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Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 14h

If that tunnel collapses not only do not have east coast rail we almost certainly enter a recession and it will kill hundreds. The next president should tie Russ Vought to a lamp post in downtown Arlington

Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 14h

I get that it’s not as flashy as the other things he has done but impounding funds for infrastructure and specifically the Hudson tunnels is part of his concerted effort to essentially kill people living in blue states

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

SCOTUS killing VRA would really be the culmination of a Second Redemption

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

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Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 23h

Are you for real dawg

Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 1d

6 PM. MAYOR AND COUNCIL CHAMBERS
CITY HALL, 255 WEST ALAMEDA
www.tucsonaz.gov/Departments/...

Planning Commission

The Planning Commission is the advisory board to Mayor and Council for the adoption of long-range plans, policies, specific plans, and regulations that affect development.

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Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 1d

The public comments and emails being sent in are rough, I and others will be at the meeting tonight to support Missing Middle housing citywide. Renters, service workers, transit users, and people too young or poor to have been able to buy 2 ranch homes in midtown in the 1980 deserve to be considered

Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 1d

Calling all Tucsonians who believe in housing! The city Planning Comission meets TOMORROW to discuss their Missing Middle housing plan. Tucson for Everyone has a petition calling for the area of Missing Middle zoning to be expanded citywide so that our future can be in townhomes, not parking lots

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Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 1d

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Support for Missing Middle Housing

Tucson for Everyone, representing 3,700 supporters of our vision for a more affordable city, is excited to voice our support for the proposed Missing Middle UDC Code Amendment and related amendments, ...

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Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 1d

Calling all Tucsonians who believe in housing! The city Planning Comission meets TOMORROW to discuss their Missing Middle housing plan. Tucson for Everyone has a petition calling for the area of Missing Middle zoning to be expanded citywide so that our future can be in townhomes, not parking lots

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Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 2d

you can’t ally with this person despite them supporting rent control. It’s very clear from the rest of their paragraph that they think most renters are an evil people who, unlike honorable suburban homeowners, tend towards drug use and harm the other honorable (volk) renters

Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 2d

There’s people who think homelessness is caused by private equity firms and low income criminals conspiring to break the law and ruin apartments by having the landlords rent to ‘bad people and vagrants’ instead of honest hardworking renters

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Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 2d

“We don’t need giveaways to capitalist developers but at the same time the city should work to uphold my property values as a handworking volk”

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Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 2d

Tucson is trying update its zoning around downtown to allow for missing middle stuff (as required by state law) and the community response has been predictable lol

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Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 2d

asked a prof who studies policing structures in urban areas to send me an email if he could find any sources about the influence of Nazi occupation on post WW2 French policing and everytime I’ve seen him since he has said he has fallen down a rabbit hole

Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 3d

A ceasefire, while life saving so long as it lasts, is not peace nor is it justice for Palestinians whose state of oppression continues

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 3d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

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KPD Max von Sydnow 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦🇬🇱 @mpdeejay.bsky.social · 3d

The Dems who have been the best on Palestine have also been the most aggressive on confronting Trump, and like you said, that's not a coincidence.

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Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 3d

Every ICE officer will be marched in front of our Nuremberg court

Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 3d

Tucson Planning Commission on Missing Middle is meeting on Wednesday and two of the progressive YIMBYs are out and won’t be able to vote

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Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 3d

For the two sides of tonight’s US political debate we have a long time teacher who is underpaid and fears ICE raids in her school vs a guy who is mad he has to pay his workers without sexually harassing them. In the name of truth the media shall treat both of these perspectives as equally valid

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Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 3d

For the two sides of tonight’s US political debate we have a long time teacher who is underpaid and fears ICE raids in her school vs a guy who is mad he has to pay his workers without sexually harassing them. In the name of truth the media shall treat both of these perspectives as equally valid

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Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 3d

“The media has a left wing” bias is one of big myths that are used to justify our culture of coddling the idiot racists of the American right

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Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 3d

Holy fuck it’s been raining for three days here

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 14d

i'll admit to having a lot of dark fascination with what happens next after the very obvious happens

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Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 5d

www.pewresearch.org/politics/200....

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Youth and War

Neither hawks nor doves, America's youth are more willing than their elders to give both war and peace a chance. A new poll analysis finds that generational differences on the use of force confound th...

www.pewresearch.org

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Koalagaming08 @koalagaming08.bsky.social · 5d

Lol the generation that experienced the depression and actually went into WW2 voted to the left of the later boomers and gen x'ers and were much less likely to support later US military intervention

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