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Invalid answers do not invalidate the questions asked! The rise of MAGA with its attendant resentment, xenophobia, incompetence, and vandalism may distract us from the social questions in play, but degenerative, fascist answers make the questions even more pressing. 🧵
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December 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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seattle: let's take 20 years to allow ADUs and duplexes in backyards
berlin: our ADUs are 6 story mixed use buildings, have been legal since 1862
berlin: our ADUs are 6 story mixed use buildings, have been legal since 1862
If we are the city we say we are, we should legalize this at least within 1/2 a mile of every bus stop in the UZO. Stunning.
December 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
seattle: let's take 20 years to allow ADUs and duplexes in backyards
berlin: our ADUs are 6 story mixed use buildings, have been legal since 1862
berlin: our ADUs are 6 story mixed use buildings, have been legal since 1862
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Listened to Brent on the latest urbanist agenda pod and really liked his "it's just geometry" argument about getting cars off of roads. This is a good visualisation of that:
What does it take to move 1000 people? Smart infrastructure supporting choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money etc).
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
December 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Listened to Brent on the latest urbanist agenda pod and really liked his "it's just geometry" argument about getting cars off of roads. This is a good visualisation of that:
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December 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
TON is committed to fostering a welcoming community where journalists can access support, mentoring and training to develop their skills, overcome barriers, serve their audiences, and thrive in their careers. Help support the future of science journalism by helping us reach our end-of-year goal. 🧪
In my life I’ve seen my country be glorified, vilified, lionized, demonized, and ignored by other countries, but now I’ve lived long enough to see the United States be pitied by other countries. Christ on a crutch.
The world alternates between laughing and crying. Neither in a good way.
December 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
In my life I’ve seen my country be glorified, vilified, lionized, demonized, and ignored by other countries, but now I’ve lived long enough to see the United States be pitied by other countries. Christ on a crutch.
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Give the gift of reading this Christmas. Purchase (at least) five big books of the same edition—all identical. Give them to your four best friends and keep one for yourself. Finally, google “book code”. In this manner you may prepare for the chilly winter years ahead.
December 5, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Give the gift of reading this Christmas. Purchase (at least) five big books of the same edition—all identical. Give them to your four best friends and keep one for yourself. Finally, google “book code”. In this manner you may prepare for the chilly winter years ahead.
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and sleeping...
December 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
and sleeping...
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Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
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what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"
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The Constitution is very straightforward on birthright citizenship. There's no ambiguity in the language, no other plausible interpretation.
The fact that this is a public discussion at all, and that the Supreme Court is taking it up, is on its own anti-constitutional bullshit.
Read the text👇
The fact that this is a public discussion at all, and that the Supreme Court is taking it up, is on its own anti-constitutional bullshit.
Read the text👇
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The Constitution is very straightforward on birthright citizenship. There's no ambiguity in the language, no other plausible interpretation.
The fact that this is a public discussion at all, and that the Supreme Court is taking it up, is on its own anti-constitutional bullshit.
Read the text👇
The fact that this is a public discussion at all, and that the Supreme Court is taking it up, is on its own anti-constitutional bullshit.
Read the text👇
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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EVERYBODY.
Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
December 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
EVERYBODY.
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With Trump and his Putin loving cronies, Macron is effing spot on:
"“There is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory without clarity on security guarantees,” Macron said according to the English language notes of the call that DER SPIEGEL has obtained."
"“There is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory without clarity on security guarantees,” Macron said according to the English language notes of the call that DER SPIEGEL has obtained."
"We Must Not Leave Ukraine and Volodymyr Alone with These Guys"
DER SPIEGEL has obtained notes from a conference call involving EU leaders - including Germany's Friedrich Merz and France's Emmanuel Macron - showing just how little trust Europe has in Washington.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
With Trump and his Putin loving cronies, Macron is effing spot on:
"“There is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory without clarity on security guarantees,” Macron said according to the English language notes of the call that DER SPIEGEL has obtained."
"“There is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory without clarity on security guarantees,” Macron said according to the English language notes of the call that DER SPIEGEL has obtained."
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My office secured nearly $17 million from DoorDash for cheating delivery workers out of their hard-earned pay.
I'm reminding all eligible DoorDash delivery workers to file a claim now to get their money back before the deadline on December 31, 2025.
www.nydoordashsettlement.com
I'm reminding all eligible DoorDash delivery workers to file a claim now to get their money back before the deadline on December 31, 2025.
www.nydoordashsettlement.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
My office secured nearly $17 million from DoorDash for cheating delivery workers out of their hard-earned pay.
I'm reminding all eligible DoorDash delivery workers to file a claim now to get their money back before the deadline on December 31, 2025.
www.nydoordashsettlement.com
I'm reminding all eligible DoorDash delivery workers to file a claim now to get their money back before the deadline on December 31, 2025.
www.nydoordashsettlement.com
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Lock him up and throw the key into the ocean.
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Lock him up and throw the key into the ocean.
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Important to note that Judge Currie's decision is almost identical to that of three other federal district court judges examining the question of Pam Bondi's extraordinary appointment processes, circumventing both the Senate and the local court rules on appointments. All simply uphold the rules.k2a
NEW: Judge Currie finds that Lindsay Halligan was UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED and dismisses the James Comey and Letitia James indictments without prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Important to note that Judge Currie's decision is almost identical to that of three other federal district court judges examining the question of Pam Bondi's extraordinary appointment processes, circumventing both the Senate and the local court rules on appointments. All simply uphold the rules.k2a
I’m seeing a pattern emerge.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I’m seeing a pattern emerge.
If you find your political preferences landing to the right of the average American service member then in my view you are no longer an American Republican. You have morphed into something else.
November 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
If you find your political preferences landing to the right of the average American service member then in my view you are no longer an American Republican. You have morphed into something else.
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If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.
If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.