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Mike Christensen, MCMP, CNU-A, AICP @mrc-slc.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"Should I Vote for a Transit Tax?" 10 points to consider when navigating these noisy debates at election time. www.strongtowns.org/journal/2026... via @strongtowns.org and @humantransit.bsky.social
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"Should I Vote for a Transit Tax?" | Strong Towns
10 points to consider when navigating these noisy debates at election time.
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Streetsblog L.A. @streetsblogla.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Streetsblog urges you to vote NO on Prop 45 la.streetsblog.org/2026/10/06/s...
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Streetsblog Endorsement: No on Prop. 45 - Streetsblog California
CEQA was enacted at a time when new highways and highway expansion was destroying communities, and a big part of the reason to create CEQA in the first place. Prop 45 would roll out the red carpet for...
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The Bay Area faces a funding crisis for its public transit, but a ballot measure could come to the rescue. For @motherjones.com, I reported on the measure and talked with aging and disabled adults, who are more likely to use transit, on what's at stake for them. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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America's billionaire capital is poised to gut public transit
Voters in the San Francisco Bay Area are split on a measure to rescue local transit. Disabled and low-income residents' mobility is on the line.
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East Bay Public Bank @ebpublicbank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Small businesses help create the neighborhoods we long for and deserve. Vibrant main streets and walkable communities lined with locally owned shops and services. Visit www.publicbankeastbay.org/priorities-2... to learn more. #PublicBanking #Berkeley #EastBay #SmallBusiness
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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Get your YES on RTM yard sign here! docs.google.com/forms/d/1QTS...
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Yes on Regional Transit Measure: Supply Request Form
Thank you for supporting the Regional Transit Measure! Use this form to request campaign materials, including signs and literature, to help spread the word and build support for the Regional Transit M...
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Christopher Armitage @carmitage.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A public bank holds government deposits and lends them out for public purposes instead of parking them with Wall Street. theexistentialistrepublic.com/calls…
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Public Bank Charter Ask · Call to Action | TER
Ask your city council and/or your state legislators to charter a public bank.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The backers of Prop 45 are counting on the public not being able to tell infill homes near transit from building new roads into wildland / fire areas for sprawl's sake. EB4E recommends a NO on 45 this fall. eastbayforeveryone.org/2026/03/05/s...
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Vote No on Prop 45: Streamlining Sprawl/Freeways is NOT Pro-Housing | East Bay for Everyone
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
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DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties
Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 23/09/2026
Bay area: vote yes on RTM, and remind everyone you know to vote yes on RTM
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🐧 🏔️ @ilikehikes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bay Area folks, vote YES on RTM to prevent traffic and save our transit systems!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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🐧 🏔️ @ilikehikes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For cold weather, bring a 1-2 reusable layers you can add on top of warm weather clothes?
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey
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The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW —> AI giants tap into the social media playbook: self-regulation Execs at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google are converging on industry-led oversight. Pushback from Capitol Hill & advocates, who call this unrealistic & dangerous. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
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AI giants tap into the social media playbook: self-regulation
Executives at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google DeepMind are converging on industry-led oversight.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
America’s Added Fuel Cost Clock: now online and available live on the web for you to see the numbers climb in real time :( hoping if and when prices fall I'll get to the savings in real time... patrickdehaan.com/fuelclock.html
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The Climate Center @theclimatecenter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
✨️ NEW in @capitolweekly.bsky.social: The decision to undermine California's signature climate program will have huge consequences for affordable housing, transit, and climate programs across the state. Read the opinion piece from @barryvesser.bsky.social: buff.ly/8CndozL
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🐧 🏔️ @ilikehikes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How well will this integrate with plug and play solar? Can apartment dwellers buy panels and a battery and just plug them in and easily load shift? Will it be smart enough to charge when energy would otherwise go to the grid without a manual intervention?
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🐧 🏔️ @ilikehikes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
These types of batteries have existed for over a decade (I believe) in India because the power grid is less reliable. What lessons have they learned from use of batteries in other countries?
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just like Mike Rogers in Michigan and Tommy Tuberville in Alabama, Roger Marshall is a Florida Man who doesn’t even live in the state he represents.
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🐧 🏔️ @ilikehikes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think it’s that, in general, the better off people are, the more they think they have to lose. Of course, being better off means they are less likely to lose anything. Just a pet theory. Quite possibly wrong
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today I'll be reporting live from the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, for @dmagazine.bsky.social, which applied for press access but never received a response. Consequently, I will have the general admission experience. First step: drive ~30 minutes outside of Dallas to Grand Prairie. 1/
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump gave $45,000 holiday gifts to Natalie Harp and two other White House aides www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Trump gave $45,000 holiday gifts to Natalie Harp and two other White House aides
A White House official said the cash gifts were not related to the “individuals’ official government duties, and therefore are entirely permissible under relevant legal and ethical standards.”
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🐧 🏔️ @ilikehikes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
San Francisco and Berkeley have public bank ballot measures to help create sustainable, low interest lending for housing, climate solutions, and small businesses.
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🐧 🏔️ @ilikehikes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bay Area regional transit measure. BART and basically every transit agency in the Bay will live or die by the result
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🐧 🏔️ @ilikehikes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What is his sense of the relative power of clean energy and fossil fuel companies on Capitol Hill? How has that been changing over the last 10 years?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
the man who lunged at dr. amy acton had two guns and a taser. how is that not an assassination attempt?
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Amy Acton was attacked at the Canfield Fair — and both campaigns are responding
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Amy Acton was attacked Sunday afternoon while visiting the Canfield Fair in Mahoning County, according to her campaign.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Note for North Carolina voters: The GOP board of elections just approved new, restrictive guidelines on mail voters that are likely to lead to counties rejecting more ballots. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
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In split vote, NC approves new mail-in ballot guidelines hours before voting begins
The vote comes after similar proposed rules were blocked from taking effect in this year’s elections.
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🐧 🏔️ @ilikehikes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Love this
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🐧 🏔️ @ilikehikes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Him and his air quality board literally are shoveling NEW subsidies to refineries, which are making RECORD profits during the Iran War. It's ridiculous. Someone correct me if I'm wrong
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
seems like a good time to remind people that Niemöller (the author of the confession memorialized in the "First they came for the Communists" poem) was a Hitler supporter, and made that confession after spending time in the Dachau concentration camp
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇
Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.
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🐧 🏔️ @ilikehikes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Why couldn’t Dems field a conpetitive candidate for Alaska house? Were they clearing the field for Bill Hill?
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Daniel @escargotpro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
One insane thing is how many trump soundbites there are like "i dont care about prices" & "you'll have to pay more for gas & like it" & every pundit was like "he just cut Dems an ad for them" & like there are 0 ads being aired by Dems with any of these quotes lol
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Exclusive: RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate. Stellar reporting by @bymichellersmith.com based on documents obtained by @theguardian.com and @apnews.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate
Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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🐧 🏔️ @ilikehikes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If it makes it so you can buy one less car, it’s a steal
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🐧 🏔️ @ilikehikes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
On the surface, it would seem to me that cutting water for livestock feed is a relatively good outcome, compared to water for human crops or to cities. What am I missing?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"On Tuesday, it [city council] voted unanimously to reallocate surplus funds from an affordable housing redevelopment project to fund a universal school meal program." Missed the part about how this was funded the first time around! www.commondreams.org/news/katie-w...
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Led by Mayor Katie Wilson, Seattle Celebrates Universal School Meals for All Students Starting This Year | Common Dreams
Seattle's city council used a budget surplus to enact Wilson's proposal to provide free breakfast and lunch to the city's 49,000 public school students.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The new spin by Hakeem Jeffries and corporate Democrats is to say Medicare for All is part of DSA agenda so he opposes it. 90% of all Democrats support Medicare for All. This is what happens when donations from health insurance companies are more important than us www.newsweek.com/hakeem-jeffr...
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Hakeem Jeffries says he doesn't support Medicare for All or DSA agenda
The congressman's remarks come as Democrats wrestle with ideological divisions between their progressive and moderate wings.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
When you win a war, you dictate the terms of the peace. When you lose a war, you try to salvage the best deal you can get to end hostilities. What we are doing is the latter.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
the obligatory @laminda.bsky.social starter pack. one or more of these might be local to you: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Amazon is building the nation’s largest fossil fuel plant exclusively to power artificial intelligence As my colleague @emilypont.bsky.social notes, the plant’s permit allows for essentially double the emissions of the most polluting power plant in the U.S.
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Amazon Is Building America’s Biggest Fossil Fuel Plant to Power AI
The company confirmed its plans to market research company Cleanview.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I know we are chalking the success of some leftist candidates almost entirely to the DSA. However, it seems like the more common theme is that these are candidates with organizing experience?
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🐧 🏔️ @ilikehikes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Good thread from @wewill2026.bsky.social! He is the real deal!
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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I couldn’t be prouder of the movement we’ve built in mid-Michigan. Thank you, Ambassador Bridget Brink and Matt Maasdam, for your years of public service and all your hard work on the campaign trail. While tonight we celebrate, there’s still much more work ahead.
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