The difference between having ideas that are considered radical and being very into Being Radical is that the former hates the fact their beliefs are marginal and the latter get off on it. Yeah, I don't wanna be a righteous oppressed underdog. Shit sucks. I do want to be the state. I do want power.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Connect with community activists, public servants, and urbanists at Smart Growth Social. October 30, 2025, 6:30 pm Eastern Market RSVP here: secure.everyaction.com/9tRhMhLZM0-a... 📷: @natalifg.bsky.social (center), SGS 2024 keynote speaker, with @stewartcsg.bsky.social & @cmkisicki.bsky.social

quiche plating passes the Ted vibe check

your emails cannot reach me this morning. I am making a delightful quiche with chives from my balcony garden

We are a month away from Virginia's biggest pro-housing event of the year. We need to pack the room to send a message to our leaders that it's time to be bold on housing policy. actionnetwork.org/events/homes...

i think how we got here is that the right's favorite move is working the ref and the radical centrist's favorite move is self flattery that they could never be worked

Describe a single historical precedent for defeating authoritarians by being nicer to them.

Awesome, great can’t imagine this having any negative epistemological effects. Like you would always get what you searched for but now they’ve fully automated the confirmation bias machine.

Hope she takes them to the cleaners.

classic Stewart explaining regional policy moment caught live on camera. this is his natural habitat. I feel like a very talented nature photographer

@betterdcregion.bsky.social squad!!!!!!!

With big tent organizing, it's not about getting everyone to like everyone, "it's about trust." "We don't need everyone to like us, but we need them to trust us" — that we tell the truth.

butler’s keynote was so, SO moving and insightful (will share more later!!) and this closing spoke to my lil jewish heart :,) “It is not up to you to finish the work, but neither are you free to desist from it.”

public sector respecter 🫡 @pewilliams.bsky.social the public sector has an essential role in funding and producing high-quality affordable and mixed-income multi-family housing! people are doing great, innovative work on this across the country including back home in MoCo 🙂 @yimbytown.bsky.social

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

📣 ACTION ALERT! Opponents are pushing to add further restrictions to a key part of MoCo's More Housing NOW package, allowing more types of homes on county corridors. The hearing is tomorrow. Email the Council today urging them to say NO to more barriers on the new homes we need!

The Trump administration wants your kids to be run over by cars while walking to school

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Brian Kilmeade has advocated killing all homeless people. Some liberal critics say that may be going too far.

Packed house for Building Codes and YIMBYism @yimbytown.bsky.social

Metro ridership at Navy Yard-Ballpark peaks on game days! The station sees ~18-22K riders for home games (32K on weekend opener), compared to ~8-10K on non-game weekdays (~5K weekends). 10-12K park-bound Metro riders is a bit under 50% of the 24K average attendance at Nat's park!

Full room for the session on linking housing and transportation policy for sustainable, transit-oriented communities at @yimbytown.bsky.social! Featuring panelists from Clean Rides Network, MN, CO, @worldresources.bsky.social, and our very own @stewartcsg.bsky.social 🫡

"We are in a moment of great possibility. But it has to be seized quickly to matter, because climate change is happening at exactly the same time. And it is getting out of control at exactly the same time."

one of the most interesting facts about russ vought’s life, to me, is that NIH research is the reason his daughter had access to life changing drug to treat her cystic fibrosis. vought, of course, is the architect of the administration’s war on science. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

I found this comment really insightful and it has me thinking about how we can make housing messaging this simple and uplifting

Looking forward to hope and inspiration from @billmckibben.bsky.social at the @yimbytown.bsky.social conference. Glad our team @betterdcregion.bsky.social @cmkisicki.bsky.social & Becca Dedert & @montgomery4all.bsky.social can be here to find smart growth, housing, climate solutions.

YIMBY and smart growth are climate policy: “Compact development contributes significantly to reducing emissions.” It’s how we provide the homes people need without worsening sprawl and pushing people to live in areas at high climate risk. Great plenary at @yimbytown.bsky.social!

Jenny Schuetz (left) explaining the scale of coming costs from increased exposure to fire, floor and heat. These are huge hidden cost of living drivers and they are set to soar if we don’t take serious action now. @yimbytown.bsky.social

Jenny Schuetz @jennyschuetz.bsky.social is talking about how we can send better price signals about climate risk—not just housing costs, but insurance, maintenance and utility costs: “This is not a 50-year problem. This is a now problem.” But we have to create urgency without just scaring people!

MoCo squaddddd (partial!!!! there are several more of us here!!! and I will be taking selfies with all of them!!! 😍)

I look forward to hosting meetings and being able to say, “yeah - just get on at the silver spring station and off at either college park or Riverdale north.”

Lots of touching and hopeful testimony from @cmkisicki.bsky.social, @darashef.bsky.social , and @coloradoskatebug.bsky.social and others at the Univ Blvd Plan public hearing tonight. Final tally 15 for, 32 against, 4 mixed. We stand against fear, saying yes, we can have nice things.

Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather says she reminds people of how recent the history of things like redlining and sundown towns are when talking about housing. “Saying that you want to protect the status quo is saying you want things to be unequal, and that’s not okay with me.”

I watched a young family member suffer and die from cancer and it is unspeakably, unspeakably nihilistically evil to dismantle the infrastructure to fight this horrible disease that takes so much from so many people

Presentation this morning from the chief economist of Redfin at YIMBYtown—because of where we are and are not building housing, we’ve made it more expensive to live in places that are safe for LGBTQ+ people and in places that are relatively resilient to climate change

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

No place I’d rather be but the @welcomingneighbors.us national gathering!!! 😍 Check out all these wonderful housing advocates together in one room!

first leg of my train journey to YIMBYtown complete! ✅

again: it’s a regime, and the regime’s composition includes various private citizens, propagandists, and soon, likely, paramilitaries. it doesn’t include career civil servants. opposition party is not a governance partner, it’s an enemy to be crushed. bsky.app/profile/rvbd...

Phillies fam..... Today would have been the 24th birthday of the granddaughter of legendary manager Dallas Green. Another senseless death from political violence.

❌carport ✅owlport

It’s gonna be so weird watching establishment dems be performatively sadder about this than they were about the colleague and her husband and dog who got shot and killed

An important detail of today's shooting is that Utah is one of only two states in the country that allow campus carry. I hope that this decision is revisited.

Looking forward to seeing these bike lanes installed! Looks like it will provide great connectivity between the neighborhoods it goes through, existing trail systems, and Purple Line stops: bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/09/m...

Oh no, Columbia students are being assigned The Color of Law, a widely acclaimed book about the history of redlining and other anti-housing policies clearly this is communist indoctrination