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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Thread: There are so many problems with this NYTimes piece, starting with the assumption that being a "centrist"—whatever that is right now—is somehow "non-partisan" and a virtue unto itself. Being a "centrist" is just as ideological or "partisan" as anything else. Also, voters “prefer capitalism to

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Why are these three politicians at the top of this article? I know what Mamdani’s message is, and to some extent AOC’s, but what is Hakeem Jeffries’ “message”? Is there a single regular person who can articulate it?

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Hey @demgovs.org — you promised you weren’t asking for money but then asked for money, so basically lied to bait me into this survey. This is a bad thing to do because it sends the message that you don’t care what people actually think. No wonder the Democratic Party is historically unpopular.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Trump’s plan for a “midterm convention” is actually very smart. As I wrote for @currentaffairs.bsky.social , unlike Biden, Trump grasps the importance of ensuring that people recognize, concretely, what the federal government is doing for them: www.currentaffairs.org/news/make-bu...

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Please stop the endless spam. It doesn’t help you and as far as I can tell you and the democrats need all the help you can get.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Stop the endless spam please. It really doesn’t help you, and as far as I can tell, you and the rest of the Democrats need all the help you can get.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Noise pollution in America is totally out of control and it’s destroying our health. I’m on a quick vacation in a small New England town near the ocean and this is what I’ve been listening to for the past 30 minutes. I hear stuff like this most days. Quiet is the exception

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Rhode Island’s GOP candidate for suburban senate district 4 cites “crumbling infrastructure” and “rising taxes” as problems he wants to address simultaneously and I’m reminded of this Venn diagram:

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

This tiny, iridescent friend landed on my leg while I was outside this AM drinking my morning coffee. There are so many beautiful, wondrous insects in this world and it breaks my heart that we are wiping so many of them out.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

It would be radical this were actually a real effort and not just fundraising spam. These people really do take Americans for dumb

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Seen in Texas: Highways are kid- and family-friendly infrastructure!

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

“We begged you”…and “If you don’t give us money now our dreams of ending Dark Money’s iron grip on our elections will be crushed” — lol who are these ads for?

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This site is a truly Liberal hellhole

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

These temps in Washington DC in June are insane.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

It makes me sad how much I now dread the summer season. This is the week’s forecast in Rhode Island. It just sucks.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

He doesn’t care about the country. He’s not a good person.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

So many spaces in America are indistinguishable from the least developed countries in the world.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

See below: “It’s been a good couple of days for Trump” and “Trump’s best results since February.”

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Sheesh. The world we live in. A friend told me the auto industry deliberately makes certain pickup trucks loud. It’s true. Apparently the purpose is to “deliver a perceived boost in performance” and “make driving feel more engaging and sporty.” We are one seriously stupid, fucked up country.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I do believe this is one of the bleakest things I’ve come across yet about the impacts of this administration. (I can’t get the pages to appear in the right order so you may need to swipe back to page 1. It’s 4 pages total)

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

No, @nytimes.com - it raises absolutely zero ethical issues for the president. None at all.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Seeing this brand spanking new Acela train being tested at Providence Station was such an antidepressant. More government infrastructure like this at a much wider scale please!!!

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

A rather astonishing page out of Gary Gerstle’s book Liberty and Coercion explaining the rise of the American right since the 1990s:

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The Boston subway system is remarkably clean, quiet, and efficient.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Today’s T*sla T*kedown event in Providence.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Modernism doesn’t “suck,” and it’s historically ignorant and politically reactionary to say so. The modernist movement was, in fact, strongly associated with social welfare and a movement to bring high-quality objects to ordinary people.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

If you’re wondering why these protests are important, please read this piece by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social - www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/tesla-is-m...

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Billionaire monopolist Bezos whose wealth was built on massive public subsidy & whose company is highly centrally planned just said WaPo will no longer print views opposing “personal liberties & free markets.” I wrote about the free market myth for @currentaffairs.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mryrmz96

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Here’s a *Democratic* mayor from Rhode Island declaring that he will use state power to keep out low-income housing and instead replace it with a “public safety complex.” No further comment.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The “Order/Disorder” discourse in urban planning circles is fascinating.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This review of a shirt jacket online just says everything about American car culture.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This is utterly barbaric on so many levels.

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Allison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Not a day goes by when I don’t think about this map and what could have been.

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