Andrew Blum

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Executive Director, Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego.

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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

Bike commuting is one of the few things that literally changed my life. I know it’s not an option for many, many people, but if you can do it, give it a go a couple times a week for a month.

What I've gained: - An appreciation for the bit of world I travel through - A loathing that so many others are forced to choose The Car - A respect for Nature. Thunderstorms especially! - A new sense of self. I know myself in a new and different way. Of how I move, of how I endure, of my limits

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Man i have been saying for a minute that voters everywhere are rejecting fascist shit and it’s only the media that makes us think otherwise, but it’s nice to see that in play right now

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So for all the narrative about the inevitable slide into anti-immigrant populism, four of Western Europe's five largest countries now have left or center left governments?

My spiciest opinion is no exception has ever proven the rule.

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And speaking of Baltimore, I'm sure my followers are waiting on pins and needles for my latest update on our astonishing fall in homicides. The wait is over! 😏

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We need to divide labor a bit. 1/2 of everyone making fun of the Cybertruck needs to start making fun of the Ineos Grenadier.

Girmay!!!!

The Venn diagram of posters who complain about cyclists breaking the law and posters who complain about cameras giving them a ticket when they break the law is a circle.

Reskeet with a Tweet you still think about.

Not going to lie, I don't love it when strangers grab my wheel to draft when I'm out riding by myself. But if you do do it, can you at least give me a "on your wheel." #bikesky

About to start a four-day weekend. Last to do item in the office deleting Bluesky off my phone. As The Menzingers sang, "America I love you but you're freaking me out."

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He's right. Even the post-convention theories they're floating here are very weak. But now? It's not even a question. Biden isn't the Democratic nominee and no state party has filed to put him on the ballot. The laws about the party filling a vacancy in the nomination later don't even apply yet.

Here @rickhasen.bsky.social calls bs. electionlawblog.org?p=144245&ref... But of course the fuckery is the point.

No, States Would Not Be Forced to Keep Biden on the Ballot If He's Not the Democratic Party's Nominee from the DNC #ELBelectionlawblog.org I have been seeing stories like this and this citing to a Heritage memo saying that in some states it would be hard for Democrats to list someone other than Biden on the ballot if Democrats nominate s...

Anyone have good veggie burger recipes to share? Some kind of black bean mushroom burger maybe. In the spirit of reciprocity, this kidney bean beet burger was really good: nutriciously.com/kidney-bean-...

Ultimate Kidney Bean Burger – Nutriciouslynutriciously.com The best easy & healthy vegan beetroot kidney bean burgers! Hearty, filling and packed with flavor, they are perfect for BBQs & meatless dinners.

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Hey, DC, if you see these middle and high school kids rolling through town today, give ‘em a cheer. They’re the BRAG Dream Team from Georgia, and are stopping here while they ride from *Miami to Maine*. #bikeDC

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ICYMI, I wrote about the terrible trap the Republicans have set up for this country. itself.blog/2024/07/02/w...

What do they think is going to happen?itself.blog A few years ago, I was part of an event commemorating Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom. Obviously, I was brought in to represent the "against" position (and you can read a version of my keynot...

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All the fantasy football scenarios in which Biden is replaced have ignored or hand-waved all the ballot access questions. Every hostile GOP state legislature is going to pounce on it with the rule book (real and imagined) in hand.

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I think it is wise and productive for people to take seriously the idea we are in a constitutional crisis in America. I don’t think it is wise or productive to assume what happens next is like what happens in semi consolidated or consolidated authoritarian systems.

I assume the next step here is the argument that for reasons the immunity extends to the entire administration. Corporations are people and the administration is the president.

I need to read more on legal systems in authoritarian states. I’ve seen them operate relatively up close in places like Sudan but never really understood their internal logic. They are obviously corrupt but there is also more nuance than “nothing matters except power.”

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In communities that have a violence problem, an exceedingly small number of individuals (often ~.1%) are responsible for the majority of the violence. The vast, vast majority of community members are peaceful and just want to live their lives.

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.

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the worst dudes online are the guys who are like “the time for electoral politics is over, it’s time for guillotines.” yeah bud i’m sure you’ll stop posting and get the ball rolling on the guillotines any minute now.

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Paysage vert, by Marc Chagall, 1975-78, 📸 by John MacDougall

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Every journalist in here should read the crucial work by @panievsky.bsky.social on the how liberal journos in backsliding democracies dig their own graves openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/31....

Even wilder how many of them dont realize (or dont care) that by declining to pick a side, they've picked the side opposed to democracy

City Research Online - Covering Populist Media Criticism: When Journalists' Professional Norms Turn Against Them openaccess.city.ac.uk

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Biden is unpopular because Americans are unhappy with economic/political conditions and they blame the sitting president for it, not because he's old, and any other Democrat would be saddled with the same issues

o well anyway

Just saw someone post in response to the critique that SCOTUS is making things up, “Everything humans do is made up bullshit.” Sure, and some of that made up bullshit massively increases human suffering and some reduces it.

Austria v. Turkey. A rivalry dating back to…