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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 10h

Cars have a geometry problem that can't be solved by more cars of a different fuel source.

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Bay Area public transit #MeasureRTM polling shows 48% support, 34% opposed, 18% undecided. This means only 1 in 9 of the undecideds need to vote YES to get over 50%. Volunteer w the campaign now to help make this happen, opportunities listed here: 👇👇👇 luma.com/connectbayarea

“WHO IS LIKELY TO SUPPORT TRANSIT TAX?
Support for the regional transit tax that would fund BART, Muni, Caltrain and AC Transit depends on age group and housing situation.

Registered voters
48% yes 18% not sure 34% no
By age group
18 to 34
69% yes
35 to 49
44% yes
50 to 60
35% yes
By housing situatlon
Renters
60% yes
Homeowners
34% yes

Source: Bay Area News Group/Joint Venture Silicon Valley poll of 1,801 adults in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, conducted online Aug. 5-18, 2026. Margin of error is +/- 2.6 percentage points.
BAY AREA NEWS GROUP”

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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 12h

Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!

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岡﨑晴輝（OKAZAKI, Seiki） @okazakiseiki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Landemore, Hélène (2020) Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century, Princeton University Press. aktiv3.sblo.jp/article/1918...

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Turning Point USA’s production team joined alongside dozens of Border Patrol agents as they entered onto private property in Lochiel. Activists have been detained and the last standing grandmother tree in the area was destroyed. Here they are gleefully filming as people scream and the tree falls.

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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026

“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)

Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The only world fascists envision is one of metal beams that protects their concrete prisons. These trees did more for our world than any one of these fuckass brownshirts ever could.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“It seems clear that social media algorithms are doing more to shape voter attitudes than social policy in this country.” Facebook loosened content moderation in Brazil in 2025 prompting Lula to call changes “extremely serious” as it damaged country's fight against online disinformation

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Of note, one of this year's ballot measures is purportedly to fund necessary medical research, but a close examination reveals that it's basically a $4 billion taxpayer payout to a single sketchy nonprofit. That's why it's important to read the fine print.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

X is arguably the single most effective promoter of Nazism and yet remains the platform of choice for so many government institutions and officials

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every few months NYT runs headline article about Jared & Steve’s multi-$billion corruption undermining US foreign policy, then NYT spends months treating Jared & Steve running US foreign policy as completely normal…daily pro-Jared narrative infinitely more impactful than isolated pro-truth articles.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just FYI: Inflation did NOT decline last month. Instead, the Trump Administration adopted a new method of calculating inflation to make it look lower. Americans know what they are paying. They know that prices are rising faster than wages. Trump expects his base to believe his lies.

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Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The fallacy of the climate movement's electric car advocacy is belief it's faster to get people into EVs than into walkable homes where they can drive less. The reality is it's probably ten times faster to build homes in walkable neighborhoods than to convince people to buy electric cars.

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Streetsblog California @streetsblogca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#NOon45 CEQA was created when new highways and highway expansion were destroying communities. Prop 45 would roll out the red carpet for just the type of projects that we created CEQA to prevent. cal.streetsblog.org/2026/10/02/s...

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Streetsblog Endorsement: No on Prop. 45 - Streetsblog California

CEQA was enacted at a time when new highways and highway expansion was destroying communities, and a big part of the reason to create CEQA in the first place. Prop 45 would roll out the red carpet for...

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's another reason that the Bass campaign definitely wants to discredit this "outlier" poll. Crosstabs are out and "fixing streets, sidewalks, streetlights and other city infrastructure" is listed first across the board as the top priority for LA voters. Even above homelessness and crime!

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Guess the 'we' was Palantir? <<"Cause we have a nice little database," the masked agent said. "And now you're considered a domestic terrorist.">> www.npr.org/2026/02/23/n...

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

under the current economic conditions, the only location that can profitably produce salsa is…(does some quick math)…this can’t be right…new york city?!

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 02/10/2026

Why did a High-Speed Rail Authority board member carve CAHSR out of Prop 45 (on the ballot in November), which streamlines a variety of more harmful projects from CEQA?

The law has long helped stave off problems for communities, wild spaces and ecosystems and, as such, has been praised for enhancing California's natural landscapes and quality of life. But CEQA is also blamed for obstructing needed work, and critics have no shortage of examples of when the regulation has brought seemingly endless delays and frivolous lawsuits.
"It's egregious to suggest we need housing proposals to go on for 19 years and we need a decade of public comments " said Jason Elliott, a longtime policy guru and onetime advisor to Gov. Gavin Newsom. Elliott helped write Proposition 45.

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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pond scum are less scummy than this turd. And there is an entire political movement that pretends protecting women is their motivation.

