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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 11m

Political discrimination is how North Korea and China and other “democratic” authoritarian regimes operate.

Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 12m

From a small-d democratic POV, partisan discrimination is one of the worst things to be allowed.

The whole point is to have a level playing field upon which the people (represented by parties and politicians) have a say.

To allow partisan discrimination is to be highly anti-democratic

Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 1h

They also explicitly greenlighted this sophistry last year in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP. Alito argued there that racial discrimination isn't racial discrimination if Republicans target Black voters for political reasons.

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 2h

Slow WiFi is way worse than no WiFi, similarly

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 2h

Switzerland is utopian, which is off putting when no one else is anywhere close to

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 16h

The November elections in 3 weeks will be a great gauge for electorate response to Trump 2

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 18h

And republicans are quibbling over potentially $0.004 billion in lose revenue due to fare evasion.

It’s fucking insane

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 18h

The silver lining to this insanity is that Democrats can make one of the biggest investments for Wisconsin residents and workers in the state’s history starting in 2027.

Any social or economic program should be easy to fund w/o worrying about raising taxes to balance the budget

Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 19h

GREAT NEWS: Our state ended the fiscal year with $4.6 billion in our checking account and a record-high $2 billion in our savings account.

We've worked hard to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars, while investing in our state's needs and providing real, responsible tax relief.

Graphic that reads "New: Wisconsin" with two lines for checking and savings accounts that read $4.6 billion and $2 billion, respectively

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 18h

If the state stepped in to help MCTS avoid their fiscal cliff, they’d only have $4.6 billion left over

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 22h

Spiker really trying to cement himself as worst alder in Milwaukee.

Fortunately for him it’s not much of a competition

Milwaukee Record @milwaukeerecord.bsky.social · 23h

Press release: Good money after bad: Committee hears why we spend over $4 million net on streetcar while raising taxes and fees

Good money after bad: Committee hears why we spend over $4 million net on streetcar while raising taxes and fees

Do you know why we spend over $4 million a year (net; $7 million gross) on a streetcar system that goes nowhere and that no one outside of downtown rides?

milwaukeerecord.com

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 23h

Not my circus, not my monkeys, but there is legit theological as well as pastoral reasons why Vance should be, at the very least, restricted from receiving communion for the time being

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for supporting the Hop

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh yes. Almost every clip of every tv show or movie has this sort of comment (and sometimes many times) and the joke is just so old now.

The other common comment are those annoyed by the copyright avoidance techniques (background music, flipped shots, weird lighting, etc). It’s so strange to me

Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 1d

Peralta’s been alright (unfortunate string of hits to deep right) and the offense is making contact, which should hopefully pay off. Definitely feel better about this than being down 1-0 last night

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 1d

Ahh ok that makes sense. Didn’t realize they had Bombardiers from the Blue Line order

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 1d

Nice. Bombardier? Are they changing from their standard Siemens LRVs?

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 1d

The lesson, which we should already know, is that confining fascists behind a cordon sanitaire is a condition for the exercise of democracy. Authoritarians simply cannot be folded into electoral politics for all the reasons in this thread. They make it impossible for democracies to credibly commit

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

This is not to say that elections don't matter; they clearly do, and democracy requires them, and in every case I'd rather my side win than lose. But if I'm working on the question of what to do *while in power*, it's going to be heavily biased towards *how do we ensure electoral defeat isn't fatal*

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 1d

It’s also a bit weird that they don’t have a more transit friendly underlying map.

I can get trying to having existing rail ROW available for building on, but I which they were highlighted, rather than requiring prior knowledge to find

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 1d

I ended up getting the SubwayBuilder game last night, even if they don’t have Milwaukee.

I think it’s a really interesting way to do transit building, operation, and simulation, but I do wish they could include buses to better support the subway as well as leisure destinations for more realism

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 2d

Crazy to me that these are 4 equally populated districts.

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 2d

Would have been crazy to have such an incredible pitching performance only to end up losing in the end.

That would have really felt like destiny

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 2d

I mean if that super weird double play in the 5th goes any other way (Frelick catches, even after bobbling, or it actually goes over the wall) that's probably game over from then on

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 2d

That's a tough what if.

Turang a bit too agile (and honest) to evade that wild inside pitch that would have tied the game

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 2d

Especially the guy on second who should have pretty easily been able to take third even if he wasn’t forced to.

The guy in first would have been riskier I think, considering where the ball was hit (but I think that was Ohtani so maybe not as risky)

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 2d

Heres a better angle after Frelick throws in in bsky.app/profile/cjze...

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 2d

So it's a double play, an out at home (out #2) and an out at 3rd since Will Smith did not advance from 2nd (3rd out)

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 2d

The ball bounced off the wall before Frelick caught it, so it’s a live ball and all runners need to advance a base. The ones at first and second didn’t so Contreras ran to third to get the second out

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