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Andrew Blum
@ablum.bsky.social
Project Director at the Burnham Center for Community Advancement, burnhamcenter.org. Leading the OneSD initiative, www.onesd.org.

Fan of 🚴‍♀️, ⚾️ and good 🥃.
Getting close passed by one not so much :-)
January 16, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Reposted by Andrew Blum
"Who woulda ever thought it? On the coldest day in January the finesse ass 49ers would come into the back yard of the Bears and kick ass?"

-Keena Turner
January 15, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Sia
January 16, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Is that total budget or grants given out? Either way, that's a lot smaller than I would have guessed.
January 15, 2026 at 10:07 PM
*ruled
January 15, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Related, stop telling me authoritarian regimes are "brittle" when Mugabi rules for 37 years and al-Bashir for 30.
January 15, 2026 at 10:04 PM
There's press conferences and everything!!
January 15, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Ok we call what you’re feeling now the weird period, just hang in there with it…
January 15, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Shadi. Always. Shadi.
January 15, 2026 at 7:44 PM
I got called a "soulless ghoul" once when I pushed back against the "don't look away" scolds. New social media level unlocked.
January 15, 2026 at 4:12 PM
At 100psi
January 15, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Reposted by Andrew Blum
From a different angle, I’m an effete left coast coffee snob nonprofit type but have also worked in the dark corners of the Niger Delta and hung out with former shot callers of the Mexican mafia.

I would never call myself brave but I would call them cowards.
January 15, 2026 at 1:59 AM
"Who woulda ever thought it? On the coldest day in January the finesse ass 49ers would come into the back yard of the Bears and kick ass?"

-Keena Turner
January 15, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Well said
January 15, 2026 at 2:36 AM
It does wear you out.
January 15, 2026 at 2:00 AM