Reposted by Progressive YimbyDavid Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I wonder if it might make Trump a little mad that all anyone will ever remember about today is his chief lieutenant exuberantly doing a Nazi salute. 2101
Reposted by Progressive YimbyBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Starting to get it? 1429341247476
Reposted by Progressive YimbyJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/01/2025People calling this a "Roman salute" are clowns. That's like saying hey, why are you giving me grief over these swastikas? I'm not a Nazi. I'm just super into Vedic north Indian culture. Gimme a break. 1134800620
Reposted by Progressive YimbySeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Elon was going to share DOGE with Vivek. He booted Vivek. Elon was going to be housed in the Eisenhower Building. Now he’s going to be in the West Wing. Trump kicked GOP officials out of the Rotunda so Elon and his pals could be there. Those of us who called Elon co-POTUS weren’t fooling around. 861318360
Reposted by Progressive YimbyOmar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 20/01/2025“Congress passed this law and closed the door on Jews who were trying to flee the Nazis.…We think about Anne Frank dying in a camp because Germans thought Jews were genetically inferior but to some extent Anne Frank died in a camp because Congress believed that as well.” youtu.be/vmRb-0v5xfI?...youtu.beThe Eugenics Crusade | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBSYouTube video by American Experience | PBS 2479
Reposted by Progressive YimbyThe Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 20/01/202511AM: How bad could the new administration be? 4PM: And Elon did that how many times? 148104871513
Reposted by Progressive YimbyRuth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too. 714253657454
Reposted by Progressive YimbyIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 20/01/2025Elon: *makes an unambiguous Nazi salute during inauguration speech* The entire American press: 522608463
Reposted by Progressive YimbyThe Onion @theonion.com · 12/01/2025FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States theonion.com/fbi-unc... 121124262377
Reposted by Progressive YimbyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/01/2025As Rs gear up to cut healthcare, Sen. Marshall says, "Look, about 70% of your health outcomes are determined by you. It's determined by what you eat & what you're surrounded by. By the time you come to my office as a doctor, I can impact maybe 10 or 20% of your health outcomes" 8451502361
Reposted by Progressive YimbyScott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing is on Tuesday. Share the link—Help us flood Senators with letters by contacting yours here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...actionnetwork.orgTell your Senators: Oppose Trump's selection of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of DefenseContact Congress today! 23745262561
Reposted by Progressive YimbySam @samd.bsky.social · 12/01/2025republicans haven’t gotten rid of affirmative action and DEI, they’ve just replaced it with a bizarro reverse DEI where any straight white man is assumed to be competent and everyone else is automatically assumed to be unqualified 1341566
Reposted by Progressive YimbyRobert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 12/01/2025In the 10 years after a Walmart Supercenter opened in a given community, the average household in that community experienced a 6 percent decline in yearly income — $5,000 a year in 2024 dollars. Low-income, young, and less-educated workers suffered the largest losses.theatlantic.comThe Walmart EffectNew research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices. 15300155
Reposted by Progressive YimbyThe Onion @theonion.com · 11/01/2025theonion.comMark Zuckerberg Defends Decision To Fly Confederate Flag At Facebook HeadquartersMENLO PARK, CA—Claiming that the banner embodied the spirit of the company’s values, Mark Zuckerberg defended his controversial decision Friday to fly a Confederate flag at the Facebook headquarters. ... 21935740211214
Reposted by Progressive YimbyThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/01/2025The Palisades fire has decimated Malibu, destroying around a third of the coastal city’s eastern flank and much of a picturesque stretch of Pacific Coast Highway, officials said late Saturday.nytimes.comPart of Eastern Malibu Is ‘Gone,’ Mayor Says, as Palisades Fire RagesA third of eastern Malibu has been destroyed by the blaze, including the communities of Big Rock and Carbon Mesa and a famed stretch of Pacific Coast Highway, officials said. 2627672
Reposted by Progressive YimbyMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11/01/2025This is important 10780914522
Reposted by Progressive YimbyNick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I can get a bunch of partisan-pilled slime takes on the fires and then the helicopter water drop videos …. But hyper local and timely updates was one thing the site used to do reasonably well and now it’s not even trying 2291
Reposted by Progressive YimbyNick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Getting accurate information or news updates about the fires on the dead bird site has been an exercise in total futility. 1284
Reposted by Progressive Yimbydavidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 06/12/2024Republicans are now saying that are prepared to make "hard choices," i.e., to gut the social security payments and health care seniors worked their entire lives to receive. Never mind that Trump repeatedly promised not to do just that during his presidential campaign. 1811343450
Reposted by Progressive YimbyAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 07/12/2024This is an oligarchy. The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER Stop the oligarchy 1856367639799
Progressive Yimby @miguelserveto5000.bsky.social · 07/12/2024When are you going to add bookmarks? @support.bsky.team 000
Reposted by Progressive YimbyMaxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 07/12/2024DOGE is nothing more than two billionaires cosplaying as government officials. I’m all for making government for efficient, but these guys just want to slash resources for agencies that help working people. thehill.com/homenews/adm...thehill.comDemocrat Frost slams DOGE: Billionaires ‘cosplaying as government officials’Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) criticized President-elect Trump’s choices to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying it’s “two billionaires who are co… 376135622983
Reposted by Progressive YimbyJordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Among the nuggets in here: RFK Jr. is screening potential hires with a test that asks how much they like having sex with other people, which instinctively feels like maybe it’s a liability issue? 33817
Reposted by Progressive YimbyLaura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 07/12/2024What will stop Trump's mass deportation plans isn't human decency, it's big GOP businesses realizing it will cost them money. 1425762
Reposted by Progressive YimbyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/12/2024Less than 30 minutes apart. 2723482629
