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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 4h

I think about this more often than I'd like to.

A side-by-side of two head shots: at left, Gavin Newsom smiles, baring top and teeth in a strange expression; at right, Elizabeth Holmes smiles in an oddly similar way.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

Cities are terrific. It's why most people want to live in them.

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greg @gmatthews.bsky.social · 8h

Tonight at #A2Council I think we will hear some very nasty accusations. My unsolicited advice for local advocacy groups: Demonizing your opponents by claiming they are corrupt and hate democracy can fire up your base, but it also damages your credibility and reputation.

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visionzeroannarbor.org @visionzeroannarbor.org · 7h

This letter from State Representative Jason Morgan is profoundly disappointing. Ann Arbor has committed again and again to Vision Zero, and our staff work hard to design safe infrastructure. This attempt to undermine that effort is embarrassing. #A2Council a2gov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 7h

I live in @reprheingans.bsky.social's district, but I've also supported @jasonmorganmi.bsky.social. Jason, why are you doing NIMBY FUD on road safety improvements? This is disappointing. And exhausting. I'm not your constituent, but we live in the same community. Do better, man. #a2council

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026

There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.

Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.

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Jeannie Leverich @jeanniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You know how immigrants need to pass a test on US history if they want to become citizens? Maybe we need a US history test for people who wish to become representatives.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Very cool. A program in NYC gave 2 kWh batteries to families in order to let them run the AC during peak demand and charging the battery at night when energy is cheap. I predict a time when it will be weird that houses didn't have batteries. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

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How I kept cool with NYC's free battery program for window AC units

Bonus: Every Electric’s batteries are beloved by household cats.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/10/2026

!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Then it should be used very specifically for specific jobs, with strict guardrails, and not propping up our entire economy, and being forced into everything. The same way I don’t need to know how to use, say, software for dental offices, or a forklift, most people don’t need AI.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."

Screenshot of article which reads: These numbers are relatively similar between Democrats and Repub-
licans, which often leads political pundits to claim this is more evidence
of “polarization,” and that both sides are equally to blame. However,
a closer look tells a more interesting story. The people who are most
likely to vilify and dehumanize their partisan opponents are Republicans
who are high in racism and sexism and Democrats who oppose racism
and sexism. The people who are least likely to vilify and dehumanize
their political opponents are Republicans who are low in racism and sex-
ism. One explanation for these patterns is that those Republicans who
are racist and sexist vilify and dehumanize Democrats because they see
the Democratic Party as a party of racial minorities and women; and
Democrats who score low in racism and sexism will vilify and dehu-
manize Republicans because they consider Republicans to be racist and
sexist. In other words, the people who are the most “polarized” in the
U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who op-
pose racists and sexists.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens… and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.”

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.

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Jeannie Leverich @jeanniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's baffling to me that so many people in Ann Arbor (at least those who attend City info sessions, public hearings or who post on social media) are against cleaning the air, cooling the city, housing people, and making public spaces people-centered. #A2Council

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

whenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

social media is a nightmare these days, but i just need to say: the way you talk about strangers’ experiences of sexual assault tells the survivors in your real life whether or not you can be trusted with their stories and their safety. and there *are* survivors in your life, so don’t fuck it up.

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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For the most part, driving is super inefficient but at least it's really expensive and also quite dangerous.

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visionzeroannarbor.org @visionzeroannarbor.org · 30/09/2026

Tomorrow is the first day of #WeekWithoutDriving! #A2Council

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 30/09/2026

There are essentially 0 electrified freight trucks on the road in the US right now

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm thrilled to share that SB 1116 was signed into law today. This represents four years of hard work by my team, across SB 684 and SB 1123, to iron out the wonky details, refine based on developer/planner feedback, and pass pro-housing reform that will get homes built. cayimby.org/legislation/...

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SB 1116: Strengthening the Starter Home Revitalization Act

SB 1116 will streamline the construction of smaller, lower-cost “starter” homes for home ownership by making several improvements to existing state housing law.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Like the great recession was very long and painful - much longer than anyone thought it would be in fact - but like 6 years later we were mostly out of. We're now on like year 15 of e.g. "it's impossible to afford family-sized housing in SF, LA, NYC, Boston, etc" and it gets worse every year

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe the reason the economic vibes are so off isn't that things are *worse* than the great recession but because back then we all thought the pain was temporary, whereas the things that are wrong with the economy today have all been getting worse for a long time and show no signs of improving

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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bike/pedestrian networks don't take 30 years to build. Stop accepting those timelines in your community. The best practices have been proven & they already exist. Safety should already be the #1 priority. The ROI is unbeatable. The timeline is a moral document and it shouldn't be generational.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have literally seen dudes tailspin because of a super-casual "Pretty rapey/racist/weird/etc., dude." from a friend. Fuck some girl/brown person and their dumb opinions, they don't care about us. But they are 100% not prepared to hear it coming from you.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I participated in some public library ai courses. I’m telling you that the state of literacies and the complexity of lives deeply enmeshed in the bowels of late stage capitalism cannot find a use case for an agent & if they could, people don’t have the scaffolding to imagine one that could be useful

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...

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DOGE vs. Civic Tech

As DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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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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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

chat is this good?

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Likewise, I think Nithya Raman being a committed YIMBY even when that's been a lonely position is kind of doing both for her right now; it helps show she has vision, and also is open to markets as a concept, which opens the door for a certain kind of centrist to go "well I hate Karen Bass, so..."

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My wife is on fire about how good Abdul is in this interview. I'm giddy about how much he's grown in this campaign and the possibility that the closest thing to Bernie Sanders in the Senate could be from Michigan. But I'll keep that to myself.

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Video: Opinion | What Does Abdul El-Sayed Believe?

The Senate nominee talks about his view for the future of the Democratic Party.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026

i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is correct - personal experiences of needing social services makes people, including policymakers, more opposed to imposing administrative burdens (which is how they are breaking SNAP and Medicaid) academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

• When a policymaker has personal, firsthand experience navigating a welfare system or public service, their tolerance for administrative burden significantly drops. © Oxford Academic
• Conversely, policymakers without personal experience are much more likely to tolerate or actively support high administrative burdens, often driven by political ideology or a perception that the target population is "undeserving".
Syddansk Uni...

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

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visionzeroannarbor.org @visionzeroannarbor.org · 23/09/2026

Thanks to everyone who showed up at last night’s Ann Arbor City Council meeting to speak up for transportation safety! We loved this article that quotes several of the wonderful comments you all made about the Division Bikeway extension project in particular. Safety can’t wait! #A2Council

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Ann Arbor residents push for safer bike infrastructure at city council meeting

Ann Arbor residents urged city council to move forward with a Division Street bike lane project linking the north side of the city to downtown.

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Terri Solares @terrisol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are many socialist services and things everyone uses also like parks, fire, polices, roads, TSA, the military, the US Coastguard , public libraries, public schools, National and State Parks, mass transit, museums, zoos, FEMA, 911 dispatch, sanitation and trash collection, dams & flood control.

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