Philip Moll
@philmoll.bsky.social
Urban planning, gardening, cycling, movies, thunder, sewing, and 10 other half assed hobbies
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i give it a year tops before some administration account is tweeting pro-slavery propaganda
The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”
July 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
i give it a year tops before some administration account is tweeting pro-slavery propaganda
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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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anyway, the country didn't take the white supremacist underground seriously after oklahoma city and now a bunch of tim mcveigh's run the country
June 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
anyway, the country didn't take the white supremacist underground seriously after oklahoma city and now a bunch of tim mcveigh's run the country
As an OKC resident and former teacher I’ll extend this—white supremacy is not taught at all in connection to this. It’s framed as a random act of violence
just watched this netflix documentary on the oklahoma city bombing and once again i'm struck by how so many of the popular media takes on this event just avoid entirely the connection to organized white supremacism
June 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
As an OKC resident and former teacher I’ll extend this—white supremacy is not taught at all in connection to this. It’s framed as a random act of violence
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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
June 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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that’s right
Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people
May 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
that’s right
AOC is our mon motha send tweet
May 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
AOC is our mon motha send tweet
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I saw posts about this earlier and they seemed to be putting words in his mouth. But he actually did respond “I don’t know” to the direct question: “Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?”
WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree?
TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
May 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I saw posts about this earlier and they seemed to be putting words in his mouth. But he actually did respond “I don’t know” to the direct question: “Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?”
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crazy that an influx of dense infill housing can lower prices and make homeownership more attainable
"In 2020, [Portland, OR] approved building [middle housing] on lots zoned for single family homes... A new report from the City says, it's working. 1,400 new units built in just a few years and each one is $300,000 less expensive than a typical single family home." @nbcnews.com
May 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
crazy that an influx of dense infill housing can lower prices and make homeownership more attainable
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my buddy @resnikoff.bsky.social off the top rope with some actual class analysis www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A YIMBY Theory of Power
Pro-housing advocates offer an analysis of class relations that is more sophisticated and has more explanatory power than the one held by many critics of the “abundance agenda.”
www.thenation.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
my buddy @resnikoff.bsky.social off the top rope with some actual class analysis www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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By planning business as usual — which means refusing to slash emissions and rebuild on a massive scale to ruggedize against climate chaos — we are planning catastrophes.
Inaction = knowingly choosing destruction.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/we-now-liv...
Inaction = knowingly choosing destruction.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/we-now-liv...
We now live in a world of planned disasters.
What kind of future is being planned for the place you call home?
alexsteffen.substack.com
April 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
By planning business as usual — which means refusing to slash emissions and rebuild on a massive scale to ruggedize against climate chaos — we are planning catastrophes.
Inaction = knowingly choosing destruction.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/we-now-liv...
Inaction = knowingly choosing destruction.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/we-now-liv...
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This has always been an obvious problem with their slapdash approach. You can temporarily “save money” on paper by deciding to randomly stop paying bills. But if it turns out you needed some of that stuff, it’s ultimately going to be more expensive.
NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
April 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This has always been an obvious problem with their slapdash approach. You can temporarily “save money” on paper by deciding to randomly stop paying bills. But if it turns out you needed some of that stuff, it’s ultimately going to be more expensive.
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The administration just announced in an Executive Order they are going to stop enforcing the CiviI Rights Act. As with all other EOs, this EO is not a law and cannot simply overturn the laws passed by Congress, although Trump + Co act otherwise. We must fight this.
Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. A
www.whitehouse.gov
April 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The administration just announced in an Executive Order they are going to stop enforcing the CiviI Rights Act. As with all other EOs, this EO is not a law and cannot simply overturn the laws passed by Congress, although Trump + Co act otherwise. We must fight this.
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“I have nothing to do with Russia” lol he couldn’t have more to do with russia if he were eating borscht and playing with nesting dolls
And there it is. Trump comes out in favor of codifying Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and blames Zelenskyy for Putin’s aggression.
