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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your 20s are for believing everything is structural and your 30s are for learning that actually it's often just some guy or small group of guys (gender neutral)

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is how a lot of homeowners talk about renters in general. They think renters can’t possibly care about or understand their neighborhood the way that a homeowner does, and therefore only the wishes and concerns of homeowners should be considered.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Someone just asked me why I hate Tyler Austin Harper and I am too filled with rage to articulate it - can one of you help me succinctly describe why he sucks?

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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

FT's Martin Wolf suggests America's 250th celebration was a wake for liberal democracies. www.ft.com/content/2dca...

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Zohran up 32 points over Bibi among American Jews should scramble a lot of very dumb narratives

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

who else is looking forward to yet another round of 'male acquaintances channel their secret contempt for women through a loudmouthed defense of graham platner'

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

if you ever asked yourself “what’s the exact opposite of a Zohran video?” look no further than this clip Karen Bass just dropped

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Karen Bass on Instagram: "See you in November."

3,614 likes, 1,605 comments - karenbassla on June 2, 2026: "See you in November.".

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

As someone who visits NYC a couple times a year to see friends and family, I cannot pretend to be a disinterested observer here. Hotels in the city have gotten stupid expensive over the past few years and it’s nuts that more of them aren’t coming online.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The thing that makes “gutter racism” an appropriate term for this is that it goes beyond even what segregation’s savviest defenders were willing to say in public 60-70 years ago. They understood that this level of explicit racial animus was embarrassing to the cause.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Jewish youth in America have turned sharply against Zionism as it is defined by Likud,"half of American Jews under 35 say the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be solved by creating a single country in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza with a government elected by both Israelis and Palestinians"

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Half of young U.S. Jews would replace Israel with binational state, poll finds

The Data Signals a Generational Shift in U.S. Support for a Binational State in Israel, Reflecting a Core Demand of anti-Zionist Protests on College Campuses and Beyond, Even as Most Major Jewish Orga...

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Anna Fahey @trufahey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Malcom Gladwell talks to Stephen Smith re #elevators! "Have you ever heard of the perfect is the enemy of the good? That defines American elevator policy today." --MG @stephenjacobsmith.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The Great American Elevator Tragedy | The Mistakes Series

Podcast Episode · Revisionist History · S15 E9 · 26m

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I feel like I could write an entire Jordan Peterson-style “Rules for Men” type manifesto where the only two rules are “try to be a kind, considerate person” and “figure out your own idiosyncratic tastes instead of wearing a costume someone else assigned to you.“

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

this is much better executed than it needed to be

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Learned recently there's a whole subculture of halal BBQ joints in texas, originally because Texas's quite-large Muslim population couldn't eat at ones that also prepared pork, but now it's a whole thriving culinary niche. Real "glorious American melting pot" stuff

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Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Mayor Mamdani's housing plan is live! There's big sweeping YIMBY stuff: -Aggressive TOD upzoning -Major permitting reform -Rescuing & transforming NYCHA They're also looking at finer details, like fixing the FDNY inspections that so often delay CofO issuance (& invite petty corruption)

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

the silicon valley vision of labor is an utterly abject class of employees surveilled in every particular by a set of tools loyal only to the C-Suite, which spends all its time relaxing in a warm bath of automated sycophancy

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

No matter how hard you post or what sites you do it in it’s never going to be 2019 again

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

if you want different representation in AD52 -- someone who supports Mayor Mamdani's housing initiatives rather than opposing them behind the veil of the budget process -- check out @lydiagreenbk.bsky.social www.lydiagreenbk.com

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Lydia Green for NY State Assembly

An organizer and life-long resident of Park Slope, Lydia is running for New York State Assembly to make Brooklyn a livable home for all.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I complain a lot about left NIMBYs. I complain a lot about right NIMBYs. but do you know which NIMBYs actually frustrate me the most? boomer faux-environmentalist NIMBYs like @joannesimonbk52.bsky.social. she’s literally killing homes for over 10,000 people because apartments are scary.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The New York State Assembly continues to be the place where good housing policy goes to die www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

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Ira Weinschel @iraweinschel.com · 22/05/2026

“One of the problems with autopsies is that voter psychology takes a lot of work to understand well, but the people who have that skillset largely aren’t the type of person the DNC is hiring to audit their choices.” Must-read from @gelliottmorris.com

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The real reason Democrats lost in 2024

The DNC "autopsy" omits the biggest reason Democrats lost in 2024. In doing so, it fails to prepare the party for the future

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This condescending "Jews who support Mamdani - or even just engage with him - need to be pitied, because they know not what they do" schtick is worse than open hatred. I'd rather be openly despised by these people than pitied for supposedly being too stupid to know what is good for my own community.

