Hit the jackpot

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

This is a post about why Elizabeth Warren seems so strangely ill-equipped for this moment in American politics, but it's really about the limitations of left-populism as an answer to right-populism. publiccomment.blog/p/what-s-goi...

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Not hearing the subway surfing PSAs on the 7 train anymore. Good riddance

Renters are people too, and efforts to expand homeownership access shouldn't come at the cost of restricting rental options. publiccomment.blog/p/against-ho...

The current 12-game Jeopardy champion works at an affordable housing finance agency in NJ, and shamed New York for not building more housing: "NJ's doing really well, we're ahead of NY, CT, PA. If you're from one of those states, shame on you, build more housing."

We need a skyscraper the height of Mount Marcy

Has anyone else been re-watching this several times a week for a couple of months or is it just me

electric motors have no soul but internal combustion engine is like a nervous horse and has the capacity for love

“As Robert Cover put it, "Legal interpretation takes place in a field of pain and death." It's not a soccer field or a football field, it's not the Lands Between in Elden Ring. Play games with the Reconstruction Constitution, and people will suffer, bleed, die.” reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Couche-Tard (Quebec convenience store chain) also had a limited-time pizza-ghetti slush. And the commercial is kind of insane

The DC Metro made possible the creation of vast new urban development areas, including Navy Yard & NoMa in DC; the Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor in Arlington, VA, & Bethesda in Maryland. The Metro reshaped much of the region around public transit, rather than highways.

I just got an email from Afeela. This does not make me want one.

Omakase is German for "grandma cheese"

Entertaining the Nazi leftist convo is a spectacular Own Goal for a party bound by rules of hypocrisy that their opponents aren't. It does Repubs' work for them. Allowing them to frame Dems as No Better. Outsmarted. Outwitted. Just like when they were tricked into handing TikTok to Larry Ellison.

Pre-approved ADU plans, love to see it!

Thanks to Hell Gate for reaching out to me for a response! Here’s my Q&A with them. hellgatenyc.com/abundance-ag...

Predators—mostly but not exclusively men—exist everywhere, every social institution has a problem with them, and every one tends to respond in the same ways.

Amazing thread

i will cross mid block as is my god-given right as a new yorker

Has there been any substantial commentary from the bayesian libertarian types who were arguing that prediction markets would lead to a utopian epistemological paradise if implemented on how it's turned out in practice?

Did I spot an Ocean pulling into a car wash and then followed it though to get the most unique photos of an Ocean so far? Maybe. Yes.

This is good news but we have to drastically cut down the amount of time "temporary" projects retain that status. Reforming the community input, design, procurement and delivery processes needs to be a big priority of the Mamdani administration.

Housing is too expensive because we do not have enough homes in the places with jobs, not because the wrong people own them. Effectively banning new build-to-rent single family housing will worsen the housing shortage and make it even harder for families to get into homeownership. It’s a bad idea.

another sedan bites the dust 😢

This is an all time Arnab classic

I like when @currylee.bsky.social shows up

Wow. So you want your grandma to be murdered by an e-bike? If you really cared, you'd get her a safe car

double digits baybee

“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking

ordering doordash because i forgot to charge my knife

NYC Council Member Vickie Paladino (R) crashing out over a new apartment building in her district that will likely be approved tomorrow due to the "Affordable Housing Appeals Board" adopted by voters last November. It's long, but the whole 7 minutes is worth it!

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

People who live in other places are often surprised by my nonchalant attitude toward winter storms. But NYC power lines are underground, I live in an apartment building and don't own a car so there's nothing for me to shovel, and the subway and buses usually still run if I do need to go somewhere.

i really can't communicate strongly enough how much these guys rock youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

🌊 +4 sightings 🚗 T744130C, T133717C, T105173C, T672125C 📈 15.0% █▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ (351 out of 2342) * @airlineflyer.net +2 → 95 * Vishnu Reddy +2 → 2

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

social media: here’s something really dumb for you to get mad at me:

the main reason to go after the rich is that if you don’t the entire structure of your society is predicated on the whims of people who are entirely disconnected from ordinary life billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus

Adaptive reuse, kei trucks, and breakfast tacos. 3 of my favorite things

imo Dems should treat these people the way they claim we treat them

My grandpa, a Great Society Democrat and General Electric middle manager, would randomly print off little modernist creeds like this and earnestly suggest that I hang them up somewhere. We need more of this energy in America these days. Really only immigrants and Mormons have got it.

so your dream of a hemispheric common market with open trade and open borders was bullshit

Ok so I took the bus to some place in DeKalb County called “Your DeKalb Farmers Market“ and it’s insane (laudatory). It’s basically globalist Costco.

Holy shit the Decatur MARTA station goes hard

All of the companies selling properties to ICE have names. For instance, the company who sold a warehouse in San Antonio to ICE for their concentration camp here is called Oakmont Industrial Group out of Atlanta, GA and the members of their board are publicly available on LinkedIn. Thanks.