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Lots of criticism of Nader’s 2000 presidential campaign but the broader philosophy of spending much more time attacking moderate Democrats than conservative Republicans that he pioneered long before that run totally dominates progressive thinking — an ethic of irresponsibility.

Republicans Are Confused About the Concept of Bad Guys Some conservatives are embracing the villains in what are supposed to be cautionary tales.

Wrote about what’s behind conservatives watching movies and shows warning about the dangers of fascism and somehow coming away thinking the fascists are the good guys, and they should follow their example www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We're talking about an increase in the housing supply by ~2.5% (assuming ~3.3M households). The fact that we had to even vote on this, let alone that it was close, is an idictment of our city's governance.

Thank you for the links!

Haha I get that’s it’s not a page turner but I think it’s helpful context. Thank you for the links! (PS I was already following you before today)

His healthcare proposal was also somewhat *less* sweeping that Hillary’s or John Edwards during the primary.

Is there any decent article explaining how the immigration system currently works and what the shortcomings are, because there’s universal agreement that it’s “broken” but I don’t know, like, the substance.

One of the best examples of how Tolkien uses an understanding of scale, scope, and distance so well in his writing is that when Sauron tortures the information about the Ring out of Gollum, his first response is:

"Ok, but what the fuck is a Hobbit?"

Bar chart displaying per capita CO2 emissions for 2021. The United States shows significantly higher emissions at 14.86 tons, compared to low-income countries, which have emissions of 0.28 tons. Land use change is not included.

In thinking about what rich nations owe the developing world, here’s something to keep in mind:

The average American emits more CO₂ in one week than an average person in low-income countries does in one year.

Here Is What Actually Caused Inflation Under Biden—and Harris’ Loss Just look at what’s going on around the world.

"Absent Biden’s stimulus, growth would have been weaker, unemployment higher, and wages lower—but prices would have been maddeningly high anyway." slate.com/news-and-pol...

Babe, wake up – new 25-story 262-ft. Swiss single-stair skyscraper just dropped! Hagenholzstrasse 55-59, Zürich www.swiss-arc.ch/de/projekt/t...

In 55 days, this building will become the epicenter of corruption on our planet.

Yeah, in a timeline where Philly’s economy was stronger, CC and UC would have filled up years ago and the area around Broad/Lehigh would be expanding as a secondary CBD with excellent transit connections

The truth is, turkey is a garbage bird, which is why we only eat it once a year. Just get a rotisserie chicken. Or better yet, don't eat any big bird.

More Housing In Your Neighborhood Is a Progressive Value Liberal homeowners, wake up.

Los Angeles' inability to upzone single family neighborhoods even in the face of a state mandate and the threat of losing Congressional seats and an acute housing shortage goes to show: Housing is the issue where progressive values crumble.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/more-housi...

I think it’s 100% true that aesthetics do matter, buildings should be attractive, and even affordable ones can be pretty.

But also true that a pretty building with a nice facade isn’t going to get any less opposition from local NIMBYs.

Blow and hand

Mandate? Trump is now under 50% in the popular vote with his margin ranking 44th out of 51 elections since 1824.

4 Democrats won Senate seats in states Trump carried—compared to zero in 16 and 20.

GOP poised for its smallest House majority since the U.S. had 50 states.

- CNN’s Harry Enten reports

X Out A salty, cranky case for letting Twitter die

I briefly put principles and values aside to make a saltier, crankier case for leaving X: Elon Musk is uniquely insufferable holapapi.substack.com/p/x-out

Deliverism, ie “materially improving people’s lives”.

Score one for the Stancil Hypotheses

Now do the Narberth curve on the Pennsy mainline 😜

Okay thanks, that is helpful to see laid out!

Okay @alonlevy.bsky.social I’m here! Let’s talk theoretical Baltimore intercity rail alignments.