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Andrew Blum
@ablum.bsky.social
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Project Director at the Burnham Center for Community Advancement, burnhamcenter.org Fan of 🚴‍♀️, ⚾️ and good 🥃.
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · Apr 26
It is easier to break things than to build them.
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 3h
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 3h
Former USAID official here.

The current Administration has done zero impact analysis to estimate the effects of its obliteration of USAID on deaths around the world.

It just keeps saying "no one has died" as a mesmeric incantation.

The facts, below. 🧵
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 6h
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 4h
This is amazing.
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 5h
I guess this obligates you to rank the solo Joan version. I like this video where she's reading her children's book telling the song as her story, and her partner John Doe is standing by in support. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNgi...
Androgynous - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
YouTube video by Blackheart
www.youtube.com
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 4h
This was a very effective tactic against the Proud Boys in Portland also. Wanted a fight. Got a mocking carnival.
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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 14h
Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 4h
Six years later when they were smoking pot down in the ravine a 800lb pig came crashing out of the underbrush and chased them up into their house. 2/2
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 4h
Chance to tell one of my fav storiesI knew two sisters from Maine that won a piglet in the greased pig scramble at the county fair when they were ten. They let it loose in the ravine behind their house. 1/2
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 4h
ensure vs. insure
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 5h
Attention university presidents and boards of trustees:

"Those who oppose authoritarianism have to play a different game, creating solidarity among an unwieldy coalition, which knows that if everyone holds together, they will surely succeed."
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
www.nytimes.com
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 16h
anjali
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 18h
That clip is nuts.
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 20h
How much truth is there to the rumor that most scallops are cookie-cuttered shark/ray flesh? That might explain it.
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 21h
Peanut butter and sweet pickle sandwiches. Preferably Del Monte whole sweet pickles sliced longways.
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 21h
We've been doin' this longer
Than you've been alive
Propelled by some mysterious drive
And they still let me do it
As weird as it seems
And I do it most nights
And then again in my dreams

-Old 97s
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 21h
Memo to nonprofit folks, when you loudly proclaim your project is "evidence-based" it makes me more skeptical about it, not less.
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d
Someone here in California described it as the Orange County of the Middle East and that’s very spot on.
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d
Wow. Thanks.
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d
These are in our common kitchen. Anyone know what they are?
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d
Ya somehow that story was not included in the exhibits when I visited the civil war naval museum in Columbus, Georgia.
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d
Mookie?
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d
Maybe more of a international law of the sea joke but:
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d
Six scoreless innings. I haven’t looked. Does he have 160 pitches?
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d
Status quo bias rules our world.
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d
Graypril/May gray/June gloom
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d
I know a lot of the ebike discourse is important and we need to get facts out there. But much of it also seems so beside the point. I saw one of these on my ride this weekend. You can get one with 900+ HP. No one is talking about implementing a Class 1, 2, and 3 designation for cars.
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 2d
Inevitable
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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 2d
The pivot after the first three paragraphs is amazing.