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@urbandemocrat.bsky.social
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pro-abortion. pro-democracy. pro-gressive. shut down right-wing media and build housing on every urban parking lot. he/him 🏳️‍🌈

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026
Dems are about to ride into power purely on the back of anger about How Things Are and ... then what? Are they going to be able to make things substantially better -- or rather, *feel* substantially better -- in the next two years? Just feels like short-term fury is the only force left.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I hope Trump takes a massive hit to his political capital and approval running cover for them, and then people move on the next thing and mostly forget about them after some boring wonky fixes to utility structure and tax breaks.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Rich people can buy or rent whatever housing they want. You can't keep them out of a neighbourhood if they want to live there. The question is whether there will be enough housing left over for everyone else. Rich people are never the ones who lose in a shortage.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 01/08/2026
yeah we gotta just ban the short form video platforms if they exist to blenderize loosely understood concepts from sociology and history into conspiracy-brained rants about how starbucks exists to neuter the revolutionary class
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026
this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A tale of two cities: as bad as Eric Adams was, one area where he and Zohran are aligned is the importance of building more housing meanwhile Michelle Wu’s NIMBY policies are wrecking Boston’s homebuilding
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Building permits slow to a trickle for Boston housing construction. Are the city's policies to blame?
By Jon Chesto Globe Staff, Updated May 20, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/04/2026
The thing is, the miasma of social media & the negativity it fosters *also* insured that almost no one was aware of the incredible advances in climate & energy policy under Biden. It's not *just* the economy. It's everything. That's the point: the info environment rewards doom & resentment.
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Alex Fisch @alexfischca.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Artemis II splashing down exactly when predicted, to the minute, after traveling like 700,000 miles is why we need dedicated bus lanes tbqh.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Right. Part of why it's important to acknowledge what is happening here is that any future Dem president is going to be ground into a fine dust by the Perpetual Gloom Machine just the same as Biden and Trump. If people aren't responding to actual economic conditions you have no control over it.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Allow me to connect some dots for you: Too much of the world currently relies for its basic functions on resources which must be continuously extracted. You burn that oil one time and oops, now you need more. Geopolitical horrors are, in fact, one of the reasons we need to move to renewables ASAP.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Beating Trump back is the overwhelming priority. But fostering people’s detachment from reality, decrying a fake crisis that we won’t be able to solve even if in power, encouraging resentful nostalgia about a great America of decades past that was taken from them - there are some obvious risks here.
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 08/10/2025
I can't stop thinking about this. We're pursuing zero fire risk in multifam, while tolerating much more in single-fam. People respond by building and living in single-fam, where they're exposed to not only one of the highest fire death risks in the developed world, but also TONS more car crash risk
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Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Increasing the cost new multifamily buildings leads to more people: 1) living in less safe old housing, 2) being more likely to live in greenfield single-family that is more dangerous from a fire perspective and WAY more dangerous from a vehicle miles traveled perspective, or 3) being homeless
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 08/09/2025
Homeless people are not the only people who need homes. There are tens of millions of people who would like to move out of their parents’ houses, ditch their roommates, or leave a bad home situation but can’t because our housing shortage makes rent too expensive.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 31/08/2025
This text is quoted accurately. It is also a clarifying lie. Totalitarian governments know that normal people do not have time or resources to research every health, economic, or security issue. Their project of attacking all expertise is a project of seizing trust & thus power for themselves.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I feel like a distinction you can tentatively draw with Newsom and Pritzker is that former is essentially turning Republican electoral tactics against them and the other is genuinely trying to exploit federalism the way red states have done in the last two decades
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
this is what I'm talking about when I say elected Dem leadership are cowards, yes, but mostly just not trained for this. Jeffries goes here every time because the politics of stunt and distraction are what he understands, not incipient fascism.
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 24/07/2025
Building and fire officials and disability advocates could stand to pay attention to the same chart. Oh yeah, and a wildly disproportionate amount of everything they’re working to stop also happens in the blue part of the chart.
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Somewhere along the line, bizarrely, our society has lost the simple concept of "leaders should be held to higher standards than ordinary people"
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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Then get rid of them.
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urban democrat @urbandemocrat.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
i bet linda mcmahon is glad they’re finally incorporating A1 into the country’s credit rating
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
it’s extremely, extremely real and there are a crazy number of examples from recent years. it happens because both fringes rely on a conspiratorial, hallucinatory mode of anti-establishment politics with many similar targets and the only real barrier for shifting is how resistant you are to bigotry
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Ethical way imo to square the circle of “institutions don’t work well unless trusted, won’t be trusted unless perceived to work well” is to make visible all of the things that the institution does do that *do* work. In a word, propaganda. Tell people that govt is why you have GPS, etc
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urban democrat @urbandemocrat.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
electric cars 🙊
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urban democrat @urbandemocrat.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
if there's any reason democrats are losing the public opinion battle on immigration (which is debatable in the first place), it's because they've refused to build enough housing for domestic *and* international migrants
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urban democrat @urbandemocrat.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
cincinnati metromoves (2002)
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urban democrat @urbandemocrat.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
these are all the same issue
NYTimes headline "Wealthy Donors Pull Back From New York City’s Escalating Problems" and subheading "Philanthropists worry that the city’s complex tangle of crises — migrants, homelessness, housing, the cost of living — cannot be easily fixed."
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urban democrat @urbandemocrat.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
not burlington or provo
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urban democrat @urbandemocrat.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
predictions: - ohio 1: 56-44 yes - ohio 2: 53-47 yes - cincinnati city council: keating loses - cincy issue 22: 58-42 yes - cincy issue 24: 68-32 no
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urban democrat @urbandemocrat.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
rip mccarthyism for the second time
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urban democrat @urbandemocrat.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
the bowman fire alarm thing is absolutely hilarious ngl. hope he doesn’t get disciplined for what looks like a simple lapse of judgment
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urban democrat @urbandemocrat.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
throwing this into the ether but anyone into urbanism, transportation, politics, or anything related should follow me!
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