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MatttttttttB
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matttttttttb.bsky.social
“vanity design extravagances drive infra costs” argument has metastasized and become a shibboleth for urbanism pundits who want to feel savvy
December 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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greggo.bsky.social
My response to anything over the next two weeks
A grey and red transit bus on the road in a city. The bus’ destination sign reads “NO? ?? ???????”
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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artologica.net
We used to be a country
During WWII, a dress-wearing squirrel sold war bonds alongside FDR
US bomber crews even carried photos of Tommy Tucker on missions.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
newly in the market for best big batch meal prep options for dried beans. please my family is hungry
December 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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dave.bzky.team
I hear everyone is talking about utility bills being too damn high. But @clicabedu.bsky.social is like, *really* talking about it.

And we have ideas to help fix it.

New report, friends, hot off the presses!
December 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
matttttttttb.bsky.social
“Just keep the eggheads who tell us when it’s gonna rain,” it turns out, doesn’t really work
wxmanms1.bsky.social Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 1d
Atmospheric sciences spans from climate scale to microscale - just like the atmosphere itself - and the Trump Administration's plans to dismantle NCAR and somehow protect "vital weather research" shows a complete lack of understanding for how science works. tinyurl.com/3rtpafnx
Trump Administration announces plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research and close its famed Mesa Lab
Shortsighted plan would (in my view) cause irreparable harm to global atmospheric science research
tinyurl.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
matttttttttb.bsky.social
Streetcar walked and stumbled and died so bus priority could run
maustermuhle.bsky.social Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 1d
"We believe it is absolutely right… that having dedicated right of way will turn [H Street] into a high-capacity corridor, much more than we have today," says Clarke on possible bus rapid transit options.
December 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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vangogh.bsky.social
Vicarage at Nuenen - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13842
December 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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drjohnaeharris.bsky.social
When illegal slave ships were intercepted by British, French, Portuguese and other antislavery patrols in the 1800s, African captives were not freed - they were sent into indentured servitude. More than 700,000 souls. It’s a huge story in the history of abolition.
December 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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quinnslobodian.com
Gruesome tour of the opportunists and new fusionists publishing the tech Zeitgeist in SF
bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-new...
Meet the New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia
Libs and the far-right ‘link and build’ in the Bay’s tech publication scene.
bayareacurrent.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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chittimarco.bsky.social
Speed Matters.

Some thoughts about transit and speed, life, space and time.

open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...
Speed matters
Of time, life and space. Or why transit speed matters.
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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lisasky.bsky.social
I wanna participate in #ArtAdventCalendar but I don't think I've done anything in this exhausting and stressful year, so I'm going to wander the house and show you what I've got from other artists instead!

Starting today with this goldfish by Amy - HeadspaceIllustrates on Etsy.

Angle due to glare.
Detailed colour drawing of a large goldfish with shadow appearing below.
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
matttttttttb.bsky.social
Learning from the Gulf? (not that US hasn’t done this before)
December 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
matttttttttb.bsky.social
Imagining this for more traditional financing approaches lol. Some collage of road resurfacing pics under the caption, “A bond did that!”
danimmergluck.bsky.social Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
City of Atlanta has upped its PR for extending old tax increment financing districts until 2055 by cherry-picking likable projects & implying they can only be funded via TIFs/TADs (rather than general revenue spending/bonds). It’s really that TADs give mayor largely unaccountable spending authority.
December 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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primaryschool.bsky.social
good Lord this Brendan Gill exposé is NASTY and squares with what I've heard behind the scenes.
njdemocrat.substack.com/p/brendan-gi...
BRENDAN GILL, ULTIMATE INSIDER, WILL BRING JERSEY’S ‘BOSS’ POLITICS TO D.C.
But Gill’s baggage as businessman and lobbyist, along with reported outbursts of temper and alleged misogyny, could undermine his coronation in CD-11
njdemocrat.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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samthielman.com
No one’s rich like Gaston
That’s the pitch for “Gaston”
No one’s complex and tragic yet kitsch like Gaston
He’s a circle that begs to be squared
It’s a tentpole, a four-quadrant hit
Yes his backstory’s moving and layered
And it’s starring a CGI de-aged Brad Pitt
December 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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joemenn.bsky.social
wapo.st/48V6Jni marketing gift link for my colleague’s story.
She blew the whistle at Meta. Then her career fell apart.
After exposing the harms of Big Tech, many whistleblowers say they faced poor job prospects and isolation in Silicon Valley. They have no regrets.
wapo.st
December 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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attackerman.bsky.social
This is an exquisite piece about something I know absolutely nothing about. Worth paying @ettingermentum.bsky.social
How a Swedish Video Game Company Accidentally Molded the American Right
A history on grand strategy games and far right radicalism, coming from an actual grand strategy gamer.
www.ettingermentum.news
December 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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alisonkilling.bsky.social
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.

He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.

www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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vangogh.bsky.social
The Public Soup Kitchen - 1883
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13197
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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whetmoser.com
responsiblestatecraft.org/isw-polymark...
Think tanker altered Ukraine war map before big Polymarket payout
The Institute for the Study of War disavowed the edit, removed the employee, but is staying quiet, raising questions about the credibility of ISW and prediction gambling
responsiblestatecraft.org
December 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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boltsmag.org
NEW in Bolts: Local officials in Newark, Jersey City, and Trenton want civilian agencies that can investigate police and issue subpoenas. But they keep running into the state’s Democratic leaders.
New Jersey Cities Are Pressing Resistant State Officials for Civilian Police Oversight
Local officials in Newark, Jersey City, and Trenton want civilian agencies that can investigate police and issue subpoenas. But they keep running into the state’s Democratic leaders.
boltsmag.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
matttttttttb.bsky.social
Will the idea of asylum, idea that being a refugee means anything legally survive this admin. If not, what will take its place
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d
With the Trump admin's web of "safe third country" agreements in place, the ultimate goal of the admin to deal with 3.5 million pending asylum applications appears to be just refusing to hear any of them — convincing people to withdraw their applications or be deported to third countries instead.
December 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
matttttttttb.bsky.social
This piece: “You may say I’m a dreamer” but my dream is slurs
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d
i also believe in building a better world for workers. i also believe that all people are entitled to respect and dignity and that there ought to be social sanction for those who openly degrade others. you call me a “n*gger” to my face and i am not going to smile and shake your hand.
December 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM