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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11h

Really enjoyed reading and editing this PUBLIC COMMENT guest post on the true cost of California's high development impact fees: publiccomment.blog/p/do-impact-...

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Do Impact Fees Do More Harm Than Good?

Tallying up the significant cost and paltry benefits of California's development impact fees

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3h

“Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the difficulty has proved to be not arguing against it, but convincing non-fascists that fascism’s adherents really mean it. That they believe what they are telling us they believe—and they will act accordingly.” www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...

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Fascists Really Believe It

Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 3h

Ethnic cleansing with American characteristics

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 2h

The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4h

twitter is a nicer and friendlier place than bluesky: false bluesky has some of the most aggressively hectoring, pedantic weirdos on the entire internet: true

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4h

Also a regular reminder that the public are fickle and the job of a moral party is to lead not follow

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

received this very nice book of maps of population migration focused on the american south and my sweet, nerdy 8-year-old is obsessed with it. we just spent. the last 40 minutes talking about population movements in the 19th century.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

Ok it is obvious that people fake engagement with bots, and that this is often done for political reasons, but the reality is that there are tens of millions of republicans in america, the number of people who would vote for Trump is even larger, and as elections show, these people really exist

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 6h

once again, you're *supposed* to signal virtue, while also attempting to *possess* it.

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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 8h

Catholic Archbishop for the Military Services with pastoral responsibility for US soldiers issues statement saying Catholic military personnel are morally obligated to refuse to participate in a potential livestreamed execution of Nidal Hasan. www.milarch.org/archbishop-b...

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Archbishop Broglio Issues Statement on Proposed Execution Livestream - Archdiocese for the Military, USA

Archbishop Broglio has issued a statement on the proposal to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h

Patriotic American, standing up for free speech against government tyranny. An example more should follow.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 10h

No words better express Orwell’s argument about the deadening effects of political cliches than the repetition of “accountability”, “transparency”, and “raises questions” instead of calls for specific redress for particular harms

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 11h

Consumers are *really* bad at expressing their economic well-being, it's basically just whatever pump prices are. Which is why maximizing EV share of the vehicle fleet is so important for breaking the carbon political economy in the US. Any other solution is doomed.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 11h

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

Judge Reyes' opening statement to the DOJ as the hearing begins: "I am thoroughly unamused right now."

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 21h

the actual realistic answer is rigorous NISPOM and DFARS clause 252.226-7003 enforcement the non-national security stuff is a political problem of dealing with a notional trillionaire generally, but the DoD stuff is pretty straightforward

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

lbj should ‘unleash’ hubert

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Please post more of your research On Here. Bring me more working papers

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Adm William H McRaven: There is nothing noble about a public display of a government-sanctioned execution. With this decision, the Trump administration continues to undermine our national values. Our current leaders are shameless and ignoble. They have no sense of dignity or honor. They seem to

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Admiral McRaven: Public Execution is Shameless and Ignoble

A government livestream of Nidal Hasan’s killing would put America in extremely poor company.

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's funny how NIMBYism is such a religious conviction for some people that developers will just say this worldwide without fear of repercussion.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 11/10/2026

One day people are tweeting about how YIMBYism has no answers for the Rust Belt and single-stair kills. The next, a firefighter moonlighting in construction and a nurse (total household income: $175k-$200k?) can’t afford to buy in a good Kansas City school district. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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America’s Housing Affordability Crisis Spreads to the Midwest

In the region that’s often thought of as a refuge from the US housing squeeze, prices are rising and would-be buyers are feeling boxed out.

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CAL FIRE @calfire.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

For practical guidance on preparing your home, visit www.ReadyForWildfire.org

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

People have asked what the "improve the existing tracks" option is as an alternative to high-speed rail; here is one alternative. www.thetransitbrief.net/p/if-not-hig...

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If not high-speed rail, then what?

