nate-s.bsky.social
Community development guy. I’m from the progressive wing of the supply side progressives.
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Hillside Nature Area is the most underrated open space in the East Bay. And even the nightlife is getting to be decent!
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As an Oregon Trail generation kid, one of my first impressions of politics was that the Reagan/ Bush/ Dole GOP seemed old and out of touch, and the Hart/ Jackson/ Clinton Dems seemed young and future oriented.
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Pretty clear that when vacancy exceeds about 15% rents fall, and when it’s under 10% they rise. Genuinely curious what accounts for the wide distribution in the data between 10% and 15%.
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And they’re missing the important point about speed and the policy feedback loop— that Democratic legislation won’t be substantively or politically successful if government can’t translate it into outcomes fast enough for voters to feel and reward it.
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Whatever you think of foreign aid— and I can say from experience that it is saving human lives— the world’s richest person is illegally shutting down an agency created by an act of Congress. That is not constitutional government.
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In the late 90’s I interviewed dissident Sandinistas who had left the party. They said that Ortega had concluded it was a mistake to have voluntarily surrendered power when he lost elections in 1990, and that if he got back into office, he would not do so again.
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He pardoned over 400 people convicted of assaulting police, and released the leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. He now has loyal personal militia who will feel they’re above the law. This is bad.
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“Like, say, the Tesla Board that gave President Musk a $101 Billion pay package.”
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I DJ’ed a college radio show back then. Add in ‘98– Aquemini, Black Star, Moment of Truth— and it might be rap’s best two year period.
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I think the lesson is listen less to either set of voices, and much more to what voters are telling us. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and @aoc.bsky.social succeed in part because they are so committed to doing that. It leads them to different positions, but that’s because they have different voters.
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In my experience, both things are often true: candidates can get pulled left on cultural issues by “the groups,” staff, and social media, while simultaneously being pulled right on economic issues by donors and the Democratic consultant class.