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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 18h

Boom! DoorDash rescinds their backing for GOP bill they backed after DC Council set up a 20-cent delivery fee to fund support for delivery workers, apologizes, affirms DC home rule Still not fighting for their workers from being abducted or assassinated by ICE yet though

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DoorDash Apologizes for Siding With GOP Bill Targeting D.C.

The company still wants the D.C. Council to make changes to a new delivery fee taking effect Thursday.

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In hell you are forced to watch Arsenal Women try to win a game in the first month of the season.

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I swear this team is allergic to first time finishes.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And all of this is going to be supercharged over the next two decades by GenAI.

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Thierry Ennui @heisenbergkamp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One thing I wish we would change is that no one who is unable to change a flat tire should ever be able to make a decision that influences my life

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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A key point: you do need a theory of communication, alongside a theory of politics, to be an effective operator I think the centre and left struggle, generally, with "playing the game" - it's not enough to just have policy prescriptions you think will work

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An aside, but it's clear Trump has gotten the memo that a lot of longstanding judicial doctrines basically give the Executive Branch a free pass on anything once it's called National Security. This and the whole absurd "we're going to store drones in a memorial arch" are the logical end result.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 21/09/2026

From my personal experience people don't want to pay you to tell them they can't do anything about, eg, the very likely anti-Dem. midterm backlash in 2030 (or, gulp, 34). But it's true. So consultants make up stuff like "Kamala Harris would have won if she ran anti-trans ads"

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is an elementary school. National Guard and FBI plus a circling helicopter showed up this morning at yet another DC elementary school, this time in Ward 1. These gangs of armed agents terrify children and cause fear among families. It's time for federal agents to leave our communities alone.

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Neighbors Upset Over Federal Agents’ Presence at D.C. School

Agents and National Guard troops handed out fliers outside a Northwest elementary school, as a helicopter hovered overhead.

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Absolutely love this player. Great move by the front office.

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Supreme Court is just 6 Republican strategists dressed up in a trenchcoat.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Others have said this but it’s truly insane that Brett Kavanaugh, lover of the major questions doctrine, thinks there’s a good chance USPS can use a vague grant of authority over mail processing to radically alter absentee voting procedures in all 50 states without congressional approval. Come on.

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Find you someone who loves you the way Leah Williamson loves an insane 40 yard through ball.

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Locker room aux cable is all polka, all the time.

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What an unbelievable treat this is. To watch these women. At this whole age. Playing tennis at this level. Serena and Venus forever.

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 02/09/2026

Yes, if you were wondering, this is indeed the dictionary definition of cowardice

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Every word of this.

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I thought this had to be fake but I just checked. It's real.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

congratulations sophie cunningham on protecting womens sports

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

In this climate of government suppression of academic freedom, "This is the first open letter I've signed" says so very much about who they think academic freedom is actually for.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

Rolling out “academic freedom” as a rallying cry now, after the CRT panic led to a bunch of Black scholars and theory to be literally banned from classrooms, shit is too rich lol

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“We do not need parks. We do not need libraries. We do not need daycare centers. We do not need homeless shelters,” said Vader. “All we need is money for our stormtroopers. And anyone that disagrees is part of the rebel alliance and scum, and they should be taken away immediately.”

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This might be the funniest person in the Internet

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The 51st @51st.news · 14/08/2026

"The longer the occupation continues, the less and less it makes sense to me." "Just the maddening mundanity of what a waste their presence is." "All parts of day-to-day life now feature armed supervision.” Here's what our readers said they'll remember from this past year in D.C.:

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What D.C. residents will remember from a year of National Guard occupation

Ahead of the anniversary, we asked our readers to reflect.

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deepti @aeroastrofc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

her mama, her grandma, her teammates, the coaching staff, her sprint to and long embrace with tordin…. EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS IS PRECIOUS (not to mention the goal itself is phenomenal)

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is probably the smartest take I've seen on Jason Arday. I hope his family finds peace.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Over the last few days I've watched highly politically engaged, educated people who are otherwise clear and careful thinkers attempting to litigate the obvious facts of the matter with respect to the late Arday's obvious layers of misconduct, taking their turn wheeling the horse into the gates. 11/

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Nothing illustrates the problem of growth capitalism more than Oreo, which starts with the greatest cookie on earth but constantly defiles itself to try to gain more market share. In this essay I will....

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not

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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If anyone's expecting this to prompt those in the media into a bout of reflection and a resolve to do better, they're going to be disappointed.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 12/08/2026

It’s a shame Congress isn’t alive to see this

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I have been screaming this from the rooftops. Vibes are just a much better mechanism for understanding electoral outcomes than ideology. Ideology can *contribute* to vibes, but it is extremely secondary at best.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

She’s just a very replaceable player who is nearing the end of her career in the face and has always had media aspirations. And well, there’s a segment of media that will pay very well if you’re willing to say a specific set of things.

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"No policy legacy that a Democratic successor can't easily roll back" the dude has destroyed multiple federal agencies to a degree everyone agrees will take decades to reverse what are you talking about.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

i’m calling for a complete shut down of the northern district of texas until someone can figure out what the hell is going on over there

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What was that skeet going around a few months ago? Something like “being a leftist is being accused of fearmongering because you were right too soon.”

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Anyone who uses "Buddy" or "Bro" like this is IMMEDIATELY suspect in my eyes.

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Was so much fun to write this for Vital City. So many jurisdictions are paving the way to a more modern community safety ecosystem. But there are still a few holdouts who think police need to remain at the center of our safety conversations. This is our rejoinder www.vitalcitynyc.org/community-sa...

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Modern Community Safety Includes More than Police

Mamdani’s new department can work if done right.

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Modern Community Safety Includes More than Police

Mamdani’s new department can work if done right.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Over the past 10 years, the misogyny of the manosphere has become more open and strident, but the big innovation seems to have been combining that conspiratorial misogyny with earnest self-help advice. Heartbreak and rejection leave people emotionally vulnerable, and the manosphere pitch often comes paired with benign advice about standing up for yourself, being mentally tough, or becoming physically active. But getting yourself together with the expectation that soon everyone you meet will be forced to respect you inevitably leads to disappointment.

When that disappointment sets in, the manosphere has an explanation: Can’t find a girlfriend? It’s because women who make their own living can no longer be forced into marrying guys they don’t like. Can’t find a job? It’s because undeserving women and minorities are being picked instead of you, even though you’re better. Feel bad about yourself? It’s because our feminized society deprived you of a life of meaningful toil, military adventure, and elevated social status. It is a bleak view of the world, a kind of male doomerism in which a meaningful life can be found only in the domination and exploitation of others.

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