YIMBYism and Abundance are worldwide movements! It meant the world to me when @yimbylabour.bsky.social welcomed me to London this summer to mark the 20th anniversary of surviving the 7/7 attacks by visiting Parliament and interviewing the amazing YIMBY MP Chris Curtis for Radio Abundance!

I love it, but not because of the big pic of my face! I believe in a future where we Defeat Fascism, Build America, and unleash the era of Progressive Abundance. Muscular patriotism and American history do not belong to the fascists! Liberals who build are the soul of American greatness.

Wow, thank you!!! To be honest, the only Dungeons & Dragons games I've ever hosted were to raise money for Kamala. We did raise over $100,000 though, and Sean Astin from The Lord of the Rings even joined us!! I got the idea from amazing pioneers in the immersive community, which is my home base!

when you are in power: a) do popular shit b) tell everyone, loudly, that you are doing the popular shit, do not just assume they will notice 3) do not, under any circumstances, hand the popular shit to your opponents to take credit for

New York City built more housing in the 1920s than it has built in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s COMBINED. Nobody alive knows what an actual urban housing boom looks like.

"She argued that a $15 toll is too high for drivers, so she gave them a 40-percent discount. And Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North customers? No such discount — those suckers are still paying roughly $15 per day in fares."

The left-leaning party in Italy has run theses community centers for decades starting after WWII. They are excellent “third places” and bring together people of different ages. Many host sport leagues. Some have daycares. This is an excellent idea that Dems should look into.

YIMBYs have One Neat Trick to fix this (NIMBYs and conservatives hate us!)

Trump isn’t the fun insurgent anymore. He’s the power, the elite — and he’s coming for your savings, your job, your speech, your daughter’s body, your undocumented grandma, and anyone who defies him. Bloodshed and high prices are coming. Draw the battle lines. Shape the story.

Kamala should go on Rogan NOW. Wes Moore, Whitmer, Pritzker, Shapiro, Newsome, AOC, MGP, Buttigieg, Ossoff, Warnock, Frost — everyone should be banging down the doors to go anywhere with a following and let people know what’s coming for them this January.

This story won’t tell itself. Trump won a mandate to lower prices, defy censors, knock elites down a peg, and bring back 2019’s economy. He will betray this immediately with price hikes, state oppression of speech, elite-led plunder, and economic shocks. Go everywhere, now, and tell this story.

Up-for-grabs voters hate global elites, hate the media, hate government. They will be furious when they discover that billionaire media moguls conspired to bullshit them and manufacture their consent to backstab them, plunder our national wealth, and hike the cost of living for normal Americans.

Agreed! For a time, the best strategy was to avoid damaging soundbites. Today, we’re dealing not with a world that takes things out of context, but a world that makes up its own context. Voids are filled with lies. The only remedy is to show up, go everywhere, and answer questions till you drop.

Show up. Spend 3 hours. Get voters to say, “I wish you’d done this a month ago!” It’s too late for 2024, but it’s urgent for 2025. Draw the battle lines. People voted for Trump because they hate high prices, and he will repay them with tariffs. Go everywhere, and tell the world what’s coming.

We can’t wait for the next campaign season. The work begins today. We must stoke buyer’s regret nationwide. Charismatic Dems should flood the zone on neutral-to-hostile platforms NOW. Be authentic & fun, give the mea culpa, & let voters know exactly what’s about to happen when Trump takes office.

Kamala ran a perfect 2008-style campaign. As we work towards 2026 and 2028, we need to look a lot more like Lis Smith launching Pete Buttigieg in 2019: Go everywhere. Democrats should be on every podcast & say yes to every media opportunity with any interviewer or influencer that will host us.

News is broken. Social media is broken. All of us swallow the slop our algorithms feed us, carved out of our favorite influencers and fandoms. To break through the bullshit, handle objections, appeal beyond our base, and let the truth ring out, we need to meet undecided voters where they are!

Jen revised this to be clear it was a scheduling choice, which actually frames the real strategic rethink we need: Was it wise to prioritize a swing state rally for 20,000 supporters over an interview that would get 35,000,000 views? Not anymore! Our outreach gameplan must change — immediately.

These 1828 townhomes are some of the most sought-after homes, on one of the most beautiful streets, in the region... ...they're illegal to build today. ❌Min Lot Size: 15,000sf ❌Lot width: 100' ❌Max lot coverage: 35% ❌Side setback: 30' ❌Parking: 1.5/unit 📍Salem, MA

Better headline: "SF daylights intersections to reduce crashes. 95% of parking spots unaffected." sfstandard.com/2024/11/10/s...

Remake the Democratic Party in your own image, and we’ll still face this challenge. What has to change is our ambassadors — and where we go, and how often. We need charismatic champions who can be ubiquitous across the media potential voters consume, winning the argument and growing the team.

The #1 thing that Democrats can do to put money in peoples' pockets and win back political power is to build, build, build in blue cities and blue states.

We just lost an election where the Democrats were the best economic & national security choice for both voters further left than Bernie Sanders and more "severely conservative" than Romney-Ryan. Undecided voters decide based on brief impressions from their chosen media. That's where we have to go.

Between the Democratic Party and undecided voters lies an impenetrable fog of bullshit. Changes within the Democratic Party will get lost in the fog before they ever reach voters. We can't win by tinkering on our turf. We have to wade into the bullshit.