Post by Endjewhatred: "Some Jews showed up to help Mayor Mamdani celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month.
That is painful to see. But it should not make us hate them. It should make us understand what years of intimidation, exclusion, and communal gaslighting can do.
This is what happens when Jews are told, over and over again, that acceptance requires surrender: surrender your Zionism and your peoplehood, surrender your history and your trauma, surrender your identity and your right to object when politicians embrace movements that demonize your community.
Some Jews internalize that trauma. They become props for people who would never accept the Jewish community on its own terms.
But we cannot abandon them. They are our family. They need love, not contempt. They need community, not applause for self-erasure. They need empathy, and a path back.
Jewish pride does not require apology. Jewish safety does not require submission. Jewish belonging does not require serving as cover for those who would dictate our identity.
We are here for every Jew who is ready to come home. We are here to #EndJewHatred."

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This is why the Democrats' current obsession with tax cuts is so dangerous. They're paving the way for more extreme proposals like ending progressive taxation altogether. Again, we don't need "Republican lite." We need a party that affirms that paying for the things government does is good.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/05/2026

Pedophilia is a plank of the Republican Party, a very real policy goal that they work towards on a consistent basis, from the President to the primary electorate. The Republican Party's countless exposed sexual predators simply represent the party's view, which is that children should be molested.

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Tyler @okty.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Ladies, if he - constantly promises to be better - doesn’t really listen to your suggestions - completely stops working at random times - always finds a way back into your heart He is not your man. He is bsky dot app

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De Filmende Fietser @filmendefietser.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

As the timelapse of the 4-year building proces of the bike parking shows, underwater really means underwater, not just underground! Now boats are sailing over the parked bicycles!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

In New York and man it really is the fuckin best huh

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This website’s least favorite senatorial candidate has a big interview in the NYT today and somehow people on here aren’t frothing at the mouth. Are we growing up or have people just not noticed yet?

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Having interacted w some of these Third Wayish folks as they tried to co-opt YIMBYism, I cannot even begin to describe how deranged these ppl are about DSA and how that derangement is totally detached from either electoral outcomes or what a given DSA politician actually supports in terms of policy.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“Is Adam Friedland my neighbor or is that just one of what I assume are many guys around here who kinda look like him?” is a question I ask myself weekly as a Brownstone Brooklyn resident.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I used to have the heart of a True Poster but now I think of things that I know would generate a bunch of heat and light and I think to myself "yeah I'd rather just go for a run and not have to wonder who is getting mad at me on the internet"

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Interesting study that undermines some widely held impressions (including some of my own) about the behavior of large landlords versus small landlords.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The condescending assumption that young Jews voting for Mamdani must not be “educated” sufficiently in Jewish history - as opposed to simply drawing different conclusions from that education - is why they’re losing young people.

A statement about young Jews voting for Mamdani

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/05/2026

We've removed major hurdles to building affordable housing — a move that will get homes up nearly 2 years faster. We’re in a race to tackle our housing crisis, because working New Yorkers can't afford to wait.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

NYC’s new development market is so hot that this narrow ass site next to the Franklin Avenue shuttle that’s been stalled for as long as I can remember is seemingly finally getting built.

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Another Midtown South rezoning site just hit the market and it’s so large that it will serve as another good test of whether 485x’s large project construction wage and/or affordability requirements need to be tweaked to make projects viable

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

If I never heard/read Jim Walden’s name again it would be too soon www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/n...

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Mamdani’s Opponents Raise More Than $1 Million to Fight His Agenda

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New report from NIMBYs in Tribeca who are fighting a new mixed-income housing tower warns that if we don’t listen to them that Tribeca is “at risk of deep economic segregation”, as if it isn’t already one of the richest places on the planet. cfdcoalition.org/wp-content/u...

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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

“I think that during the period from the middle 1970s through the 2008 financial crisis, we, the professional class made a rather catastrophic error in judgment.”

The consensus among our class - which I shared! - was that our society was imperfectly but sufficiently a meritocracy, and that the basic frame of what came to be called "neoliberalism" was correct. A heavily marketized society was a society we-the-merited could succeed within, and it was also the form of society that would maximize all of our prosperity. The fact that our successes might be generously remunerated was not just a matter of private enjoyment, but reflected genuine social virtue. We had achieved a society in which one did well by doing
good.
This was never accurate. But journalists, think-tankers, and academic social scientists who were willing to advance this perspective in their work could count on career success. Which contributed to a consensus (not least but not only within the discipline of economics) that this suspiciously self-flattering perspective was in fact true. It was "science". The people at the top of many fields embraced it. Dissidence became hard to distinguish from sour-grapes conspiracism.
['Liberal professionals" had been recruited into what John Kenneth Galbraith describes as the role of the modern conservative. They were "engaged...in one of man's oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This chart is helpful is highlighting the universality of declines across states red and blue, union and nonunion, more urban and more rural, etc. The exceptions, important to look at for possible solutions, were starting from low points.

State-level reading scores, 2015 to 2025 chart showing all but a handful of states with declines and most now below grade average

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