Reposted by Progressive YimbyMatthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 06/12/2024One of the greats, though as a Krugman Hipster I will insist that you really will learn the most economics by revisiting the classics from the Slate days. www.nytco.com/press/paul-k...nytco.comPaul Krugman retires as Times columnist | The New York Times Company 1120110
Reposted by Progressive YimbyJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/12/2024🚨 Jane Mayer writes that Trump DoD nominee Pete Hegseth was drunk at work in prior jobs & tolerated & participated in sexual harassment while ignoring at least one employee complaint of an assault. Gotta go. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...newyorker.comPete Hegseth’s Secret HistoryA whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being rep... 12741321182
Reposted by Progressive YimbyMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 02/12/2024So inspiring to hear that Austin area landlords are much less greedy than landlords elsewhere in the country. 21548
Reposted by Progressive YimbyHunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · 02/12/2024On Earth 71 he just won a 5th term, dispatching Scott Walker handily. He has surpassed FDR as our longest-serving president. Memories of the time before the being known as "Obama" ruled are beginning to pass into the annals of forgotten history. Michelle begs him to step aside. 0432
Reposted by Progressive YimbyCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/12/2024This is madness. If other countries want to sell us solar on the cheap so we can expedite adoption of clean energy, let them. Either climate change is a crisis, or it isn't. www.reuters.com/business/ene...reuters.comUS sets tariffs for solar panels from Southeast Asian nationsU.S. trade officials announced on Friday a new round of tariffs on solar panel imports from four Southeast Asian nations after American manufacturers complained that companies there are flooding the market with unfairly cheap goods. 32158261017
Reposted by Progressive YimbyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/12/2024Trump pardoned Jared Kushner's dad while Jared worked in the White House, then yesterday appointed Jared's dad as an ambassador, but Polis didn't have the same energy for that. Pathetic stuff that I for one won't soon forget. 1099185953526
Reposted by Progressive YimbyArpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Housing affordability pressures have actually eased a bit in some of the big cities that sparked the YIMBY movement, due to lower demand and remote work; while they are amplifying across the heartland www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a... 28720
Reposted by Progressive YimbyJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 01/12/2024NEW from me: Novo Nordisk's GLP-1 drugs Ozempic & Wegovy continue to power Denmark's economy—since late 2021, GDP growth has been 3.6%, but it would have been 0% were it not for pharmaceutical output more-than-doubling amidst booming exports to the US🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/weight-los...apricitas.ioWeight Loss Drugs Continue to Power Denmark's EconomyExports of GLP-1 Drugs like Ozempic & Wegovy are Driving the Majority of Danish GDP Growth 1331249
Reposted by Progressive YimbyKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 01/12/2024Internalize the fact that FDR was a master propagandist and budgeted messaging into every New Deal project. Despite how it should work, great things do not sell themselves. 652591458
Reposted by Progressive YimbyDavid Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Features that would still be great: 1. Real verification (not the domain thing) 2. Scheduled posts 3. Edit posts 4. Sort followers by number of followers (I missed some interesting people following me) 5. Videos longer than 60 seconds 2182440159
Reposted by Progressive YimbyMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 30/11/2024Rich NIMBYs trying to shut down temporary RV housing for impoverished agricultural workers who had been living in deplorable conditions? No doubt about it, this is certified California Environmental Quality Act Moment™. 312717
Reposted by Progressive YimbyThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/12/2024Medicare’s drug benefit, known as Part D, will see major changes next year as part of a broader push to help the 50 million-plus Americans enrolled in the program manage the cost of medicines. Here’s what you need to know about changes to Medicare Part D.washingtonpost.comHow to take advantage of Medicare’s expanded drug benefit in 2025It will be easier to spread out Part D drug costs over the year, while the total annual cost of medicines will be capped at $2,000. 2418741
Reposted by Progressive YimbyBen Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 01/12/2024If we’re going to take on Trump, Republican extremists, and move our country forward, the Democratic Party needs to be stronger. I'm running for Chair of the Democratic National Committee to unite the party, fight everywhere, and win. Join me. 🧵youtube.comUnite. Fight. Win.YouTube video by Ben Wikler 838125322829
Progressive Yimby @miguelserveto5000.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I just finished Masters of The Air.It was pretty good. 000
Reposted by Progressive YimbyMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 30/11/2024Abusing the Americans with Disabilities Act to bring your pet into foodservice establishments is extremely tacky; and it appears that Los Angeles businesses have had enough. 5816
Reposted by Progressive YimbyMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/12/2024But Mr. Thune’s election was by secret ballot, and Mr. Gaetz likely represented just the first, not the last, effort by Mr. Trump and his allies to bring the Senate to heel. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/u...nytimes.comA Second Trump Term Poses a Crucial Test of the Senate’s IndependencePresident-elect Donald J. Trump is threatening to challenge the institution’s historic role, and the Constitution, with his prospective nominees and threats to push the boundaries of executive authori... 1172168419
Reposted by Progressive YimbyChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Fun fact: there’s never been a Democratic director of the FBI in its entire history. 719183833417
Reposted by Progressive YimbyTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/12/2024More to come shortly in @theatlantic.com 461379270
Reposted by Progressive YimbyPush The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 30/11/2024in 1990 seattle grabbed swaths of land to upzone hoping to create 100k homes. the debate that upzones cause displacement is a myth. over the next 30 years, the black population cratered in single family zoned areas and grew where housing growth was allowed. density has saved our city’s diversity 736968
Reposted by Progressive YimbyMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 01/12/2024If your state’s price to income ratio is over 4.5, your state has a housing shortage and you need to dramatically reform zoning to legalize more homes. 913014
