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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

And it’s *good* that it was an instrument of US soft power.

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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 23/08/2026

Beam designed to complement existing transit.

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Sunnyvale launches on-demand rideshare service

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Who would have known Argentina would have so much trouble battling a remote Atlantic archipelago?

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It’s my birthday today, which makes it a great day to announce that I’m running for reelection to Sunnyvale City Council! I’m not taking corporate $, so if you can chip in to help me make Sunnyvale safer, more affordable, and more sustainable, it’d mean the world! secure.actblue.com/donate/richa...

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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Part of the right's war on education, especially the part that appeals to voters and not Douthatian perverts, is pretty explicitly about limiting kids' horizons and trapping them where they are.

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Some personal news: I crossed 1400 Elo on chess.com for the first time this year.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

remember that one time a train derailed in Ohio and literally nobody died but it was a news story for like a full week and Pete Buttigieg had to personally answer for it?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11/03/2026

The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This is good advice every day, assuming of course that your local city or suburb hasn’t been specifically and deliberately designed to make you essentially car dependent… #UrbanTruth

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Michelle Bruton @michellebruton.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Jack Hughes: “I looked on the ice and saw my teeth”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/02/2026

they need to import this to the Stanley Cup playoffs, watching hockey players be handed stuffed animals while they seethe is the new funniest thing in the world

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Hire Jacob Tierney to adapt The Infinite and the Divine.

The cover of The Infinite and the Divine, by Robert Rath, featuring Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Divine facing off against each other. Wrath and possibly lust is evident in the green luminescence of their ocular sensors.

Promotional image for Heated Rivalry, showing Hollander and Rozanov facing off against each other.

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This past week I had the tremendous honor to swear the oath of office as Sunnyvale Vice Mayor. I've taken the oath of office many times, but this year perhaps hit hardest of all. My speech on what that oath means below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaqw...

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City Council Meeting - Jan. 27, 2026

YouTube video by Sunnyvale City Clerk

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Moods. Wine Bar has become a wonderful part of Downtown Sunnyvale, providing a friendly, welcoming third space that we need more of. Unfortunately they're now in danger of closing. Please consider donating to help keep this vital space alive for years to come: www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-...

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Genuinely insane we are living in a world where the Danish have to deploy a battlegroup to protect themselves against America. Makes my blood turn molten, honestly

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

After 9/11, 43 Danish soldiers died fighting in Afghanistan. Trump's attempt to steal Greenland, his threats of war against Denmark, his temper tantrum over the Nobel Prize, it's all too disgusting for words. Congress must reign in this mad king—before it's too late. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Trump links Greenland threat to Nobel Peace Prize snub, EU prepares to retaliate

He said he no longer thought "purely of Peace" as the row over the island threatened to reignite a trade war with Europe.

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”

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Military archbishop: Troops could refuse orders on Greenland

Speaking to Britain's Sunday program on BBC, Archbishop Timothy Broglio reiterated that conscience could permit refusal of an unjust military order.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality

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Alex Halpern @halpernalex.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Suing everyone who doesn’t like me for hurting my feelings is sure to get them to like me

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

One of the most subtly insane aspects of the unrelenting car dependency we’ve deliberately built across North America is the incredible reluctance we have to remove the driving privilege, even from those who clearly are a danger to themselves & others, because “people have to drive.” #CarDependency

sciam article “Roads safer when drunk drivers immediately lose licence to kill”

CBC article “For seniors, losing drivers licence like having ‘arm cut off’”

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Folks, the official 2025 Mehlinger Voting Guide is finally here! If you live in California, vote YES on 50, and if you live in Santa Clara County, vote Neysa Fligor for county assessor and YES on Measure A! medium.com/@rmehlinger/...

