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Jay Castle @jbcastle2.bsky.social · 12h

Is Cully a neighborhood, or..?

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Jay Castle @jbcastle2.bsky.social · 13h

I did this yesterday and you should do it now - (916) 445-2841.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15h

Call Newsom and tell him to sign SB79!
cayimby.org/sb-79-talkin...

Call the State Senate to pass SB 79!

Please call your State Senator and urge them to vote YES on SB 79!

cayimby.org

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Jay Castle @jbcastle2.bsky.social · 13h

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 15h

This is so, so good. Just from a basic comms perspective, but also, focusing on a nuts and bolts thing that can tangibly improve people's lives.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 2d

the plan? we combat the effects of trump's increasingly unpopular policies by sending americans checks with trump's name on them.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

imagine appearing before the canadian supreme court to make the case whether you've been naughty or nice

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 2d

You can’t visit many sites on the web these days without being bombarded by ads, pop-ups, and paywalls.

We’re happy to report that there is absolutely nothing to interrupt you when you read an article on placesjournal.org. No ads, no pop-ups, no distractions. A rare luxury in online reading today.

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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine if a water pipe broke and the water department had to ask city council whether to fix it and then spend 12 months asking everyone on the street their opinion of how to fix it before they could start work.

That's how cities manage curbs.

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2d

This is the process chart for the City of Bellevue's potential plan to add parking meters.

Fourteen steps completed over the course of one year

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

"We've been forced into a 'free speech zone.' Its very existence implies that everywhere else is a non-free speech zone, that there are places where our First Amendment rights do not apply."

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine if we treated any other form of safety like this:"We should only install outlet covers in day care centers on a case-by-case basis, such as where a toddler has stuck his fingers in an electrical socket."

So instead of supporting universal daylighting, Brewer is now saying that the city should instead restrict parking at corners on a case-by-case basis, such as where there's been a crash or a fatality, a position that mimics that of the DOT.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

I think the case for “this was a decisive affirmation of the MAG ideology” is extremely weak & I think the view that we ought to take the election as an expression of where The People stand owes more to the insecurity and lack of confidence that is pervasive among our liberal elites than the facts.

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Jay Castle @jbcastle2.bsky.social · 12d

Then it’s a good thing that Dems do not control the Presidency or Congress, and are unable to shut down the gov’t - losing NJ would be bad.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 13d

30-odd years later and I vividly remember those books and the class discussions about them. Funny isn't it?

We talk a lot about college as a vehicle for building skills, training workers, and so on. But its real value is in giving you an intellectual universe to inhabit.

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pretty bug @inyourculture.bsky.social · 13d

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13d

Imagine if NPR had actually talked to safe streets advocates for this story and learned how the solutions to drivers killing people is not, in fact, victim blaming

You've heard of defensive driving — driving practices to help you stay safe on the road, like reducing your speed in bad weather or signaling before switching lanes. But what about defensive walking and cycling?

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Jay Castle @jbcastle2.bsky.social · 15d

Seems to be a Washington DC thing - we really need to nominate a governor as the next Presidential candidate.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20d

this is the shit i want to see

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20d

Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 21d

let’s send Scott Wiener to Congress because dammit the man knows how to fight

Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 21d

ABC (fired Kimmel for criticizing Trump) & CBS (fired Colbert for criticizing Trump) are now state media. Trump controls them. We need to break up these corporate media conglomerates before they completely destroy our democracy.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21d

Agreed, and I think part of this is Pritzker gets more than most how being the anti-Trump isn't trying to out-funny the funny man, to compete in the irony-poised joke game, to be another outlandish character. It's being earnest and serious about the stakes of a real crisis, like a functional adult.

Cait @caitesq.bsky.social · 21d

I was not predisposed to like Pritzker, but he is meeting the moment better than most of them.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 21d

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

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Jay Castle @jbcastle2.bsky.social · 22d

More of this from elected politicians please,

“What the hell's the presidency for if not to fight for causes you believe in?" - LBJ

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 22d

San Francisco’s west side voters recalled Supervisor Joel Engardio today over his support of closing the Great Highway to cars in favor of a beachside park.

He told me in an interview it was “absolutely” worth losing his job to create Sunset Dunes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

San Francisco Politician Recalled Over the Great Highway’s Closure

www.nytimes.com

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Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 22d

San Francisco’s west side voters recalled Supervisor Joel Engardio today over his support of closing the Great Highway to cars in favor of a beachside park.

He told me in an interview it was “absolutely” worth losing his job to create Sunset Dunes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

San Francisco Politician Recalled Over the Great Highway’s Closure

www.nytimes.com

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Jay Castle @jbcastle2.bsky.social · 22d

Also, it was designed by Jim Shields - a former professor of mine - one of the best home grown architects in the history of Milwaukee.

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Jay Castle @jbcastle2.bsky.social · 22d

I hope we can have at least that.

Jay Castle @jbcastle2.bsky.social · 24d

Much better kitchen (with a pantry!).

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Jay Castle @jbcastle2.bsky.social · 24d

And an entry closet, and a powder room, and a bathroom with natural light (the kitchen is terrible though).

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