Mark my words When a Dem is elected POTUS again, there will be so much corruption to clean up from Trump that voters will complain things are taking too long and will in turn re-elect the very same problematic Republicans back into office within the next election cycle

It's worth remembering that DOGE is a failure at Every. Single. Possible. Level. At the micro level, they misread, misled and straight up lied about many of the 'savings'. They'd announce '500m saved!' and it would be some contract where the money was 98% already spent and

"We haven't built enough housing"

Denver built 20,000 units of housing and rent prices dropped 3.7%. But yet activists still come on here and claim that building more housing won't make it more affordable. denverite.com/2025/07/25/den…

No.

My mom would tell stories of anti-Indian racism in the Philly suburbs where she grew up, and I was so confused because I had never heard or seen such a thing Now every day on this website, blue check racist bigots exclaim their disdain for Indians, especially those in tech. WTF?

This is the kind of obscure content I’m here for!

Peronism remains popular despite its obvious failures because “achieve social goals via opaque regulations that make Them pay” are always going to be more popular than “achieve social goals by raising taxes”. Depressing

One of my least favorite urbanism/ affordable housing takes is "supply alone can't solve our housing crisis" and it's in a region at the bottom of the housing production index.

it should probably a bigger story that Republicans in the PA state senate are about to destroy every transit network in Pennsylvania for no reason

Our next general meeting featuring Pittsburgh City Controller Rachael Heisler is on Thursday at 6:30! See you there!

I genuinely don't know how we as a society deal with this type of short-form video misinformation. 10k likes (plus another 14k on Tiktok) for a video accusing SB79, the CA upzoning near transit bill, of being used to build apartments in Pacific Palisades, an area with 0 transit

one peculiarity about America, is that when you call for emergency medical services there, the fire department shows up in huge fire-fighting truck. sooner or later the ambulance also comes.

It’s 7 o’clock on a Tuesday evening in Pittsburgh and we don’t have enough ambulances in the city. I’m tired of the lies from the Gainey administration that everything is fine. Everything is not fine!

“I moved to a college town called State College, I only have a job because of the university, but students are annoying, WAAAAHHH”

So so so many such cases

Another Pittsburgh University having freshman live in a hotel because there isn't enough student housing.