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Billbindc in various places. Mostly Ukraine, politics and transportation. Stochastic tourist.

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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Staffers? What...was James Comey not available?
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Robotaxis create serious problems in big, dense cities, but they’d be a godsend in small towns and rural areas—huge swaths of America that the AV industry is ignoring. My latest, in Bloomberg (gift link) 🧵
bloomberg.com
Robotaxis Aren’t Going Where They Are Needed Most
Waymo, Zoox and Tesla are clamoring to bring autonomous ride-hailing to cities like New York and Boston. But it’s small towns and rural areas that could see the biggest upside from AVs.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It is fascinating how much the structural imbalances in the US are starting to resemble those in China in terms of a handful of sectors propping up an otherwise stagnant economy
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I say this a lot but this like is in the mid-1950s and the Soviets had three different internal security agencies, all of which were informing on one another.
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ceej @ceej.online · 26/08/2026
the guy who programs the firmware for your toaster thinks taxing income to pay for childhood cancer wards is fascism because it diverts money away from the reddit bigamist hosting 3:1 sex parties to fund research into teaching software that empathy is fake
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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Jon Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
That DSA wave you've heard about? Yes in a few high profile races. But the numbers tell a different story. There are few DSA candidates; they usually lose; where they win is mostly in deep blue places. www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...
brookings.edu
Democratic socialist candidates show gains but limited reach in 2026 | Brookings
This analysis examines the DSA’s high-profile 2026 primary wins and what they reveal about the movement’s influence in the Democratic Party.
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What really freaks out folks in the White House is that Harp is what they all pretend to be...someone actually devoted to Trump. It's a form...however demented and weird...of selflessness and that's just not done in that crowd...particularly by Trump himself.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Since everyone’s arguing about speed cameras, let’s keep a couple facts in mind: 1) Research show that camera enforcement is much more popular than the media implies – in suburbs as well as cities. Lesson: Don’t conflate a few angry car owners with “public opinion.” (cont'd)
bloomberg.com
Automated Traffic Enforcement Is More Popular Than You Think
Cameras that ticket drivers who run red lights and speed are effective and widely popular with city residents. So why are they banned in so many places?
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
DC's 2025 larceny rate was 41 percent lower than it was in 2019. CVS locks its stuff up because it's a poorly run and failing company looking to blame outside forces for its downfall. you can go across the street to target or a supermarket and see the same products free to grab off the shelves.
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
over on the everything app, DC centrists still think that a shoplifting epidemic is the reason CVS locks up all the detergent. if they lived in reality, they would know that DC larceny rates have been falling by double digits year over year.
matt yglesias encouraging politicians to fearmonger over petty crime in response to another post blaming crime on CVS keeping their goods locked up
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Disappointed to see this from him, I thought he was dead.
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This, this, this:
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The fatal drunk driving accident. Usually one every other year or so and they put the demolished car on the high school lawn.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Anytime someone who should know better says that maybe Richard Hanania has a point, just send them this:
thehandbasket.co
You don’t have to hand it to Richard Hanania
The so-called "former" white supremacist's work doesn't show accountability—or that he's actually moved on from his earlier views, Christopher Mathias writes.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Rep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵
Pix of Norman
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is well done:
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Operation Dessert Shield
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
No, No, no. Look, are there lessons to learn from this debacle? Sure. Drone warfare, mag depth, etc. But the solution here is not 'yet more tactical excellence or tech.' It is 'the president asked the impossible of the military and they should have said so.' www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
theatlantic.com
The War Is Lost. Now Fix What It Broke.
America has to rethink how it moves resources, fights wars, and deters adversaries.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 10/08/2026
Tiffany was one of the GOP lawmakers who signed onto Ken Paxton's lawsuit in 2020 attempting to throw out Wisconsin’s votes & have the state’s Republican-controlled state legislature decide the election.
talkingpointsmemo.com
Trump-Backed Election Denier Expected to Secure GOP Nomination for Wisconsin Governor
Facing little opposition, Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI), an established election denier who...
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Terminal Major:
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Don’t express alarm when he’s merely obviously TRYING to consolidate authoritarian power. You have to wait until he succeeds and you’re no longer allowed to.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
In honor of Ross Douthat's last day at the NYT, let's remember this particular headline tweak from just last year.
