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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

give the Geico land to the descendants of the Belmont Syndicate, who were run out of Chevy Chase for trying to build a neighborhood for Black people in 1906, and as reparations, let them build as tall as they want wtop.com/montgomery-c...

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Opponents of Friendship Heights development take their cause to the street - WTOP News

Residents of the Friendship Heights neighborhood on the D.C.-Montgomery County border staged a protest Tuesday.

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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

montgomery county's ambivalence towards making it so young people and working people can afford to live here is killing the county. budget problems are just the start

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/05/2026

they definitely make policy decisions that reflect what they they think things should be. how else do you get to a decision that says "actually gender affirming care bans don't target trans people, they target the diagnosis of gender dysphoria"?

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I like Steyer's housing plan a lot, but this idea that NIMBY jurisdictions are rejecting new residents because of "health and education costs" is silly. On education in particular, a lot of school districts are in crisis because they don't have *enough* new students!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/05/2026

I know people involved in california water stuff and if you bring this particular incident up they have to go take a walk however stupid you think this whole thing was it was stupider than that

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The lab leak continues to be one of the most worrying cases of mass conspiratorial thinking in America. Zero evidence for it, but the right is frothing at the mouth to imprison anyone even remotely involved with COVID origins research and the center still thinks it's important to ask questions.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

A lot of Democratic politicians can be blamed for the current state of the Supreme Court but as far as I know only one (Rahm Emanuel, who told Obama to not focus on the courts) is running for president.

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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

it’s been 10 months since a driver hit my dog and I and this morning @mcdotnow.bsky.social is installing a crosswalk at that intersection. I am deeply grateful. that said, people shouldn’t have to beg Montgomery County for basic pedestrian amenities, and that needs to change.

The most handsome dog you have ever seen is looking towards an intersection, surrounded by a bunch of orange construction barrels. In the distance are construction equipment, and men working.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

“Epic Fury” sounds like retaliation for a catastrophic attack, not like the response to the break down of sham negotiations to restore a treaty we broke.

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The Scorpio King 🦂 👑 @arcoar.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Even when they’re trying to be accurate, the New York Times can never quite pull it off. The Constitution doesn’t give Congress the power to “formally” declare war. There’s no alternative “casual” war power. It gives Congress the power “To declare War” period, no fucking formally about it.

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Mike English @mocomikee.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Once again, the most progressive place in the world can’t protect people who can’t afford to live in it, and I don’t care about your neighborhood character more than that, and it is not close

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Using detailed address-level microdata, we trace movement chains originating with
the initial residents of The Central and document three main findings. First, we show
the building generated a substantial number of local vacancies. We identify 180 specific
addresses that became vacant because of moves into The Central. Scaling to account
for data coverage suggests the new tower induced more than 500 local vacancies in
the three years after construction, by setting off chains of moves. Second, while The
Central units were expensive on a per-square-foot basis, the homes vacated by movers
were significantly cheaper. Homes left behind by those moving into The Central were
about 40% less expensive. Unlike much of the prior literature, which track the changing
neighborhood characteristics of movers

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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 06/02/2026

Aliya Rahman was on her way to the doctor's when ICE dragged her out of her car and detained her. Ms. Rahman is a disabled U.S. citizen, and she made this clear. Still, she was denied medical care and even lost consciousness in her cell. Enough. Abolish ICE.

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Mike English @mocomikee.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Once again, opposing housing near you is a fundamentally conservative proposition, and a lot of people on the broader left who share the thoughts in this video need to take some inventory of themselves.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Member of the Epstein class says what

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

While the media chums it up with Greene, reminder that she has a bill going before the House today to make it a *federal crime* to provide or advocate for healthcare for trans youth.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12/12/2025

A lot of people think basically all traffic laws are a fundamentally illegitimate pretext to harass and fine motorists at random, rather than regulations designed to prevent injury and death.

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Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 08/12/2025

The problem is zoning. DC separated residential and commercial/office very aggressively. Downtown is still mostly resident-free, and even with workaholics, that means it’s tough to have a restaurant that does more than cater to breakfast/lunch or fancy business dinners

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

the fillibuster is a tool of white supremacy and that is why white supremacist hacks defend it. when people say, "small states need protection" what they mean is, "white people must rule."

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

DODGERS VINDICATED, LOS ANGELES SPIRITUAL PRIMACY CONFORMED

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

the bigotry is bad enough on its own but this shows me he has no idea how to fight back and win against these people, totally disqualifying

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2025

The GOP has done nothing on healthcare in the 21st century other than stop Dems from improving it. Literally nothing.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Call me old fashioned but I think taxation should be based on how much money you have, and administered through a federal revenue agency. I do not think it should be administered through civil suits and based on whether your conduct makes the president sad or not. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/t...

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YouTube Settles Trump Lawsuit for $24.5 Million

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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/09/2025

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Describe a single historical precedent for defeating authoritarians by being nicer to them.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 04/09/2025

Also, Los Angeles’ city government has had plenty of time to address its housing shortage and homelessness crisis. It has not done so because *most of Los Angeles’ elected officials do not actually want to build housing.* As such, SB 79 *is* solving the problem at the most local level achievable.

SB 79 runs afoul of the principle of subsidiarity, which argues that problems should be solved at the most local level achievable. Families understand their problems better than neighbors, communities are better at directing their futures than cities, and so on.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This absolute banger

Starmer was recently asked how he would feel if his daughter had to walk past an “asylum hotel”. “I totally get it,” he responded, going on to say that “local people by and large do not want these hotels in their towns, in their place, and nor do I. I’m completely at one with them on that.”

This desire to meet the hard right halfway, to find a middle point, is hopelessly exploitable. In an age of radicalisation, you simply get pulled further and further to the right, while tacitly validating those values at every step. Nowhere is this more evident than in the UK press’s fixation on trans people. The Labour government, following the reactionary centrist logic of trying to diffuse an issue by giving policy ground, has allowed itself to be pulled radically to the right on this matter. First, by abandoning its commitment to changing ID laws to make it easier to transition, then by effectively banning puberty blockers following pressure from those opposed to them. Now the UK is on the verge of implementing a bathroom ban mandating that trans people must be excluded from toilets that match their gender identity. This is being done without parliamentary debate. Most of the public is not aware of it, and yet, if this goes ahead, it would make the UK one of the world’s most illiberal advanced democracies on trans rights.

An actual pragmatist would evaluate and change course. Someone who understood public opinion might notice that anti-immigrant sentiment responds to media coverage, not objective reality. They might reason that this is not a problem that can be addressed by policy concessions because policy is not what is causing it. They might even consider offering a different narrative and seeing whether that makes a dent. A truly daring politician might consider telling the British public the truth: that they are being lied to by the right-wing press about the cause of the country's problems, and that Reform is capitalising on this for political gain.

To put it mildly, this has not worked. The theory was that feeding the wolf would starve it. But, somehow, the beast is stronger than ever. Reactionary centrists simply cannot account for this outcome. All they can think to do is keep throwing more meat.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/08/2025

it’s another example of the media-driven phenomenon in which republicans don’t have to answer for open racism by politicians in actual positions of power and democrats must answer for every woke sixteen year old with a tumblr account

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/08/2025

it’s not that we don’t know how to solve a lot of these problems, it’s that we don’t want to

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 19/08/2025

It's 2018. The LA City Council is opposing SB827 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,663 It's 2019. The LA City Council is opposing SB50 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,791 It's 2025. The LA City Council is opposing SB79 because it overrides local control. Rent is $2,625

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/08/2025

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/08/2025

it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 11/08/2025

In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.

New York, NY – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, candidate for Mayor of New York City, today announced ‘Zohran’s Law,’ a plan to protect the city’s rent-stabilized apartments from being occupied by high-income individauls, ensuring these limited, affordable units go to New Yorkers who actually need them.

Under Cuomo’s proposal, when a rent-stabilized apartment becomes vacant, the incoming individual income would be capped so that the annual rent makes up at least 30 percent of that income. For example, if an apartment rents for $2,500 a month ($30,000 per year), the new tenant’s income could not exceed $100,000.

New York City is in the grip of a housing emergency. The city does not have enough units, and the drastically low vacancy rate is driving up prices, squeezing families, and forcing many to leave in record numbers.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/08/2025

the left did their part during Biden's presidency - they weren't the ones gumming up the works, everything that didn't pass was because of Manchin or Sinema now, in the face of open fascism, a little party solidarity is the absolute least they should expect

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

DC statehood absolutely needs to be a non-negotiable for every Democrat running for office. and senate dems must support abolishing the filibuster to push it through

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 11/08/2025

Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall. If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is (h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

lot of parallels here with twitter. Bezos doesn't have a vision going forward because the whole vision was to gut the post as a liberal bastion. generating revenue would be nice, but the real point was just to remove an obstacle to fascist consolidation.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Border Patrol at a Home Depot in Los Angeles days after the 9th circuit affirmed a court order that purports to block this exact behavior. They don't even know who they're chasing! This is insane. Send them all to jail.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I think the invasion hoax is just as much about the idea about criminalizing the domestic supporters of immigrants (the Democrats) who are “traitors” and “treasonous” for not wanting to shoot the “invaders.” So they can square this circle with more insane triangulation

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Mike English @mocomikee.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Do not believe it when people tell you the opposite, it is at best self serving when they do so, which is understandable, but still harmful

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/07/2025

for anyone who looks at the predicted electoral college realignment in 2030 and starts running around with their hair on fire, here's the blue state problem in a nutshell: people want to live there but can't build more houses

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