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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 4h

three magical words to pause anti-RTM discourse seems to be: what about Caltrain?

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 6h

Whatever you do, don’t place this in context as a outlier. That would be to argue with strangers.

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executed during his term, according to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC).
Between 2014 and 2020, 160 executions were carried out by state governments, according to DPIC. Of those, only two Democratic governors oversaw any executions—the other was former Missouri governor Jay Nixon, who oversaw 17 of them.
Republican administrations carried out the remaining 140.
McAuliffe's website does not state his current position on capital punishment, and his campaign did not respond to a request for comment by publication. On Friday, gubernatorial candidate Jennifer Carroll Foy tweeted, "As a former public defender, I have seen the inequities in our criminal justice system firsthand. As Governor, I will repeal the death penalty in Virginia."

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 5h

read your editorial. thought it was awful. question: why does the editorial consist of virtually no info on Caltrain, which serves more stations in San Jose than BART, and is planning for the same closures/cuts as BART should RTM fail to pass? shouldn't San Jose voters know RTM impacts Caltrain too?

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5h

FWIW: theologically speaking, the NAE (which represents evangelicals w/different capital punishment views) coming out against this is a bigger deal than the USCCB (a tradition that explicitly condemns the death penalty, full stop). The fact that they’re using the same terms is quite a thing.

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 5h

Next time I’m gonna buy in Atherton; I really need those added days to figure out where to get the extra $11.5 million

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 5h

Let me see if I’m following: this unjust execution is “the Dems” and not “McAuliffe,” whereas the legislative accomplishment of the first Democratic trifecta in a quarter century is “Virginia” and not “the Dems”

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Jonathan Diaz @jonathandiaz.bsky.social · 5h

After pressure from the DC Board of Elections and Election Protection organizations, a spokesperson for the Guard said that they are addressing this specific incident, and that National Guard members are "directed not to monitor or secure polling locations" www.washingtonsun.com/metro/nation...

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D.C. Elections Board Asks National Guard to Stay Away From Ballot Drop Boxes

Guard members were seen standing next to a drop box in Foggy Bottom this week.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19h

In Silicon Valley, nexus torment you.

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 6h

I posted a little while back that no one ever talks about this but I really wonder if people just didn’t see this or store it in their memory

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 5h

The problem is the pipeline. The traditional "Sane conservative" spaces are all liberals or just straight fascists now. Pro-social conservative involved in civil society basically means "regular religious service attendee who votes Democrat." They *might* emerge as a faction in some blue states.

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 10h

Anything that sticks it to the Southside slumlord racket is good

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 10h

$1690 per person is reasonable. And I think plenty of college kids would be fine facing another window. Telegraph Ave is full of worse situations than that.

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 10h

$1690 per person is pretty reasonable

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 10h

I’m just not used to seeing such huge apartments built!

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 10h

The problem as always goes back to right wing callousness, but there are now plenty of people in the NGO industrial complex who seem threatened by any change in this, too. Institutionalizing those unhoused people who are a threat to themselves and others is “carceral.”

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 12h

A barbaric idea, beneath our dignity as a country. Push back on this.

Trump admin wants to televise an execution

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Rep. Pete Aguilar @aguilar.house.gov · 11h

Reports that ICE agents are being told to “go after anybody” in California are alarming. ICE is violently terrorizing our neighborhoods. House Democrats will continue to demand oversight over this out of control agency. Accountability is coming.

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 11h

Five bed two bath is pretty nuts (I guess that’s college kids sharing spaces)

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Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 15h

The Collins position is that it's very bad and illegal that someone bribed her. That the briber is correctly in jail. She just said this on TV as a... gotcha? She clearly had no choice but to take the illegal bribe, I'm sure *some* Maine voters will believe that

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 11h

Shared some thoughts on the Trump administration’s boat strikes: “In the absence of an armed conflict,” Finucane said, “the term for premeditated killing is generally murder.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to … the Opposite of Trump

The world is watching a split screen: In one panel, humanity sees jurists such as Navi Pillay of South Africa, who just won the Nobel Peace Prize for her decades of struggling for international law, i...

