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Mike English

@mocomikee

Downtown Silver Spring Maryland resident and housing advocate. Trans Rights. Liberal. YIMBY. Supply, Stability, Subsidy. Autistic and it’s fine, views my own. he/him

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This is so freaking wholesome

11.03.2026 00:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ahhhhhh❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️.

You’re welcome and I’m sorry and thank you

10.03.2026 23:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you!

10.03.2026 20:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

FYI, please consider helping if you are in a position to do so

10.03.2026 10:41 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Can you help? Mont. Co. animal shelter is so full they may have to euthanize dogs The Montgomery County Animal Shelter has reached a dangerously full capacity for their dog population, and the situation is so dire that the shelter may be forced to euthanize dogs for the first time ...

MoCo’s animal shelter is at critical capacity and urgently needs adopters and foster families. If you find a lost pet, Animal Services can provide supplies and support while locating the owner—please avoid bringing animals to the shelter if possible. 🐾
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/c...

09.03.2026 14:03 👍 10 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1

I’ll consider this a friendly amendment

09.03.2026 11:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh it has the right to exist, it would just be better if it didn’t, but fair enough

09.03.2026 11:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Agreed all around, motivated reasoning is a hell of a drug basically

09.03.2026 11:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There is at the very least a lot of overlap

09.03.2026 11:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Blarg

09.03.2026 11:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m not being flip or cute when I say they should not exist, they are a federation of civic associations, a hydra of groups who exist to empower their wealthier and more incumbent than average membership through oppression LARPing and the idea that someone else should do something first

09.03.2026 10:57 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Belated half to quarter-assed alt text bsky.app/profile/moco...

09.03.2026 10:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

didn’t alt text in the original post, the MCCF was all “we need to work on the perception that people wrongly think we’re against inclusion” and I shared my friend @justupthepike.bsky.social calling them out for saying lower income, more diverse communities should serve as a housing test ground

09.03.2026 10:51 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Since they are once again doing exclusionary housing takes clad in the idea of them being the little guy, reminding people about this from the Montgomery County Civic Federation (which should not exist)

09.03.2026 10:47 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2

Los Angeles landlord Twitter is crashing out as they realize that YIMBYs are supporting Nithya Raman because we want to end the housing shortage and that we don’t really care about protecting incumbent landlords’ profit margins.

08.03.2026 18:37 👍 553 🔁 53 💬 17 📌 5

We should build new homes for middle class people in American cities.

08.03.2026 22:53 👍 117 🔁 9 💬 7 📌 0

The most well meaning of cis allies, myself included, can struggle to truly understand what it’s like to be something other than that, and I think it leads us to try to see reason in opposition rooted in fear when it comes to kids or “just sports” which I bring up to say, please read this

08.03.2026 17:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The reason I fight so hard for trans kids is because I was a trans kid myself. I knew who I was in the year 2000, 12 years old, behind my computer, using the name Erin. I wanted puberty blockers so badly. My body shifted and changed in horrifying ways that I suffered for 15 years over.

08.03.2026 16:45 👍 3126 🔁 436 💬 47 📌 27

Very much so

07.03.2026 21:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yuuuup

07.03.2026 17:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fun fact, someone in my condo building once sent a reply to the google group about a proposed apartment high rise across the street saying they were worried that it would, and I quote “lower property values *and* gentrify the neighborhood”

07.03.2026 14:03 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

everyone on nextdoor knows that new apartments are overcrowded vacant luxury slums

06.03.2026 15:41 👍 44 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0
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This is actually an interesting research question: when apartments are allowed, do they bring in richer or poorer residents?

05.03.2026 20:09 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 3
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Joe Rogan calls trans people "f**king perverts" & blames them for school shootings - LGBTQ Nation He's the world's most popular podcaster.

Remember how Joe Rogan was "just asking questions" about trans women and sports and didn't have a problem with trans people otherwise?

He's now a full on anti-trans genocidal fascist.

There is a reason you hold the line at sports.

06.03.2026 19:04 👍 1555 🔁 408 💬 43 📌 57
JACK
FOR
NEW YORK
Jack Schlossberg @JBKSchlossberg
x.com
Today is the official launch of the FIX IT NOW petition.
I'll be going across the city in a petition drive to make public housing safer, cleaner and stronger.
SAY NO TO THE DEMOLITION - The Elliot Chelsea +
Fulton Houses are in my neighborhood - repairs, not the wrecking ball !!

JACK FOR NEW YORK Jack Schlossberg @JBKSchlossberg x.com Today is the official launch of the FIX IT NOW petition. I'll be going across the city in a petition drive to make public housing safer, cleaner and stronger. SAY NO TO THE DEMOLITION - The Elliot Chelsea + Fulton Houses are in my neighborhood - repairs, not the wrecking ball !!

Jack Schlossberg is now going full NIMBY and fighting against a plan to rebuild a dilapidated NYCHA campus with even more affordable housing and guaranteed brand new homes for every current NYCHA tenant.

What a joke this guy is

06.03.2026 19:44 👍 229 🔁 21 💬 11 📌 10

Yeah darkness that way lies (lays?)

04.03.2026 12:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh even I have never posted there I’m not *that* dumb

04.03.2026 12:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Story of my life

04.03.2026 11:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A DC Urban Moms (and Dads) forum post reading “dog poop everywhere, courtesy of the YIMBYs” and “This is why people don't want missing middle coming to their neighborhood. High density = low class.” before linking to a Reddit post

A DC Urban Moms (and Dads) forum post reading “dog poop everywhere, courtesy of the YIMBYs” and “This is why people don't want missing middle coming to their neighborhood. High density = low class.” before linking to a Reddit post

Part of a reply that reads “There is literally no evidence the people who don't pick up their poop are living in missing middle housing. None whatsoever.”

Part of a reply that reads “There is literally no evidence the people who don't pick up their poop are living in missing middle housing. None whatsoever.”

The movement has grown more powerful than I dared to imagine, with command over both man *and* beast (no that’s not me in the replies)

04.03.2026 11:50 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
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N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

The New York attorney general's office has ordered NYU Langone to resume gender affirming care for trans youth due to violating New York Human Rights law.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

Bypass here.

archive.ph/4NboB

03.03.2026 02:13 👍 2113 🔁 520 💬 16 📌 40