this is especially frustrating because there probably will be a time when we correctly accuse the Trump Administration of fucking with economic data and the more people are crying wolf the less effective that will be. truth is our ally and more than that the existence of truth is our ally.

if we take the house next year, we are going to get a pretty devastating drop like this every single day, and it will add up. jesus christ.

I might push back on this year being better than last year exactly, but the general point is completely right

You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned. archive.ph/Tmthz

Many people are saying!

Anyone who tells you that mass deportations are a solution to the housing crisis is lying to you.

one view of mind that has changed is that, while i remain strongly opposed to capital punishment in most cases, i'm basically agnostic on it now when it comes to people exercising state power and authority in ways like this

One reason I am skeptical that AI will take all our jobs is that shit like this is being marketed as "look out architects"

“Between 2010 and 2022, structural fires in Berkeley injured an average of 2 people per year, while between just 2017 and 2022, traffic accidents injured or killed an average of 694 people annually.”

this is such an utterly stupid fucking way to run a government, TABOR bills are fundamentally reactionary garbage

I only just saw this thanks to @ed3d.net and I don’t have time to do a full fisking before my daughter’s bedtime but a few hundred words in and it’s utter nonsense. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

We just started this new city council system and now we're going to have to learn the special election rules

Unfortunately I'm pretty focused on ed stuff these days, but I really want to do an Actual Honest Report on Housing Costs, where we compare cost growth over time versus the amount of housing purchased. The problem is that there is literally zero incentive for honest analysis of this question

This is not even a spot where it is difficult to find street parking a block off Belmont, totally unnecessary

It was strangled in its cradle by powerful people who didn't want to be subjected to its searching gaze. It didn't go even close to far enough.

When we build enough supply of homes so that landlords must compete, renters win. "The more properties there are, it drives all of us to lower rents and offer concessions" says the property manager pictured here. bendbulletin.com/2025/11/11/b...

To mildly push back, if you were convinced abortion wouldn't always be protected in 2016 you would have been right. But only mildly! The argument that it will just go away on its own is in fact Republican propaganda

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ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

I feel like a lot of people in American cities are in a constant tantrum over not being able to have the "Does Not Exist."

Dan Ryan using his official city email to send a novel-length email telling people he's voting No on the Parks Levy is a great endorsement for voting Yes on the Parks Levy

Its not *exactly* this because you do play as a middle aged white guy but Pentiment is pretty close and more people should play it

You also see this shit with pirating and it’s like: no man you’re not striking a brave blow against the oppressors, you just want a thing without paying the people who made it. And it doesn’t make you a world-historic monster, but like with luxuries like game it’s clearly a normatively bad thing lol

I fully bought all the "information wants to be free!" stuff when I was a teenager pirating music on KaZaA. Now that I'm an employed adult I understand that intellectual property is valuable and I should pay for it so that artists, writers, and programmers can earn a decent living.

There are two Portland, Oregons. I live in the real one. open.substack.com/pub/leahsott...

there is no world in which it is unsafe to attend a no-kings protest, which my retired mother will be attending with her unitarian church group, and in which it is safe for either of us to have accounts on this website. you either really fucked up by even making this post, or you're larping.

Important to this is that this guy will not be *forced* out. He might choose to leave, but no one is forcibly replacing his house with an apartment building, as critiques of increased density sometimes pretend would be the case

This is the kind of shit that a competent regulatory regime should nuke online sportsbooks from orbit for. You want to be in the pocket of every risk addicted 20-something dude in America you get limits slammed on the size of the edge you can take against them.

A. You can make them in a way that it is, as the CTC was, and B. No they're not

This is the kind of unhinged sports take Bluesky needs more of. Darko would have been better than Lebron if it wasn't for Larry Brown ruining him!

“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.”

The view from our office in war-ravaged Portland today

Vacant units come up a lot in discussions around the housing crisis This is a good opportunity to go over what the data actually shows 🧵

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

the president is lying about portland

I also hope we don’t forget all the local folks who’ve spent years spreading the “portland is a hellhole” narrative to gain short-term political power and/or social media clout. They provided ammo to the Trump machine. They fed the false narrative and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

/2 Anyway the carceral state did its very best to jail those wrong guys forever and, until they got this DNA hit, the carceral state and its supporters would have said you were a terrible un-American person for doubting their guilt or questioning the prosecution.

I know I'm a broken record about this, but they answer to loneliness is to join a subculture. It's an instant set of potential friends, they have meatspace social events, there's always something to talk about, it's just all upsides

The circumstances of Mr. Escobar's arrest are even worse than the brief summary above. He repeatedly tried to tell the immigration officials that he had papers while they were arresting him. In response, a federal agent said "No you don't. You are illegal," and "Shut up, bitch! You're illegal."

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

being unable to grasp that one of these things is *significantly* worse than the other, in every possible way, is completely disqualifying for anyone who even wants to post about politics, let alone be involved in them

kimmel coming back on the same day the rapture doesn’t happen are two great thumbs jabbed in two deserving eyes

if I were a member of the current Trump administration I would not be excited about the concept of “illegal pardons”

Iraq and gay marriage, the two issues that set my politics for life in high school and early college

i know it’s kind of a pedantic, meaningless point, but the freeze peach enthusiasts who are now crowing about getting people fired and worse are not hypocrites, they are liars, they never believed any of it to begin with, and it’s a little embarrassing to admit to having believed them

wait is he doing a radio interview? not showing up on camera? he's fucking dead dude.

Maybe this makes me an old. Don’t give a shit. It sucks. And if all of the issues could be ironed out this would be a place I could accept targeted use of AI, in condensing and summarizing the content of a video to text.

i think we deserve to know which cabinet members JD Vance would fire and which he would retain

it's very hard to balance how utterly fucked up this is as a matter of the structure of state and liberty in a democracy, and how *at least right now* it's just reality tv shit for the reality tv president