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine if a daycare center only installed electrical outlet covers one at a time after a toddler shocked himself, rather than just identifying all the outlets and covering them at once. That's basically the modern US city government approach to fixing streets.

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 21h

People in the Bay Area have this way of exiting buses and trains and then immediately making an enormous counterclockwise arc that prevents other people from boarding the same vehicle

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026

Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...

Proposal Favor or oppose
Favor Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices 89 10
Limited terms for justices 79 21
Increase number of justices 53 47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22h

NYC is on track to have its lowest rate of shootings EVER, and the thing that is going to ruin that is the presence of ICE. If the police commissioner cannot pick the side of New Yorkers, she obviously has to be fired. The numbers do not lie.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah I sort of abstractly oppose the execution of Nidal Hasan on abstract principle grounds, but I’d be lying if I’d said it in of itself was something I thought was a relatively massive injustice. But live-streaming it is so massively degrading and humiliating.

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 22h

Scary and the Henderstabs

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Scary and the Henderstabs

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The new documents exposing ExxonMobil's misleading claims about CCS are cited in a friend-of-the-court brief @ucs.org filed in Suncor v. Boulder. The brief outlines ExxonMobil & Suncor's concealment & denial of the hazards they knew would result from the normal use of their fossil fuel products.

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Experts File Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Suncor v Boulder Documenting Companies’ Climate Deception

Experts File Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Supreme Court Case Documenting Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil Decades of Climate Deception

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 22h

It’s so good I love how Garak is in it

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I do think it is a lot less true in the US because the left cranks just peeled off and became Trumpists

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Steven Shea 🇺🇦DC statehood now @stevenlsjr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Left- and right-wing Hegelians eventually sorted out their differences at a six-month-long seminar called the Battle of Stalingrad” - Richard Rorty

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You know some of the UC buildings are undersized. They should be upping their game. Move Berkeley Law there, idk.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We need to incept the idea of Trump renaming the GOP to the Trump Party, and by “incept” I mean have a reporter mention it once within his earshot and he’ll become obsessed with it and not let it go

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You don’t need mathematicians’ permission to do math. The whole fucking point of math is that either the math checks out or it doesn’t. FWIW I’m happy OpenAI released what they have—we should regard it with skepticism until verified more thoroughly but these results are quite useful!

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This arbitrary change in terminology—which Trump and other members of his regime have done before—is a well-worn tactic for authoritarians. It may seem farcical, but that’s actually the point: it’s an intentional farce used to test the subservience of his supporters and the resolve of his enemies.

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 09/10/2026

On Supreme Court term limits: Sen. Susan Collins: “Absolutely not. I’m sure that Troy wants to pack the court.” Troy Jackson: “I wouldn’t have to pack it if you didn’t put in Kavanaugh."

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dr peppermint patty @jessespector.com · 09/10/2026

the pope (turning chair around): you know who else had an important walk? that’s right, chris widger in game 3 of the 2005 world series. big insurance run in the 14th inning for our sox

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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Socrates: But even you, O jurors, should have good hopes when you face death, and you should have in mind this one thing as true: that nothing bad can happen to a good person, either in life or when he comes to its completion. Athenian Juror George Takei: It’s Tru, deau!

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff and El-Sayed took different tacks tonight vs their opponents—El-Sayed was more of a subtext of “you dumb fucking racist jackass” while Ossoff’s was more “if you fell down at a gas station I’d toss a lit match on you”—and I don’t think either of those is a bad choice tbh

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/10/2026

Tom Emmer is the congressman for my hometown, St. Cloud. The growing Somali population there is who are buying up the big houses that my friends there grew up in. They’re the only ones who seem to give the city life anymore. Fuck him for talking about them like this.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's worth noting that the decision to kill him by firing squad - chosen for its symbolism, according to Hegseth - gets the symbolism entirely backwards. For example: we hung the Nazis convicted at Nuremburg, instead of giving them the death by firing squad they would have preferred.

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Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

People saying this guy is getting ruled by consultants or something lol I'm not behind the scenes with the campaign, I'm not there, but I see a man of principles. I think Maine does too.

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