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Alexander Dukes 🇺🇲 🇺🇦
@alxcharlesdukes
City planner, programmer, artist, lover & fighter. Candidate for most interesting man in the world. A communitarian, skeptical of capitalism, socialist curious.
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My latest for Strong Towns!
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Strong Towns
@StrongTowns
Many Americans see government as distant, dictatorial, and inflexible. But Strong Towns advocates know that the best decisions are made close to home, by the people they impact. @alxcharlesdukes discusses how to bring decision-making to the local level. bit.ly/3qv9N2Z
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈
@maxdubler
In addition to more housing, we also desperately need more commercial and industrial space so weird marginal businesses can find work spaces.
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Kaitlyn Greenidge
@surlybassey
All those arts spaces that used to exist bc they could afford the rent are gone or quickly disappearing. Like, I did kids’ theater in an abandoned middle school with a random lady who just loved theater. It wasn’t professionalized—it was just to express oneself…
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie
an incredibly clear glimpse clarence thomas’ character if you were unmoved by anita hill’s testimony
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Jay Willis
@jaywillis
Your periodic reminder that Clarence Thomas used to smear his own sister as a shiftless, welfare-dependent layabout in speeches to his Heritage Foundation pals, and when reporters tracked her down, his story turned out to be extremely fake greensboro.com/thomas-sister-
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Indeed. There are alot of fundamental problems that need to be solved in urban areas before suburban sprawl development can be completely replaced.
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samememe
@empathyhaver
Replying to @wanyeburkett
Can't help but feel like the stances of "you should be compelled to take public transportation whether you want to or not" and "you're not allowed to complain about anti-social behavior on public transportation" are going to prove pretty untenable
Alexander Dukes 🇺🇲 🇺🇦
@alxcharlesdukes
Dude. For the love of God. Do us all- including yourself, a favor: Just admit that you're either gay, or bi, and move forward in your life with truth. It's okay Steven. Dave Rubin is openy gay and is significantly happier than you appear to be. Please!
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Steven Crowder
@scrowder
Just a normal day at the office.
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These people are going to turn me into a Boomer in favor of work requirements if they aren't careful. If you got time to film that TikTok and complain about good free food, you got time to look for a damn job, buddy.
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pagliacci the hater 🌞
@Slatzism
being homeless and making a TikTok complaining that the charity meal you got wasn’t eco friendly and used out of season ingredients is absolutely insane
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@TheOmniZaddy
I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of the Supreme Court of the United States until we can figure out what is going on
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Two Supreme Court justices did not recuse themselves from cases that came before the court over the past decade involving a publishing company that’s paid them in lucrative book deals cnn.it/3NF3VBK
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...I don't believe the marine should have held the chokehold until Jordan passed out, but I don't think it's going to be possible legally to question the judgement of the witnesses, who all seem to describe the situation as "scary," and do not seem to disagree with the action...
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If Jordan said, "I'm not taking no for an answer," "I'm ready to go back to jail," and "I'll hurt anyone on this train," I don't believe there's a jury in this country that will convict the marine...
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TheRealBiffBifford 🇺🇸
@TBifford
[Justice or vigilantism?] A shocking video shows an NYC subway passenger putting an unhinged man in a deadly chokehold. Man dies. People would not have to be placed in this situation if NYPD/Adams could keep the citizens safe. IMHO 🔉
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Marxist777
@Marxist777
This is Jordan Neely. On Monday, he was lynched. On the NYC subway he started telling passengers that he was fed up being hungry, thirsty and having no place to rest. He began to shout in his frustration, and threw his jacket on the floor. An ex-marine then murdered him.🧵
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I have nothing in common with anything going on in this movie, but just the trailer is extremely triggering lol.
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philip lewis
@Phil_Lewis_
The trailer for “Bama Rush,” a documentary that follows the University of Alabama’s secretive sorority recruitment process, is out
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Alexander Dukes 🇺🇲 🇺🇦
@alxcharlesdukes
-Having more people makes socialism easier. -The US has some of the lowest effective tax rates in the developed world. -Socialism does not mean companies do not make profits, it means profits are balanced against social needs. -Point 4 is not indicative of anything.
