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Housing, design and urbanism for @CityLab. Chili purist. Texan. 📸: @kriston_capps 💌: [email protected] 🔒: @kristoncapps.33 📰: https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/citylab-design-edition
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I agree with almost every word of this, especially the kicker: "Lander sure looked like the kind of guy you’d want in charge at a time like this." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Can't-miss detail from Zahra's great scoop: Among the names considered for an agency to replace FEMA include "the National Office of Emergency Management (NOEM) — an acronym that dovetails with the name of the Homeland Security secretary"

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

SCOOP: DHS Sec. Kristi Noem directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to prepare a memo on how to abolish itself and create a re-branded, radically smaller disaster response organization, according to a copy of the document reviewed by Bloomberg News. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

This is not true. The NYT ran a live blog with at least five bylines all day yesterday. This front-page story which appears on A1 above the fold is just one version of their coverage.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Arriving at Union Station today I noticed a huge group of old white people sitting in an unusual part of the station. It was striking to see that many older folks in one place. Definitely people arriving for the military parade.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Out of office for the next few weeks —

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

One time I went to a private preview of the Whitney Biennial and it was just me and Ben Stiller

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

What if I told you that Obama did a fireside chat not even a month ago and asked you if 1) you heard about it 2) it mattered to anything materially or discursively.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

I don't need to see a source to tell you this is true

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Which is more visually offensive, protected bike lanes or ghost bike memorials? You get one or the other www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I'm writing a book! After years of reporting, I realized we've come to expect too much from policy. CAPABLE is about how a well-intentioned distrust of agency has gone too far—sapping our prospects for structural change, and undermining well-being in the process.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Treasury is developing new rules that would strip the tax-exempt status of colleges that are deemed to be using race in any way, aligning with the administration's executive orders. This flew under the radar yesterday with everything going on.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

"mix it up" bsky.app/profile/adri...

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

The wizard sleeps tranquilly. The magic broom sweeps the laboratory.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This makes a lot of sense

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

People roasting the NYT for reporting the incident on its live blog in neutral factual language are what get me. They are describing what happened for people who were not present. It's called News

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment