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Max Dubler, AICP Counterpoint: we should triple the number of homes in the Bay Area so that everyone who wants to move here can do so. Troutski I don't like all this national attention from the Superbowl on the Bay. We don't need more people finding out how great it is here. I liked it better when they all thought it was a shit hole. The rent is too damn h... John J Filson I agree w/Troutski. Until CA can handle population/growth better, it should not try to encourage population growth other that select, desirable demographics expected to benefit the state as a whole. Likewise it should tailor incentives to disperse population growth.

There are only 2 real responses to housing scarcity. You can either build enough homes to accommodate everyone or start drawing up a list of “undesirable demographics” to exclude. I know which side I’m on.

Councilmember Nithya Raman to run for L.A. mayor, challenging onetime ally Karen Bass Raman would immediately pose a formidable challenge to Bass. She was the first council member to be elected with support from the Democratic Socialists of America.

A pragmatic pro-housing leftist candidate running for mayor of the biggest city on the west coast against one the most vociferous NIMBY elected officials in the state? Be still my heart!

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Thousands of folks in Denver came out today on their bikes to remember Alex Pretti and stand with community against ICE. #BikeDEN showed up today. #RideforAlex

Hundreds of people on bikes.

Went on a ride to remember Alex Pretti today. There were SO MANY people on bikes! After a week of terrible news, this made me feel much better. Fuck ice

Well done @denverbicyclelobby.bsky.social and people of Denver

Legalize Cafes Everywhere! Municipal codes should allow for the operation of cafes in most residential areas to free up space for businesses who actually need larger commercial buildings.

We should legalize cafes in residential areas in the US, especially in coastal areas with a large amount of WFH. They're low-intensity businesses that can be run out of houses and they wouldn't be crowding out non-food retail from commercial areas.
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protestors have painted what appears to be a tunnel on the side of the mountain, causing ICE agents to run into the mountain at full speed.

disgusting.

"They have no shame, do they? They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that's the final humiliation." - Ghorman senator Dasi Oran, to Mon Mothma as the Empire baselessly justifies another atrocity.

Final 2025 California ISO grid electricity data:

221 days (60.5%) with WWS>100% of demand
13.8% of all hours of year>100% WWS
In-state WWS met 51.3% of demand
In+out-state WWS: 60%

Demand down 1.9% v '24
Gas down 17% v '24; 38% v '23
Solar up 13% v '24; 39% v '23
Bat up 49% v '24; 179% v '23

Banks Notch Higher Fees From Green Bonds Than Fossil Fuel Debt Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business.

Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business

so what do you think ChatGPT will say when ten million people ask it who they should vote for next year

One thing 2025 made clear: Durable progress on climate in the US will require structural reform to our corrupted political systems. Otherwise, steps forward will always be vulnerable to the bloody clawbacks we saw this year. A political strategy that doesn't center system reform is not "pragmatic."

Sacrificing Convenience for Safety Is the Right Thing to Do So far in 2025, Denver has lost 87 people to traffic accidents...and counting.

"The real question for Mayor Johnston is this: How many lives is Denver willing to sacrifice to preserve driver convenience?

So far in 2025, we have lost 87 people — and counting."

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“...at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the paramount challenge facing American cities is how to add density to the 50’-wide lots of single-family homes nestled in greenery.”

- @maxpodemski.bsky.social in "A Paradise of Small Houses"

When we're ready to take the leap beyond duplexes...

One big takeaway from Mamdani bringing YIMBYs into his transition is that advocates can often gain a lot of power by

1.) having useful answers to questions and accurate information

2.) being reasonably polite and pleasant to elected officials

3.) understanding the actual mechanics of government

The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom - Nature Communications The paper maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines. It finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-2023 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston.

A paper in Nature Communications maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines and finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-23 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston. 🧪

Mayor Johnston, bowing to business interests and wealthy families, is moving Denver’s road safety backwards (Opinion) During this latest budget crunch, when DOTI staff members were being laid off and safety projects went unfunded, the city found nearly $100,000 to replace a thoroughly vetted design to accommodate …

Mayor Johnston inherited a well assembled transportation plan that was in the infancy of being great. It was a gift from the previous administration. He could have continued and strengthened their policies. Instead he's decided to dismantle. This isn't leadership.
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Pic of Pontevedra from the air.

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

“During its regular meeting tonight, Spokane City Council voted yes to impose a 12% tax on commercial parking lots across the city.”

If you want more of something, subsidize it. If you want less of something, tax it. #Spokane clearly wants less asphalt, which will also result in…

Happy Spider-Man Rimming Uncle Sam Day to all who celebrate

Floor Area Ratio (FAR) is the stupidest thing to regulate housing with.

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Plenty of vote outstanding, but the most eye-catching early CO election results may be in Aurora, where two D-affiliated candidates lead their R-affiliated opponents, including Danielle "Complete Gang Takeover" Jurinsky.

if we elect a muslim socialist as mayor of new york city on the same day dick cheney died i’ll never take another note from a development exec telling me a plot point was “too on the nose”

GOP makes outlandish mischaracterizations of Dem position (immigration, abortion, trans issues) Dems clarify their position – media gleefully amplifies back & forth- low info voters thinks that’s all the Dems care about because that’s all the reporting – rinse repeat

if you think the problem is that the democratic party is too extreme rather than our current media environment privileges right wing bull shit then you have no real business discussing politics in public

RTD bans ads covering windows of metro Denver buses and trains The prohibition means losing revenue at a time when agency officials are grappling with financial constraints.

RTD bans ads covering windows of metro Denver buses and trains trib.al/0hBXXvH

The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 10/21/2025 · 1h 4m

It's astonishing -- almost every single sentence uttered by Mettler in this pod made me want to scream. This is every bit of reheated reactionary-centrist conventional wisdom, distilled to its essence, delivered under the guise of "political science." So utterly, disastrously wrong, all of it.

I am deeply, deeply disappointed in our senator from Colorado.