Lyndon
@lyndontucker.bsky.social
Mostly here to hold my name and lurk for now
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US polls:
Do you support socialism:
Y: 9%
M: 84%
Do you support the establishment of a regime which makes it so people's needs are met and workers are paid the full value of their labour, by force of arms if necessary
Y: 71%
N: 14%
Do you support socialism:
Y: 9%
M: 84%
Do you support the establishment of a regime which makes it so people's needs are met and workers are paid the full value of their labour, by force of arms if necessary
Y: 71%
N: 14%
September 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
US polls:
Do you support socialism:
Y: 9%
M: 84%
Do you support the establishment of a regime which makes it so people's needs are met and workers are paid the full value of their labour, by force of arms if necessary
Y: 71%
N: 14%
Do you support socialism:
Y: 9%
M: 84%
Do you support the establishment of a regime which makes it so people's needs are met and workers are paid the full value of their labour, by force of arms if necessary
Y: 71%
N: 14%
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I agree with Patrick intellectually, but practically I think any statement - especially from the Right - that violence is un-American is good right now, however untrue it is.
Speaker Johnson saying "This is not who we are" is about the dumbest thing someone could say at this moment. This is exactly who were have become, often several times a week.
September 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I agree with Patrick intellectually, but practically I think any statement - especially from the Right - that violence is un-American is good right now, however untrue it is.
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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
February 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
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Community groups like to say an individual housing project won’t solve affordability. Perhaps. But veto power over each and every housing project means market prices inevitably rise.
Manhattan Community Board 10 on Wednesday night voted 19-10 to advise rejecting a 968-unit apartment complex on West 145th Street and Lenox Avenue, the latest setback for a developer in a years-long battle for local support.
Harlem Community Board Rejects Massive One45 Development
The plan has faced significant community pushback over the years, and would add hundreds of apartments to the neighborhood.
buff.ly
February 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Community groups like to say an individual housing project won’t solve affordability. Perhaps. But veto power over each and every housing project means market prices inevitably rise.
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this is a really key point that a lot of lefty critics of Democrats would be wise to internalize
February 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
this is a really key point that a lot of lefty critics of Democrats would be wise to internalize
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Currently dealing with the perfect combination of Republican national malice and and Democratic state/local incompetence.
My wife and I knew we were getting married this year, and so decided to file her visa paperwork before the disruption of the new administration.
My wife and I knew we were getting married this year, and so decided to file her visa paperwork before the disruption of the new administration.
February 4, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Currently dealing with the perfect combination of Republican national malice and and Democratic state/local incompetence.
My wife and I knew we were getting married this year, and so decided to file her visa paperwork before the disruption of the new administration.
My wife and I knew we were getting married this year, and so decided to file her visa paperwork before the disruption of the new administration.
Reactionary? Have you seen Bass on housing? She gutted ED-1 (100% affordable housing) because it was too successful and it made her NIMBY allies mad.
losing Dem candidates get treated like hapless losers but because Caruso is a reactionary, the media treats him like he's the real mayor of LA, rewarding him with endless amounts of fawning media coverage to spread lies
This should be interesting.
"(Rick) Caruso, a one-time mayoral hopeful, described the effort, dubbed Steadfast LA, as a high-powered brain trust for local, state and federal governments as it undertakes the massive task of recovery after last month’s...wildfires."
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
"(Rick) Caruso, a one-time mayoral hopeful, described the effort, dubbed Steadfast LA, as a high-powered brain trust for local, state and federal governments as it undertakes the massive task of recovery after last month’s...wildfires."
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
February 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Reactionary? Have you seen Bass on housing? She gutted ED-1 (100% affordable housing) because it was too successful and it made her NIMBY allies mad.
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the last time dems held a supermajority was 09 and the party passed
>ACA which was the largest expansion of the social safety net since 1972
>hate crime protections for actual or perceived gender/gender identity/sexuality/disability
>20 extra weeks of UI
the supermajority lasted a total of 58 days
>ACA which was the largest expansion of the social safety net since 1972
>hate crime protections for actual or perceived gender/gender identity/sexuality/disability
>20 extra weeks of UI
the supermajority lasted a total of 58 days
This is what Democrats do. They wait for the GOP to royally drop the ball then they supermajorities with which they pass GOP policies. Then they get their teeth kicked in and spend another decade in the wilderness.
