Russell Richie 🔰🌐🏗🚲♿🏳️‍🌈

Anyway the best I've ever felt about America was me (Jewish) standing in line with my friend and her daughter (Irish and Latina) to pet a baby lamb at the Minnesota State Fair alongside a hijabi Black woman and her daughter, an East Asian family, an African-American family, and some white people.

Amazon launching 30 minute delivery in Philly without any cargo bikes like in NY means that the PPA fines aren't anywhere high enough!

Matthew Rhys Is In Talks With Netflix Over Adaptation Of Robert Caro’s ‘The Power Broker’ Matthew Rhys is in talks with the streamer over the adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book.

I never do this, but I really want to be involved. @elliottkalan.bsky.social should write on it. I'll laugh and unroll maps.

deadline.com/2025/12/matt...

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.

Don't look up!

Honestly to improve people’s lives in American cities you will have to piss off: merchant associations, some labor unions, neighborhood associations and some liberal nonprofits.

If you’re unwilling to piss all of these people off at different junctures you’re not fit for public office imo

I feel like the two dimensional political compass for local elected democrats are:

1. Mod or Prog

2. Interested in solving any local problems whatsoever vs deferring to local gatekeeper assholes.

Thanks to the @nypost.com for letting me check an item off my bucket list (“be the target of a meaty hit piece by a world-class NYC tabloid”) and for highlighting @transalt.org proposals for better walking, biking, & transit!

More nice ideas here:

transalt.org/road-to-affo...

The Atlantic is perceived nationally as being a liberal publication. But the below is hardly out of character for them. @liberalcurrents.com will never pull stunts like this. But we need your help for that commitment to matter, in terms of who it reaches. Help us meet our goal gofund.me/9a6239587

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:

Satellite image of a commercial development along a stroad. On the left there's a big box store that says "Property taxes: $102,485, Parcel Size: 17,766 meter square. On the right there's two apartment buildings that read "Property taxes: $626,002, Parcel Size: 10,930 meter square"

Minimum parking requirements create financially insolvent land use patterns.

The two apartment buildings on the right generate six times more in property taxes than the big box store on the left, while occupying almost half the space!

#BlackFridayParking

When the new bike lane is protected:

you should support liberal currents!

Metro slide: "Investigation modernization elements directly addresses Metro's key challenges"

Metro slide: "Components of fully automated rail transit"

Metro slide: "Modernization allows Metro to deliver more service at lower cost"

Metro slide: "Platform screen doors provie stand-alone benefits and enable automated operations"

While NY is considering mandating two-person trains, the DC Metro not only already operates with one person, but recently reactivated its automatic train operation system.

Now, continuing to follow best practices, Metro has announced plans to move towards driverless trains.

tinyurl.com/yft73mru

Congrats and welcome to Penn!

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

Op-ed: Waymo May Finally Teach Americans the Speed Limit - Streetsblog San Francisco Do Americans even understand that posted speed limits aren't advisory?

Op-ed: Waymo May Finally Teach Americans the Speed Limit - sf.streetsblog.org/2025/11/24/o...

Liberalism is good, actually.

Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!

How can you not love a website that includes Land Value Tax in its survey of reader policy preferences?

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

I'm helping organize it, so very much yes! :)

I'm currently (as in this weekend) working on tuning the city model parameters to real sales data from Philly.

Doh! Here is an SSRN link

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I'd go further: they're confused as to what the entire point of a *city* is.

Many such cases among US city leaders, unfortunately.

One reason Mamdani is a breath of fresh air. He loves cities!

Right, so I wonder if city policymakers underestimate the city's tolerance for property (or land) tax increases paired with cuts to wage and birt...

What's your sense of how the property assessments have gone over? I wonder if the city government is overestimating resistance to property taxes. My sense is people grumbled but then accepted it?

The funny thing about this meeting is that Mamdani didn't back down on a single policy point or anything he's said about Trump.

As mayor of New York Mamdani controls access to the one thing Trump values above all else: tickets to CATS.

THE POPE HAS THROWN A RAVE

I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave

god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH