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Daniel Lock

@runningurbanist.bsky.social

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Seattle, Army vet, YIMBY, avowedly anti-Trump

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Daniel Lock @runningurbanist.bsky.social · Jul 3

100%- it is time for a truce between liberals and leftists. The Republican Party is the most powerful singular threat to the American People, the United States, and mankind. The Republican Party must be destroyed.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Jul 3

I'm already seeing centrists and leftists sniping at each other but the blame for this is 100% on the Republicans. This is what they do with power and it is imperative that we work together to keep them as far from it as possible, forever.

Daniel Lock @runningurbanist.bsky.social · 2m

Exactly what we need to be saying. Good stuff, Gov

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15m

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

Daniel Lock @runningurbanist.bsky.social · 3m

Yeah 100% you must be willing to ditch the filibuster if you’re a Democratic senator. Vote for Platner

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2h

absolutely the fuck not. this needs to be a red line.

Janet Mills would support keeping filibuster if elected to the Senate

The Democratic governor’s stance is shared by Sen. Susan Collins, the Republican whom Mills entered the race to defeat earlier this week.

www.bangordailynews.com

Daniel Lock @runningurbanist.bsky.social · 2h

They’re all acolytes of Nathan Robinson and other delusional leftists who have never actually met an actual person in a rural community.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4h

Tbh I think we ought to re-masculinize society through the dispensation of brutal, merciless justice to the class of intellectual quislings who are trying to carry us back to the middle ages

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Daniel Lock @runningurbanist.bsky.social · 6h

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California Transit Association @caltransit.bsky.social · 6h

Earlier this week, Governor Newsom signed SB 71 (Wiener), an Association-sponsored bill extending CEQA exemptions for transit infrastructure projects through 2040.

Daniel Lock @runningurbanist.bsky.social · 6h

Thinking about climate, we’re going to have to go a lot further than IRA after the trump regime collapses. Probably nationalization of some fossil fuel companies, military buildout of renewables / transmission, national carbon tax, mass buildout of transit / dense housing, etc

Rhodium Group @rhg.com · 6h

In our annual Taking Stock outlook for US energy and emissions under current policy, we find the US is now on track to reduce emissions by 26-41% below 2005 levels in 2035, a meaningful shift from our outlook in 2024, which showed a steeper decline of 38-56%.

rhg.com/research/tak...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8h

We are experiencing mass protests literally unrivaled in US history on a regular basis - protests that MAGA and the right cannot even come close to mimicking - and somehow they have convinced everyone else that it's a goofy sideshow. I assure you we wouldn't think that if the protesters had red hats

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Daniel Lock @runningurbanist.bsky.social · 6h

True! 👇👇 awesome, under discussed topic in the housing space. Missing middle in the SFH neighborhoods is critical, but towers around transit, especially in a greater downtown core- are critical too!

Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social · 13d

Missing middle housing is great, but in certain places cities should think bigger.

Missing massive development, to use @aarmlovi.bsky.social's coinage, is commensurate with a severe housing shortage and complimentary to high-capacity transit.

benjaminschneider.substack.com/p/missing-ma...

We need to talk about ‘missing massive’ housing

In most neighborhoods, missing middle housing will do the trick. But right on top of subway stations, missing massive is a worthy goal.

benjaminschneider.substack.com

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 7h

it has to be backed with action but this is proper leader of the opposition-coded behavior of the kind we generally don't see in the US

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7h

Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities.

Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6h

There are hundreds of No Kings protests all over the country this Saturday.

It's very easy to attend one. Enter your zip code, and show up.

That's it. Come join us.

www.nokings.org#map

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Daniel Lock @runningurbanist.bsky.social · 6h

SoCal government’s stay losing. When is California going to get real, dissolve these corrupt and unaccountable sham governments, and administer Southern California directly?

Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 7h

How is this not a bigger scandal?

LA County is paying a $2 million settlement to its highest-ranking non-elected employee because she is claiming “emotional distress” from a ballot measure that eliminates her position.

Does nobody have shame any longer?

Daniel Lock @runningurbanist.bsky.social · 6h

The Kavanaugh Stop on full display. 20 children, including two with fucking cancer.
May Brett Kavanaugh never know peace.

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

Daniel Lock @runningurbanist.bsky.social · 6h

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Streets For All @streetsforall.org · 7h

New research from the Data/Dev team!

SB 79 will eventually zone nearly 1.5 million (1,456,150) new units of housing in the City of LA. Enough to double LA’s current housing stock of 1.37 million homes

Read more: data.streetsforall.org/blog/sb79_impact/

Daniel Lock @runningurbanist.bsky.social · 6h

BAM, that’s what i’m talking about. I’ve loved Chris Murphy for a long time, so it is great to hear him saying the right stuff

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

Daniel Lock @runningurbanist.bsky.social · 22h

Terror state going to terrorize. May the Russian military and Putin never know peace for the rest of their miserable lives

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 23h

⚡️Russian missiles pound Ukrainian cities in massive morning attack.

Explosions have been reported in Kharkiv, Ilium, Kropyvnytskyi, and Poltava. Earlier, the Air Force issued a nationwide missile warning after Russia launched MiG-31 bombers.

Russian missiles pound Ukrainian cities in massive morning attack

Explosions have been reported in Kharkiv, Ilium, Kropyvnytskyi, and Poltava. Earlier, the Air Force issued a nationwide missile warning after Russia launched MiG-31 bombers.

kyivindependent.com

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

If a party that loses by 5 percentage points still gets to control the legislative body, do you really live in a democracy? And if you don't live in a democracy, why should your state remain a part of that union?

Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social · 1d

If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act falls, Democrats might need to win the national popular vote by 5 to 6 points to take control of the House, via Nate Cohn
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Daniel Lock @runningurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

I hate this man, deeply and passionately. He should be dragged through the streets

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Daniel Lock @runningurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

I personally think it is time to just turn the White House into a museum. The president should exemplify civic virtue and live in a nice but not lavish apartment (that has undergone extensive security stuff). Symbolize an end to the opulent corruption of the current moment.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

you know I could have sworn that like ten years ago they pretended this happened against them (it didn’t) and said it was the worst offense that had ever happened (again it didn’t).

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ: “.. the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Daniel Lock @runningurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

asylum but only for racists apparently www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno man. I think the GOP’s Nazi problem is one of the worst problems America is currently facing!

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1d

We have commissars now lmfao

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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