david9227.bsky.social
@david9227.bsky.social
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We do love Europe's human-scaled, transit-centred, car-lite urbanism, don't we?
July 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Thousands of duplex, triplex, fourplex, & cottage homes have been built in Oregon since its 2019 statewide upzone - but they’re unevenly distributed.

Let's dive into two things:

1. What we can learn from the places it's working
2. Why @govtinakotek.bsky.social's follow-up bill would help
June 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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AKA "non-hard vodka"
This is what they took from us
May 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Yeah I’m not surprised the Pentagon is mad, the signal groupchat alone could have gotten pilots killed
April 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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NEW: A coalition of students from more than 15 law schools across the country have signed a pledge not to work for any firm that “gives in to Trump administration demands…”

Signatories include students from Harvard, Georgetown, University of Chicago, UT-Austin…

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Law Student Firm Pledge
This pledge is being organized by law students collaborating across several law schools to counter the lawlessness of the Trump administration and major firms' cowardice in responding. We are the fut...
docs.google.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Pittsburgh-based aerospace company, which sells parts to the major aviation companies, has declared a force majeure in the wake of Trump's tariffs so it can break contract obligations
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Exclusive: Aircraft supplier Howmet may halt orders if hit by Trump tariffs, letter says
Howmet Aerospace , which supplies parts for planes built by Airbus and Boeing , may halt some shipments if they are impacted by tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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In this moment, with so many of our institutions - economic, social, educational - being actively undermined, when I think of what my role as a historian is, my mind goes to my favorite passage from The Lord of the Rings.

For I also am a steward. Did you not know?
April 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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do people #flowerreport here? here’s a basically perfect Mojave mound cactus with no filter besides a few clouds 🌤️
March 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I have been considering treasury bonds a good hedge for the current chaos, based on my inflation expectations, but I just had a horrible thought. It would be totally in character for Trump to start talking about defaulting on the debt out of the blue.
March 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Muro preferred Trump over Kamala Harris because of primarily one issue: the border. He now has deep misgivings about his vote because of Trump’s slapdash cuts to the government.

"'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party."
He Served His Country And Voted For Trump. Now He Has Regrets.
Anthony Muro helped other vets through his dream job at the VA. Now he frets over the future of veteran health care as Trump cuts government agencies.
www.huffpost.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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If you argue with them on the intarwubs, it's just amazing how many of them have completely convinced themselves that he knows how bad tariffs are and is just deploying them as a high-pressure negotiating tactic. It's like, have you ever actually listened to a word this guy says?
March 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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You’re a gutless weirdo. Some things are worth standing and fighting for. Can you imagine FDR or Lincoln saying “No, I won’t defend this free nation of laws, because it might risk an economic downturn”?
The weeks of performative “resistance” from those in my party were limited to undignified antics.

Voting to shut the government down will punish millions or risk a recession.

I disagree with many points in the CR, but I will never vote to shut our government down.
March 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency.

via Brett Murphy:

The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:
March 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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I’m sorry but this made me laugh. Everything else is so stupid and so grim.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
March 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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I don't think most people will fully comprehend how badly you have to mess up to make Erdogan look like the good guy.
March 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Every Democratic member of Congress loudly boos him and chants "No Kings" or something like that until Trump either leaves the podium or security starts pulling people out.
If you were in Congress, what would you do for the State of the Union? What do you think Dems should do?
February 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Alden doing the moral calculus as to how high their sales would spike if they supplied him with a pair of color 8 tassel loafers
March 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Preceding that in the thread - talk about Pitchbot material. The NYT leadership needs to do penance for 100 years, or clear mines out of Ukraine when this is all over.
bsky.app/profile/dave...
Look it's impossible to capture the paper of record's approach and priorities with the placement of only two headl--
February 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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the first Trump impeachment was for illegally halting aid to Ukraine because Zelensky refused to comply with an illegal request from Trump
🚨The Trump administration is considering ending all ongoing shipments of military aid to Ukraine in response to Zelensky’s remarks in the Oval Office on Friday and his perceived intransigence in the peace process, per senior administration official
February 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine
February 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM