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Wake up babe new YIMBY rhetoric just dropped: We need to build more “yuppie containment towers”

They do not want AOC to win and see this as an opportunity to knife her

may have just scolded the lady next to me on this flight for leaving her trash in the seat right before we deplaned. “i don’t think you should leave your trash.” “who cares what you think” [observes she has a copy of the new york times in her hands]

@robertagreer.bsky.social and I wrote a ballot measure to bring more European-style buildings to Denver through zoning changes near Transit and Parks. Read about it here: archive.is/YNspf

Very astute: "If America’s university presidents believe that their foremost responsibility is simply to keep their institutions operational ... they are mistaken. Much as lawyers are guardians of the rule of law, presidents and chancellors are stewards of intellectual freedom and democratic norms"

I truly believe this could be the most impactful policy change in Denver this century. If you agree, and are interested in helping out, please connect with me or David.

"Figures like Vance, Rubio, Cotton, and Lee are offering full-throated defenses of Trumpism on everything from the murder of Renée Good to taking Greenland. It’s clear that none of these people imagine anything like a post-Trump politics, even if the man himself should exit the stage."

A lot of pro-housing advocacy has pivoted to the state level, but implementing citywide zoning changes can still help get more housing built, like City of Yes in NYC. So exciting to see a new ballot measure in the works in Denver to legalize more transit oriented development:

Yo Denver, check it out, and let me know if you'd like to help push this!

There are ample professional disincentives to spilling the inner workings of a court; even misconduct is rarely disclosed. Only reason to demand NDAs is if the Justices are engaging in conduct so egregious that the legal profession would recognize the need for court employees to disclose it.

like it’s all just very very simple and yet here we are

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and Geoff Bennett discuss just that on the Settle In podcast. It really helped me understand that the antidote to political exhaustion is to be in community with others. @pbsnews.org youtu.be/51rpTFbwwOE?...

One thing that’s kept me going the last two weeks has been imagining ICE trying this shit in the South Bronx

Support For Stripping The $175,000,000,000 In Funding Allocated To ICE In The Big Beautiful Bill - Reallocate It Towards Affordable Housing + Rental Assistance: Support: 55% Oppose: 35% Data For Progress / Jan 26, 2026

Donald Trump has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

“ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do” played over video of ICE engaging in acts of violence should be the wall to wall DNC media strategy right now

This comprehensive Denver transit map is extremely valuable! I'm really grateful to the volunteer advocates who put it together, but also perplexed that government officials couldn't do this themselves. Please help promote this invaluable tool! denvertransitmap.com

I’m really glad that Strong Towns is so much bigger than Chuck Marohn. Our Strong Denver chapter would never do this nonsense.

Americans are used to thinking that DOJ steps in where states fail - the opposite is true now. States must step up where DOJ is failing -

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.

I love bikes, especially cargo bikes and attachments for kids, because it's only about a 5 year learning journey for white folk from 👩🏼"I'm not political." To 👩🏼🚴🏼‍♀️"Hey Mekka! I bought a cargo bike! It's so much fun!" To 👩🏼🚴🏼‍♀️🥊"🤬Man, Robert Moses was a %!#!#&@)+ for real! $#&* him and his momma!"

There are basically no lengths we're unwilling to go to in order to ensure every American can drive from point A to point B in a Yukon Denali XXXL

Attn: Denver Our transit mode share is closer to Phoenix’s than even to LA’s. This is pathetic. We are the problem.

Why is Denver's climate office pretending to have hit its climate goals? The city has made less than half the needed progress towards its mid-decade GHG reductions -- an 18% drop when its original goal was 40%. www.facebook.com/share/p/15Xq...

"If I had a project in my safety class where the students have to do a safety analysis, like this one would not get a good grade," Marshall said. "I'd give it a C-." www.9news.com/article/news...

NIMBYism has made blue states so notoriously expensive that it’s throwing elections to Republicans. NIMBYism is a fatal cancer on the Democratic Party, and must be excised before it’s too late. besi.berkeley.edu/publication/...

This might be the most underrated Front Range race for urbanism issues. Jack Rosenthal is running for RTD board against an old-guard candidate, and could be the difference between an actually-progressive RTD board and more of the same air pollution and gridlock. Please come December 19 in Boulder!

I can testify that Adam has been hating Richard Hanania since before it was cool

This story about Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is crazy. Why do so many politicians override safety of their constituents for the whims of billionaires? www.9news.com/article/news...

Colorado doesn't need more studies and hand-wringing about housing; it needs more housing. Colorado needs a candidate for governor who will commit to overcoming NIMBY opposition to transit-friendly housing. Will Weiser become that candidate? I'm not hopeful.

The plan was leaked by the Russians and no one in America’s historically inept administration knew what anyone else was doing so people started getting behind it because they thought it was official policy. Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

YIMBY: We Can Make Your Landlord Cry Yimbydenver.org

(1/4) Lakewood just adopted one of Colorado’s most significant zoning updates: legalizing middle housing citywide and making room for the kind of compact, affordable homes the city has been missing.

Hell yeah Lakewood!!! housingforwardco.org/a-closer-loo...

How the fuck does Larry Summers still have a job

Pediocactus simpsonii, our Mountain Cactus, blooming above Castlewood Canyon #nativeplants #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 1 🌿

Colorado friends! The upcoming Attorney General race is super important, and I wanted to extend this opportunity for you to meet a fantastic candidate and help set up Colorado to fight back against Trump and fight for affordability and sustainability. Please come November 9th from 3-4:30pm!

Here's a thread about this piece of shit lump of journalism www.denvergazette.com/2025/10/18/a...

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

I suppose I can say it now: Denver Police Department shot me in the head with a pepper ball during the George Floyd protests, but my crack team of lawyers at Arnold & Porter got me some sweet, sweet justice. denverite.com/2025/10/14/d...