Andrew McKinstry-Wu

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Step 1: deliberately scare people with misinformation and lies about what a proposed policy or plan will do. Step2: wait for misinformed people to complain. Step 3: say that “clearly people are concerned,“ so we should “listen to the people“ and reject the plan. The Populist Playbook

Step 4: mainstream media “reports the controversy” rather than the fact it was manufactured, and the amplify the quotes of those who manufactured it.. Step5: other elected leaders who know the truth, still vote against the good plan or policy, because they’re too afraid of the “heat.“

Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?”

A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages.

It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning.

Since then, it’s only gotten worse.

Do the steps sound familiar?

All too familiar indeed.

i am levitating

I was told everyone was leaving.

@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
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(1/2) This court is a problem that won't go away. They'll block everything the next Dem president does.

Got to start talking about "court reform" now. "Republicans in robes", "corruption". Not "packing" or "expanding".

Start framing the discussion now.

We know that...

Neutral grey Pantone swatch with the caption, “Pantone's 2026 color of the year is historic and, technically, not a color at all - meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world's color authority.”

they should have a separate color of the year for people who haven’t lost the will to live

Reminder about Jan 6:

it really happened
It was a horror
140+ police were injured
A range of violent weapons were used by attackers
Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard
There was a gallows and guns
Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached

After spending his term pardoning corrupt conservative Republicans, Donald Trump has pardoned a corrupt conservative Democrat. Where was this bipartisanship from Obama and Biden?

Governor Shapiro Pulled Pennsylvania Out of Regional Carbon Market to Appease Republicans. Critics Say 'He Got Rolled' - Bucks County Beacon Some Democrats and environmental advocates argue that the governor has essentially given away the store.

Governor Shapiro Pulled Pennsylvania Out of Regional Carbon Market to Appease Republicans. Critics Say ‘He Got Rolled’ | Some Democrats and environmental advocates argue that the governor has essentially given away the store, reports @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social for @grist.org.

Gen z learning that republicans are anti-science bible thumping porn addicts

"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.

Okay bear with me. My amazing friend Robyn (@haykebyr.bsky.social) did this amazing image based on my stupid ass joke. It's Miss Piggy photoshopped into some Sister of Battle armour, with the white bob haircut and a fleur de lys tattoo on her cheek and everything. Except she's got pink satin gloves on. The caption is "In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future there is Only Moi" because that's the whole joke. Thank you.

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦

37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.

The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.

Torn between loving Mike calling Will a sorcerer for what it does for their arcs and also fucking hating it bc that wasn't a DnD class back then, and anyway, if we go by modern classes, El is the sorcerer. Will is a (non-consensual) warlock. #strangerthings

The X Effect and the dangers of social media bias Sky News' investigation The X Effect has exposed a right-wing bias in X's algorithm, which boosts extreme content over left-wing voices

Sky News' investigation The X Effect has exposed a right-wing bias in X's algorithm, which boosts extreme content over left-wing voices | Cliff Mitchell

Facebook served me up today‘s memory: a Penn professor trying, to the best of her abilities, bless her heart, to cancel me.

Looking back I should have gone hard right and made myself a professional cancel-culture-victim-grifter. It would have been lucrative and having standards is annoying.

#Montreal 's just leap-frogged other cities in North America by opening the REM.

Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (100 km/h plus). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)

And really fun to ride...

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Pennsylvania Senate Republicans’ Victory in Killing RGGI Is a Defeat for Working Families and Environmental Progress - Bucks County Beacon The state budget deal eliminated future participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a multi-state program that forces corporate polluters to pay for investments in renewable energy, and t...

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is a multi-state program that forces corporate polluters to pay for investments in renewable energy and is the best tool we had to lower energy prices and fight climate change.Yet Pennsylvania's GOP is celebrating killing it as part of the state budget deal.

WOWWWWW— that didn’t take long: “Crews walk out on on Nashville tunnel, claiming Musk’s Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA concerns”

As we suspected, that absurd not-a-town-hall with Steve Davis aged like guacamole 🥑 nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Georgia Public Libraries generate $3.75 return for every dollar invested, new study finds Georgia's public libraries generated $1.06 billion in services in fiscal year 2024, supporting 5,488 jobs and producing $3.75 of value per public dollar.

We need libraries for so many reasons.

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Rise and shine, Woody: Nova Scotians invited to wake up famous talking Christmas tree As Nova Scotians pack up their Halloween decorations, an icon of holiday cheer is preparing to awaken from his long slumber in front of a crowd of admirers.

Not a lot of people know this, but every year Nova Scotia draws one resident’s name to feed to Woody, keeping him appeased until he rises hungry and feral the following Christmas

We have forgotten what it's like to hold a child paralyzed with polio or comfort a mom who has lost her child from measles. It wasn’t that many generations ago. And I don‘t want to see us go backward. They protect our children. They are our best defense against these terrible illnesses.

Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
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If you are a Boomer that posts your two annual vacations a year, are frequently dining out with your wife every weekend, live in a town that has a full time fire department, frequently repaved roads, and get your streets plowed immediately every time it snows, then the democrats have not ruined NJ

It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.

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