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@glassbro.bsky.social

hardcore, Godless social Dumocrat. Dayjob: posting Czar for the State of NJ pls don't get me fired

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Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 14h ago

All of you should let your mayors and councilmembers know that if your city does not embrace pro-housing reforms then it is very likely leaving federal grant money on the table. www.pew.org/en/research-...

The Success of the New Federal Housing Law Now Rests on States and Localities

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, enacted on July 11, represents the first comprehensive federal law in decades designed to increase homebuilding. The bipartisan package contains more than 50 prov...

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Roosevelt Institute@rooseveltinstitute.org · 14h ago

For decades, productivity has risen while wage growth for most workers has lagged behind. Join us tomorrow at 3 PM ET for a conversation with @arindube.bsky.social on The Wage Standard, his new book on how we got here and how we can reset the labor market in workers' favor. ⬇️ Register below!

Roosevelt Institute Book Club presents: The Wage Standard by Arindrajit Dube

Join us on August 6th in conversation with Arindrajit Dube to learn how corporations have set this “wage standard” and what it will take to reset the labor market toward a new, worker-focused one.

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Parking Reform Network@parkingreform.org · yesterday

Parking reform wins because people organize. PRN helps local advocates, planners, and reformers make the case, connect with each other, and push for better policy. If you believe cities should have better parking rules, become a PRN member. Help build the movement. Become a member today.

PRN helps people make better places. Image is of a group of people safely crossing the street.
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2d ago

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d ago

This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve

Community Engagement and Public Safety: Evidence from Crime Enforcement Targeting Immigrantst By FELIPE GONÇALVES, ELISA JÁCOME, AND EMILY WEISBURST* We study the role of victim reporting in the production of public safety. We examine the Secure Communities program, a crime-reduction policy that involved police in detecting unauthorized immigrants and increased deportation fears in immigrant communities. We find that the policy reduced the likelihood that Hispanic victims report crimes to police and increased offending against Hispanics. The number of reported crimes is unchanged, masking these opposing effects. We show that reduced reporting drives the offending increase and provide the first elasticity of offending to victim reporting in the liter-ature, calculating that a 10 percent decline in reporting increases offending by 7.9 percent. (JEL J15, K37, K42)
Sam@samd.bsky.social · 3d ago

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering

These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races

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Monorail Maoist@awildschild.bsky.social · 4d ago

This was still in my head so I had to draw it out to see what it looked like as one system, but here is the Other South Jersey bus network the SJTA runs It actually doesn't have the worst frequencies, I think only the Vineland-Atlantic City route had just one round trip

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Philadelphia Inquirer@inquirer.com · last wk.

SJ Connects is slated to launch a free shuttle bus in Burlington County in September. It will concentrate on places close to Philadelphia and Camden such as Moorestown but connect to a larger system.

Glassbro@glassbro.bsky.social · 6d ago

Having a kid is cool but waiting for the Explanations of Benefits to drop is like Xmas. Rushing downstairs, opening them up, seeing if the hospital got me any surprise out-of-network charges.

Glassbro@glassbro.bsky.social · 6d ago

Kinda sad that there's a centralized system for my car's repair records but no such thing for medical records in the US. France, Germany, Japan, etc have it.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last wk.

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

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Colleen Wilson@colleenonthescene.bsky.social · last wk.

“I’ll be damned if I’m paying the State of New Jersey again, I paid it six years ago.” NJ e-bike riders livid over double sales taxing from MVC, which is now offering refunds. More on that, other issues coming up at MVC and more unanswered questions. [new post with corrected link]

Did you pay sales tax again at MVC for your e-bike? Apply for a refund

New Jersey's new e-bike law is in full effect, but questions about its implementation continue unabated as lawmakers decline comment.

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Glassbro@glassbro.bsky.social · last wk.

Some of these parenting books are psychotic. The book for 123 Magic, the discipline system that has high quality evidence behind it, defines "liking your kid" as "if you get a night to yourself without your kid, then all of a sudden that plan is canceled, you are glad." I wouldn't be enraged but

Glassbro@glassbro.bsky.social · 2w ago

Also, it's funny that the generics don't get locked up. I was in Manhattan & LIC CVSes & Tylenol was locked up but not acetaminophen. Maybe lockups are net positive if they encourage people to buy the same crap for lower cost.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2w ago

"We may think companies are immoral, but that’s because we assume they are coldly dedicated to their bottom line, not making billion dollar decisions based on something someone sent them on Facebook."