Sadly, the primary contribution of American city planning is a scarcity of homes.

Our federal transportation policy is going in the wrong direction.

Some people need to study philosophy then experience poverty to discover their calling in life.

The best time to build high rise housing was 20 years ago, the second best time is now.

You can buy housing for under $200k in Cville. We should go back in time and build more of these luxury highrises.

This guy is going to be outraged when he learns how we fund roads.

So we are going to spend $24 million on a highway widening to address safety and congestion. According to VDOT and our MPO, the project segments are not congested and are not unsafe.

Elderly internet-addicted man is duped by AI scam.

This was how I felt signing up for my company’s AI pilot this week.

I don’t mean to be partisan but I am against killing an entire civilization.

Mohammad Salah is my only king.

Legislating who or what is allowed to own homes is a gigantic waste of time and will have a negligible impact on affordability!

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Working for a multinational corporation provides an interesting window into a weird post-nationalist future. Our countries are regularly bombing each other but we are One Family (tm) and please work from home if your city is under attack.

Now that we’re blaming everything on data centers, does someone have a good write up of data centers with actual data on their energy and land use?

I recently discovered Angine de Piotrine and have become obsessed with everything they’re doing. Creativity is not dead. youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

This is a great example of biblically-illiterate evangelicals slapping the “biblical” label on whatever right wing drivel is in vogue at the moment.

I stared at this for a long time. I hated it at first but it’s growing on me.

I enjoyed this The Rest is History series on America in 1968! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I’m sure toppling a foreign government will go well and have no unintended consequences this time.

Wow!

The true meaning of Christmas: pouring money into the world‘s largest military superpower.

Just landed in Portland. Someone is scrolling ticktock videos without headphones on this light rail train but that falls a little short of terrorism.

He’s never accompanied a child to a doctor’s appointment. That’s for sure.

“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”

Seems like we could address our homelessness crisis and improve conditions for downtown businesses by building a lot of housing on the downtown mall.

I watched this whole discussion last night and it made me grateful for Cville’s council members. I’m also grateful for our at-large council system.

War between the states?

The guy who oversaw the legal justification for W’s torture program is now high up at USDOT and is going on podcasts saying they are eliminating “unnecessary distractions” like “racial equity and environmental justice.” (His exact words). I knew Trump 2.0 would be bad but it’s really bad.

also, “so woke you have walked backwards into supporting segregation” is definitely a thing online

New mantra unlocked. Thanks Obama. “I don’t want to know your ideology, because you can’t build anything. It does not matter.”

Thoughtful people can disagree about whether IZ is “good” but it’s important to be clear-eyed about the fact that it is effectively a tax on housing.

The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets. So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?

it’s actually a genuinely insane feeling to sit on the patio listening to the military helicopter over my neighborhood because the genocide man is getting a private tour of our local plantation

I really appreciate the neighborhood fireworks launchers for spacing out the loud booms randomly so that each explosion triggered a fresh adrenaline rush that made it impossible to sleep until sometime after 1am last night.

So, uh, are we having a planning commission meeting this month?

I don’t think he’s going to get a Nobel peace prize.

This video needs a trigger warning for exvangelicals.

Is our movement for safe streets served by sympathetic media that gets basic facts wrong? I’m not so sure.

I know this isn’t the worst thing about this but why is “law enforcement” dressed like this? Are they going to invade a desert fortress after this and need blend in?

YNWA

The $400 million jet from Qatar would be worth 100 times more than every other presidential gift from a foreign nation combined since 2001

US Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

This week I helped a junior-level transportation planner return a picnic blanket that they received as a gift because it violated ethics rules for public sector workers.

The next pope will be an AI chat bot trained on the writings of all previous popes.

Just asked a California transit manager if the state's Zero Emission Bus mandate is causing them to run less service than they otherwise would. He said: "Yes, definitely." A diesel bus only has to get 4 ppl out of cars to be better for the planet than an electric bus. Hmm.

Didn’t think anything could make me not love the World Cup but seeing the trophy between these two is doing the trick.

Every Jacobin article on housing reads like a baby trying to fly an airplane.

This USDOT puts out the whiniest memos.

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social