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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12h

Meanwhile the leader of that parliament is blocking a duly elected member of the opposition from being seated because he’s trying to prevent an investigation into the president’s ties to a pedophile ring.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12h

I know it’s easy to get inured to this stuff but imagine a podcast ep where @mikeduncan.bsky.social is telling you about this happening in some other country at the same time that a crisis in parliament has shut down the national budget.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 12h

I can't stop thinking about this. We're pursuing zero fire risk in multifam, while tolerating much more in single-fam. People respond by building and living in single-fam, where they're exposed to not only one of the highest fire death risks in the developed world, but also TONS more car crash risk

Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 13h

Love this new report on buildings' relative fire safety from @alexhrwtz.bsky.social and Pew colleagues.

www.pew.org/en/research-...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah I basically think Sora is poison and the people who made it are evil people.

J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 14h

Genuine question - what are OpenAI’s Sora and other video generation tools good for?

I am honestly trying to understand what is so important that it’s worth the cost. If you have examples, I would be interested to hear them.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

futurism.com

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14h

The number one dumbass observation that Fukuyama is known for is his end of history thesis, which is generally misunderstood and (in my view) basically correct.

Also his endorsement of social democracy is pretty consistent with much of his prior work, especially in Origins of Political Order.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 14h

One of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission members who voted to close the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge bike path was zooming into the meeting from his Tesla Model Y.

Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 17h

I've been on two calls today with fire safety professionals where the topic was the safety of single-stair buildings. On both calls, somebody was driving while on the call – one a firefighter, the other a fire protection engineer.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14h

Anyway maybe we need a little bit of parliamentary sovereignty over here.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14h

Mutuals on this site are correct to hate on Samuel Huntington, but I sort of think he was onto something when he traced the origins of the U.S. Constitution back to the constitution of Tudor government, with all of the weirdness and pathology that implies.

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Toby Muresianu @tobyhardtospell.bsky.social · 16h

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16h

This made me realize something: Curtis Yarvin is just Scott Adams but with even less artistic talent.

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 2d

curtis yarvin seems somewhat unhappy

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 20h

I’m not one of those “well if it pisses off the left and the right, it must be doing something right!” kinda guys, but it is a pretty decent sign of relative sanity if two broad flavors of psycho are mad at you

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credenzamostro.bsky.social @credenzamostro.bsky.social · 20h

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16h

This quiz says I'm still a New Yorker

Rebecca Baird-Remba @thecitywanderer.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway it’s a good quiz otherwise www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Are You a True New Yorker? Take Our Quiz

Think you know the landmarks, legends and lore of the city that never stops reinventing itself? See how well you measure up.

www.nytimes.com

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 18h

Very illuminating thread and a reminder that Bari Weiss is first and foremost a climber and influence peddler, not a journalist.

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Ryan O’Housing @howtoadu.bsky.social · 20h

Looks like @gavinnewsom.bsky.social has that signing pen out today. Good time to call and remind him of the strong support for SB 79 and more homes near public transit!

Call 916-445-2841
After that, dial 1, dial 6
Wait in awkward silence for 2 minutes
If you can't wait, dial 3 and leave a voicemail

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19h

As a partisan of UC Berkeley's Goldman School, it is my duty to note that Bill O'Reilly also went to HKS.

Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 20h

Wait someone let Hegseth into the Kennedy school??? Talk about lowered standards

The Independent @the-independent.com · 20h

Anti-woke crusader Pete Hegseth praised DEI and working with Democrats while at Harvard, report says

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 20h

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

If you live in California, today is an excellent day to call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at (916) 445-2841 and ask him to sign SB 79. publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

Newsom's Fateful Choice

Why the governor needs to sign SB 79

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21h

According to Christopher Caldwell’s bizarre, ahistorical understanding, we would have to classify the armies of the Roman Empire at its height as irredeemably woke.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21h

I haven’t read a single Caldwell column that didn’t come off like a half assed attempt to launder gutter racism for bien pensant NYT readers.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21h

1.) The Trump administration is *explicitly* “using the military’s structures to drive social change.“ They’re just doing it in favor of revanchism.

2.) Does … does Caldwell think there were no gay people in the military before Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Mr. Hegseth was there to announce that the Trump administration would no longer use the military’s structures to drive social change. (President Trump would later muddy that message in a rambling address to the same officers.) The trend Mr. Hegseth disparaged can be dated back to at least January 1993, when President Bill Clinton pushed for gays in the military. That effort turned into the Clinton administration’s first crisis, but over time, what is now called diversity, equity and inclusion won out.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21h

Electric bicycles, and shared electric bicycles in particular, are a revolutionary transportation technology. Forward-looking cities should be building out the infrastructure necessary to make cycling safe and convenient for everyone who wants to do it.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i recently got a great deal on a barely used folding ebike and i have to say it has revolutionized my train travel. i can get from my front door to the amtrak station in a little less than 5 minutes!!!

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 23h

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23h

This is your new boss’s boss’s boss. His prior accomplishments include courageously saying nice things about an unwoke fast food brand and … hmmm … [searches through notes] Anyway, everyone please extend a warm welcome.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23h

It is extremely funny to me that the number one thing the New York Post can think of to say about the new CBS News #2 is “his coworkers once got mad at him for liking Chik Fil A.“

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