Josh Gee
@jgee.bsky.social
You can save the world, but first, lunch! He/him. At Work for America getting the best people into State and Local Government. Former digital services at MTA, City of Boston. Politics before that. Mass Oyster Project. Write about food and tech.
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The secret ingredient to this gremoulade? Diced gremlin
December 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The secret ingredient to this gremoulade? Diced gremlin
It’s a thin line from “I’ll just take a peek at my wrapped as a joke” to “oh that would be a good post!”
an older man is holding a ring in his hand and asking why shouldn 't i .
ALT: an older man is holding a ring in his hand and asking why shouldn 't i .
media.tenor.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
It’s a thin line from “I’ll just take a peek at my wrapped as a joke” to “oh that would be a good post!”
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I get why people are (correctly) shocked by how Trump has been talking about Somalis, but it's also indistinguishable from how a hell of a lot of Republicans talk about them back where I grew up. I wrote about it in the Star Tribune in 2019.
www.startribune.com/st-cloud-and...
www.startribune.com/st-cloud-and...
December 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I get why people are (correctly) shocked by how Trump has been talking about Somalis, but it's also indistinguishable from how a hell of a lot of Republicans talk about them back where I grew up. I wrote about it in the Star Tribune in 2019.
www.startribune.com/st-cloud-and...
www.startribune.com/st-cloud-and...
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fonts: 22.2k
home page HTML: 6,850k
external CSS: 1.5k
someone who is good at websites please help me budget this. my agency is dying
home page HTML: 6,850k
external CSS: 1.5k
someone who is good at websites please help me budget this. my agency is dying
YOU BE THE JUDGE | Department of Justice
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December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
fonts: 22.2k
home page HTML: 6,850k
external CSS: 1.5k
someone who is good at websites please help me budget this. my agency is dying
home page HTML: 6,850k
external CSS: 1.5k
someone who is good at websites please help me budget this. my agency is dying
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Zohran points to City of Yes as an initiative to build on 👏
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Zohran points to City of Yes as an initiative to build on 👏
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"When the brass slid an envelope under our door that said, 'EVERY SINGLE ARTIFICIAL CHRISTMAS TREE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE,' we didn't hesitate. We selected eighty-six testers and sent them to 189 countries to test 1,500 faux firs."
We Are Wirecutter, and Last Winter We Sent Eighty-Six Reporters to Test Fifteen Hundred Artificial Christmas Trees. Twelve Haven’t Returned
We believed we were capable of anything. We had already used 22,000 bagels to test 280 brands of toasters in North America. We sent twenty-five rep...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"When the brass slid an envelope under our door that said, 'EVERY SINGLE ARTIFICIAL CHRISTMAS TREE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE,' we didn't hesitate. We selected eighty-six testers and sent them to 189 countries to test 1,500 faux firs."
We should pay elected officials and staff more.
Zohran Mamdani, whose mayoral salary would get bumped up to $300,500 if this bill's adopted, has refrained from opining on it because he says he's "not worried about the hypotheticals."
More about this whole situation: www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/24/n...
More about this whole situation: www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/24/n...
NYC Council vote on pay raises for elected officials in 2025 postponed amid legal concerns
The City Council will not vote this year to increase salaries for its members, the mayor and other local elected officials as doing so would violate local law, according to sources familiar with th…
www.nydailynews.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We should pay elected officials and staff more.
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the hater's council just vetoed this actually.
"a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder.
"hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members
"a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder.
"hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members
Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Review: Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Political journalist Olivia Nuzzi has dazzled the media with scandals, but her prose is less sparkling. Her much-anticipated new memoir is rife with arrogance and thin on sourcing.
www.latimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
the hater's council just vetoed this actually.
"a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder.
"hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members
"a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder.
"hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members
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In a housing crisis, flexibility is a plus—SROs provide just that.
@ebottcher.bsky.social proposal to allow their construction would create small, safe, modern rooms. That means more options for singles, newcomers, and anyone priced out of $3K studios!
@ebottcher.bsky.social proposal to allow their construction would create small, safe, modern rooms. That means more options for singles, newcomers, and anyone priced out of $3K studios!
December 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
In a housing crisis, flexibility is a plus—SROs provide just that.
@ebottcher.bsky.social proposal to allow their construction would create small, safe, modern rooms. That means more options for singles, newcomers, and anyone priced out of $3K studios!
