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ClaireWXY

@clairewxy.bsky.social
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Architect, Urbanist, Public Market enthusiast, pro-walking and cycling Canadian and "American by Birthright" Focuses most of the time on building great spaces and places, public buildings and civic infrastructure.

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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Everyone running in the midterms should be playing this over and over again. How quickly his supporters forget how wrong and incompetent Trump was last term and this one being wrong is the only constant
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Maybe Canada could do a version of this plan. 25k deposit aid for first time home/apartment buyers would help a lot. So would building 1M housing units
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fixing the headline @NYT Washington Taxed Its Millionaires, THEY DIDN'T LEAVE. The Rich STILL Want It Repealed. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed. (Gift Article)
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Today in @Newark at least two maybe more skilled construction workers were taken by ICE early this morning on Labor Day. No criminal records just decent normal people working on our housing project who now can't. Hurting people whose charges are civil violations should be a crime #StopICE @aclu.org
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Noting the death of Barton Myers, architect of the unprecedented student housing in Edmonton HUB Mall. A huge influence on housing and urbanism at many points of his career
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Google Maps (R) was my last Google product holdout - just seeing now that their mapping information cannot be trusted and based on the images below is corrupted. Go Apple Maps (L) !
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
GOP's Admin/majority is performing well below any criteria for competence. Yet this example is a speck in the universe of grift and graft that the GOP has enabled. Farmers Struggle to Get Basic Services From Depleted Agriculture Dept. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/u...
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Farmers Struggle to Get Basic Services From Depleted Agriculture Dept.
After the departure of thousands of federal workers, rural communities report problems obtaining loans, grants, technical assistance and support for infrastructure and other services.
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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NYC has the largest regional rail network in the USA. Pairing dense housing development on/next to stations, fare rationalization and 6 train-per-hour frequencies would vastly reshape the affordability across the region.
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The truth about terrible businesses is their contracts and commitments mean zero. The USA is in the hands of the worst businessperson on the planet- we are seeing firsthand the way a bad business is run, into the ground and without trust.. newrepublic.com/post/213431/...
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Trump Tries to Change Terms of Saudi Nuclear Deal—After It Was Signed
Trump wants to change the conditions of the agreement that was signed just hours ago. The White House can’t explain what’s going on.
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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
U.S:This blog should be required reading for public officials. This lot used to be a mixed use building. But we directly reward parking lots over housing in our tax code. Why are we subsidizing less productive uses of land?
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Love California. Defining selfish 3rd richest person #intheworld says he can't afford to pay CA taxes #googleeyed : Darien Shankar “Sending your assistant to get a driving licence in Nevada, spending Christmas at your home in Miami and writing a mean tweet about California are only moves on paper"
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This opening of the 1619 Project has long been the most ringing sentence for me about this country, its founding, and its founding document. Its truth could apply to everyone who sought to broaden and deepen equality and rights.
Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. lack mericans have fought to make them true. --essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/07/2026
Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation's independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.
What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city's waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.
Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.
Happy Fourth of July, New York City.
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
More gaslighting of Americans...he has aided and abetted Putin's communist totalitarian regime and is taking over deals with private companies yet.. "T uses Mount Rushmore speech to warn of a “mortal threat” from communism - South Dakota Searchlight"
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Gotta disagree. I applaudTaylor Swift, taking much of the wind out of Trump's 250 messy slog telling America what he thinks we should like--- by creating her own news takeover simply celebrating her love decisions. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/o...
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Opinion | Taylor Swift, What Are You Doing?
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
10 day countdown starts..."Even without the president’s signature, the housing bill will become law after 10 days excluding Sundays unless President Trump decides to veto it, which he has not indicated that he will do." True or False?
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California Democrats @cademocrats.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Imagine telling Americans you'll only help lower housing costs if Congress makes it harder for people to register to vote. That’s what the President of the United States did.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19/06/2026
At the Knicks parade, a woman saved a life by leaping onto a roof to administer narcan to someone who had fallen unresponsive. New Yorkers are super heroes! Video: lydstorey
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Barbie Williams @barbiewilliams892.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Remember when we had a President who loved his dog
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.
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God @thegodshow.com · 20/05/2026
The most corrupt president in the history of the world and it’s not close.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Trump is looting our country. He just gave us (more) proof. "When asked about potential conflicts of interest, Trump responded: “I found out that nobody cared, and I’m allowed to.” open.substack.com/pub/lizoyer/...
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Trump is looting our country. He just gave us (more) proof.
This week, Trump filed a government ethics disclosure known as Form 278-T. It's a roadmap to the corruption and conflicts of interest that have pervaded his presidency.
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
#riseup Go @bradlander.bsky.social
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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numberseventyeight.bsky.social @numberseventyeight.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
@washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
#LessonsforAmerica "Now people no longer have to walk to work past... hate-mongering propaganda. There is no more visual pollution or that awful propaganda that took a toll on mental health,” he said. “This is a breath of fresh air."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Amazing @NYT does not use the correct term ACA!! But clearly Congress doesn't serve people or a free and fair market. Since Congress Let Obamacare Subsidies Expire, Millions Are Dropping Coverage www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/b...
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Since Congress Let Obamacare Subsidies Expire, Millions Are Dropping Coverage
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Jay Hightman @jay.hightman.org · 25/04/2026
Trump brags about donating his Presidental salary! Donald Trump's presidential salary is $400,000.00 per year, mandated by U.S. law. He also receives a $50,000.00 annual expense allowance, a $100,000.00 travel account, and $19,000.00 for entertainment. Cost of golfing so far... $250,000,000.00!
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Hoping @mayor.nyc.gov reconsiders this. The more pedestrians the easier job NYPD has keeping everyone safe and maybe they can get out of their squad cars and get on bikes.
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Asked last year whom the proposed arch would be for, Trump told reporters, “Me.” #ugh #badbuildings #presidentialhorrorshow
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Trump's plan for a triumphal arch gets initial green light from federal panel
The Commission of Fine Arts approved early designs for the project, which at 250 feet would be twice the height of the Lincoln Memorial and almost the same as the Capitol.
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Trump's MAGA America/ led by the biggest tax cheater, and a party that let him defund and DOGE the IRS, to creating a #movement of #taxcheats. #MACANation
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/04/2026
Trump’s obscene budget.
Last year, while the billionaire class became much richer as the working class struggled to survive, Trump gave a $1 trillion tax break to the 1% and paid for it by throwing 15 million Americans off the health care they desperately need.

