The winner, so far: Mike Konczal: 🏆

Fully on board for what makes Abundance important. Finds shared threads between infrastructure and social policy. But also historicizes the movement, calls Klein/Thompson on (big) blind spots, and complicates the narrative.

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Also, holy shit, Bluesky sends real traffic. Will update this tomorrow with firm numbers but journalism is going to move here for sure. Twitter is a drop in the bucket. It's over, but we are so back, and so on and so forth

So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.

This is an insular beltway jobs program for George Washington grads with zero hard skills and rich parents. None of these people feel shame or face consequences. It’s an opposition party run by the Bluth family.

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

I get emotional every time I meet someone on Amtrak whose riding for the first time

If we want better fashion culture in the US, we have to lower the cost of housing and commercial real estate, support independent craftspeople, build denser neighborhoods, improve walkability, and get rid of overly restrictive zoning laws. Let kook culture thrive.

Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike.

I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it.

Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia

i think something democrats need to understand is that starting with the 2008 election, every presidential winner has more convincingly promised change from the status quo more than their opponent

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

despite the world becoming scary i still have a perhaps niave but unwaivering belief that a better world is possible

I went to the Negro Motorist Green Book exhibit, which gives visitors an interactive look at the guide that gave Black Americans safe spots to eat and rest as they traveled across the U.S. during Jim Crow

I like my women like I like my music; Viva La Vida by Coldplay.