I think there's a lot to this but honestly in my opinion the underlying dynamic that makes Zohran friendly to YIMBY orgs is just that he's heard the case for increased housing supply and agrees with it

Yes in my backyard

I like this guy in Pluribus

this approaches some of the same topics i've been pounding in my own writing. the basic issue we're having with governance is that people want all three of --anticorruption --professional effectiveness --political control from an institutional design perspective, these pull in different directions

Commissioners who hate the land use plan and think it should be tied to sewer … that’s exactly what it does. It restricts density to places where there’s sewer. Let‘s be real here, they really just hate apartments. Problem is, it’s incredibly expensive to run sewer to single family neighborhoods.

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

Representative-Elect Eric Gisler in his victory speech tonight: “This is going to be a shockwave. It will be hard work to keep this seat next year, but it sends a message right now that next year, we’re coming.”

We’ve had a lot of folks tell us we’re burning resources too early by launching field first. We disagree. Both candidates we’ve worked with (Akbar Ali and Eric Gisler) won their specials this year. The infrastructure we’re building can flip both the mansion and State House!

In 2024, about ⅔ of votes were in Oconee and ⅓ in Clarke. The same was true today. But the vote breakdown in both counties was to the left of 2024, especially in Clarke.

CALL: Democrat Eric Gisler has been elected to the Georgia State House in a special election, flipping HD 121, which was previously held by Marcus Wiedower (R). Trump won 55.7% of the vote there last year.

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

look I don't care how common the names "William" and "Smith" are, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air wrote Slow Horses and that's that

Part of the reason I'm more concerned about my parents being scammed than mugged is that they receive multiple calls per day trying to scam them and do not receive multiple mugging attempts per day. I also feel like the cops would maybe try to catch the mugger vs scammers who'd 100% get away with it

Even by the standards of anti-woke journalism this is lazy dreck. The first piece of "evidence" that older gamers are mad about wokeness is a random Reddit comment — that isn't a complaint about wokeness. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/11/2...

New post: a week of hectic back and forth with fire officials and city council over Berkeley street festivals brings out into the open a conflict in city halls across USA. Fire depts opposition to traffic calming and safety measures. Is there a solution? darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-fire-d...

I used to be close to a First Amendment absolutist and then photorealistic AI imagery was invented and now I think AI slop should be treated as a third tier of speech with somehow even less protection than commercial speech

Man, gotta love some Wall Street guy who decides It’s Time To Care About Poverty and uses vibe math to recalculate the poverty line, as… $136,500 Extreme “it’s one banana, Michael” energy

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

In Georgia HD 121, Peter Hubbard (Dem) won with 59% of the vote yesterday. There's a special election for State House there on December 9. Candidates can qualify to appear on the ballot starting TOMORROW and ending Monday. Times are Thurs 9-5, Fri 8-5, Mon 8-1. $400 to run.

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

Everyone also apparently memory-holed the affordable housing study ACC did like two years laying out a plan. But it will cost a lot of money. Why not let UGA students’ parents pay for it instead of Athens taxpayer? flagpole.com/news/city-do...

Georgia: Here's the result link for today's statewide special election for the Public Service Commission, as well as most local races.

Yes but have you considered the fact that he performs masculinity in a way that assuages my insecurities as a professional class man with an office job?

FINALLY we're seeing the ridership boost on Athens Transit that fare-free bus service was always expected to bring. Article coming soon.

Looks like this is one attorney’s informed opinion based on several facts from the operation — not something the attorney heard from ICE or found in documents they obtained, for example.

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

I would kill for an @ifbookspod.bsky.social episode about the 7 Habits - specifically, the billion dollar industry of turning that book into a program to sell to school districts.

Michael Buffer mentions the Saudi Arabia connection and sponsorship to Canelo-Crawford and the crowd at Allegiant Stadium boos heavily.

A lot of excitement for Ohio State (-55.5) and Grambling State. Calm down, Panera

Free idea: a college football RedZone should have a Hater's Function. You plug in a list of teams you hate, and you can get notified if those teams are having a real bad time. Like Clemson is, right now.

Semiotic or epistemic disorientation brought on by mass exposure to the relatively unfiltered thoughts of strangers on the internet.

As with a lot of things, what they really want is to approve everything individually without going through the tedious process of approving everything individually. Our zoning code is completely broken.

9/11

Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

and of course there is a bit of the affective hostility to "The Democrats" that is basically the currency of the realm of online political discourse

it's a testament to how american political parties are less some set of structures and institutions than they are the totality of public perception, media coverage and casual impressions

it is interesting to see large parts of the new york city and national democratic establishment line up behind mamdani as the party's nominee for mayor; to see influential insiders complain about mamdani; and to see how this all shakes out in public perception to "democrats are hostile to mamdani"

I can’t believe I’m going to be someone’s high school English teacher in just a few weeks.

He didn't even get in!!! The entire story is that he ticked a box on a form that gave him no material advantage in his life.

so let me get this straight—the NYT accepted hacked information given to them by a substack white supremacist to be used against a mayoral candidate?

no one cares that this is illegal but it is illegal and seems like something that might trip the court’s “major questions” doctrine

Also the entire news media. There's really not that many Democrats on the anti-Mamdani beat but curiously virtually all of them are getting prime slots on cable news shows as if they speak for all Democrats. It makes you think!

Zohran and the abundance bros can and indeed must band together to turn Sutton Place into East River Kowloon Walled City

something I kind of suspect is that Elon Musk pushed the Twitter algo to promote extreme views about Israel into people's feeds and so the many reporters who are still addicted to the site wound up grossly overestimating the salience this foreign policy issue had in fucking municipal elections.

These stories are so disturbingly common but this one makes me particularly sick to my stomach. Two parents in jail and separated from five of their children, because the sixth died while crossing a dangerously road just two blocks from home. But the driver and the road designer face no charges.

This is a really smart point about "experience" from @besttrousers.bsky.social, presented as a screenshot of a thread for readability

maybe the elite media should do some reconsideration of how they cover endorsements. turned out the jim clyburn endorsement they wrote big articles on was perhaps less important than the endorsement of the sitting NY AG that they ignored?