Yeah, I guess that's why the Rays and O's just sold for nearly $1.8 billion a piece.

the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true

If I’m understanding these ppl correctly, all it takes to deter lethal and sexual violence is an almost-never-enforced $2.00 cover charge? That seems like a far more efficient solution to crime than Musk’s Personal Robot Stalker.

Think reeeeeaaallll hard about why this same thing, an insane drop in housing production, happened in every city in America immediately after the Civil Rights movement

This new affordable housing project in San Jose is going to require public subsidy of one million dollars per unit, and that is *on top of* the rent that the tenants will pay. At these prices, subsidized affordable housing will never get us broad housing affordability. We need to unleash the market.

Good riddance to Nico Harrison, the personification of everything that’s going on. Blew up something good because he didn’t understand it and it didn’t conform to his vision of toughness. One of the clearest pictures of Everyone Is 12 Now ever produced. Untold damage to my psyche. Enjoy podcasting.

I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity

the message is clear that Republicans are in charge permanently, can kill any D legislation with the filibuster, never need to govern at all, and when pressed, they can threaten the lives of millions any time they want and they will be given whatever it is they demand in exchange for their mercy.

“People are blaming republicans for food prices and flight cancellations and health insurance costs and are furious about gilded ballrooms and Gatsby parties and the president is falling asleep on tv and is the most deeply unpopular president in history, time to cave” is a hell of an argument

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

congress is a russian nesting doll of counter-majoritarian structures. seems to me that there's no need for a supermajority rule on top of that!

one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

The transit riders vs drivers election.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has the chance to revolutionize the city’s streetscape, as other ambitious mayors did across the globe. Here’s how nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/05/a...

There’s only one way to explain why questions like “who do NYC voters like for mayor,” and “what do San Franciscans think about George Washington,” become national issues that define the Democratic Party, while genuine Republican extremism with national implications is glossed over as a local issue.

The "Dem candidates need to match the ideology of their median voter" only ever seems to apply to purple jurisdictions. When progressives do just that, they get blamed for tarring the entire national brand.

"Progressive yimbys are firmly in charge" in Baltimore as mayor signs bills: No off-street parking required. Single-stair buildings up to 6 stories. Reduced setbacks. Still in process: Allowing 2- & 4-unit buildings in multifamily zones. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

It's worth remembering that Cleveland was promoted as an example of a sports-focused urban development strategy that wouldn't suffer the fate of venues in other cities. Its project leader Tom Chema even chastised economists for suggesting otherwise. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Your Comeback Guide to all the Anti-Cycling Arguments You’ll Hear This Year. Did we miss any? momentummag.com/your-comebac...

The crowds on 18th street today are as huge as any festival I've ever been to in DC. Perhaps we should consider closing 18th street to cars more regularly! Certainly seems good for business.

A really interesting new study showing that the smaller the area at which we plan for development, the more restrictive policies become. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“Low-density zoning and ULURP were not designed to protect tenants, they haven’t protected tenants in the past two decades, and they won’t protect tenants in the future. If we want the social housing tenants deserve, we need to build it — and we need to change the rules to make that possible.”

Notable that the people carrying Trumpism don't act like they believe they're carrying out the will of the public, they act like dictators terrified of a spontaneous uprising so swift and massive it overwhelms their protective services before assistance can arrive.

VIVRE EN VILLE EN ENGLISH. Adam is so cool. His organization is so cool. I am really excited that this exists, and very grateful that there is writing about housing like this out in the world, regardless of language:

The way crime politics work now is that if you try to take credit for any actual reductions or improvements you get lambasted for not taking it seriously, if you engage in constant fearmongering and panic, you're a respectable statesman.

i keep saying this again and again, if your party is going to claim that you're the alternative to fascism than you have to offer people a vision for the future that's better than what they have now. fascism lies and does that, your platform can't be the status quo with slight technocratic tweaks.

What happened to the plan for a new green, multi-use trail corridor along NY Ave connecting the Met Branch Trail to the Arboretum? The Montana Triangle could be a lively anchor trail-side development along that. #washingtondc

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

“Americans yearn for guns, low taxes, and being left alone” empirically wrong. Americans yearn for herrenvolk welfare state and cheap Russian oil.

"Subtle cues" fail again. This is a classic American woonerf or shared street where the architect thinks paving variation, unobtrusive street furniture, and an "implied curb" are enough to protect pedestrian space from encroachment by cars.

Single-member districts make all kinds of mischief possible. The Supreme Court would be irrelevant here if we had proportional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

“Since 1970, the metros where housing stock grew the least relative to population growth — think Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego or Seattle — saw the some of the fastest home price growth.” www.seattletimes.com/business/the...

A meta-analysis of more than 50 studies of the effect of parking prices on parking demand found that elasticity of demand for parking with respect to parking price averages 0.4 (Lehner & Peer 2019). That is, on average, a 1% increase in parking price results in about a 0.4% decrease in demand.

Same energy as Allied troops liberating French towns

I'm happy that 901 Monroe St NE (that ANC 5F voted to support) is finally moving forward. I'm disappointed by the concessions that were made and all the advocacy that had to happen, but getting 200+ units right across from the Brookland/CUA metro is to be celebrated. dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blo...

This is what LA politicians would rather be doing instead of building housing near transit. Just a disgraceful failure of leadership.

Everyone is crapping on e-bikes these days, but Micah Toll of Electrek says "they’re the best thing for urban life since flush toilets." I agree. lloydalter.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.

"Walkable, dense, urban metropolitan areas are associated with higher economic activity, with the largest 35 urban metros in the U.S. accounting for 19.1 percent of U.S. GDP despite only making up 1.2 percent of U.S. land and 6.8 percent of the total U.S. population."

It would be impossible to parody this commercial. The makers mistakenly made a built in-parody of how horrible it is to be stuck in a car (and psychologically un-healthy) and how much more fun, human, enjoyable, interactive, spontaneous and less-expensive it is not use one is. @usa.streetsblog.org

Everyone deserves to meet their heroes at some point.

Change in opinion by generation: Z: -44 Millennial: -8 X: -22 Boomer: -14 The lead gas and TikTok generation got played.

Our entire autocentric culture tells people they are dominant behind the wheel, automobiles support that and produce the literal vehicle to enact their worst impulses, and our legal system ensures that few pay any consequences for that.

I agree with this. There are a lot of people out there who think both parties are the same and if Democrats put a show of pushing out people with Nazi tattoos and shitty text messages and abused employees then all of a sudden you're making inroads.

I polled 100+ attendees of my talk about which modes of transportation they use most and which they would *like* to use most. The results are pretty striking: most people travel most often by car, but their preferences are nearly the opposite. 87 use cars most, but only 20 *want* to! #CIRPA2025

New housing is good, actually.

Whoever could have predicted this??