James Hedrick (he/him)
Local housing and transit activist. Dad to Things 1, 2, & 3. He/him/his. Commissioner, Montgomery County Planning Board. Posts are my own and do not represent those of the MoCo Planning Board.
- As a native Texan, now happily ensconced in MD, can I just say, “You lost in Tarrant! County!?! You managed to make FORT WORTH reject you, you absolute maga weirdos. If y’all weren’t dedicated to killing nurses, moms, and making sure more kids died of measles, I’d almost be impressed.”
- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?
- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE
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- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.
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- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
- Good on them. Good to see clergy stand up for what their religions are supposed to represent.
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- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)Please! They’re finding that even though subclade K evades many immune defenses, hospitalizations among children especially are still mostly kids who weren’t vaccinated. theyre finding vaccination still slows community spread and is reducing illness severity. GET VACCINATED.
- Sources: Bari Weiss has privately been deeply frustrated by the negative reaction to her CBS tenure and has blamed subordinates for not stanching the criticism (New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.
- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)BREAKING: We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing People have had seizures. They passed out. “I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished www.propublica.org/article/vide...
- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.
- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.
- See? It’s not that hard to defend your constituents.
- Frey: "I think the initial impetus to come to MN was to arrest & deport a bunch of Somali people. They got here & realized the Somali people that would be deported are all citizens. Then they turned their ire toward our Latino community & others. These are communities that make Mpls a better place."
- Wow, a journalist went outside to see if it was raining.
- Counterpoint: do more of that until ICE rests in the graveyard of fascist history.
- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)Three year extension of ACA subsidies passes in the House
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- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)Utah commissioned it's department of health to do a systematic review of gender affirming care for trans youth. In a 1000 page plus report found it was beneficial and the evidence was substantial. The lawmakers rejected it anyways. www.deseret.com/politics/202...
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- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)This is how it's done. If incumbent Democrats won't do the job, their primary challengers can and will use this to make sure someone else does
- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)We have to impeach him.
- Counterpoint: not throwing Bush Jr. and his entire cabinet into the Hague where they belonged because he cleared the ground-level bar of acknowledging a historic moment before attempting to strip-mine social security and shovel money at ICE is how you stay on the road to our current MAGA insanity.
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- Well, he’s a serial liar and self-promoting fabulist, so…
- I’m a big fan on my e-bike. After a half-dozen or so knee surgeries, it helped me get back into riding. But the best part has been being able to bike with the kids (and use the bike for ‘Trunk or Treats.’
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- Any record released by this band. Thought I’ll admit End Hits isn’t my favorite.
- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
- I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
- DOGE was an abject failure, an utter pointless culmination of decades of lies about government and the civil service. Oh, and it was wildly corrupt as well.
- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.
- With apologies to @robertearlkeen1.bsky.social, Merry Christmas from the Family 🎄
- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)i think this is exactly right. she was hired to be a regime censor but that requires a bit of real skill and finesse to pull of successfully and she has neither.
- If I had a nickel for every Republican President that established a secret torture prison, I’d only have two nickels but it’s weird that it happened twice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
- The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
- Good.
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- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
- I wrote my undergraduate honors thesis on LBJ and his use of television advertising in his campaigns, which naturally led to a little familiarity with Goldwater. And yeah, Goldwater was a world-historically bad politician.
- Wrong. Cruel. And incredibly damn racist.
- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)Mick Foley has parted ways from the WWE because of their close ties with Trump.
- Sting Pain Index makes #17 on the Top 25 from @rosyoverdrive.com!Not bad for a dad-heavy punk(-ish) band conceived via Zoom call during COVID lockdowns.
- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)This morning the very evil President of the USA very predictably mocked the death of a good man. He did so to distract from his crimes, but also because he’s evil and can’t help rejoicing over the murder of his critics. Go ahead, Donold. Have your fun, when life is done, a nightmare waits for you.
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- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
- My dad rock band’s EP got reviewed recently. And they said some nice things! Also, a punk rock super group should absolutely consist of 5 people no one has ever heard of.
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- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
- World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black. www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
- Don’t threaten me with a good time.
- And the man who made the website that rejects my 4-figure grant reimbursement requests for student stipends and staff salary. A trillionaire made a cute little DOGE website called “Defend the Spend.” We’re trying to give construction skills and safety training to kids.
- 💯
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- Excited for this one. “Proud Mary” is a great track and on my playlist of ‘Covers that Stole the Song,’ along with Johnny Cash’s version of Hurt, Whiskey River by Willie Nelson, and Ring Them Bells by Sarah Jarosz. Tina Turner sings the hell out of this song.
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- A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.
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- This is systematic throughout the US Federalist system (multiple veto points, gridlock, etc), but our theoretical assumptions about how this works (eg, the Senate being the saucer that cools the hot tea of the populist House) just aren’t empirically true and are based on the writings of English 1/2
- Do you want another housing crash? Because that’s how you get another housing crash.
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- Reposted by James Hedrick (he/him)Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
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