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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it’s worth noting that Zohran has made major policy reforms to legalize development of more market rate housing. On the other hand, New York republicans are super NIMBY and want the government to regulate new housing out of existence with excessive red tape
What's one issue in politics that you've changed your mind about?
The role of the private market in housing construction.
How so?
I clearly recognize now that there is a very important role to be played, and one that city government must facilitate through the increasing of density around mass transit hubs, the ending of the requirement to build parking lots, as well as the need to up-zone neighborhoods that have historically not contributed to affordable housing production - namely, wealthier neighborhoods.
I think all these things, in tandem with a muscular role for the public sector. But that is a changing opinion over time that I've been in office.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it is so beautiful to see all of the most deranged posters react to this
Peter Sterne @petersterne • 8h
Private developers are essentially bragging about still being able to do market-rate development in districts represented by democratic socialists
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
very few things bring me as much joy as the left-NIMBY crashout in response to zohran and his allies supporting building more housing
Kate Willett @katewillett •1h
We all want to pretend that socialists in office aren't just as terrified of the NYPD and the real estate lobby as their liberal colleagues, but they are! That's to be expected under capitalism.
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But we don't have to rewrite motivated compromises w/ capital "socialist politics."
Peter Sterne @petersterne • 5h
Private developers are essentially bragging about still being able to do market-rate development in districts represented by democratic socialists therealdeal.com/new-york/2026/...
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
gotta say I really don’t love the use of the Israeli flag here especially when some of the largest foreign institutional investors in data centers are not even Israeli (primarily the gulf states) Sunrise has truly lost the plot ngl
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lmfao now a *republican* city councilmember is in my replies defending Kayla (a Democrat) for being a NIMBY the biggest dividing line in NYC is not Democrat vs Republican but it’s people who like New York vs. outer borough chuds who wished they lived in the Dallas suburbs
Joe Borelli
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Ugh. Totally sucks that she has to represent 175k actual people who have to live and work in a neighborhood and feel like they ought to have some say in whatever balance is struck. So annoying. They should just get bikes and shut up.
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more parking means more cars! and fewer apartments means fewer apartments!
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So.... Heaven?
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
it is so clear that Connie Chan is only passionate about one issue and it’s keeping the west side of San Francisco low density and car dependent she literally tried to kill Caltrain during the pandemic!
Connie Chan for District 1
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Our economic recovery hasn't been felt equally. Low-income jobs were lost much more rapidly and have been much slower to come back. I am against RR Measure to increase the sales tax to fund CalTrain operations. I'm voting no on RR to protect our small businesses and working people, and ease their burden. If public transit is a public good, let's leverage local resources and legislative power to approach state and federal funding sources from a regional approach.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
seeing NYC politicians fucking *brag* about building less housing and more parking in a lot *right next to the subway* is going to drive me insane
Staples Rezoning: Results
STATEMENT FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
KAYLA SANTOSUOSSO
For the last several months I have been in negotiations with the developers for the Staples property. While this is likely one of the last rezoning votes I can make in Bay Ridge, negotiations were still heavily shaped by the charter changes that take effect in January.
The developers made clear that if the Council did not approve a modified project, they would take advantage of the new rules to resubmit at their original building - or an even bigger, denser building - for expedited approval and with no wins for our community.Staples Rezoning: Results
STATEMENT FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
KAYLA SANTOSUOSSO
For the last several months I have been in negotiations with the developers for the Staples property. While this is likely one of the last rezoning votes I can make in Bay Ridge, negotiations were still heavily shaped by the charter changes that take effect in January.
The developers made clear that if the Council did not approve a modified project, they would take advantage of the new rules to resubmit at their original building - or an even bigger, denser building - for expedited approval and with no wins for our community.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
really sucks that it’s looking like the next French election will be idiot fascist (Le Pen) vs. idiot communist (melenchon) who is now threatening to imprison the leaders of the central bank
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The French central banker, a former direct collaborator of Macron, is publicly taking sides against his country abroad by implicitly calling on speculators to sanction France because of my proposals. This is an act of treason. There will be no statute of limitations in 2027.
He will be prosecuted for this. I'm fed up with these so-called elites who cry wolf about the drama they want to create to weigh on the people.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TWU hates Kathy Hochul and keeps trying to elect swing seat Republicans like Fitzpatrick we can’t let these far right groups have veto power over good transportation policy (for example, one person train operation)
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
me in bologna this summer: “I am so excited to walk around this beautiful city with my wife and eat the most declious pasta on earth” twitter Nazis in bologna: “I am furious about the levels of race mixing in this city”
Lee Kuan Yimby • @LeeKuanYimby • 4h
I was at a bus station in Bologna at night and there was hundreds of people and straight up nobody was
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it's so much worse than people are being told man
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
yung lean for DoW secretary
got an empire of emotion
Squad see me cruisin', cruisin' in my go kart
I'm War ho, I'm Warhol
I'm Wario when I'm in Mario Kart
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the flying monkeys in the wizard of Oz really freaked me out
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
brings me no joy to say that Fukuyama nailed it
But supposing that the world has become "filled up," so to speak, with liberal democracies, such that there exist no tyranny and oppression worthy of the name against which to struggle?
Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier gen-eration, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle. And if the greater part of the world in which they live is characterized by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and pros-perity, and against democracy.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
he is haunted and yet he still fails to acknowledge that his very own vote for Trump is directly responsible for this take some fucking personal responsibility man
"Well, we wouldn't have had to take care of Pierre. Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do," Jack said. "We did not do right by him."
He was beginning to believe that the Trump administration was "a joke," and that the Democrats were no better. "Everything is broken," Jack said.
He started going over it all again. The morning that began so normally. The cornfields and wildflowers. A young Haitian man named Pierre Damas Bel whose
troubles had become his own.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
not related to that article but need to vent: my new pet peeve is restaurants that don’t have a phone number. and then I try to contact via resy and it says contact the restaurant directly. I would if I could!
Is there any way to move the reservation to 2PM
I'm sorry, we didn't copy. Text "1" to confirm or "g" to cancel.
Is there any way to move the reservation to 2PM
This is an automated response. For any changes or questions about your reservation, please contact the restaurant directly.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
what the fuck is wrong with the teamsters man Roger Marshall is a ghoul who sued his own patients and threw them in prison!
Kansas Teamsters Back Pro-Labor Candidate for U.S. Senate
Press Contact: Kara Deniz Phone: (202) 497-6610 (Topeka, Kan.) - Today, Teamsters Local 696 endorsed Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) for re-election to the U.S. Senate.
"Sen. Marshall has proven time and time again that he is a friend of labor," said Teamsters General President Sean M.
O'Brien. "As a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Sen. Marshall has been eager to partner with us on legislation that protects workers, even when it requires breaking rank with his own party. We look forward to continuing to work together with Sen. Marshall to fight for the rights of hardworking Americans."
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have bad news about labor these days
FIRST ON FOX: One of the top union leaders in the country has waded into a key Senate contest, backing the Republican incumbent in a race that could determine the balance of power in the upper chamber.
Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien is backing Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., in his bid for re-election as Republicans look to solidify their grip in the upper chamber and push back against the headwinds that browbeat the party in power during a midterm election cycle.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage
@chefjoseandres
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Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I know social media is just one angle but the gap between engagement for Paxton and Talarico is genuinely stunning. average Talarico insta post literally has 100x as much engagement as Paxton’s posts
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eric Schmitt: "Did you or did you not steer the Titanic into an iceberg?" Jack Smith: "That was Edward John Smith."
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There is evidence that better faregates significantly reduce disorder on public transit
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
10 point polling error in democrats favor happened in 2025. if it happens in 2026 we will win 57 senate seats
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
everyone is worried that the polls are overstating democrats… but, what if they’re actually overstating republicans because respondents are lying about not supporting Trump in 2024
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Two pollsters I've spoken to in the last few weeks say they are certain their respondents are lying on the 2024 recall question.
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NEW @HouseMajPAC poll in #TX15
Bobby Pulido: 54%
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They're lying by saying they voted for Harris.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the best part is he kept on attacking me for being a rich gentrifier (I went to high school in Rockville MD) *when he went to an even wealthier high school than I did* (Columbia MD) also, again, he’s a Yale legacy
Today i'm learning that my quizbowl rivals from the rich high schools in Maryland are now big on San Francisco gentrifier twitter
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mountain_laurel @IsaacBarle.. •8h v Between you and me, they didn't have much to begin with!mountain_laurel @IsaacBarl.
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"As a renter," bro i know you're rich as fuck
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sam deutsch @samdman95•13m bro i don't work in tech and i make less than the SF median income
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No Sam, i literally know you and where you come from.
