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Proud Baltimore resident, abundant housing and multimodal enthusiast. Gentrifier.

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chatham harrison is tending a new garden's avatar chatham harrison is tending a new garden @chathamharrison.bsky.social
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As always, it's instructive that in the postwar reconstruction we provided our constitutional structure to zero (0) defeated foes

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Ah yes, thank you. Had a hard time mentally processing the data over the axes. In any event I’m not sure what issue would motivate low propensity Trump voters to turn out in 2024 in record numbers.

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Alex Cruikshanks's avatar Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social
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Every day proves Thaddeus Stevens right: there should've been big Nuremberg-style public trials of leading Confederates, accompanied by seizures of the assets of all pro-Confederate large landowners and businessmen, which should then have been distributed to freed slaves as compensation.

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This poll has 50% of respondents that selected Trump saying they did not vote in 2020. I wonder how many of them don’t plan to vote in 2024 either.

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I agree Hillary would’ve beaten Biden, but I’ve heard a persuasive argument that a Clinton-Biden primary face off would’ve took the oxygen out of the Bernie candidacy and probably let Clinton come into the general in a stronger position.

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Can someone link me a short YouTube that will help me understand this reference?

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I love his capitalization style.

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Ali Trotta's avatar Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social
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The kindest people have often known the most heartache. Kindness is not a weakness. It takes a strong heart to keep steady. Time and again, I have seen the beauty in it. The power in it. There is something holy about it.

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I need Bluesky bookmarks for posts like this…

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Your choice to live somewhere lame or somewhere with trains.

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This kind of argument is not compatible with her contention that CP is merely paused. I’m genuinely confused by her communications.

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It’s too bad the Camden Line MARC isn’t useable, it would make it much easier to get out of the city from that area.

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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"wellactually I'm a grocery store manager and CP would save us a FORTUNE" A pro-congestion-pricing dispatch from Manhattan's Community Board 6 (Murray Hill, Gramercy, Stuy Town)

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Ha!! I wonder if he’ll try to make an appearance at Baltimore Pride.

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Thank you. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills consuming political commentary these past few years.

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Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
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This is great news. The HPV vaccine is cutting cases of cervical cancer by 90%.

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He also attempted to veto abortion legislation in Maryland and withheld funds appropriated by the General assembly for training more abortion providers to address the expected surge of women coming to Maryland as neighboring states restricted abortion. He failed on this issue when he was Governor.

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Interesting, thanks for that background.

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Does she have the ability to preclude county prosecutors from pursuing cases?

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Dave Levitan's avatar Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social
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As a Baltimore resident… holy shit

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Chuck Todd of all people acting as the moral compass of the national media.

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Seth Masket's avatar Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social
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Is the 22nd amendment self-executing, or does Congress now have to affirmatively state who has served in the White House for two terms and may not serve a third?

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Jackson 🥥🌴🏳️‍🌈's avatar Jackson 🥥🌴🏳️‍🌈 @nihilscio.bsky.social
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The 2024 election is unusual: it offers us a choice between two recent presidents. We know exactly how each of them will govern, because we've already seen them do it. So let's compare. There are 209 weeks in a presidential term. There are currently 329 days until the 2024 election. Let’s do this.

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Adam Serwer's avatar Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social
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Kind of fun that after all this talk of democracy the justices basically amended the constitution by judicial fiat

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In the abstract sports arena sounds bad, but then when I think about the neighborhoods within a 15 minute walk of Camden Yards or M&T Bank, they seem like pretty nice places to live.

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Never seen it take 40 minutes to get the next bus 🤷‍♂️

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The only MTA bus line I’ll stake plans on is the Red.

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I can’t believe that was 8 years ago… my how time has flown.

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John Brown stan account's avatar John Brown stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social
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Look, I don't like Nikki Haley and definitely won't vote for her over Biden. But if her winning the primary means a much higher chance of Biden losing, I'd still take it, because she's not going to try to abolish democracy.

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So much so there is a specific word for it, sequelae.

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I prefer “leading McCain running mate”

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Also a Daphne! Proud of this newfound identity…

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Aww! I’ve never watched Frasier but my test results make me want to. How nice and affirming 🥰

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Yeah, I should’ve put “gaffes” in quotes. When he became the nominee, there was an article about their awareness of how Trump owns news cycles and their plans to counter it, and I thought Biden style gaffes were gonna be a huge part of that. I was disappointed 😔

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Whenever people talk about Biden‘s gaffes, all I can think about is when he said the Obama administration supported gay marriage. Can we do a list of best Biden gaffes for funsies?

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I dream of having a bike highway I can use to ride to work in the county on my ebike at 28mph. (Barring doing the sensible thing of relocating major employment centers back into urban cores)

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Meh, I got them down to $4/mo and they’ve got the best elections results displays.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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[suits up, double checks vitals, closes eyes, punches the discourse button, WHOOSH] better than any nirvana record

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The capital was a mess, they had been up all night certifying the election, and the city was still filled with violent insurrections as they rushed to bring in the national guard and re establish security.

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Idk, this way lets you sort the date just by sorting the numbers ascending/descending.

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