The triple lock is almost as insane as the UK's housing policy. Benchmarking welfare benefits to economic stats is fine. Benchmarking them so that they strictly grow faster than the economy is a recipe for eventual bankruptcy and the sudden loss of welfare benefits.

The UK is a formerly rich country rapidly circling the economic drain but its voters are deeply opposed to any of the major reforms (housing, energy, triple lock) you’d need to turn things around and its politicians too chickenshit to do a thing about it

If we somehow end up with a Republican Governor, they get impeached like Day One, right? Both of them aren’t even Schwarzenegger style moderate Republicans, they’re straight MAGA

the correct way to understand the protest opsec stuff is that its a shibboleth for guys who attend left wing protests regularly that lets them exert status over recruits. i would regard it as pretty benign if these people werent actively discouraging people from getting involved.

Jeffrey Epstein was banned from XBox Live in 2013

We're proud to present A Better Billion: how New York should be spending an extra $1b a year on subway expansion, in lieu of Zohran Mamdani's free bus proposal. transitcosts.com/a-better-bil... See gift article for a New York Times writeup here: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...

laughing at all the people who said Trump was a YIMBY

Just an amazing image of @ilhanmn.bsky.social

this interview with @neeratanden.bsky.social on abundance in the Biden White House was really really really informative and I urge y’all to listen

we need permitting reform so a capricious president can’t hassle clean energy projects like this NOW

this interview with @neeratanden.bsky.social on abundance in the Biden White House was really really really informative and I urge y’all to listen

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In a supply-constrained market, 50-year mortgages won't solve the issue. In fact, they might make things worse. For an average of $100 in savings, assuming you have the same interest rate (and you very well might not!), you lose out on building equity. Michael Negron's verdict: gimmick.

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Governing isn’t about ideology. It’s about solving problems. Neera Tanden, president and CEO of @americanprogress.bsky.social, dives into her tenure during the Biden administration and what worked and what didn't.

Now imagine BART collapses and Muni cuts service by 50%.

I cannot get enough of these Stancilposts

An ICE agent told Will that real wages fell under Biden. Historians will regard it as an error on par with Operation Barbarossa

The Revolution Will Be Stanciled

amazing @whstancil.bsky.social

Remember when NIMBYs on Seattle’s Eastside sued multiple times to try to stop an innocuous transmission improvement that would have upgraded 1950s-era equipment to modern standards because they thought they knew better than the local utility what electricity demand looked like?

This is a bigger self-own for US automakers than building gas guzzlers and low quality cars in the '70s.

And less and less of them.

Trump’s plan is that the entire world uses Chinese EVs while America’s auto industry sells gas powered cars literally only to Americans

Trump has imposed a ban on clean energy on public land, with 22 new gigawatts stranded as he himself says we're in an electricity affordability crisis. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

the planet will boil over if we do not fix the insane regulatory mess that makes it take A DECADE to build a SINGLE POWER LINE

Trump’s like a Bizarro Pigouvian in that he subsidizes things with negative externalities and taxes things with positive externalities 🙃

As much as I am a fan of innovative medical technology, the easiest way to solve the “no OBGYNs in many rural counties” is to allow foreign OBGYNs to move to those counties and be allowed to practice when they do

This was a really great episode of ours and I strongly urge folks to check it out!!!

degrowth Donald strikes again

Hot dogs aren’t made of dogs. Girl Scout cookies aren’t made of Girl Scouts. But in Europe and several states, you can’t call products “meat” unless they’re made of dead animals. Are bear claws next?

people always think of media as this top down thing imposed on people, but in practice it’s always a dynamic between what media producers supply and what media consumers demand. a lot of RW anti-woke media surged precisely because people reacted against the era of woke overreach

It’s always funny to see people who fight tooth and nail against any effort to make it easier to get clean energy permitted in the US praise China, a country where lawsuits by NGOs against energy projects are basically illegal and “community input” is nonexistent

Oh hell yeah

As the prophecy foretold

If people like a policy, it sticks around. If people don't know about it, it expires. We need to account for popularity when designing public policy to ensure it keeps working like it's supposed to.

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Let's get rid of red tape around affordable housing, starting with the requirement for a steel chassis at the bottom of a manufactured home. This outdated HUD rule allows a home to be moved, but most homes are not moved these days. Michael Negron discusses this and more on our new episode, out now!

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Almost every state is facing a housing crisis due to the failure to build more housing fast enough, driving up affordability and costs. Rep. Josh Harder dives into the bipartisan effort aimed at solving this problem.

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Fixed budgets. Public buy-in. Clear plans. Infrastructure works better when the order is right. Jake Berman discusses the difference between Europe and America's transit systems and more on our newest episode, out now!

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