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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 7h

How come no actor who gets super deep into character while playing a historical figure ever gets carried away and launches a public jobs program or overthrows a fascist government? It's always just doing an accent all day and yelling at crew members for not calling them "Wolfgang" or whatever.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22h

it is going to be so funny watching San Francisco's spectacularly shitty AI billboards transform over the next few weeks into spectacularly shitty SI billboards because the people paying for them are somehow even lamer than we thought

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 16h

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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h

I'd be curious to see what happens immediately before that video; I wish the NYPD had made that public as well. But I have to say... on initial view, that looks indistinguishable from a carjacking, and if I'd been the driver I would also probably have floored it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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Anarcho-Crust Demon Hunter @jamesaskew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is genocidal rhetoric

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/10/2026

Brilliant idea to take a murderer motivated by ideology and publicly martyr him.

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Bay Area public transit #MeasureRTM polling shows 48% support, 34% opposed, 18% undecided. This means only 1 in 9 of the undecideds need to vote YES to get over 50%. Volunteer w the campaign now to help make this happen, opportunities listed here: 👇👇👇 luma.com/connectbayarea

“WHO IS LIKELY TO SUPPORT TRANSIT TAX?
Support for the regional transit tax that would fund BART, Muni, Caltrain and AC Transit depends on age group and housing situation.

Registered voters
48% yes 18% not sure 34% no
By age group
18 to 34
69% yes
35 to 49
44% yes
50 to 60
35% yes
By housing situatlon
Renters
60% yes
Homeowners
34% yes

Source: Bay Area News Group/Joint Venture Silicon Valley poll of 1,801 adults in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, conducted online Aug. 5-18, 2026. Margin of error is +/- 2.6 percentage points.
BAY AREA NEWS GROUP”

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No membership-based YIMBY group in California is supporting Prop 45. The campaign also has zero transit org supporters. Much to consider

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 02/10/2026

This is like I was saying the other day how it is a norm in the VC world to hire college dropouts (and encourage people to dropout) so that tech workers are easily malleable and not curious or knowledgable of the harms they are participating in.

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oakland's pandemic-era building boom is paying off: rents there still sit below 2019 levels even as vacancy tightens. San Francisco barely built, and its rents surged 30%, now costing double Oakland's. sfstandard.com/2026/08/06/o...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2026

if the GOP runs a vance/schmitt ticket then they should just give up the pretense and make the party’s slogan the fourteen words www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...

axios.com

Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028

Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I also think about Elon saying Biden's DOJ wouldn't prosecute Sam Bankman-Fried because he was a Dem donor... followed by Biden's DOJ nailing SBF, who now posts about how awesome Trump is so he can get a pardon.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think a lot about Biden/Garland keeping David Weiss on as US Attorney, because they didn't want to meddle with the Hunter probe. And then Garland elevating Weiss to special counsel so he could convict Hunter. And this having ZERO IMPACT on the GOP certainty that Biden was rigging the DOJ

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yet another reason to run on oversight and accountability. Those are promises they can actually keep.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jesus Christ dude

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the media would have a collective orgasm over a Democrat Not Knowing Sports

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they should censure schmitt imho

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you're in the Bay Area, mark your calendars: December 9, I'll be holding an event at Clio's bar/bookstore to celebrate the publication of my book, with special guests Natalie Foster and Asm. Buffy Wicks. $33 gets you both a ticket and the book itself! www.eventbrite.com/e/build-or-d...

eventbrite.com

Build or Die

Rebuilding Our Cities — And Our Democracy

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Megan McArdle's WaPo column celebrating the end of the woke left's ability to "cancel" right-wing voices over their social media posts, while making no mention of @karenattiah.bsky.social's legally enforced reinstatement to the WaPo after being fired for her social media posts, is chef's kiss.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

we are watching our future get so much more expensive

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think something simpler, less divisive, and more likely to be impactful is to destroy the "founder-king" through corporate stock holding reforms