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The 2025 Mehlinger Voting Guide

Hello and welcome to a quite unexpected odd year edition of the Official Mehlinger Voting Guide! As always, opinions expressed herein…

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Some fun texts from Rishi Kumar's campaign for Santa Clara County Assessor! He's lying to seniors, saying he'll exempt them from property tax--which the assessor can't do. So if you live in Santa Clara County, return your ballot by Nov 4 and vote YES on A, YES on 50, and Neysa Fliegor for Assessor!

Text thread from Rishi Kumar's campaign for Santa Clara County Assessor:

Campaign: Richard, Rishi Kumar cut taxes, stopped SJWC & PGE hikes, and as Assessor will put $ back in YOUR pocket. Vote Rishi today?

Me: Rishi Kumar isn't fit to be dogcatcher, much less assessor.

Campaign: It seems like you can sniff out dogcatcher talent because you are one? Rishi wrote a

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated: If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 30/09/2025

The gaslighting is wild. THEY control the White House, the House, and the Senate—yet always find a way to blame Democrats for their mess. The so-called “$1.5 trillion wish list” is about protecting health care, food assistance, and housing. (1/2)

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

You can literally just post a picture of a woman and be like WOMEN to rake in over 10k likes on Xitter now. I remember before I left there was a ten minutes hate against some 19 year old sorority girls dancing or some shit and I’m still not sure what everyone was pretending to be mad about.

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Some unfortunate personal news: I'm recovering from a broken left thumb and right wrist after a crash with a car while cycling home. On the one hand, my prognosis is good and I'm lucky it's not much worse. On the other, I don't have working hands right now. sanjosespotlight.com/sunnyvale-co...

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Sunnyvale councilmember injured in bike collision - San José Spotlight

Sunnyvale Councilmember Richard Mehlinger was hit by a car while riding his bike on California Avenue Aug. 30, breaking his left thumb and right wrist. He said the incident shows the necessity and urg...

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I am sad that we seem to have settled on "clanker" for the anti-robot slur when "toaster" is just so much more derogatory.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The deep irony is the insistence that everything is class politics, despite the overwhelming evidence against such a thing, is proof that ideas have independent causal force. People read Marx and it broke their brains!

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

This is no great insight, but actually one of the cardinal flaws in the Marxian tradition

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Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

You need to be as excited for Mamdani as you are for Grijalva and vice versa. Trying to do this weird thing of claiming that an election in Arizona is somehow a rebuke of an election in NYC is insane and doing the work of the Republican Party for them.

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Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Grijalva winning just shows what anyone who actually examines the Democratic Party for more than a second already knows; it’s a lib-left coalition that is going to nominate and elect representatives across that political spectrum depending on numerous factors for any given race.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

To me the NYT is WMD lies, Clinton email obsession, trans bashing and constant whitewashing of Nazis. The way liberals hold it in esteem is one of the worst parts of liberalism and a testament to media illiteracy nearly as bad as the right’s.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

4/x And that's the Dream. To be that shining city on the hill. To live by the words of the New Colossus. To be that land at whose gates stands the Mother of Exiles and welcomes in--you get it. I'm crying, whatever. And now we are reminded, as we were not a year ago, that the opposition hates that.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

3/x I grew up arguing civics around the Shabbat table, with family friends both Jewish and gentile, of all backgrounds. Grew up so immersed in pluralism and striving for a better future that I had to learn later how unusual it is. (Small wonder my first published novel is so drenched in this.)

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

2/x My father's side of the family was cast out of their homes and washed up on these shores. My mother's side of the family found sanctuary here where they lived, as the other branches of the family burned. These are stories told over and over, in the tens of millions. And some people hated that.

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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️‍⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

A year ago, I knew these two things: America was the greatest country in the world, and I was going to work my ass off to keep it moving forwards. We lost that battle. Lost it to complacency, vs the openly monstrous. But the Dream lives on; American liberalism may yet raise our banner higher. 1/x

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Happy birthday to the greatest articulation of critical American patriotism, Frederick Douglass’ “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July” www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

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