Raising Uptown
@raisinguptown.bsky.social
Urbanism, family life & raising independent, strong & free children
Advocates for a world improved via attention, community & effort
Advocates for a world improved via attention, community & effort
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I know optimism is premature. But ... I watched the Bad Bunny halftime show, starting in the sugar cane fields, moving to the city and success, the life, the vitality, the love, the inclusiveness. "Trump is going to lose," I told my wife. "He can't defeat that. He can't. It's impossible."
February 9, 2026 at 4:14 AM
I know optimism is premature. But ... I watched the Bad Bunny halftime show, starting in the sugar cane fields, moving to the city and success, the life, the vitality, the love, the inclusiveness. "Trump is going to lose," I told my wife. "He can't defeat that. He can't. It's impossible."
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Your Ring camera can scam passing dogs and compare them to databases of missing dogs and that’s heartwarming and there are absolutely no sinister implications that’s why the guy in the button-down and Dockers is soothing
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Your Ring camera can scam passing dogs and compare them to databases of missing dogs and that’s heartwarming and there are absolutely no sinister implications that’s why the guy in the button-down and Dockers is soothing
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
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“Mr. Beast Salesforce ad” - they’re calling it the least appealing phrase ever assembled in any language. They finally did it
February 9, 2026 at 2:32 AM
“Mr. Beast Salesforce ad” - they’re calling it the least appealing phrase ever assembled in any language. They finally did it
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This phrase is often repeated almost nebulously but what made me emotional about this is how Bad Bunny demonstrated the affection, solidarity and power of community at every angle of his elaborate set
He understood this moment is larger than him
He understood this moment is larger than him
Bad Bunny closed out his #SuperBowl performance with a billboard behind him saying:
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 AM
This phrase is often repeated almost nebulously but what made me emotional about this is how Bad Bunny demonstrated the affection, solidarity and power of community at every angle of his elaborate set
He understood this moment is larger than him
He understood this moment is larger than him
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Thomas Mann warned that fascism wasn’t just mob rage but a pact by elites intoxicated with myths of greatness, contempt for reason, and indifference to human suffering—and that same aestheticised, fact-free politics is once again being sold as strength.
Thomas Mann and the Temptations of Fascism
The resurgence of right-wing populism has set the table for the far right’s renewed fortunes. Published in 1947, Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus offers a guide to the mythmaking and rejection of reason t...
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February 8, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Thomas Mann warned that fascism wasn’t just mob rage but a pact by elites intoxicated with myths of greatness, contempt for reason, and indifference to human suffering—and that same aestheticised, fact-free politics is once again being sold as strength.
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Social media has upper class white people reinvent hood politics but in the most venal and anemic form imaginable because it’s literally for nothing but clout. It’s just slop for an algorithm, entirely dislocated in time and space from any material politics. Live Leak to be a knock off Mr. Beast.
Big weekend for Clavicular. His cortisol levels were spiked by foids while he was jestergooning and chadfishing in the club. And then he got ragebaited by the King of Scottsdale.
February 7, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Social media has upper class white people reinvent hood politics but in the most venal and anemic form imaginable because it’s literally for nothing but clout. It’s just slop for an algorithm, entirely dislocated in time and space from any material politics. Live Leak to be a knock off Mr. Beast.
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production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
February 7, 2026 at 12:40 AM
production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
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Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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*International cooperation is collapsing in favor of great power rivalry
*Actual fascism no longer lives on the political margins
*Transphobia has been made an article of political faith
And yet, raising a kid amid this is galvanizing in a good way for me, because it's a bulwark against giving up.
*Actual fascism no longer lives on the political margins
*Transphobia has been made an article of political faith
And yet, raising a kid amid this is galvanizing in a good way for me, because it's a bulwark against giving up.
February 6, 2026 at 12:26 PM
*International cooperation is collapsing in favor of great power rivalry
*Actual fascism no longer lives on the political margins
*Transphobia has been made an article of political faith
And yet, raising a kid amid this is galvanizing in a good way for me, because it's a bulwark against giving up.
*Actual fascism no longer lives on the political margins
*Transphobia has been made an article of political faith
And yet, raising a kid amid this is galvanizing in a good way for me, because it's a bulwark against giving up.
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What is so striking about tech billionaires like Musk and Bezos is that there is nothing there, no class, no grace, no humour, no empathy, no style, no wit, no depth, no charm. Empty avatars of materialist greed and techno-capitalist authoritarianism devoid of all meaning.
