Alex
@alxlndomountain.bsky.social
San Francisco based planner
construction industry knower
organizer
labor bureaucrat building the high road
dad & hubby
bike enjoyer
trolleybus evangelist
PHIMBY stan
co-editor @derspekter.bsky.social
speaking only for myself
construction industry knower
organizer
labor bureaucrat building the high road
dad & hubby
bike enjoyer
trolleybus evangelist
PHIMBY stan
co-editor @derspekter.bsky.social
speaking only for myself
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"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
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rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
Stop em before they start
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Stop em before they start
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"My illegal occupation has made the locals angry, and then I shot the locals, and now the locals are angrier, and now I will expand my illegal occupation, and for some reason they're even angrier!"
What actually happened, with supporting detail. Also read the linked story.
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
IDF said mulling expanded op in Syria if it finds Sharaa’s forces fired on troops
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www.timesofisrael.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
"My illegal occupation has made the locals angry, and then I shot the locals, and now the locals are angrier, and now I will expand my illegal occupation, and for some reason they're even angrier!"
It is slowly dawning on people that we are in the midst of a Confederate insurgency by a group of malcontents who think the wrong side won the Civil War.
"Western civilization," the font, the 11 stars - 11 states in the confederacy, for the record.
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It is slowly dawning on people that we are in the midst of a Confederate insurgency by a group of malcontents who think the wrong side won the Civil War.
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ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
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Confirmed: Earlier this morning a photog overheard agents inside the parking garage say “dismissed,” believed to be calling off their planned mass raid.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Confirmed: Earlier this morning a photog overheard agents inside the parking garage say “dismissed,” believed to be calling off their planned mass raid.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
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A grave historical mistake that the leaders of the Confederacy were not tried and hanged.
"Western civilization," the font, the 11 stars - 11 states in the confederacy, for the record.
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A grave historical mistake that the leaders of the Confederacy were not tried and hanged.
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Insane that anyone would suggest its Palestinians that need to be "re-educated" and not the people who support this regime www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
American 16-year-old freed after nine months in Israeli jail
Mohammed Zaber Ibrahim was arrested in the West Bank as a 15-year-old and charged with throwing rocks at Israeli vehicles — an allegation he denies.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Insane that anyone would suggest its Palestinians that need to be "re-educated" and not the people who support this regime www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Waymo is I.C.E
Leading contestant for the Big10's biggest capitulator
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Leading contestant for the Big10's biggest capitulator
The question that should've been asked but wasn't is why they're sacrificing 2-unit rent controlled buildings while freezing heights at 40' for more than 51K single family parcels. District 1 has nearly 6K in buildings getting their effective heights doubled & >7850 SF lots capped at 40'
At Richmond upzoning town hall, crowd is tough and Mayor Lurie is feisty
Residents of the Richmond want Mayor Daniel Lurie’s upzoning plan to change. Lurie says time for change is over.
missionlocal.org
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The question that should've been asked but wasn't is why they're sacrificing 2-unit rent controlled buildings while freezing heights at 40' for more than 51K single family parcels. District 1 has nearly 6K in buildings getting their effective heights doubled & >7850 SF lots capped at 40'
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🔥 flipping the script in Cali
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
🔥 flipping the script in Cali
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In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
The baseline structure of the constitution cannot survive one large powerful faction of the ruling elites to decide they're done with it
The baseline structure of the US constitution can survive many things. What it cannot survive is the speaker of the house being an omega male who is completely submissive to the president and willing to surrender all of his power. Mike Johnson is genuinely groundbreaking in this regard.
November 29, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The baseline structure of the constitution cannot survive one large powerful faction of the ruling elites to decide they're done with it
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Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
The part of American academia that could probably be replaced by an LLM
November 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The part of American academia that could probably be replaced by an LLM
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Starting to question the counter-narcotics rationale for the boat bombing scheme.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Starting to question the counter-narcotics rationale for the boat bombing scheme.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
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Remember when the Nazi Republicans got all bent out of shape about "Obama's pastor" Jeremiah Wright saying "America's chickens are coming home to roost"?
I *would* wonder how they feel about him being absolutely correct NOW, but I know they just ignore that fact.
I *would* wonder how they feel about him being absolutely correct NOW, but I know they just ignore that fact.
Me seeing another CIA trained radical attack the united states: Well well well if it isn't the blowback brothers...
November 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Remember when the Nazi Republicans got all bent out of shape about "Obama's pastor" Jeremiah Wright saying "America's chickens are coming home to roost"?
I *would* wonder how they feel about him being absolutely correct NOW, but I know they just ignore that fact.
I *would* wonder how they feel about him being absolutely correct NOW, but I know they just ignore that fact.
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A group of leftist protesters held a Thanksgiving meal at ICE yesterday at the objection of Indigenous community members who asked them not to
They stood around the park with American flags draped on their shoulders as people were taken in and out of the ICE building in shackles to be deported
They stood around the park with American flags draped on their shoulders as people were taken in and out of the ICE building in shackles to be deported
November 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A group of leftist protesters held a Thanksgiving meal at ICE yesterday at the objection of Indigenous community members who asked them not to
They stood around the park with American flags draped on their shoulders as people were taken in and out of the ICE building in shackles to be deported
They stood around the park with American flags draped on their shoulders as people were taken in and out of the ICE building in shackles to be deported
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Since you won mayor whoever is managing your social media has stopped using alt text. Can you please start again?
The climate crisis won’t wait and neither will we. With this team, we’ll meet it head-on.
November 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Since you won mayor whoever is managing your social media has stopped using alt text. Can you please start again?
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One reason you can’t win over authoritarians with appeals to America’s best traditions is that they hate America’s best traditions.
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
One reason you can’t win over authoritarians with appeals to America’s best traditions is that they hate America’s best traditions.