this reactionary turn is one part disciplining labor for having the temerity to talk back and one part trying to arrest a perceived social reproduction crisis by disciplining elite institutions.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8d

"Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked, residents and witnesses said."

www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building.

Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked, residents and witnesses said. Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the five-story building, and U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours.

When he got home from work, Jones said he entered his unit to find all of his electronics and furniture missing, and all of his clothes and shoes thrown on the floor. Jones said he had no idea who took his belongings and hadn’t received answers from Chicago police.

“I’m pissed off,” Jones said. “I feel defeated because the authorities aren’t doing anything.”

On Wednesday, toys, shoes and food were still in piles in the building’s hallways. Property managers were seen throwing mattresses and broken doors into dumpsters.

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🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 8d

A real “the jerk store called” moment if there ever was one.

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🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 8d

Also, small clarification: the story centers on a *borough* mayor, not the mayor of Montreal. Similar to a borough president in NYC, but there are 19 of them, and they arguably have a little more direct involvement with local governance.

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🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 8d

Charging parking permits or vehicle registration fees by weight seems to be catching on. At least a few Montreal boroughs, DC, and Zurich to my knowledge. Short of directly regulating vehicle size (which should obviously be done), this is a good step. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Meet the Montreal Mayor Who Declared War on SUVs

Oversized vehicles are devouring street parking spaces in the Canadian city. So one borough’s mayor is fighting back with bigger fees for hefty trucks and SUVs.

www.bloomberg.com

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🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 8d

Half of the last ten US presidential elections had a winner with under 50% of the vote, including both Trump wins. Somehow I don't think Politico would be pushing the same absurd narrative in those cases, especially in a three-way race!

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 9d

The Global Sumud Flotilla seemingly breached Israel’s blockade of Gaza while provoking an Israeli response that triggered anger and reprisals from various governments.

It’s one of the most successful acts of civil disobedience in recent history.

The Sumud Flotilla Has Succeeded in Making Israel a Pariah

The Global Sumud Flotilla seemingly breached Israel’s blockade of Gaza while provoking an Israeli response that triggered anger and reprisals from various governments. It’s one of the most successful acts of civil disobedience in recent history.

jacobin.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10d

Fascism: assigning blame for all the problems caused by capitalism to minorities in order to defend the interests of the capitalist class.

Et voila.

Vance: "If you're an American citizen and you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed that wait times are especially large and very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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David Meyer @dmey.bsky.social · 10d

Fortunately that's all in the Streetsblog story that just went up: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/01/t...

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🆆 🅸 🅻 🅻 @wjfarr.bsky.social · 10d

Out of curiosity, is anyone keeping a running list of the trump regime’s flagrantly illegal and impeachable offenses? Seems like something that will be useful later.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10d

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 10d

Mamdani “doesn’t allow that there’s a conflict between emphasizing economic populism and taking on Trump’s authoritarianism.” As @gregsargent.bsky.social suggests, there’s no reason to assume this synthesis wouldn’t work just as well in swing territory

newrepublic.com/article/2011...

Trump’s Rage at Zohran Just Backfired in a Surprisingly Revealing Way

The Democrats who are breaking through are the ones who talk about Trump’s disastrous economic record while also leveling with the public about our slide into authoritarianism.

newrepublic.com

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