Nic Mira
@nicmira.bsky.social
Urban policy, bureaucrat, administrative state, Boston/MA politics, other lefty stuff
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Nic Mira
@nicmira.bsky.social
· Nov 15
These two are by far the best content this account will be posting.
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Starbucks workers are ON STRIKE! Now is the time to tell everyone in your life to STOP BUYING Starbucks.
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www.nocontractnocoffee.org?utm_source=s...
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Starbucks workers are ON STRIKE! Now is the time to tell everyone in your life to STOP BUYING Starbucks.
www.nocontractnocoffee.org?utm_source=s...
www.nocontractnocoffee.org?utm_source=s...
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What we know, final edition of the night:
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
What we know, final edition of the night:
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
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Reposting for the morning crowd.
If there’s one thing you need to do this weekend, this is it.
If there’s one thing you need to do this weekend, this is it.
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
November 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Reposting for the morning crowd.
If there’s one thing you need to do this weekend, this is it.
If there’s one thing you need to do this weekend, this is it.
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"You are—at most—going to be one piece of that solution in a chain of many people that begins before you were born and continues after you die." degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...
You don't have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
"You are—at most—going to be one piece of that solution in a chain of many people that begins before you were born and continues after you die." degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...
Actual courage
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
September 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Actual courage
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TNC identified as the last well known American columnist with a spine:
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
TNC identified as the last well known American columnist with a spine:
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
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I continue to be amazed at the absolute lack of courage
September 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I continue to be amazed at the absolute lack of courage
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One of the best people decoding all this chaos is @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...
Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme
Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence
www.garbageday.email
September 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
One of the best people decoding all this chaos is @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...
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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
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if that news is true, don't say anything you wouldn't want to see screenshotted and spread all over right wing media
September 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
if that news is true, don't say anything you wouldn't want to see screenshotted and spread all over right wing media
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Had a fun time writing about bread and circuses vs. bread and roses and whether in crises we're allowed to have fun. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-...
Circuses vs. Roses: Notes on Pleasure and Scold Culture
Someone made this extra-grumpy meme about the fact that football player and podcaster Travis Kelce proposed to pop superstar Taylor Swift and now they're engaged, or rather about the fact that of cour...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Had a fun time writing about bread and circuses vs. bread and roses and whether in crises we're allowed to have fun. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-...
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It is only barely hyperbolic to say NIMBYism and the downstream effects of making affordable housing inaccessible are why Democrats have lost so much ground.
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
It is only barely hyperbolic to say NIMBYism and the downstream effects of making affordable housing inaccessible are why Democrats have lost so much ground.
No one can find me here....
August 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
No one can find me here....
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The case against worrying about pre-transfer poverty
August 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The case against worrying about pre-transfer poverty
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reposted this today because the inverse is also true:
if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period.
if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period.
if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
the thing about trans rights is that we fight the civil rights issues of our time. nazi chuds have made this the issue of our time.
it's not more *important* than other civil rights issues, but it is the battleground of the moment, and we have to meet the moment to support everyone's rights.
it's not more *important* than other civil rights issues, but it is the battleground of the moment, and we have to meet the moment to support everyone's rights.
Centrists bigots and right wingers have this all backward. YOU are the ones constantly bringing up trans issues. I would be happy to not think about this shit every day of my life unless I was talking to or reading something by one of my trans friends and thought of it in passing. SHUT THE FUCK UP
August 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
reposted this today because the inverse is also true:
if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period.
if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period.
if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
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“URGENT. 8X MATCH. THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE.”
Ugh if I never get another text like that it won’t be soon enough!!!
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Ugh if I never get another text like that it won’t be soon enough!!!
🧵
August 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
“URGENT. 8X MATCH. THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE.”
Ugh if I never get another text like that it won’t be soon enough!!!
🧵
Ugh if I never get another text like that it won’t be soon enough!!!
🧵
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Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
August 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
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really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not
August 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not
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Moving back a little here: this is when things became extremely chaotic. In the first minute alone there were several overhead batons, several people wearing press passes batonned, hit, shoved. Multiple journalists had to go to the hospital after this scrum (1)
August 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Moving back a little here: this is when things became extremely chaotic. In the first minute alone there were several overhead batons, several people wearing press passes batonned, hit, shoved. Multiple journalists had to go to the hospital after this scrum (1)
Furthest I've been:
N: Yoho National Park in British Columbia
E: Istanbul
S: Rio de Janeiro
W: probably Olympic National Park
N: Yoho National Park in British Columbia
E: Istanbul
S: Rio de Janeiro
W: probably Olympic National Park
Furthest I’ve been:
N: W. 4th Ave, Anchorage
E: Probably in the Danube Delta (god forsaken place, stay away!), or if not then the Asian side of Istanbul
S: Coyoacán, Mexico City
W: Somewhere on the North Shore of Oahu probably
N: W. 4th Ave, Anchorage
E: Probably in the Danube Delta (god forsaken place, stay away!), or if not then the Asian side of Istanbul
S: Coyoacán, Mexico City
W: Somewhere on the North Shore of Oahu probably
Furthest I’ve been
N: classified
E I guess International date line or Shanghai
S somewhere south of Capetiwh
W Wake Island
N: classified
E I guess International date line or Shanghai
S somewhere south of Capetiwh
W Wake Island
August 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Furthest I've been:
N: Yoho National Park in British Columbia
E: Istanbul
S: Rio de Janeiro
W: probably Olympic National Park
N: Yoho National Park in British Columbia
E: Istanbul
S: Rio de Janeiro
W: probably Olympic National Park
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“My analysis of the network's FEC disbursements reveals that, at most, $11 million of the $678 million raised from individuals has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees.” open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
open.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
“My analysis of the network's FEC disbursements reveals that, at most, $11 million of the $678 million raised from individuals has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees.” open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
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As someone who used to work at a non-profit, discourse around non-profit salaries drives me absolutely nuts. There are people making six-figure salaries? You mean white collar employees who work full time are coming close to being fairly compensated for their work?
July 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
As someone who used to work at a non-profit, discourse around non-profit salaries drives me absolutely nuts. There are people making six-figure salaries? You mean white collar employees who work full time are coming close to being fairly compensated for their work?
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Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
July 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...