May the gods help us if this guy is elected mayor. I say this as an atheist. There will be no one who can help us if this guy is elected mayor.

Adam Goodman@akgood.bsky.social · 3w ago

started / going #a2council

Wow this suuuuuuucks😢 How can she not have worked out some kind of reply to a question like this by now? Honestly it could be as simple as, "I will accept support from absolutely anyone because candidates need tons of money & other support to win elections now, & my goal is to win." But instead…

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3w ago

Cannot get over how electable just drifting away from a constituent who asked you a challenging question makes you.

Here's an example of a former #a2council member having a super normal reaction to news of crime being committed.

"Life can change just like that"... including changing from someone who can say this into the absolute piece of human garbage the Lindsey Graham just died as.

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · last mo.

Summer 2015. Several lifetimes ago. A different America. Lindsey Graham, running for president, says this about Joe Biden. The same summer he said Trump would “kill” the GOP with his hateful comments. Several lifetimes ago. A different America.

My contribution to this morning's impoliteposting about Lindsey Graham...

Jim Pyke@jimpyke.bsky.social · last mo.

...if so I just want to say: respect, because that is some serious sādhu level of devotion to trying to distract everyone from the Epstein files.

...if so I just want to say: respect, because that is some serious sādhu level of devotion to trying to distract everyone from the Epstein files.

The A2 Public Power "Candidate Scorecard" is out, #a2council I guess the "grade" is in the NRA style because it's basically a measure of how strongly each candidate appears to agree w/ A2P2's leadership. If a college instructor gave "grades" that looked this arbitrary they would be fired.

#a2council fact 1: change is inevitable fact 2: property owners are free to sell their property Those impacted by these 2 facts can choose from at least 2 options: 1. participate in helping the sale of a property result in beneficial change 2. angrily refuse to accept the veracity of facts 1 & 2

Happy Choose Day to You Enjoy

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If a politician says they support [x] we *must* ask: What specific policy measures in support of [x] will you put forward if elected? Also: How will you pay for that? If they don't answer with *specifics*, #a2council, then tell them – to their faces – you won't vote for them w/o hearing specifics.

Johnny Rose: Couldn't Be More Simple

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I was about to drop this as a comment elsewhere, but then remembered that it would just make the account owner & their followers angry... We could all benefit from improving our skills in the areas of setting/negotiating reasonable boundaries & respecting the reasonable boundaries that others set.

Always true.

#a2council The #1 take home message from tonight's League of Women Voters mayoral candidate forum.

Hey, #a2council, does anyone know if any of our local anti-change activists are playing the Summer Game? I can't help but wonder if they're writing any weird stuff on their game code yard signs.

Can't "duet" posts here, so the chaser is in the 1st reply...

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2mo ago

i think more than the fact of having bad opinions about gaza itself, looking at everything happening in the world right now and choosing "im gonna write an op-ed praising trump on gaza" as the thing you want to speak up about is insane.

When folks traffic in conspiracy theories it does these 2 bad things (among many other bad things): - it predisposes those folks to constantly assume the worst from the targets of their theories - it draws out the worst in other folks even less tethered to reality A tale in 2 #a2council mtg clips:

To all #a2council candidates who might read this… If you're already "really tired" of being asked policy-making questions months prior to even being elected to a policy-making position, maybe you shouldn't be vying for a seat at the policy-making table.

After more than a decade of waiting, I am now finally holding this in my hands!

Regarding mayoral candidate Rabhi's new Klein's Lot video... #a2council

#a2council, I never saw this infographic before today! Perhaps you will find it as interesting as I did.

"Blue Origin"? More like "Orange and Yellow Finale" amirite?

AZ Intel@azintel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BREAKING: Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up at Launch Complex-36 while attempting to static fire.

It's so sad that the mayor & #a2council are cutting down all the trees & eradicating all the green space in Ann Arbor.

Oh well. #a2council

The bad news from various fronts in academia appears to just keep on coming. 😞😞😞

Eike Exner@eikeexner.com · 3mo ago

A book on manga history that was so full of errors and false claims that I felt like I had to write a blog post about it to warn people got nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Academic Work. Truly post-truth society 🤷‍♂️ eikeexner.com/2025/11/26/n...

#a2council it's clear that to Rabhi public/private partnerships are (for brevity I'll say) "bad." That position is dumb. If what we want as progressives is to have more control over the bad behaviors of private economic entities, shouldn't we want to form partnerships — in order to get more control?

Emily Skinner as Diana: "I Thought It Was Pretty Obvious"

ALT: Emily Skinner as Diana: "I Thought It Was Pretty Obvious"

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WaPo editorial board (on behalf of their boss) to AOC: I know you are, but what am I?

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 3mo ago

The Washington Post is just so profoundly embarrassing now

Budget allocation in Ypsi APPROVED 👍 Now when do we get our unarmed response program here in Ann Arbor, #a2council? We're waiting… (We've *been* waiting for a while already.)

Ypsilanti City Council to vote on unarmed response program after delay

Ypsilanti City Council will vote May 5, 2026, on a resolution to create and fund an unarmed community responder program, after voting was delayed at the last meeting.

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This clip is good, the U of M's response was bad.

DB Maggi@dbmaggi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Prof. Derek Peterson, U of Michigan historian & MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, thanked “pro-Palestinian student activists” during a grad speech today, for “opening our hearts to the injustices and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.” His words, and the cheers that followed made my heart sing.

Substitute any minority identity for "trans" in Ms. Wu's formulation here, and any reasonable person would instantly recognize how horrifying her statement is. Self-loathing this extreme cries out for more time spent in medical treatment, not in more social media posting.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4mo ago

Brianna Wu advocates for the extermination of trans people by engaging in eugenicist selective abortions of fetuses determined to be trans.

Is the #a2council space here an appropriate one to discuss the past work of mayoral candidate Rabhi? I know he's worked in government for over a decade, but what I'm able to find online about his career reads like a resume & I'd like to see some information that feels less like self-promotion.

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Jealous of all the people who 5 years from now will be like, "I just found out what the site "Infowars" used to be like, OMG!"