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mountain_laurel @IsaacBarleycorn
Replying to @IsaacBarleycorn @samdman95 and @DeanPreston
You are a gentrifier from a rich family, stop pretendingTake it from a capitalist from Montgomery County, Maryland!
sam deutsch @samdman95• 7h
Replying to @mtsw
If you're a socialist activist in SF, you should be getting people to vote Yes on Prop 15/21 and No on Prop 22 imo
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sam deutsch @samdman95•46s
Replying to @IsaacBarleycorn dude, this isn't the own you think it is.
i'm telling OP that there are actually good issues for leftists in SF to focus on, like supporting prop 15/21 (which are good), and opposing prop 22 (which is bad)are good), and opposing prop 22 (which is bad)
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I dont care, gentrifier helpmeet
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Replying to @IsaacBarleycorn ok Ivy League legacy failson
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
lmfao i know the very first person here from high school and he’s a Yale legacy who posts all day about how YIMBYs are fascists, cities are bad, and that we should abolish the police instead of building more housing in rich neighborhoods
mountain_laurel @IsaacBarleyc... • 1d I couldn't disagree more strongly and I work for one!
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Cities are good, smash like if you agree.
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•mountain_laurel @IsaacBarl... .2h ... i am a socialist. i think that the way to fight against racist rich ppl (lets say ppl who live in soho) is to work within popular movements to fight evictions, abolish the police, and empower the poor to design the city they want. Or to key the rich's cars and tag their walls
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Seems more effective than livetweeting a dumb meeting and stanning some luxury skyscraper developmentwild _rover @IsaacBarleycorn • Mar 11
You are a fascist
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Max Ghenis @MaxGhenis • Mar 10
Replying to @DARosenthal
Building housing is what slows displacement, no nativist policies needed scribd.com/document/38585...
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the dumbest scumbags on the left are now attacking zohran for *combatting antisemitism* Zohran derangement syndrome is real and applies to the alt-left just as much as the alt right
Aaron Maté
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I'm not criticizing Zohran for doing this because I understand he has to deal with a very toxic political reality. Politics is a different game.
But to me launching a "Strategy to Combat
Antisemitism" in a time of the Gaza genocide is akin to a
"Strategy to Combat Anti-Whiteness" at the height of South African apartheid. That's not even a fair analogy:
Israel and its apologists do infinitely more to both fabricate and encourage anti-Semitism.
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The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism...
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
just a reminder that Schmitt hired the guy who was too much of a Nazi for Ron DeSantis
politics
• This article is more than 2 months old
Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery
Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism
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Fri 6 Jun 2025 08.00 EDT
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Still thinking about this guy
FINANCIAL TIMES
"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' without the fear of getting cancelled... it's a new dawn."
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
guess who else is at the MAHA summit: the sweetgreen CEO. good time to boycott their slop bowls!
Michael Boes Chief MAHA Officer, Steak 'n Shake
• Scott Morris Senior Vice President, Private Brands Walmart U.S.
• Jonathan Neman, Co-Founder & CEO, Sweetgreen
• Moderated by Stefanie Spear, Principal Deputy Chief of Staff, HHS
4:55 to 5:00 PM • EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT
• Cheryl Hines Actress & Author
5:00 to 5:30 PM • IN CONVERSATION:
VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE & SEC. KENN
(Fireside Chat)
• Vice President JD Vance
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
PSA: the sweetgreen CEO is speaking at a MAHA summit right before JD Vance and RFK Jr. if you haven’t already, find another slop bowl to replace it with. my personal fav is Naya, which was founded by a Lebanese immigrant
4:25 to 4:55 PM • REAL FOOD AT SCALE
• Michael Boes Chief MAHA Officer, Steak 'n Shake
• Scott Morris Senior Vice President, Private Brands Walmart U.S.
• Jonathan Neman, Co-Founder & CEO, Sweetgreen
• Moderated by Stefanie Spear, Principal Deputy Chief of Staff, HHS
4:55 to 5:00 PM • EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT
• Cheryl Hines Actress & Author
5:00 to 5:30 PM • IN CONVERSATION:
VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE & SEC. KENN
(Fireside Chat)
• Vice President JD Vance
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of U.S. Department of Health anc
Human Services
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it’s so cool that every braindead MAGA weirdo is also a NIMBY
Michelle Ugenti-Rita (MUR) • @MichelleUgenti
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Thank you @RobSchneider for helping me get through the primary election. I know you care as deeply about Scottsdale as I do. One more race to go. Vote Tuesday, November 3rd for the only two conservatives in this race for City Council: myself and @BarrySGraham!