February 5, 2026 at 9:57 AM
What is so striking about tech billionaires like Musk and Bezos is that there is nothing there, no class, no grace, no humour, no empathy, no style, no wit, no depth, no charm. Empty avatars of materialist greed and techno-capitalist authoritarianism devoid of all meaning.
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One thing the Epstein stuff has made clear yet again is that awful men believe that all men are awful.
February 5, 2026 at 8:05 PM
One thing the Epstein stuff has made clear yet again is that awful men believe that all men are awful.
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In a sane world, the decision by Rufo, Vance, & co. to slander and slap a target on the traumatized, hardworking immigrants who revitalized a rust belt city -- and who *were invited* to that city -- would be a stain on their careers that they never live down.
They should be reminded of it. Often.
They should be reminded of it. Often.
MAGA is a movement of America haters who despise this country and are conspiring to destroy it
February 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM
In a sane world, the decision by Rufo, Vance, & co. to slander and slap a target on the traumatized, hardworking immigrants who revitalized a rust belt city -- and who *were invited* to that city -- would be a stain on their careers that they never live down.
They should be reminded of it. Often.
They should be reminded of it. Often.
The rural economy is in desperate need of structural reform
The level of problem solving, collaboration & innovation needed are far beyond the capabilities of the corrupt/incompetent/degenerate elite
The level of problem solving, collaboration & innovation needed are far beyond the capabilities of the corrupt/incompetent/degenerate elite
February 4, 2026 at 1:45 PM
The rural economy is in desperate need of structural reform
The level of problem solving, collaboration & innovation needed are far beyond the capabilities of the corrupt/incompetent/degenerate elite
The level of problem solving, collaboration & innovation needed are far beyond the capabilities of the corrupt/incompetent/degenerate elite
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[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:
February 2, 2026 at 10:23 PM
[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:
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This is a great example of what Marx called "the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour."
Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."
February 3, 2026 at 5:46 PM
This is a great example of what Marx called "the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour."
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Not even remotely appropriate for a law enforcement officer. Maybe for a terrorist.
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 4, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Not even remotely appropriate for a law enforcement officer. Maybe for a terrorist.
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I have a theory for another way you could do it that doesn’t require sneering social engineering imposed on working and middle class americans
Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."
February 3, 2026 at 1:24 PM
I have a theory for another way you could do it that doesn’t require sneering social engineering imposed on working and middle class americans
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"I'm hoping your viewers are so ignorant that I can spin an utterly routine pattern that happens for extremely well understood demographic reasons as evidence of imaginary fraud."
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Rs to "nationalize" elections: "We had 3 Republicans who were ahead on election day in last cycle & every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove it? No"
February 3, 2026 at 8:38 PM
"I'm hoping your viewers are so ignorant that I can spin an utterly routine pattern that happens for extremely well understood demographic reasons as evidence of imaginary fraud."
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I guess if you’re Josh Hawley and you’re the kind of person who flees in terror from a riot you started the courage of ordinary people must seem befuddling
February 3, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I guess if you’re Josh Hawley and you’re the kind of person who flees in terror from a riot you started the courage of ordinary people must seem befuddling
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as someone who worked in rural health policy, this is not a real thing. this is actually called giving up on rural america after your party broke everything and can’t put it back together. perfect time to exploit people with scams
Dr Oz on rural healthcare: "There's no question about it, whether you want it or not -- the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars"
February 3, 2026 at 5:22 AM
as someone who worked in rural health policy, this is not a real thing. this is actually called giving up on rural america after your party broke everything and can’t put it back together. perfect time to exploit people with scams
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Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
February 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
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I'm used to having to convince coastal types that there are people out there who genuinely believe in libertarian and traditionalist principles (rather than as laundry for regular bigotry). rarely, however, do you see those types publicly confronted with how little company they actually have
February 2, 2026 at 2:35 AM
I'm used to having to convince coastal types that there are people out there who genuinely believe in libertarian and traditionalist principles (rather than as laundry for regular bigotry). rarely, however, do you see those types publicly confronted with how little company they actually have
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The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.
Elon Musk claims Christopher Nolan has lost ‘integrity’ over The Odyssey casting
Lupita Nyong’o is reportedly set to play Helen of Troy in Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of Homer’s epic poem
www.independent.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 12:59 PM
The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.