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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 23/11/2024

Sharing some digital art I made a couple years ago: Future Cupertino, California Some in-progress pictures in thread!

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

anytime people raise concerns about land use for solar projects or anything like that i just want to point out that half the corn we grow in this country gets used to make gasoline slightly worse

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Alien Wikipedia entry that's like "Earth Civil War, 8,000 BC - ongoing," and the most incomprehensible and lengthy belligerents sidebar imaginable that when you untangle it really does show the United States and Ur are on the same side in a longue durée sort of way.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The politics of asking normal people to pay for their share of the cost of providing high quality public services will get easier if we start with taxing the ultra-wealthy at higher levels, even if the revenue that raises won't be enough.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

greatest president on climate change in history

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Hillsdale, man. But also, like...those native polities still exist. They're recognized by our government. We have an entire bureau in the Department of the Interior to manage the fact that we have at least 574 *other countries* in our country, which predate our country.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

difficulty scheduling the follow-up session is also true to its inspirations

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 24/05/2026

As a society we have many visions of what a futuristic San Francisco or Los Angeles looks like. Now, here is futuristic Sacramento!

Birds eye view watercolor illustration of a futuristic downtown Sacramento with skyscrapers and flying buses. The state capitol is in the middle, with the Capitol Mall and park surrounded by modern skyscraper office buildings. Some of them have signs on the top, that say things such as ct rail, CDTFA, SEIU 571021, TCAC, HCD, CDLAC, and CalSTRS. There is also a building with the georgism symbol on it.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Burrito taxi is a luxury and should be expensive, housing is a staple necessity and should be cheap and plentiful

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 20/05/2026

i remain convinced that part of our problem in this country is that our taxes are unnecessarily complex and a pain in the ass to file, both of which heighten negative sentiment

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It's such a breath of fresh air to see @aoc.bsky.social stand against gutting our tax base.

Ocasio-Cortez isn’t convinced. She’s not sure that these are the kinds of proposals Democrats should start building an agenda around.

“When you actually look at the totality of what’s being put forward, we are seeing a total gutting of a resource base,” Ocasio-Cortez told NOTUS. “If people want to choose between whether they want guaranteed health care or a 5% tax rebate, people are going to want guaranteed health care.”

“It’s not to say that I object to any and all like tax cuts or tax rebates, right? We can help people who are struggling, but I don’t think that the biggest impact in how you help someone and how we help people make ends meet is through that avenue,” she said.

For Ocasio-Cortez, who has long been an advocate of taxing the wealthy and transforming social services, wiping out significant tax revenue goes too far.

Ocasio-Cortez said “across the board” tax cut proposals on the table amount to an “attack” on young people.

“It is a complete defunding of the world that young people will have to live in, and they are asking young people to foot the bill,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

And yet no one is willing to option my screenplay about someone rushing to get a project entitled on the one day a year when zoning doesn’t exist

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

we need less five-over-one and more five-over-FUN

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

documentary in which the Minions reenact their past atrocities in Indonesia.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about. This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Who can't help but wish that we sent more rockets into space and fewer missiles into the ground?

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Ark Kim.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Kinda funny for "Department of Defense dba Department of War" to immediately make a hash of the first war it started

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/03/2026

I think this is a crucial point. It turns out there are in fact things that are *much* worse than hypocrisy.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/03/2026

I have lived in Los Angeles for nearly two decades and I have never experienced the kind of yellow smog that used to define this city why? because we cleaned that shit up none of this is beyond salvation

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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Listen up liberal,

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18/02/2026

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 06/02/2026

Sacramento deserves a regional rail system. What would it take to build it?

Greater Sacramento Regional Rail Concept. Map design by Milli Bloom.

Map shows a priority buildout from UC Davis medical center to Roseville, with stops at Davis, Mace, West Sacramento, Washington, Sac Valley, 12th st., Elvas, Exposition, Marconi/Arvade, West/McClellan, Elkhorn
A secondary buildout connects Elk Grove to the SMF airport, with Elk Grove-Roseville service on the same infrastructure. Futuer buildouts include extensions to Woodland and Suisun-Fairfield

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 31/01/2026

Chat is it good for your chances in court when the judge is writing 18th century broadsides about "the perfidious lust for unbridled power" as their opinion

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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The American Revolution started over less

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/01/2026

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

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Sam @spratt.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

probably the grimmest thing about the law review process (speaking as a former articles editor for a relatively prestigious journal at a big fancy law school) is that, as unqualified as the student editors are, they absolutely improve the articles they receive. most law professors cannot write.

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

"This is a critique of the concept of multiculturalism from the left" No, that's dumb. Desist.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

As the guy who's been shouting into the wind against immigration restriction for 10 years, my new fantasy is to be an anti version of Steve Miller. I convince a president to send gov't employees into neighborhoods to set up welcome centers with language/employment services.

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RoninMacbeth 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

US officers would do well to remember that General Jodl and Field Marshal Keitel were found guilty of conspiring to commit crimes against peace and to wage wars of aggression.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 10/01/2026

A friend of mine cooked up a flag to show support for strong municipal services and this feels like the perfect emblem of the Mamdani Moment. I absolutely love it.

A flag with a black garbage bin, a green recycling bin, and a black star above them. White background. Text: “COME AND TAKE IT”

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 29/12/2025

Many California state laws passed in 2025 take effect on Jan 1, 2026, with some such as SB79 going into effect later in 2026. On housing, from more homes near transit & colleges, to wildfire prevention and improving rental housing quality, here's a highlight! www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

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Here’s how California’s powerful new housing laws will change the state in 2026

OPINION: This was a big year. Looking back, we’re likely to see 2025 as the year California finally got serious about housing.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11/12/2025

still thinking of the Smart Bros nodding sagely and saying how it's a terrible tactical mistake for dems to raise the salience of immigration

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This sort of absurd, ultra-bleak reading of the remarkable prosperity of modern societies is not only embarrassingly wrong - and I saw a historian retweet this sincerely (!!) - but also helps fuel not materialist, left-wing politics, but rather reactionary right-wing politics ('RETVRN-ism').

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

SPLIT IN HALF? The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF? I got nothing folks. Trials. Prison. Everyone. If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

“Progslop” is the assertion southern white people would vote for socialists if they heard their message about universal healthcare. “Modslop” is the assertion Dems could win southern white people if they spent their whole campaigns reacting to Republican talking points.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit. You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'? There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 15/11/2025

People who think mass deportations are a housing affordability strategy have no place in the YIMBY movement.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 13/11/2025

Driving in traffic is a dull and unpleasant chore and the only way Americans can escape having to do it all the time is by moving to one of three very expensive cities. This is bad and we should fix it.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.

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Anti-Capitulation League (currently in setup phase) @fetemaproject.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

If you're from Colorado, Virginia, Rhode Island, or Delaware: Mark your name or username on this sheet, then email or call a representative from your state to tell them to run against your Senator! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND ASK THEM TO RUN - PLEDGE

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

We just launched the biggest primary program in Indivisible’s history. Help us (literally) send Schumer and the surrender caucus a message. open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...

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Democratic leaders failed us again. Time to get some new leaders.

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