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Infrastructure finance professional wondering why Anglosphere costs are so high
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Most Ukrainian cities have not been destroyed. Ukrainian law prohibits holding elections in wartime (unlike the US Constitution, which requires it). isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 138 comments

*wearily* fuhrerprinzip

submitted 19 hours ago • 21 comments

Helpful reminder:

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & @wnober.bsky.social) When gov't engineers retire, projects take longer & costs (& cost overruns) go up. It’s harder to manage projects well w/ reduced staffing. Important to remember as DOGE cuts: reduced staffing can actually hurt efficiency. Paper: tinyurl.com/yvy2jt93

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

NEW: A regional FEMA chief of staff took Elon Musk's Fork in the Road offer. He has proof of receipt. But they didn't honor it. Instead, they fired him 13 days later. Now, this retired Navy captain is speaking out. www.thebulwark.com/p/musk-doge-...

submitted 1 day ago • 153 comments

New blog in which I try to sort out the good and the bad from the "15 min cities" and the Paris approach to urbanism. In short: cycle lanes and traffic calming are good, NIMBYism is bad. Note the professor who Paris credits as co-inventor of the concept says it's an alternative to "faster metros".

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

submitted 1 day ago • 272 comments

JPMorgan, owner of two towers, suing to stop a new building on the same block. One of many cases where landlords have lobbied to stop new bldngs from being built nearby in JC. A 2022 study by Li et al. found that "each 10% increase in housing stock reduces rents within 500ft by 1%"

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At the end of his CPAC speech, Steve Bannon exclaimed “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, raised his arm in a brief Nazi salute gesture, brought his arm down, nodded his head at the crowd, and then said, “Amen!”

submitted 1 day ago • 197 comments

Hell yeah

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Nice: Washington state is aiming to remove the 7ft elevator requirement for apartments ≤6 stories and 24 units, and providing an option for compliance with global elevator codes instead of North American. Passed the state senate 42-6.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is pretty straightforward authoritarianism: if you don't support my toxic businesses, I will use my government power to kneecap yours.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

People who hold high public office should be expected to make personal sacrifices to uphold the law and civic virtue both as the act themselves and to signal to others what is acceptable and what is not

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

submitted 1 day ago • 1912 comments

sounds like Dems are asking for the right things

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

"2-3 years ago, I would say in speeches that 'We shall enter Damascus and Aleppo'. I didn't say it just to raise morale, my claim was based on data. We compared data about the economic and socio-political cohesion in Idlib with the institutional and societal collapse in Syria."

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 2 days ago • 1899 comments

300 million Americans x $5,000 = $1.5 trillion, or about 20% of the federal budget

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 4 days ago • 609 comments

If Americans have decided to reverse their long standing position on “kings” there is no need for such amateurism Long established, reputable family firms are available to provide this service with much less headache or drama

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

What the hell? Eight percent defense cut per year, for five years? Say goodbye to military readiness. Say goodbye to modernization. This cannot stand: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

Discussions about the withdrawal of US troops from all NATO states that joined the alliance after 1990 are one of the goals of the talks between Russia and the US, an Eastern European security official tells BILD www.bild.de/politik/ausl...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments