Mamdani gets it right. You cannot call yourself a progressive and at the same time purposely stifle private housing development. You cannot claim you are part of a welcoming blue city to those fleeing red states while saying “we’re full” because you made sure we didn’t build enough housing.

"You know who else pivoted a table?"

“This is politically complicated. But not technically complicated.” is about as good a two-sentence summary of the housing crisis writ large as one could hope for respectfullyno.substack.com/p/lawyer-acc...

"When a record 93 people died in traffic during the Mayor’s second year in office, we must correct course. Consider this a simple first step: speed bumps on our most dangerous streets."

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

I agree we need American Jewish institutions dedicated fully to the needs of American Jews: coming up with new Manischewitz based cocktails. I think we're close to cracking it and finding a hit

Mo Bamba has to be the biggest gap between cultural impact and actual playing ability of any athlete right? That song still plays in stadiums and arenas all over the country

"Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than anything else." — Susan B. Anthony, 1896. Yet today, women only make up 40% of riders. This International Women’s Day, let’s push for ambitious and inclusive cycling policies that make our cities more equitable places for women and girls. #IWD

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

Usajobs dot gov is hilarious these days. Is anyone reviewing anything these days??

Nimby Steph vs Slumlord Giannis, who's the bigger villain?

Pro tip: when you cancel your ChatGPT subscription, they give you a feedback form that is a great space for sharing historical facts.

A lot of y'all still don't get it You can use multiple slurp juices on a single peptide

GP1: Security guard for the Frigidaire plant in Dayton GP2: Owned a candy shop before the mob burned it down GM 2:Accountant after the mob burned down her husband's candy shop

Iran has choked off 90% of the world's chili reserves by closing the Straights of Hormel

Right now Jasmine's best hope comes from keeping down the margins in Bexar County we literally have another Crockett making their last stand at the Alamo

See, the Nimbys are right, multifamily housing is dangerous

I love the Colorado GOP. Between this and the dueling meetings under a bridge last year they are just wonderfully incompetent.

Unfair to say just red states, Colorado also just cut what were the 3rd lowest property tax rates in the country!

Democrats have lost touch with the real American working class: people who’s grandfather designed the restaurant atop the World Trade Center. It teaches you life’s lessons like how to pull yourself up from you boot straps and make an honest living selling oysters to your moms restaurants.

If War Thunder isn't real why do people keep getting arrested for posting classified info on the forums?? Checkmate libs

So, what do we know so far? 1. Guy had a Nazi tattoo. 2. Knew for certain at some point it was a Nazi tattoo yet, kept it. For 18 years! 3. Only removed the Nazi tattoo after it became a campaign issue. 4. Replaced it with Celtic symbolism, which Nazis LOVE. continued...

this is basically a classified information eruv

I thought he went by Joel Embiid?

For sale, never been touched

I desperately need someone to buy this theater near me and save it before the current owner lets it fall apart completely.

Pretty impressive opsec. Those drapes go almost all the way to the ceiling.

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

Me talking to the city engineer about the new Vision Zero plan.

HB24-1152 is working: A Colorado Springs builder says he's received 50% more inquiries about ADUs since the city updated its ordinance to align with state law encouraging ADU construction.

If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness. #UrbanTruth

Would love to leave, anyone need a wetland/stream ecologist somewhere else?

Build more homes or else you lose schools

I think about her a lot because of this

every faction in politics will invent their own bespoke conspiracy theory to avoid confronting the inescapable truth that we just need to make it easier to build denser housing

Saw this in Discord and it’s amazing

Wild to me this continued insistence that prominent voices on the left don't frequently say wild things

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

Apropos of nothing: I am an anti-Zionist to the extent that I do not support a Jewish state that exists at the expense of representative democracy in Israel & Palestine. I am a Zionist to the extent that Israeli Jews have the right to live freely on their land in an representative democracy.

90s Bulls walkout music, then just letting Steve Kerr give it

The Netherlands banned investor ownership of housing in 2022. It did not reduce home prices. New homeowners had higher incomes, were more often Dutch-born, moved shorter distances, and stayed longer than the renters whom they replaces. I do not think this was an equitable outcome.

Part of what makes me a YIMBY is the desperate need to save critical ecosystems like this. Not building up means we build out and lose these amazing areas forever.

Fond memories of working at NTL, woman rang up screaming at me. Her husband in background shouts at her, “don’t talk to them like that. They’re on fuck all” Then he takes phone off her, and gives me a line which I have used myself since “Do you have a manager you dislike intensely I can speak to?”

Happy International "I Hate Cilantro Day"

also noise pollution in the U.S. is almost entirely from cars and it’s literally giving people heart attacks I wrote an article about it because it’s so absurd

Very interesting that Demsas was heavily praised for doing well researched work that involved her speaking with a lot of experts in one specific policy area And from that seems to have taken the lesson that she is an expert in everything and never needs to learn from anyone else