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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 27m

Because otherwise it's an untenable double withhold?

I admit it's not quite "force". Employers could decide not to pay the state increase. It would require a lot of social & elite buy-in, mutual collective psyching-up, to work out this way.

Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 44m

"Where political trends hit first" could be read as saying "what happened earlier in Missouri is now happening nationwide". But then she doesn't know what bellwether means

Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 47m

As Missouri goes, so goes... South Carolina

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 56m

Any tips on attaching a dowel to a foamcore board in a way that doesn't interfere with writing a message on that side of the board too?

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 1h

That might be what Newsom meant at least

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 1h

Ultimately as a thought exercise this mostly shows how so many of the actions equal to our situation are not equal to our political ambition.

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 1h

Would this require outright physical coercion of local branches of ADP etc? Maybe, I don't know how exactly these decisions are made.

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 2h

Everyone is effectively forced to stop paying federal tax. CA undertakes to repay & change system back if they start following the Constitution again.

SocSec checks can thus be replaced for the time being.

Almost secession - like 95% of the way there

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 2h

An actual concept for California to "withhold" federal tax dollars (MUCH more disruptive).

Pass by ballot measure (or if things are really devolving, snap constitutional convention) a tax increase equal to federal tax levels.

Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 4d

They're not talking about anything. They're laboring under a complete misunderstanding of the flows

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 2h

It was compelling to me when I was in my late twenties/early thirties, had been following politics since teens & had seen a lot of ebb & flow with different but comparable flavors of Republican shittery

Now I see how slow slippage in degree eventually becomes a stark difference in kind

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 2h

I saw somewhere else on here that he often helps bring some of the financing to a project?

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 2h

No, it made $135m domestic and $132m overseas in the first 5 days of release

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 3h

I feel like they could have dared the Pentagon to take away their badges. But still, good on them for holding firm

Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 3h

NEW for @washingtonpost.com:

Pentagon reporters exited the building in unison Wednesday after turning in their badges, having refused to sign the Defense Department's press policy.

@nancyayoussef.bsky.social called it a “sad day for those who support a free press.”

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 4h

argh

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 6h

It's a significant problem not planning for people getting to/from without cars (or even with cars without paying for it), but this seems inaccurate about the streets as planned. The few in pink, orange, purple are the only 6-lane streets planned; & only maybe 2 others are even 4-lane, most 0 or 2

Map of street grid of whole development area with two streets on the perimeter & one street bisecting the area, colored in orange/pink/purple, distinct from the more numerous smaller streets making up the grid in blue, green, or gray.
Pink/orange/purple streets labeled: "Parkways, Arterials and Highways are edges and gateways into the community, and also help guide traffic to the Movement Streets."
Blue: "Movement Streets move people by foot, bike, transit, and car within the community."
Green: "Pedestrian Spines and Greenways are pedestrian friendly spines and greenways that promote community-wide connectivity"
Gray: "Neighborhood Streets are finer-grain Slow Streets and Alleys for moving within each neighborhood"

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Crowd Control (on Dropout) @crowdcontroldo.bsky.social · 7h

The only Bush family member who has earned our respect (sorry Jeb)

#CrowdControl

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 7h

I think it has to do with high-profile people messaging & getting press on "This is the future, this is different & how we solve things" whereas further sprawl is just more of the same (and there is increasing energy to stop freeway expansions as a broad principle, if only slowly)

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 9h

If you’re coming to Car Free Happy Hour tonight (5:30 at Los Moles), there’s a lot of recent transportation and housing improvements you’ll want to check out around El Cerrito del Norte BART.

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El Cerrito del Norte BART platform with view of Mayfair housing

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 7h

or indeed Operation Desert Storm

Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 7h

That was itself one of the issues with most of the depiction of Earth politics (pre-revolution), vague sentences like that that presupposed public opinion having a pressuring effect but leaving it super unclear clear who had the regarded opinions, how they were being communicated, etc.

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 8h

Not sure how you get that from the text. Or even as an unreliable narrator thing. There was a big revolution on Earth but it came a couple of CEOs later

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 8h

Whereas in this story it just snapped back into relatively familiar corporate governance

Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 8h

But they were working everything out as they went along & it became a venue for rapid change

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 9h

you can see this longing for the imagined natural across the political spectrum--from "primitive communism" to "bronze age mindset"--this idea that we can resolve all the political dilemmas that so grip us by peering through the mists of history

www.patreon.com/posts/chapte...

Chapter 3.1: Against the Imagined Natural | Samantha Hancox-Li

www.patreon.com

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 9h

Doesn't that imply they were working within an assumption of continued car dominance? If so did they just look to tastefully hidden off-street parking in the residential buildings?

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