Alex

This is probably like 5th time I've seen Kristol retweeted for one or another of his statements.

The ole Stalin n out

It is seriously absurd that nobody is able to say "that is an inappropriate question and I think a Muslim can represent Jews just fine"

The audience for these things have to be addressed too. Because it’s wider and more influential than people want to admit.

2. The tenant protections offered by the Board, while important and valuable, are only a minor speed bump. The average real increase for those 18,500 is 31'. About 4700 units get real increases over 45'.
3. 2-unit properties are ideally suited to redevelopment with lower-cost construction types

Arguably, the analysis suggest that the 18,500 rent controlled units on lots where real heights can double are deeply threatened by the FZP.
1. Rent controlled properties have been getting relatively cheaper on a per-unit basis compared to SFHs, making them attractive targets /1

Family Zoning: Report shows plan falling short of state housing mandates The city economist’s analysis finds rezoning could yield just 14,600 additional new homes — less than half what’s required by 2031.

This analysis is weak. I have no idea what the numbers would show otherwise but a development analysis that doesn't consider basic factors like interest rates, prior period job/income/population growth, investment, regional housing deliveries is not worth taking seriously. I expect better from OEA

A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.

I CAN however tell you that Tim Dunn is *very* excited for the End Times. I do not have the article handy, but one time he was asked about it and said something to the effect of "my favorite part ill be when Jesus kills all unbelievers with words streaming from his mouth like a sword."

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Considering renaming myself Yuri Micdropov

And therefore BIGGEST US PRO-CLIMATE ACTION OF 2025

This will drive more early voting than anything else and boy does that explain a lot about American politics

Good morning!

Last night, Illinois’ legislature passed a law, SB2111, which will fund a major expansion of service for the Chicago region’s transit systems, thanks to new revenue sources.

The law also takes a major step forward in coordination between agencies.

yet you keep voting for his nominees. i guess you're not that bothered

Schiff voted to confirm another Trump judge on Monday.

i didnt vote for him in the last election and i look forward to not doing it again unless he SIGNIFICANTLY changes the way he votes and acts and not just speaks platitudes while he fails to fight against this fascist admin

not sure if it’s obvious by now but i’ve got orders to monitor ICE activity and, as usual, i’d appreciate any help bsky has to offer. if you gotta tip, my signal account is in my bio.

i’m very mechanical. i can track things. data. paperwork. but i could always use help w/ people.

A poster that says Did you see: -a tent in the woods? -someone shoplifting? -a person sleeping in their car? NO YOU FUCKING DIDNT people are struggling don't make it worse

Did I Just Argue with a Joke? Part of a Bluesky Educational Series

Wherein I totally unironically retweet Cato

the constitution is for suckers

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love to see military discuss their own illegitimacy

if you believe that a better world is possible, you may be tarred as a doomer, because achieving a better world involves calling attention to what is wrong with this one.

your very optimism is called pessimism, particularly by people for whom the current world is more than comfortable.

Notable that @sfyimby.bsky.social does not suggest that the areas full of wealthy single family homeowners should get height increases to make apartment development more economically feasible, rather than anything that isn't tax breaks

Will they be satisfied if the Territories be unconditionally surrendered to them? We know they will not. In all their present complaints against us, the Territories are scarcely mentioned. Invasions and insurrections are the rage now. Will it satisfy them, if, in the future, we have nothing to do with invasions and insurrections? We know it will not. We so know, because we know we never had anything to do with invasions and insurrections; and yet this total abstaining does not exempt us from the charge and the denunciation. The question recurs, what will satisfy them? Simply this: We must not only let them alone, but we must somehow, convince them that we do let them alone. This, we know by experience, is no easy task. We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success. In all our platforms and speeches we have constantly protested our purpose to let them alone; but this has had no tendency to convince them. Alike unavailing to convince them, is the fact that they have never detected a man of us in any attempt to disturb them. These natural, and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them. Senator Douglas' new sedition law must be enacted and enforced, suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong, whether made in politics, in presses, in pulpits, or in private. We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure. We must pull down our Free State constitutions. The whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to slavery, before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us.

I remember back in the early aughts the Libs would pull out Lincoln's Cooper Union speech...specifically this

The only appropriate thing is for Dems to agree with the conservatives

All the more annoying because oyster cracker is part of the ownership class