Giacomo Volpe 🌹🤝🌐

Congestion pricing is the perfect refutation of shallow “popularism”

yes, it polled poorly at first but once it went into effect and people saw the benefits it became much more popular, to the point that a majority of NYers now oppose rescinding it.

Idaho should not be allowed to be a state anymore

Its really embarrassing to see creeps like Andrew Cuomo and Anthony Weiner sticking around in Dem circles and trying to make a comeback

We've gotta stand firm against sexual predators in the party and there should be consequences for their enablers

only real take on the Daniel Penny thing is that it's beyond clear that sustained visible public disorder, even if not actually that dangerous, makes otherwise open/liberal/cosmopolitan people into frothing reactionaries by now, and appeals to empathy aren't an effective counter.

5th avenue bike planning timeline spanning from 2007 to 2024

Planning for a bike lane in Seattle has taken nearly 3x as long as building the 31 mile Channel tunnel.

We need to desperately change how we plan and build things at every level of government.

You cannot actually build a social democratic state on a foundation of low-trust anti-establishmentism, because you are going to need to build complex institutions that will require trade-offs and compromises and buy-in from diverse stakeholders from across society.

The Bulwark has been running good stuff lately but I haven’t forgotten that Tim Miller was at one point getting paid by Facebook to promulgate antisemitic conspiracy theories about how the company’s critics are puppets of George Soros, and AFAIK he’s never shown any contrition.

ATTENTION PATRIOTS 30009999 THERE IS A GLOBAL CONSPIRACY TO DIVIDE OUR CITIES INTO CENTRALLY-PLANNED "ZONES" TAKE AWAY OUR PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND MAKE US DEPENDENT ON "WOKE" CAR MANUFACTURERS AND GLOBALIST OIL BARONS. THEY ARE FORCING US INTO ISOLATED PODS IN ISOLATED ZONES SO WE ARE TOO FAR FROM GROCERIES, SCHOOLS, AND JOBS TO WALK THERE FOR FREE. NOW THEY SELL US OVERPRICED CARS AND FOREIGN OIL JUST TO ACCESS THESE SAME THINGS WE USED TO ACCESS FOR FREE. THEY HAVE MANUFACTURED A PROBLEM SO THEY CAN SELL US THE SOLUTION. JOIN OUR PATRIOTIC CAUSE TO TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY AND ERADICATE COMMUNIST "ZONING"

so true

new favorite moment from the South Korea protests is when someone turned “Feliz Navidad” into a protest anthem

boring and disappointing that DSA has no plan for marginalizing the ultras on the IC and, yes, DSA die-hards, i do understand the difference, your whole fucking problem is that you don’t.

Every city does this. I have a friend who runs an annual parade, free to the public, through Sacramento. The city is charging him 10’s of thousands of dollars for the privilege.

Cities have gotten too used to looking at all economic activity as a chance to pick someone’s pocket.

Anything that prevents us from getting the housing we need to be affordable is inherently conservative and therefore bad

Where are the regulators??

Politicians are asleep at the switch on this

We need to at minimum regulate gambling like cigs:

No advertising or promotions
No event sponsorship
No discounts or free samples

not good, not good
www.nytimes.com/athletic/577...

This is math-illiterate local news reporting. If $9 per day toll charged 180 times (every NYC school day) eats up 1/6 of her income, she makes under $10K per year, post-taxes. And even if this blatant lie was true - which it isn't - she would qualify for the low income tax credit.

Obergefell is doomed if this logic holds

OKAY! So. Thanks to popular culture, when most people hear "pirate ship" they think of a big, intimidating, heavily armed vessel like a galleon or a man-of-war, like this commandeered Spanish vessel from season 2 of BLACK SAILS. 🏴‍☠️

Children Worked Dangerous Shifts at Iowa Slaughterhouse, Inquiry Finds Qvest Sanitation was ordered to pay nearly $172,000 after the Labor Department found it had employed 11 children to clean equipment on overnight shifts at a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa.

You can get sent to jail for stealing toilet paper but if you hire a dozen children to work overnight shifts at your slaughter house your company pays a fine

Do you know how much of a drunk you need to be to worry people working in cable news

Raleigh is a place that does a pretty good place building housing from what I hear

I am more familiar with the problems in places that do not, like NY and CA

We are very soon going to be completely isolated if we continue to refuse to recognize Palestinian statehood

Very little of it is that

Its mandates requiring units be sold or rented below market, and impact fees, and endless "community review", and visual design standards, and arbitrary and politicized approvals, and parking mandates, and minimum lot sizes, and on and on and on...

*coughs*

Kudos to South Korea's right-leaning ruling party, which turned against its own embattled President and rejected his bid to declare martial law.

There's a lesson in there somewhere.

Evidence has demonstrated this effect in numerous cities now.

I understand why it sounds weird to say, 'building a bunch of fancy new townhouses and skyscrapers will make housing more affordable!' but it simply appears to be true.

Flying is kind of a trip, to take in the world from above like that, and can be kind of scary too, especially if you dont do it a lot

I dont mind sitting apart but I get wanting to share the experience with a partner and will accommodate if I can

South Korean citizens helped lawmakers scale the National Assembly walls so they could bypass military barricades and vote against martial law.

A 'liberal Joe Rogan' isn't possible because anyone who is that much of a credulous moron is inevitably gonna be MAGA.