This is true. In part, people have no sense of the scale of building needed, so it needs to be constantly put in front of them. In Albany, there was a short stretch of building 1,000 units or so a year, and there are Council members who point to it as "letting building happen failed to reduce rent."

I look forward to the horror movie some thoughtful director makes based on Kurt Weiss Greenhouses or the J-1 visa program generally. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/n...

Good God, I didn't realize he got this wrecked in the interview.

Honestly, being left behind after the Rapture might be pretty good. A labor shortage to work through, which might lead to some supply chain issues in many industries. But might actually be able to return a variety of rights back to people. Likely some wage growth.

I am also 40 and so cheer for Joe Flacco in solidarity. I have become that kind of old guy.

Chotiner: You say here that you're a board game enthusiast. Me: Yes, I love playing all board games Chotiner: But there are several games here still in their cellophane. Me: Well, you see... Chotiner: And you say here that you care about waste and the environment. Me: Now, hold on...

The way you know social media has cooked so many brains in the media and political establishment is that the NYTimes *hard news* section has had wall to wall coverage of Kirk's murder, Democrats are worried about the campaign messaging, and if you ask any normie not online, they're like, "Who?"

It feels to me like cinemas *want* to go out of business. I want to see Caught Stealing. It's been out for like two and a half weeks. I finally have an evening to go see a movie. The run for Caught Stealing is ALREADY down to single matinee showings at all the theaters near me.

I’m in the new issue of @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social with a piece about what Albany can learn from Sacramento when it comes to housing policy: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/cal...

Frum, Rove, and Carlson all showing more courage in their convictions about the 1st amendment and honest assessments of the Kirk murder than many Democratic electeds and liberal pundits is not something I expected, if I'm being honest.

So much theory about institutional design to generate a robust, sustainable democracy and sets of democratic institutions has gone up in smoke in 8 months of this regime. Legal theory too.

"Dear Dr. Holt, Welcome to the manuscript central system for..." No. Nonononono, dear God, no "Dear Dr. Holt, I would like to invite you to review..."

I want to see some enterprising journalist out there do a deep dive into the convenience fees that are being tacked onto online payments of civil fines and fees (like paying parking tickets or property taxes online). It strikes me that the implication is the default is inconvenience in compliance.

Turning Point USA was the precursor to Chris Rufo. It was the playbook for right wing censorship of college professors through the use of monitoring as a means to encourage threats of violence. The conservative state governments cracking down on campus speech? Turning Point laid that ground work.

I don't think a lot of people realize or know people who were on the receiving end of death threats for over a decade because of Turning Point USA. They made a watch list of professors that made them targets for not only hate mail but death threats. That's Charlie Kirk's legacy.

I do find it troubling that political violence is escalating. I find it abhorrent that the shooting occurred on a university campus, a place that should be safe.

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously

Congestion pricing reduces traffic, deaths & delays while boosting transit ridership & funding. ODOT ignored global best practices and let politics derail good policy: instead of a tight pilot, they designed it fund highway expansions. Oregon looks idiotic. www.masstransitmag.com/management/n...

I honestly find Kyrsten Sinema one of the more contemptible people in politics. She had, in some ways, more power to affect change in the world than most people will ever experience and used that unique opportunity to secure some niche tax carve outs for the finance industry and little else.

Some folks may know that my day job is in federal grant funding for public health research at UMN. I am so proud that my colleagues and I launched our union campaign with SEIU 284 today because university worker stability is public health stability too!

I think this research is especially important right now as myths about contraceptives are running rampant IN THE US. Hormonal contraceptives have no long-term negative impacts on fertility. When we told women in Zambia that, they used them more! Fears of side effects are real AND we can dispel them!

"What's your job? Trauma warrior?" Great line. Love you, DC.

Half-baked notion, so caveats. But if LLMs are basically trained on our collective work without permission or consent and then used to routinize much of that work, a large share of the capital gains should go to a national fund dividend, analogous to the Alaska Fund, that pays us all.

