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Luis Romo

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is a huge problem and CA/SoCal leadership being entirely nonchalant about it is incredible discouraging. We've been talking about how these tracks keep falling into the ocean since I was a kid.
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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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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Elon Musk supported the rising neo-Nazi party in Germany. He’s the number one funder of Republicans in the midterms. He’s supporting fascist agitators in England. It’s long past time for anyone who supports democracy to leave his propaganda website. It’s time to boycott X.
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Horatio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Well,
My old post that says “you think crime is down? I SAW black people.”
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026
It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.
The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.
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Mrs Margaret Waldemar-Spoon @jadisnoir.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Thanks to these people, we were able to complete our family tree. The book containing it is readily available for all to borrow and share through the internet archive.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
The implied social contract between you and a cat is they get to live in your house and be gross, and you get to bother them a little
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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The perversion of the Census is part of the fascist project to delegitimize all empirical sources and breed mistrust. A dark moment for the stats field.
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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
en esta economía??????
nyt cooking melissa clark seis leches cake january 21, 2020
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“I brought a whole crew down for this stunt but unfortunately there was a car so we couldn’t fix the pothole” is a perfect distillation of every critique of Bass all at once. @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social should turn this into an ad
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 12/08/2026
Great to see Seattle banning junk fees for rental housing. Transparent pricing is important for both protecting tenants and having an efficient market, advertised prices should be the full price. 🏠✅
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Confirmation from @maxkozlov.bsky.social and @nature.com on what I and other NIHers recently shared: NIH is banning research to inform policy. This counterproductive for anyone concerned with public health. open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...
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NIH’s New Ban on Research to Inform Policy Undercuts its Mission
By Jenna Norton, Alexa Romberg, Sylvia Chou, Rui Carlos Pereira de Sá, and anonymous members of 27 UNIHTED
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David Dylan Thomas @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 28/07/2026
36 years after the ADA, disabled people live in a eugenicist hellscape run by monsters trying to preferentially kill us --- and succeeding. My list of the shit the Trump Regime has done since 1/20/25 is public. No Patreon login required; please share it. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...
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The Day After ADA Day | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
On July 26, 1990, George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. Thirty-six years later, we find ourselves in a eugen
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
the degree to which they want to destroy one of the jewels of the American republic—our exceptional research universities—is just gobsmacking
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026
The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I wish this "speed cameras are cash grabs" trope would die. We have recent studied in the U.S. showing that after an initial surge in ticketing, fines decline as behavior changes and people speed less.
As I’m not a fan of them I’m all for leaving Cash Generating Camera’s off the list, wait sorry “Speed Camera’s”. Bike Lanes like c’mon in urban areas they work pretty well if planned out properly.
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I don’t understand all the FIFA rules, but I believe our loss to Belgium today means we are required to adopt their street design standards
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵
a graph of US gambling losses
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Betting is so unregulated & growing so fast in the US that it's creating a growing population of problem gamblers—Researchers at the New York Fed looked at millions of credit reports to show that debt delinquency jumps in states that legalized sports betting (and their neighbors)
a graph of delinquency rates rising after the legalization of sports betting
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
States are responding to the gambling boom, but too slowly—it's only within the last couple of years that major taxes on sports betting have been passed, but they're already track to raise more than $4B this year
a graph of sports betting tax revenue
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Yet there's so much more we could be doing to rein in America's gambling epidemic, including —limiting the most complex, high-margin bets (like parlays) and games (like online slots) —limiting the ways casinos can advertise, including restricting push notifications and TV ads
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
—banning collaborations between athletes, leagues, and betting apps & their inherent conflicts of interest —redirecting more gambling to state-owned monopolies (like lotteries) —limiting the ability for casinos and sportsbooks to kick out "sharks" who can beat the house
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Jay Hightman @jay.hightman.org · 25/06/2026
Three weeks after my 20-year-old daughter Robyn was killed doing bicycle messenger work in NYC, my other daughter Rachel was t-boned by a distracted driver while on a training ride in Charlottesville, VA. Rachel's bicycle was destroyed in the crash... Fortunately it wasn't a large SUV or truck!
