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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Montgomery County can't even be bothered to build sidewalks near schools, idk how long it will be til they consider pedestrianizing a school-adjacent street

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

With one exception: getting safety improvements that require "community engagement." in MoCo, homeowners get to VOTE on whether or not sidewalks and speed bumps can be installed. Folks who walk or bike? they get to beg their neighbors to consider their safety

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've adopted this mindset and it's made me a better advocate. Now I go straight to the decision makers rather than wasting time trying to convince NIMBYs

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This reminded me that before we were married, our rabbi told us that getting a prenup was one of the most romantic things we could do because it showed that we cared for each other even if our marriage ended. Jews are amazing.

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Michael Herzing @mherz67.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

E-bikes give people affordable, clean transportation. If kids are getting hit by pickup trucks, the answer isn’t to treat e-bikes like the problem; it’s protected bike lanes, safer crossings, lower traffic speeds, and infrastructure that keeps everyone separated from multi-ton vehicles.

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This is in reference to one particular bad thing, but i think it's useful guidance for all sorts of circumstances

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I'm not familiar with this plan but it makes a lot of sense to build multifamily housing inside the beltway and along a planned BRT route. basically the perfect location for that type of development IMO the demands in the petition are almost all designed to make it impossible

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 05/05/2026

Great (if depressing) read on what it's like to listen to people bend themselves into incredible knots because they don't want to appear to be against paying taxes to build a library. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/we-dont-deba...

oaklandreviewofbooks.org

We don’t debate the library tax

At the El Cerrito Democratic Club’s meeting to discuss Measure C, April 28, 2026.

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

i've been doing a lot of jewish doom posting so here's some jewish joy posting. i finally figured out the four strand braid and i've never made a prettier challah

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

there are 100% some people out there - jewish zionists and non-jewish zionists alike - that make their zionism the crux of their identity and are very loud about it. that doesn't negate the very real existence of antisemitism--and the real antisemitism that sometimes appears in antizionism

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

perhaps wiping them out will cure us of all sin? I don't think every person who believes "zionists" are the ultimate beneficiaries of white privilege also believes "so therefore we should wipe out 'zionists' to rid ourselves of evil" but uh i think they can be convinced

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

this is helpful because it makes something so clear -- all "zionists" benefit from white privilege because, of course, all "zionists" are white. perhaps the ultimate whites. perhaps they are the root from which all the evil of white supremacy stems from. perhaps...

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I admit I was pretty naive about antisemitism before 10/7. Even after Charlottesville, I thought it was a fringe belief. I didn't realize how deeply antisemitic beliefs were embedded in much of our culture, or how dismissive well-meaning people would be about it.

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I expect virulent antisemitism/philosemitism from the right. it's the minimization/disregard from the left that hurts me.

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I've been reading a lot about antisemitism recently (happy passover to me) and what I'm feeling really struck by is how unwilling so many people are to consider/interrogate their own biases when it comes to Jews

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

taking the "self-hating jew" thing to a whole new level

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

good lord. we really have a ways to go

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

wait that process came directly from the CE?? i assumed it was some leftover bureaucratic nightmare

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

so fascinating to me when people's progressivism stops at bus riders Mink is a fierce advocate for the marginalized--unless they ride the bus

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

this is the exact dynamic that's playing out at my workplace and it makes it so much harder to address actual antisemitism

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

how many people are unable to access the middle class because we've made housing exclusionary? how much wealth are we losing due to outdated, segregationist policies? how many kids are deprived the benefits of safe housing and good schools by NIMBYism? these are the questions to ask

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

i want to remind all housing advocates that you can tell journalists when their framing is off

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Completely agree. I'm grateful it passed and the Council demonstrated political will, but it could have been so much more.

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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

<2,000: how many people wrote letters of opposition about to the council about the University Blvd Corridor Plan. 229,289: how many times people boarded the M12-University Blvd bus in September 2025.

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

are you guys gonna acknowledge the nazi tattoo or what

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Natali fought hard for the UBCP. Compromises had to be made to get this plan through, but she was always a steadfast advocate for it. that's what you're missing.

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

this is why my fitness influencer career never took off

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I see something similar with NIMBYism. No one (well, almost no one) wants to believe that they are personally contributing to the housing shortage by blocking projects, requesting one more study, etc. It's easier to blame a developer, "corporate landlords," the list goes on.

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

i am begging my government to stop asking my permission to do good things

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

What other basic safety infrastructure do we leave up to a vote of regular residents?

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

and yet it happens all the time. Last year, my neighbors and i were doxxed by another neighbor for requesting sidewalks on routes to transit, shops, schools.

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I attended the Univ Blvd Corridor Plan hearing last night and gave testimony. Here are my thoughts as we approach Rosh Hashanah and the Days of Awe:

Isaiah 58:5: Is such the fast I desire,
A day for people to starve their bodies?
Is it bowing the head like a bulrush
And lying in sackcloth and ashes?
Do you call that a fast,
A day when GOD is favorable?
No, this is the fast I desire:
To unlock fetters of wickedness,
And untie the cords of the yoke
To let the oppressed go free;
To break off every yoke.

It is to share your bread with the hungry,
And to take the wretched poor into your home;
When you see the naked, to clothe them,
And not to ignore your own kin.
Then shall your light burst through like the dawn
And your healing spring up quickly;
Your Vindicator shall march before you,
The Presence of GOD shall be your rear guard.
Then, when you call, GOD will answer;
When you cry, [God] will say: Here I am.
If you banish the yoke from your midst,
The menacing hand, and evil speech,
And you offer your compassion to the hungry
And satisfy the famished creature—
Then shall your light shine in darkness,
And your gloom shall be like noonday.

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

in fairness, my daughter was able to use a DC park for the first time in her life recently (she is a baby)

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

has anyone made a joke yet about eye exams being the original peer review

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

We are indeed blessed to be here--and my faith tells me that we should share those blessings. Thank you for articulating that, and I'm sorry for your loss.

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I'm so sorry this happened to you and Drizzy, Dan. I'm glad you're both okay and I'm glad you had the strength to write this essay.

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

My view: tikkun olam, as its understood in my Jewish circles, is volunteerism and certain progressive values. It gives you the warm and fuzzies. Welcoming the stranger is harder. It requires you to leave your comfort zone. But it's what Gd demands of us.

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

a lot of my fellow yidden feel totally comfortable upholding segregationist policies in their own neighborhoods, but will put a "hate has no home here" sign in their yard

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Not to get theological on main but MoCo politics have really pushed me to embrace the core jewish value of "welcoming the stranger" over the more popular jewish value of "tikkun olam" (repairing the world)

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Thank you for your leadership!

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

the proposed changes reflect ZTAs he introduced!

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Jenny Schuetz @jennyschuetz.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

May 2025 be the year we stop freezing neighborhoods in amber and start building more homes where people want to live.

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Dara Segal @darashef.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

We need to talk about how the Airbnb Christmas commercial is NIMBY

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