Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4h“Smart” appliances are evil af 58713
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 13hRight now, Los Angeles is just a gigantic engine that generates homelessness and passenger vehicle trips both within its borders and in greater Southern California. 0384
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 13hGiven how much Los Angeles' terrible governance on housing and homeless affects the rest of the state, it's no exaggeration to call the LA Mayor's race the most important election in California this cycle. 417830
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4hnext dem president and congress need to seize every dime he claimed in office 1652184
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialNext door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026WHY MAKE IT WORSE? California! Vote NO on Prop 42! Please share on NextDoor and Facebook so everyone knows the truth! 4214
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3hNEW: If Trump and Hegseth weren’t trying to kick trans people out of the military, a Navy board recently wrote of a trans women that it “without reservation would recommend retention based on a record of exemplary service," lawyers revealed today. www.lawdork.com/i/219495792/... 10868228
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 5hPete Hegseth has failed in every adult job that didn't entail having his hand held by experienced assistants, & he's never been more than mediocre in those that did. He has failed his first marriage & failed himself with drink. He has only not failed more because his second wife polices him. 17212
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3hbegging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE 01721399
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialWandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 3hThe attempted murderer should be in custody. But all you need to avoid justice in this country is a badge. 0121
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3hAn IRS investigator is suing the agency — claiming officials illegally leaked his confidential personnel records to federal prosecutors to punish him for years of whistleblowing on the agency's failure to tackle tax dodging.nytimes.comWhistle-Blower Says I.R.S. Leaked His Tax Records in RetaliationBrian J. Visalli, a veteran investigator of tax fraud, said in a lawsuit that the agency had sent his personal and tax information to federal prosecutors. 8701298
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 3h“The housing shortage is reflected in high prices and rents, but also in people forced to live with parents, roommates or even ex-partners because they cannot afford to form an independent household.” In a world where so many articles BS on housing, this one is refreshing. 0385
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5hOssoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters." 1003277948
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 3h“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 149122023665
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 7hHard to keep up but important to do so to remember why you fight but also to remember to fight--the temptation to think, "oh, he's gonna be toothless" because of bad polls or infirmity is too strong. He may be personally failing but he's still a wrecking ball. 812333
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 7hNot if you live in a walkable neighbourhood! 5964
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8hI think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren... 7640101513
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialMeade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 12hForty percent of American Nobel laureates this century in chemistry, medicine and physics have been immigrants, many arriving as students. 318488
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialKidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 6hIt is extremely perverse that many consider Beria to be a serial killer because of what he did in his private life and not merely in the exercise of his public duties. 141
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialHolly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 16hThere are some short term strategies that can be tried, but the real key is equipping the 20% of non-MAGA white evangelicals to vocally and courageously communicate a pro-democracy message on the foundations of white evangelicals' own way of thinking and believing. 0324
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialHolly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 16hAre they pretty immovable? Yes. Because their voting behavior is rooted in their longstanding, mainstream theological framework. But I don't think we are getting out of this authoritarian moment with at least trying to reach them. 3263
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialHolly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 16hThis piece was inspired by @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @robertpjones.bsky.social new books and argues for a messaging strategy tailored specifically to white evangelicals, probably the most influential bloc in our politics and 1/3 of Trump's coalition. www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-run...liberalcurrents.comYou Can't Run From Christian NationalismWhite evangelicals are the single most influential voting bloc in American politics. They cannot be ignored. 157025
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 10hGood god , DOD does plan to publicly stream the execution. 5418
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialCAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 9hThis is just not good governance. Metrolink is being forced to increase costs, shed riders, and ignore international best practice at the behest of random GOP city council members who know jack shit about transit in an attempt to save $5M 14512
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h> @cnbc.com #Tariffs www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i... 882676949
