When you're left-wing and want to exclude people, you call the people you dislike "transplants." When you're right-wing and want to exclude people, you call the people you dislike "illegals." They both want the same outcome The better solution: build more homes for everyone.

Where was the evidence that he had changed? He kept the fist sized totenkopf tattoo for eighteen years until the media made a stink about it, lied about not knowing what it meant, then got it covered up with symbols from Celtic and Norse mythology.

anyway

Ken Klippenstein should never live this down.

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

Less a chess move than the only rational response to all the very obvious signs of his poor judgment and low moral character. It's the behavior of Sanders, Warren, Gallego, the Pod Save Boys et al that has been truly remarkable (derogatory).

Since it apparently needs to be said: “Innocent until proven guilty” is the standard for convicting a person of criminal misconduct in a court of law and depriving them of liberty. It is perfectly reasonable for voters to have a different standard for electing someone to the US Senate.

He was always obviously lying about the tattoo.

The throughline from the totenkopf tattoo to the rape allegations is that antisemitism and masculine panic/misogyny are very often part of the same rancid package.

challenging to phrase this exactly right because it'd be in bad taste to use this as a gotcha against all his supporters, but the journalists who very explicitly framed Platner as a rejection of stuff like "HR Lady Politics" or (ugh) "smoothgroins" should take a long, hard, look in the mirror today

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

I think environmental protection laws should actually protect the environment instead of encouraging habitat-destroying urban sprawl.

Investing in some new cold weather clothing for the summer, as one does in San Francisco.

The Florida insurance market really feels like an undercovered story

Lovely sunset last night.

I live in the formerly middle class North of the Panhandle neighborhood of SF. Over the past 50 years, the only new housing that has been built in my neighborhood is rent-regulated Affordable Housing. Nearly every apartment is subject to rent control. These are the current rents and home prices.

A fantastic step forward for road safety.

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Walking into YIMBY town and straight FLEXING on the other housing nerds in these jeans. Credit: instagram user @mciveriv

Truly inspired bumper sticker choice on this Mazda CX-5.

not really fourth of july content but i found thus explanation of affordable housing financing in DC very informative.

These creeps don’t understand this country at all and they are going to lose.

Places and groups that vote for Democrats should be prioritized when Democrats are in power.

My personal introduction into NIMBYism was living in a DC suburb filled with “in this house, love means love” signs and then seeing the racist things people posted on the neighborhood list serve when they proposed multi-family housing on our side of Georgia Avenue.

also if we built many more big cities, the big cities we have would not be expensive anymore because it turns out that dense housing linked by mass transit is actually far cheaper and more efficient than suburban sprawl. it's just expensive now because there's a shortage of it

my dream america looks a lot like the "one billion americans" thing yglesias briefly pushed. vastly more people, with many more cities as big as new york and los angeles, all inked together by bullet trains

this will require blue america to let people build stuff instead of requiring a decade of studies and reports to put an apartment building in place of a Historic Parking Lot

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

I get why it rankles and we do own it on some level but the most straightforward path to defeat Nightmare America from within is a vision of America the Beautiful

Elon Musk and much of the Silicon Valley tech elite are rich because they were bright precocious young men who happened to have access to computers and the institutions and social networks to start companies before there was much competition. Every entrepreneur works hard. They just got very lucky.

Politics is not a TV show. It is real and it affects peoples lives.

So true! This is why the Urbanist Coalition put forward our proposal to rethink IZ in Portland, ME. www.urbanistportland.me/policy/a-bet...

Shout out to @cayimby.bsky.social for giving the entire staff the day off to mark this historic occasion.

Gay people how are we celebrating the Madonna album release tonight?

Day 2 of SB 79 and Santa Barbara has been completely transformed. Incredible work, everyone.

How did I not see the obvious before? NIMBYs accuse YIMBYs of being “neoliberals” because we understand that more housing supply lowers costs and want to alter regulations … but their obsession with requiring “affordable” units in every development is a classic neolib-Dem regulatory move

I agree that there is a serious conversation to be had about the institutional preference for achieving social goals in ways that don’t have a direct budgetary cost, even if the true costs are higher, and the benefits less, than with direct public spending.

Threads is the first social media platform where it is immediately obvious that the algorithm shows people things that will make them angry to boost engagement.

so these are cool but the answer is because it costs about five times as much as putting them on some dirt in the middle of nowhere, so they're not gonna be common

Modern Family started airing in September 2009, when gay marriage was legal in only 5 states. I would argue that it very much did have a profound cultural impact: normalizing American mainstream audiences to the idea of gay couples as cringe suburbanite parents.

Housing is expensive because we do not have enough homes. Affordable housing requirements in new buildings worsen this problem by raising the cost of development. This policy trades broad affordability for a handful of means-tested units for lottery winners. It is bad and we should stop doing it.

Requiring for-profit developers to rent a percentage of new homes to poor people at a loss is bad, kludgy neoliberal policy that attempts to outsource a key state function to private market actors. Instead of this de facto tax on new housing, the state should tax property to fund housing subsidies.

The hypocrisy and absurdity of living in an exurb of Tucson in the middle of the dessert and complaining about the environmental impacts of data centers and that there isn’t enough land to “sustain” people…

Tell me again how Democrats are the enemy and hate trans people as much as Republicans.

I am adamant that as a Californian in the Bay Area who lives on a peninsula with natural temperature regulation due to bodies of water - we need a hell of a lot more housing in my specific neighborhood because it is physically safer and healthier than inland housing and will become more so with time

Scenes from the Capitol today:

Housing policy is climate policy.

67 degrees in the Bay Area while much of the rest of the continental United States cooks in the heat. Another reason why we have a moral imperative to build millions of more homes here, and another reason why Bay Area NIMBYism is soft climate denialism.

Last year the California legislature passed Senate Bill 79, which legalized multifamily housing within a half mile of major public transit stops across California. This legislation was nearly a decade in the making. As of today, is officially active! Let the building begin!