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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 20h

August US transit data is in today, & all of the largest US rail networks are growing! Cali leads the way, with ridership up 15% on BART, 14% on Muni, & 10% on LA Metro PATH (NY/NJ) & MBTA (Boston) also have strong growth at 8%, while MTS (San Diego, +1.7%) is the slowest🧵

a graph of year-on-year growth in ridership

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 1h

My face when a Democratic governor says accurately comparing ICE to Nazis is offensive

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3h

Excited to see that we’re replacing new housing with chatbots that tell you to kill yourself

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h

It also helps if someone is going to give Republicans $250 million in campaign cash.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h

Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20h

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now.

A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties, in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s third-country removal scheme.

Arizona District Court Judge John C. Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, ruled that DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and “must facilitate Plaintiff’s release from custody in Equatorial Guinea and return to the United States and must ensure his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to Equatorial Guinea.”

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Tom Bridge @tombridge.com · 03/10/2026

Today's Power to the People Festival has definitely done my inner rage machine about the current moment a lot of good. I can definitely feel that there's a lot of other people who are just as mad as me or madder. And they're melting faces on stage about it.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage

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Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.

Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.

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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It possible Trump made up that number. It’s also possible Trump just divulged classified Information.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 04/10/2026

There’s a special place in hell for women who betray other women. Angela Paxton appears to have the address.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Most people are underreacting to this El Niño.

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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

She’s here! We just welcomed our beautiful baby girl and words can’t describe how blessed my family feels. Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I’m beyond grateful. Thank you, everyone, for your love and support. It means the world 💕💕

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Calling Vance "the most ordinary man imaginable" is so softly savage, you have to admire it.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every country has these people, in roughly the same proportion. The problem is our deeply broken, wildly anti-majoritarian electoral, legislative, & judicial institutions: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have a hard time deciding which are worse. The retributive fake indictments against longtime Trump "enemies" or the ones where just a random person is picked out because of the need to retrofit reality to a latest Trump tweet/meltdown.

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

DoorDash, a $15 billion company, has issued a formal apology for their decision to back a GOP attack on DC Home Rule in July. Organizing made this happen.

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DoorDash Apologizes for Siding With GOP Bill Targeting D.C.

The company still wants the D.C. Council to make changes to a new delivery fee taking effect Thursday.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From electric vehicles to “DEI bike lanes,” transportation has become a partisan battleground. But 50 years ago, Washington came together to save transit systems, address deadly car designs, and reduce vehicle pollution. Much has changed—and it’s not just MAGA. My exploration (gift link) 🧵

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Why US Transportation Policy Became a Partisan Battleground

Republicans and Democrats keep clashing over what was once a comparatively nonpartisan issue. When did getting around turn into another thing for Americans to fight about?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.

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The Washington Sun Metro @washsunmetro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In today’s newsletter: 🍽️ What it costs to feed the National Guard 🚌 The Circulator’s re-circulation 🦟 And a federal crackdown on D.C. … mosquitoes

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The Washington Sun Metro: The Very Hungry Guard

https://www.washingtonsun.com

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 01/10/2026

To lose visitors in the year you HOST THE WORLD CUP and celebrate a big anniversary is truly incredible.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

especially if you work at the FBI

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 29/09/2026

Anthropic's IPO leak breaks down like this: In 2025, they had $4.6B in revenue against a $42B loss 2026 revenue is $11.5B with $518B marked to spend on building more data centers Meanwhile, they think they're worth $2T because they are on the cusp of birthing Digital Jesus (🧵)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...

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DOGE vs. Civic Tech

As DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 29/09/2026

Trump personally directed a taxpayer-funded ad campaign for himself a month before the midterms, and Raskin's calling it felony theft of government property plus a Hatch Act violation. His own former campaign staffer summed it up best: dumb, dumb, dumb beyond belief. Subpoenas are coming.

