Ben Ross

Two things are true.
Some people just really hate Jews.
They attract support from other people by blaming Jews for economic problems. Offering credible economic remedies draws some of that support away.

Do you really think Hitler's rise to power had nothing to do with the depression?

In Search of Root Causes - Dissent Magazine A certain kind of leftist just can’t help blaming American imperialism for September 11. In the search for “root causes,” their instinct to designate the United States as villain overwhelms their spir...

Yes and no. No one flat-out supported 9/11, but lots of people "understood" it and shifted the blame back to the US.
What I wrote about that at the time is more reliable than my memory, here it is: dissentmagazine.org/article/in-s...

It's a good translation, not a bad one. But translation is hard, and you can lose nuance with a translation into perfectly idiomatic new language.
Compare "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." A good translation! But "before me" is how you say it in Hebrew, not English.

TACO. Trump always chickens out.

Difference is that it's OK if the people at the end of the line don't get seats.

I'm really sick of hearing "but he's Jewish" from people who would be furious if told "it's not racist, Clarence Thomas is OK with it."

This is bad on civil liberties. A mayor shouldn't tell building owners not to rent space (sacred or not, a synagogue social hall isn't) to meetings of disfavored groups.
Should Code Pink (favors Chinese repression of Uighurs) be denied meeting spaces?

Is this detached houses only? Include townhouses? Include condos?

Update from Dana Rubinstein

Trump & the last guy he talked to!

"It seems clear that Mamdani sought to appeal to Trump’s experience as a real estate developer by highlighting his own pro-density inclinations."
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

He's former (twice) Maryland DOT Secretary, and the best one we've had in the 35 years I have been involved with transportation policy here.

This has one thing in common with the Colorado tract with highest mode share, Aspen.
Parking is very scarce!
An important lesson.

It's like "I hope the strike succeeds but I will keep working out of principle."

I'm not defending anything other than the free speech rights of people whether I disagree with them or not.

They support housing the way MAGA supports free speech.

You & Mamdani think it's illegal for Jews to settle there, they don't.
Should mayors who think it's illegal to warn people when ICE is coming call out building owners who allow anti-ICE organizing meetings in their space?

Not generational. Look at Young Republicans.
This is the drunk of any generation ranting at the country club bar.

Mamdani's statement is an attack on civil liberties.
"Sacred space" or not (a synagogue social hall isn't), extremist groups have a right to meet.
By this logic, Code Pink (backs Chinese oppression of Uighurs) & PYM (backed Oct 7 massacre) shouldn't be allowed to meet.
bsky.app/profile/crab...

Also, the term "sacred spaces" is tone-deaf & misses the point. The social hall in a synagogue building (where such events normally occur) is not a sacred space.
Really a civil liberties issue. Like obstructing CPUSA meeting in McCarthy era. They backed Gulag, surely worse than West Bank settlers.

I read this as all car-based. The father assumes he would drive to either campus. If they live anywhere near the high school, they are out well past the Metro, and UMD is nearly on the way into DC.

Aspen has a public garage which charges $12 per day. You ride a shuttle bus to downtown.
On-street downtown parking at lunchtime costs $6 per hour in the peak season and $4 off-peak.
Parking at Snowmass is $63 per day. There are free lots but you ride a shuttle bus.
aspenchamber.org/plan-trip/ho...

My personal view is that it's best to find an exercise you enjoy doing. Because then you'll do it and keep doing it.

28 of 28! All 28 Light Rail Vehicles have arrived in Maryland; a major milestone for the Purple Line. This vital connection will knit communities, ease commutes, promote public transit and link riders to 21 stations and key destinations across the corridor. #PurpleLineprogress

Vision Zero accomplishments for the year, in a county of 1 million.

7 new signals (some only blinking lights)
5.9 miles of new sidewalk
4 bikeways under construction
89 traffic lights retimed

189 "resident engagement events"

This is about class, not race. Many and probably most of the bill opponents, including all 3 quoted in the article, are Black.

Baltimore might be entering its YIMBY era A suite of zoning changes is garnering steam in Baltimore City Council, despite impassioned pushback.

Spotted in the wild! A new nimby euphemism for keeping people out.
As Baltimore City Council nears vote to legalize multi-family housing in all residential areas, opponents lament loss of "single-family values."
www.thebanner.com/community/ho...

"Sage" as a noun is one of those English words that has a long history but in current usage is pretty much only used by Jews. What others are there?

The Housing Strategy That Has California NIMBYs in a Corner

California's anti-nimby "builder's remedy" and the "pirate" builder who took on Beverly Hills first.
Ultimate impact "not just units that are built by using it, but the ones built in fear of it."
Great report by @conordougherty.bsky.social [gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...

Much more to it.
Urban air pollution immensely reduced.
Ownership of a car no longer had social prestige once nearly everyone owned one.
Also, urban neighborhoods built as streetcar suburbs gentrified before inner suburbs.

Not really so. NEPA reform is extremely controversial. NEPA fetters govt, private sector is affected only indirectly via obstruction of govt permitting and enactment of new regulations.
The stuff NEPA was originally passed to stop is dams and highways, both govt activities.

German scientific and academic writing (I'm not familiar with medical writing) frequently uses German words or compounds of German words where English uses coinages with Greek or Latin roots. It is famously not very easy to read.