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this is the greatest day of my life @pkrugman.bsky.social extensively just cited my article on congestion pricing paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lies-and-t...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

submitted 23 hours ago • 266 comments

El Salvador is stealing our prison jobs and undermining our prison industrial complex. 🙃

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

The definitive takes on Abundance.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

If I’m Canada I’m getting pretty excited about joint ventures and getting access to BYD’s charging tech

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Some abundance-oriented intellectuals would disagree, but my read on the abundance school’s greater significance is as an attempt to recover elements of the New Deal’s political economy and move past the New Left/degrowther instincts that still have too much influence over contemporary liberalism.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

Something that genuinely puzzles me is why some of the loudest anti-YIMBY voices on the left now come from antitrust groups, when the anti-YIMBY position is objectively aligned with the market power of incumbent landlords and developers.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Clear rules (zoning, permitting, construction) benefit non-incumbents!

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I don't see a conflict between abundance and antitrust. To the contrary, YIMBY policy is intended to help create many small- and medium-scale infill builders who can out-compete big single family developers like Lennar as well as large-scale apartment developers like Greystar.

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

One of the most important things for Dems to do for long-term viability as a party is elect as many pro-housing local leaders as we can, especially in states projected to lose population - then empower them to build fast.

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What is needed is not "left populism" but the replacement of old men clinging to their incumbency with young people willing to do what it takes to fight fascism, preferably armed with a positive vision of what to do when we take power back from the fascists. www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

An interesting consensus shift developing, using these three headlines as reference.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

I think we’d all agree on this:

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

Confederates, Nazis, Russia, Apartheid, Gilded Age fat cats, and Measles. We're in a comic book story where previously defeated villains come back and team up against the hero, like the Sinister Six v. Spider-Man. They're weakened by infighting, but in real life there's no guarantee the hero wins.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

I suppose they thought promoting a 1000-year reign would be a bit too obvious even for them

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

an under-appreciated reason to not rank Andrew Cuomo is that he teamed up with RFK Jr. to shut down New York’s largest nuclear power plant, causing energy costs and carbon emissions to skyrocket

submitted 18 days ago • 35 comments

Yet another Bulwark banger

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The technologies most at risk from excess gas build aren’t renewables—they’re clean firm resources, including nuclear. 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/basin-e...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Want to revive nuclear? Fix the finance. For @publicenterprise.bsky.social, I put together the playbook for the kind of "full-stack" financing ecosystem that nuclear energy—or any other kind of clean firm power—requires to be (re)deployed at scale: publicenterprise.org/report/ameri...

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Advait published a fantastic report on the financial mechanisms we can use to unblock nuclear development! TLDR, the goal isn’t just to lower the cost of capital, but addressing / mitigating the bottlenecks emerging from sectoral, supply chain, and workforce uncertainties.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Cultivating a meso-layer of politics (“elites” in other words) that is both meaningfully powerful, meaningfully committed to lowercase d democratic ideals , while still being somewhat egalitarian in it’s own composition seems like the core structural problem facing liberal democracies right now.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Not fun to have all the afflictions of a post-scarcity society without, actually you know, being post scarcity

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

CBRNE men

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Luigi discourse is cursed, and frankly a sign of political infantilism

submitted 33 days ago • 29 comments

Fellow #mapoli yimbys, today is the deadline for comments on the MBTA Communities Act (post the Supreme Judicial Court telling Milton to go kick rocks). Tell the EOHLC how much you love density and zoning reform. @abundanthousingma.org has you covered: www.abundanthousingma.org/stand-up-for...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Why would we abandon the prosperous, democratic nations of Europe, our allies for one hundred years, to "partner" with weak, poor Russia, a longtime adversary and dictatorship currently in the middle of an unprovoked invasion of a neighboring state? Treason. It's treason

submitted 37 days ago • 356 comments

a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.

submitted 37 days ago • 828 comments

If only the Senate Finance Committee had a Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight! www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 39 days ago • 38 comments

High-speed rail increases land values! With questionable federal support over the next four years, rail & transit project sponsors should think hard about how they can capture more of this value to help fund projects. This is how it works overseas, too. 1/ nypost.com/2025/02/14/r...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

This is getting closer to treason.

submitted 40 days ago • 16 comments

“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

submitted 41 days ago • 288 comments

Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served 2 tours in Iraq, was taken into custody last month by ICE because his citizenship papers, which were supposed to be processed while he was in the Army, were lost. Read his story:

submitted 42 days ago • 191 comments

It should be a source of profound embarrassment that a bunch of FedSoc lifers are taking a more vocal and principled stand against the corrupt Eric Adams deal than most elected Dems.

submitted 41 days ago • 243 comments

As a woman and a virtue ethicist, I cannot believe I’m here in the 21st century waxing nostalgic for my grandfather’s ideals of masculinity

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

Bringing this 2022 chestnut over here. Hey, it's still true! Whispers: There's a commission in your state of 3 - 5 people who can shut down all the fossil plants and pipelines and replace them with clean electricity, and SCOTUS can't stop them.

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Super excited for this report by @tnorris.bsky.social, Tim Profeta, Dalia Patino-Echeverri, & Adam Cowie-Haskell on using load flexibility to connect 100 GW of new large loads. National study assessing potential on the 22 biggest balancing authorities. nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/publications...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

This is possibly the right answer to the wrong question. Where candidates position their message on the left-dimension is secondary to the "demonstrated competence - incompetence" dimension, because the public is fundamentally not as much ideological as it wants things to just work, and furthermore

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments