This stuff probably unlocks more construction than any other reform at this point.

Idk why people focus in on this idea that he was a hypocrite. He was pretty straightforward about his belief that yeoman farmers and the colonial landed aristocracy were the most virtuous people on earth and ultimately the only groups of people fit to govern. His ideas were self serving!

It’s true though I do think the onus is on reformers to level out the boom and bust nature of residential development. Banking on developers to forever get over their skis isn’t viable. Derisking projects and lowering the profits necessary to build will be a key element of increasing affordability

FDR would've felt incredibly vindicated by all of this. A core proposition of the New Deal was that the country's ruling class was incapable — at best — of defending the Constitution, and that it was up to a dissident vanguard of intellectuals, in conjunction with workers and farmers, to do it.

I’m such a philistine I love these faux brick facades on infill sm. Honestly anything unarticulated I’m all for at this point. Give me a flat surface please.

My local transgender coffee shop did this but it was a Henry George shrine

When California adopted its first constitution in 1849, it required that all laws be published in both Spanish and English. There was even an office of the State Translator to write these translations. Crazy how the woke mind virus was alive and well even then 😔

Is there anything that Caltrain did recently that might be instructive to other agencies? Something about wires?

Forget hydrogen or batteries. Just electrify trains like the rest of the world, with simple overhead line that allows efficient engines to pull power direct from source. Congrats to @caltrain.com, where newly electrified trains are delivering vastly improved service - and rave reviews!

For the love of god can we build housing instead?

Media elites despise communities like mine: urban, educated, professional class wage earners. But here in real America, all the volunteers at the bike co-op I work at were excited about Mamdani. The American press is out of touch with people like us and it shows.

Kornai's a big reason why i'm a social democrat:

There has been entirely too little scrutiny about the fact the American Starmerism media elites have been advocating for has been a political disaster for UK Labour. We have a contemporary blueprint for how they want Dems to govern!

"In claiming the mantle of science, the data-centered approach to politics has drawn ever tighter boundaries around what it takes to speak knowledgeably about politics and so in turn who can be entrusted to direct it." Lily Hu for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

@lastpositivist.bsky.social We're all thinking along similar lines. publiccomment.blog/p/the-revolt...

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture-- which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

Seth Moulton counteracted this when came out against trans kids in sports. Keep up!

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

They elected a YIMBY who cited Eugene Debs in his victory speech.

With the passage of prop 50 we can now give every Californian Republican what they truly want: a single congressman who answers only to them and rants on podcasts all day while Democrats go off and quietly govern.

lol I voted there earlier today

Gonna be that old retired Gov worker that writes some bullshit about local historical figures that no one reads. Might fuck around and become the eminent expert on the life and career of Hiram Johnson

ah yes, aristocracies — known the world over for their innovation, flexibility and capacity to meet new challenges

Analysis | Losses by Spanberger, Sherrill, and Mamdani would be devastating for Democrats. Wins could be even worse.

it's happening

Did you know there are affordable housing grant programs in California, that build 100% very low income projects, that require the project developer to spend money on anti displacement work with local nonprofits to be competitive?

Pundits treat your attention to their work as if it’s an existential factional battle because for them it is. But no one should be under the impression that this has any bearing on actual existing politics on the ground.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

Shape rotator STEM GF Wordcel policy worker BF

Okay if conservatives are gonna soy face over LOTR what’s a 20th century book series liberals/ dem socs can soyface over? I suggest the Foundation trilogy: 1. Deeply humanist work of fiction 2. Basically Marxian view of progressive forces of rule of law and economic development against feudalism

All the evidence on Alzheimer’s is converging on: live in a walkable city and have friends that you talk to and do activities with.

Love this Eco friendly message brought to you by Japanese Railways.

Just call me gay and a race traitor this is exhausting lol

This alone would’ve made me a lifelong Democrat

I know no one music posts on this website, but I’m gonna make a prediction: Indie pop a la Two Door Cinema Club, Black Kids, Teegan and Sara etc is gonna see a revival at the tale end of the 2020’s. Interest in fashion of the time is already starting and the alt country thing is about to crest.

I think a lot of people would be happier if they didn’t take things so personally and internalized that they aren’t too good for trivial bullshit.

It’s such an interesting window into right wing culture that the Trad Wife thing originated from Evangelical writers and then quickly devolved into a porn category/ influencer gimmick. It’s like they can’t escape the fact there’s no substance to any of their cultural fixations and they know it.

This is a good reason to create a regional coordinating body for capital construction (and fare harmonization).

Horseshoe theory is inherently bourgeois.

It’s so insane people wait in line to get into Kupros.

Me 6 months ago: Okay I’m gonna get a cat but like I’m not gonna be a weird cat person about it Me now: I would die for my moron roommates who I love.

Academics’ and planners’ single-minded focus on making *brand new* homes affordable to the poorest people has been a disaster for poor people’s’ ability to afford housing.

Easy to do if you eat out every day which I think a ton of people do. Honestly cooking and household inventory management should be required classes in schools I think a lot of people would benefit.

My Halloween decorations are so authentic!

Nobody wants to admit this but it's true. If you want to get really spicy with it, apply class analysis without holding over 19th or 20th century conditions. The conclusion must be reached that the globalized, urbanized, cosmopolitan PMC are the politically developed revolutionary class.

College educated renters are the base constituency for socialist politics in America. More and more people are saying it all the time in fact.

Exciting to see electeds in Illinois embrace 1) revenue for transit ops 2) governance reform 3) regional network management 4) service led planning 5) streamlining project delivery of new transit infrastructure wrt 3rd parties 6) cost benefit analyses and 7) framework agreements for capital projects