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Quite Linkly 2/22/25 - 2/28/25

Come for the links to stories about the rolling coup / collapse of the federal government, stay for links to stories about the media going the same way

Government Crisis https://www.disconnect.blog/p/how-elon-musk-plans-to-upend-nasa https://www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/rep-cliff-bentz-fields-questions-at-emotional-union-county-town-hall/article_5c6207c0-efe8-11ef-aa69-878a1d2e57d4.html https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/26/supreme-court-conservative-trump-agenda-00206066 Sign up to support purged federal workers:…

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Quite Linkly 2/15/25 - 2/21/25

America is really in the shit now and we're making it everyone's problem. But the pushback is growing.

Urbanism Please join bluesky if you’re not on already: https://www.planning.org/planning/2025/feb/what-makes-bluesky-the-new-it-space-for-urbanists/ Freedom to Move: Who Do Streets Serve When Cars Come Before Children? https://www.volts.wtf/p/what-yimbys-are-learning-from-their Government…

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Quite Linkly 2/8/25 - 2/14/25

This week in America: the madness of RFK, the ongoing constitutional crisis in DC, and NYC's Crime Mayor gets a piece of the action

Plague of Madness How to explain the weird ideas of RFK Jr. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/brian-wansink-cornell-p-hacking https://www.offmessage.net/p/does-rfk-even-lift-bro https://www.woodhullfoundation.org/fact-checked/super-bowl-and-sex-trafficking Constitutional…

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Quite Linkly 2/1/25 - 2/7/25

If you want to catch up on the constitutional crisis here's a ton of stories about it

Constitutional Crisis – purges, data theft and random Musk employees illegally taking over the federal payments processing system, oh…

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Quite Linkly Returns! Links 1/24/25 - 1/31/25

Articles I read this week I thought were worth sharing

Right Wing Madness https://prospect.org/politics/2025-01-24-nyc-maga-clubhouse-libertarians-left-in-the-cold/ Will the courts check Trump? Will Any Management Lawyers Stand Up to Trump? https://www.salon.com/2025/01/17/the-tech-billionaire-on-woke-is-really-targeting-workers/ Journalism For most of my time following politics Paul Krugman had the best takes that were allowed in the New York…

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Eric Adams: terrible

I’ve been reading this article about Eric Adams and it’s making my blood boil, so I thought I’d share some of the heat: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/03/11/eric-adams-nyc-mayor-profile-00016106 The contradictions of man are many, and Eric Adams has more than most. These mysteries of the self, whatever they might mean to the 8.8 million people of his city, however much they might…

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How seriously should we take potential war in Ukraine?

How seriously should we take potential war in Ukraine?

There’s a lot of talk right now about the volatile situation in Ukraine. The big reason to be optimistic is that nobody seems to really want a war. Russia doesn’t want to invade Ukraine, the West doesn’t want to fight Russia, Russia doesn’t want to fight the West. The big reason to be optimistic is that this is a classic WWI style escalating proxy war waiting to happen. Ukraine might well invade…

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Quite Linkly 12/13 - 12/19 2021

Quite Linkly 12/13 – 12/19 2021

NYC Get boosted! https://gothamist.com/news/omicron-surges-nyc-issue-1-million-masks-and-500k-home-tests https://rossbarkan.substack.com/p/pretending-problems-dont-exist-wont Adrienne Adams (no relation to our new mayor) seems to have sewn up the city council speakership:…

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Quite Linkly 12/6 - 12/12 2021

Quite Linkly 12/6 – 12/12 2021

NYC Carlina Rivera is the clear best choice:…

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Quite Linkly 11/29 - 12/5 2021

Quite Linkly 11/29 – 12/5 2021

Politics New York’s system for appointing judges is a corrupt machine politics dominated shitshow and produces the results you’d expect: https://vulgarmarxism.substack.com/p/jay-jacobs-and-the-nassau-gop-conspired We need to be ready to campaign to keep Hakeem Jeffries out of the Speaker of the House position after Pelosi retires. There’s a chance for a progressive to take power in the House…

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Quite Linkly 11/22 - 11/28 2021

Quite Linkly 11/22 – 11/28 2021

Labor https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/strike-wave https://inthesetimes.com/article/union-busters-starbucks-labor-buffalo Venezuela – big victory for Chavismo in Venezuela’s recent election, no serious claims of fraud, but of course the US government is still denying…

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Quite Linkly 11/15 - 11/21 2021

Quite Linkly 11/15 – 11/21 2021

Quiet week of links today, have a happy Thanksgiving! Monarchy is an abomination: https://jacobinmag.com/2021/11/princess-diana-kristen-stewart-british-royals-film https://www.pacificresearch.org/los-angeles-is-gearing-up-to-ban-wood-frame-construction-renters-will-soon-pay-the-price/ https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/4-major-plot-holes-in-the-organized Corporate diversity trainings are worse…

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Quite Linkly 11/8 - 11/14 2021

Quite Linkly 11/8 – 11/14 2021

Hopeful Developments Between the new nuclear renaissance and spectacular progress in renewable energy we are on the verge of a new golden age of cheap energy: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/business/rolls-royce-nuclear-power-uk.html The lesson from this year’s elections is that to bring people out in off-off-years (or any other time) you have to give them something to vote for, not just…

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Quite Linkly 11/1/21 - 11/7/21 2021

Quite Linkly 11/1/21 – 11/7/21 2021

NYC The war on cars continues! https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/downtown-brooklyn-is-going-car-free-102821 But the cars are fighting back: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2021/11/02/asking-for-a-friend-is-citi-bike-being-held-hostage-by-dot-fear-of-inconveniencing-drivers/ Fuck the NYPD: https://theappeal.org/nypd-special-victims-rape-investigation/ The second largest strike in America is…

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Quite Linkly 10/25 - 10/31 2021

Quite Linkly 10/25 – 10/31 2021

Labor – another big week for…

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Quite Linkly 10/18 - 10/24

Quite Linkly 10/18 – 10/24

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