christian
@christiankerr.bsky.social
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While the media chums it up with Greene, reminder that she has a bill going before the House today to make it a *federal crime* to provide or advocate for healthcare for trans youth.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "What I'd like to see from the president is empathy for Americans. Donald Trump is a billionaire and he's the president. When he looks into a camera and says 'affordability is a hoax,' he's talking to Americans that are suffering and have been for many years now."
December 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
While the media chums it up with Greene, reminder that she has a bill going before the House today to make it a *federal crime* to provide or advocate for healthcare for trans youth.
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A lot of people think basically all traffic laws are a fundamentally illegitimate pretext to harass and fine motorists at random, rather than regulations designed to prevent injury and death.
Striking that opponents of automated enforcement so often cite something easily fixed in policy design as a reason to reject the whole idea. For example fretting that local governments will use ATE as a money-printing machine when you can just stipulate the revenue go to specific purposes.
December 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
A lot of people think basically all traffic laws are a fundamentally illegitimate pretext to harass and fine motorists at random, rather than regulations designed to prevent injury and death.
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The problem is zoning. DC separated residential and commercial/office very aggressively. Downtown is still mostly resident-free, and even with workaholics, that means it’s tough to have a restaurant that does more than cater to breakfast/lunch or fancy business dinners
I am once again asking why Washington, DC does not have decent food options past 9 PM despite being a city full of workaholic sickos.
December 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The problem is zoning. DC separated residential and commercial/office very aggressively. Downtown is still mostly resident-free, and even with workaholics, that means it’s tough to have a restaurant that does more than cater to breakfast/lunch or fancy business dinners
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Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.
Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 15-17 November 2025
Approve: 11% (-2 from 8-10 Nov)
Disapprove: 69% (-1)
Net: -58 (-1)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Approve: 11% (-2 from 8-10 Nov)
Disapprove: 69% (-1)
Net: -58 (-1)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.
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the fillibuster is a tool of white supremacy and that is why white supremacist hacks defend it.
when people say, "small states need protection" what they mean is, "white people must rule."
when people say, "small states need protection" what they mean is, "white people must rule."
November 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
the fillibuster is a tool of white supremacy and that is why white supremacist hacks defend it.
when people say, "small states need protection" what they mean is, "white people must rule."
when people say, "small states need protection" what they mean is, "white people must rule."
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DODGERS VINDICATED, LOS ANGELES SPIRITUAL PRIMACY CONFORMED
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
DODGERS VINDICATED, LOS ANGELES SPIRITUAL PRIMACY CONFORMED
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the bigotry is bad enough on its own but this shows me he has no idea how to fight back and win against these people, totally disqualifying
gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
the bigotry is bad enough on its own but this shows me he has no idea how to fight back and win against these people, totally disqualifying
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And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
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the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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MCPS is redrawing school boundaries before Woodward HS opens in 2027—while Bethesda-area schools will largely stay the same, high schools in Silver Spring will become even more segregated by class and race. bethesdamagazine.com/2025/10/09/w...
New Woodward High boundary options keep current Whitman, Bethesda-Chevy Chase attendance zones
Attendance zones for Walt Whitman and Bethesda-Chevy Chase high schools would remain the same while those for schools such as Walter Johnson High and Northwood High School would shift.
bethesdamagazine.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
MCPS is redrawing school boundaries before Woodward HS opens in 2027—while Bethesda-area schools will largely stay the same, high schools in Silver Spring will become even more segregated by class and race. bethesdamagazine.com/2025/10/09/w...
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The GOP has done nothing on healthcare in the 21st century other than stop Dems from improving it. Literally nothing.
Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."
October 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The GOP has done nothing on healthcare in the 21st century other than stop Dems from improving it. Literally nothing.
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The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all
“We are under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy, but worse—they don’t wear a uniform.”
This is the President of the United States, who ordered the entire leadership of our military to sit and listen to him, speaking a few minutes ago.
This is the President of the United States, who ordered the entire leadership of our military to sit and listen to him, speaking a few minutes ago.
September 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all
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Call me old fashioned but I think taxation should be based on how much money you have, and administered through a federal revenue agency. I do not think it should be administered through civil suits and based on whether your conduct makes the president sad or not. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/t...
YouTube Settles Trump Lawsuit for $24.5 Million
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Call me old fashioned but I think taxation should be based on how much money you have, and administered through a federal revenue agency. I do not think it should be administered through civil suits and based on whether your conduct makes the president sad or not. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/t...
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the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare
September 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare
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Describe a single historical precedent for defeating authoritarians by being nicer to them.
Klein explicitly says his project is to dishonestly portray the true nature of the right for his readers in hopes that helps foster some common ground to heal our nation. This didn’t work for Obama and it’s not gonna work for him.
September 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Describe a single historical precedent for defeating authoritarians by being nicer to them.
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Also, Los Angeles’ city government has had plenty of time to address its housing shortage and homelessness crisis.
It has not done so because *most of Los Angeles’ elected officials do not actually want to build housing.*
As such, SB 79 *is* solving the problem at the most local level achievable.
It has not done so because *most of Los Angeles’ elected officials do not actually want to build housing.*
As such, SB 79 *is* solving the problem at the most local level achievable.
September 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Also, Los Angeles’ city government has had plenty of time to address its housing shortage and homelessness crisis.
It has not done so because *most of Los Angeles’ elected officials do not actually want to build housing.*
As such, SB 79 *is* solving the problem at the most local level achievable.
It has not done so because *most of Los Angeles’ elected officials do not actually want to build housing.*
As such, SB 79 *is* solving the problem at the most local level achievable.
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This absolute banger
September 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This absolute banger
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it’s another example of the media-driven phenomenon in which republicans don’t have to answer for open racism by politicians in actual positions of power and democrats must answer for every woke sixteen year old with a tumblr account
I actually agree that Democrats should refrain from using most of these. And they already do! When was the last time a Senator said 'heteronormative'?
The bigger problem is that orgs like Third Way are reinforcing this false, right-wing narrative. Dems can't stop doing something they're not doing!
The bigger problem is that orgs like Third Way are reinforcing this false, right-wing narrative. Dems can't stop doing something they're not doing!
Scoop: Third Way is circulating a memo, shared first with @playbookdc, featuring a new blacklist of words Dems shouldn’t use.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
August 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
it’s another example of the media-driven phenomenon in which republicans don’t have to answer for open racism by politicians in actual positions of power and democrats must answer for every woke sixteen year old with a tumblr account
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it’s not that we don’t know how to solve a lot of these problems, it’s that we don’t want to
BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.
August 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
it’s not that we don’t know how to solve a lot of these problems, it’s that we don’t want to
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It's 2018. The LA City Council is opposing SB827 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,663
It's 2019. The LA City Council is opposing SB50 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,791
It's 2025. The LA City Council is opposing SB79 because it overrides local control. Rent is $2,625
It's 2019. The LA City Council is opposing SB50 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,791
It's 2025. The LA City Council is opposing SB79 because it overrides local control. Rent is $2,625
“Los Angeles leaders are once again demonstrating their cowardice and failing their own constituents who desperately need more housing—and they’re doing it at the behest of LA’s wealthiest, most entitled voters, who have consistently blocked progress on housing affordability.” - @hanlon.bsky.social
California YIMBY Statement on LA City Council Vote on SB 79
Los Angeles, CA — Today the Los Angeles City Council voted to oppose SB 79, a state bill designed to expand affordable housing near major transit stops. In doing so, councilmembers repeated discredite...
cayimby.org
August 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It's 2018. The LA City Council is opposing SB827 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,663
It's 2019. The LA City Council is opposing SB50 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,791
It's 2025. The LA City Council is opposing SB79 because it overrides local control. Rent is $2,625
It's 2019. The LA City Council is opposing SB50 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,791
It's 2025. The LA City Council is opposing SB79 because it overrides local control. Rent is $2,625
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the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
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it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist
August 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist
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the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back