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@kohiwonomu.bsky.social

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🚈🔰Mass transit simp, liberal Georgist, New Deal Democrat. | @ridewithdata.org | Be a traveler, not a tourist. Pro-🇺🇦🇹🇼🇵🇸, all opinions my own and not of anybody i work with or am employed by

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · Nov 17

go.bsky.app/HVLZoBr Re-sharing because I’m extending the scope to DFW rather than just Dallas!

Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · Nov 17

First batch of folks added to the Dallas Urbanism/Transit starter pack- let me know who else need to be in! Dallas-area journalists who write about transportation and housing policy in DFW *especially* welcome.
go.bsky.app/HVLZoBr

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 7h

truly no more insufferable genre of capital-G Gamer than soulslike players

Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 7h

i'm calling for a moratorium on soulslike players playing non-soulslike games

"wow i can't believe this game lets you pause during the boss fight, so glad soulslikes haven't caved to this shit"

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 8h

how likely do you think it is that the great khan is banned from at least one casino for being too good

Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 8h

I'm bringing a flag to saturday, is it too much to juggle to bring a sign too? Arms are probably gonna get tired I'm thinking. Maybe attach sign to flag?

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 8h

She will be at No Kings this Saturday, will you?

(D-MI) Evelyn Normielib
This House
We Believe
-Retired teacher
-Voted for Buttigieg in 2020 because he reminds her of her grandson
"The blood of the tyrant shall water our fields"

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 10h

it's remarkable how much worse Siri has gotten in recent years even if you haven't turned on Apple Intelligence. routine commands like "mark my morning meds as taken" or "set an alarm for _:__" it'll struggle to parse sometimes

Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 10h

the tougher the test, the more we can verify that this guy isn't just going to be Fetterman 2 (which he strongly gives off vibes of being imo)

Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 12h

so like do we have any people working on drafting a new constitution or

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 12h

Once again

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@drewwitte.bsky.social
BORN TO REASON WORLD IS A DEIST
鬼神 Kill Em AIl 1789
I am trade man
410,757,864,530 DEAD ARISTOCRATS
James @gravitysralnbow.bsky.social • 6mo
You know what? I'll say it. The period before the Enlightenment was complete ass. I'm tired of Medievalist weirdos who did their PhDs in 1300s theological alchemy trying to gaslight all of us into thinking that dying because a guy says God gave him special blood decided to go to war

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 12h

what’d ya get?

Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 13h

hell yeah

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Kelli Smith @kellixsmith.bsky.social · 19h

Headlines in the last month portray the city of Dallas in chaos. We've had killings outside an ICE facility, a nightclub, a shopping center, a beheading at a motel. A story that isn’t being told: Dallas is on pace for one of its lowest murder tallies in a decade.

I dug into the data in my latest.

The Perception and Truth Behind Violence in Dallas

Despite numerous high-profile murders and violent crimes, the city is on pace for its largest decrease in homicides since well before the pandemic.

labreportdallas.com

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 21h

everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 21h

especially me. please do not criticize me. i will cry

Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21h

can we all at least agree that no one should ever be criticized for any reason

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 22h

An easy solution to this is to effectively criminalize and brutally punish the "Uber model" of rushing an entire business model to market regardless of law, public safety, and the standards of the product itself.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/a...

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👻database spirits👖 @db-user.bsky.social · 22h

it's doubly crazy because Biden's inflation wasn't even his doing, but a compound global effect EVERYONE around the world felt while supply chains restructured

the tariffs+inflation are ENTIRELY trump's fault, and they won't say it

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23h

Remember how under Biden the press said this was the biggest issue ever but how now under Trump it’s barely mentioned? Yeah.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

A grocery store clerk in Chicago says shoppers see prices “and say, ‘What the f—? .. It happens all the time.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

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Jesse “Sppooky Diplay Naame” Raub @jesseraub.bsky.social · 2d

so there i am, minding my own business, three tons of Woke packed tight in the trailer. all of a sudden i see flashing lights in my rear view. nuh uh, not today

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 1d

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 1d

feeling just a little smug to say that i pegged protein powders immediately as something we were inevitably going to find out had a bajillion servings of lead per serving

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans' embrace of Hitler raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's willingness to combat antisemitism.

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 1d

color me pleasantly surprised at who isn’t bending the knee

Love Field, DFW Airport won't show video blaming Democrats for government shutdown

North Texas' two largest airports say the video, in which Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem says Democrats "refuse to fund the federal government," goes against their advertising policy.

www.keranews.org

Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 1d

an organization whose sole purpose is to find as many rakes as they can to gleefully step on

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CalmKitty @calmkitty.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ, "neoliberal" has fully lost all connection to what the word actually fucking means when it's now used to mean "someone who hates coffee."

Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 1d

This is the ultimate joyless “optimization” of life neoliberals keep falling into. Coffee tastes good and I enjoy it, simple as

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👻database spirits👖 @db-user.bsky.social · 1d

ngl I think a bigger part of inflatable outfits working is primitive psychological stuff

a meme

bear robbing bank: stick em up

teller: *raises hands*

bear: *nervous* how'd you get so big?

a semi-realistic, nervous bear is drawn in the lower half

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2d

Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"

Declaration of Independence: "For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever."

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2d

since there's reports on social media of money hitting accounts worth reiterating that this is illegal and unconstitutional as shit, it's not a close question, and while I don't expect anyone on H/SASC or H/SAC will do anything, anyone performing this 'reprogramming' should face criminal penalties

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 3d

It's also worth reiterating that absent this reprogramming authority being written into law it would be not just illegal but flatly unconstitutional for DoD to expend money in any fashion not explicitly specified (by both type/use and quantity) by Congress in an appropriations bill

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