BIG news: The California Democratic Party just endorsed @scottwiener.bsky.social’s landmark housing bill #SB79, which legalizes multifamily homes near major public transit statewide! This marks a major shift in state politics: California Dems are *finally* embracing a party that builds!

just thinking about it makes me so angry. the worst kind of open race baiting in american politics since george wallace.

Let’s talk about driver solidarity: whenever there’s a news piece or social media post about a driver clearly at fault for hitting a pedestrian or cyclist, other drivers flood the comments to justify the driver’s actions and victim blame the person who’s been hit. Like clockwork. Why is the case?

The fact that literally zero outlets ever cover crime decline as a story is a huge reason. (And before you yell at me, we do!)

Trump, Miller, Noem et al are disappearing innocent people to a concentration camp to be tortured. They know this is what they're doing. Everyone who has touched this policy belongs in prison.

A good way to think about the housing crisis is landlords pocketing essentially all the consumer surplus the last 40 years

Politicians being more concerned about where people park their scooters than where people park their cars gives the whole game away

Fun (bummer) fact about my home state from this NYTimes article about heat pumps - Michigan has the highest cost ratio of electricity to natural gas, 5.1x www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

Great stuff

Pre-2009, the number of 1st-time homebuyers roughly increased & declined in parallel with the number of housing units completed. Over past 15 years, that connection disappeared. Even though the # of housing units completed increased 2011-2024, the # of 1st-time homebuyers flatlined—then collapsed.

These people are out of control. www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...

I'm guessing there's no plan for any expansion of our limited smelting capacity, so get ready to enjoy more expensive appliances, HVAC equipment, and wiring (among other things). The one brightside is this may increase interest in alternatives such as: www.prweb.com/releases/dex...

I feel like the renewables industry and all their lobbyists had the wool pulled over their eyes with this backdoor move to gut the tax credits via Treasury guidance on CODs. The most pessimistic version of how this turns out is about just as bad as the initial House bill, if not worse.

The republican reconciliation bill likely used LLMs extensively www.jonathanbennion.info/p/potential-...

It’s one thing to say they want to deport 20 million people, it’s even one thing to go nuts brazenly doing whatever you can as the executive branch to make it happen, but the fact that they’re going to give ICE an additional 45B shows how committed they are to seeing this through.

This version is so bad that I feel like I'm being trolled.

law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen

see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

And Rudy's giveaway to Staten Island costs the city ~$150m a year, every year, for forever. Local + Express bus would be another $900m-$1b a year, otherwise known as an entire congestion pricing. council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-co... www.mta.info/document/165...

I'm imagining ICE doing to NYC what it's doing to LA — and the people of NYC responding the way people are in LA — and it all happening under Mayor Cuomo. He'll side with ICE, DHS and, of course, the NYPD. This man, who hates the city and doesn't live here, can not become mayor. Don't rank him.

So needed

France, which is kicking New York's butt in terms of building transit and has powerful unions, would like a word with Mr. Barro.

See also "the community."

Things not looking good for the Efficient Market Hypothesis

The thing they all really want to do is deliver their content (and to be clear, this is incredibly racist content) to people as if it is unbiased and just a whole machine, while the creator is still standing around, whispering in the ear about the contours of what it should say.

yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone

"I have concerns about daylighting. Will there be a loss of parking?" "Will there be consultation about proper placement [of universal daylighting]?" umm the placement is in the bill - it's approaching *every* crosswalk. "A major concern is the lack of parking" Someone please primary Chris Banks.

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

The Trump administration's ICE agency is completely out of control. Detaining U.S. citizens and holding them for days with no charges? Impeach the president. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-b...

“The statistics from January into March, both all-in-one and otherwise, are rolling in, and they show a trend that is clear and unmistakable: It’s working.” www.curbed.com/article/100-...

They continue to violate a court order to retrieve someone they illegally deported. We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back. That would be the end of democracy.

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident

I’ve watched energy hearings in Texas for over 20 years. The hearing on SB 819 was unlike anything I’ve ever seen for an energy bill. 50+ Texans spoke up to oppose the bill, including this rancher from Armstrong County: "Y'all don't realize what small counties need." 1/5

there is no “epidemic,” he is almost certainly going to say it is vaccines and, well, stay safe everyone.

“IDEAS”

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

But if you ask me, that signal, that weakness, explains more of their electoral problems than any of the more narrow poll-based "issues" over which they endlessly wring their hands. The problem is at the meta level, the *brand* level. It's a brand associated w/ equivocating weakness.

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

I need to finish the book, but it seems like the main point of this article is a critique that the author's don't offer a vision that attends to economic redistribution, which is true - but I personally don't interpret the argument in this book as exclusive to the idea of redistribution either

no more articulating the facade society has progressed beyond the need to articulate the facade

Heard from someone that works in auto insurance that acts of terrorism aren't covered under any car insurance policies - so now that the AG considers vandalism against Tesla domestic terrorism, none of the vandalism is covered

Big reason I hesitate before moving back to Philly - my company decided to put their regional office in the suburbs instead of the city and I really don't want to reverse commute

I came to Twitter pretty late so I have been in agreement with Stancil about most things for the past couple years so I didn't understand it when people said they were surprised they were on board with a Stancil take. I understand now

Substantively evil, but also politically a suicide pact