April 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
“I have nothing to do with Russia” lol he couldn’t have more to do with russia if he were eating borscht and playing with nesting dolls
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This would go some way to explaining the $3,600 a month on candles
odd that dril hasn't posted since the pope died
April 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This would go some way to explaining the $3,600 a month on candles
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Donald Trump is torturing people on US soil.
At the Miami Krome ICE prison, detainees are held 16 hours with “tight chains around their wrists, chests, and hips on buses outside the facilities without water, food, or access to bathrooms. Guards instructed them to urinate or defecate inside the buses.”
english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...
english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...
April 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Donald Trump is torturing people on US soil.
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It goes without saying that he can't because this is a congressionally mandated report
Trump cancels the National Climate Assessment, the most comprehensive source of information about how climate change affects the U.S www.npr.org/2025/04/20/n...
Trump administration cancels the National Climate Assessment
The Trump administration has halted work on the National Climate Assessment. It's the most comprehensive source of information about how climate change affects the U.S.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
It goes without saying that he can't because this is a congressionally mandated report
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In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing ,the US government failed to investigate and prosecute the larger white supremacist movement of which it was an expression. Case just focused narrowly on McVeigh.
Yet another decision that looks pretty bad in retrospect.
Yet another decision that looks pretty bad in retrospect.
‘The bomber’s words sound mainstream. Like he won!’ Oklahoma City’s tragedy in the time of Trump
Revulsion at deadly Oklahoma City explosion in 1995 has faded. But echoes of the blast, and its perpetrator, Timothy McVeigh, are heard today as far-right ideas storm the US
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing ,the US government failed to investigate and prosecute the larger white supremacist movement of which it was an expression. Case just focused narrowly on McVeigh.
Yet another decision that looks pretty bad in retrospect.
Yet another decision that looks pretty bad in retrospect.
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April 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Whispers *charlie xcx is for girls who don’t wanna feel guilty being rich*
April 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Whispers *charlie xcx is for girls who don’t wanna feel guilty being rich*
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there is nothing good about Harry Potter, it is tangibly and materially harmful to real people
There's simply no ethical way to support Harry Potter in 2025. It's not possible. $0.20 from every dollar you give JK Rowling goes directly to physically harming a trans person and that's not a joke or an exaggeration.
April 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
there is nothing good about Harry Potter, it is tangibly and materially harmful to real people
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In Bloomberg CityLab, I explained why cities must build cycling *networks* – not just lanes.
It’s a lesson that many elected leaders have yet to learn (esp Ontario’s Doug Ford, who is taking a sledgehammer to Toronto's cycling network).
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It’s a lesson that many elected leaders have yet to learn (esp Ontario’s Doug Ford, who is taking a sledgehammer to Toronto's cycling network).
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Why the Best Bike Lanes Always Get Blamed
A standoff over cycling infrastructure and traffic congestion in Toronto shows why building protected bike lanes on essential corridors draws controversy along with riders.
www.bloomberg.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
In Bloomberg CityLab, I explained why cities must build cycling *networks* – not just lanes.
It’s a lesson that many elected leaders have yet to learn (esp Ontario’s Doug Ford, who is taking a sledgehammer to Toronto's cycling network).
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It’s a lesson that many elected leaders have yet to learn (esp Ontario’s Doug Ford, who is taking a sledgehammer to Toronto's cycling network).
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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one other way to think of this is that it is a massive program of upwards redistribution to wealthy business owners who can skimp on worker, consumer and environmental safety to juice profits for themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...
Trump and DOGE Are Planning Deregulation at a Massive Scale
The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
one other way to think of this is that it is a massive program of upwards redistribution to wealthy business owners who can skimp on worker, consumer and environmental safety to juice profits for themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...
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Very cool news, and I like the name "Also" given the messaging is about using "the right tool for the job." A car company saying this to regular people is a nice development.
Oooooh, I missed this, Rivian is spinning off a "micromobility" company to make electric scooters, bikes, etc. Intriguing!
Rivian Is Spinning Off a New Micromobility Company
It’s called Also.
heatmap.news
April 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Very cool news, and I like the name "Also" given the messaging is about using "the right tool for the job." A car company saying this to regular people is a nice development.