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Going through stages of shock and bewilderment learning that in the UK, "Build to Rent" apartment buildings are apparently a controversial new 21st century development????

Post the craziest argument against building more housing that you've ever seen. I'll go first.

This is of a piece with RFK Jr wrecking HHS. Complete abandonment of data expertise in favor of vibes, leading to decisions we know are going to kill people.

A Facebook comment which reads: Real cyclists, INCLUDING the ones of us who would like to see the creation of more uses for junk tires, DON'T WANT segregationist crap such as "bike lanes". Even breathing the soot from SIMPLY BURNING the tires would KILL FEWER CYCLISTS.

A second facebook comment from the same person which reads: Yes. All vehicular roads are, by definition, of adequate width for cycling. You'll be forced to learn this after we report your beloved DEI-for-cyclists crap to DOGE for defunding.

Glad to see vehicular cyclists are having a normal one.

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Planning folks, please consider donating (if you're able) to this GoFundMe for the medical bills of a student in the first year of her Urban Planning grad program who was seriously injured in the mass shooting at Florida State.
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Hello from Memphis, one of the cheapest cities in the country.

We also need a lot more housing production, especially in the city core where there are few options between crumbling 80 year old buildings and a handful of new "luxury" apartments.

Always funny how big companies aren’t really in the industry they’re supposed to be , McDonalds is a real estate company, GE is mostly insurance, Amazon is a cloud compute company that outsources delivery to the USPS, Volkswagen sold more sausages then cars last year etc

This is pretty awesome as a way to get temporarily rural bridge replacements on the ground as fast as possible.

I'm sorry, when did the abundance movement go from "we can't enact a green new deal if we bury every bike lane and solar farm in red tape" to "logging endangered trees in the PNW is good, actually"?

Over/under on Trump selling Taiwan for 100 leased pandas and the rights to build Trump Tower Hong Kong?

Saw this shared on TikTok, the comments were all things like "I don't think there's that much urban housing in Maine" or "I didn't know we had sheep in Arizona"

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I worked with US Digital Service at SSA. They were gems & we were all lucky to have them.

They spearheaded SSA's award-winning website redesign. They were working to get simplified applications online for Social Security survivors & SSI. They were *actually* making gov more efficient.

Does anyone know where the belief that third places are "supposed" to be free/non-commercial came from?

I keep seeing this on social media whenever coffeeshops, pubs, or breweries are brought up as places for in-person community.

Good instinct, but those are state level laws. Federally preempting then might be worthwhile, but would not be quick or easy.

All of these always run into extremely unpalatable realization that the real reason the government is inefficient is that it’s too small, and outsources too much to profit driven firms.

But “we need to quadruple the size of the federal government at a minimum” isn’t what they want to hear.

DOGE staffers can't tell the difference.

In many ways it's fitting that the showdown between monarchy and democracy ends up being over NYC congestion pricing.

Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space.

The cameras are staying on!

I feel bad for not knowing, but is that normal in other (e.g. parliamentary) democracies or a product of weak mid-century American parties?

Saw the logo first, was briefly concerned you had made a very questionable career move 😅

Sec. Duffy Moves to Rescind Billions for 'Woke' Transportation on Feb. 18 — So Advocates Must Speak Up Now — Streetsblog USA The U.S. Transportation Secretary has promised to call on Congress to slash vast funding for climate and DEIA.

🚨: This got super buried in all the memos that followed Sean Duffy's confirmation, but on February 18th, USDOT is going to recommend that Congress rescind funding for anything the administration deems too "woke."

Read: probably everything you care about. And it's time to call your reps.🧵

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Here are 70 clones of #asteroid 2024 YR4 that do hit Earth, highlighting the impact risk corridor. There are some big cities along that line: #Bogota, #Lagos, #Mumbai.

This is sort of the skeleton key to understanding a lot of shit: there 100% is a non-trivial amount of inefficiency and waste in the federal bureaucracy, and most of it is a *direct result* of ‘reforms’ that are meant to assuage the people who complain about “waste and inefficiency in govt”

This amount of state capacity is unthinkable in Los Angeles.

Guarantee that like 40% of the public can't connect this to Trump's tariff threats.

There's an infinite money glitch here, if we only have the courage

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We have marriage rate data in Tennessee. Sevier County (Gatlinburg) is 9x higher than the county with the second highest rate.

Walking? Woke

Love this. Also, I didn't know until recently that these photos of cuneiform tablets are practically life-size, with most tablets being smaller than the palm of your hand and packed with tiny writing.