The traitors should take a good look at Trump’s regime right now and ask themselves if they’re really willing to bet their names, their fortunes, and their lives on that regime lasting forever

Anyhoo, here's a paper about "the centrality of housing concerns in facilitating the Holocaust and the complicity of individuals in the exclusion of Jews for economic, ideological, and geographic reasons." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

Knowingly, provably dishonest. I have seen Vance praising Austin & Texas for housing affordability before; he knows damn well housing supply is the solution, not ethnic cleansing. But he likes ethnic cleansing, so he lies. They all do. Because they are liars and their father is the father of lies.

Board from this TXDOT multimodal transit plan event in Cherrywood, sketching our implementation steps One of the “priority steps” is identifying options to increase funding flexibility for transit projects, would be pretty cool if TXDOT asked the leg not to renew the Prop 7 restrictions! 🤞

Fucking ridiculous to make profs play mother may I with some Republican commissar

Austin folks, we need to make sure this doesn’t slip away from us when the 2027 code cycle rolls around I will be periodically banging this drum and Austin WILL be getting 8-story single-stair 😤

Just checked our marketplace health insurance renewal. It'll be $30k in premiums with a $16k deductible. 🫠

A lot of people helped out with this! Thank you: @alonlevy.bsky.social, @eensari.bsky.social, @chittimarco.bsky.social, @27a01.bsky.social, @seung.bsky.social, @4freedoms.es, @borners.bsky.social, @reinventalbany.bsky.social

We dropped a new report re: train operations, everyone’s favorite topic. There’s some backstory that we will get too. But, the basic takeaway is modern train systems have moved away from two-person train ops. New York should, too! transitcosts.com/Train_Operat...

This one's for the peds! Austin Transportation & Public Works is turning the old section of Red River alongside Waterloo Park into a new public plaza made for people, not cars 👌 Submit your feedback for the visioning phase before 12/1 to influence the plaza design: speakupaustin.org/PikePowersPlaza

Fantastic update from Dallas and great news for their voters - November elections are a big step forward for local participation & representation! Special thanks to @nathanjohnsontx.bsky.social & @rafaelanchia.bsky.social who championed this change at the #txlege.

They’re saying syllabic poetry is in right now, they’re saying counting in public is actually so brave open.substack.com/pub/thisfain...

If NIST and HUD were properly funded, they would rebuild the drainage testing tower that they removed several decades ago, and build it as a single stack with clear drainage piping - then invite AHJs, plumbing code TC members, engineers, plumbers, architects, ect to see for themselves.

We are SO excited about TxDOT's multimodal plan! Read on for more information and please fill out the survey to show your support for multimodal transportation in Texas! surveymonkey.com/r/F6RQFQN

This is what's happening in Austin. Doesn't help folks w/ leases locked in, but supply expansion has mitigated what were for a while outlandish and untenable rent hikes. Real estate folks are calling it "oversupply," but IRL it's a much-needed correction following an extreme, unsustainable shortage.

But seriously, Austin Planning Commission had a Pickle Ball zoning case last year!! With >competing< sound studies! and we took over an hour to discuss!!

Near the end of the vote to reopen the government Jeanne Shaheen and John Thune shook hands.

This is an actual publication of the American Planning Association and not something he made up by the way www.planning.org/zoningpracti...

Add a new name to the list of House Democrats calling for Schumer to resign: Rep. Veronica Escobar tells @axios.com he "should not" remain as leader. She joins: Glenn Ivey Ro Khanna Delia Ramirez Seth Moulton Shri Thanedar Rashida Tlaib Mike Levin www.axios.com/2025/11/10/s...

Do not ask them for their lives Or for their tinny, tepid voice Do not lay hard demands on them And never press them with a choice Give them only weightless burdens, Then brace them gently as you pass— For the frames are slight and dainty On our dear ruling, rotting class

It's the only reasonable opinion for any patriotic American

Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.

Was off by 1, I expected Peters instead of Rosen because he was retiring, not sure what her reasoning was—she did not vote to fund the government in March even though Cortez-Masto, the other Nevada senator, did

Peters held the line, so it actually came down to Rosen voting yes

Surrender complete, they have 60 votes

Jacky Rosen voted aye

So assuming Fetterman is not visited tonight by an angel of the Lord, it all comes down to Peters

CCM and Shaheen just voted yes

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

Thr only thing Durbin ever did for me was talk about my mom dying of cancer when he argued for the ACA. This undoes that legacy. Good riddance to the coward and he cant be gone soon enough.

durbin voted yes

No. 3 Senate Dem Klobuchar is a no on funding deal

Vote update: The #Senate is currently voting on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to to H.R. 5371, Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026, upon reconsideration.

Warner breaks with Kaine on funding vote, though he praises RIF prohibitions "I want nothing more than to reopen the government ... “But I cannot support a deal that still leaves millions of Americans wondering how they are going to pay for their health care

Guessing the faithless eight will be Shaheen, King, Peters, Fetterman, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Hassan, and Kaine. Kaine sounds like he was the marginal vote that flipped after the RIF deal.

What's in the Continuing Resolution/ Minibus deal for the Legislative branch? I crunched the numbers, read the bill, and analyzed the committee report. Here's a quick analysis--with the hope that 'quick' and 'analysis' is not an oxymoron. Key takeaway: it doesn't protect the power of the purse.

Official statement from @jamestalarico.bsky.social on shutdown negotiations

Text of the CR here. Negative implications galore. www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

The truly damning thing about a coward is you cannot trust him even in his flight, because you will never know the next thing he finds too fearsome for his pale and paltry heart that may send him fleeing off again in new directions

I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.

There is no positive benefit to the best growth of sports gambling. But there are nearly infinite downsides. Like, whatever your opinion of government regulation is, sports gambling has to fit within the world of acceptable subjects of regulation.

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This breaks some people’s brains. In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency. In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it. We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”

Hey Ken you wanna read number seven back to me

Remember Rev. David Black, the Chicago pastor who was shot in the head with pepper balls? If you haven't heard him speak yet, listen to this. To ICE: "You can repent"

The “too close to Milley” cudgel is one that Hegseth can wield against a huge proportion of senior Army officers, since so many worked for him at one time or another Here (first pic, no helmet) is Woke Pat Work on the hike in to the Turbine 33 crash site in the Korengal in 2005

Latest Army general to be jammed up over alleged wokeness is Pat Work, who led the Ranger company that fast-roped into the Korengal to recover the bodies during Operation Red Wings and was the 82nd brigade commander who dug ISIS out of Mosul

There are people genuinely interested in reforming housing, land use, transit, energy and other public service delivery, and then there are those interested in merely gesturing towards the former to legitimize a center right political project without much popular constituency.