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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 15h

LA union, like so many other amtrak stations, doesn't have ANY wayfinding or directions telling you to find the seat assignment desk thats off in a tiny hallway wou would never see unless somebody told you to go stand there it pisses me off so fucking much how shit out long distance service is

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 20h

The BBC axing its coverage of the World Pipe Band Championships sends a 'clear message' that Scottish culture is unworthy of investment, Iona Fyfe writes✍️ 👉 www.thenational.scot/commen...

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

British Columbia Simon Fraser University Pipe Band wins World Pipe Band Championships in Scotland Saturday's win in Glasgow marks the SFU pipe band's 7th world championship www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Simon Fraser University Pipe Band wins World Pipe Band Championships in Scotland | CBC News

For the first time in 17 years, the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band has won the global title at the World Pipe Band Championships held in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Edward Russell @byerussell.com · 04/10/2026

This country needs to move beyond "commuter" rail and convert existing lines to regional rail that operate at decent frequencies all day long.

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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

such that the impeachment votes could be held seriatim on day one of a new Congress. There could be fifty different charges against Trump. Let the Senate try ' em all. Establish that violations of the War Powers Act, the Budget and Impoundment Act, or the Antideficiency Act are impeachable.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Establish that violations of the Emoluments Clauses and the Establishment Clause are impeachable. Establish that war crimes are impeachable. None of these require the mens rea questions that so sidetracked the first two Trump impeachments. The facts are the facts.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/10/2026

Hi government employee here, who has visibility into how things worked before 2025 and since: This is correct. Rebuild government, prosecute DOGE and Trump officials, and think about contracting reform later.

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Colleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The AP headline (on its site) actually reads: "Military jamming disrupted a medical plane’s GPS system before it crashed last month in New Mexico" The AP report is very short and goes on to cite experts who say that the lack of GPS should not have affected the flight. The AI is 100% wrong.

Experts say the pilots should have been able to land safely by relying on ground-based navigation systems or flying visually, but relying on GPS is popular because it is so precise.

“The loss of GPS should not result in the loss of an airplane, so there’s got to be more to it than that,” said retired airline pilot John Cox, who is now CEO of Safety Operating Systems.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 03/10/2026

I also really think Dems need to air ads pointing out that Trump never sent anyone a Doge check or a tariff check. Because everyone wants five grand. It’s insulting and illegal but I bet you it works on a lot of people. Remind them that his promises are worthless.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 03/10/2026

If I ran the Democratic Party ad campaigns, I would just air clips like this superimposed with the words “why does he think he can lie to you?” Or “does he think we believe this?”

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While women’s and gender studies programs are being closed down all over the country, the work feminist scholars have done has never been more important.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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liz ten eleven @selectric.space · 02/10/2026

inventing "the failures of british rail privatisation" from first principles, except with the actual GPUs instead of the actual trains

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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it feels insane taking a train along an industrial corridor by massive new warehouses that dont actually connect to the rail line and instead have 100 trucks loading

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NIL Youngboy @dimmadome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not dissimilar from how the Big 12 pulled the conference realignment lever to distract from Baylor scandal, it speaks volumes that the SEC threatened to expel LSU for signing players off the NFL waiver wire & never once broaching this issue You see the mold on the drywall but the studs are rotted

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dems’ 2028 platform should include stuff like letting soldiers have beards, letting TSA agents sit down, letting generals get their promotions, etc. The deep state isn’t real but civil and uniformed services are. We need them to know which side respects their human dignity before MAGA’s next coup.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you need to send a fundraising email with the header “We know you’re not an ATM” maybe it’s a sign you ought to reign in the grifter consulting firms that are alienating supporters with a constant stream of panhandling spam to raise money that mostly gets poured back into their own coffers?

Dem fundraising email headed “We know you’re not an ATM”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trump, the GOP, right-wing media, and the Online Right have had remarkable success with vague insinuation and repetition. Their target audience—which includes not only Trump voters, but mainstream media—love running with insinuation, and treating it as on par with, sometimes greater than, facts.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm genuinely curious what sort of play this gets in the broader media. Could be: *nothing *Senator can't tell the difference between sports teams! c *big gotcha effort backfiring emblematic of right-wing conspiracy addiction I think the latter story would be most insightful, but less likely

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?

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Carrying That Weight—Again

I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But something needs to be done, and soon, and LOSSAN/OCTA need to get off their asses and start addressing this with a little more urgency. The surfliner is the second busiest rail corridor in the country, and an absolutely critical link between LA and San Diego. They need to act like it.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NEW from me: Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions. How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...

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AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class

America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I prefer the Democratic strategy for cutting emissions with sound regulations over the Republican strategy for cutting emissions by starting wars in oil exporting regions.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 27/09/2026

They tried nothing and they’re all out of ideas

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No lies detected, but suspending the gas tax is a bad idea.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup. None of these people were appointed by the Congress to do any of these acts; it was a criminal coup.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 25/09/2026

If the US seemed to be going in the right direction in 2022, it’s now going off: Cancelling wind power projects. Reducing funding for transit. Failing to implement fleet electrification plans. Allowing continued massive greenfield sprawl.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This straight up personalist propaganda, paid for by American taxpayers. Trump has more than $400 million in just one PAC. He can pay for this himself instead of stealing from us.

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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 24/09/2026

Yeah, see, we need to make Railroads that percentage again.

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Hugo von der Thüsen @hugovdthusen.com · 22/09/2026

I really like the designated guide dog area with a fold up seat and a place to leash your dog. I have never seen this before and it should be standard in every new train.

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Andrew B. Koupal @ab-koupal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Come for the detailed analysis of the State's rail plan, stay for the recommendations on how to improve it all.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Kavanaugh stops" should follow him to his grave

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026

Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.

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Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care

California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.

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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026

WIRED asked 634 women what they really think about working in tech. They told us about harassment, bias, unequal treatment, and the everyday indignities that still shape life in the industry. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...

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David Alman @davidalman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Literal decades of damage to United States national security. There are kids now who would have gone to do ROTC or joined the IC. They won't be there in thirty years as senior officers or analysts. Think about what leadership looks like then if only populated by those who joined now...

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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bonta will take the immediate heat, but it sure seems like Gavin Newsom is the reason Bonta --and thus the state of California-- folded here.

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John Lloyd @boyonabike62.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Newsom’s car brain is so infuriating. - vetoed safety stop-as-yield (aka Idaho Stop) twice on spurious reasons. - cut active transportation in each budget (restored by legislature). - transferred e-bike rebate money to EV car rebate program.

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I hope it's obvious to more and more of us as we defend the institutional rubble that was once the USA that "defending" it is not enough. The old institutions failed and/or were actively dismantled: simply pouring money and the right people into their shells is not going to end this nightmare.

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s-isabelle.bsky.social @s-isabelle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Second, this type of behavior will only lose votes. Any voter who is so committed to voted against trans rights will vote for a Republican rather than a Democrat. It's wrong AND idiotic.

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Gas is too cheap as long as people still: - insist on flooring it and then slamming on the brakes between every intersection - drive single occupancy monster trucks in perfect weather for trips less than 2 miles - block crosswalks and bike lanes in idling vehicles

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I want the name of every consultant who convinces a Democrat to run an ad ceding ground to trans hatred, and I want them blacklisted by the party and noted so I can never give a cent to anyone who hires them ever again.

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