Housing has been financialized for almost a century now. Please abandon this utterly silly framing. We had a whole financial crisis 20 years ago because people overpriced bundled mortgage debt products.

This was sheer joy.

One of my favorite parts of high school was the teachers rolling 4 of these tvs into the lunchroom for the tournament.

What kind of economy does the US have? A consumer based one, right?

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1828

The Washington Post has published an article about how state affordable housing requirements are causing 'division' in Princeton NJ! Featuring Council member Mia Sacks and Sean Wilentz of the "Defend Historic Princeton" brigade: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

I wrote about the Democrats' attempt to merge tax cut populism with social democratic social policy and why it's a bad idea publiccomment.blog/p/adventures...

Making it even more clear that the anti-wind policies are about protecting the fossil fuels industry, not whales. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/c...

Hell Gates: "according to a major new housing study." Reality: Storper's latest blog post that isn't peer reviewed, has zero chance of surviving peer review, is just a simulation, and basically admits that YIMBYism works, but is only being slowly adopted.

Sounds interesting

Never let anyone tell you politics doesn't matter. Change is unimaginable until it's inevitable.

It was revealed last week that Trump got a $10 billion bribe for helping steal TikTok and give it to his right wing billionaire friends under the pretense of national security and it barely enjoyed a two hour news cycle

Dude ruined California

I generally really like what Hell Gate is doing, but this post is just flat wrong. I wrote about the problems with this "major new housing study" here: rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/there-i...

oof, rare Hell Gate whiff

Look, I love Hell Gate, I subscribe to them and you should too. But this piece of trash is beneath their usual standards. Just to give you an indication of how fucking dumb this interview is: they link to an article in @thecity.nyc, with the link text as screenshotted here.

OK, help me out, hive mind: why do electric commuter rail operating costs vary so wildly by agency and even region? I assume it's mostly labor costs, but it really doesn't explain the variation. These are all 2024 figures.

Car dependency is an extremely inequitable way to structure society. In places where car ownership is optional, low and high income households spend roughly an equal % of income on transportation. In car dependent places, transportation costs are 4x higher for low income households.

I think possibly my favorite thing about Sinners is how good the first hour is just as a period piece about the 1930s Mississippi Delta before any vampire stuff even happens.

🔊 TONIGHT! A new episode of Make Some Noise launches on @dropout.tv at 7PM ET / 4PM PT! Starring host Sam Reich, and guests: 📢 Colton Dunn 📢 Lisa Gilroy 📢 Ben Schwartz

We dont need an illinois zoning atlas to show we need to remove barriers to housing construction www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/comm...

a fundamental thing about trump is that other people literally do not exist to him. he does not perceive them to be real.

At long last, Paul Ehrlich becomes the change he wishes to see in the world

It has been fascinating to watch Mamdani's opponents in the media find new and innovative ways to slag him

Wouldn’t it be nice to buy solar panels at Walmart in the morning and plug them in on your deck in the afternoon, setting yourself up to produce clean energy that will lower your electricity bill? That’s about to be a reality in Virginia.

OK. I'm gonna do something here with this discourse, and it's not ~really~ about cars. It's about the mindset of "I deserve this" and how that preempts the logic parts of the brain in ways which can hurt you. Here's a crotchety old man thread: (1/10)

“The faltering economics of running a national vending machine empire were exposed when DyDo, Japan’s third biggest operator, this month said it would scrap almost 7.5 per cent of its network of 270,000 units after posting its largest ever annual loss.” www.ft.com/content/a0e8...

No citation for this claim, just trust the trial lawyer that the trial lawyers are working in your best interest! Meanwhile, for those who like actual numbers, here are reports of suspected car insurance fraud by insurers in NYS: www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/crimnet/docs...

This obituary makes it sound like he was criticized by polluters and jealous peers, not those who pointed out the links between the movement he sparked (ZPG) and eugenics, the very politics that have delivered us “mass deportations now” and untold border violence www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...

Mike Dean, eat your heart out 🟥

It's pretty startling the extent to which these 3 agents tried to blend in and appear as regular passengers. An absolutely horrific thing is happening and no one has any idea.

They’ve been doing this for 10 years and they’re not going to stop especially now that they all have his number saved in their phone as “potus” which makes them feel like a west wing character

It’s starting

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28

‘Some of the rooms are 23 degrees with no heating on’: the joys of living in an energy efficient house

And Mickey 17 and Weapons. Warner is basically the last major studio taking these sorts of swings on a regular basis.

Sinners deserves Best Cinematographer simply for the fact that it's a modern movie where you can tell what's going on during all the night scenes

This is almost one person dying in ICE custody per week since Trump took office. Never forgive Republicans for what they did to our country.

Big respect. “You lose your country with countless small acts of complicity.”

Waldo is back

MUTCD and IBC are two documents that were developed with good intentions and ended up just becoming regulatory capture and vibes.

This is Amy Madigan and Ed Harris refusing to applaud Elia Kazan's honorary Oscar in 1999. During the Blacklist Era, Kazan named names. Good on Amy and Ed.

Killed by lesser men unqualified and unable to do what he did. Every day is a grotesque moral abomination under Trump -- another lesser man, whose cowardice almost certainly led to another man being killed or wounded in his place in South Vietnam.

BROOMFIELD/JEFFCO,CO (BJC) ASOS reports gust of 326 knots (375.2 mph) from N @ 1545Z -- KBJC 151545Z 01020G326KT 10SM SCT039 BKN049 M03/M12 A3013

Inside you there are two wolves

I’ve already taken a few days off this month for various events, should I take a random Tuesday off for this?

Subject: Time To Be Ambitious Friends, lend me your ears. You got this from my good friend Brutus, but our ledgers show you haven’t joined the fight. Look, I get it. Brutus says he wants to be ambitious. And, sure, he is an honourable man. But here I am to speak what I do know. We need your help.

All right, which of you nerds am I going to see on March 31?