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Chris Ross-Gill

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🏙️ Philly, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland, ⚽️ Aberdeen, ⚾️ Red Sox, ⚖️ human rights, 🚶‍♂️ safe streets, and 🙂 equal opportunities

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Elon Musk opening up the checkbook is always framed as a problem for Democrats, never as an ethical quandary for Republicans.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...
The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

 “You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Yes, and the Declaration says the idea that we are all created equal is a "self-evident" truth, meaning it's accessible solely via human reason, to anyone, whether they worship Trump's god or not. Also note that Trump dispenses with the "equal" part.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Liberal creedal nationalists don't think national identity is *only* defined by an idea. They recognize the need for all sorts of other institutions to hold it all together. Lincoln's "electric cord" speech is worth returning to again and again: newrepublic.com/article/2121...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
If you're hosting an international sporting event, you should be required to actually host all of the competitors. This isn't hard.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 12/06/2026
“The wealthy have avoided paying their fair share by shifting to forms of income that are not taxed as income because they are derived from wealth. We can fix the deficit and even fund powerful new programs if we are willing to tackle this chicanery.” www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-we-can-j...
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Yes, We Can—Just Tax The Rich
America faces real fiscal problems, but we need embrace neither tax-cut slopulism nor "pain is necessary" middle-class tax increases. The rich can start paying their fair share.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Literally all the referees, including the American ones, should boycott. But nobody will because most people excuse racism unless it's happening to them personally.
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James Nalton @jdnalton.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A reminder that Infantino said in 2017 that all qualified teams, their fans and officials, need to have access to a host country, otherwise it can't host. There are already numerous (predictable) US visa issues with the World Cup about to kick off and likely more to come.
Infantino was asked about the issue at the time and responded clearly, saying that if teams and supporters couldn’t access a country, there would be no World Cup there.

“We are now in the process of defining the bid requirements,” Infantino said in 2017. “In the world, there are many countries that have bans, travel bans, visa requirements and so on and so forth. 

“It’s obvious when it comes to Fifa competitions, that any team — including the supporters and officials of that team — who qualify for a World Cup, need to have access to the country, otherwise there is no World Cup.

“The requirements will be clear. And then each country can make up their decision, whether they want to bid or not, based on the requirements.”
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Taking the batteries out of the fire alarm
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Lior Steinberg @steinberg.nu · 03/06/2026
We are not stuck in traffic. We are stuck in old decisions. And decisions can be remade. 📍Vienna, before and after
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 22/05/2026
This is a backdoor way to ban speed and red light cameras and should be opposed
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Strange how so many will shame people on bikes for not wearing helmets yet don’t have much to say about bike lanes without protection. Via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
two images with text beside

image 1: person riding a cargo bike: if cyclists without helmets bother you
Image 2: painted sharrow: so should bike lanes without protection
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...
Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train.

"If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Hundreds of millions spent on human misery
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 08/01/2026
We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/01/2026
ICE Vows To Restore Order Using Whatever Force Unnecessary
ICE Vows To Restore Order Using Whatever Force Unnecessary
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dogemperor (PLAY NEO:TWEWY, ZEPTOGRAMS) @dogemperor.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Again: I'm gonna remind folks to learn their Confederate and proto-Confederate history, and SPECIFICALLY on a pre-Civil War proto-KKK group known as the Knights of the Golden Circle and their plans for conquest (which at this point are almost a 1:1 match for TFG's) A mini-historical thread: 1/x
The proposed map of conquest for a "Greater Confederacy" circa 1857 from the proto-KKK group "Knights of the Golden Circle", a secret society which had originally planned to conquer all of Central America and the Caribbean to add as slave states, and later on effectively drew the roadmap for the Confederacy--and, as we'll note in later posts, even formed the framework for the rise of the 1st KKK and arguably even the 2nd iteration of the KKK in Northern states like Indiana and Illinois and Ohio.

The map shows not only the confirmed Confederate states, but also the two border states (Missouri and Kentucky) that were officially Union states but had competing Confederate governments, and also Maryland (yes, this was also planned to take over DC as well), the portion of what was then the New Mexico Territory below the line of demarcation for slave states...and *all* of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, offshore islands (including the Guano Islands), and northern South America including parts of what are now Colombia and Venezuela.

