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Post-2020 backlash was IMO a combination of this and the first time in decades there was a genuinely tight labor market

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Good morning

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I have a piece in the @sfchronicle.com today about why San Francisco should copy New York's successful congestion pricing model to revitalize downtown: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

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Something I’ve been thinking about recently: When we talk about asking older people to stop driving, the thing we’re expected to be most sensitive to is their feelings of lost autonomy. As if it’s gauche to insist on other people’s right to live w/o being menaced by seniors operating deadly machines

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This is just the Adams Administration/Adams DOT allowing "member deference" to apply to street design. The City Council has no formal power over this decision

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Gerryontocracy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Someone should write the sequel to the original and call it “Albion’s Seed (And That’s Bad)”

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An American from a blue collar background, who spent their early career in Peru before rising to a prominent position in Europe? Congratulations Pope Lydia Tár!

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One of the reasons I’m so skeptical of a lot of received wisdom on when kids are “best” is that 2 is a famously difficult age and hanging out with my 2 year old is pretty much my favorite activity

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Plenty to criticize about how CAHSR has been mismanaged but fundamentally I think normie Californians think traffic and flight delays suck and they want an alternative— it’s that simple

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Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow

submitted 56 days ago • 64 comments

Something you’re hearing more and more is that “Having opinions about politics and sharing them in the media” is not a real job and these people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and learn some real skills so they can experience the dignity of work

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The Democratic Party’s problems are not about being moderate or left. That’s a consultant and pundit red herring The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame

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Excited! Thrilled! Verklempt, even!

submitted 83 days ago • 7 comments

darkly funny that it was the ascendant right wing (not the degrowth left) that is launching the trade policies that threaten to Take Banana

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Shot: foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/23/t...

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When I had a kid I was able to use NYPFL to space out my leave and supplement the truly pathetic amount I got from my company (6 weeks!) but the NYS program is so haphazardly administered and you get taxed on it twice. No one with a new kid wants to do more paperwork.

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We love touching the stove don’t we folks? Sleepy Joe never touched the stove but America is back and we’re going to be touching it very strongly

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I have fantastic news for all the zoomers romanticizing early 10s millennial lifestyles. tho you won't get the cheap Ubers or the rest of the ZIRP goodies, that ship has sailed.

submitted 86 days ago • 17 comments

Not the main point, but: Why are you, a grown adult man with a prominent position in government, going by the name “Miki.” What is that doing for you

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Andrew Cuomo, in addition to being a serial sexual harasser, knowingly sent people with Covid into old folks homes, leading to a massive rate of infection and death for the elderly. Read and share the @propublica.org story about how Andrew Cuomo killed your elders.

submitted 88 days ago • 44 comments

Also, Cuomo almost single-handedly cost Dems the House. He let the GOP gerrymander NY’s Senate to thwart progressives, pushed through an amendment to try to block future Dem maps, & chose conservative judges who blocked Dems from gerrymandering after 2020 while the GOP ruthlessly drew TX, FL, etc.

submitted 88 days ago • 24 comments

Now this is some unambiguously funny stove touching

submitted 89 days ago • 108 comments

'americans have oppositional defiant disorder' is both the country's curse and its potential salvation

submitted 91 days ago • 9 comments

One reason I felt OK leaving media almost a decade ago is I saw where this was going — opinions undergo almost no scrutiny and people will accept very little money to share theirs, which makes it attractive for bosses to publish more pontificating and less reporting.

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Update for those following along at home: This kicked off a vigorous discussion in the group chat about whether Cambridge, Santa Monica, and Berkeley are properly considered suburbs

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All suburbs are bad and yadda yadda, but Silver Spring is probably a top 5 suburb of a major metro in the U.S.

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Oh for fuck’s sake

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Something I fear is that “These people choose to make less $ than in private sector bc they care about what they do and want to serve the public” is not persuasive to most Americans, and that the modal response is “Yeah, we know, you guys are suckers and losers for doing that, go get a real job”

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In many ways it's fitting that the showdown between monarchy and democracy ends up being over NYC congestion pricing. Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space. The cameras are staying on!

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M forced out as part of the newly elected Labour govt’s “Back to Basics, Getting Things Done” austerity program, Control revived as a zombie to run the agency again, Bond nearly comes to blows with his new direct supervisor George Smiley over whether it’s his job to follow a basic paper trail

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Ironically I missed the congestion pricing tsuris because I was driving all day

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Straightforward from here: 1. Self-proclaimed King Trump declares war on congestion pricing 2. Sends red-hats into NYC to impose his will 3. Surprisingly robust urbanist militias resist, the "15-minute-city men"

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