Kelly Holiday
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Kelly Holiday
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Keep your eyes on Texas/Camp Mystic/flood zone regulations.

Similar to Trump 1.0 & COVID, if you don’t have the data then the data doesn’t exist.

Do you see where this is headed? It’s in writing, y’all. #CampMystic #Texas #Project2025 #scheduleF #NOAA #FEMA #ClimateDenialism
Camp Mystic appealed to remove buildings from FEMA's 100-year flood map, records show
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the y...
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This quote popped into my head during the conclusion of @hcrichardson.bsky.social chat yesterday…
December 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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PLACELESS by self-described NYC homeless advocate Patrick Markee really flips the script on the unhoused–and draws a throughline (decades long) of social and political paths not taken that would have sheltered everyone. Bet Markee is happy about the new mayor! @prhlibrary.bksy.social #ewgc
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Sooo many folks I’m excited to work with on Mamdani’s technology transition committee. All hands on deck to bring the Affordability Agenda to life: childcare, housing, transportation.

While its easy to get swept up in personality, this is a group focused on peoples real needs. LETS KEEP THE FOCUS.
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Such classic gaslighting it's an instructive moment. The question is not whether generic is better or worse, it's that a list with more expensive brand names is not the same as a list with cheaper generics. Perverting that truth into an attack on those calling it out is Manipulation 101.
Hassett: "On one of the Sunday shows, the anchor criticized the fact Walmart said the Thanksgiving dinner is cheaper by about $10. Then he said, 'Oh yeah, but they substituted generic stuff,' as if having a generic something is a crime for ordinary folks! It shows how out of touch these people are."
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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“Yes, life is a complete dumpster fire, but I am reminded that I am not alone, that I am in this with many others.”

Gift link:
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Soon, we'll oversee a budget of more than $100 billion — and every dollar will reflect our commitment to working New Yorkers and delivering universal childcare. Good thing some little New Yorkers gave me a counting lesson today!
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Says it all.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Big news day today so you might have missed @npr.org quietly sliding a Doobie Brothers Tiny Desk under the front door. youtu.be/jrkOQuRYCIQ
The Doobie Brothers: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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November 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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This is what a New Era looks like.
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
What’s the over/under on Felon45 declaring the U.S. bankrupt when he loses the #tariff case? You know damn well that $$ won’t ever be seen again…
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Has anyone checked in on #EzraKlein this morning?
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Somewhere near downtown LA, no lies told — blue states keep MAGA country afloat. 🔥

“You just keep on using me until you use me up.”
November 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The fact of the matter is that helping people costs money and that is just not popular with corporations that, for all practical purposes, own a vast number of congresspersons.
Get money out of politics and we can move onward and upward
#EndCitizensUnited
How the US sets its poverty rate is shocking
It's so horrible, it should actually piss you off
open.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.
June 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Imagine what they will do once messaging for future elections is no longer necessary. #EpsteinShutdown #TrumpShutdown
October 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Imagine a world in which Ezra Klein engages with Ta-Nehisi Coates, privately, from a posture of genuine curiosity and humility, takes a few minutes, reflects deeply, and then posts/records. That’s the masculinity we need.

Second only to silence as an option.
September 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
From now on.
I'm gonna be saying "was silence not an option?" from now on
September 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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September 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM