To every American city with a housing crisis: Austin’s success can be your success! YIMBY policies ✅Strengthen city budgets ✅Uplift local economies ✅Build community resilience All it takes is political leadership & listening to groups like @aura-atx.org

OMG - this right up there with “AI will 5x your matketcap”

Lots of good tips here - even a few new to me!

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

Can confirm: people love tulips! 🌷 we encourage passing kids to pluck one and take home… wapo.st/3PcDYwe

This is Amy Madigan and Ed Harris refusing to applaud Elia Kazan's honorary Oscar in 1999. During the Blacklist Era, Kazan named names. Good on Amy and Ed.

Over 400 women have been arrested since they overturned Roe v Wade— yet not a SINGLE man has been arrested for raping children with Epstein.

Every time I drop my kid at her Jewish school greeted by armed guards, while contemplating how similarly situated guards prevented casualties in Temple Israel, and think of the 11 annoying Jewish boomers murdered in Pittsburgh, I'll mutter "antisemitism is not a meaningful problem in the US"

Three people killed by drivers this week in NYC. If this had happened on the subway we wouldn’t stop talking about the DaNgER

We forced Mayor Muriel Bowser to release a long-delayed report on road pricing: ggwash.org/view/102681/... > Impt topic, but story also reflects crucial importance of strong urbanist organizations like @ggwash at the local level with the capacity to pursue difficult work over multi-year timespans.

Evergreen

Based on past experience, here's what the good people of Chevy Chase will say: "Since I'm not personally racist, I shouldn't have to support any redress here." And then scanning forward add, "I prefer to sustain surface parking lots next to the Metro because anything else will be...'Anacostia'..." 😖

An analysis of over 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada found that 87% of conspiratorial claims come from just 100 influencers. This minority of users impacts politics, influencing what people view as normal and leads to self-censoring to avoid attacks from conspiracy theorists.

One thing I feel ought to be discussed more is the fact that basically all rural and suburban places in the US are subsidized by cities. They resent cities. They insult cities. They elect politicians who abuse cities. But none of them could survive without cities.

When feeling threatened politically, Trump’s instincts take him back to the only professional success he ever had: The Apprentice. Create drama, center himself as arbitrary decider, and then declare resolution and move on to the next episode. Gift link: www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Enterprise technology

A traffic violence story doesn't get more American than this. A man whose wife was killed crossing the street advocated for a signal and was later killed at the same intersection himself. Neighbors have been asking for a traffic signal there for 40(!) years.

Maryland people: advocate for a walker/biker path on the Bay Bridge! Cross the Bay Bridge on Two Wheels or Two Feet ujoin.co/campaigns/42...

Classic WSJ headline in the same vein as "Nuclear War: What's the Impact on the Bond Markets?" www.wsj.com/world/child-...

We live in a world in which its entirely possible that Iran negotiations failed because people involved bet the under.

Detailed local example of what could become a much bigger talking point for the pro-housing / #YIMBY community nationally: pre-empting school closure pressure by enabling higher enrollments via more housing... triangleblogblog.com/2026/02/26/b... via @triangleblogblog.bsky.social

Hurrah! Will you be going?

“Mister President I am doing a racism in public so you will pardon me.”

Great addition to suite of pro-housing levers proposed in Annapolis: Maryland should allow homes in commercial districts: ggwash.org/view/102510/... via @ggwash.org by @justupthepike.bsky.social

“the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

Great survey of housing landscape thru the lens of a single project by @hanlon.bsky.social of @cayimby.bsky.social WaPo gift link here: wapo.st/4qSfVjk

The clear winner of today’s @cayimby.bsky.social gubernatorial forum was the YIMBY movement itself. That every major candidate showed up, cited a lack of supply as the primary driver of the housing crisis, & offered actual policy solutions is a true testament of how strong the movement has become.

fact check: while the president is allowed to destroy the moral character and social fabric of the county, the supreme court has ruled that he is not allowed to destroy its economy

Pretty bad look when a centuries old hereditary monarchy is more accountable than rich people here!

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

Who would have said that in the year 2026 the WSJ has some of the best reporting on the inner workings of this administration? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trumpism as modern pogrom

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

Like his Confederate forebears, Ted Cruz talked a big game, started a fight, got absolutely dog walked, then cried about how unfair it all was. A story in four images.

After paying $40M for the Melania movie, Bezos is firing hundreds of Washington Post reporters who tell us actual facts. All while turning the editorial board into a billionaire-defense operation. Too often, the billionaires who control our biggest media outlets are selling out our country.

1/ An authoritarian government begins rounding up people it sees as targets, using a rapidly expanded paramilitary force known for brutal tactics. Because of a lack of detention spaces, it warehouses people in requisitioned facilities. The year is 1933, the place is Germany. ⬇️

Watching these Grammys, you have to wonder if perhaps the Silicon Valley bros made a classic VC mistake and went all-in on reactionary politics right before the bottom dropped out.

I grew up with Alex Pretti www.theverge.com/policy/86856... < Quick read yet really powerful

This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked. The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.

“The left is getting paid to protest”

The Economist coverage is grim but this is exactly how it should be reported. economist.com/united-state...

The fundamental problem with American politics is that conservatives believe that they should govern for conservatives and liberals believe they should govern for both liberals and conservatives.

Can we please, finally, dispense with the term “working class,” and worse, “working class whites?” Yes there are economic classes in America but the days of a huge chunk of our (male) citizens marching off to the steel mill are long, long gone.

If you write about welfare fraud and mention Minnesota and Somalis without mentioning Louisiana and Brett Farve you are only concerned about welfare fraud as a weapon against Democrats and non-whites www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Makes me wish I could root for the Vikings in the NFL playoffs 😂

The conservative rhetoric around protecting women makes more sense once you understand that victims exist purely as a hypothetical for them. Once a victim actually claims the label, they become a threat. This is also why they prefer dead women to living victims.