James says abolish ICE (he/him)
@jamespkennedy.bsky.social
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Philly, Providence, São Paolo
Philly, Providence, São Paolo
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Happy Kurt Vonnegut's Birthday to those who celebrate!
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
- Mother Night
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
- Mother Night
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Happy Kurt Vonnegut's Birthday to those who celebrate!
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
- Mother Night
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
- Mother Night
What's the deal with the filibuster?
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November 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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I’m not united with this crap.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I’m not united with this crap.
One thing I really want liberal Rhode Islanders to remember is that there was a strong movement to remove the 6/10 Connector highway mess, that had public support from several Republicans & an official mayoral process led by Providence Planning & Mayor Elorza, & Whitehouse worked to squash it.
Many feel betrayal and frustration, and the feelings are hot right now.
I get it. I have my own feelings.
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I get it. I have my own feelings.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
One thing I really want liberal Rhode Islanders to remember is that there was a strong movement to remove the 6/10 Connector highway mess, that had public support from several Republicans & an official mayoral process led by Providence Planning & Mayor Elorza, & Whitehouse worked to squash it.
John Fetterman really is the worse-than-nothing option, because not only does he cop out to Republicans whenever it matters, he launders their bullshit into the mainstream. “Liberal John Fetterman criticizes his own party.” What a Frankenstein’s monster we’ve enabled.
So, when a family has food stamps but not healthcare, I’m sure that they’ll thank you for the security. Because it’s not like when people have unpaid for healthcare emergencies that it ever creeps into other parts of their lives, like housing or food.
Food insecurity is real for many Pennsylvania families.
It’s one of many reasons why I could never vote for shutting our government down.
For immediate food assistance in PA, call 211 or go to www.feedingpa.org.
It’s one of many reasons why I could never vote for shutting our government down.
For immediate food assistance in PA, call 211 or go to www.feedingpa.org.
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
John Fetterman really is the worse-than-nothing option, because not only does he cop out to Republicans whenever it matters, he launders their bullshit into the mainstream. “Liberal John Fetterman criticizes his own party.” What a Frankenstein’s monster we’ve enabled.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
I mean, I like the first half of this sentence and think the second half is silly. Poverty is oppression. But how cool is it to think that the working classes of various countries used “we’ll vote with our feet” as a kind of social action?
Within Europe, Bismarck justified the welfare state on "discourage work migration to the US" grounds, and Swedish workers used emigration threat to extract concessions. Very little of this migration came from persecution - the Poles and Italians weren't being persecuted, they were just poor.
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I mean, I like the first half of this sentence and think the second half is silly. Poverty is oppression. But how cool is it to think that the working classes of various countries used “we’ll vote with our feet” as a kind of social action?
Inclusionary zoning is bad.
one of my first blog posts is about inclusionary zoning mandates and how they so often backfire by resulting in *less* subsidized housing being built
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Inclusionary zoning is bad.
One thing I want to say is it’s time to end the soft discrimination of low expectations: If your elderly white working class mom isn’t as woke as mine, get your ass in gear!
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
One thing I want to say is it’s time to end the soft discrimination of low expectations: If your elderly white working class mom isn’t as woke as mine, get your ass in gear!
Primary him.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Primary him.
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Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.
It’s pretty wild that you can go to prison for murder if the police kill one of your accomplices in a crime. I did not know that.
Add Felony Murder to the long list of things my mom talked to me about before puberty that many Americans have probably never heard of.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93l...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93l...
Felony Murder: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It’s pretty wild that you can go to prison for murder if the police kill one of your accomplices in a crime. I did not know that.
Add Felony Murder to the long list of things my mom talked to me about before puberty that many Americans have probably never heard of.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93l...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93l...
Felony Murder: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Add Felony Murder to the long list of things my mom talked to me about before puberty that many Americans have probably never heard of.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93l...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93l...
Since living in Brazil:
*They’re trolleys, motherfucker
*Free speech should be judged by Warren-Burger Court standards, using Justice Brennan-Marshall logic
*toilet paper belongs flushed down the toilet
*bread should be blistered and crusty, not soft
*Go Birds, Fuck ICE, Free Palestine
*They’re trolleys, motherfucker
*Free speech should be judged by Warren-Burger Court standards, using Justice Brennan-Marshall logic
*toilet paper belongs flushed down the toilet
*bread should be blistered and crusty, not soft
*Go Birds, Fuck ICE, Free Palestine
Also, let’s add this to the list of things that are uniquely American about me. I fucking hate the word “tram” and I think slightly less of a person who uses it unironically, unless they’re quoting someone else. They’re trolleys, a’ight?
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Since living in Brazil:
*They’re trolleys, motherfucker
*Free speech should be judged by Warren-Burger Court standards, using Justice Brennan-Marshall logic
*toilet paper belongs flushed down the toilet
*bread should be blistered and crusty, not soft
*Go Birds, Fuck ICE, Free Palestine
*They’re trolleys, motherfucker
*Free speech should be judged by Warren-Burger Court standards, using Justice Brennan-Marshall logic
*toilet paper belongs flushed down the toilet
*bread should be blistered and crusty, not soft
*Go Birds, Fuck ICE, Free Palestine
This is true.
I think trams are like rotaries. They are really good on their own merits but more often than not the implementation in North America is basically as bad as possible.
Like I love a rotary but if you ask RIDOT to build one there's an 80% chance you're just gonna get 4 slip lanes in a trench coat
Like I love a rotary but if you ask RIDOT to build one there's an 80% chance you're just gonna get 4 slip lanes in a trench coat
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is true.
There’s always the idea that “We can’t do this because the Commonwealth will never back it.” And true, the Commonwealth won’t. But we could tax ourselves locally to cover fares. We already do— on a fare by fare basis. Taxing the whole city for fares would be better.
It just makes more policing sense to use our officers to solve violent crime, get guns off the street, respond to traffic violence, search out tax fraud, or even deal with issues like dumping. Fare evasion can be solved by taxing people up front for the cost of fares.
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
There’s always the idea that “We can’t do this because the Commonwealth will never back it.” And true, the Commonwealth won’t. But we could tax ourselves locally to cover fares. We already do— on a fare by fare basis. Taxing the whole city for fares would be better.
I have reluctantly, step by step, gone from being a skeptic a decade ago of free buses to a strong advocate for them. And the thing I think is missing from arguments like these is the cost of policing and prisons.
well yes but also think if I had to I would take paying 3 dollars to go anywhere in the city fast and frequent with a system for those who can not pay to ride for free then having a free fare but sitting in traffic while others dont have busses at all.
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I have reluctantly, step by step, gone from being a skeptic a decade ago of free buses to a strong advocate for them. And the thing I think is missing from arguments like these is the cost of policing and prisons.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is also not untrue, and I want to give a fair hearing to the counterpoint of what I’m saying.
RSB is a much much larger scale project but will also get a infinitely larger amount of ridership connecting a lot more people with a lot more places to go that will serve the county that gives the single most by far money to septa. also our current fed admin is not big on rail like the last one
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is also not untrue, and I want to give a fair hearing to the counterpoint of what I’m saying.
This is not wrong, but I think my counterpoint to this yeah, KOP isn’t dense, but in the past we built rail and density came. There are reasons that no longer happens, but to my eye it seems like it has to do with zoning, parking policy, and roads/highways/tolls.
even if you added sidewalks the little spur line about 2 miles from the dekalb station would still not get any ridership. KOP is just not dense at all. it has a lot of jobs but those jobs are all spread out. also the defeat on the rail was that there was no one to fund it.
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is not wrong, but I think my counterpoint to this yeah, KOP isn’t dense, but in the past we built rail and density came. There are reasons that no longer happens, but to my eye it seems like it has to do with zoning, parking policy, and roads/highways/tolls.
Counterpoint to what I was saying
KOP didn't get rail cause the plan was bad and the ridership was going to be lower then a suburban bus route. Ridership was to low to get a grant aswell. A BRT that goes between Norristown trans center/DeKalb station then do a loop around kop then kop could add sidewalks so people can walk.
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Counterpoint to what I was saying
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
So, when a family has food stamps but not healthcare, I’m sure that they’ll thank you for the security. Because it’s not like when people have unpaid for healthcare emergencies that it ever creeps into other parts of their lives, like housing or food.
Food insecurity is real for many Pennsylvania families.
It’s one of many reasons why I could never vote for shutting our government down.
For immediate food assistance in PA, call 211 or go to www.feedingpa.org.
It’s one of many reasons why I could never vote for shutting our government down.
For immediate food assistance in PA, call 211 or go to www.feedingpa.org.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
So, when a family has food stamps but not healthcare, I’m sure that they’ll thank you for the security. Because it’s not like when people have unpaid for healthcare emergencies that it ever creeps into other parts of their lives, like housing or food.
I want this loser to have another stroke so he doesn’t give me one. I can’t believe I voted for him.
Shut our government down and America loses.
2 MILLION Pennsylvanians depend on SNAP to feed their families.
For me, it’s hungry Americans over party.
Paying our military over party.
Paying Capitol Police and federal workers over party.
I choose country over party.
2 MILLION Pennsylvanians depend on SNAP to feed their families.
For me, it’s hungry Americans over party.
Paying our military over party.
Paying Capitol Police and federal workers over party.
I choose country over party.
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I want this loser to have another stroke so he doesn’t give me one. I can’t believe I voted for him.
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.