The Trump administration sent 300 federalized members of the California National Guard to Oregon early Sunday, after being blocked by a federal court from deploying the Oregon National Guard in that state, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom. Newsom denounced the move and said California would sue.

Absolutely horrific stuff and it must be anplified.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Good militaries respect the laws of war. Respect for law and civilians is strength. Anything less is weakness.

🏡 Accessory Dwelling Units Officially Legal in St. Louis City!🏡 This incremental shift truly will count as the city seeks to improve affordability and increase density. Read more about the achievement in my new post below. yimbymanifesto.substack.com/p/st-louis-a...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the “massive Russian attack” on Ukraine lasted for more than 12 hours, calling it “savage” and “deliberate, targeted terror against ordinary cities”. He said that Russia had fired nearly 500 attack drones and more than 40 missiles, including ballistic missiles.

Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland

"Red lights flashing for American democracy (again) when a former FBI director is indicted solely because the president is angry with his investigations. "The indictment, filed in Alexandria, Va., came over the objection of career prosecutors..." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

👉 The Vegas Loop is a terrible transportation investment. 👈 While not meeting its own objectives, it also fails to offer potential for future development or positive ridership interactions. As an urbanist and a YIMBY, here’s why you should care. yimbymanifesto.substack.com/p/the-absurd...

So google maps updated some satellite footage, here’s one single Ukrainian village. One out of thousands

Quite obviously this goes against any reporter's duty

I'm not a late-night TV person (I find most of it cringe & stale). But the gov should not have the power to withhold licenses from TV corps as punishment for the content of their speech. If Biden had blocked Fox's sale of 21st Century to Disney b/c he didn’t like Tucker, that would have been wrong

This is an extremely worrisome canary in the coal mine for open discourse in our society

The Trump administration ordered several National Park Service sites to take down materials related to slavery and Native Americans, including an 1863 photograph of a formerly enslaved man with scars on his back, one of the most powerful images of the Civil War era. nyti.ms/4nyyyaQ

California is finally addressing the housing crisis in earnest - With SB 79, housing abundance can finally meet all of the transit growth occurring in LA and SF. For once, it’s time to celebrate something positive! yimbymanifesto.substack.com/p/california...

Joy Reid. Karen Attiah. Gene Robinson. Jonathan Capehart. There are lots of others. Circumstances differ. But really sad to see new organizations not keeping super-talented Black staffers. The news industry spent decades talking about diversity, improved some from 2014-2020 and is now going back.

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

And potentially over Romania too, apparently. That's not just one NATO country, but two. There must be a decisive NATO response because Russia is escalating, escalating, escalating.

SB 79 PASSED! APARTMENTS NEXT TO ALL RAPID TRANSIT STATIONS IN CALIFORNIA ARE NOW LEGAL! THIS IS HUGE!!!

The Ezra piece was dumb and deserved all the dunking. Strongly encourage you to read this excellent @anamariecox.bsky.social piece instead. newrepublic.com/article/2003...

The Nazis did this with material written by and discussing Jews. www.erininthemorning.com/p/positive-d...

Welcome to McCarthyism 2.0. The difference this time is that it’s not a relatively junior Senator doing it via committee hearings, but the White House doing it with full cooperation from virtually every arm of the federal and red state governments.

Sotomayor on the impact: "The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction."

Our streets should integrate rather than separate. Instead, large setbacks tend to: 👉 Promote inefficient land usage 👉 Create pricey & exclusive communities 👉 Keep people apart 👉 and much more… We've created an inner-city suburbia. yimbymanifesto.substack.com/p/setbacks-a...

Ending US security assistance to NATO allies sends the opposite of a deterrence signal to Russia. Would the name for the opposite deterrence against an adversary be "compliance?" wapo.st/4g77BZf

St. Louis is leading the way - and this time, for smart policy. STL aggressively reformed its occupancy restrictions, making it easier for families to live in the city. yimbymanifesto.substack.com/p/how-st-lou...

I will never stop banging this drum

this is very well put @lastpositivist.bsky.social

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes. The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.

Warnings From Weimar www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...

Philly’s affordability is vital to its future. If the city can expand expedited permitting and the removal of review fees across the board for all housing, then it might truly achieve greater housing affordability across the board. yimbymanifesto.substack.com/p/evaluating...

Felony charges for this should be sanctionable.

We should legalize SROs. Everywhere. 👉As a culture, we’ve shunned small living. 👉As a society, we’ve mistakenly assigned a negative value to this kind of lifestyle. Let’s give people more freedom. Let’s try tackling housing costs from the bottom up. yimbymanifesto.substack.com/p/why-we-sho...

LA refuses to embrace density surrounding rapid transit even as: 👉 It’s population is declining. 👉 Its rents are increasing. 👉 Houses are getting more expensive. Maybe it’s time to embrace zoning reform rather than telling the state legislature that all is well. open.substack.com/pub/yimbyman...

It's 2018. The LA City Council is opposing SB827 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,663 It's 2019. The LA City Council is opposing SB50 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,791 It's 2025. The LA City Council is opposing SB79 because it overrides local control. Rent is $2,625

Rep. Nicole Collier files a state court application for a writ of habeas corpus concerning her detention in the Texas State Capitol. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

After I discovered a state website was exposing the Social Security numbers of hundreds of thousands Missouri teachers, Andrew Bailey played a key role in Gov. Parson's decision to falsely accuse me of a crime, and demand that I be prosecuted. www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

Brand new this morning: Building Up To Save The Planet Our urban policy is failing us and the next generation. We have to be serious about acknowledging the danger of suburban sprawl and making it easier to build in the urban core. open.substack.com/pub/yimbyman...

Updated this story @taskandpurpose.com. Ohio and South Carolina are joining West Virginia in sending National Guard troops in DC. That brings the number of Guardsmen activated for this to ~1,500. taskandpurpose.com/news/west-vi...

NEW: National Guard troops deployed to DC by President Trump are now preparing to carry weapons. It's a significant shift—defense officials emphasized two days ago that troops would not be armed or have weapons in their vehicles.

Just sent out this free piece. I hear some saying yesterday's summit changed little--nothing could be further from the truth. The summit helped Russia and hurt Ukraine. It had 3 main components. First, US-Russian relations are being normalized in front of our eyes. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

"Although we’ve made it hard to do evil, we’ve also made it nearly impossible to do any good." open.substack.com/pub/yimbyman...

I put a lot of work into this. I would be so happy if you would read and share: Why moving to the center won't save democrats: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/moderation...

Chicago Dramatically Reduced Parking Mandates: But They Should Do Much More But even these kinds of tweaks are still fairly conservative. Let’s build off this momentum and keep making Chicago better, denser, and more walkable. open.substack.com/pub/yimbyman...

Trump at his press conference: “The Russians could have reached Kyiv in just four hours if they’d taken the highway. But their general decided to cut through farmland instead.” The farmland:

They’re right, but of course take note this is from the Wall Street Journal! Can others take note and be as clear eyed as, my goodness, the WSJ?

Is housing policy neoliberal? I try to answer that question at the link below: open.substack.com/pub/yimbyman...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.