The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Zip-tying children was a trial run to see if we would accept seeing children as threats to be neutralized

"It creates perverse incentives for strategic deployment of identity, as when affluent white homeowners co-opt anti-gentrification arguments to oppose increasing the supply of housing in places like Chevy Chase, MD..." -- Yep... ggwash.org/view/101548/... > via @ggwash.org

When will Elon pay the tariffs on all his imported tweets?

They line up perfectly.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

In Montgomery County, some peoples’ kids are worth more than others’….

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

This practice was endorsed by a Supreme Court Justice. #KavanaughStop

the approval process for new housing is so complicated that DR Horton, one of the nation’s largest homebuilders, is using AI to speedread zoning codes—and beat others to development opportunities www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/d...

Trump's policies are inflicting so much harm even his allies can see it. Yet he's mostly doing exactly what he promised to. If they revolt over policy, they'll reveal they were fools to back him in the first place. They need a *moral* reason to abandon him. The Epstein files provide just that.

Imagine if media outlets wrote that someone who committed tax fraud "filed all forms" or "filed their taxes before the deadline".

Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them

This was beyond unsustainable even 10 years ago…

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Somewhere tonight, a national political correspondent is hoarding critical information to for yet-to-be announced book deal.

maybe JD Vance has never taken ibuprofen, assuming that pounding in his skull is just the normal consequence of attempting a thought at all

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

I’ve been watching with growing dismay a of witless ping-ping journalism in DC for some decades now, and only wish I had this sort of talent to expose it so thoroughly.

Same

Obviously she won't win, but you can safely predict that Stefanik's antisemitic conspiracy theories about "Soros" and "globalists" and aides/staffers of hers being in the youth GOP "I love Hitler"/"Throw them in the gas chambers" chat will get nowhere near the scrutiny Mamdani did.

Passing it on… read the thread.

A quirky Takoma Park needs quirky zoning: ggwash.org/view/101317/... great piece and would only add that several county neighborhoods qualify… Via @ericsaul.bsky.social and the indispensable @ggwash.org

Excellent dream

Somewhere the worst billionaire you know is writing a very long tweet thread about Israel and the mayoral election.

Scream it from the mountains: Lot size correlates INVERSELY with affordability. #housing #reform -> #lowers #housing #costs

Academics’ and planners’ single-minded focus on making *brand new* homes affordable to the poorest people has been a disaster for poor people’s’ ability to afford housing.

You can't make this up.

New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about. During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.

Happy Halloween from Waltham🫠

Trump Administration in One Headline. (h/t @ggwash.org excellent daily newsletter) Link to article: wtop.com/dc/2025/10/d...

Corporate media is in a bad place.

The actual WSJ opinion page is hilariously more in touch with reality

I've been looking to share an article like this for a loooong time. And here it is! via @mocomikee.bsky.social and @ggwash.org Who gets to say who gets to have a say?: ggwash.org/view/101232/...

No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do. Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

I like this framing: feels more relatable than "TOD." via @ggwash.org How corridor planning can provide the housing we need – and the walkable, transit-friendly communities people want: ggwash.org/view/101188/...

This Is Fascism

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector. Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

There is a massive problem across this country with adopting and normalizing right wing propaganda phrases

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

A sure sign of anti-bike concern trolling is an elected official who lives nowhere near the bike lane in question suddenly becoming *very* concerned about emergency response time, a thing she would never do if this were just normal bumper-to-bumper traffic on a street with no bike lane.

The President of the United States just stood before an audience of his top military brass and asked for their loyalty as he deploys troops against American citizens. Corporate Media: Are Dems being too combative by causing a government shutdown?

Among other things, it is insulting to ask Coates, an actual intellectual, to play the role of a politician—or, worse, of a consultant.

Nobody ever refers to a detached single family house with a garage and a yard as “luxury,” despite it being an order of magnitude more luxurious than ~98% of apartments.

Winner: best September skeet

American homeowners see themselves as a persecuted class despite the entire economy being built around subsidizing them.