Hopefully this becomes all blue state governors' tactic in countering the federal mess.

Good God, what did I just read? If you ever wonder about how we ended up in this state of the world, it's that we have somehow produced a generation of elites who are largely self-absorbed sociopaths stewing in their own echo social media echo chambers with no one willing to tell them no.

First thing that popped into my head was these little guys.

Bears fans have arrived on Bluesky.

Imagine coming home and pulling in and you see your neighbor setting up their stylized gun hoarding post for Instagram in their driveway.

We've reached the point where a chain of mediocre diners changing its logo sustained outrage and national attention on par with children being shot in a church.

Modern politics is right wing parties saying “We have summoned The Shadow Lord from the realm of eternal screaming, he shall lay waste to this wretched earth” while sensible centrists say “We’re going to lose the next election if the left keeps moaning about The Shadow Lord.”

Medicaid work requirements are back — and mandatory. The last time states tried this, even the ones trying to make it work saw thousands lose coverage. New Hampshire’s experience is a warning. My new article for @donmoyn.bsky.social "Can We Still Govern?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-can-b...

I think the drivers of this are media connected public intellectuals with regular exposure to humanities professors and conflate them with "Democratic establishment" and Republican comms people who see this as a useful wedge discourse. And they just kind of wind each other up with stories.

checking in on this it is interesting to me that the handful of examples people have — a handful weighed against hundreds of thousands of words of communication — are three to five years old and come from budget documents or t-shirts or people who aren’t even in office anymore

A great loss and damage to our country. I want the people at the Department of Education and IES to know that what they did was important. It mattered. And we are impoverished as a country by the injustice of their firing. share.google/1ASV0ZLtrCVV...

Killing Eve.* *To be clear, I love everything but the ending because I love watching Jodie Comer, but every season was progressively not as good as the first.

This is because the administration knows if they lose power now, there will one day be accountability for their crimes. They hope to cling to power long enough to rewrite the country enough to lock in their crimes and ill-gotten games. It's for shame that they have so many willing enablers.

The National Mall is where, every year, tens of thousands of literal children arrive as part of a school field trip to the capital and its many museums, and these guys are like, "I need soldiers here with me to feel safe."

I love you DC ❤️❤️❤️

The funniest part of this entire thing is that they were like, "what's a nonchalant behavior that normal people do that wouldn't rouse suspicion? Oh, I know, hand already opened individual size bags of chips to people they don't know at meetings!" Are they Sims?!

One of the more revealing things to me has been just how many people paid to professionally use their brains for work - not dig ditches, not stand over a hot fryer all day, but just think and write - immediately found a million ways to rationalize not doing even that anymore.

Honestly, the Rockies players' reactions here just make this somehow more sad than joyous for them. That is a group of men just going *through* it together in a way that completely smothers all joy. You can feel the "when's my next appointment with my therapist again?" through the screen.

One of the aspects of aging that I did not appreciate is something akin to the time dilation of your sense of your life and its events. I often catch myself describing something from a period of my life to someone and saying "a few years ago" only to later realize it was actually like 12 years ago.

Should still be an Oriole. Also, nothing makes me chuckle than the hopeless little trot to the wall an outfielder makes after a ball has been so obviously crushed out of the park.

Just feel like more people should know the exact building in which Stephen Miller resides. Especially any disgruntled civil servants arbitrarily and illegally fired who might want to have some words with him.

This is our national shame. That women cannot safely access the health care they need when they need it anywhere in the country they happen to be is a fucking embarrassment to all of America. I'm ashamed.

Texas is killing women apple.news/Ar4R4ruBOT8K...

It fills me with fury what southern Republicans are doing to DC.

"Direct government support to people does not lead to laziness or dependence — it creates growth, reduces poverty and gives people the security to take risks and build better lives."

Yeah, not all neighborhoods in NW are the same and Columbia Heights is definitely not going to stand for this strongman bullshit. Always lots and lots of people around there too, which is worth noting because eyes on the streets also protects against crimes committed by people in uniforms.