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Urban/environmental policy guy, YIMBY, sci-fi/fantasy writer, liberal. 🏳️‍🌈. Californian in the DC area. All posts represent my views, not those of my employer. where are they painted that were drowned after their vows?
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now taking bets for which if any of the following words and phrases in my draft will make it to the published product: -“Pollyannaishness” -“pusillanimity” -“shoggoth” -“nattering nabobs of NIMBYism” -a George Strait reference in a section heading

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So with the Mahmoud opinion and the porn opinion SCOTUS has basically ruled that minors have no First Amendment rights independent of their parents.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

I’m in a grumpy mood so: the quoted post’s logic is very common among self-described leftists, and contributes to my suspicion that contemporary socialists are almost all just doing a bit. class conflict explains very little of society, and “the working class” isn’t a useful category of analysis.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

the existence of PDFs and e-books means we should change publishing conventions to have “p.1” always be the literal cover page

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I’m very suspicious of the psychological dynamics that make part of me think this could ever be a good idea, BUT: if anyone thinks it would be helpful to start “gym bros against MAHA”, I would be extremely here for that your health is your own business! say no to health surveillance!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

you either lose as Lamont or win long enough to see yourself become the Lieberman

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

the idea that “community board meetings” are representative of any meaningful “community” is farcical

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

a setting that logs you out of the app whenever a specific argument starts up again

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

amazing how it took exactly one woman politician to switch the American people’s view from “a woman can never be president because women are too soft-hearted to order men to war” to “a woman can never be president because women see men as cannon fodder and will order them to war for no reason”

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

An important victory for zoning reform—especially for advocates of setting a minimum density to which you can definitely build—and an important challenge for other states to follow suit. Right now, policymakers in many states are certainly acting like they’re fine with the future belonging to Texas!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

poll: sometimes in text, especially comics, you’ll see screaming rendered as “AAAA”, sometimes “AHHHH” or “AAUGH” or or “ARGH” or “AACK”. (Number of As and Hs may vary.) in your head, do you hear these as: A) all unique sounds B) all generic screaming C) some are unique, some are generic screaming

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Today I am yet again reminded of the urgent need to make it easier to build homes in California so that vulnerable people can actually afford to live in a state that protects them. What good are our vaunted protections if they come with an exorbitant price tag?

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

does anyone have any views on tomorrow’s primaries for Virginia lieutenant governor and attorney general?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Urban Americans are just as American and just as entitled to representation as rural Americans. It’s been standard practice for cities’ tribunes on the national stage to concede otherwise off the bat—they should be advised that I’m willing to be flexible on a lot if they stand firm on this.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

on most things, including the 2000 election, the reality is more complicated, but if you don’t like ranked-choice voting and are annoyed at its use in various blue US jurisdictions, you’d be entirely justified in placing 100% of the blame on Ralph Nader

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Topical words from immigrant Thomas Paine: "Could we [...] trace [kings] to their rise, we should find the first of them nothing better than the principle ruffian of some restless gang, whose savage manners, or pre-eminence in subtilty obtained him the title of chief among plunderers." #NoKings

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

California is the safest state in the US to give birth, something conservatives might consider meaningful!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

this is why I should be in charge of all Discourse: no one I met in grad school annoyed me nearly as much as the primary source of my grad school woes: the novel coronavirus

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments