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Jim Pyke
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I'm into non-toxic positivity, film, art, music, food, anime, manga, æsthetics, & finding different ways to see, hear, & understand.
Also pro-housing, pro-cycling.
Hopefully that covers it.
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I can solve the puzzle...
November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Mamdani.
Say
his
name
!
Mamdani has now gotten more votes than 1/4 of the members of the United States Senate did when they got elected. The political power being channeled here is immense.
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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To all the corporate Democrats who have either refused to support Zohran Mamdani or openly attacked him—despite him being the Democratic nominee—CONGRATULATIONS! History will record you as agreeing with Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Stephen Miller! Actual fascists and white supremacists. That's who you are siding with over your own party's nominee. Thank you for revealing to us all who you really are, your racism, your cowardliness, and why we should never trust you for any reason whatsoever. I would ask you to have shame, but it's clear you have none. The American people suffer due to your cowardliness. And history will record your names accordingly. P.S. There's a reason why Dr. King warned that the "white moderate" is worse than the KKK. That's who you are. You are exemplifying why Dr. King pointed to you as being worse than the KKK, because you know it's racist, but you do it anyway. "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
November 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Feels like #a2council Comprehensive Land Use Plan content to me...
Zohran Mamdani asks, "Are we brave enough to believe in a city that benefits us all?"
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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...and good morning 💖
November 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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The best time to admit what a garbage pundit Ezra Klein is was 10 years ago.
The second best time is now.
November 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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If I was as consistently wrong as Klein, for as many consecutive years as Klein has been wrong, I would have lost my job by now.
And yet...
November 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Criminals in Vegas be like:
November 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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#a2council
Some tryna make zoning flexible to increase housing equity & make room for more ppl in a job center & climate refuge.
Others tryna limit flexibility to triplexes.
Still others even balk at that.
Maybe harsh to say authoritarianism begins in our neighborhoods.
Maybe still correct to say.
“No Kings?” But No Direction Either An open letter to the so-called movement…I AM gonna go in on y’all, it comes from love, but that don’t mean it needs to be tender. I wasn’t born yesterday, and I wasn’t raised on apathy. I was raised by Alabaman civil rights activists, people who risked their lives, their jobs, and their safety because they believed that change wasn’t something you wished for; it was something you built, step by step, demand by demand, until the system had no choice but to bend. I grew up on stories of sit-ins, boycotts, marches that were dangerous but disciplined, and strategy meetings that stretched into the night. I was raised to believe that protest is sacred work. So when I see these “No Kings” protests, something in me don’t sit right. I know the spirit behind them. I know the urge to stand up, to reject authoritarianism, to say that no one man is above the people. But y’all got spirit and no structure? Friend, that’s wind. It howls for a moment, maybe rattles a few windows, then dies out. I am not criticizing for the sake of tearing down. Y’all gon’ get this work today. I am speaking because I was raised by people who taught me that silence is complicity, and confusion is costly. What I see right now looks like confusion wearing the clothes of conviction. I keep hearing that the “No Kings” protests are about rejecting authoritarianism in America. Fine. But what does that mean? What are the concrete demands? What does “rejecting authoritarianism” look like beyond a catchy sign? Protecting voting rights? Holding police accountable? Ending migrant detention?Stopping the erosion of free speech? If you can’t tell me, then you are IN A MOMENT, NOT A MOVEMENT When I look across the country, I see a patchwork. In some cities, the “No Kings” march is tied to Palestinian liberation. In others, organizers insist that it’s only about Trump and his return to power. Some chapters call for ICE to be abolished; others are waving flags and singing the national anthem. I even saw posts online telling people not to bring certain flags, not to make it “about other issues.” But how do you talk about authoritarianism without talking about the people who already live under its shadow, Black folks, immigrants, Indigenous communities, poor people, disabled people, queer and trans people, Palestinians, Sudanese people, Congolese people? You can’t. And yet, that’s exactly what’s happening. The messaging is fractured because the foundation is thin. People are doing what they want wherever they are, not because they’re bad or lazy, but because no one gave them a clear direction or a shared framework. There’s no agreed-upon set of demands, no theory of change, no next steps. Resistance without a plan isn’t revolution. It’s catharsis. My grandparents’ generation didn’t march just to be seen; they marched to win. They studied power, who had it, how it worked, and how to disrupt it. They had demands: desegregate the buses, pass the Voting Rights Act, open the schools, protect the ballot. Those weren’t slogans; they were battle plans. When they chanted, it was in harmony with policy work, legal strategy, and grassroots organizing. Every action fit into a larger campaign. What I see in No Kings is what happens when protest becomes a performance of moral alignment instead of an instrument of structural change. When people say “we’re saving democracy” but can’t define what democracy looks like for those who’ve never fully lived inside it. When the goal is to trend, not to transform. And, I get it. People are tired, scared, angry. They’re watching the country tilt toward something dangerous, and they want to do something. But we can’t afford to confuse motion with movement. You can march every day from now until election day, but if you don’t have a plan for what comes after the chant, then you’re not building power; you’re burning energy. So here’s my question to the organizers and participants: Where’s your head at? What’s the strategy after the signs come down? What’s the infrastructure you’re leaving behind in the neighborhoods where you’re marching? Who are you centering…and who gets left at the edges? Because if this is just “Trump No Good,” y’all already lost. The real fight is bigger than one man. It’s about the systems that allow any one man to hold that much sway. It’s about the normalization of militarized policing, the criminalization of dissent, the rollback of civil rights, the silencing of the vulnerable. If you’re not naming those things explicitly, you’re just treating the symptom, not the disease. I want to see a movement that knows itself. You need a north star, that builds coalitions around clear goals, that uplifts the voices of those most impacted by state violence, not just the ones most comfortable with a microphone. If No Kings truly means no kings, then it must also mean no coronations of moral purity. No hierarchy of whose suffering counts. No “unity” that asks the marginalized to be quiet for the sake of optics. So I’m asking… with love, with history behind me, and with the ghosts of those who bled for the right to stand in the street watching, where are y’all going? Cause I wanna come too, but you marching in circles is still standing still.
October 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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September 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Amsterdam, and this is just the area for kids.
September 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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September 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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I ain't reading that.
Can someone tell me if at any point Mr. Shapiro expressed any interest whatsoever in personally - from his own platform - helping to lead the de-escalation of right-wing extremist political violence?
September 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Hopefully this will not be used as a weapon against US citizens in the same way the 1933 Reichstag fire was used as a weapon against German citizens.
September 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Fixed it
September 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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I would like to see some more tall buildings in this view please, #a2council
September 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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So there are NIMBYs that are still mad about the before/after situation pictured below literally 15+ years after the change occurred!?
Wild.
September 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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It's distressing to me that when I saw this meme moments ago, all I could think about was that it was perfect #a2council Pause the Plan content.
August 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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💖💖💖
The Goldenboy cels in my kitchen will be easier to (legally) explain to guests now.
August 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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#a2council We won
August 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Here's the next resolution that I want to see #a2council pass to influence the development of the Comp Plan.

TBH it's the only one they ever should have brought up for a vote.
Whereas current residential zoning originated in classism & racism & neighborhood context is therefore the context of classism & racism. Whereas that is terrible regardless of how comfortable homeowners currently might feel in their neighborhoods. Resolved: we are going to change residential zoning. A lot.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Vote Yes on A&B, #a2council
The pic here is of the library at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Libraries are awesome, so let's make sure Ann Arbor can have an awesome building downtown to house its awesomeness.
August 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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#a2council I voted YES on A&B today because: duh.

But you know what?

Just prior to my arrival a NO campaigner was caught walking around INSIDE the Westgate polling place w/ a yard sign!

These jerks are so upset by the idea of having a parking lot replaced that they're literally breaking the law.
August 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM