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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

A fact that sounds like bullshit but is actually true: There is more square footage of parking *per car* in the US than there is square footage of housing *per person.*

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 21h

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 20h

Very glad to be an Inquirer subscriber. (Did you know that it's now owned by a nonprofit?) Also, apparently this is the first of two articles. Looking forward to the next one tomorrow.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia

• Source Network: AS13238 YANDEX – Yandex LLC (Russian Federation)
• Traffic Breakdown: Prior to the drop, bot traffic accounted for roughly 99.6% of requests compared to 0.4% human traffic.
• Event Cause: The sudden plunge to zero on October 11, 2026, corresponds to a reported military/drone attack on Yandex's data center facility in Vladimir, Russia—marking the third reported attack on Yandex data infrastructure since October 8.

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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

also feel really confident that CA Dems are going to bitterly regret ramming him through pretty quickly because regardless of ideology people who are clearly just sort of empty between the ears are usually ass at governing lol

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 23h

Unfortunately, despite his south-central PA roots, Fetterman is the ur-Yinzer chud

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22h

Repeat after me: Yes on 40, no on 41 and 42, which are designed to cancel out 40!

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Piece came out at USAToday Why? Because USAToday owners (Gannett) only own media companies, so they have an incentive to attract an audience & advertisers Tech elites like Bezos, Ellisons, Musk, & Benioff use their media firm to cozy to Trump, not to make profit www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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DEI initiatives didn't cost companies. Just the opposite. | Opinion

Firms that kept DEI, whether due to executive decisions or shareholder pressure, performed as well in the stock market as those that rolled it back.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Kyle Schwarber, welcome to The War on Cars.

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Liz - High and Inside @lizzierie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Schwarbs being a transit guy is elite stuff

Screenshot of Kyle Schwarber’s instagram story of him on a septa train and text reads

Top 5 Reasons
Riding SEPTA is a Pro Move
Phillies
1. It's $2.90
2. No traffic
3. No parking
4. Center City to South Philly in 11 minutes
5. Kids ride free

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Nothing has ever been more real than the Trump Putin collaboration

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We all need it to lose so the NIMBYs stop trying, but I'm not holding my breath on that one.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

no seriously, if the only reason you use a website is "everyone else is there" then what you need to do is log off and ask your parents what to do because you're not old enough to be making your own decisions

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Zach-o'-lantern @zachlipton.com · 10/10/2026

I, personally, would not go on the record with a reporter to announce I’m in favor of destroying the playground my kid is currently loving because I drive to work once a week (and the road still wouldn’t go there anyway), but everyone lives their lives differently I guess

Ryuka, 5, said he’d prefer to keep the park — and the playground — over a road during weekdays.
“Playground,” he said softly, avoiding meeting this reporter’s gaze. “I like the ship.”
Asked what would improve the park, which sits feet from Ocean Beach, he was decisive.
“More sand,” he said, burying his hands in the stuff.
Ads separate from the “no” campaign but featured on its Instagram page (opens in new tab) argue that car crashes in District 4 have declined since the Great Highway closed and that Sunset Dunes is the city’s third-most-popular park.
Ryuka’s mom, Denise Leo, 50, supports Prop. G because it would restore the road for weekend commutes. She drives Friday mornings for work as a library aide in San Mateo and wants the option of taking the Great Highway, rather than 19th Avenue. The pathway above the highway always worked when she wanted to go for a run, anyway. Or, wait, does she oppose G?
Told that a “no” vote keeps the road closed to cars, she paused. In 2024, she pointed out, it was the “no” vote that kept the highway open.
“I’m gonna vote to open it,” she said, looking at her son. “Even though he likes it.”

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 🇬🇱 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

increasingly think that the analogy is 1974 not 2006

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Worth remembering that being neurodivergent does not mean you're a sociopath, which is what these guys are. Also, I needed that laugh.

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's not even double in nominal terms! $678.75 x 2 = $1357.50!

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 10/10/2026

Roger Marshall charged his patients 18% annual interest on their unpaid bills. His bakery bill for $678.75 was due six years ago. At 18% interest compounded annually, the total he'd owe would be at least $1,800. Marshall just paid the bakery $1,300—far less than what his patients would owe.

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Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thank you to the latest couple of donors! Every little bit helps!

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I lived here in 2015 and it's great. I should try to go back to see the improvements soon.

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

Elite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”

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1st Minnesota Volunteers Stan Account @himdogson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

this is a very dishonestly framed article given that in the actual text of the article it acknowledges that he confirmed he stands by sponsoring the equality act after giving the answer the headline refers to, a fact that directly contradicts the headline

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It really does seem like every Paxton ad just reminds voters that they hate Paxton.

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Pod Save America @podsaveamerica.crooked.com · 10/10/2026

Angie Nixon: They say, I want to abolish prisons and I want to defund the police. Why would I want to do that when I want Donald Trump and Ashley Moody locked up in jail?

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You should never have to wonder whether soldiers are watching you vote. This footage shows uniformed troops standing beside an official ballot drop box in Washington, D.C. Who sent them there? What were their orders?

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Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This level of flooding is somewhat normal during king tides, not for mid October. A poorly timed storm this winter will cause a lot of damage, and the @eastbaytimes.com is recommending a no vote on the climate measure (RTM). I'm losing my mind at how much people have their heads in the sand.

Waterfront, water level inches below flooding.

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

What does surprise me is that anyone cares what she thinks. On the BART Board she tried again and again to destroy BART. She supported slashing service, was against demand based parking pricing, and opposed transit oriented development. Not someone anyone should listen to about transit policy.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Why would we let Anthropic decide this for us? If you ascribe to a moral philosophy or religion that disavows being mean to a toaster, that is fine. It is not however fine for a tech company to make, functionally, a moral law for a talking word toaster that is promised to rule us one day.

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 10/10/2026

Ballots are out, and election day (November 3rd) is coming soon! There are a number of ballot measures this year that affect our ability to consistently and sensibly fund transit capital and operations, so we created a statewide voter guide. calelectricrail.org/2026-califor...

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2026 Californians for Electric Rail Voter Guide – Californians for Electric Rail

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Marta Jewson @martajewson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New Yorkers, Whistles are on every counter, entry table and coat rack in Minneapolis. These greeted me when I arrived in August - 3D printed.

A welcome note from hosts on a pink post it note on a counter reads “welcome! Keychain whistles of MN Flag for both of you. Text or call with ?s”
Two 3D printed whistles with the pattern of the Minnesota state flag sit next to the note on the counter top.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 08/10/2026

One of the key lessons from Dutch cycling history is cities didn't start with protected lanes. They began by making streets safer, calmer and more inviting; with lower speeds, parking restrictions, traffic filters and reduced through-traffic to create an environment in which cycling could flourish.🧵

A cycling priority street in the Netherlands where drivers are guests and cyclists are the main users.

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Transform California @transformca.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bay Area voters: be sure to vote YES on regional measure RTM #YESonRTM. Kinda chic to get all political and #FundtheBus. Thanks for saving Bay Area transit.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Reactionary centrists treat “Abolish ICE“ as a metaphysical question of whether immigration enforcement is ever justified. But it is really a practical question—how can you allow a fifth column paramilitary that wants to overthrow democracy to continue to exist in your government?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"We fucked up the reflecting pool & we were embarrassed about that so we concocted a conspiracy theory about vandals & put up a fence around it and now the fence is fucked up" good lord

Musicology duck posting about how the reflecting pool fence is all fucked up

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Edmonton has a lot going for it, including good public transit, one of the best urban parks in North America, and a growing number of protected bike lanes. But the last thing it needs is *more* parking and sprawl. This is just culture war nonsense that won't help anyone.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/10/2026

Christ. "Conservatism" now means overruling local government, imposing regulations, and restricting property rights. What a f'ing joke.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What the fuck man did Marshall also push over someone’s grandma to take the last Marble Rye

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mel in ballhalla 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1. taxes are not a punishment they are how a society functions 2. i just showed you the literal actual government excess/poor planning and it’s in caltrans, not bart 3. local taxes need to be raised because the state pays for freeways instead 4. bart is extremely efficient on costs

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mel in ballhalla 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

voting against rtm is actually punishing to the million riders of all bay area transit who will face service cuts. many of which don’t have a car. and the ones that do will clog up the roads and make your driving commute slower all because you don’t want to pay an extra penny in sales tax

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