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Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 5h

In case you think this is a joke

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 4h

“Once you elect or appoint someone who has no moral core — who then appoints people with no moral core and fires those who do — nothing else in the system of checks-and-balances turns out to matter”

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...

The only check-and-balance that actually matters

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Balu Puppy @balupuppy.bsky.social · 5h

The
BETOOTA ADVOCATE
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coles
Local Kid Prepares To Dress Up As Bike Lane For
Halloween To Really Frighten
Elderly Neighbours

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 4h

Everyone interested in this topic should read the first 3 chapters of The High Cost of Free Parking, in which Donald Shoup cheerfully called bullshit on the entire traffic engineering profession so thoroughly and convincingly that several major cities have abolished parking requirements entirely.

Vitamin D Muncher Tetra @tetracado.bsky.social · 5h

Engineers and Planners with Masters Degrees will look at this graph and write binding laws based on it

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Vitamin D Muncher Tetra @tetracado.bsky.social · 5h

Engineers and Planners with Masters Degrees will look at this graph and write binding laws based on it

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Evan Manvel @evanmanvel.bsky.social · 3h

Trump is using our tax dollars to take revenge on those who care about laws

Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 3h

Oops. www.treason.io/p/news-white...

NEWS: White House secretly assembles revenge cell for Trump w/ spy agencies & cops

Trump's team has pulled together the CIA, FBI, DHS, and other agencies as part of a "weaponization" working group.

www.treason.io

Evan Manvel @evanmanvel.bsky.social · 6h

Disqualifying response from Cuomo

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

Just disgusting.

A screenshot of a post on X that reads:

Cuomo, talking to conservative radio host Sid Rosenberg this morning:

"God forbid, another 9/11—can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?" Cuomo asks.

"He'd be cheering," Rosenberg says.

Cuomo paused and chuckled before saying: "That's another problem."

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 19h

Holy buckets. This is exactly what the Oregon Silver Shirt fascist I’m writing about thought children should be taught about Communism ca. 1965 (minus the more recent references).

Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 1d

Florida’s Social Studies standards are getting another update next month.

No, those terrible African American History standards will stay, but there’s a huge update to our Anti-Communism education.

This is just one page.

FLORIDA'S STATE ACADEMIC STANDARDS FOR SOCIAL STUDIES

SS.912.HC.9.3 Describe the emergence of modern Marxist thought in education and media.
Benchmark Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction includes the influence of the Frankfurt School on the modern education system (c.g. Critical Theory).
Clarification 2: Instruction includes Antonio Gramsci, Paulo Freire and Howard Zinn and their work (e.g., the oppressor vs. oppressed dichotomy, historical revisionism).
Clarification 3: Instruction includes the repackaging of Marxist ideology using modern terminology and concepts to disguise the underlying Marxism (e.g., Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States as a recasting of William Z. Foster's history books, Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, James W.
Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me).
Clarification 4: Instruction includes the dangers of pro-communist propaganda in entertainment and media industries.

SS.912,HC.9,4 Identify propaganda and defamation utilized to delegitimize anti-communists
and anti-communist movements.
Benchmark Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction includes campaigns to shut down the House Committee on Un-American Activities by communists and communist sympathizers, including protests in San Francisco in 1960 to. disrupt the meeting.
Clarification 2: Instruction includes a change in policy by President John F. Kennedy's administration, forbidding explicitly anti-communist speeches in the military.
Clarification 3: Instruction includes using "McCarthyism" as an insult and shorthand for all anti-communism.
Clarification 4: Instruction includes slander against anti-communists, such as red-baiter and Red Scare.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d

hot take: this is also gender-affirming care

Brady! 🏳️‍⚧️ @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 1d

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence”

when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

NYT Magazine headline “‘I'm on Fire': Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive - and Then Some
There is no F.D.A.-approved testosterone product for women. Insurance won't cover it. Many doctors won't prescribe it. It's become a cultural phenomenon.”

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · Aug 7

Did a new one

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Senator Jeff Merkley says NSPM-7 appears "a strategy to take folks you disagree with and label them a terrorist threat"

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Evan Manvel @evanmanvel.bsky.social · 1d

"cutting minimum-parking [mandates] would likely boost housing construction in Denver by about 12.5%"

Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 1d

usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/22/s...

Study: Removing Parking Minimums Leads to More Affordable Housing — Streetsblog USA

Removing parking requirements for new buildings could help thousands of Coloradans who struggle to afford housing — and it might work elsewhere, too.

usa.streetsblog.org

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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 1d

The President is not a king.
The law is not a suggestion.
The Constitution is not optional.

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymDt...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Jack Ohman, Tribune Content Agency

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Evan Manvel @evanmanvel.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder: in this toxic attempt to prove masculinity and distract from No More Kings, metal shrapnel fell on the freeway and hit a police car. "Marine Corps had said there was nothing unsafe about the exercise and that it was unnecessary to disrupt traffic on I-5."

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 1d

This Administration is full of liars and everyone in the media should assume they are lying until proven otherwise

Case in point: Hegseth tried to claim firing over the freeway was “routine”

Key Camp Pendleton document has no approved artillery firing locations west of I-5

State says it has no record of any over-freeway fire prior to Saturday’s amphibious capabilities demonstration that temporarily closed the freeway.

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 1d

I needed some good news today

Carol Fenton @cfpdx.bsky.social · 1d

#Oregon: Just months after the historic removal of four major dams on the Klamath River, scientists and tribal leaders are stunned by what they’re seeing—salmon are returning in far greater numbers, and much faster, than anyone expected. www.activenorcal.com/salmon-are-s...

Salmon Are Surging Far Beyond Expectations After Klamath River Dam Removal

Just months after the historic removal of four major dams on the Klamath River, scientists and tribal leaders are stunned by what they’re seeing—salmon are returning in far greater numbers, and much f...

www.activenorcal.com

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Evan Manvel @evanmanvel.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah he’s like crossing Joe Biden’s legislative abilities with the wonkery of Shane Phillips or Michael Andersen.

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Evan Manvel @evanmanvel.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry - this was in response to your podcast re trick or treating and parents mis-assessing risk. One of you said razors in the candy may happen, but… :)

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Emily K @greendesignek.bsky.social · 1d

#LFG

Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 1d

TUNE IN: I’m holding the Senate floor to protest Trump’s grave threats to democracy. We cannot pretend this is normal.
youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

Merkley Holds Senate Floor to Protest Trump’s Threats to Democracy

YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley

youtube.com

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KOIN 6 News @koin6.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH LIVE: Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley is holding the floor of the Senate to denounce authoritarianism.

Merkley holds Senate floor to denounce authoritarianism

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley is holding the floor of the Senate to denounce authoritarianism.

www.koin.com

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Evan Manvel @evanmanvel.bsky.social · 1d

@davidzipper.bsky.social no razor blades in candy is not real

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisone...

Poisoned candy myths - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 1d

This is just to say

I have bulldozed

the East Wing

that you were probably

hoping to pass down

to future generations

Well, fuck you

it was in the way

so inconvenient

and so old

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

bsky.app/profile/numb...

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devokneivel.bsky.social @devokneivel.bsky.social · 1d

The Swiss post office has been taking passengers for many years along its rural routes for mail drop offs.

Canada Post could serve that function to serve rural Canadian communities...with a bit of imagination.

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 7d

Trains + incline railways can take you almost everywhere in #Switzerland.

Where they don't go, the PostBus will take you.

Evolved from a mail-carrying service to remote villages. 882 buses carry 152 million passengers a year.

Famous for yellow livery, and 3-tone klaxon...

🇨🇭🧵

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