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Why Today’s Towering Trucks Are a Bigger Threat to Cyclists
The research on tall vehicle hoods, larger blind zones, rising cyclist deaths, and what it all means for people on bikes.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Disbanding this armed gang has to be a top priority for any Democratic president
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Federal agents whose salary you pay coming to your workplace to intimidate you for protected first amendment activity because it made the president and his henchmen mad is the definition of "not a democracy"
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This is huge. Unfortunately, it won't take effect in California until 2031, as the building code is frozen. We need a legislative fix!
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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Pew modeled 10 states: infill homes cost $21K less per unit upfront and ~50% less to maintain than fringe development. But federal grants fund new infrastructure, not maintenance, so sprawl looks cheaper to cities in the short run, even when it isn't. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I don't get it... where did everyone park?!
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
did you guys know they still allowed good news
abcnews.com
Solar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time: Report
The amount of solar power generated in the U.S. is continuing to grow.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Good. We need more of this . If you want to use I ? You are responsible for the output. The desire is power , without accountability and this is the first part of actually equaling out www.wired.com/story/a-cour...
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A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews
The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.
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AG Rob Bonta @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov · 02/06/2026
Californians, as you make your voice heard today, remember you have rights at the polls. #VoteCalifornia
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 27/05/2026
The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.
Construction photo of the Sen̓áḵw housing project in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21/05/2026
Hell has frozen and pigs are flying: Michelle Tandler has posted a good take about housing.
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@maxdubler •7h
Requiring that 30% of these new high rise apartments be rented at a loss killed the project's financial feasibility.
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Now 0 new apartments will get built and the 840 rich households that would've lived in those fancy new homes will bid up the price of older, cheaper apartments.
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An example of this:
@BernoulliDefect • May 19
Despite securing permission to mint the most valuable currency in the planet - 1,200 Manhattan apartments - the "publicly owned* mixed use
WTC 5 project has recently been put on hold by the Port Authority as i...
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Another win for the landed gentry!
9:21 AM - May 20, 2026 • 760 Views
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 21/05/2026
I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The rest of the state will get with the program eventually, but for now: Sacramento is *the* place to be in California
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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
everyone boo Marin
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Doing this during an oil crisis is deeply Psychological in a way I am finding it hard to articulate. There’s just a lot of Psychology going on here.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵
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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I'm seeing so much more AI stuff on NextDoor these days! And people on here say that no one loves AI!
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 18/05/2026
Federal gas tax is 18.4¢/gallon. Average new non-electric/hybrid car is 25.6 mpg. Average driver drives 13,476 miles a year. That means they spend $97 in federal gas tax/year. Congressional leaders want EV owners to pay 50% more a year to the federal government to drive less polluting vehicles.
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
So what happened was that Trump posted a transcript of 10 minutes of Michael Savage. Which happened to include this bit about how White Men can't get jobs in high tech in California because of Chinese and Indians. Ask yourself: when was that last time you saw a White Man in tech in Silicon Valley?
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
if you're under Porter you gotta drop (thanks Yee)
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/04/2026
And she was right
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Ellen Pao @ekp.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Harassing has so little long-term effect: "We found that 76% of the men we reviewed are professionally active, 41% are in the same or an elevated role since the allegations were made public" I'm glad someone is keeping track so industries hold people accountable sfstandard.com/2026/04/20/7...
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70 powerful Bay Area men were accused of sexual misconduct. What happened next?
Since 2010, scores of prominent local men have faced allegations ranging from sexual harassment to rape. Most have returned to the highest echelons of public life.
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
From BBC Africa via IG. FWIW, I picked up my Tern on my birthday but ordered it weeks earlier.
Nigerian Woman with white head covering with subtitle “Frankly, I cannot marry a man who will not buy me a bicycle.”
Picture below shows a person on a bicycle with a yellow cooler bag on the back rack
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.
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Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch
President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service. The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.
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‘It’s just madness’: Trump administration to close three-quarters of Forest Service research stations
Between funding cuts, facility closures, and the inevitable resignations that will follow, there’s virtually no way for the Forest Service to continue to do research at its current level or quality, w...
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