The site of a Mission District fire that killed a resident and displaced dozens is set to become a 181-unit apartment building after a community effort to derail the project failed. trib.al/dfaIcGc

Nothing frustrates me more than NIMBYS & their leftist allies on housing. It'd be easy to lower the cost of the biggest expense most Americans confront. The left's failure to understand the problem renders them not only unable to fix it but oppositional to those w solutions

"Some worry that accepting a nearly half-billion-dollar aircraft from the Qataris may make the President feel like he must return the favor somehow. But when has Donald Trump ever held up his end of a bargain?" mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-f…

Very excited to share a new project I've been working on. MCs have a statistically detectable preference for enforcing the separation of powers, but it is rarely big enough to affect their roll call vote choices. Very early project - open to all feedback!

The list of the fastest shrinking US cities since 2020 starts with some of the most economically depressed, violent, and and physically dilapidated places in the country. And of course San Francisco, the richest and most economically dynamic city in the world.

Should California secede? The debate comes to life in Dave Eggers short story sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/…

Fascinating survey work from Alex Hertel-Fernandez & co on the union vote in 2024, featuring an actual survey comparing union and non-union workers (including enough union workers to compare vote by the specific organization the respondent belonged to)

Republican approval of Republicans in Congress is 81%, while approval among Democrats of the way congressional Democrats are handling their job is much lower, 49%. #mulawpoll

Presidential vote among whites shows continued income polarization (data from American National Election Studies (ANES) 2024 timeseries), with income negatively correlated to GOP presidential vote.

🚨NEW PAPER: Why are Members of Congress so extreme? We conducted a 4-wave panel of thousands of voters in 27 districts during last year’s primary AND general elections to trace polarization’s roots The results challenge conventional wisdom… and suggest lessons for parties🧵👇

When primary AND general voters learn a candidate agrees with them on an issue, they're ~14 percentage points more likely to vote for that candidate. In generals, this includes when the closest candidate is an outpartisan–party loyalty isn’t everything.

#OpenAccess from PS: Political Science & Politics - “My Own Private Idaho”: A Survey of Separatist Attitudes in the Pacific Northwest - cup.org/45B7qC6 - Semir Dzebo, Erin Jenne & Levente Littvay #FirstView

Both anti-monopoly & abundance policies have mostly advanced via behind-the-scenes elite politics. It's not clear either would be more successful as dominant Dem messages. Successful campaign messages usually require diversity, localism, & responsiveness to changing concerns

It's a patronage project but with ward heelers who can't actually turn out their wards

Once the media are through covering the judicial elections, maybe they can turn their attention to how 87% of the U.S.'s judges are also elected...

I’m working with the good folks at Genre Creators in the UK and SA to raise money for trans rights. I have 2 items up for auction: a cocktail recipe designed just for you and a Tuckerization in an upcoming book. You can bid here. 32auctions.com/organizations/… 32auctions.com/organizations/…

If, like me, you are having a hard time deciding who to vote for in the NYC mayoral race, this conversation between Jamie Rubin, Ed Glaeser and ⁦David Schleicher⁩ offers helpful analysis of what some of the candidates are proposing (and not proposing) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aft…

Look at the difference between NorCal and SoCal. In the Bay, out of the 11 Senators repping urban areas, 8 voted yes. In LA County, out of 13 Senators only 4 voted yes. The LA delegation is killing housing bills.

The Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore invites applications for the position of Head of Department at the rank of full professor or higher (endowed chair professor). publicservicecareers.org/job/78489351/?… #PAJobMarket

Have gotten comments from gen z questioning the point of the American greeting ritual. I used to feel the same way in my first service jobs. I thought it was "fake," performative, extractive, "emotional labor" (though we didn't have that phrase). Here's how I changed my mind