The fact that we somehow landed on 400k as the line below which a tax increase is never acceptable suggests that this roundly-mocked WSJ cartoon was actually taken seriously by nearly everyone in DC.

That whole storyline absolutely made my skin crawl (laudatory).

Legalize *It! *Denser housing in the North LIC area. Call or email Council Member Julie Won and tell her the right to build affordable housing is your first priority. [email protected] 718-383-9566 @opennewyork.org

There's a car alarm that's gone off three separate times during my ten-minute walk around the block during lunch, and it's making me reconsider my views on gun control.

Every terrible stadium deal is another piece of evidence for one of my less popular ideas: every major league sports team should be owned by some form of local government. Private ownership has significant downsides and not enough benefits. defector.com/the-commande...

A really good overview of the New York housing situation by @annemariegray.bsky.social. If you want to understand how we got here and where we're going, read this. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/new...

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...

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

As travel gets easier and cheaper and accessible to a wider range of people, we need to be making it easier, not harder, to move between countries--doing otherwise is just gratuitous cruelty that helps nobody besides bigots who don't like seeing immigrants for some reason.

Reconstruction, even in its later failure, required breaking regular democratic norms and constitutional procedures on a massive scale. 13, 14, 15th were literally ratified at gunpoint! Rightly, but hardly regular. There has to be a counter-purge, you can't reboot the game of democracy without it.

I think this is wonk brain--Ezra defaults to understanding politics through "issues", but in reality what "moving right" means is "vaguely sexist affect". It doesn't matter what bills the politician actually endorses as long as they talk like Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad.

Major props to the editor who used green text turning to orange for this karaoke version of "Zombie"

Replacing biden was clearly right call. This ex post facto nonsense that we should have done some mini primary (pushed by these obamaworld clowns) is pathetic though. It was kamala. It was always kamala. Pushing her out to bankshot some better candidate via a speed primary would have gone terribly

Suozzi's making it very clear that his idea of a big tent only extends in one direction--I'm expected to back his candidacy, but he can't be expected to back the candidate that voters like me chose in the primary. It's fundamentally arrogant.

I tried to explain this to a very Not Online friend of mine and it felt like one of those Shakespeare editions with the text on the left and the explanatory notes on the right-hand page, and the explanatory notes were longer than the stanza.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

This is why I self-ID as an independent if I get polled.

This city is going to kill me someday. gothamist.com/news/nycs-pu...

Are there any Gofundme efforts for people like this? I haven't seen them if so. Seems like a real gap between left and right; any time someone gets fired for using slurs, they launch a fundraiser, no?

Good for @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

Only four states have 20 mph speed limits as the default in urban or residential areas The success of this policy in Wales should inspire more states to make 20 mph the default Every community that wants safer streets should have the ability to have 20 mph streets www.datawrapper.de/_/GpwYF/?v=4

On the unmet need for safe bike storage: "Results suggest a relative undersupply of bicycle parking at destinations compared with free car parking [and] an increasing need for bicycle parking for costlier e-bikes." findingspress.org/article/1442...

I continue to be mystified by these left critiques of YIMBYism that begin from the assumption that our preferred policies enjoy the unanimous support of local elected officials and have been the law of the land for years. Los Angeles’ housing market is not “deregulated!”

I feel like I’m losing my mind listening to right-wing politicians talk about how political violence is wrong and people who promote it should be rooted out and destroyed

The right laughs at trans people’s deaths but demands people be sad over Charlie Kirk www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/the-...

Really important point. Authoritarianism has a small bag of trucks and this admin has already emptied it onto the table. All that's left is more powerful versions of the same ones they're currently using and, frankly, that's preventable if we don't comply in advance.

I do feel like part of the hatred extended toward Bluesky is a function of preferring to think that the alarm about the state of the country that’s common here is misguided or exaggerated. Dismissing the site as liberal doomers allows you to dismiss those concerns, too.

I have a pretty high bar for leopards-ate-my-face stories, but now they're eating this guy's entire political party and it's hilarious.

A good quote: "You pass housing by electing politicians who understand the difference between political discomfort and a political liability."

he did not believe that Black Americans are citizens. he sent buses to January 6th. he called for the execution of Joe Biden.

Joy Reid. Karen Attiah. Gene Robinson. Jonathan Capehart. There are lots of others. Circumstances differ. But really sad to see new organizations not keeping super-talented Black staffers. The news industry spent decades talking about diversity, improved some from 2014-2020 and is now going back.

Standing in the back coping and seething as Austin windmill dunks on NYC, playing up its title as largest US city to eliminate parking minimums.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

hopefully puts to rest the idea schumer coordinated with mamdani and was planning to to endorse in october

If we're going to operate an entire industry as a jobs program, can we at least pick one that doesn't ruin our cities?

Snippet from the opening keynote at YIMBYtown: the median income household would have to spend 38% of their income to afford the median priced home. 😬

This 5:30am train from Grand Central to New Haven is a hilarious mix of "people coming home from a night of clubbing" and "people going to YIMBYtown".

This is unhinged, dangerous, and reckless. At this point I don't know how you conclude anything other than that Musk is trying to foment pogroms against immigrants across the west.

There's sort of a keyfabe that happens in both Congress and the media where Trump is basically treated as a normal president because a world where we admitted this is not normal and that democratic liberties are slowly being eroded requires the media/political class to take a stand.

This is a very understated way for the Times to describe the president corruptly intervening in a criminal case. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/n...

He advocated for his beliefs by sending busloads of people to Washington D.C. to try to violently overturn an election

If you are on the TPUSA list of professors or are an otherwise visible left academic, I strongly recommend reviewing your digital footprint. Is your address public information? What about your family members? crimethinc.com/2020/08/26/d...

"These levers weren't built to obstruct--they were built to help us extract better deals for our community". @justinbrannan.bsky.social

This is how you would talk as president when you actively want more terrorism committed by conservatives

THIS YOU? MASTER THREAD 1. Jeremy Clarkson

note how Trump explicitly links approving disaster aid for Wisconsin and South Dakota to the fact he won Wisconsin and South Dakota

This made me significantly more hostile to the Times Square casino proposal

this is just a ridiculous way to describe a guy who built an enemies list of professors so his shithead followers could send them hate mail and death threats

I can't really summarize this in post length, but it's weirdly fascinating. www.curbed.com/article/myst...