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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein

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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 1m
The real tell is when they say if it’s Russia that’s okay too
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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 22h
Anti RTM pundits purport to be green eye shade realists about BART’s budget but consistently out themselves as fiscally illiterate. BANG’s Dan Borenstein acknowledges BART has high fixed costs - but then pivots to headcount - as if BART staff maintaining ROW, power supply and stations don’t count.
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 9h
Critical support for the War on Oil
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 13h
the cuck american president: stop attacking russian oil the gigachad ukranian military: we will burn their refineries
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 9h
The Artificial Gulf of Ontario
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 9h
The Gulf of Artificial Ontario
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 9h
Gloves are underrated as cycling PPE imo
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 16h
Headline makes it sound like the DCCC spent all their money on hookers and blow and now rent is due but the real reason is Trump and the Republicans are so toxic the DCCC thinks it can compete in districts Trump won by 13-20 points.
Specifically, Merz dedicates significant portions of the memo to four districts where the committee is desperate for more money in order to compete — all of which President Donald Trump won by double-digit margins in 2024:

— Florida’s 27th District (Trump +14.6)
— Nevada’s 2nd District (Trump +13.9)
— South Carolina’s 1st District (Trump +13)
— New York’s 21st District (Trump +20.7)
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 17h
so we're not going to be able to crucify these fuckers until 2029, probably, and I do exhort people to be normal about THAT but i also want us to keep a fuckin list of everyone who capitulated to this shit and whisper it every night as we go to fuckin sleep
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 20h
Huh!
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daniel r(ooooooh) 👻 @danielroe.dev · 09/10/2026
open source maintainers considering whether they can do everything with just llms and no community
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Bilbo Baggins: Why Shouldn't I? (Lord of the Rings)
Alt: Bilbo holding the one ring, saying: "Why shouldn't I?"
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Huh... so Honda had fully intended to compete with Chinese EV makers and then gave up because of America? Yikes.
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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you're in a US city that is facing a transit funding referendum in November, such as the San Francisco Bay Area, here's my quick guide on how to think about transit measures in general, and the forces behind them. humantransit.org/basics-shoul... Comments welcome.
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Basics: Should I Vote for a Transit Tax? — Human Transit
In the United States and Canada, voters are sometimes asked to decide whether to raise taxes to fund transit improvements.  I’m often asked whether I support these things.  I don’t like telling people...
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 08/10/2026
vote yes on the RTM measure in november if you love BART!!
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In early 2020, Taupe Avenger tweeted that the reason why people in Italy was dying in droves at hospitals from the novel coronavirus was because of socialized healthcare. A few months late, that tweet mysteriously disappeared. Weird huh?
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nothing 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!
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 08/10/2026
A brilliant thread but this is something to call out. “Software Engineers” used to be script kiddies with an ego, now it’s just problematic vibe coders. The term needs to be legally protected until ethics have been taught. Engineers are responsible for lives, software increasingly so.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
August US transit data is in today, & all of the largest US rail networks are growing! Cali leads the way, with ridership up 15% on BART, 14% on Muni, & 10% on LA Metro PATH (NY/NJ) & MBTA (Boston) also have strong growth at 8%, while MTS (San Diego, +1.7%) is the slowest🧵
a graph of year-on-year growth in ridership
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He really knows his remaining constituency
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry
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mel in ballhalla 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
STOP DOING MIXED-TRAFFIC LIGHT RAIL!!!!! “yes i would parking violators blocking my transit system” “yes i want my transit slowed down by drivers” “yes i want bus bunching on high capacity transit” —statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/10/2026
Since all knowledge builds on prior knowledge, wouldn’t it be great, the right-wing thinks, if the humanistic approach that then informed narrative medicine was “how smart were Hayek and Milton Friedman!”
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I mean is it that Americans don’t want to buy or that GM dealers don’t want to sell
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
all iran needs to do in order to compel the withdrawal of high-end military assets thousands of miles away from the front line is to raise the prospect of an airbase raid by irregulars with drones
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What The fuck Man
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lmao. In all seriousness tho, Walsh is basically a kind of gender-fascist, but this shows how radically out of touch he is with most normal people, who see co-ed colleges as normal if not preferable.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The irony of course is that Originalism’s big selling point was supposed to be constraining the discretion or judges to impose their own political preferences as law. In practice the effect has been very much the reverse: Liberating justices from the constraints of stare decisis.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026
i do think that texas is central to the contemporary conservative imaginary, and when they lose it this fall it is causing to lead to some truly demented reactions from the reactionverse
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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hey cool headline but WHAT DID HE GO TO PRISON FOR??
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That’s just the downtown of most major US cities
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"All the sexy lesbians of our dreams are secretly voting for us too!"
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i mean i think it's more horny halfway-trolling halfway-wishcasting than anything else
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
all downstream of seeing these things as "amenities" to fill out the spreadsheet instead of a system that needs to work for people to use it
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
there's a bike path next to 87 that literally dumps you onto a freeway onramp like just fuck my shit up fam
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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 03/10/2026
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
RIP
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I mean the nasa press sec is a ted cruz alum so
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Peter Ohtaki is a republican
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mel in ballhalla 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
why does bart, the largest bay area transit operator, not simply eat the others?
The Aliens from Futurama who ask why Ross the largest Friend not simply eat the other five
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Samus is Here @samusishere.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I like how a huge chunk of the population (including the president of the United States) believes that literally all non extractive wealth is fake.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You can completely go along with the broader fascist project every step of the way and still have this happen to you over daylight savings time
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 02/10/2026
It’s crazy, but after the passage of the 2021 federal infrastructure law—designed to be the biggest infusion of funds into transit in US history—spending on rail transit….dropped.
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Federal Infrastructure Spending on Transportation, Four Years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is up for reauthorization in 2026. New analysis shows that the act increased spending on transportation infrastructure, but…
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks, PG&E! I don’t have a dryer
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
trump at this point should be regarded as a weird cyborg like creature. his brain is goo, his body is failing, he’s being kept going by powerful drugs, an exoskeleton (no, not the cool kind), and grok prompts
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David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OMFG 🤯
It knows nothing about Tiananmen squareBut has a decent amount of information about the Kent State Massacre
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