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Patty Hume

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mayorsoffice.nyc.gov @mayorsoffice.nyc.gov · 14/01/2026
You probably don't know what SEQRA is - but you should know that it's slowing down the housing that we need. Deputy Mayor Leila Bozorg is here to explain why reforming it is key to cutting red tape and building more housing.
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 27/11/2025
Still thinking about this article. It’s always been a sore spot in YIMBY circles that so many progressive foundations pour money into NIMBYism, and I’m glad it’s finally being aired in public. Keep talking about it. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
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Philanthropy Needs to Pick a Side on the Housing Construction Debate
Despite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes.
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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I really hate that in North America your two choices are apparently, "It is illegal to build housing" and, "The Southern Baptist Convention owns your uterus."
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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The Senate’s version of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill would see the General Services Administration take possession of the nearly 7,200 new postal EVs and associated infrastructure and put the assets up for auction. The proposal is unlikely to generate much revenue for the government; there is almost no private-sector interest in the mail trucks, and used EV charging equipment — built specifically for the Postal Service and already installed in postal facilities — generally cannot be resold.

“The funds realized by auctioning the vehicles and infrastructure would be negligible. Much of infrastructure is literally buried under parking lots, and there is no market for used charging equipment,” Peter Pastre, the Postal Service’s vice president for government relations and public policy, wrote to senators this month.
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Patty Hume @pattyhume.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Sale of gov land could impact some communities a lot more than others. There is a ton of BLM land in the hi dez #joshuatree #29palms www.deserttrumpet.org/p/senate-flo...
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Senate Floats Auction of 1000s of Acres of Morongo Basin Public Land
Land near Section 6 and other local landmarks placed on BLM land privatization chopping block
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
My god. 6 MILLION acres of public lands in Oregon, including the vast majority of our national forests, will be sold in a fire sale if the MAGA budget passes.
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Patty Hume @pattyhume.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Biggest turnout out I’ve ever seen in Joshua Tree maybe 500
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We feed you. They hunt us.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/06/2025
what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!
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Indivisible Westside LA ❌👑 @indivisiblewestsidela.com · 08/06/2025
Flyer to share
Join faith and community leaders for an
INTERFAITH
Prayer Vigil

Gather in prayer and reflection as we call for nonviolence and stand in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors
Plese bring a candle or light
for the vigil

