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New Yorker, generalist, tinkerer, sailor, player of bass, product manager. [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@jpreardon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

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Latest posts by jpreardon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy on Bluesky

Original post on urbanists.social

Politically, it would take a progressive trifecta with a FDR/LBJ Congressional supermajority to pass nationally. We haven't seen that in 60 years.

Until that happens, states already have the ability to create universal health care systems under existing ACA law.

Instead of focusing on […]

01.11.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Important

19.10.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some of the most prominent "Young Republicans" are fascists and overt racists, with violent plans for people they despise.

And they're really unhappy that their group chat just leaked.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146

15.10.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Apple, Facebook, and Google are enemies of the open web, and they've shown it by removing apps or pages where people report sightings of Trump's ICE thugs.

The "Justice" Department can't (yet) force censorship of regular websites that don't break laws.

This is why we have to save the open web.

15.10.2025 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi (video) Notes from a Presidential "Roundtable"

https://snyder.substack.com/p/when-anti-antifa-means-pro-nazi-video

10.10.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]

06.09.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 501    πŸ” 651    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 6
Original post on mastodon.social

Please read Josh Marshall's take on the Trump regime's escalating attacks on freedom of speech -- Kimmel's removal only the latest but probably most extreme example.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few-thoughts-on-kimmelgeddon/sharetoken/9b9c2c6c-bc94-4280-a74f-6fc8e2158cf8

The most […]

19.09.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

You avoid including too many dependencies in your modern Web frameworks because they introduce a dangerous attack surface

I avoid including any dependencies at all because I never bothered to learn modern Web frameworks

We are not the same

17.09.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
Six color pride flag

Six color pride flag

The fascists want to label the pride flag as β€œdomestic terrorism”, so here is the pride flag.

17.09.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
September 15, 2025 Six years ago, on September 15, 2019, after about a six-week hiatus during the summer, I wrote a Facebook post that started:

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-15-2025

Heather Cox Richardson has been has been writing Letters from an American for 6 years. She does a wonderful job drawing connections between our past and present.

16.09.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins β€œJoseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

13.09.2025 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 13226    πŸ” 3986    πŸ’¬ 143    πŸ“Œ 167

In Trump America, Kennedy assassinates YOU.

25.08.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 756    πŸ” 165    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
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Orlando Citizens Defy DeSantis, Re-Color Pulse Memorial Sidewalk In Rainbow Colors Trump and DeSantis admins ordered rainbow crosswalks removed, and the Pulse Memorial crosswalk was among the first painted over. Now, citizens are fighting back.

1. Orlando citizens defied DeSantis and re-colored the rainbow crosswalk commemorating Pulse Nightclub victims.

The DeSantis admin had the memorial crosswalk painted over black during the cover of night.

Community members had it restored the very next day.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

22.08.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1814    πŸ” 511    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 42

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