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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I think the bigger issue is that he makes it sound like he definitely was invited to, and went to, pedo island, because he is a terrible liar

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Don’t worry, I just heard Governor Murphy on the radio and he said he’s still fighting congestion pricing. Which will do absolutely nothing to fix NJTransit. But don’t worry!

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I think it’s less about AI (which I am not convinced can actually reduce demand for labor), and more about a backlash against the early 2020s welfare state expansion and strong position of labor due to low unemployment

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Thank you for this analysis, it’s useful. I think two other factors matter (just speculating): first, it gets rid of penalties when many are already not paying, decreasing criminalization, and second, it saves low income people hundreds of dollars per year or more. Both of those are big impacts.

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

So much unaddressed trauma, bubbling to the surface all the time

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The good news is that he’s already preparing for his pivot to content creation

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Andrew Cuomo hates New York City

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

They’re so far up their own ass they can’t see that if they actually endorsed Lander, it would make a big difference in the outcome. Better for them to publish this incomprehensible non-endorsement than to endorse Cuomo, though

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Their next headline will be “Arrested Senator Appears to Highlight Concerns, but Others Say He Interrupted”

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Who’s going to do the arresting? The police won’t do that. Who is on our side?

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

They should have abolished ICE and defunded the police when they had the chance. How can we get these agencies under control?

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

How do we stop these rogue police agencies?

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

And it’s the same reason why people said “defund the police,” and it is still right. They are parasites using our resources against us

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

They have contempt for protest and ordinary people. They think anyone in the streets is a dirty hippie or a radical. They are so misguided that they can’t see that they win because of protest and organizing.

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Wow I’m going to use this technique. Brilliant 😂

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I remember going to a lot of late 2000s/early 2010s protests where it was me and then the people who had been coming out since the ‘80s or earlier. It was a lonely time in some ways but I learned so much from them

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

But this hasn’t passed into law yet. There are still opportunities to use the narrow divide in Congress to change the bill or make it fail. Maybe you’ll be right in the end, but we’re not at the end yet.

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I’m not convinced that the IRA approach of delivering money/jobs to red districts has failed. It has, at the very least, complicated the negotiations on Trump’s budget bill this week and still has the potential to kill it, via pressure on Republicans who have green industries in their districts

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I wonder if these guys eat hot dogs, or if that’s off limits too

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

They have this at Gloria’s on Nostrand Ave

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The votes of the three House Democrats who died since November would have been enough to stop this bill. I hope that it doesn’t make it through the Senate. The cuts would be catastrophic.

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This is exactly what congestion pricing advocates said would happen, and why it would have been a better move politically to stick to the original date in June

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I wonder if this would also be true of other celebrities with Trump’s level of fame, like Oprah or the Rock. Is it just about celebrity?

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I wonder if anyone’s ever written about how evil can be banal

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

We’ve seen both, and the two sides are in a heightened tug of war

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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 19/05/2025

What fans don’t know is that the dinosaur billboard, Sherita, was never about honest, quirky old working-class Brooklyn. Instead she and several frowsier sister signs mark a nasty pattern of northern Brooklyn real estate manipulation. www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/19/s...

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The Terrible Truth About Sherita, Brooklyn’s Beloved Billboard Dinosaur

The vanished icon of Atlantic Ave. was the relic of a secretive family who grabbed buildings from immigrant owners across the booming borough.

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Live in a time with a polio vaccine? Nah, I want trench foot

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Damn maybe they shouldn’t have laid off a bunch of FAA employees

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

What if I fight like hell for Senate procedures or for my faction of consultants to control the party?

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I think it’s because the U.S. is an oligarchy and the political system does not respond—without huge organized effort—to the needs of poor people

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Some journalists love acting like they’re judges. “But it doesn’t meet this very specific standard!” Sir, you made that standard up and it’s not an ethical violation to see what’s in front of your eyes

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

It will take real price controls to bring prices back down

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is great but it’s also kind of funny that his brother is talking so much

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

She should wear it as a badge of pride

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

If they had elected an American pope back in 1200, things would have gone very differently, I can tell you that!

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I wonder if he’ll stay on the board of Columbia

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

They’re both the strong man and the biggest victim

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I can’t believe how well it is paying off to have been an anti-vax grifter during the worst of the pandemic. Endorse killing kids and a million+ deaths and you get a good, powerful job out of it. Truly sad.

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

It’s not a misunderstanding. It is his vision he wants to impose on the world. He understands where things stand now (ie, noncitizens have many due process rights) perfectly well.

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Are you a secular Jew? I am, and I grew up in the suburbs (although not that region or time), and this movie speaks to me on an elemental level

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

This is exactly the outcome that leftists predicted when Keir Starmer won. He is paving the way for fascism in the UK

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

They’re stupid. Very very not intelligent. Morally obtuse and greedy and narcissistic too

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Have you tried not living in a collapsing empire and nascent authoritarian regime?

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Many people are literally dying from it lol

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Diet Babka @dietbabka.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

It’s deeper than that. Democrats are distancing themselves from protest because of the 2024 Gaza protests—they are caught between their base and their donors, and siding with the donors. They won 2020 bc of the energy of the protests then; they lost 2024 because they ran against the protests.

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