Modern apartments have lower fire death rates than houses. Yet codes require fourplexes to install commercial sprinklers, build dual staircases, and hire architects—while similar-sized single-family houses are exempt. These costs block building smaller apartment buildings.

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

A general contractor in Tennessee is behind bars for texting his crew that ICE was on-site so they could get to safety. Just trying to build homes in a housing shortage. www.wbir.com/article/news...

There are so many more deaths caused by ICE and DHS than you hear about

Please note this is only the deaths we have been told about - and does not include however many people have died in overseas gulags.

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

It took me 5m to call 2 senators & leave a voicemail saying they should oppose any bill that would appropriate money for the extrajudicial killing of Americans (this appropriations bill is like a week away fyi)

Mark Pocan's office number: (608) 258-9800 Tammy Baldwin's office number: (202) 224-5653 Ron Johnson's office number: 202-224-5323

In all seriousness, sheriffs in dem states should consider deputizing, training, and arming people now to increase their numbers and make sure that local laws (like murder) are enforced. The fact that federal agents outnumber local police allows them to intimidate them, making obstruction easier.

Christ the video of that killing is horrifying. But what happens in it is also far worse than calling it a shooting gets across. It is an execution. There’s a single unjustifiable shot and then a decision to just fire several more rounds into a prone victim.

NMHC on Apartments: "Lower rent growth and higher vacancies" in Q4 calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/nmhc-on-ap...

Good recap about the Pauls' sophistry, but fails to mention the most important part: Soglin revealed that he spends his time getting mad at Reddit comments

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

30 minutes into Shorewood Hills Board meeting: one trustee (Falk) has already said he isn't running again because the public is uncivil and focused on conspiracy theories; a very white public speaker invoked MLK in her quest to prevent someone from building a single-family home on an empty lot.

@cayimby.bsky.social What came out of CA's Single-Exit Stair Work Group? I saw that they had to submit findings by Jan 1. WI is considering a similar bill (creating a cmtee) and I want to encourage the legislature to instead just make the change rather than spending years studying it.

My neighborhood paper complaining about bungalows in 1927 📸 Ridge Historical Society, Weekly Review Collection

Time for Madison Common Council. Public speaker supporting moratorium on new data centers in Madison, notes how good the ice boating is here, says "We don't want Elon Musk controlling robots in our houses, and the one he's got right now looks like the Terminator." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbHq...

It turns out he is indeed running for office

Protest against ICE and the Murder of Renee Good tomorrow at 5PM

Madison Plan Commission started tonight with approval of shorter (5ft) rear setbacks for properties mixed-use, employment, and downtown zoning districts near the capital city trail. Staff hopes this allows for more activation of trail space. madison.legistar.com/LegislationD...

a zee-shaped 13-plex single stair (3 stories + penthouse) w/ just 6 plumbing drops. @pipedreaming.bsky.social @stephenjacobsmith.com homes from 1- to 4-bedrooms. every home w/ private outdoor space. daylight on 2 or 3 sides passivhaus + 2000W society www.swiss-architects.com/de/zach-and-...

Madison Plan Commission is tonight! Quite the agenda. Two big apartment buildings and some Housing Forward ordinances changes in TODs. - 4 unit buildings - close the drive-through loophole - ban stand alone parking lot\car-wash\car sales-rentals - Some zoning changes around the city in TOD.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Mark your calendars for Madison Housing Week! Lots of interesting topics, and there is still time to submit your designs to the ADU competition. madisonhousingweek.com

I can't believe this is how I find out Kai Ryssdal is on Bluesky

At Madison Plan Commission tonight, they are revising the changes to the city tree protection ordinance from 5 ft for all trees to 1f/inch tree diameter. bsky.app/profile/ther...

A monadnock is just a monoidnock in the category of endofunctors.

1."Potentially controversial": Door County is overrated.

Tonight at Madison Plan Commission, several new apartment buildings with 290 units were approved on the consent agenda: At 709 Northport 2 buildings adjacent to a church (lot was recently split), At 2222 City View several buildings of various sizes.

My friend who runs a restaurant in Austin sent me this video of the ads that are playing on Pandora Spanish radio stations. Every commercial kitchen in America is hearing this. Straight out of a dystopian horror film.

Tonight is Madison Plan Commission. The most controversial issue tonight a 93 unit apartment/mixed use building in a commercial district at 4506 Verona Rd. Staff have expressed concerns in its report that this location is general commercial in comp plan, may be inconsistent with residential.

It's pathetic to pretend like these people are being prosecuted or intimidated when they're really just unpopular and keep losing elections

I have heard similar stories from people in Madison (not as bad), but what I as a policy maker need is an understanding of what factors are within my control and what's outside of it. Which parts of our RFP process/funding process are going to cause issues? If

We must destroy the internet

very weird thing happening with Grok on Twitter/X lol Elon Musk's AI chatbot can't stop talking about South Africa and is replying to completely unrelated tweets on there about "white genocide" and "kill the boer"

This seems to have only been a “protest” in the sense that he appeared personally to conduct an inspection, was denied entry & refused to accept that, which is why members of Congress came, because they can’t be lawfully turned away. This wasn’t Laura Loomer handcuffing herself to Twitter HQ.

~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline. That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production. Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.

She unexpectedly won her re-election after suspending her campaign. Today, @dinaninaxo.bsky.social said she's made the decision to return as District 15 alder. It came with caveats. — for @wortnews.bsky.social www.wortfm.org/after-electi...

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

Musk: I mean, have you Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price.. What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like who derives joy from that?

NEW: The ACLU has filed a sworn declaration from a Venezuelan woman who ICE sought to turn over to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, who declares that "I heard two US government officials talking and they said 'there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.'"

This is literally slave labor. The US government is selling people who come here to seek refuge as slaves abroad.

They are Nazis. This is early-nazi regime activity

Shocked that Elon Musk's DOGE turned out to be racist

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

OK honest question what is the root of this? Is this just how you think on drugs?

When they're casting Reuters as far-left you know they've lost the thread

i know ppl here do not enjoy screenshots of X but this one is such a great encapsulation of what it's become