History does not exactly repeat, but in certain cases--especially in countries that fail to deal with racist insurgencies and secret *werwulf* seditionists the FIRST time--it certainly does rhyme.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
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Derek Rae @raecomm.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 bloody hell! :) Can you believe it?
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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Seriously. A bicycle kick. A penalty A sending off A pinger from outside the box And the keeper lobbed from the halfway line in the dying seconds to seal it. A perfect game of football. We get should get to keep it.
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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Sean Dunn, aka DC Sandwich Guy, speaks outside court after his not guilty verdict: “I am so happy that justice prevails in spite of everything…. “That night I believe I was protecting the rights of immigrants… Every life matters, no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here…”
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Kevin Duggan @kevinduggan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has the chance to revolutionize the city’s streetscape, as other ambitious mayors did across the globe. Here’s how nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/05/a...
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AGENDA 2026: The New Mayor Must Revolutionize NYC's Streets - Streetsblog New York City
We've already offered the low-hanging fruit that the new mayor could accomplish on Day 1. Now, it's time to roll up the sleeves for our big list.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
🧵Let's talk about the obvious: Where in the fuck did all the historic artwork and priceless furnishings go, including the gold leaf Steinway piano that was presented to FDR from the Steinway family? Did Trump steal all this when he demolished the East Wing? Why aren't Dems demanding to know?
Gold leaf Steinway piano in East Wing of White House
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I'm pissed that they're blaming women for a nonexistent "autism crisis." I'm pissed that they're lying about what autism is and that mainstream people are normalizing what they're saying about autistic people. I'm pissed that this murderous grift is continuing. I'm just pissed.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
ah, well
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 16/09/2025
Imagine if the MAGA Right went after the “right to bear arms” the way they’re going after free speech. Only one of these is clearly related to Kirk’s death.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.
Instagram account connected to Gilroy shooter pushed staple of white supremacist internet forumsAnti-Semitic open letter posted online under name of Chabad synagogue shooting suspectPittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies New Zealand mosque shooting: Attacker's apparent manifesto probed
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2025
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Well, this is one of the most terrifying and anxiety inducing things I've ever seen. Imagine the road filled with drivers doing this. Now you can understand the hyper vigilance required of pedestrians and bicyclists. And despite that, we can still get splattered because of 3 seconds of distraction.
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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 30/08/2025
Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes. The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.
Screengrab reads: "She knew gentrification was coming when she waw the bike lanes."

Heard this in the Katrina Netflix series and its true. While I get excited about bike infrastructure talks, because its needed, folks get priced out fo the area.
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Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I don’t know why this incenses me as much as it does, but it does: we very likely have a thousand plus Mozarts *right now*. But they make non-Western art in economically destitute conditions so they have to do other work to pay bills; if you cared, UBI’d be more important to you than going to space
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Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’
“I think in a lot of these endeavors we're very like-minded,” Bezos said of himself and Musk regarding getting humans into space.
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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 24/07/2025
This graphic alone is like a fucking dissertation. Incredible stuff. Master class. Blows a massive hole in every govt's excuse that their level of gov't has no control over freeway spending.
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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
When you strip away humanity
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
We warn the left not to politicize the tragedy caused by our politics.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A thing that plagues SF, and the US in general, is not looking around and saying: Who has solved this problem somewhere else and what did they do? Maybe we don't need a 5-year process and billions of consultants to figure this out.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Musk has adjusted Grok’s algorithm so it’s now a neo-Nazi. Pretty cool that almost every progressive commentator, elected official and organization still uses Musk’s X algorithm to communicate with the public! Good job guys.
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Ben Mathis-Lilley @benmathislilley.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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This Country Deserves a Better Class of Cynical, Pandering Centrist Politician
Centrist identity politics are out of control!
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Chris Ross-Gill @rgchris.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
There are two HUGE stories in America this wknd: 1) nationwide protests — all 50 states, not just big cities but small towns & communities — which gathered MILLIONS OF AMERICANS IN THE STREETS TO DEFEND DEMOCRACY 2) political violence is being normalized — as is violence in political situations /1
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Every 7.5 minutes, an American man thinks about the Roman Empire. Albeit now with an increasingly dreadful sense of recognition.
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When Nobody Comes to Fix the Bridge - Truthdig
The decline and fall of a superpower, one piece of collapsed infrastructure at a time.
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Howard L Wood OBE @howardlwood.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Trawling the ocean floor can strip it of up to 41 percent of the seabed fauna,scallop dredging much higher, a loss in biodiversity that can take years to recover. www.iflscience.com/devastating-...
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“This Hit Me In The Guts”: World-First Footage Shows Fish Swimming For Their Lives As Trawlers Close In
“This is something that doesn't have to happen in our marine protected areas. It could end tomorrow, if we choose it to, and it would be to the benefit of every living thing on the planet,” director T...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
If we are to meet our critical moment in history, we need to reckon with the reality that we are not up against adversaries we have seen before. We are up against End Times Fascism – a belief system that is genocidal at its core and treasonous to the wonder and beauty of this world.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/05/2025
currency of the realm in republican politics is a blithe contempt for life and indifference to suffering
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
As of today, Elon Musk is thought to be responsible for the death of 300,000 adults and kids due to the illegal closure of USAID (source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...) That's a 103 deaths per hour, each day. And it will get worse. His legacy is one of death, destruction, and failure.
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
📻 For the people asking where they can listen to Season One of The Divided Dial. IT’S RIGHT HERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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On the Media: The Divided Dial | WNYC Studios | Podcasts
WNYC’s weekly investigation into how the media shapes our worldview.
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