February 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
the last time dems held a supermajority was 09 and the party passed
>ACA which was the largest expansion of the social safety net since 1972
>hate crime protections for actual or perceived gender/gender identity/sexuality/disability
>20 extra weeks of UI
the supermajority lasted a total of 58 days
>ACA which was the largest expansion of the social safety net since 1972
>hate crime protections for actual or perceived gender/gender identity/sexuality/disability
>20 extra weeks of UI
the supermajority lasted a total of 58 days
Getting mooned before 2020: Someone exposing their bare buttocks to you
Getting mooned in 2025: Someone turning on Do Not Disturb mid-convo
Getting mooned in 2025: Someone turning on Do Not Disturb mid-convo
February 3, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Getting mooned before 2020: Someone exposing their bare buttocks to you
Getting mooned in 2025: Someone turning on Do Not Disturb mid-convo
Getting mooned in 2025: Someone turning on Do Not Disturb mid-convo
Are they rushing to or away from the light?
Well, they broke census.gov
January 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Are they rushing to or away from the light?
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Trump’s economy: eggs are now TWENTY THREE DOLLARS
January 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Trump’s economy: eggs are now TWENTY THREE DOLLARS
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Man, Costco is led by someone who is prepared to die over hotdog costs. They ain't scared of you.
January 31, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Man, Costco is led by someone who is prepared to die over hotdog costs. They ain't scared of you.
I'm so happy this worked out
Every day, we get more evidence that congestion pricing is making car trips faster in Manhattan, making bus travel more reliable, and increasing the use & load factor of our mass transit system. Cannot think of a recent policy that has been so *immediately* successful. www.fox5ny.com/news/has-nyc...
Has NYC congestion pricing worked? MTA releases dramatic new traffic volume numbers
Quicker trips, fewer traffic jams, and shifts in commuting patterns are becoming more apparent. Here's what MTA officials are saying since congestion pricing has been implemented:
www.fox5ny.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I'm so happy this worked out
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LA County officials: "We are not anti-housing."
Also LA County:
(Quote source: www.latimes.com/california/s...)
Also LA County:
(Quote source: www.latimes.com/california/s...)
January 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
LA County officials: "We are not anti-housing."
Also LA County:
(Quote source: www.latimes.com/california/s...)
Also LA County:
(Quote source: www.latimes.com/california/s...)
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Applying affordability requirements to small scale infill housing means none of it will get built.
Elected Democrats in deep blue cities like “inclusionary zoning” because it allows them to pose as friends of the poor while satisfying wealthy NIMBYs’ desire to block housing in their neighborhoods.
Elected Democrats in deep blue cities like “inclusionary zoning” because it allows them to pose as friends of the poor while satisfying wealthy NIMBYs’ desire to block housing in their neighborhoods.
Cathy Moore is currently stating that she thinks that the city should apply the Mandatory Housing Affordability program to missing middle housing, mandating that anyone building a fourplex has to set aside 50% of their building as subsidized housing.
January 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Applying affordability requirements to small scale infill housing means none of it will get built.
Elected Democrats in deep blue cities like “inclusionary zoning” because it allows them to pose as friends of the poor while satisfying wealthy NIMBYs’ desire to block housing in their neighborhoods.
Elected Democrats in deep blue cities like “inclusionary zoning” because it allows them to pose as friends of the poor while satisfying wealthy NIMBYs’ desire to block housing in their neighborhoods.
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the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin
January 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin
Can you imagine the shadows it cast!
January 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Can you imagine the shadows it cast!
Sometimes it works out when the restaurant you wanted to go to closed early for Tet
January 29, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Sometimes it works out when the restaurant you wanted to go to closed early for Tet
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yeah man i don't know i feel like when trump drops an atrocity EO at 10pm you're not really playing fair ball if you get mad that the lawsuit isn't announced until business hours the next morning
January 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
yeah man i don't know i feel like when trump drops an atrocity EO at 10pm you're not really playing fair ball if you get mad that the lawsuit isn't announced until business hours the next morning
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because they have trained themselves to think of politics as a social game in which they are participants, and not as something that determines whether people live or die
Why is the American political press so specifically terrible about communicating stakes and shit
January 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
because they have trained themselves to think of politics as a social game in which they are participants, and not as something that determines whether people live or die
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“We’ve been using crisis rhetoric for a decade with nothing to show for it,” said @mnolangray.bsky.social the senior director of legislation and research with the advocacy group California YIMBY. “The Palisades sort of calls that bluff.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
What Los Angeles Could Learn From Great Fires of the Past
Rebuilding can be a chance to rethink things.
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“We’ve been using crisis rhetoric for a decade with nothing to show for it,” said @mnolangray.bsky.social the senior director of legislation and research with the advocacy group California YIMBY. “The Palisades sort of calls that bluff.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...