This year, while Trump and Netanyahu started a war in Iran, the president wants to increase military spending by $500 billion and pay for that war by reducing funding for childcare, health care, affordable housing and other domestic needs. 

This is what Trump’s agenda is all about: making himself and his fellow Oligarchs even richer, while decimating programs that working families, the elderly and the children rely on.

That is an obscene set of priorities. Congress must reject this proposal and pass a budget that works for all of us, not just the 1%.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 04/04/2026
Trump wants to build a ballroom—I want to build more affordable housing, and only one of us sits on the Appropriations Committee. His budget is going right in the trash as far as I’m concerned.
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Scott Cuddy @scottcuddy.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The big story isn't in the headline. Trump's HUD, devastated by personnel cuts, isn't processing waivers. It's not the laws fault, it's the administration. share.google/6HECsMEXnZOD...
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A Build America, Buy America law is causing construction delays amid the US housing crisis
A law requiring that most materials in federally funded affordable housing are made in America is fully kicking in
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
No reporting as of 8PM the numbers attending all the NYC #NoKings protests from @nytimes.com & their photos avoided showing the crowds... maybe they should change their name to the #TheShortTimes
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposes $375 million penalty.
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Also summarized here www.vitalcitynyc.org/nyc-trash-re...
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The Hidden Cost of Trash
How to make waste removal much more affordable for New Yorkers
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
What will prevent this? A rebound in immigration --maybe we should vote in politicians that value immigrants, refugees and migrants for their contributions to America for the benefit of retiring Americans www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Will I Get My Full Social Security Benefits? Definitely, Maybe
Relatively fewer workers are paying in, while retirees are living longer. Something has to change.
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
www.archpaper.com/2026/03/new-... Fun to have an article to post #housing #affordability #newyork
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Election_Every @electionevery.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
#Iran EXPLAIN WHY #Trump and #WhiskeyBoy need to keep Bombing Iran if they have 100% won the war? Why do other countries (who Trump has dismissed this year) need to come and help? Why are media outlets censored from reporting inside #Israel? @news.dw.com @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social @thestar.com
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... A madman without a driving license has let the drunk backseat driver tell him what to do and F1 has given them vehicles; meanwhile the state patrol officers are focused on finding cyclists and pedestrians to arrest.
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‘War leader’ Trump fixates on trivial matters as Iran death toll mounts
Experts query ‘mix-up of priorities’ as president plays golf, posts old pictures and repeats details of Bill Maher feud
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
What happened to the environmental engineers at USACE? Have they all been laid off?
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
@schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social let's hope you stand up for us and stop this grifter from getting his hands on more insider trading on the backs on the victims of the Trump Regime.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
In 1973, a veto-proof majority of Congress took the position that POTUS’s constitutional powers to use military force are limited to: 1) declaration of war 2) specific statutory authorization 3) national emergency triggered by attack on U.S., its territories or possessions, or armed forces. 1/n
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ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Overheard from actual Texan Male over 50 "You knew these kids playing cowboys and Indians; they were the ones who attacked the sandhill from the front and didn't notice the kids behind them with pails of water"
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