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Dissproportionately
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Norway is often pointed to as a socialism success story. Some quick facts: —population of Norway is slightly less than Minnesota —Norway’s oil fund is ~$1.4 trillion —It’s invested in capitalist economies —Norway has more billionaires per capita than the US Thanks socialism?
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Yes. This NYC subway incident has really shown how fundamentally broken city vs suburban life is, and how much we'd have to change to fix the root problems. It's not just physical urbanism.
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David Atkins
@DavidOAtkins
Because we refuse to invest in real safety nets and social programs in America, we are stuck between "let vigilantes murder homeless people" far-right bloodthirst, and "being accosted by people having psychotic episodes is just a colorful part of normal city life" left anarchism.
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This.
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constans
@constans
This post hits on a good point while missing the point. Yes the upper middle class does not fight. That’s why they’re upper middle class. An asshole or nutcase screaming on the subway isn’t a threat. The UMC person doesn’t need to defend himself from someone just being an asshole
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈
@maxdubler
People throw the word "neoliberal" around a lot; but as
@thejeffbyrnes
notes, so-called "inclusionary zoning" is the perfect example of shifting the responsibility for what once was considered a core state function—building subsidized housing for poor people—onto market actors.
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Jeff Byrnes 🚰
@thejeffbyrnes
Replying to @Emilio__CA and @cayimby
The solution is to fund them via broad-based revenue, like taxes. I.e., social housing. IZ is neoliberalism: it makes the market-rate renters in just those newer buildings subsidize their immediate neighbors in the IZ homes, while everyone else pays nothing to support them.
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(((Matthew Lewis))) progressive federalism SOS
@mateosfo
Last spring, when Powell indicated his intention of destroying the US economy, he got some very pointed questions about his thinking. Lots of folks pointed out that housing was the largest component of increases in the CPI, and that the cause was a nationwide housing shortage.
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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes
Very cool for Jay Powell to hike us into a recession to just in time to give the Man Who Literally Tried to End the American Democratic Experiment a shot of getting back in office.
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Alexander Dukes 🇺🇲 🇺🇦
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This is yet another reason the federal govt should nationalize the railroad lines and upgrade the entire system to higher standards. The railroad companies would then bid for sheduling on the tracks, and public passenger use (Amtrak, Brightline, etc.) would be prioritized.
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Mike Imbesi
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Replying to @alanthefisher
You do realize that the reason that the freight railroads say you can’t run double stacks under catenary isn’t because it doesn’t fit in the open, it’s because maintaining the clearance from the wire to the train requires raising all the bridges and tunnels it passes under
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Darrell Owens
@IDoTheThinking
Something interesting here is the demonstration of how radicalism works. The constant consumption of riot porn on TV news and online during 2020 desensitized millions to violence. Its a big reason why Americans are now shooting each other at historically high rates.
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philip lewis
@Phil_Lewis_
A text message sent by Tucker Carlson that set off a panic at the highest levels of Fox: “Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously,” he wrote. “It’s not how white men fight." nytimes.com/2023/05/02/bus
A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?
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Alexander Dukes 🇺🇲 🇺🇦
@alxcharlesdukes
You are far more likely to accidentally kill yourself or someone you love with a gun in your house than someone committing a crime.
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John Collins
@Logically_JC
“Guns don’t kill people.” They said. kvue.com/article/news/l via @KVUE
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Alexander Dukes 🇺🇲 🇺🇦
@alxcharlesdukes
...As a civic planner, almost every part of my job can easily be replaced by AI. And I'm looking forward to it. Why? Because instead of- at absolute best, doing 5 projects a year, I'll be able to do 50. Munis will get MUCH more civic planning work done, and...
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Alexander Dukes 🇺🇲 🇺🇦
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The only part of the writer's strike I agree with the bosses on is allowing AI. People don't understand how AI is going to- in the long term, improve and democratize creativity. Yes there will be fewer writers on big projects. But there will be 100x more projects...
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