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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 07/10/2026

One of the most salient divisions in American urban politics is between people who choose to live in cities because they actually like urban life and temporarily embarrassed suburbanites.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That odd feeling when someone you worked with for years is running for Congress and you are like "yeahh...". Like I need you to win to add to the majority, but I am skeptical of you given that I saw you not do a good job.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sure, we can think bigger and reconsider the whole BQE. However, there is no support at the federal level (which they would have to approve), and limited support at the state level. So what the hell is the city supposed to do with the sections they manage? Folks really need to be specific.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spending time on Twitter means you bump into simps promoting how great the billionaire class is, and you realize how much you find Robespierre inspiring.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The problem with what teachers want is that our current approach to grades makes it clear: any capstone project would yield widely varied results with pressure to race towards the bottom, or mastery driven by production rather than knowledge.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's the funny part; this man and the world he lives in is sociopathic that even a suckup writer can't help make him feel like a ghoul.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Trump permanently raising American gas prices might be the most pro-urbanist thing done by an American president in the last four decades.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've given in and started going on X; I'm sorry, the discourse around the Western Mass Lesbian Bar and NHJ is sooo much more interesting over there.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There is a big part of the left that gets stuck on private schools as the big bad, but I think this is an artifact of them being Northeast based. Go to other places in the country and plenty of rich people just are in nice suburbs and have no interest in being in a public with poor folks

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is basically MAGAism, but on the left. The great irony is that this comes from a climate journalist, and we know that actually, people moving to dense cities and continuing to densify is one of the best things you can do for the climate.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Lol, the Bari Weiss University for kids who are scared of brown people is now running a Federalist Society law school.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Controversially, I basically agree with this report and its critiques of education schools. www.aei.org/research-pro...

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The problem is that we are in a great moment of individualized truths and we have a large scale social and economic structure that enables it, so, tradeoffs.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Conspiracy theories are the language of the dispossessed" is the "Charlie Brown had hoes" of populism. No they aren't that isn't true.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fucking the most carbrained people on the planet.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The crazed panic around Flock (and by extension, it's now taking out speeding cameras) and data center water consumption is a bad sign for good left-wing policy and politics in the future.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The median municipal voter

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 26/08/2026

8/24 Humanity: “We need you to take care of an 80 year old, everyone know them, has had a worldwide impact.” Death: “On it.” 8/25 Humanity: “Look, this is our fault. We should have been more specific. But this one was in Home Alone 2.” Death: “Say no more.” 8/26 Humanity: “LISTEN FUCKO…”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Once again, a situation where only two future outcomes are viable: 1) Jail for all involved. 2) Pure retaliation by Dems, e.g. no delivery of social security checks to registered Republicans. Any other scenario means GOP fascism always wins because there's no penalty for their lawlessness.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When we take power again, we break these people with actively confiscatory tax rates.

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People Magazine @people.com · 25/08/2026

🔗: bit.ly/4qC1fWV Legendary singer-songwriter and country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. Her nephew revealed the news in a Aug. 25 Instagram video. 📷: Getty

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Since I was a teenager, I have loved this quote from the WW: "the voters that you champion and that I can’t stand” There is no way to get liberalism without democracy, but democracy may not be a good way to get good long term choices because as material reality gets easier, the voters get dumber.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I don't think I should have an 86 year old Senate, but I also think from MA, I should expect the most strident defense of LGBT rights in the country.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm considering writing a long-form piece for the first time about being in 'Woke 1.0' and just...the crazy, delirious, hopeful, screwed up, on-point the whole era was from inside of it in education (and in Brooklyn) and its political failure (and why in it, it's clear why it was largely right).

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is refusing to bake a cake for gay weddings only leftishly.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The research is pretty clear also that a primary indicator of health in the long run is your relationships with other!

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

When he is right, he is right. And he is right here. Also, as someone who had to navigate a tightrope during the 2016-2022 in education, oh boy. I definitely got stomped on for not being the 'right' kind of Latino (sorry, BIPOC) in my beliefs. freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/perhaps-wo...

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Perhaps "Woke 1.0" is an Admission of Past Mistakes and a Commitment to Doing Better

you can't make progress if you're obsessed with not being owned

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I cannot believe people are really trying to gaslight me on this. It got a lot of media attention that a FAMOUS PROFESSOR AT THE BEST UNIVERSITY IN THE COUNTRY turned out to have literally fabricated his entire bio and career? And you're gonna tell me it's the media's fault for reporting on this?

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

To me, one of the more interesting things on what Twitter became is that the DSA left stayed on Twitter, and in fact, a lot of the cultural left did too. I got back on Twitter for a month in June and the gay discourse was so much more interesting than here.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Low graduation rates and private non selective schools are the biggest 'stay away', but otherwise, go to college!

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Crockett being the only sore loser (and Talarico still polling quite strongly) is so absurd. she’s completely nuked her political career because she wants to be an influencer or something

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

One of the many reasons why I don't join the DSA.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is a broader problem! Yale basically has a minor in education! Elite universities are not really interested in solving specific problems in society.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Jesus fucking Christ man

Rod Dreher • @roddreher
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I met Tyler when we both spoke at an Open Society (Soros) event. We challenged the room's consensus from the socialist Left and the (semi) postliberal Right. We went to dinner after, and became friends over talking abt growing up similarly, & how self-absorbed lib elites are.

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hammerhead179.bsky.social @hammerhead179.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Putting this down for later. I had an epiphany today. A reason to be extremely opposed to AI Data Center Glonzoism: When the Water Scarcity Crisis begins: People are going to blame AI instead of the true culprits (Cattle Ranchers.) "Why should I give up Beef when we can give up AI?"

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The options are dark: 1. Bailout a terrible, uncompetitive industry that wants to foist its products on Americans by sacrificing our future. 2. Allow millions to go unemployed.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

More importantly, I am okay with having a mediocre design of my rent is cheaper!

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I am confused by this Flock Camera thing. Is this just a manifestation of car brain anti-automated speeding that then went broader but still is at its root against speeding enforcement?

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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Leftists for economic illiteracy continues to suck ass because leftism/progressivism is THE movement that needs a robust understanding of economics. You’re attempting to redistribute resources for a more egalitarian society, the more *efficient* your policy is the better it is.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The responses to this are an argument against populism: it flattens society into artificial groups of "the people" and "the elites." In this flattening, it also forces "the people" to be reactionary. It then discourages questions about "the people's" stances and reframes them as criticism.

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

YIMBYs vs our (leftist, somehow?) opponents

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Pseudotsuga @pseudotsuga86.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

also think it's important that I meant not just the base and Dem electeds but institutions seen (correctly or otherwise) as part of the liberal extended universe - the culture industries, the public service, intelligentsia, the media, education, nonprofits, middle-ranking white collar workers

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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

friend summed it up as. 1. swing voters/'low-info' voters have correctly sussed that democratic leadership, and also much of the liberal base, think theyre morons, and no amount of rhetorical gymnastics can shake this correct impression. 2. the problem is that by and large they actually are morons

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Wilson is really trying to leverage her 15 minutes of fame; good for her.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We are going to have to do the same thing back to them. We cannot defect.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Transportation cannot be an Everything Bagel; the point of building infrastructure is to build it efficiently and build a lot of it so that the public can benefit from its use. Not so that you can hire...15 more people from zip codes accounting for 200k plus people.

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