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David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social · 10h

Los Fabulosos Cadillacs came out of a period in Argentina when there was the kind of dictatorship that MAGA wishes they could have. Upbeat music for the downtrodden en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matador... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjPA...

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Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - Matador (Official Video)

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Govind Acharya 🇲🇽 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @gringostani.bsky.social · 11h

Besides Trump's love of tariffs, his most predictable thing is showing solidarity with men who perpetuate violence against women.

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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 11h

Never forget when Shoup taught us that the value of parking spaces in the USA is likely more than the value of all the roads and all the cars that drive on them.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14h

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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ianjohnbuckley.bsky.social @ianjohnbuckley.bsky.social · 13h

Its a great shame that significantly policy like this works slowly and silently in the background because she deserves more recognition that Orgeon policy is reacting to the housing crisis far better than places like California

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

it's a theory the same way gravity is a theory

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David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social · 17h

This Brady Bunch reboot sucks

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 17h

Cynicism is a dumb person's impression of a smart person.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 20h

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social · 19h

If you traveled back in time 15 years and showed this to someone, what the hell would they think?!

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Mike Perham @mike.perham.net · 20h

You want economic development? Housing affordability? More kids and families? Build lots of these everywhere.

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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 22h

Incredibly important for Dem electeds and candidates to get this dynamic and recognize that they will not get policy concessions. They will get massive resistance and need every policy lever just to stop the worst people in America from committing horrors. Run on accountability, then govern on it.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 23h

And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.

Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put her vision for the city like this: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 23h

I'm not sure who saw this coming, but so far nearly all the jobs created during the second Trump administration have gone to women.

Line chart titled "So far during Trump's second term, just 8% of all job growth has gone to men" showing change in employment by gender since January 2025. Total nonfarm employment grew by 776,000 jobs through September 2026, with women gaining 711,000 positions (92% of growth) while men added only 65,000 jobs (8% of growth). Women's employment gains accelerated sharply through 2026, reaching 711,000 by September, while men's employment growth remained flat with brief periods of decline, including a drop of 96,000 jobs in February 2026.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 23h

Wage growth just keeps slowing. And yes, wages are rising slower than prices, and no, that's not how economic growth is meant to work.

Line chart titled "Nominal wage growth is slowing" showing year-over-year growth in average hourly earnings of private-sector workers. Wage growth has declined steadily from a peak of 5.9% in early 2022 to 3.0% in September 2026, the slowest rate in the series. This nearly 3 percentage point drop over four and a half years indicates significantly cooler labor market conditions, with the deceleration accelerating in recent months as growth fell from the 3.7-3.9% range in 2025 to the low 3% range currently.

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David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are homes here in Bend that only exist because of her work. She's the real deal on this:

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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We’re LIVE. I’m taking the stage at @uoregon.bsky.social right now. Watch on KVAL or stream at KVAL.com.

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ll be talking about the age-friendliness case for neighborhood apartment buildings (including changes to elevator & staircase building codes that make them viable) y’all come

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Just use parallel side streets” The side streets vs the arterial:

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 01/10/2026

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

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David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As a parent, this is equal parts terrifying and a source of pride in my kid 😱

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David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@yimby.town schedule is out - it looks awesome! I hope it comes back to the west coast some time soon, because ... what a fun, interesting and insightful event!

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

French President Emmanuel Macron: “There is a crisis of effectiveness in our democracies. We have made our systems more sophisticated, but we have become extremely complex, less understandable and slower.

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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tonight, I’ll be laying out my vision for Oregon’s future and the stakes for this election at @uoregon.bsky.social. Set a reminder for 6 PM, tell a friend, and tune in on KVAL or stream at KVAL.com.

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David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good checklist of housing reforms. Thanks to @tinakotek.bsky.social, our stage legislature, and locally, @melaniekebler.bsky.social and our city council, we have done, or made real progress on a number of these. There's more to do, but Oregon should be proud www.mercatus.org/research/pol...

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Hide @wutherering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I do love a headline that says that exclusionary zoning will suffer an inevitable and crushing defeat. Yes 🥰

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 01/10/2026

this is completely unhinged, even by Trump's standards.

Have you seen the videos of Mitch McConnell back in the Senate? Do you think he should resign because of his health condition?

It was a disappointment to a lot of Republicans. So that's just—well, Sleepy Joe gave pardons to everybody. He gave them to Fauci. He gave them to this. But you mean I'm not allowed to give them, but Sleepy Joe's allowed to give them? This ain't gonna be much of a story. Here we are doing this. You haven't asked me one fucking positive question. All of this. What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative. Why are you devoting all this time to the White House? You know how I do, I do that out of my back pocket. I pay for a lot of it, but I fix it because the White House should look like that. It shouldn’t look like—if you would have stood in that balcony and looked at that wall, half the wall was falling. It's actually dangerous. People are walking under, crap was falling off it all the time. Every time it rained, it was leaking, horrible. Now it's perfect, and I would say that I should be given credit for fixing the White House because I'm also doing very well with the war. I'm doing very well with another war that we already won, Venezuela. Do you notice you haven't asked me a question about Venezuela?

We did earlier.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Conspiracy theories break your brain. Make you stupid. No, the Israeli government did not somehow get over 100 passengers and a stabbed Indian pilot and all the medical personnel who treated the pilot and the governments of the UAE and Saudi Arabia to all tell the same false story. That is absurd.

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Look Both Ways with David & Wes @lookbothwayspod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In the latest episode, a listener in Maine asked what David & Wes think about double-lane roundabouts. @wesmars.bsky.social did not hold back: "They're the worst."

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David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The worst thing about Mamdani is people wondering why their local elected officials can't somehow "be just like" a generationally talented and charismatic guy. Like they haven't thought that? Who wouldn't love to have all that charm? Support your local nerds if they're doing good work!

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"They hate bikes and e-bikes because they don’t use oil, and all federal policy in this area is devoted to making us burn more, at all times."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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

John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wild that he gets this coverage after he packed the Utah Supreme Court in order to try to prevent it from enforcing a referendum-passed gerrymandering ban to steal a congressional seat for the GOP (and disenfranchise his state's largest city)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

READ: If you haven’t seen this yet, please take a look. Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people from making rational judgements about driving. This study co-authored by @ianwalker.bsky.social looks at where this bias comes from & how it works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Screetshot of study title “Why Do Cars Get A Free Ride?” #CarBrain #Motonormativity

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David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Boulder is a good place for Bend to observe in terms of housing and what can go wrong

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026

i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker

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donnayoungdc @donnayoungdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

WHY are U.S. media companies accepting what they KNOW are STOLEN funds & running ILLEGALLY paid for ads on their networks? This is media being complicit in helping Mobster Trump & his Nazis STEAL American taxpayers' money to fund propaganda ads. Media DON'T have to take the money/run the ads!

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David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you can't show up with some enthusiasm for a candidate who shares 80, 70 or even 60% of your views when the alternative is somewhere around 10 to 20%, you might not be a very good ally

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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When Trump said he was sending troops to Portland, we said no and took him to court. 100 days later, they all went home, and not a single troop was on our streets. Now, one year later, we still stand up to the federal administration every single day.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not a red vs blue story. Interesting:

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 30/09/2026

"co-led by three of our nation's best minds"

Newt Gingrich, Palmer Luckey, and Elon Musk, as depicted by Grimace, the Hamburglar, and Captain Crook

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