@ebottcher.bsky.social proposal to allow their construction would create small, safe, modern rooms. That means more options for singles, newcomers, and anyone priced out of $3K studios!
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good thread
the core problem here is that Trump has been brutal but not remotely "efficient"
the secondary problem is that the left wants to build stuff and the right wants to break stuff and it's a lot easier to break stuff
the core problem here is that Trump has been brutal but not remotely "efficient"
the secondary problem is that the left wants to build stuff and the right wants to break stuff and it's a lot easier to break stuff
There is such a thirst in some progressive centrist circles that they will look at the Trump administration as a model to get things done. I think its worth addressing the argument. This is from Mark Dunkelman, author of the widely praised "Why Nothing Works."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
Opinion | What the Left Could Learn From Trump’s Brutal Efficiency
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
good thread
the core problem here is that Trump has been brutal but not remotely "efficient"
the secondary problem is that the left wants to build stuff and the right wants to break stuff and it's a lot easier to break stuff
the core problem here is that Trump has been brutal but not remotely "efficient"
the secondary problem is that the left wants to build stuff and the right wants to break stuff and it's a lot easier to break stuff
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December 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
hi my dame is what, my dame is who, my dame is chika chika dench judy
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wrote about the recent national controversy at my alma mater johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/samantha-f...
December 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
wrote about the recent national controversy at my alma mater johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/samantha-f...
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Wrote another headline www.theverge.com/column/83693...
December 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Wrote another headline www.theverge.com/column/83693...
Early on at my time there I was asked to clean up this dashboard. I didn't have the resources to really do it justice but this is awesome. Also built on real open data.
Reinvent Albany commends the new @mta.info Capital Dashboard powered by open data. This upgrade shows the MTA's progress on rebuilding and modernizing the subways, buses, and commuter railroads. Check out the top 4 things we like about it!
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December 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Early on at my time there I was asked to clean up this dashboard. I didn't have the resources to really do it justice but this is awesome. Also built on real open data.
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TPUSA is an organized faculty harassment network and every university administrator who is good at their job should be trying to remove the organization from their campus. If I was a professor I would be terrified of any student who is a member because they are trying to get me fired for wrongthink.
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
TPUSA is an organized faculty harassment network and every university administrator who is good at their job should be trying to remove the organization from their campus. If I was a professor I would be terrified of any student who is a member because they are trying to get me fired for wrongthink.
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Red alert, boys. WSJ says it’s time to start dressing like Steve Zissou.
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Red alert, boys. WSJ says it’s time to start dressing like Steve Zissou.
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A key thing is that it's not focused grouped (good) it's something he internalized from a venture capitalist donor (bad).
Nearly all messaging problems are actually policy and political economy problems.
Nearly all messaging problems are actually policy and political economy problems.
“Strong floor, no ceiling” is absolutely the type of slogan that a focus group of swing voters will tell you they find appealing after it has been a whole hour and they just want to go home.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
November 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
A key thing is that it's not focused grouped (good) it's something he internalized from a venture capitalist donor (bad).
Nearly all messaging problems are actually policy and political economy problems.
Nearly all messaging problems are actually policy and political economy problems.
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just spitballing here: a good slogan for dems in 2026 or 2028 might be BAN SCAMS
November 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
just spitballing here: a good slogan for dems in 2026 or 2028 might be BAN SCAMS
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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
It doesn’t get anymore textbook than this:
It doesn’t get anymore textbook than this:
November 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
It doesn’t get anymore textbook than this:
It doesn’t get anymore textbook than this:
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What it tells you is how much of the power structure actually prefers—and relies on—bad governance.
It’s incredibly funny people flipped out about a guy running the most standard ass municipal government policy playbook imaginable.
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
What it tells you is how much of the power structure actually prefers—and relies on—bad governance.
Apple could never.
Casio QL-10 (1981)
You’ve heard it a million times growing up; don’t play with matches. Well folks, the Calcu-Lighter ain’t no match.
You’ve heard it a million times growing up; don’t play with matches. Well folks, the Calcu-Lighter ain’t no match.
November 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Apple could never.
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If the backyard is full, you’re at Union Pool
If you see a bocce ball, you’re at Union Hall
If you see a bocce ball, you’re at Union Hall
November 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
If the backyard is full, you’re at Union Pool
If you see a bocce ball, you’re at Union Hall
If you see a bocce ball, you’re at Union Hall