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dragonfountainsale.bsky.social
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I recall liberals becoming quite implacable enemies, when pushed, at prior points in history. They should perhaps study what Grant did in his March to the Sea.
I recall liberals becoming quite implacable enemies, when pushed, at prior points in history. They should perhaps study what Grant did in his March to the Sea.
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The author of the piece screen-shotted below is a U.S. army officer.

I would contend that an officer planning for a 'post-liberal' military has betrayed their oath to "support and defend the Constitution," perjuring themselves before God and men and is as a result, unfit to serve.
chat is it good when defense intellectuals are citing Adrian and putting arguments you'd hear before the Spanish Civil War
Totally unacceptable statement for anyone associated with our military to make, publicly or privately.

I wasn't crazy about WOTR's commentary before but this is just a bananas article to publish. Unconstitutional views, borderline treasonous frankly.
"Depending on what a society hopes to find, it will reshape its politics accordingly. The military will, and ought to, follow. Or, if civic collapse is deep enough, it may... seize power, and attempt to force its own political order into being." warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...
The American Military Officer After Liberalism
Across academia, government, and Silicon Valley, on social media, and in leading journals, intellectuals and political leaders are openly debating what
warontherocks.com
Deeply un-American, borderline treasonous statement for anyone associated with our armed forces to just throw out there
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We had a huge year in the Legislature advancing a pro-housing agenda, including major new laws allowing more homes near public transit & exempting infill housing from CEQA.

Tonight we celebrated.

Thank you to our entire amazing coalition!
Will civil-military relations evolve towards the Ewok model of loosely confederated tribes motivated by a golden robot god? Only time will tell, but we must be prepared for all possibilities
The "tenants for less housing" movement seems to finally be losing some steam
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“Low-density zoning and ULURP were not designed to protect tenants, they haven’t protected tenants in the past two decades, and they won’t protect tenants in the future. If we want the social housing tenants deserve, we need to build it — and we need to change the rules to make that possible.”
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No cars. That simple.
Urbanists of Bluesky, I need your help!

In your view, what makes a successful festival street or pedestrian street? Are there particular built environments, design elements, amenities, or uses that contribute to their success?
At first I read "you have befouled hair" and I was like, ah okay this must be about how he went bald
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Must be really chill to live in a stable, normal country right now. Imagine opening up the newspaper in Denmark and reading a headline like "City Government Decides to Build a Bridge, Does."
Increasingly disturbed these days to find some people who think they're on the left apparently have the opposite view... Like, that's not gonna work guys. Basic civil rights are the starting point.
Doing a unit on the imperfect tense on Duolingo has me getting all nostalgic. Every screen feels like the beginning of a vignette or a poem about my childhood...
Really thought you were gonna say you were united against Karens
That's a whole lotta words to explore "what if the U.S. constitution wasn't a thing for the U.S. military?"

No thanks!
No doubt the anti-housing left will listen to this new information in good faith and adjust their views accordingly.
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Every single report to shareholders from a large REIT includes something about how it's great that market-rate multifamily housing isn't getting built in high-cost coastal cities because the shortage is what allows them to rent gouge.
New housing stops landlords from raising rents—take it from the CEO of AvalonBay, one of NYC's largest landlords:
"We're well-positioned… we face significantly less new supply. Land entitled for multifamily is hard to come by, the amount of time it takes to get those entitlements… sets us up well.”
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I find it fascinating how easily NIMBY groups toggle between "this project doesn't have enough affordable units" and "we can't accept 100% affordable projects, that's class segregation."
The Berkeley NIMBYs have really gone off the deep end. Their new definition of "diversity" means you cannot build a building that is all rentals, and small apartments ("GLAs") must be spaced 1760 feet apart. Meanwhile the speaker lives in this SFH surrounded by SFHs. Curious.
When Biden seemed kinda old in 2024 it was a five alarm fire in the media for months.

Trump in 2025 has gotten hand bruising, a "routine" MRI, dementia screening, and clearly had a stroke.

Media responds with breathless discussion of whether a 3rd term is possible.
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Even if you think Trump's goons are just "Enforcing the law" that's not really true. At best they're enforcing *A* law, and they're breaking every other law to do it. Laws for them are a fig leaf to be used as a shield when convenient and discarded when not
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this is evil
He’s still repeating that lie. Video link in replies.
We're all Jerry telling Kramer there's no way he's following through on remodeling his apartment...