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialThomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Elon Musk, enemy of 'open borders,' launched his career working illegally. Investors in Musk's first company worried about «our founder being being deported»… #ElonQ $TSLAQwashingtonpost.comElon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegallyInvestors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa. 03312
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialThomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 15hWorth noting; also an illegal immigrant… 08517
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15hVance's model immigrant Elon Musk has sucked up more taxpayer-funded largesse than entire generations of asylum seekers combined, interfered with government policy, bought elections, and perpetrated a decade-long crime spree... he's literally the only immigrant we can't afford more of! 348189
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialMikeMald @mikemald.bsky.social · 10hPrepandemic BART getting 70% farebox recovery while running good service really speaks to that efficiency 091
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.sociallunaria/sapphire @hackquantumcpp.bsky.social · 11hBART is one of the most financially efficient transit agencies in the country and these people are so fucking stupid oml 1141
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.sociallunaria/sapphire @hackquantumcpp.bsky.social · 11hAlso, ridership has been soaring over the past year, recovering from the dip that occurred during the pandemic. Cuts to transit would just lead to lower quality transit services + service cuts, which would reduce ridership further 1121
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 11hThe thing about problems like transit cost bloat is that there is not an easy partisan villain to blame. It’s bad grant design, it’s empowering local governments with vetos, it’s bogging down projects in env. lawsuits, it’s austerity. There is plenty of blame to go around for libs and cons alike! 01248
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 11hYou see this all the time when centrist/center right activists and electeds try to weigh in on public policy problems: pretending that throwing in the towel and everything getting worse and more expensive is somehow fiscal prudence. 11193
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 11hOf course we need cut bureaucratic barriers for transit projects. But that is a completely separate effort that will require dedicated, ongoing advocacy. Conservatives want to treat public policy problems like morality tales. “If only we cut off junkies like BART they’d shape up!” 51354
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 11hNothing drives me more insane than smart boy center/center right commentators who believe that defunding programs will make them more efficient. It’s an underpants gnome theory of good governance. It’s an old story that has never panned out! 523827
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 11hDenying BART and Muni et al operations funds will do *nothing* to address capital project bloat problems. If anything, this will make the problem far worse. We need state and federal reforms to cut red tape with more wholistic funding programs. Starving transit ops gets us no closer to this! 22049
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 11hThis sort of stuff makes me want to scream. The cost bloat is in *capital projects* not in operations! Capital projects are bloated because of a complex web of balkanized permitting processes, the byzantine and inconsistent nature of federal grant funding, and outsourcing talent to consultants. 1649465
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialTom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Curtis Yarvin, a major influence on Vice President JD Vance, is openly fantasizing about Hitler again. Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. 621007358
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusinessfastcompany.comWant To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike LaneResearch from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of. 12661256
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 07/10/2026media assets now owned by david ellison: cbs cnn hbo paramount+ tnt mtv tcm showtime adult swim dc studios nickelodeon comedy central cartoon network (and don’t forget his dad bought tiktok too) 217931
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters. 1193053536
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17hIt’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.rollingstone.comCDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study 711285605
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialAozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026People are saying that @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social protects rapists in New York. www.nbcnewyork.com/investigatio...nbcnewyork.comBill to reform NY's rape law has support of 60% of the Assembly. One man is blocking it.Advocates for sex crime survivors say they are losing patience with Carl Heastie, Speaker of the New York State Assembly. Heastie wields considerable power in Albany and with two days left in the legi... 012
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialAubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 14h"By the way, Delcy Rodriguez is still doing this to dissidents, and we're still sending dissidents back to Venezuela as we prop up Rodriguez as a puppet." 715360
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13hMeanwhile, the Trump family is disrupting the corruption industry, in ways that make Guilfoyle’s request for cash payments seem pitifully outdated. Let’s take just a sample of recent stories. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper... 07125
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When you offer a bare bones, factual description of what Guilfoyle has been up to, it sounds absolutely insane. But here we are: America's government under the Trumps. People of Greece, if you are listening, we are sorry. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper... 11606134
Reposted by @n-teffi.bsky.socialKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13hPay to play, baby... 25719171