The New York Times OPINION INTERESTING TIMES Did Women Ruin the Workplace? And can conservative feminism fix it? Nov. 6, 2025, 5:02 a.m. ET @ Share full article Hosted by Ross Douthat Produced by Victoria Chamberlin

RThe New York Times OPINION INTERESTING TIMES Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace? And if so, can conservative feminism fix it? Nov. 6, 2025 f Share full article A ¢ -11K Hosted by Ross Douthat Produced by Victoria Chamberlin
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Not a dupe. A collaborator.
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Nobody makes a better DC statehood argument than Republicans in Congress:
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Any discussion of AV taxis that doesn't address congestion and curb management issues is by definition incomplete: www.popville.com/2026/08/cybe...
popville.com
“Cybercab/Robotaxi Spotted – In a no parking zone, very on-brand.” - PoPville
"Dear PoPville, Another Cybercab/Robotaxi spotted, saw this one at Farragut Square. In a no parking zone, very on-brand."
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"The lesson that U.S. rivals are likely to take from the war is that the brilliance of the American military is largely irrelevant."
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A single VLCC cargo of crude is worth roughly $162,000,000 to $178,000,000. At 6%, Iran could expect to collect something like $1,500,000,000 per day of normal traffic.
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Aka...teaching the PLA how to fight the USA:
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 05/08/2026
Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
What exactly are we doing here, folks?
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
www.notus.org/metro/dulles...
notus.org
Let’s Talk About the Massive Parking Garage Trump Wants to Build at Dulles
The 32,000-spot deck would surpass both existing parking capacity and what airport officials have said is needed.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I wrote about this NYC congestion pricing study earlier this year, noting that most driving time savings accrues to people who never venture into the zone at all (i.e., driving within Queens or Long Island). IOW some of the most vociferous critics of CP are among its biggest beneficiaries.
bloomberg.com
Congestion Pricing’s Unexpected Winners: Suburban Drivers
NYC’s controversial toll program hasn’t just sped up trips inside Manhattan, a new paper finds. It’s easing traffic in outer boroughs and neighboring counties.
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Read it: www.amazon.com/dp/037460292...
amazon.com
Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories: Ghosh, Amitav: 9780374602925: Amazon.com: Books
Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories [Ghosh, Amitav] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I don’t think you could have said this (in the screenshot) in public 10-15 years ago without swift backlash, which is a pretty clear indication of the level of decline we’re looking at
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
French Baroque meets suburban Thai restaurant:
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This shire needs a scouring:
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Musk saying he is going to dial down his support for GOP is the one thing you can be certain he is lying about. Without Republican protection, Musk is exposed to withering financial and even criminal losses
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 24/07/2026
More than 60 years ago, Hofstadter wrote this article. It stands up pretty well.
harpers.org
The Paranoid Style in American Politics, by Richard Hofstadter
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Reality check: Can WHCA *actually* be going ahead with its gala dinner for Trump tomorrow night in DC? The same Trump who calls for networks to be shut down, uses his FCC to that effect, subpoenas reporters, says they are scum and fake news? No names/details at WHCA site whca.press/2026/06/02/w...
whca.press
WHCA Announces Summer Dinner | White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA)
From WHCA President Weijia Jiang to association members: The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has served as a celebration of a free press and the vital role of journalism in our democracy for over a...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In collaboration with the Munk School, I am sharing a ten-lecture course I taught at @utoronto.ca this past year. The course is called “Hitler and Stalin Today.” Watch the first lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/new-lectur...
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Erika Skaggs @erika-online.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Beshear IS doing something. He’s allowing the seat to remain functionally vacant, a good thing for Democrats. The idea that he can magically insert a Dem, either in time for it to matter and without getting himself impeached, is pure fantasy. We’ll never win if we keep eating our own.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Bad, ridiculous, yes. But it's hard to top Marc Andreessen declaring that introspection is a 20th century invention forced on people that's destroying Western Civilization. If there's a single foundational sentence for Western philosophy, it's Socrates' "the unexamined life is not worth living."
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/07/2026
this comparison leaves out a key point: the Edsel sold roughly twice the Cybertruck's volume at a time when the overall car market was just 6m units/year instead of the current 16m units/year that makes the Cybertruck the much, much bigger flop, hands down
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Musk: Nolan's "Dunkirk" was an affront to the basic concepts of time and chronology that underpin Western civilization, and illustrate why Germany should have won the war.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The strategic reality should be clear by now. Each night of US strikes and Iranian sideways retaliation, makes the US weaker and Iran stronger. It depletes more US stocks, makes the US look weak to its partners, and reinforces to the Iranians that their strategy is the right one.
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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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