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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 13h

It’s wild because the Anglosphere is pretty uniformly worse at every other social policy outcome. Worse healthcare, worse infrastructure, worse poverty. The one thing we do well is turn immigrants into citizens! And we keep getting mad at our success and trying to get worse at that too.

Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 15h

Anglo "live & let live" integration is demonstrably more successful than French style "aggressive assimilationism" at producing integrated societies, and has been proven to do so in multiple Anglo jurisdictions in (literally) multiple hemispheres! But these people want the thing with worse outcomes!

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 18h

This comes up occasionally in NYC--there's been some chatter about people running for Nadler's seat who live close by, but not exactly in the district. It makes sense to me, given decennial redistricting and a dense population there's nothing sacred about the arbitrary lines that make up NY-12.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

It was taxpayers’ money. Did Homan give it back? If he kept it, did he declare it on his taxes?

Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 1d

Tom Homan, head of ICE, accepted $50k from undercover FBI agents last year, reportedly a bribe in a sting operation. All cash, in a paper bag. Pam Bondi, reading from a script, insists Homan did nothing wrong—yet she refuses to answer any questions about what happened to that cash? Really?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH — @whitehouse.senate.gov : “What became of the $50,000 in cash in that Cava bag? Did the FBI get it back from Homan?”

AG PAM BONDI: *LASHES OUT aggressively, avoids answering entirely* 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 1d

It's really unfortunate that Zohran's potential successor in the Assembly doesn't understand that we need more housing of all types. Uninformed opposition to market rate development like this should be disqualifying. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/n...

"I support only deeply affordable housing. No mixed income."

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 1d

The depressing thing is that security means he probably has a hard time biking like he used to. He's already said in interviews that he has to take walks in large empty areas like parks and cemeteries.

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 1d

Even if it was intended to be funny, the statement is in fact true. I don't think this is a cheap shot at all.

Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 2d

This is kind of a cheap shot. She was obviously kidding—the audience laughed! It's in the middle of her rather noteworthy speech on antisemitism after October 7. There's valuable stuff in that speech and plenty to criticize, too. But this was a self-aware joke, and the self-aware audience laughed.

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YES on Affordable Housing @yesonaffhousing.bsky.social · 2d

New Yorkers: After voting for candidates who will fight for affordability on the front of your November ballots, flip↩️your ballot to vote YES on affordable housing proposals 2-5

So that New Yorkers like Austin can afford to stay in the neighborhoods that raised them.

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 2d

I've never seen a complete episode of Saved by the Bell, and its characters are a total mystery to me.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, which is perfectly unobjectionable in this context. There's no real gain to enforcing a strong distinction, and the people who insist on it tend to be more interested in gatekeeping than actually accomplishing political change.

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 3d

I got a flood of anti-Mamdani mailers in June, but nothing so far. It's early, but still.

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 3d

This is very good

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Where Is the Line?

On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America. If we can’t even agree to hold the line against Trumpism, democracy must perish.

New piece:

steady.page/en/democracy...

Where Is the Line?

On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America

steady.page

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 3d

The #1 thing I have learned about housing policy is that housing is too expensive & supply is limited because *people make it that way.* Some of that is active NIMBY opposition; some is a simple failure to fix broken rules like the one below.

Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 3d

“A lot of times, we’re reluctant to change on really dumb things.”

Many of the rules shaping what we can and can’t build today were written 50–60 years ago. If we want to meet Massachusetts’ modern housing needs, everything should be on the table for reform.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/05/o...

Why five feet of building space can doom construction - The Boston Globe

1973 law on high-rise threshold is out of sync with national recommendations.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 3d

I read the original post as being more about porn than the kind of actors and actresses earning huge salaries. Brazzers doesn't spend a ton on talent of either gender, but of the money they do spend, most presumably goes to women.

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 4d

I think you just reinvented prediction markets from first principles

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d

Always interesting exactly who is called upon to denounce what.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 4d

Has Trump said anything about his former “spiritual leader”, Robert Morris, who was just sentenced to 6 months in prison for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl? Will the media even bother to ask him?

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4d

You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.

It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.

That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.

Rightly confident in his impunity.

“[t]he freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 5d

That's an argument for more cameras, not fewer.

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 5d

Update: they have an arch!

A decorative arch going over a small river with a mixed-use walking path on the bank, viewed through a hotel window

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 5d

I'm here for a wedding, so I don't know how much I'll get to see, but will try to post anything interesting!

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 5d

I, unlike Elon Musk, have achieved FSD

A screenshot of me checking in at Sious Falls Regional Airport (FSD)

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Conor P. Williams @conorpwilliams.bsky.social · 5d

This is heinous, unforgivable behavior. This is systemic child abuse. This is flagrant disregard for children's humanity and fundamental rights. It is a policy that reveals the thoroughgoing moral depravity of its authors.

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 6d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 5d

In cities, street space is a really scarce (and under-valued) commodity. Increasing vehicle size costs everyone.

And vehicle weight determines your impact on the wear-and-tear of cities.

So this kind of public policy is really just common sense.

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 8d

On Sunday, #Zürich residents voted 52.8% in favor of increasing parking fees for cars according to weight.

The owner of a BMW X2 (Diesel), which weighs 1,675 kilograms, will now pay equivalent of €717 Euros per year to park on a public street. (Before, about €321.)

Direct democracy!

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 5d

Rush, Cake

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 5d

They wouldn't stop the car in between runners, just hop on and off, and with the right group and a good loop they could keep this going for well over a day, apparently.

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 5d

Seriously, though, distance runners are freaks. My cousin's idea of a fun weekend is to rent a van with a bunch of running buddies, drive out to the empty desert in Nevada where there are rural dirt roads with zero traffic, and see how long they can keep at least one person running at idling pace.

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