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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 20h

"Cities have always been central to the project of liberalism. Without cities, freedom is simply unobtainable." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

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Editor's Notes: A Free Society is an Urban Society

Cities are a key pillar in creating a society of free individuals.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23h

If care about free markets, you not only get more from center-left Dems than the party of Trump, you get more *from professed democratic socialists* like Mamdani than you do from the party of Trump. Those who deny this only think of it as an anti-left cultural totem and not a real policy agenda.

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Pro-Housing Pittsburgh @prohousingpgh.org · 07/10/2026

The future of housing is on the ballot this November! Our slate of endorsed candidates is fighting for abundant, affordable housing all across the Greater Pittsburgh region. Want to learn more? Check out our full coverage at the link in our bio.

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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Host more dinner parties to save society!

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Transit in Mexico is so unsufferable; even a rich city like Monterrey has outsourced it to employers. Crazy to think most suburbs rely so much on staff transportation. Not the highest rate nationwide, tho. That place is for neighboring Saltillo (33%) 🤯.

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Important reminder to vote yes on the ballot question that would allow the mayor's office and DOT to speed up the installation of safe street designs, bike lanes, and transit upgrades. These are the people who want to retain their veto and keep us mired in a dysfunctional status quo.

thecityreporter.nyc

What to Know About NYC’s 5 Ballot Proposals Ahead of Election Day

New York voters will answer five questions in November’s general election.

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Mike Cherepko @mikecherepko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

C-Town got rid of its dried chiles 🌶️ whole I was in Mexico. Maybe I am done with this store. That was the main thing it had going for it. This building should be 20 floors of apartments instead of a grocery store without dried chiles.

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Mike Cherepko @mikecherepko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I miss being in Mexico because understanding English is really annoying.

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Liam Jeffries @sorathecyclist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah so about the TWU's line that we can't have automated trains because conducters are just that important for safety.

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latinometrics @latinometrics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

⭕❌❌⭕ How can one Mexican convenience store chain outnumber every U.S. chain... even in a country with a fraction of the U.S. population?↓ Dollar General is the closest U.S. comparison, yet it still has about 4,000 fewer stores than Oxxo has in Mexico....

Oxxo leads with 24,297 stores, surpassing U.S. chains like Dollar General and Subway in a comparison chart of store counts.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To those who have supported the Trump Administration’s weaponizing of allegations of antisemitism: Do you see how preposterous this is? Nothing here is making Jews safer, it’s just using immigration enforcement to punish people for their political views.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Zero of those people have been killed by e-bikes or e-scooters,” said Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. “Yet here we are at a hearing [on] 21 bills aimed at regulating e-bikes and e-scooters. None are about regulating dangerous driving and only two are about infrastructure.”

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NYPD's Tisch Skips City Council E-Bike Hearing Despite Focus on Enforcement

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch blew off Wednesday’s City Council hearing about e-bike safety — sending subordinates in her stead.

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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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TomServo42 @tomservo42.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Boarding Ryanair

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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latinometrics @latinometrics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MEXICO | Aeroméxico suspends flights to Tulum starting Thursday, citing low demand as local hotel occupancy hits 15%, the lowest in history. (Mexico News Daily)

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Mike Cherepko @mikecherepko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s really hard for me to even imagine being represented.

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Mike Cherepko @mikecherepko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My least favorite things are that you can never see what station you’re in when you’re stopped, the super long transfers, and shutting down at night.

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Mike Cherepko @mikecherepko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My favorite thing about the metro in Mexico City is how the map telling you the list of stops will reflect which way you’re facing. So if you are headed “right” it shows that order but if you turn around it reflects that.

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Mike Cherepko @mikecherepko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These people literally worship Satan and the Antichrist. It explains everything. And you don’t have to believe in God or Satan for them to believe and worship evil.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is, strangely, an anti-patriarchy. No elders would ever choose these men to succeed them. They are a postmodern accident in ill-fitting suits

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A lot of this shit, like every query draining a lake, is akin to a religious belief at this point and they’re not gonna be reasoned out of position they weren’t reasoned into. We have two flavors of AI psychosis now basically.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Mike Cherepko @mikecherepko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I understand all the arguments against free buses compared to other ways to spend money, but the MTA’s handling of bus shuttles replacing subways turned me toward the free bus side.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 27/09/2026

Janno Lieber likes to blame Mamdani’s free bus campaign and Covid for muddying the waters and worsening bus fare evasion. Meanwhile, Lieber’s own buses are confusing riders in multiple ways (this bus is not going to Court Sq!) by flashing a “FARE REQUIRED” message on a free subway replacement bus

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Mike Cherepko @mikecherepko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If he switched parties to give Republicans control, I think his wife’s reaction would fall between divorce and assassination.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

republicans: the party of severe and permanent brain damage

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Writing a report about exclusionary zoning in Mexico City; so I made this cute map of the existing stock vs. the permitted. No surprise this city barely builds anything.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 25/09/2026

I actually don’t want random institutions to pay ex-FBI officers to do this every time there’s a semi-high-profile speaker? Americans – notably including Charlie Kirk – decided that we should all be a trigger-pull away from death every time we step into public, and so we are. So what’s the issue?

The school also ceded key decisions to Kirk's organization, Turning Point USA, and didn't properly assess the likelihood of a rooftop shooter, according to an independent security review released Friday. The university commissioned the review of security procedures at its campus in Orem, Utah, which hosted Kirk the day he was assassinated.

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My colleague @trufahey.bsky.social sent me this on Instagram a few months ago. Nice visual illustration of this "trap" of aging...but the creator missed the crucial fact that if you actually want local amenities, stair-free homes can't be one-story homes. They've gotta be a few homes stacked.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For some reason I’m getting a bunch of videos from people who are talking about “the war on drivers” and talking about how “real New Yorkers drive”. They’re angrily filming Atlantic terminal out their car windows while they sit in traffic on Flatbush. It rocks

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surathing.bsky.social @surathing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is no fun allowed on "Real New Yorker" TikTok. Having brunch with your friends? Must be a transplant! Sunbathing in the park? Go back to Ohio!

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Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“He needs to be eating worms” is maybe the funniest quote the Times has ever published.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 25/09/2026

yeah. relatedly I’ve heard people on here several times rate masking as more important than vaccines, which is tantamount to soft vaccine denial. masks are fallible and most people are not ultra strict with how they wear them!

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 21/09/2026

Yet another round of the eternal transplant discourse and I'm thinking about how I'm alive because I live in a place where I could easily get treatment for my life-threatening ectopic pregnancy and how most places with abortion access have exclusionary housing policies, leaving people to die.

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Mike Cherepko @mikecherepko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve seen the opposite: transplants lack roots so they can’t understand needing a car

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Mike Cherepko @mikecherepko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And that is why the nativists have to create the lie that everyone who moved to New York has a trust fund. Once they tell the lie, they can justify the rest of the nativism.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Seriously I'm seeing people be all "haha he's a 12 year old boy" when he mentioned the Arch with the Snipers but for some reason no one seems to do the math this way. Whether or not he builds the arch, he's telling you he's not leaving and he's gonna ask the military to protect him in the WH

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

anyway i put a FOIA request for all emails related to the DHS slop poster that provoked the Wyoming stabbing of a Sikh driver, mostly to get the name of the little Nazi responsible

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

72 apartments, no parking, in Colonia Escandon downsized to 23 units, 25 parking spaces. The city government and Mexican urban academia love talking about land value capture mechanisms, but hate apartment buildings more.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026

remembering when a certain pundit challenged my “the administration is ideologically opposed to clean energy for gender reasons” with “i think they just want cheap energy”

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Private carting and construction trucks are a giant safety risk to pedestrians and bikers and should be limited to driving no more than 5 mph in New York City. These are “when” not “if” crashes www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/n...

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15-Year-Old Girl Killed After Being Hit by Truck in Manhattan (Gift Article)

Two girls were on the bicycle when it was struck by a large truck attempting to turn on 1st Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan. The other girl, 13, was in stable condition.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 19/09/2026

i don't bike, i walk, but it is similarly a pleasant part of my day

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the thing about international humanitarian law is that it is expressly ex post facto law developed to murder the morally guilty in the face of a positive law which would have exculpated every Nazi

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Scout Tafoya @honorszombie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

More adults have made youth sports their entire personality in the last 10 years than any child in history. Why don't you go break up a game of hide and seek while you're at it, you fuckin' losers.

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