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mcg @upyourzone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

LA declared a golf course mountain lion habitat to kill a housing project - Recently, the city of Los Angeles ruled that a golf course is now protected mountain lion habitat. This is about a proposal to build 398 new homes on part of the Woodland Hills Country Club. archive.is/LsZdr

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Chicagoans Who Bike @chiwho.bike · 02/10/2026

We were in Minneapolis for a few days on vacation, but couldn't help filming some of their amazing curb-level bikeways - better than almost anything we've seen elsewhere! How is your city doing on bike infrastructure?

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The ORIGINS of the "protect women's sports" campaign are in anti-trans bigotry. The people funding these initiatives (eg in WA) are anti-trans FAR beyond sports. They repeatedly misgender trans people and have shared views & funded initiatives that push trans people out of other parts of public life

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

so, plants under solar panels do well, water under solar panels does well, foxes under solar panels do well, just need to put solar panels over more things

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

CNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld

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Streetsblog L.A. @streetsblogla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Metro has a new boardmember: Santa Clarita Mayor Pro Tem Patsy Ayala. See thread for live-tweeting of today's City Selection Committee meeting which unanimously approved Ayala.

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Public Democracy LA @publicdemocracyla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Civic Assemblies: What Are They and Why Do We Need Them? PDLA's Andrew McNeely will be presenting this topic at the Left Coast Forum on Sunday, October 4, 2026 at 9am in Los Angeles! Get your free tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/left-coast...

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Left Coast Forum 2026

WE ARE THE FIREWALL “Working together to Bring the Left to Power” Many Fronts, One Fight

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Ross Weistroffer @libraryofbabble.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can't wait to tune in to LA City Council's first round of deliberations on how to improve city government! ...unfortunately, that's because I'll be watching the not-very-accessible 8:30 AM PDT meeting from Europe at 5:30 PM. 😅 Maybe some/any meeting times for working Angelenos are in order...?

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She’s the CEO of one of the most consistently hateful organizations in the country, you fucking losers

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Public Democracy LA @publicdemocracyla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Interested in civic assemblies, citizens assemblies, sortition? There is a SoCal Sortition Social on October 11th, 3 pm, at the TrustedGut in Redondo Beach. RSVP here luma.com/l1nyz2qc?tk=...

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Socal Sortition Social · Luma

"I'm wise and stupid when I'm sober and stupid and wise when I'm drunk" — Dimitry Karamozov We are primarily members of Public Democracy LA where we advocate…

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This shit will turn me into the joker.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵

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Kevin Burke @burke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

California Prop 38: - authorizes $4B spending in a way that only one research center in the whole state qualifies - privately funded research center - founder of the research center has donated $22 million to support the ballot prop This is, like, pure corruption calmatters.org/politics/ele...

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Is this proposition a $4 billion giveaway to a billionaire’s LA research center?

Proposition 38 will award $4 billion to one unnamed research center. Under the very specific criteria, only one center seemingly qualifies.

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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Again, would rather see the return of: Metro Rail service every 10 mins. between 8 pm & last train of the night Metro Rail service extended until 2 am on Fri. & Sat. nights. Metro said that it would cost over $1B annually to make it fare-free. Improving night service would cost less than that.

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BikinginLA @bikinginla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ICYMI Ebike rider killed in Arleta collision earlier this month, Los Angeles installed bike lanes on one whole mile of streets last year, and Norwegian man rollerblading from LA to NY killed by 82-year old driver in Kansas: bikinginla.com/2026/09/28/e... #bikeLA

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Ebike rider killed in Arleta collision, LA installed bike lanes on 1 whole mile of streets last year, and man rollerblading from LA to NY killed in Kansas - BikinginLA

I promised someone I would look into the death of man killed by a driver while riding an ebike in Arleta earlier this month.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 28/09/2026

“We have a cult of radicalized billionaires who believe it is their destiny to rule the 21st century…They know our system is for sale…not only in San Francisco but in Washington.” Read @esksf.bsky.social on how tech oligarchs bought San Francisco. missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-...

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San Francisco's wealthiest have unprecedented control of city politics

Our city fathers (if you like them) or oligarchs (if you don’t) have never been richer, more brazen or faced weaker opposition

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Public Democracy LA @publicdemocracyla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Photos of PDLA members at the LA Congress of Neighborhoods this past Saturday. In addition to a booth, Alex Levy Kuntzman, Max Clark, Hunter Futo, and Derek Galey facilitated a "demo assembly," educating attendees on how civic assemblies can help reform and strengthen our democracy #sortition

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man with dark hair standing at a podium speaking inside

woman with blond hair holding up a card standing front of a lit up screen inside

man sitting behind a table waving with a tablecloth, banner, printed materials and poster on a stand-up easel in front of a gray wall

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Marin NIMBYs explaining that they oppose an affordable housing project in Mill Valley because of their sincere commitment to desgregation

Elizabeth Holmes in the trailer for You Can See Everything

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