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Gulf Coast Grit @gulfcoastgrit.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Just finished up watching to find out what the hell Cenk is thinking with the way he's been moving as of late. His whole argument, his main beef he has with The Far Left™ is basically: "You're scaring the hoes." As if challenging folks when they say wild stuff is detrimental to the cause. 😐

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NYE Special Show! Breaking Down Cenk Debate

YouTube video by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)

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Gulf Coast Grit @gulfcoastgrit.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Never thought I’d live to see the day that using the search function in applications or sites was considered by most folks to be a power user thing. Why search when you can ask nine different people?

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗 Schrödinger’s Road Space 👇👇 👉 Taking Away Space From Cars While Giving Them More Space At The Same Time 👉 Leaving Even More Urban Space For … 👉 Housing 🏘, Parks 🌳, Plazas 🏛& Much More 🚲🚃🛴🚶‍♂️ 📽️ 21st Century City

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now. The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country. The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.

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Institute for Justice @ij.org · 19/12/2024

IJ is asking the #SupremeCourt to overturn one of the most reviled decisions in recent decades, Kelo v. New London. As a reaction against Kelo, 47 states amended their constitutions & passed laws preventing #EminentDomain from being used for private development. New York was not one of them. 🧵

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Eminent Domain DISASTER May Finally Be Overturned

YouTube video by Institute for Justice

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Gulf Coast Grit @gulfcoastgrit.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

That’s a lot of publishing just to announce to the world that you don’t know how to lay pipe.

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Gulf Coast Grit @gulfcoastgrit.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I just saw a ticket pop up in our IT service queue for a bug problem a location was having. And by bug problem I mean ants… They put in a ticket with IT to fix their ant problem.

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Gulf Coast Grit @gulfcoastgrit.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I know this has been done to death, but seriously folks; why the hell is the Yukon Denali approaching the size of a damn MRAP?

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 17/12/2024

The YIMBY movement is a good start, but it's not enough, argues Bob Kuttner: prospect.org/infrastructu...

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Solving the Housing Crisis Will Take More Than YIMBY

It’s a good start, but it won’t produce true affordability.

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Gulf Coast Grit @gulfcoastgrit.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

In a world full of scammers, and a government soon to be full of criminals, this stands out as a really good primer short primer on how to make use of verbal passwords and phrases to keep you and your loved ones safe and verify identity.

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The Roads to security and secret words....

YouTube video by The Roads with Belle

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

them: why do you care so much about building abundant housing and wanting everyone to have affordable options for transportation? us:

Chart showing that the average American family spends 1/2 of their budget on housing and transportation

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

"For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine."

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Broward Co. to vacate convictions for people who bought crack made by the Sheriff's Office

For three years, the Broward County Sheriff's Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest.

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Gulf Coast Grit @gulfcoastgrit.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Certainly is interesting to see people have simplistic views of a dynamic and developing situation overseas where the relationships are complicated and the motives aren’t always known right away. Even more fun when you provide insight and context and watch that cognitive dissonance go to work.

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Gulf Coast Grit @gulfcoastgrit.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

If you identify politically as left of center, I recommend you watch the whole way through. Definitely worth the watch to get a clearer perspective on what the work we need to do actually is. Also follow @msolurin.bsky.social not only for education, but also because she’s fun to listen to!

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America Hates The Left & We Need A Plan

YouTube video by Olurinatti

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

But how will they remember their heritage?

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Gulf Coast Grit @gulfcoastgrit.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I see a lot of folks with very strong takes on the fall of Assad and the liberation of #Syria. I’m reminded of the Chinese Farmer story Alan Watts is know for. Assad is gone, isn’t that great? Maybe. Some of the rebels seem like hardliners, isn’t that bad? Maybe.

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"A Chinese Farmer Story" ~ Alan Watts

YouTube video by Mindfulness 360 - Center For Mindfulness

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Gulf Coast Grit @gulfcoastgrit.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Anybody else had the “pleasure” of going to a fundie Christian school? Did they make you sing stuff like this as a kid? I remember having to do this. Listening to a podcast that talks about “spiritual warfare” and it brought back memories like this. JFC.

