This is how to do it! Loosen zoning to allow more private action and supplement it with social housing. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Tina Smith: Our Solution to the Housing Crisis www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/o...
Instead of treating real estate as a commodity, we can underwrite the construction of millions of permanently affordable homes and apartments.
The UNGA tunnel rocks! Being able to shoot up 1st from 41st to 49th is a game changer for trips to the QBB!
A fascinating look at the impact on their states of prospective VP candidates for Harris. Most alarming is NC. Roy Cooper would exercise no power when out of state campaigning and control during those periods would pass to his insane Lt. Governor. guaranteedrepublics.substack.com/p/kamalas-ve...
Or: of course I can make this about state constitutions
the "violence shook this previously peaceful white christian nationalist rally railing against the vermin tainting the blood of the country" stories are going to destroy me
Threadc1/2 Three things are true 1) The attempt on Trump's life was deplorable and it's good that it didn't succeed. 2) Trump and MAGA are an authoritarian personality cult that have had no problem encouraging political violence.
Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it
First look at Electoral Calculus UK in a while. I knew the Tories were going to get kneecapped, but I didn't realize that they could lose their spot as HM Opposition to the Liberal Democrats.
NYC congestion pricing was supposed to go into effect today. Let's see what Governor Kathy Hochul -- who intervened to prevent the policy leaving a multi-billion dollar hole in the MTA's budget and canceling service improvements and needed station upgrades -- is up to. Oh. Oh no.
