Lemme guess. Another HST quotation? A Clapton lyric?
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Lemme guess. Another HST quotation? A Clapton lyric?
The data—rage email, multiplied five times—points to one unstable, notoriously rage-filled man.
"As someone who works in and around it, trust me on this."
You can't make this stuff up.
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Holeee smokes
lol, that's wild
They point to uncontentious votes and high levels of CM policy alignment like an infant uses a pacifier--to self-soothe.
I told Vivienne and others in 2022 that they needed to self-reflect and re-calibrate around the fact that the city's demographics had probably become hostile to their NIMBY politics. But they don't want to grapple with that fact.
The people who invented this "machine politics" narrative--e.g., Vivienne Armentrout--did so to (a) delegitimize election results and (b) avoid reconsidering the assumption that their political ideas are, in fact, popular among A2 voters.
Controversial take: People who actually agree on a lot will tend to be represented by people who actually agree on a lot, and if that happens it's a not a symptom of a problem but a sign that the system is working well and producing policy results that accurately express voter preferences.
🧵 Living in Michigan, if a political issue seems frustratingly impossible to advance, you can almost always find the roots in policies motivated by racial and economic segregation. When you scrape back the "housing theory of everything" you find racism and classism under the hood.
Also, respectfully: I'm still not certain of your position on the Comp Plan. @awesomark.bsky.social asked whether you'd vote for it, if you were in office today. Seems like a reasonable Q. Would you?
I see Rep Rheingans is a co-sponsor on this bill. If passed, this would invalidate every minimum lot size in an R district in Ann Arbor.
Do you support the bill?
legislature.mi.gov/documents/20...
"Responsibly implement." "Largely support."
You don't have to answer my questions. I don't even live in your ward. But if you oppose parts of the Plan, and it seems clear that you do, it should be easy enough to identify for voters which parts of the Plan you oppose.
Your website does not identify any specific provisions of the Plan that you *do not* support, and no policy objective that you list is incompatible with fully implementing the Plan, as drafted.
Are you committing to fully implementing the Plan, if elected?
Which parts of the plan do you not support?
[staring directly at the Rabhi campaign]
bsky.app/profile/smad...
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2019: Elections have consequences.
2020-24: Elections are rigged.
2025: Elections are not a sufficient basis for legislative action.
2026: The next election will have consequences.
Are you suggesting that the Prop C/D organizers were probably not on the up and up?
Love your work, Ned!
IIRC, Jon Ossoff did “Epstein Class” first
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I grew up in a low-income, single-parent household, raised by a mother who spent much of her life working exhausting hours as a dry cleaner to keep us afloat. We lived in fear of homelessness, empty stomachs, and a lack of basic safety. 🧵
LGC's legacy will be the homes we never built, the neighbors we don't have, the extra commuters clogging and tearing up our roads, and the city services we can't fund.
What a waste.
Library Green's primary goal was stopping new housing construction in A2.
LGC fought the Core Spaces deal because that was housing.
LGC sat on its $ for years because building a park is not blocking housing.
LGC spent its $ in 2025 to fight the AADL project because that was also housing.
But behavior reveals priorities and purpose.
Why did LGC act with urgency to try to block new housing projects? Because that was its actual goal.
Why wasn't LGC good at raising park money or planning park projects? Because that was secondary, at best, to its actual goal.
This sort of bad faith is built into how LGC and a lot of anti-housing activist groups like LGC operate.
Pretextual, misleading, and/or euphemistic language--e.g., "Library Green Conservancy"--hide true organizational objectives like a suit of armor.
Several LGC board mbrs played key roles in the 2024 cmpn to regulate election finance in A2, arguing that "dark money" and "special interests" had too much pwer.
The next year: LGC illegally plowed its (charitably donated) reserves into a losing effort to stop the AADL's library project. #a2council