An Alto alternative sheds light on the costs and benefits of Canadian high-speed rail.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 11/10/2026

Yikes...the National Fire Sprinkler Association published a blog post in 2025 about Maryland’s 2024 Fire Fatality Report that appears to have been written with ChatGPT and, as far as I can tell, hallucinated some major findings nfsa.org/2025/07/29/m...

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Maryland Leads by Example: What 16 Years of Fire Data and 20 Years of National Research Say About Residential Automatic Fire Sprinklers - National Fire Sprinkler Association

What 16 Years of Fire Data and 20 Years of National Research Say About Residential Automatic Fire Sprinklers

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We’re already helping to fund the Russian war effort and we’ve basically ended all other aid to Ukraine. Why the fuck should the Ukrainians care about our threats anymore.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10/10/2026

One day after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals came out against the Pentagon’s plan to livestream an execution, Pope Leo has published a tweet reiterating the Catholic Church’s opposition to the death penalty.

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The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 10/10/2026

China’s railway system provided 25 million rides on a single day, October 1. For comparison, the US aviation system serves about 3 million travelers daily. Amtrak serves about 35 million riders per year.

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China's railway passenger trips hit record single-day high

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

People will look at you in the eyes and tell you speeding isn’t a big enough problem to justify cameras.

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Whoever wins the governorships in the battleground states will certify the 2028 presidential election. There are election deniers running, in Wisconsin and elsewhere. We've got to beat them. My new NYT op-ed:

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Opinion | Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6? Defeat These Republicans. (Gift Article)

The 2028 election is on the ballot right now.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Among the most evil things he's said

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Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"The United States will abandon you, betray you and sell you down the river for literal cents at the pump"

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end of Nov 2026. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

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Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am BEGGING more journalists to look into Marshall’s staffers

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K @kate10010.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ed Zitron used AI to create the very first chart in this piece. It made a critical error, which he did not notice because he just learned about bonds last month. THAT is the danger of non practitioners relying on AI output, you don’t know what you’re looking for. The chart is completely inaccurate.

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yuri Slezkine's "House of Government" or Simon Sebag Montefiore's "Stalin: The Court of the Red Czar" are excellent narrative introductions to that bizarre, deeply, darkly tragicomical time and place

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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Certainly nothing ever goes wrong with mercenaries in the Congo?!!

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 09/10/2026

Pretty embarrassing for San Francisco that their single-stair code section is going to require a second stair. The second part makes no sense – an exterior stairway is already allowed…there was never any requirement that both be interior.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The new Survey of Consumer Finance is out! www.federalreserve.gov/publications... For Matt Darling aficionados: - Median household net worth is $215.9k (up 2% since 2022) - Median assets in transaction accounts is $8,200 (-6% since 2022) (Percent changes are in real (adj for inflation) terms.)

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026

NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...

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Conference of
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WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the U.S.
Department of War announced that the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the man convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, would be publicly livestreamed. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the following statement sharply condemning the decision of the U.S. government:
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.

United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
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"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.
"I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances."

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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 09/10/2026

AI is dangerous because people increasingly trust it even though it constantly screws up. foreignpolicy.com/2026/10/08/a...

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The Real Danger May Be AI as Dumb as Us

Talk of “super intelligence” distracts from frequent screwups.

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is how the U.S. is choosing to treat vulnerable children

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When you‘ve been keeping a book around in case you need it as a reference, and it unfortunately pays off

Picture of The End of Public Execution by Michael Ayers Trotti

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That's really the whole ballgame.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.

Bo French, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, has taken this idea a step further, suggesting that the only way to be an American is to be white and Christian.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/10/2026

I spoke with @nature.com on the US Administration's new $100,000 tax on international students who stay to work. I estimate that the tax will sharply reduce the use of Optional Practical Training & thus talent inflows to the US economy. My estimates in this new paper —> www.iza.org/publications...

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US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work

Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say

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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Honestly, I love that NY Fed now has a "weekly column" kind of thing~

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