No - Toilet to tap.
No - more high rise apartments changing our skyline.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we could solve the western water crisis overnight by simply charging alfalfa farmers market rates for water
Across the basin, alfalfa hay uses more than 5 million acre-feet of Colorado River water — that's 26% of all the water consumed in the basin. One acre-foot roughly equals the annual water use of two or three households.
In the Upper Basin, irrigated agriculture consumes 2.8 million acre-feet, or nearly half the water used by Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, the environment, reservoirs and water exports out of the basin. Cattle-feed crops, like alfalfa, consume 90% of all water used by Upper Basin agriculture.
That means alfalfa uses more water than cities, commercial users and industries across the entire basin:
Collectively, these users consume about 3.5 million acre-feet, or 18%, of the river's water. The Colorado River
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it’s particularly on-brand that Scott Wiener is an active participant in SF Transit Month while Connie Chan is nowhere to be found (which is unsurprising given that she fought against the ballot measure that saved Caltrain during the pandemic)
Elected Officials
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Top elected officials, appointed officials, candidates or board members who live in the San Francisco Bay Area by ride count for September 1 - 6

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19 ChristinePelosi
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
nithya is likely going to win because she is assembling a broad cross-ideological coalition of people who actually *care* about making LA better instead of another four years of incompetence and decline donate to @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social here: secure.actblue.com/donate/nithy...
Raman takes the lead
Whom L.A. likely voters support for mayor
Karen Bass
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Nithya Raman
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
no he’s just an insane swing voter. his take is that trans people are fine in theory but Big Trans is trying to brainwash our kids. but his most passionate issue is Israel so he’s voting for Troy Jackson now. insane but I’ll take it I guess
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Thank you to @SenSusanCollins for standing with the majority of Mainers who agree that biological males should not be taking the rightful place of our women and girls!
Susan Collins says Maine law on trans athletes aga...
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Thank you @SenatorCollins! Its important to note that it is OK to be pro clinically transgendered individuals yet be vehemently against this Trans Ideology of insanity.Troy Jackson • @TroyJackson207 •2h
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After Benjamin Netanyahu, who I believe is a war criminal, just came and went from New York, I've been thinking a lot about the world my first granddaughter is about to enter.
No child should have to grow up wondering whether the next bomb is going to hit their home. No parent should have to wonder whether they can feed their kid or keep them alive. And American taxpaye Show more
End the genocide in Gaza. No U.S. tax dollars to Israel's military.
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You flipped my vote from Collins. Congratulations
Senator Elect Jackson.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Maine voters be like: I am a socialist who wants to impeach Trump but I’m voting for Susan Collins because democrats are too pro-trans
A Gallup poll shows 43% of Americans now have a positive view of Socialism. I couldn't agree more. 250 years of unfettered capitalism has shown that it doesn't serve the needs of our culture. When an American citizen gets done paying for all the basic living expenses, how much discretionary income does one really have to engage in capitalism? Air, food, water, healthcare, and even electricity should be part of some Basic Standard of Living Socialist Kim McNamara @Namara18Mc • 5/27/25
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For me, its all about @SenatorCollins being chair of senate appropriations, the most powerful committee in all of government. If @GovJanetMills would just tell the boys to stop playing with the girls and go play with the boys, I think we'd see senator collins delivering good things for maine.Pfs
@sirpenski • 6/3/26
The Trump administration is so abhorrent and the need for him to get impeached is so great, Platner could be accused of an adrenochrome overdose after eating 4 toddlers and he still would get the nom.
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Texas Sky @TexasSky3 • 6/3/26
How much did you donate to him? This guy is corrupt, immoral, amoral, a literal Nazi, socialist & you are still going to vote for him?
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@sirpenski
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Zero. Susan Collins is chair of senate appropriations.
She is smart, elegant, kind, and very statesman like.
Yes, she makes tough choices but we're an older demographic up here. Platner is an idiot but we've got to stop Trump from killing. 25000 bodies lie in the
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
gotta say it doesn’t seem great that the Brooklyn Democratic Party is unilaterally elevating an anti-Zohran NIMBY grifter like Paperboy Prince
Brendan Egan @bse229
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I think one of the most but also least shocking things of the Brooklyn Dem Party drama is that Paperboy Prince fully sold out and is now being elected to countywide officer under Rodynese Bichotte. TBT when he was anti-machine
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The fact that a bunch of lefty state legislators signed onto this ridiculous anti-nuclear fearmongering letter is unbelievable Cuomo teamed up with RFK Jr. shut down a nuclear plant and it caused NY emissions to skyrocket!