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'Dumb beyond belief': Trump insider predicts onslaught of subpoenas over new scandal

A massive investigation into a "dumb" expenditure by President Donald Trump's White House is being planned that could put more than a handful of administration staffers under oath.Trump "personally dr...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026

Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 28/09/2026

If the Justice Department doesn't vigorously fight these cases and hold the government's extremely strong position against these ludicrous claims it will be a clear sign that Blanche lied to the Senate about his repudiation of Trump's corrupt MAGA slush fund.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Obviously none of this is true, but incidentally: It is wild to talk about tax revenue as “profits.”

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.

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Hidden Brain @hiddenbrain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Psychologist Martin Seligman describes his groundbreaking research on learned helplessness, and explains how optimism can help us rediscover our ability to change things for the better. open.spotify.com/episode/0F7I...

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How to Make a Difference: Part 1

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I bet insurance companies are thrilled with the Trump administration‘s message to policyholders that they need to file claims on every policy they have or they might risk losing it.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

ICE are currently chasing and kidnapping immigrants in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a town that is at this point probably most famous for being the starting point for Ishmael’s journey in the great American novel Moby-Dick, which portrays a multiracial crew including many immigrants, working together

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Blake @bstabler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Warm pasta salad with burrata

A fork sits on a brown and green cloth napkin next to a low, chipped, light green bowl. In the bowl is a slight modified "Warm pasta salad with tomatoes and eggplant" from page 28 of Cooking Light magazine July 2018. It includes Pennsylvania whole wheat gemelli, Virginia green beans, Virginia Japanese eggplant, blistered and fresh halved Virginia cherry tomatoes, garlic, and reduced Pinot Grigio (dry white wine) seasoned with white wine vinegar and kosher salt and topped with Wisconsin burrata (a wet mozzarella cheese), fresh Maryland thyme, and freshly ground black pepper. To the right of the bowl is a green can of lime La Croix ( sparkling water ), and a stemless wineglass filled with a 2024 Italian Pinot Grigio. To the upper left of the plate is aluminum foil supporting a warm, sweet potato and tumeric focaccia from Talking Bread (previously frozen).

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026

Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don't have the energy to rebut everything in this piece, but it reaffirms the impression that these people did not know or care how government works and never bothered to find out. The reporter's framing is pretty credulous "many people disagree" with stuff that is easy to fact check.

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Tom Bridge @tombridge.com · 21/09/2026

Wait, didn't they just say AI was coming to DC Airports?

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 21/09/2026

While their drivers are being gunned down by Trump’s secret police, DoorDash is raking in blood money. The company pulled in a massive $4.45 billion in revenue (and $200 million in pure profit) just last quarter, vaulting CEO Tony Xu into billionaire status on the backs of unprotected gig workers.

DOORDASH STAYS SILENT EVEN AFTER A SECOND DOORDASHER IS SHOT BY ICE
28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez was DoorDashing when he was shot in the back by an ICE agent in Austin, Texas yesterday. This follows the fatal shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine in July 2026.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is a genuinely terrible piece of journalism: Reporting, editing, writing, all of it. (Photos OK). Will appear alongside the word "credulous" in dictionaries. I had thought that the WaPo's news section was still "mainly good," in contrast to its laughable editorial section. But...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

More thoughts on the importance of what the media did today: robertreich.substack.com/p/the-media-...

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The Media Did Something Important Today

Solidarity

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Blake @bstabler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

After work snack: caramelized peaches on labneh

A brown cloth napkin sits to the left of a low light green bowl. In the bowl is a layer of labneh (a very thick, salty and savory yogurt), topped with a sliced Pennsylvania peach carmelized in butter and extra virgin olive oil with toasted pecans and fresh thyme leaves drizzled with honey. On the left side of the bowl is a dark brown slice of Seylou Bakery's 100 percent whole grain pain au levain (a French sourdough) baked in a loaf pan and tasted. A spoon sits to the right of the bowl along with a pink can of cherry -lime La Croix (sparkling water).

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