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Liam Dillon @liamjdillon.com · 02/10/2026

Years ago I interviewed Houston Mayor Annise Parker who told me one of the main reasons the city was able to cut homelessness by so much is she forced all the governments and nonprofits into a room and made them use the same data system. Meanwhile in LA www.latimes.com/california/s...

The agencies use different data systems, and even different Google spreadsheets, to produce their reports and often have different bureaus within them managing different housing programs.

For example, a senior director for Bass told the interviewers that the Inside Safe program uses an internal Google spreadsheet to manage its occupancy records and does not have access to the Homeless Management Information System, the countywide database that tracks street contacts with homeless people and housing placements

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's anti-billionaire rhetoric tailored for the suburbs

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 02/10/2026

For those playing along at home, Cotham is the turncoat. Her district was T+1, McCool is going to absolutely smoke her Alhamdulillah.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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Lis Power @lispower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fox News is honing in on the enemy ... and it's ... Ms. Rachel?

Graphic showing "Ms. Rachel's controversial stances"

which includes supporting Dem candidates, supporting Palestine, opposing ICE, and stating no one needs a billion dollars.

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James Hazen @jameshazen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Elissa "Better Things Aren't Possible So Stop Trying" Slotkin saying this is so goddamn funny.

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James Hazen @jameshazen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's so goddamn funny that these guys think they aren't headed for prison.

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James Hazen @jameshazen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm still getting attack ads against my guy from Almond and the extent to which the GOP *have nothing to run on* is astounding. Every attack ad is "the scawwy twanses are coming for you!" or "he's bad because he said progressive taxation is good" *and that's it*. That's all they have.

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James Hazen @jameshazen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My candidate: I want your kids to have the best funded public schools and the highest paid teachers in the South. Their candidate: oooooOOoooooOOOOOOOooo the evil transes ooooooOOOOOOOOOoooooOoOooOOOooo tmonks4nc.com

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Thomas Monks 4 North Carlona

Thomas Monks, Candidate for NC House of Representatives District 73

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When you have women leading media outlets and there’s real equity, this shit doesn’t slip through the cracks

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Let me be the first to assure you politics sickos that war sucks shit. It is very much Not Good. Which is all the more reason that you should study it, understand it, prepare for it, and get good at it. Because it will come for you, as sure as the sun rises in the east, and then it will be too late

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Sarah Davis 🤫 Bubba fan | 23XI stan @sarahdavisagain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"If you'd like some comic relief, look up at the spotter stand and watch us waving our arms trying to fight off gnats." - Freddie 😂😂 Charles said better that than the bees like they've had before... "I think I'd rather have the bees... FUCK!" - Freddie

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James Hazen @jameshazen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why are we doing a competition caution? I can't listen to the audio right now.

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James Hazen @jameshazen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I always thought Back to the Future Part II was more popular and memorable, but every time I've answered the phone with "How's it hanging, McFly?" I'm always met with confusion.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 27/09/2026

Today we have Republican candidates pretending they don’t know how insurance actually works, because they have such contempt for their own voters that they think this grotesque inversion of truth will help them get elected to wreak more damage.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

little-flying-robots.ghost.io

Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI

Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

we're boarding now. a gate attendant literally screamed at us to board by boarding group... and a hundred people just laughed in her face. we have formed a self-governing society at this point and her attempt to order us around is oddly funny

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"House Republicans will continue to hold Hunter Biden’s feet to the fire until we have his testimony...no one – not even the president’s son – is above the law.” - Tom Emmer, 1.17.24 "Don Jr is a private citizen and businessman so this unwarranted attack will go nowhere," Tom Emmer, 9.23.26

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If only we had historical records from the most prosperous period in American history when the ultra rich were taxed at 90%+ rates. Alas.

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James Hazen @jameshazen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bruh I *just* got used to saying "Craftsman Trucks" again.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026

We really can't let ourselves get accustomed to this. He's telling the people of NC that he's going to let them die if they don't vote how he wants.

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Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

gonna get into the manosphere game but instead of guns or working out or menswear I’m gonna tell young men they aren’t a real man if you can’t tie knots. How can a woman look at you as a protector if you can’t tie a goddamn taut line hitch? I get up at 330am every day and work on my sheep shank.

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James Hazen @jameshazen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Other peoples' alt history ideas: "what if Germany/The Confederacy had won?" (These people are closet racists) My alt history idea: what if Frederick III never got cancer?

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James Hazen @jameshazen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The correct response to "what about men in women's sports?" is to loudly and publicly accuse whoever is asking of being a pedophile. Because fuck 'em, that's why.

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James Hazen @jameshazen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm sure Adam Alexander doesn't give a shit, but him having to plug a NewsNation doc about sucking George Bush's penis in the middle of the race really feels awkward.

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James Hazen @jameshazen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I will NOT fucking stand for having Los Ingobernables and Los Ingobernables de Japon good name used in this manner.

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JudyJaguarianJetta @judyjagurianjetta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If a man murders his wife the average sentence is 2-3 years If a wife murders her husband (usually after domestic abuse) the average sentence is 19 yrs Men are responsible for 90% of domestic abuse Maybe Just maybe women aren't the unstable moody ones 😒

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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 09/09/2026

A Chinese official attempted some of that Wolf Warrior Diplomacy ™ shit. It did not go well. Philippines' Defence Minister Gilberto Teodoro was speaking up for smaller nations and international law at a forum in Korea when he was handed a note from a Chinese official, meant as intimidating.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

a Democratic House or Senate with investigative powers is going to put Rubio's faves into a burlap sack and beat them for two years

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This crap is what RFK is normalizing: Giving scared parents hope and killing their kids.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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Indivisible High Country NC ❌👑 @indivisiblehc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Representative Foxx got called out for lying again and it was televised by PBS. She and the rest of the Republicans are responsible for the $4,000 Trump tax hitting all of us in the pocketbook. Vote Chuck Hubbard, NC. @chuck.hubbardforcongress.com He won't lie to us like Representative Foxx does.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is very similar to what @aft.org proposed in May (Devices Down, Eyes Up, Hands On.) Older students need to be digitally ready & carefully taught the tool of AI but younger students need to learn to think-that requires less screens & less cognitive offloading www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/n...

nytimes.com

A.I. Is to Be Banned in N.Y.C. Elementary and Middle Schools

A new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using A.I., but stops short of a moratorium.

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

APSA PSA: - Khaki pants? Brown shoes + belt - Blue or grey pants? Black or brown shoes + matching belt - Black pants? Just don’t - Mix patterns and textures - Don’t be afraid to look good Remember: 10 years from now no one will remember what you presented. But they will remember what you wore.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

From top to bottom, modern conservatism is a movement to resolve the emergence of a meaningfully democratic & pluralist United States by demolishing the United States. Perhaps what's most interesting is witnessing conservative slowly internalize that this was the endgame all along.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'll stick with The Muppets's superior version, thanks.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.

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James Hazen @jameshazen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Okay I'll take a second, helluva run 23

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abby (sports) @stabbyabby.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you dare to dream and you work hard and your family is very very very rich

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James Hazen @jameshazen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

As an IndyCar stan, I worry this stupid event will poison IndyCar in the minds of folks who'd never really thought about it until today.

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mapleboy (from youtube) @mplb0001.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

if you don't care for the "Freedom 250" may i suggest today's nascar race in an hour, where they plan to race in the rain on an oval

Alan Cavanna
@AlanCavanna

NEWS: NASCAR just told teams the current plan is to start today’s race under wet conditions, meaning the wet-weather tire.

That can change if conditions improve. But the teams were told to be ready.

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