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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 16h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 11h

Has this guy ever said anything about housing policy? Because almost anyone is better than @mayor.lacity.gov.

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 11h

Is Austin Beutner preparing a run against Mayor Karen Bass? It sure looks that way

The message 'Austin Beutner for Mayor' popped up on Beutner's social media accounts on Saturday, only to be removed by 1:30 p.m. So far, he's not talking.

www.latimes.com

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 11h

@congresstran.bsky.social has to study Article I before he's invited back to the nhậu.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 11h

As one Vietnamese-American to another, an executive who unilaterally decides he no longer is bound by the plain text of the constitution is called a "dictator" and government under such an executive is called a "dictatorship."

People and systems like that are a big reason our parents fled Vietnam.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 14h

Democrats don't need another NYT, they need to build a dozen Breitbart clones where 25 year olds crank out dozens of rage bait stories per day that resist libs can pass back and forth on social media.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 14h

Shout out to all the critical geographers and academic anti-YIMBYs who threw in with this crowd a few years ago. Can't wait to see you all vindicated when the revolution finally happens.

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 18h

TIL that making the buses faster is “ruining the city”

fuelgrannie @fuelgrannie
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sam is the east coast version of armand domalewski: he's well connected and wealthy; he's desperate to align with power, marketing himself as "just a smol bean guy;" and he's hellbent on ruining the city in which he *currently* lives for other, long term residents
Sam
@sam_d 1995
just a couple of guys talking about how we can speed up our buses

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 15h

Republicans are better at this because they let their grassroots go to town and then adopt whatever works. Maybe voters will connect to Noem being an adulterer? Maybe it's Trump's pudding brain? Who knows until you try it.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 15h

*politics of hate.

Essentially, partisan media exists for voters to define themselves as opposites of the other party by showing them the most vile caricatures of the other side. Dem media should be cranking out images of Republicans as threats and also Republican voters as stupid goons.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 15h

I have a poorly formed theory of how Democrats need to build a policy of hate in order to engage with low-education voters in the social media era and the GOP has really been putting the ball on the tee for them.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 16h

Whoa what's that screen grab from?

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

Most people can't imagine police brutalizing them because they have extremely few interactions with the police in their life. But many people have dogs, love their dogs and know that dogs act like dogs when they encounter a stranger.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

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

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

I got into housing activism as a 5th-year PhD student after listening to SB 827 getting shot down in committee on my phone outside of a class I was about to teach. Crazy to think that was over seven years ago.

Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 1d

Important to remember that not only did we pass #SB79, the biggest transit-oriented upzoning bill ever, we also passed a clean CEQA exemption for new multifamily infill housing.

This is, bar none, the biggest year in state action on housing policy reform in California history. Not even close.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah Brightline gets SB County to 16 if you count the Amtrak stations too (dunno if they're eligible though.) Would've been cool if the A Line to Montclair took it over the edge, but that looks DOA.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

San Bernardino County also has to get some more transit stations to make it eligible for SB 79 provisions. They should be densifying around Metrolink stations while increasing service on that line.

Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 1d

SB 79 passed with lots of exceptions and carve outs. My entire county appears to be exempt. But. It really does a lot of upzoning. And it shows that it’s possible to shape land use policy for the common good rather than just for helping local politicians elect their electorates.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

I SAY IT AGAIN: GET IN LOSER WERE URBANIZING CALIFORNIA

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

@nextdoorsv.bsky.social that's your bat signal

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

I wish this dude would run for Governor.

Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 1d

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

Now that SB 79 is signed, can we please find someone to primary @karenbassla.bsky.social, the worst big city mayor in America who spent the last month furiously lobbying the governor to veto the bill on behalf of segregationists and people who want to see CA fail?

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

I was so caught up in SB 79 news that I totally missed all these other bills.

Coming around to the idea that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social may have the juice....

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of excitement over SB 79—understandably. I would add, every single bill California YIMBY sent to the governor was signed today. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/10/g...

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

Not exaggerating when I say that SB 79, a bill making it easier to build housing near mass transit, is the most consequential piece of legislation that the Democratic Party has passed all year. Saying no to the worst people in our coalition proves we're serious about the future.

Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 1d

WE DID IT!!!

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 2d

Every so often, a pole climber reaches the top of the pole.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

we told you, vivek.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 2d

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 2d

Argentine Pesos are the only currency that are more worthless than crypto.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 2d

The first institution to capitulate to the Republicans was the media. In an effort to seem non-partisan, they allowed themselves to be cowed thoroughly by the GOP until self-censorship and deference just became a reflex.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 2d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 2d

That'd be hilarious if they gave Obama the peace prize a 2nd time.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 2d

On the other hand, there are probably low-engagement GOP voters you might meet at work or at the gym or something who are persuadable if you get to hanging out a bit.

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