We need to get real about where much needed transit operation funds is going to come from. From @adinalevin.bsky.social:

RFK Jr. poses a danger to the health and safety of all Americans. From cutting critical cancer research to spreading lies about Tylenol, it’s very clear RFK Jr. is not fit to serve. That’s why I’m drafting articles of impeachment to remove him from office.

(The Guardian) - Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank .. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

The political power of the oil and auto industries is a direct result of the demand for their products. The climate movement would get much more bang for their buck by advocating for dense land use and public transit investment. Bonus: It would also decrease the influence of local auto dealers.

I hope California YIMBY is considered a “US YIMBY” org Their marquee SB 79 would have allowed transit agencies to build commercial uses at stations irrespective of local zoning This section was cut out by housers who want to preserve sites for LIHTC calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202...

increasingly feeling like someone should just give @jdcmedlock.bsky.social a pile of cash to write "Project 2029 (aka Project 2025 Lib Edition) and then run tons of ads with big friendly oafs endorsing it

yall are so tedious I've had enough

If only paracetamol hadn't alienated conservatives by taking progressive issue positions on gender and race

land value tax fixes this (but see replies, empirical research from @shanedphillips.bsky.social doesn't support this assumption)

Americans genuinely think we have European/ South American style political parties when we just don’t. There is no “Democratic Party” there is a ballot line and a brand name you get access to if you win a primary. Everything else is loose affiliations of donor networks.

If Dems want to pivot to "kitchen table issue" in their messaging this is the one! Say he has to come to congress for a vote on the tariffs or you don't vote for government funding bill.

interesting bit in a Lancet article re: Australia's teen social media ban: surprisingly the amount of socialising in person hasn't dropped significantly in the past 25 years, and certainly not by the average amount of social media use.

If you want to understand the failure of our media, since Kirk’s murder Republicans have fanned out across the media for interviews, all claiming Dems calling Trump ‘fascist’ causes violence. And not a single interviewer has pushed back with: ‘But Trump called Harris a fascist!’

Despite all of these junkets, I don’t think either the Austrians or the Americans really have a clue about what the circumstances are like in the other place. Neither understands the vast gulf in demand, shortage, or construction cost between the two places.

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

the fact they're out here running "abigail spanberger will trans your kids" against one of the most conservative candidates out of the Democratic Party is a great example of why actually standing up for trans people, especially kids, is the only way to go

I believe moderating can in some circumstances bring electoral success but “moderating” can mean a lot of different things and none of them involve “attempting to appeal to newspaper columnists”

This is so fascinating

The largest number of H-1B visa holders are from India, a significant number from China, plus thousands from other parts of Asia. To put it bluntly, targeting a visa that is 90% used by Asian Americans is an Asian ban, no different than the 1882 Chinese exclusion act or 1917 Asiatic barred zone. 5/

Additionally, the $100k fee on new H-1B visas is an attack on many that are already living in the US. Around 100,000 people receive H-1B visas each year, many of who are already here, having previously been on a student visa or other status. About 90% are Asian American. 4/

I'm not sure there's anyone out there who deserves recognition and commendation more than Alice Wong. Her work is incredible and she has already changed the world

if being "tough on crime" is still popular with a majority of voters then calling for the President's immediate impeachment and criminal trial is the sensible moderate position, no?

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US transit agencies when they discover the mystical art of wayfinding signage

This is also the case in DC for some reason. Buildings with four or more units have to pay for their own private trash collection.

it’s actually insane how many hidden subsidies we have for single family sprawl that are borne by people living in dense cities

Remember when Paul Krugman had to call out nonsense from David Brooks or whoever without naming him, due to house dictates?

Libertarianism is stupid and 99% of "libertarians" don't give a shit about liberty but I lowkey kind of get being an ancap seeing how easily Trump is turning the US into a hybrid regime using any available governmental lever to reward loyalty/punish disloyalty from corporations.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

it's kind of weird how often Noble Savage tropes go pretty much unnoticed and unchallenged among large swathes of putatively left-wing academia, especially in fields where this is presumably a relevant concept for most scholars-- and especially (not exclusively) among the most terminally online

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

This post by @ctrombley1.bsky.social offers a great explanation of how accounting can affect the real economy. Worth a read! www.continuousvariation.com/p/liquidity-...

even our Minsky Moment this decade is gonna be dumb as shit man

It is not without risk to put your name on their list, but my dudes, I gotta tell you, your options for anything other than total subservience are only going to escalate in risk going forward. Maybe *this* isn't the thing you want to stick your neck out for, ok. But will you do it when it's harder?

recipe for seeming like a fun person is assigning people a list of 25 prerequisite books on sociology, history, politics, dissident pottery etc., before they can even consider showing up to a protest

"high living costs" hate to say I told you so...

Man this is a very 2019 sentence

The thing about streaming services is that their bread & butter are households that sub and forget - ppl who go months w/o actually using the product but enjoy having the option at their fingertips. They're the first to go in a boycott (it costs nothing to cancel) and they're the hardest to get back

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

the only other instance of government consolidation of news corporations is (of course) South Korea under the Chun Doo-hwan martial law rule. in November 1980, Chun revoked broadcast licenses of several TV networks and forced their merger into KBS. he did the same with newspapers and radio networks

I’m someone who is a socialist and also someone who believes in the importance of geography, land use, and spatial patterns. The people in academic who combine these things, the critical geographers, produce absolute dreck. At best it’s useless, at worst it proposes bad policies.

Welp, there goes Vanity Fair's reputation.

Bluesky is wild man...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day was voted on 15 years after the assassination and 22 senators voted "no."

thank you @urbaninstitute.bsky.social for signal-boosting many of the common-sense housing policies I worked on during my time in Berkeley City Hall. while I am currently back in school attempting a career pivot, I'm proud to fight alongside you for The Diego @estupi.do Agenda

Ok, gotta respect these guys...