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I’m in the Lord’s Army Song

Lyrics: I may never march in the infantry Ride in the cavalry Shoot the artillery I may never fly o’er the enemy But I’m in the Lord’s army! Yes Sir! I’m in the Lord’s…

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Leger-Felicite Snorlax🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

silent cal putting up ba'ath party numbers in 1924 was not something I was aware of

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Francesca Fiorentini @franifio.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I was making a good point but then my beeper went off. Justice for @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

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Gulf Coast Grit @gulfcoastgrit.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I guarantee you the pictures they have of the CEO shooter are not the actual person. They’re going to find the nearest person they can blame for it and rapidly put them in prison. I already see this coming.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

It’s [well past] time to ban ‘right on red.’ “It’s unclear that right-on-red did much of anything to reduce gas consumption, but it had a sizable effect on roadway safety. A 1982 study found the new policy triggered a sharp increase in crashes…” @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/90908929/its...

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It’s time to ban ‘right-on-red’

Right-on-red turns are dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists, and yet they're still widely allowed across the U.S.

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Gulf Coast Grit @gulfcoastgrit.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I genuinely wonder how many people started smoking just to be able to take a break from work without catching hell from their supervisor.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/11/2024

As policymakers rushed to equip cops with body cams, they often failed to grapple with a fundamental question: Who controls the footage? They defaulted to leaving police with the power to decide what is recorded, who can see it and when. By @ericumansky.bsky.social, w/ @farooqumar.bsky.social

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How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras

Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even…

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Gulf Coast Grit @gulfcoastgrit.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Luckily, I grew up with oyster dressing 😋

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Anonymous @opcanary.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The primary goal of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is to steal their resources and meet its broader strategy of market monopolization and price manipulation. Ukraine holds over 110 billion tons of proven mineral reserves across 100+ resource types. It is valued between $15 - $26 trillion. #opcanary 🧵

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Gulf Coast Grit @gulfcoastgrit.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thank god for cat feeds. Gives me a much needed break from public policy and political content.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 26/11/2024

Because the below skeet went viral here, and people are arguing over it, I'm going to share some more info about it from a thread I did at the other place. I really need to just do an article about it but haven't done that yet. Until then, I hope readers find this thread useful. 🧵

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Kate Rozen @katerozen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Every city and town has boards and commissions, likely with vacancies. You don’t have to be an expert, you just have to have an interest. Get to know your neighbors and be impactful in a hyper local way.

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Gulf Coast Grit @gulfcoastgrit.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

@deviantollam.bsky.social I think you already have a lot of resources uploaded for this, but compiling and releasing an updated primer would be really beneficial right about now.

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Rachel de Leon @raeoflion.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

1/ Since our story with PBS NewsHour came out last month, comments flooded into Polk County Sheriff’s social feed demanding consequences for Det. Melissa Turnage, who sought criminal charges against Taylor Cadle for lying. We recently learned she was disciplined after we started asking questions.

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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.

“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”

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TheGratefulDeadpool @gratefuldeadpool.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I’m looking at centrist Dems running scared and hurling trans people under the bus with alacrity, and then I think of LBJ saying “this will lose us the south for a generation” and signing the Civil Rights Act anyway, and I think “you fuckers don’t even measure up to *LBJ*”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

going to keep saying: it's important for basic functioning for a society to discourage baldfaced lying

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Destenie Nock, PhD @destenie.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This video visualizing the wealth distribution BLEW MY MIND. Take a few min to watch. Hard work isn't what's separating the wealthy and poor. The average worker needs to work 1 month to make what the top 1% make in 1 hour. #TaxTheRich #Poverty #MoneyMatters youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM?...

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Wealth Inequality in America

YouTube video by politizane

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/11/2024

News has just broke that Trump plans to eject trans people from the military within days of inauguration. Trans servicemembers who have served 19 years will lose their pensions and healthcare. This is obscene. They served our country, and will be kicked to the side like trash.

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Trump reportedly plans to swiftly eject trans troops within days of inauguration

Trump’s actions could eject thousands of current trans service members

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Can I rant at you all about “inmate welfare funds?” Some of you may know jails and prisons charge some of our society’s poorest families lots of money for phone calls, commissary purchases, etc. This is bad enough but do you know where a lot of that money goes?

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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

In case you were not there in early days of Twitter… DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO BLOCK LISTS. It sounds like a great shortcut, but malicious actors come in and create lists that include folks from our side. This was a huge problem in 2017 on Twitter. Just block trolls as they hit your feed.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Invisible. This shirt was from a fundraising campaign 2 years ago where all sales went to @ffsafestreets.bsky.social and a couple others. Hoping to bring it back this year again.

T shirt with image of child standing in front of a large vehicle and the word invisible.

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 24/11/2024

There was certainly a lot more RTing in the good days of Twitter. Reskeet away!

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