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Just another lefty urbanist, not my professional account (do people have those here?) #NOLATwitter in exile Nerdy things I’ve made: https://plotofland.monumentlab.com/ https://www.papermonuments.org/ https://small.tulane.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04

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Adds popcorn to grocery list

05.03.2026 18:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Huge hugs back at you!!!

05.03.2026 15:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is perfect @juliocapojr.bsky.social ❤️

05.03.2026 15:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept.

Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.

05.03.2026 02:02 — 👍 2124    🔁 950    💬 28    📌 39
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

05.03.2026 07:15 — 👍 16142    🔁 5682    💬 499    📌 475

Google is pushing Gemini heavily in schools, btw

04.03.2026 19:28 — 👍 172    🔁 65    💬 2    📌 2
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Define “real people” though

04.03.2026 17:03 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

04.03.2026 04:49 — 👍 8281    🔁 2473    💬 98    📌 107
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Whitewashing Selma: The Trump Administration's Assault on Civil Rights Memory When Preserving the Past Becomes a Threat to Power

Of all the NPS sites that tagged interpretive materials as potentially problematic, the one that hits hardest is Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail. #NationalParks open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

04.03.2026 12:51 — 👍 28    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Oh hell yes

04.03.2026 04:20 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Bro, ICE is still here kidnapping people, now they’ve even got transit vans advertising fake companies.

04.03.2026 04:14 — 👍 2152    🔁 1113    💬 10    📌 10
A tweet from Eleanor Klibanoff saying, "The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily BLOCKED a Dallas judge’s order to keep the polls open til 9, ordering the county to separate out votes from people who were not in line at 7pm. 

Not a final ruling, but will create chaos in getting results from Dallas County"

A tweet from Eleanor Klibanoff saying, "The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily BLOCKED a Dallas judge’s order to keep the polls open til 9, ordering the county to separate out votes from people who were not in line at 7pm. Not a final ruling, but will create chaos in getting results from Dallas County"

Wow. If any races in Dallas County are super tight, this will be a huge legal fight as thousands of votes hang in purgatory.

04.03.2026 02:52 — 👍 931    🔁 294    💬 36    📌 61
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Trump's Wish to Nationalize Elections Is a ‘Terrible Idea,’ Mississippi Elections Chief Says President Donald Trump’s suggestion to nationalize elections is a “terrible idea,” Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson said.

Trump's call for Republicans to nationalize elections is "a terrible idea," says Mississippi's Republican Secretary of State, Michael Watson.

“The Constitution is pretty clear on the delineation of the powers there,” he said.

04.03.2026 00:05 — 👍 88    🔁 27    💬 5    📌 2

Truly doesn’t seem like it

03.03.2026 23:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“.. A handout picture released by the Iranian foreign media department of graves getting dug for the victims of a strike on an elementary school.”

@reuters.com

03.03.2026 23:14 — 👍 465    🔁 225    💬 22    📌 19
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Footage showed babies being evacuated from a hospital in Bushehr, Iran after the facility was damaged amid US-Israeli strikes. Staff and Iranian Red Crescent workers could be seen wheeling the infants needing specialised care from the neonatal unit to waiting ambulances.

03.03.2026 17:19 — 👍 273    🔁 162    💬 24    📌 18

Precisely

03.03.2026 15:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girls' school targeting likely ‘deliberate' Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.

Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.

03.03.2026 14:00 — 👍 204    🔁 133    💬 12    📌 29

Oh that’s terrible, I’m so sorry

03.03.2026 02:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Particularly children who were amongst some of the first casualties.

03.03.2026 01:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

tomorrow is with one of the biggest election days of the year. there's so much to go over it's hard to know where to start.

so, let me help:

here are the *10* elections i'm watching the most closely, *at the state and local level* (=no federal elections included!)

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02.03.2026 20:26 — 👍 1240    🔁 505    💬 6    📌 33

These motherfuckers deliberately target schools for violence HERE. I sure as shit believe they targeted schools elsewhere too.

02.03.2026 23:13 — 👍 2578    🔁 533    💬 87    📌 21

The fact that they didn’t pick Minneapolis hands-down tells me these dumbasses really ain’t about that life

02.03.2026 22:50 — 👍 44    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

@infinitescream.bsky.social

02.03.2026 23:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

JFC

02.03.2026 22:46 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Eeeeewwwwwwwwwww

02.03.2026 17:47 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

whiteness at work

02.03.2026 17:34 — 👍 321    🔁 78    💬 4    📌 0

I thought the rules were that you could only use Signal for planning war crimes and were required to add a reporter to the chat

02.03.2026 12:43 — 👍 68    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1
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The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali | Substack A political, cultural, and intellectual playground for the rest of us with writer Wajahat Ali. Click to read The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscr...

.@tparsi.bsky.social, one of the sharpest experts on Iran, will be joining me at 935 pm ET to discuss what will happen in the aftermath of Trump and Israel's disastrous decision to attack Iran.

Join us.

No paywalls.

thelefthook.substack.com

02.03.2026 02:27 — 👍 84    🔁 14    💬 5    📌 0