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

wild how we had a whole moral panic about pedophiles sex trafficking minors in secret under a restaurant which somehow evolved into an attack on trans people and meanwhile some senior AI engineer on X is like "yeah we let 13-year-olds come to our sex cult parties" on main and its crickets.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can’t help but think that going to college would have helped *some* of these people with humility. I was all kinds of smart kid hot shit (with a sweet mental condition to spice things up) but holy fucking shit professors of philosophy and psychology at Duke were “super smart kids who spent 30-50

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Plot to Enslave America

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I should also add that when the movie got to showing people burning Teslas and vandalizing dealerships, the theater of mostly older folks in Santa Monica started applauding. I think it is possible Trump and Musk turned libs over 50 into John Brown.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And, in "It never gets old" territory, this from tenured pundit:

Headline from March 2026: 'The War Is Going Better Than You Think'

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rahm Emanuel, who has about a good a chance of being president as I do, has been profiled like 9 times in the last couple months in major newspapers. It really shows you how profoundly out of touch the people are that drive much of our national political discourse.

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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i hate that elon musk is the antagonist of reality. it should be a skull faced muscleman in hot pants and he-man should constantly outsmart him

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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...

eastbayforeveryone.org

Vote No on Prop 45: Streamlining Sprawl/Freeways is NOT Pro-Housing | East Bay for Everyone

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

that 18 percent seems really well represented in the news and on social media bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 24/09/2026

We don't need Prop 45 to build new housing - recent state laws have already streamlined approval of new homes in existing cities and suburbs. Instead, Prop 45 would rubber stamp sprawl in wildfire zones, and make California's insurance crisis worse. Vote No on 45.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026

Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...

mediamatters.org

Tucker Carlson helped make JD Vance. The VP refuses to condemn his antisemitism.

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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lmao what the fuck man

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you're wondering why polls always have the GOP better on security it's because the media won't run "TRUMP SHIPS STEALTH TECH VIA UPS" but they would have stories and follows and entire expert panels discussing this shit for weeks if it was a Dem in office.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The real lesson here is that once you get a voting bloc behind you they will accept incrementalism that they’d otherwise condemn as laudable progress (and that’s good).

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

this really has been such a stupid loss of what was once one of the internet's purest pleasures

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

SPUR’s new report details how catastrophic it will be for Bay Area transit riders if the public transit funding Measure RTM fails. But drivers will feel it too, w an estimated doubling of Bay Bridge crossing times and more than 3X longer through the Caldecott Tunnel. www.spur.org/sites/defaul...

“The Bay Area's Top Three Highway Bottlenecks After Potential Transit Cuts
The Bay Bridge, Caldecott Tunnel, and I-680 in Walnut Creek/Concord would experience some of the most significant travel delays in both directions if looming cuts to transit service are not prevented.
Bay Bridge
+33
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+43
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK
Caldecott
Tunnel
+20
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+27
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK
1-680
(Walnut Creek/Concord)
+15
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+20
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK”

“EXHIBIT 4
Traffic Delays at Most
Current Highway
Bottlenecks Would
Double With Proposed
Transit Service Cuts
Line and station closures and reduced service frequency would compel transit users to drive, worsening current highway bottlenecks.
Source: SPUR-Jacobs.”

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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A key point: you do need a theory of communication, alongside a theory of politics, to be an effective operator I think the centre and left struggle, generally, with "playing the game" - it's not enough to just have policy prescriptions you think will work

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is the recent story of homelessness in California, where those of us who support Housing First have done a piss poor job of explaining why billions in state investment haven’t meaningfully address the problem have thus handed a major propaganda victory to the right.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And for this complaint to come from Bret Stephens -- who only has a cushy columnist gig at the New York Times because of their desire to be politically diverse and inclusive -- is fucking hilarious. You're the DEI hire, my man. You.

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John Lloyd @boyonabike62.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Newsom’s car brain is so infuriating. - vetoed safety stop-as-yield (aka Idaho Stop) twice on spurious reasons. - cut active transportation in each budget (restored by legislature). - transferred e-bike rebate money to EV car rebate program.

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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 21/09/2026

we need Nuremberg 2.0 within months of President Ossoff being sworn in

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