Bill Clinton used to have to walk across the street to use a private telephone to make fundraising calls so as not to violate the Hatch Act by using public resources for partisan purposes. Trump makes campaign commercials from behind the Resolute desk.

The FT article quoted therein indeed cites a negative correlation between television ownership and fertility, ca. 1997: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Trump Requests $1.2 Trillion To Have https://bit.ly/3RjdlH1

Scott Perry (R-PA-10) is "one of the most vulnerable House Republicans in the country," per Cook Political Report. Primary to select his challenger is tomorrow. Who else is in to bundle some checks to stop his meddling with DC's traffic laws? #bikeDC

May 18, 1980 | 8:32 a.m. The ground shudders. A M5.1 quake hits beneath Mount St. Helens. Weakened critically, the north face bulge collapses outward. Within seconds, a pyroclastic density surge bursts through the disintegrating slope. The clock strikes zero.

This whole thing is so good 👏🏻 “Those who oppose new housing, or who look askance at denser development as somehow ideologically distasteful, are supporting a fundamentally anti-human, anti-growth policy, without even intending to.”

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I tell you, the more you learn about the history of the grid, the more of a miracle it will seem to you that the whole thing works. Just one weird, contingent kludge after another, stumbling backward into a giant machine that now supports 20% of our economy.

How to solve the male loneliness epidemic.

Very. Important. Paragraph.

From @pkrugman.bsky.social showing that weirdly US high growth hasn't turned up in living standards, and the gap with Europe on PPP has been constant since 2001.

We can use the empty oil wells to bury our heads in the sand and pretend that wind, solar, and batteries aren't happening.

📣 Registration and a Call for Proposals for YIMBYtown 2026 are now OPEN! 📣 🗓️ Nov 17-19, 2026 📍 Raleigh, NC Can't wait to see y'all there!

"Unbuilt permits" are often waved around by NIMBYs as proof that 'gReEdY DeVeLoPeRs dOn'T WaNt tO bUiLd.' When, in fact, half of those permits are unbuilt because they're just stuck in various stages of the multi-year municipal review process.

Austria's social housing bonds aren't all that different from ours, except they issue a lot more of them per capita. ggwash.org/view/65452/g...

The real answer--as adopted by progressive advocates around the country, and electeds from Pritzker to Johnson to Mamdani--is that getting rid of regulations that require million-dollar mansions and investing in affordable housing are complementary policies, not at odds with each other.

This book haunts my Baltimore Streetcar Museum tours skyscraper.org/programs/the... Those American cities that kept 🚋 had elites had bought into 🚋 suburbs. Baltimore planners ripped out the last 🚋 lines (over NCL's objections!) so their urban renewal wouldn't look old fashioned

Do speed cameras work? Impossible to tell

As long as we're talking about rewarding landowners, how much property value dimunition has the golf course owner incurred? Wouldn't high density redevelopment of this Metro adjacent site maximize property value for everyone? patch.com/virginia/res...

Years Republicans have controlled: The General Assembly: 15 years The State Senate: 21 years Congressional delegation majority: 15 years Governor: 15 years Yeah, liberals have controlled the state for so long one can't remember when they didn't!

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Wind energy in the US is highly concentrated on the Great Plains, in states that largely elect Republicans.

Fossil fuel companies are astroturfing a lot of content about solar being bad for farms - see an example below. As a result there's been an uptick in earnest but misguided 'parking lots not farms' posts. Solar is great for farmers. It provides steady, diverse income and works well with many crops.

One state-level policy idea: Minnesota applies its "homestead" property tax credit to *income tax*. That way, it can be extended to renters & income-capped. www.revenue.state.mn.us/filing-prope... You can do a lot more with an income tax form than with property tax!

The Bible is very clear that we should make and worship golden idols, I support this

He reiterated that EVs are "cheaper, faster, better" than ICEs over its lifecycle, and potentially upfront. (Subsidies or imports could do that.) Similarly, TOD housing is cheaper, faster, better over its lifecycle; how do we make it so upfront as well?

Had the misfortune of seeing the ballroom model today. It’s worse in person somehow.

I take it that my own personal FDA hobbyhorse (better sunscreens!) won't be going anywhere.

Instead of just blaming others, US fire officials should look in the mirror and ask: "What have WE done to drive up apparatus prices?" Our firefighters' unions should do the same. So should US elected officials, at the federal, state, and local levels. If you can't think of anything, think again.

A huge, free climate win hiding in plain sight: More apartments. Thread below👇

The perfect, low-cost, infill solution for retrofitting detached house neighborhoods anywhere and everywhere: Six 900 sf, 2-bedroom flats. Selling for $300k (in Portland). On a standard 5,000 sf house lot. Bottom two units accessible. No on-site parking. www.redfin.com/OR/Portland/...

We're conditioned to think of the Northeast Corridor as stacked north-south, but it's closer to west-east. Boston, New York, and Philadelphia are all further east than north of Washington DC; e.g., NYC's bearing relative to DC is 50.75°. 45° would be true NE, 45-90 is ENE.

IANAL but it’s probably bad for you, as a city official, to respond “yes” to the question “are we pretending to comply with the law without really complying with the law” (Also, “are we kind of being pricks?”, lol I love Mass)

NEW: The Census Bureau plans to send out workers in September to locate accessory dwelling units (ADUs) — such as guest houses and garage apartments — near the agency's facilities in Suitland, Md., and Jeffersonville, Ind., as a test for the #2030Census www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

Venn diagram of portmanteau names updated to add two

The Arlington part of Falls Church (i.e., East Falls Church) was legally part of the Town of Falls Church, 1875-1936. Not so much Fake Falls Church as Alt-Falls Church. arlhist.org/wp-content/u...

new Live Laugh Love dropped

The family that owns America's poshest mall is using Florida's state zoning pre-emption law to add 2M sq ft, including 200 affordable units www.bisnow.com/south-florid...

I think about this all the time.

Bring back the ancient knowledge

Do all those lanes, y'know, accomplish anything for anyone? No, because weaving (not to mention induced demand) negates any capacity increase. This road is huge for the sake of being huge. I'm assuming it's the same affliction that results in giant roads being filled with giant trucks.

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The only silver lining of all this authoritarian nonsense is this. We might now actually see actual representative democracy in America in my lifetime. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

One urgent takeaway from all this is that state legislative races just got even more important. They will help decide whether Dems can prevent the GOP from locking in a near-permanent majority. And gov races in places like Georgia are now hugely consequential. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

What's the most cursed pair of these you can think of? Can't run in AK against fish Can't run in NM against Team Blue (Intel) Can't run in OR for sea lion conservation Can't run in CA against porn Can't run in ND against fracking Can't run in NV against blackjack and hookers

Upper Northwest can’t heal from its history’s wounds if the District continues to reserve it for a privileged few.

One part of town got all the inner-city lane mileage in Charlotte. The other got [nearly] none. This should answer the question of need and desirability.