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Autumn Florek
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Autumn Florek
@PlanningAutumn
Urbanist with a soft spot for legacy cities, maps, and housing. OCD survivor.
Connecticut, USA Katılım Kasım 2019
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We are throwing away a senate majority to appease the worst people who barely are in the coalition. A potential disaster of a result.
Political Polls@PpollingNumbers
New - Senate poll - Michigan 🔴 Rogers 45% 🔵 El-Sayed 40% 🔴 Rogers 43% 🔵 Mcmorrow 41% 🔴 Rogers 44% 🔵 Stevens 42% Glengariff #C - LV - 5/1
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@SeanTrende The GIS nerds are very excited to see hot spot analysis to go mainstream though.
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Spit balling here, but perhaps the genuinely socialist mayor sees potentially putting private grocery stores out of business as a feature rather than a bug.
Amanda Macias@amanda_m_macias
Mayor Mamdani's plan to open a city-run grocery store is facing pushback from East Harlem grocers, who say the area is already saturated. About 45 grocery stores are within a 35-minute walk of the proposed site.
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Hasan Piker says the designated terrorist organization Hamas is 1,000 times better than Israel.
His statement outraged many — who now just want to write him off. That's a mistake. He has a massive audience and is emerging as one of the major voices of his generation. Those of us who disagree owe him — and his audience — a real argument.
Here's mine … And my position doesn’t come from ignorance about oppression. For a big chunk of my life, I was a grassroots activist — because of the pain of my own people. During those years, I was lucky enough to learn from elders who had been in the Black Panther Party, in SNCC, in the ANC. These were people who had to choose whether to pick up the gun — and how to use it if they did.
They taught me this: even in armed struggle, there are principles. No women. No children. No rapes. No kidnapping. Mandela held that line. Amílcar Cabral held that line. You don't become what you're fighting.
Hamas fails that test. They are not fighting for MORE freedom for Palestinians. They're fighting for less. They want theocracy, not democracy. And their means? They don’t use principled armed struggle (hitting military targets). They use terrorism (targeting civilians).
The vast majority of Americans — including those who sympathize with the Palestinian cause — reject terror tactics. Reasonable people would agree on three principles: secure homelands for both peoples; no hatred for Jews or Muslims; and protection for all civilians. Hamas’ approach undermines all three.
That's the conversation Piker's audience deserves. Not name-calling.
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A few mins after I sent my latest newsletter on the lack of Dem reflection on rhetoric post WHCD shooting, behold! ->
(As I was saying ... )
Acyn@Acyn
Hakeem Jeffries responds to Karoline Leavitt: She wants to lecture us about civility? Get lost. Clean up your own house before you have anything to say to us.
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@rachaelmbade You've gotta be kidding me. Compare Dems electeds rhetoric to the typical Trump/GOP rhetoric.
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The Tolentino/Piker microlooting episode is a microcosm of a broader media problem where culture writers/editors get to do policy/politics takes but don't have any actual expertise on the topic
theargumentmag.com/p/the-new-york…
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Noteably, Spanberger is also getting hit hard by the right for what she's doing. And the attacks are working. Yet few on the "progressive" side show up to vociferously defend her. Rather, they attack her. What's the incentive structure being created for Democrats, here?
Tim@trouble_man90
Leftists hate that Spanberger is doing progressive things without bowing down at their feet. She doesn’t partake in their jargon or lingo, or perform progressivism the way they do. She’s passing progressive legislation and doing it while being a normie liberal and they don’t like it
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Who will the last person standing on Bluesky be?
Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz
I’m currently getting mass cancelled on Bluesky for simply being at the WHCD. You cannot make this up
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This "New York Times bestselling author" doesn't understand economics at all.
When David Austin Walsh or Jia Tolentino steals from Whole Foods, THEY ARE STEALING FROM WHOLE FOODS EMPLOYEES.
Lyz Lenz@lyzl
Writes about economics doesn’t understand price gouging and wage theft, incredible
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@lyzl This reflects incredibly badly upon you. Responses like yours leave me depressed about the state or progressive politics. Do better.
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Writes about economics doesn’t understand price gouging and wage theft, incredible
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
How the fuck does Whole Foods steal from you
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No country has produced heads of state with more raw sexual aura than American presidents
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So anyone who works for a company or has a belief system or supports an ideology Hasan Piker disagrees with can be murdered with impunity? All based on based on association or assumption? No due process? No questions asked?
This is disgusting, immoral and dangerous.
Pirate Wires@PirateWires
In a new NYT interview, Hasan Piker says that many “understand” Luigi Mangione killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson because Thompson himself was guilty of “social murder”
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This has become an increasingly common tactic.
A few years ago, once some universities started taking substantial disruptions seriously and escorting hecklers out of events, would-be hecklers got better at coordinating.
Instead of disrupting all at once and making removal easy, they began interrupting intermittently. Ann Coulter’s appearance at Cornell in 2022 was a good example.
This tactic puts administrators and security in a bind. Preemptively removing suspected hecklers before any substantial disruption occurs raises its own free speech and due process concerns.
The best response to coordinated, intermittent disruption is disciplinary charges for those involved. Due process must be afforded, of course. But behavior that gets rewarded gets repeated.
If no one is punished for shutting down speech on a college campus, it will continue.
Greg McNeal@GregoryMcNeal
I was the moderator for this discussion. The protests were planned days in advance and coordinated on Signal and Whatsapp. They started disrupting before the introductions were complete, they weren’t there to hear, listen, or question, they were there to disrupt in a coordinated manner.
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At some point in the last decade, a segment of the left decided that their moral indignation and policy purity meant that they could become assholes to basically everyone who wasn't already a convert and still (somehow?) achieve their political goals.
It remains mystifying.
Adam Kovacevich@adamkovac
It remains remarkable to me how uninterested the anti-corporate populists are in persuasion and broadening the appeal of their movement. Their standard reaction to any substantive criticism is name-calling and calling critics corrupt.
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Rod he made it illegal to broadcast his opponents. Peter Magyar made his first tv appearance this week.
Rod Dreher@roddreher
Oh, horseshit. Orban won four free elections in a row. He lost this one because the economy has been lousy for three years, & ppl wanted change. Fair play. It’s hard for globalists to understand, but it’s still democracy when ppl vote in ways you don’t like.
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@jmaxmann Being a soccer fan, I now see the error of my neoliberal ways and will become a Trotskyite.
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Right-wing commentators James Kunstler and Eric Metaxas suggest that Trump needs to declare a national emergency and outlaw the Democratic Party: "I think it would probably look something like a civil war." peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch…
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You’re not debating Hasan Piker: you’re doing a rally with him. That’s not listening to someone’s viewpoints; it’s endorsing them.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed@AbdulElSayed
Let’s talk about Hasan.
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As I have said - the dem staffer class has been completely poisoned by idiotic leftists. it's not as bad as on the right but it's quite bad and getting worse
and at least the far right republican staffers are smart enough to say this shit privately
SeanKitchen.bsky.social@pennslinger
Centrist Democrats: we need our own Hasan Piker or Joe Rogan so we can win over men. Also, centrist Democrats:
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