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James

@jchords.bsky.social
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He/him. Educator, union member, social housing advocate.

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Kiefo Nilsson @kiefonilsson.com · 10h
This is a somewhat hot take but I agree with this article overall. We need to be having a more serious conversation about what micro mobility offers and how to build that up than just slamming it all as a menace or looking to restrict and ban it.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Joe Wrote @joewrote.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Cornell 7 rape scandal is particularly jarring because there was no question of guilt. Many college assault accusations are left open based on disagreements about intoxication, memory, and consent. In this case, Cornell had overwhelming evidence the men were guilty. And they still didn’t care.
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Lena Bilik @lbilik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Atlantic ran an article this morning critiquing the growing fight for universal childcare. There is plenty here I disagree with, but we can save some of that for another time...For now, I want to focus on one thing missing: a real conversation about paid parental leave. 🧵
theatlantic.com
The Problem With Democrats' Favorite Policy Proposal
Universal child care appeals to the party's cosmopolitan base—but not to most of the country.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 27/09/2026
harvest moon! everyone go reap what you have sown
big moon rising over buildingsfull moon at dusk
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I don’t want Clippy, I want trains, libraries and abundant affordable housing.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
priorities.
white text on fuchsia 

It would be really fucking great if we prioritized housing for humans the way we do housing for cars.
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Weird Alger Hiss 🎉 𓅳 @itsjoelokay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
uh, let me be clear, *most unclear and wishy-washy drivel conceivable*
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@cspan

Former President Obama says Democrats made a mistake by making goals materialistic and instrumental: "What people are starved for at the moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026
Being a leftist means taking big shots. And making them.
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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Moderator, Kristen Soltis Anderson
What is the top issue you think Americans are facing right now?


Nick, 36, independent, White, fluffer
Where are all the Kmarts? Americans are struggling right now, they have no good places to shop. They're shoving Whole Foods down our throat. No one wants to pay that much for a green pepper. I'll vote for anyone who brings back Kmart. Cereal cost $2!
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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lena @lenastolz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
no one is more committed to the concept of hereness than cheese. do not move her even one inch. this throw blanket where she lives is her country
my cat cheese hanging out with my copy of Molly crabapple’s here where we live is our country
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pack the Court.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Among those at the NYC protest against Netanyahu, risking arrest: — Darializa Avila Chevalier, Chris Rabb, Adam Hamawy, Chi Osse, Emily Gallagher — Hannah Einbinder, Elliot Page, Susan Sarandon — Caleb Hearon, Mary Beth Barone — Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker — Chelsea Manning
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
People are discussing the "problem of ebikes in cities".
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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sophia ♥️🎂 @sophamir.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
THEY WANT YOU TO USE AI SO YOU STOP USING YOUR BRAIN AND STOP USING YOUR COMMUNITY
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Two months ago, we revived the long-delayed Tremont Avenue busway. This week, it’s up and running. That means 39,000 daily riders on the Bx36 are getting faster, safer, more reliable commutes. www.amny.com/news/bronx-f...
amny.com
Bronx gets first busway as Mamdani admin completes Tremont Avenue project | amNewYork
Nearly 40,000 bus riders will now have the chance to move around the Bronx faster with the city's completion of the borough's first busway.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
build. social. housing.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To be fair, this is exactly what people said about Uber and Lyft. And there have been studies about how much more people drive when they don't have to worry about parking on one or both ends of their trip. There's little reason to think driverless cars won't lead to an explosion in VMT in cities.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026
look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Public Comment on the persistent fantasy of low-conflict housing policy publiccomment.blog/p/sometimes-...
publiccomment.blog
Sometimes You Just Need to Win
Sometimes you just need to win
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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
May 2025: DoorDash spends $1 million to stop a democratic socialist from winning the mayoralty September 2026: DoorDash reaches a $131.5 million settlement with NYC's democratic socialist administration and admits to massive wage theft This is what's possible when you vote DSA
Following New York City lobbying push, DoorDash spends $1M on Cuomo's mayoral bid

The donation marks the largest of any in the crowded Democratic primary for New York City mayor.Since 2023, more than 200,000 Dashers in New York City were underpaid or paid late under the City’s delivery worker pay rules. These errors were unintentional, but that doesn’t make them acceptable. Dashers should be paid in full, on time, every time. We take full responsibility, and we’re deeply sorry.

We’ve reached a $131.5 million settlement with the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. Every impacted Dasher will receive the amount they are owed, and they’ll be contacted directly with payment details.

We understand the impact of even one missed or late payment. We’ve addressed the issues that caused these errors and made changes to prevent them from happening again.
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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Dan Blacksberg @danblacksberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Appreciate @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social and @aftermath.site continuing to dive into the madness that surrounds this unlikeliest of fronts for the "everything is gambling" economic model that's invaded all our pastimes. Can't a middle aged man just relive some childhood nostalgia in (MSR)Peace? NO.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is stupid policy, and she should be better than this slop. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
cbsnews.com
Gov. Healey proposes suspending gas tax in Massachusetts for 2 months
Gov. Maura Healey is filing legislation to suspend the gas tax​ in Massachusetts for two months.
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Somebody asked me at the weekend if our pro-housing group in Princeton should affiliate with 'Strong Towns', and I had to say "no!", because unfortunately Chuck Marohn is wrong about almost everything when it comes to housing. (He is good on other things though!) www.strongtowns.org/journal/2026...
strongtowns.org
Filtering Is Not a Housing Affordability Strategy | Strong Towns
New housing can make rents lower than they otherwise would have been. That is not the same as producing homes people can afford.
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Eric B @heyrickie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
LA’s bus lane cameras issued $42.8 million in fines last year (Need these on bus lanes in the TransLink region!) basin.la/articles/thr...
basin.la
LA’s bus lane cameras issued $42.8 million in fines last year
The streets where tickets were recorded cover an estimated 31 miles. The program now accounts for nearly a quarter of the city’s parking fines.
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Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Housing supply and tenant's rights go together like Old Style and Malört. The best housing policy out right now is BUILD. The best tenants rights policy out right now is mostly PRO. Aldermen and the Mayor should push both.
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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you’re a zoning nerd/urbanist and haven’t read @holz-bau.bsky.social ’s book yet I highly recommend it!
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spooky rachel @introspectre.online · 05/01/2026
i just realized this by the same lady who made this banger
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Tim @timzhu.io · 18/09/2026
Deep. Substrate. Foliated. Kalkite.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is a must-read and hits on so many key issues related to e-bikes specifically and micro-mobility broadly. Draconian e-bike laws like the one in New Jersey threaten the mobility and freedom of nondrivers, but our country refuses to consider them amid this intensifying moral panic (or ever).
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026
On September 17th, we filled our 200,000th pothole. See something that needs fixing in NYC? Call 311, tag @nyc311.bsky.social or go to portal.311.nyc.gov.
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The Azure Guardian 🔵🛡️ @theazureguard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Firefox literally just doing this right now by announcing this shit...
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28 Feb - @TheZeldaZone@mastodon...

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 18/09/2026
In 2027, four new speed camera locations are set to become 24/7. They will be Seattle's first 24/7 speed cameras after decades of enforcing speeds in school zones. The locations were chosen based on a prevalence of speeding and serious crashes. Story: www.theurbanist.org/seattles-spe...
theurbanist.org
Seattle's Speed Camera Program Enters New Frontier
The four new camera locations, set to be implemented in 2027, will be Seattle's first 24/7 speed cameras after decades of enforcing speeds in school zones. The locations were chosen based on a prevale...
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James @jchords.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wrong. Class 3 e-bikes are a must for avoiding traffic and riding safely on busy North American roads
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Opinion Haver @asinmarx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A new poll finds that 60% of voters believe that Roy Cooper would enact the policies of DSA if elected to the Senate. It also finds him leading his Republican opponent by 15 points. www.carolinajournal.com/polls/septem...
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YIMBY Action @yimbyaction.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If two stairs are safer, why do so many countries allow just one? 👀 The evidence shows that modern single-stair buildings are just as safe as buildings with two. Watch our latest Infill episode with Nashville Councilman Rollin Horton and Stephen Smith. 👇 youtube.pulse.ly/mz5yutupph
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James @jchords.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Amazing!
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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New cat just dropped.
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*suspicious lobster wife* where did you get that shrimp *still confused lobster* you're never gonna believe this
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Boston Globe editorial board endorsed Seth Moulton over Markey. The NYT Editorial Board said to rank any candidate except Mamdani. This is part of the story behind the Democratic Tea Party that has been happening. Party establishment and press establishment both losing the base.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My (35M) support acts (43M, 29M, 37M, 24M) have unionised!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026
No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York.  That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
talarico reminds me of how democrats spent years trying to "moderate" on immigration and getting nothing in return and now we have the best funded paramilitary force on the planet disappearing people across the country while running a system of concentration camps with no oversight
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 14/09/2026
Thanks for asking, KUOW! Yes, we are winning for renters: from banning pet rent and other rental junk fees, to adding density throughout our City, to SEPA reform, to my Executive Order streamlined permitting, our renter majority city is seeing real improvements to affordability…
Screenshot of a KUOW article titled, “Seattle Mayor Wilson still rents. Can she help her fellow renters?” with a photo of Mayor Wilson. Screenshots from the articles that say, 
“Zohran Mamdani lives in Gracie Mansion. Karen Bass lives in the Getty House. The mayors of Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Chicago all own their own homes.

But Katie Wilson, mayor of Seattle, still rents in the same century-old brick apartment building as before the election last year.

Property records say it's 700 square feet, but the original listing said 650, according to Wilson.

This year, Wilson has banned "junk fees" like pet rent and required landlords to be upfront about other fees, signed legislation or issued executive orders to cut through red tape or overcome procedural roadblocks to building housing, and moved toward upzoning, parts of the city to allow taller, denser buildings.”
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