My housing policy in a sentence: Pursue greenfield development at very high densities, with the care and intelligence that desirable high density demands. See e.g. www.interfluidity.com/v2/8772.html
"the broader recognition of hysteresis and chronic demand shortfalls in the 2010s, and the aggressive response to the pandemic in this decade, are positive lessons that need to be preserved and defended and built upon." @jwmason@mastodon.social jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
a disadvantage of a two-party system is one wld like to be able to shun and shame people who vote for fascist political parties, but that forecloses any meaningful democratic choice to those who wld remain within the pale. it's better if those who opt out of democracy leave some for the rest of us.
suppose, hypothetically of course, that the owner of a key military supplier, upon whose products national security depends, is himself a grave security risk. is there nothing in American law that could force the security risk to divest?
so, i guess it’s settled then. seen in Daytona Beach, FL.
Colorful airbrushed T-shirt that say “FACT CHECK ✔️ Thet ARE eating cats & dogs!”
from “concerned so sharp an immigration wave might pose challenges to a community” to “they’re eating the cats” is the ultimate motte and bailey.
rewatched “The Warriors” forty years later. found myself nostalgic for a lost dystopia.
i feel like there’s tourism potential in Springfield OH now, like some enterprising immigrant should open a colorful joint walled with voodoo-themed murals offering “catburgers” made from 100% Grade A Beef Chuck, but with, you know, little ears and whiskers drawn on the buns.
i feel like there’s tourism potential in Springfield OH now, like some enterprising immigrant should open a colorful joint walled with voodoo-themed murals offering “catburgers” made from 100% Grade A Beef Chuck, but with, you know, little ears and whiskers drawn on the buns.
“Congress simply doesn’t legislate much anymore, focusing on confirming judges, who are now perceived…as super-legislators… the Biden [Administration] made an aggressive argument to limit judicial reaching” ~Matt Stoller www.thebignewsletter.com/p/justice-de...
Justice Department Moves to Roll Back Rogue Texas Judges
Link Preview: Justice Department Moves to Roll Back Rogue Texas Judges: The Biden Justice Department launched a legal challenge to the Fifth Circuit over enforcement of the FTC's non-compete rule, and more broadly on the overreach of judges in voiding rules.
(oops, just saw Matt is here, as @matthewstoller.bsky.social)
“It is often alleged that means-testing proponents…like the fact that the administrative burdens…exclude some poor people bc that saves money. But rarely do you ever see it laid out this explicitly” @mattbruenig.bsky.social on the UK “Winter Fuel Payment” www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2024/09/13/t...
The Comedy of the Winter Fuel Payment Means Test
Link Preview: The Comedy of the Winter Fuel Payment Means Test: Means testing insanity in the United Kingdom.
perhaps laura loomer is an antibody, an apparatus to which a threat is drawn, rendering it visible and visibly noxious to the larger system.
“The lesson of history is that it does not matter where you draw the lines on the map. What matters is what kind of society lies on each side of that line.” @sjshancoxli.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/the-bloody-r... ht @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
“the right to interstate travel is a lot like the right to abortion once was: a core freedom that is grounded in our Constitution but does not appear in the text of the document” @andyreports.bsky.social and Lisa Needham www.publicnotice.co/p/texas-medi... ht @memeorandum.com
Texas comes for the right to interstate travel
Link Preview: Texas comes for the right to interstate travel: States' rights for me, not for thee.
“social housing…can impose competitive discipline on private rivals. As a public option in the housing mkt, it can rein in the pricing power of…landlords and pressure them to raise standards of habitability for poor, working, and middle-class families” hbr.org/2024/09/the-... ht @jwmason.bsky.social
The Market Alone Can’t Fix the U.S. Housing Crisis
Link Preview: The Market Alone Can’t Fix the U.S. Housing Crisis: Unaffordable housing is a drag on regional and national economies. In areas where housing costs are high, employers end up effectively transferring significant sums to landlords as the cost of attract...
This (apocryphal) practice that has overtaken the national debate, I think I have a name for it — fidophagia.
[new draft post] Another man's poison drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/12/a...
who knew the whole gang was here? i’m so excited to find you all.
i’m hoping Swift immortalizes him in a blockbuster hit single that becomes an enduring classic. think “you’re so vain”, but there’s so much more than vanity to work with.
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