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Raising Uptown

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Urbanism, family life & raising independent, strong & free children Advocates for a world improved via attention, community & effort

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16h
a “banana republic” is precisely when the political system is dominated by overweening corporate interests
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When wellness invades the environmental movement.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/10/2026
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Hello Sam this is your lawer speaking.
I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Chicago Pope from the top rope!
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
AI is for people who consider the Muzak version of Blurred Lines they hear in the waiting room at the dentist a bop. This guy could not have illustrated AI stans any better. Incurious idiots who can't handle normal life and have no taste or soul.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Talk to your kids.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think one of the undercurrents of our fractured political reality is that basically everyone has come to realize that the people who rule the world do not possess any particularly impressive level of intelligence or capability
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve been saying for a while, someone needs to estimate the net cost of millions of people having to spend a chunk of every day worrying about what the insane president has done or will do.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Harvest Moon rising behind Chicago Harbor Lighthouse on Saturday evening in Chicago.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is all right-wing politics is now, a guy who's killed tens of thousands of children complaining about podcasters
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i think we've getting closer and closer to the tipping point where oil extraction becomes a strictly ideological project — persisting mainly because it's a necessary plank in the maintenance of brutal hierarchies — more so than a profit-making venture per se
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2026
ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 11/09/2026
DOGE is still running the show: The Bureau of Land Management gave its state directors *3 days* to list public lands that could be turned over to Big Tech to build AI hyperscalers, after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum met with Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy
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Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands
The Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department’s land.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The largest theft of labor in human history is an unprecedented enclosure of the thought work cultivated in the near miraculous shared achievement of the internet that is being strip-mined in parallel with the trillion dollar data center build out meant to make full use of that violent extraction.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Surveying the AI ‘moment,’ Nathalie Maréchal says "the kooks are now in power, and they are using that power to dismantle the institutions designed to keep the rest of us safe, healthy, and free."
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What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 18/09/2026
“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.” Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)
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Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org · 16/09/2026
Block Club: "Automated Ticketing For Bike, Bus Lane Blockers Should Be Expanded Citywide, Alders Say."
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Automated Ticketing For Bike, Bus Lane Blockers Should Be Expanded Citywide, Alders Say
Expanding and making permanent the Smart Streets pilot program — which uses cameras on city vehicles and buses to ticket drivers blocking bus and bike lanes — should be a priority this fall, 20-plus a...
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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I dunno, if I were talking to a group of elementary school kids, I’d want to hear about things like their favorite colors or books. (I’m sure they have a favorite Pigeon book.) “How have you guys been using the slop app?” is probably the last thing I’d ever think to ask a kid.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For these guys, it was never about illegal immigration, it was never about cultural assimilation. You can be born in America, drinking beer as you cheer on the Longhorns, but its not enough if you are not white.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s all identity politics, but since it’s largely white identity politics it’s fine and doesn’t count. It’s not something communist like police shouldn’t be able to get away with murder bsky.app/profile/chri...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sinclair Lewis, FTW! "His humor was the sly cynicism of a country store."
Doremus Jessup, so inconspicuous an observer, watching Senator Windrip from so humble a Boeotia, could not explain his power of bewitching large audiences. The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his
"ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just further enshrining the canonical conservative belief that being called racist is worse than being racist.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Post-Christian Right
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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Every one of these flights is several counts of Conspiracy to Violate Rights and probably a bunch of other federal crimes, and everyone involved needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Imagine if you just gave mathematicians 22 million dollars
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Raising Uptown @raisinguptown.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bond markets will love this
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The creepy weird billionaire dork who funds a worldwide white supremacist movement, runs a CSAM website and destroyed our government thinks that there must be some kind of grand (((Jewish-funded))) conspiracy to make people hate him. Sure, man. Sure.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Protect trans kids.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
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Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org · 08/09/2026
Sweatin’ with the alders: As Bike the Drive highlights the perks of a less car-centric shoreline, Ald. Vasquez and Ald. Manaa-Hoppenworth discuss the future of DLSD. chi.streetsblog.org/2026/09/08/s...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026
Always a good time to remind ourselves that the US Confederacy was, even judged in historical context, evil -- a pathetic, morally repellant movement led by some the smarmiest narcissists ever known. It had no redeeming features & should forever be regarded with disgust & contempt.
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Trump officials strip military language criticizing Confederate memorial
A new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
I've been Black long enough to have at least some built-in 'yup, people be racist, and yet we move' defense systems But ngl shit can still sometimes be...jarring! Like seeing this, openly and shamelessly, and knowing Gorsuch had him in his chambers, and that he helps pick federal judges. Sickening!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
two panel animated meme with left panel showing a character dialing on a phone (meme edit has added "Gender Studies" to the above the number pad) and right panel showing a stone faced animated character with their phone to their ear
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
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The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don't usually give credit to Trump. But you have to admire the degree to which he found absolutely the worst, least qualified, most dangerous people possible to fill his cabinet and other senior administration positions. It can't have been easy.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026
and what makes them less qualified? well, don’t you see that they are black people and women (and sometimes black women!)?
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
He says if his kids went to public school they could be "killed by a gang of third world miscreants that want to scalp a white kid," and this happens in "every public school." This is the racist bilge conservatives imbibe every day, day after day after day.
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