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TC @conover.bsky.social · 2h

The Isaac Chotiner & Derek Guy School of Owns

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 9h

How many reporters have actually confronted the Trump Administration about committing ethnic cleansing?

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 2h

I knew her in college and she was a principled and earnest painter, and I hope she still is.

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 2h

Still the workbench project? Or associated tool storage?

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 1d

Good news: @gavinnewsom.bsky.social signed the bill! Congrats to @davidpomerantz.bsky.social @earthjustice.org and TURN!

Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 6d

Governor Newsom has a bill on his desk to hold utilities accountable, and get them to stop passing along their dark money campaigns to everyday Californians.

Is he going to side with utilities, or side with the public and help lower electricity rates?
energyandpolicy.org/california-l...

California passes bill curbing utilities use of ratepayer money for political spending

State lawmakers last week made California the seventh state to pass a bill limiting investor-owned utilities from using customer money to pay for political and lobbying costs.

energyandpolicy.org

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 7h

OTOH, they could also block train sound from adjacent neighborhoods?

George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 7h

But, aren’t transit projects CEQA exempt now? And seriously, the worst one is Pleasanton and there’s not much housing there at all, space-wise

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 8h

The problem from hell, housing wise

George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 9h

I went with a parrot.

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 9h

Brazil! Classic! Have you seen 12 Monkeys?

George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 9h

Frankly, ICE should simply not exist. It’s a product of the GWB administration, so we got by without it for 225 years. If the feds want someone for deportation, they can ask state or local police to take that person into custody, with those agencies having the right to decline.

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 9h

Come to No Kings Saturday. I want 10 Million people in the streets, or more.

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 1d

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ICE abducted a 15-year-old autistic boy during a bathroom break and kept him hidden for nearly a week.
His mother thought he was missing. Even local police couldn’t find him because ICE never told anyone they had him.

He was selling fruit with his mom when he asked to use the restroom.

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 9h

The further you get from wealth, the less of this there is. Resource hoarding is the stronger half of NIMBYism

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 9h

Yes we do!

A black and white photo on Sun Ra, wearing strange glasses and a shimmering tunic

George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 9h

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 9h

So are many many many European cities. Everywhere from Crete to Copenhagen, and more besides, I’m sure. The US is so brain poisoned by car dependency and home-as-castle

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 10h

Sound walls replacing the chain link at the freeway median stations would do an enormous amount of good for riders waiting on these platforms. It really isn’t that much. If you notice, the vast majority of the noise is tire sound from the nearest lanes. Fixable! @bart.gov

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve thought about this many times. It’s so odd to me that men that fall into this don’t see the trap, but then again some form of masculinity imposition has been going on forever and the rise of hyper-targeting might have allowed this crap to metastasize…

George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 12h

In NL, I saw some bikes on the streets that had linkages instead of cables, such as this bike has. I wonder how long it’s been since those were last made…

George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 1d

Remove “like” and I’m with you.

George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 1d

Sure man, “luxury”

George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 1d

🧐🤔

Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 1d

"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that 'the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens' is threatening 'the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.'”

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

wapo.st

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 1d

In case you don’t hate them enough yet.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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Patrick @pjrocks.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah brother

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran gets it. We fight to defend the vulnerable because they are vulnerable and we honor their heroes as our heroes, because that’s what they should be: all of ours. We, too, can defend our trans siblings and by doing so will benefit all of us.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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