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this headline reminds me of my favorite Trump 1 tweet
Jacob Wohl
@JacobAWohl
I just a left a hipster coffee shop. It was packed with liberals, whispering amongst each other about what a commendable job President Trump did with Vladimir Putin this morning in Helsinki - America is PROUD!
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
holy shit, dems actually have a chance to flip the PA Senate and NC leg to get trifectas in both states I have updated the optimized state donation list so we can donate to these candidates that just need a little bit of $ to take advantage of what could be the biggest blue wave in history
Chaz Nuttycombe ®
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NEW PA STATE LEGE POLLS €
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Chambers +1
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s kind of funny how everyone is talking about Berlin electing their own zohran when in reality Die Linke’s housing proposals will essentially halt all homebuilding and cause rents to skyrocket my favorite proposal they have is halting all development incompatible with neighborhood character
Beschleunigung und Priorisierung von Bauvorhaben
Große Bauvorhaben werden zu langsam entwickelt. Vorhaben, die gut erschlossen, stadtebaulich integriert sowie umweltverträglich sind, werden priorisiert und beschleunigt, strittige Projekte entschie-den: Nicht kiezverträgliche Nachverdichtungen werden gestoppt.
Die LWU sollen vermehrt durch Aufstockungen bezahlbaren Wohnraum schaffen.Large-scale construction projects are being developed too slowly. Projects that are well-connected, integrated into the urban fabric, and environmentally compatible will be prioritized and fast-tracked, while decisions will be made regarding controversial projects: densification measures incompatible with the local neighborhood will be halted. Municipal housing
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
stumbled upon the first Ken Paxton supporter on insta that I’ve seen in a while and of course he’s a fucking used car dealer next dem administration needs to crush these extractive jobs that just funnel donations to the far right: used car dealer, crypto scammer, sports betting websites, etc
officialjasonharwood 4d
Clearly my
bros and sistas need to stop
voting blue. I know it's what their parents did and parents parents, but it has accomplished nothing and gotten worse. How's the new property tax increase going? Blue votes won.
protecting_account_ 3d
@officialjasonharwood Republicans have run Texas for 30 years straight. No wonder it's gotten worse
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rbinhouston2000 3d
@protecting_account_ Don't worry. He was just posting from the wrong account.
He thought he was posting from his burner.
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officialjasonharwood 3d • Edited @rbinhouston2000 nope. My Personal account. Observing the sadness in the Jewish community that they feel obligated to vote Democrat. Enjoy the higher property taxes that your blue men and women voted for.officialjasonharwood
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I really dislike pundits (on all sides of the political spectrum) who try to turn every single story into some factional pissing match
Ryan Grim & @ryangrim • 4h
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Troy Jackson is extremely lucky ProPublica just exposed that Susan Collins has been taking bribes and was nearly taken down by the FBI — before being saved by Trump — because this @rtraister piece is a devastating looking into his Washington-run campaign. Must read piece:Neera Tanden
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Can someone explain to Keith that doing a press conference today with Trump whose only latest act of fascism is booting out press he doesn't like is maybe as bad (or perhaps worse) than campaigning with someone who was telling everyone not to vote for Trump?
Keith Edwards • @keithedwards • 16h can someone help explain to neera why campaigning with a Cheney is different than having a meeting with the president of the united states
* Neera Tanden 4 • @neerata.... 18h I am perplexed by the idea of these two doing a press conference together....
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lots of corruption these days is more along the lines of “you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours” so a good old-fashioned smoking gun like this hits even harder
$150K check to Susan Collins’ superPAC
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
she wasn’t wrong just early
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
this literally already happened after Jan 6th
LONG LIVE THE DEMOCRATIC DICTATORSHIP OF THE
NATIONAL SALVATION COUNCIL
UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF CHAIRMAN MILLEY!
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
extremely unscientific datapoint but still feels pretty significant how a prominent local bakery in Texas that runs a “cookie poll” that was Trump +8 in 2024 is now Talarico +82
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
chat, is it popularism when you take the losing side of a 70-11 issue and side with our senile unhinged president over one of our closest allies
New survey data from Canadian polling firm Abacus Data showed that 70 percent of Mainers said they believed the tariffs would "mostly hurt" Maine's economy, while only 11 percent said they would
"mostly help" the economy.
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