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James Kennedy (he/him)

@jamespkennedy.bsky.social

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The artist formerly known as @TransportPVD Teacher, democratic socialist, urbanist activist Published or interviewed in Strong Towns, Streetsblog USA, The American Prospect, RIPR, etc. Dog dad, cat dad, bio dad

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James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 9d

Hey all, I voted absentee at City Hall today. Super easy. Walked in, got seen in two minutes. Did my paper ballot, submitted it in the special envelopes. Done.

Vote for @dalarrykrasner.bsky.social and vote YES to retain all judges. #Philly #GoBirds #FuckICE #FreePalestine

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Lula @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

A decisão da Câmara de derrubar a medida provisória que corrigia injustiças no sistema tributário não é uma derrota imposta ao governo, mas ao povo brasileiro.

Essa medida reduzia distorções ao cobrar a parte justa de quem ganha e lucra mais. Dos mais ricos.

Impedir essa correção é votar contra o equilíbrio das contas públicas e contra a justiça tributária.

O que está por trás dessa decisão é a aposta de que o país vai arrecadar menos para limitar as políticas públicas e os programas sociais que beneficiam milhões de brasileiros. É jogar contra o Brasil.

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James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 10h

Hell or not, he’s middle aged. He’s max got another 40-50 years left. Life is short and if you live your life swindling people, I have to believe in some basic secular way you miss out, regardless. You cannot find true happiness fomenting hatred against the weak. Lobster tail doesn’t fill the gap.

James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 10h

I just hope there’s a hell!

James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 10h

Asshole, you just gave yourself and your friends an uncountable amount of money in tax cuts, and you’re trying to tell some toothless widow in a doublewide that who she should be angry at about her swelling ankles and diabetes is the family that picks her vegetables.

James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 10h

What an absolute piece of shit you have to be to be someone whose base pay is like a quarter of million dollars, many of your expenses are paid for, and you have a staff to do all the real work, plus all the shady stock and revolving door stuff, and you use your position to swindle working people.

James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 10h

I just want to see the terror in his eyes when he realizes he’s going to hell. I just want to see this two bit charlatan realize in an instant that he’s been bullshitting his way to power but that life is short and the ride is over.

James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 10h

There are parts of the “Jesus was a sandaled, longhair hippie Palestinian Jew etc., etc.,” stuff that is stretching the cultural meanings of things to make a funny point (everybody wore sandals and long hair, etc.). But the homelessness part and the evading the census part are Canon.

James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 10h

Fucking asshole.

James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 10h

This fucking asshole claims to belong to a religion where the Savior and his parents were homeless and literally evading the census, and I don’t personally believe hell exists, but boy do I hope I’m wrong. I look forward to his skin peeling off in eternal flames.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 11h

I just hope this all works out. Jesus Christ.

James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 11h

You know, like… for several yers the Nazis were doing their deportations of Jews and Roma and their eugenics laws and such, but also trying to hold Olympic Games and act like a normal country. And in retrospect we look at that and forget how easily one could be lulled into the normality of it.

James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 11h

I think things that are obviously big events in retrospect, like the fucking Civil War or World War II, have periods during which they feel calmer or less serious to participants than we from our vantage point would expect.

James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 11h

I keep thinking about the “phony war” period of World War II, or of the first period of the US Civil War when people would still show up with picnic blankets to watch what they thought would be quaint battles.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 12h

I found my daughter and several of my other children through social media. (A bit of explanation is needed for the full story, but I’ll leave it there for now).

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

#WarRavagedPortland

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James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 13h

What are people’s experiences with Ryoko? Is it viable? Are there weird hidden charges? I basically figured out upon arriving the Brazil last week that my phone actually doesn’t work with e sims, and have only had wifi calling since.

James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 13h

Like sister cities. Don’t fuck with Chicago. That’s our little sibling.

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James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 18h

It’s funny because people from the South are fat.

James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 18h

Amateurs. I can down two of those on the right day.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

did i eat this entire plate of ethiopian? yes, i did.

James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 18h

Maybe keep in mind we actually have good cardiovascular health because we walk places sometimes. You know?

James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 18h

If Texas fucks with Chicago, Philly will fuck you up.

Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 1d

The stars are ratings. We’ll eat the Texas Guard for lunch.

Texas flag:
Don't Mess With Texas?
Chicago flag:
Fuck You
We're From Chicago

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18h

It's a little too spot on when the NYT The Daily podcast episode about rising fascism in the streets of Chicago is sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute

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James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

I think that aspect annoys me the most, because the very faint & questionable silver lining of controls on youth trans health would at least be the general concept that you can’t just expose young people to whatever you want, but I guess as long the whatever-you-want is anti-LGBT, that’s fine.

James Kennedy (he/him) @jamespkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

You’re not free to take your child to get trans treatments, but you are free to take them to a Christian witch doctor to “turn them straight”.