7:00 PM SUNDAY, JUNE 8
Los Angeles City Hall
200 N Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Archdiocese of
LOS ANGELES
LA Voice
PICO CALIFORNIA
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Just finished "Abundance" and that fact that any of it is controversial just illustrates how hosed the Democratic Party is. Building more homes, generating more clean energy and developing a mass transit network is the easiest and most obvious thing that blue states ought to be doing right now.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
“The whole thing feels like Black Mirror.” “He would listen to the bot over me.” “It gave my husband the title of ‘spark bearer’ because he brought it to life.” Relationships are being destroyed thanks to spiritual mania, supernatural delusions, and arcane prophecy — all fueled by AI chatbots:
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People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 27/04/2025
and mostly because we *still* refuse to fucking build!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Newsom: In 2023, Californians contributed $83.1 billion more to the federal government than we received back. And for your viewers: that other state—Texas—took $71.1 billion more than it contributed to the federal government. California: $83 billion, contributor. Texas: taker.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
There is no credible progressive argument against building a ton of new homes at all income levels. Opposing making it easier to build new homes isn’t progressive. It’s super conservative & an argument for a permanent shortage & permanent high rents.
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The craziest thing about the California housing crisis is how it's likely the substantively single most important issue facing the state yet still has extremely low political salience among Democrats. It's like they want to pretend it's not a problem
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?
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Patty Hume @pattyhume.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
That’s me out there
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I think saying "in America, everyone is innocent until proven guilty" works better for low-info normies than saying "due process" does
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The Coalition to Protect America's National Parks @protectnps.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Visitors are eager to explore national parks this year. But many are asking, is it responsible, or even safe, to visit right now? Coalition Chair Phil Francis shared insights w/ SFGATE, urging people to plan ahead, be self-sufficient, & thank every ranger they meet. www.sfgate.com/national-par...
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National parks are in crisis. Should you visit or not?
Experts weigh in on whether national park visits will help or hinder the parks themselves.
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Patty Hume @pattyhume.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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A Group of Friends Walks Into a Mall, and Stays for Four Years
Was it a crime? A prank? A work of art? A new documentary unveils the full story of an artist collective’s secret mall apartment, and other ephemeral actions.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025
I believe the firings and the AI have the same purpose: to get humans out of the loop of evaluating contracts. To automate the process of spending government money. To rig up a computer that sends taxpayer dollars directly to the broligarchy.
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Patty Hume @pattyhume.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Cutting red tape is a social justice issue - Vox
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
this is exactly the right answer imo. it's going to hurt like hell for things to get broken, so bad that we wouldn't ever choose it, but once they're broken you get to build free of all the crud of path dependency and that's an opportunity.
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2025
Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK By "Led By Donkeys"
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
As always, not a lawyer, but one thing that leaps out at me about how things are going down in the courts right now is that the US court system is not designed to be responsive to a crisis like this one. A crisis like this one is not what it's FOR.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“Less medical research, a pull-back on life-saving vaccines, turning away from science and embracing folk medicine. Make America Healthy Again. Again. Meaning: America used to be ‘healthy’ and now is not. This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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MAHA Is a Fraud
America has never been healthier. Going backwards is going to mean more people getting sick and dying.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Talked to Tim Walz as he campaigned in Wisconsin. Thought his answer to one Q I'd had for Dems - if you come back in 2028, do you rebuild everything DOGE broke? - was interesting. "I think it's an opportunity." www.semafor.com/article/03/1...
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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“There is a policy failure haunting blue states. It has become too hard to build and too expensive to live in the places where Democrats govern.” @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk “control of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texas” & designate that land as “a military base or … similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.” Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Trump has rescinded a proclamation that established the Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sáttítla National Monument in California.
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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
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Patty Hume @pattyhume.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Finally rocking some new glasses! My first time having progressive lens. It’s amazing to be able to see so much more detail at different distances. Trying out Flashes this morning. Hope it catches on as an Insta alternative. Give it a try & post something
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Congratulations to @flashes.blue for their official launch on the App Store 🎉🎉🎉 It’s an instagram alternative built on the AT protocol 🙌 all the visual scrolling with none of the Meta algorithm
A cropped screenshot of the Flashes app in the App Store
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Unless overcome, blue state NIMBYism is going to grow Republicans' electoral college advantage and price millions of people from targeted populations out of the opportunity to find sanctuary under anti-MAGA legal regimes.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Thanks to @joshtpm.bsky.social for posting a link to this piece this weekend -- absolutely worth reading: www.hidesertstar.com/deserttrail/...
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Jay Obernolte preaches deficit reduction, supports Musk in raucous Yucca Valley town hall
YUCCA VALLEY — Congressman Jay Obernolte spoke to a crowd that erupted in boos and chants like “No King” Saturday morning in the community center.
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The Desert Trumpet @deserttrumpet.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The Morongo Basin joined the nationwide wave of raucous town hall meetings on Saturday. Residents let Rep. Obernolte know their feelings about federal funding cuts breaking into chants such as “Do Your Job” and “No Kings.” We have details including photos and video.
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Town Holler: Rep. Obernolte Meets Resistance
In a fractious community meeting, more than 200 Morongo Basin residents insist that their representative tell the truth and do his job
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Median age of homebuyers just hit a new record high of 56 (Via Torsten Slok)
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Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
An ash-filled lot filled with the rubble of a burned home in Altadena just sold for $549,000 in cash, LAist reports.
• How much: Real estate agent Brock Harris listed the Altadena lot for $449,000, and quickly received dozens of calls from prospective buyers. The buyer paid $100,000 above asking, all cash. The sale is expected to close this week.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
USAID, currently being shut down by Elon Musk, purchases about $2 billion annually in rice, wheat, lentils, and peas from American farmers.
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Patty Hume @pattyhume.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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How to Win the USAID Fight
Rules for Democrats.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is really astute. www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happe...
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What Happened Here
It's Very Simple Dialectics
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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is a great time to follow WIRED journalists here bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This by Ezra Klein is really spot on: “You never want a power grab to look like a power grab.” It looks like a power grab. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
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Opinion | Don’t Believe Him
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
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