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Robin King

@robinnf.bsky.social
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DC now, formerly Bangalore, Austin, Mexico City, Niagara Falls NY. Teach political economy of cities at Georgetown U; Researcher at World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities but views here are my own.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14h
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Brilliant
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 22h
Seattle
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 18h
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 27/09/2026
The research implies that a local newspaper creates $114 per resident per year ($84 in 2018$) in local government efficiency. A case for subsidies for local news, perhaps in the form of consumer free-subscription vouchers like @deanbaker13.bsky.social advocates
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Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From Maine to Arizona, federal agents appeared in nearly every corner of daily life, captured mostly on security cameras and through cracked blinds. We reviewed 50+ incidents. Here’s how the summer escalation in immigration arrests unfolded: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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A Quiet ICE Surge That Unfolded ‘Everywhere All at Once’ This Summer (Gift Article)
A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.
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gypsyrose18.bsky.social @gypsyrose18.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Make it go viral
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Indivisible Austin @indivisibleaustin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Protest at 5PM today at 45th & Lamar!
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Robin King @robinnf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Peace Vigil this afternoon on H St in front of White House
Poster for peace vigil on sep 19 in front of white a house on H st, with some images of the long standing peace supporter whose protest site was removed on Sept 18, 2025
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Robin King @robinnf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Today! Come dance!
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Naida46 @naida46.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Join tomorrow if you’re free! We hope to see you there! 💚✊ Hands Around the Kennedy Center Friday, September 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM ET The Kennedy Center 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com
image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the backgroundblack and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 13/09/2026
Politics Girl is right! Between now and Election Day, Democrats need to stop attacking each other & focus on the real threat. Debate your differences after the election. Right now, every ounce of energy must go toward winning. Unity. Discipline. Victory 💙🇺🇸 #SheShed #DemocratsUnited
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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Repost. Every day.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Commerce quietly deleted its own rules against political interference in federal statistics.⁣ ⁣ Now Census and BEA data can legally be delayed, reworded, or manipulated.⁣ ⁣ newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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The Rules Changed. The Numbers Didn’t.
And I’ll tell you the day that stops being true.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hillary Is Spot On.......
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Blue Freedom Quest 💙🌊💙🌊 @bluefreedomquest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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loves2write.bsky.social @loves2write.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Every county election official should read this & submit their envelope & ballot designs to the USPS NOW so they can obtain a waiver, especially election officials in blue states/counties. #VoteBlue #VoteByMail #USPS #2026election #midterms newrepublic.com/post/215342/...
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USPS Tries Rejecting Entire County’s Ballot Over Spacing Issue
The postal service tried to reject an entire ballot over an issue with the envelope—a dark sign of the chaos that could unfold before November’s elections.
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Robin King @robinnf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Insightful on the dominance of short-termism and other challenges/traps for the Fed www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
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The Impotence of Being Kevin Warsh
Kevin Warsh’s call for fresh thinking at the Fed runs up against a deeper problem. The tools and concepts guiding monetary policy may no longer fit an economy reshaped by AI, shifting prices, and the ...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One of the biggest questions Democracy Docket is asked: What can I do to help? Our answer: A brand-new bulletin board community page with a list of ways you can volunteer, attend rallies, do phone banking, write petitions, and more. newsletters.democracydocket.com/fixed-you-as...
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Fixed: You asked what you can do. We listened.
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
President Trump has added more to the national debt than to economic output in his first 17 months in office. The CBO projects the gap will only widen over the rest of his term.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Even if you aren’t aware of any such agreements missing from the State Department’s site, you can still help out by RT’ing this piece…or share it in relevant Reddit subs, email listservs, etc. Tysm 🙏
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🇺🇸💙🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦Kygrannyof12🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦💙🇺🇸 @kygrannyof12.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Very very important to know this, vote.gov is the only site anyone should use to check their voter registration
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Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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Robin King @robinnf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Affotdability and accountability www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Democrats need to win. Here’s the message our research says works
Candidates must focus on two issues: affordability and accountability. They are not competing priorities
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Robin King @robinnf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Magnífico! Vale la pena verlo, y puede bailar también!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/09/2026
Not BREAKING NEWS because the Trump admin has been deleting and altering federal datasets for over a year. You can argue about policy. But when the government starts eliminating the data we use to determine whether those policies are actually working, that deserves a hell of a lot more attention.
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Dr. Art Garfunky @chimpvsdog.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Our democracy is being dismantled and the only legacy journalists covering it are cartoonists. @jackohman.bsky.social
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Here’s the best shirt for Halloween. 🎃
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
What a list. Imagine if Obama did even one of these things. www.meidasplus.com/p/the-75-mos...
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Support the journalists
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I graded the tariffs on the five things the administration itself said they'd achieve: leverage, deficits, factories, security, revenue⁣ ⁣ You can't grade on a curve here. We're failing.⁣ ⁣ More on substack: newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Robin King @robinnf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Never underestimate the power of insurance at many levels — systemic, personal, and for places/communities.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
Did you know if we add four seats to SCOTUS in 2029, we could bring back the charges against Trump for January 6? They could overturn the immunity ruling and consider tolling the statute of limitations for the duration of Trump’s presidency. We could also resurrect the classified documents case.
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Robin King @robinnf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A clear call for new structures and approaches, amidst crisis. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’
But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere
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Robin King @robinnf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
BTPM is a binational gem!
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Harsha @harshak.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Claude Code deletes 15% of Bengaluru inscriptions project records www.deccanherald.com/india/karnat... @robinnf.bsky.social
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When Claude Code went rogue, years of Bengaluru heritage work disappeared
AI safety: A rogue Claude Code agent deleted 15% of Bengaluru's digital inscription records, forcing a fresh scan of 120 sites. The incident raises questions over AI accountability, sandboxing, data b...
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Just when you think you couldn't hate him more.
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voteinthemidterms.bsky.social @voteinthemidterms.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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Robin King @robinnf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Annoy a Nazi. Rankle a racist. Horrify a homophobe.” A clever little ditty!!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Good Trouble @davidgoodtrouble.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🚨 If you’re a Dem living in Texas please make sure you’re registered to vote because more than one million Texans are on the voter suspense list, meaning their county can’t verify their address. October 5th is the deadline for voter registration. Ken Paxton belongs in jail, not in the U.S. Senate!
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Petisia @petisia.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca called for rescinding the executive order to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America' that violates the terms of the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua―citing a 225-year-old treaty between Native Americans and the U.S. government. thehill.com/homenews/adm... #PINKS
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Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential @stuartmiller1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Posted 16 hrs ago by "officialprogressivepulse: 1.2 million Texans have had their voter registration suspended ahead of one of the most significant midterm elections in history "The suspended registrations span the whole state, but also some of Texas’s largest counties, including Dallas County..."
Texas suspends 1.2 million voters ahead of midterms
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