YouTube video by CBS Mornings What would a viable 3rd political party look like? We asked voters to try to build one.

Americans are sick of the two-party system, but what can we do to break out of it? @leedrutman.bsky.social went on @cbsmornings.bsky.social to explain how proportional representation can revitalize democracy in America.

Maybe if we all keep praying without making any policy changes, that will solve it.

Analysis: Denver Study Shows Removing Parking Requirements Results in More Affordable Housing Being Built "We find that eliminating parking minimums creates more options for developers and renters."

Like UBI and providing long-term contraception to teenagers, this will be repeated a billion times and never believed, but yes, reducing parking requirements encourages affordable housing.

Padilla: It’s not just undocumented folks who are being detained and arrested. It’s legal immigrants—even US citizens. We know of at least 170 US citizens who have been caught up in these raids and put in detention centers.

It’s the intended effect of this administration to stoke fear and terror

I want my phone to buzz and beep like it does for an amber alerts anytime there is any sort of eclipse, possible aurora borealis sighting, or any other astronomical event.

Go get it Scott!!

I want everyone to read it, and youtubers and other content creators to spread the message even farther.

The main value of a public library is that you are not the product.

UDOT finds Salt Lake road projects created little impact; mayor still promises 'change' A much-anticipated study of recent Salt Lake City road projects found little impact to this point, but the city plans to make adjustments to other findings.

SB 195 in Utah, designed to halt street safety projects in SLC in the name of the mighty car, was founded on a false premise. Traffic hasn’t gotten worse and people’s perceptions of safety projects are positive and neutral. Hope this study puts an end to the state interfering with our streets

The case for open borders by John Washington is amazing. Read it!

The Housing Blind Spot That Undermines Climate Strategy - California YIMBY Housing policies influence 53 percent of climate pollution from the average American household by determining whether people can choose to live near jobs and shops in smaller homes or are limited to d...

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AI is overhyped and is a bubble.

How First Past the Post helped apartheid take hold in South Africa South Africa’s history shows how an electoral system can change everything. Sometimes, democracy’s biggest dangers aren’t coups or revolutions, but the quiet impact of the rules th

"Mandela’s South Africa rejected the mechanics of exclusion [first past the post elections] and replaced them with a structure that values every voice [proportional representation]."

How First Past the Post helped apartheid take hold in South Africa @electoralreform.bsky.social

We have always been at war with Eurasia

Allowing plaintiffs to be awarded voting shares in a corporation that caused them harm could be a pathway to achieve control over economic decisions that affect the wider population.

Many folks believe that if you are affected by economic decisions, you should have a say in those decisions. #socialism #coasetheorem #participatoryeconomics #paracon

I see this as a possible way to address situations where externalities are not taxed or regulated appropriately.

Your company knowingly harms the planet and people? Those you harm should then have a say in how the company is run.

I think plaintiffs who sue these corporations who knowingly lie, should be awarded stock in those companies where they can then use that stock to vote for a new board that would represent their interests.

Companies knew that lead was bad, but kept putting it in gasoline and paint.

Same with cigarettes, same with chlorofluorocarbons, as well as many other examples

There are a shocking number examples of corporations learning that their business is causing real harm to people and the planet and then hiding that information and in some cases deliberately misleading the public in order to protect their profits.

Merchants of Doubt How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

Also: www.merchantsofdoubt.org

The Big Myth “[A] scorching indictment of free market fundamentalism . . . and how we can change, before it's too late.”-EsquireThe bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt…

For me, this fits in nicely with work done by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
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The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare (Published 2016)

Required reading if you are drawn to libertarianism: www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/m...

Restaurants should under no circumstances serve potato chips with a meal. If you serve potato chips, you are a vending machine.

Opinion | How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem Proportional representation could help restore American democracy.

Want to see how it could work? Here's a vision for making proportional representation a reality in America, from @leedrutman.bsky.social and @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Just learned about @cutoffthespigot.bsky.social She is doing good work. I canceled my spotify subcription and subscribed to qobuz at her recomendation.

A Solution to Abuse of Executive Power Both parties have misused presidential power. Congress must act to end it.

In the wake of the president’s abuses of power, it won’t be enough for politicians to merely orate about restoring the rule of law. The only way to overcome that skepticism is with action.
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YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Netanyahu: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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