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Phoccer
@iamphoccer.bsky.social
Husband, dad, beer drinker, fisherman, bad disc golfer, dog person, e-biker, Arsenal fan. My photography and fútbol interests lead to my user name.

eBike: Gazelle Medeo T10 2022
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Something everyone should be asking their DOTs about is raised crosswalks! Such a simple design solution that gets drivers to slow down where people are!!!!
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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20 before and afters of streets in Paris in one minute.
Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Trial run with the new winters accomplished. Yes, a little snow started ❄️ #yycbike
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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You absolutely have the constitutional right to record ICE, Border Patrol, or any law enforcement officer in public, and with everything happening in Charlotte right now, people need to understand that clearly.
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I want A.I. to do my admin and laundry while I write and illustrate books. I don't want A.I. to write and illustrate books while I do my admin and laundry.
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Zwolle doing it right: a central busway flanked by traffic lanes and a separate cycleway, all buffered by trees that prevent overtaking. Buses speed through without getting stuck in traffic, people cycling have a safe route, and the narrower roadways reduce collisions. Amazing bit of street design.
November 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
What a wild finish

#nwsl #ORLvGFC
November 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: ‘I felt like a piece of trash’
The Tribune spoke to U.S. citizens and green card holders who have either been questioned or detained during Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Yikes 😬 an official U.S. government account just referred to Americans as “imbecilic morons.” That’s… a choice.
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
www.kcur.org/podcast/up-t...

It’s as if KS never ran this experiment to total failure. It’s the state literally next door and we learned nothing. I live in the dumbest state.
Despite a budget shortfall, Missouri’s governor seeks to eliminate the state income tax
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe’s desire to eliminate the state income tax is an ambitious goal given the projected $1 billion shortfall in general revenue next fiscal year. He joined KCUR’s Up To Date to di...
www.kcur.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%

Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%

Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.

As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Come on #kc we can do this too
NYC knows how to build self-enforcing streets that slow vehicles and micromobility down (to benefit pedestrians.)
November 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
PeaceLoveCanada.ca
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Thimerosal has formula C9H9HgNaO2S. It is not mercury.

The systematic name for thimerosal is
Ethyl(2-mercaptobenzoato-(2-)-O,S) mercurate(1-) sodium.

Chemicals aren’t the sum of their parts. Chemical bonds change everything about behavior.

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November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were:

Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Richest nation in human history
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB

Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM