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I am being forced to live in a city dominated by sprawl infrastructure because of zoning

the high point of my being denounced as a neoliberal shill on tiktok is when i insisted that gentrification is downstream of housing supply constraints, and isn’t a quality inherently possessed by people you don’t like

The amount of people who cannot type correctly is alarming

The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable Solar power has become the fastest growing source of energy throughout the globe, with one gigawatt of capacity installed every 15 hours.

It's "estimated that the world is now installing one gigawatt worth of solar energy infrastructure every 15 hours — or about the output of a new coal plant"

Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey, is fired from her job as a federal prosecutor Comey, who had worked in the U.S. attorney’s office for nearly a decade, prosecuted both Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

BREAKING: Justice Department fires SDNY federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who played key role prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, per @eorden www.politico.com/news/2025/07/16/maurene-comey-fired-doj-00458921

Pam Bondi is breaking the DOJ And will take generations to put it back together.

New in PN: Pam Bondi is breaking the DOJ

"The Department of Justice is no longer in the business of justice at all, and has squandered the presumption of regularity it once enjoyed with judges. One of the bulwarks of American civil society is functionally MIA — a massive blow to state capacity."

Breaking Down the One Big Beautiful Bill | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget 2025-06-04-Note: (06/23/2025) Some categorizations and numbers in the Ways and Means' section of the table below have been updated to more accurately reflect the bill's potential impact.

At an estimated cost of $57 Billion the deduction for auto loans will amount to ~three times the amount spent on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure by the federal government in the last 35 years www.crfb.org/blogs/breaki...

Instead of Safe Routes to School, we get new trucks in the pick up line

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Yes, they are all just lying all the time

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.

One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.

They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

45 billion dollars is enough to build a brand new, permanently affordable apartment for every single one of the 75,000 homeless people in Los Angeles County.

Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature

This is from Israel's oldest paper. This is Israeli media reporting these war crimes and genocide in broad daylight.

You won't see this in American corporate media. They've continued to ignore this, enable this, even justify and cheer it on.

Do not look away. This is genocide. This cannot stand.

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

this is just an observation but one way to think of the civil war is that it WAS about states rights, but the right in question was the right of free states to stay free

i can’t express how much i stan rick steves

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

People keep attributing issues not being resolved as a "liberals are just capitalists who dont want to actually solve our problems if it harms them", when really it's mostly "everyone drives a car & lives in a suburban home & don't want to actually solve our problems if it harms them"

just watched a guy speed through and make a right turn through a pedestrian crossing while staring directly at his phone

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight

State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’ The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."

My report:

It's just true at this point that home ownership is not a middle-class indicator anymore but rather solidly an upper-middle class indicator

Straight out of Southern Baptist Seminary Ethics courses

this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."

housing.
healthcare.
infrastructure.
daycare.

everything is so much more expensive - and the quality/outcomes are so so so much worse.

Inside PHA’s $6.3 billion plan to save public housing Kelvin Jeremiah has led PHA into a new and scandal-free era that now includes a campaign to dramatically overhaul the agency's portfolio.

PHA is embarking on its most aggressive expansion since at least the 1960s.

Over the next decade, the agency would:

🔹 Overhaul all 13,000 of its existing properties
🔹 Build 3,000 new units
🔹 Purchase 4,000 units in private sector buildings

Is there anyone in this country doing more for public housing ops, efficiency, & reputation than the Philly Housing Authority?

PHA's success shows Faircloth discourse has been a misleading excuse for inaction by Left-NIMBY keyboard warriors

PHA is dominating the Philly multifam market right now💪

Why the Supreme Court decision on firing independent agency heads is a big deal The demise of Humphrey's Executor and the rise of unitary executive theory

New, from me:
Quick explainer on why the Supreme Court (likely) decision to overturn Humphrey's Executor and move toward unitary executive theory will undermine any future efforts to rebuild state capacity.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-the-su...

New Finnish research:

“Commuters who cycle to work are less likely to get sick than those who are inactive. Those who bike at least 61 km a week have 5.3 fewer annual sick days than those who don't. In a company of 50 people, this means 265 fewer days of sick leave.”

www.julkari.fi/bitstream/ha...