Brian Highsmith (@bd_highsmith) 's Twitter Profile
Brian Highsmith

@bd_highsmith

institutions, inequality, geography, power, democracy | @Harvard_Law fellow | social policy PhD candidate | former consumer lawyer & economic policy advisor

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Guthrie Scrimgeour (@g_scrimgeour) 's Twitter Profile Photo

With billions of dollars to spare, “The Billionaire Bunker” has become fixated on achieving perfect security. Thanks to Zak Jason for editing Full article here: businessinsider.com/billionaire-bu…

John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If someone in the gov't can just go "get that guy" and then invent a pretext without a legal process, we just have a lawless authoritarian regime

Emily Gallagher (@emilyassembly) 's Twitter Profile Photo

IDK who needs to hear this, but there's a leadership lesson in the congestion pricing saga. Sometimes you just have to do the right thing, even when the polling isn't good. That's why it's called "leadership."

Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez (@pspivagon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My Dad & grandparents listened to Voice of America in the Soviet Union, their ears literally touching the radio, trying to catch words through the government jamming of the airwaves. Grateful they could think of America and hear its voice. Sad to see many others no longer will.

Brian Highsmith (@bd_highsmith) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’m grateful for the opportunity to share some reflections—about courts and the institutional entrenchment of oligarchy, drawing lessons from state constitutionalism—in this great collection. Check out “Court Reform Can’t Be Limited to ‘Reforming Courts’”: rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/court-ref…

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This is a great, and well-reported, story about what happens when the world’s wealthiest man decides that he wants his own government.

This is a great, and well-reported, story about what happens when the world’s wealthiest man decides that he wants his own government.
Maya Sen (@maya_sen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Informing a private entity it will no longer be eligible for government contracts in part because a Democrat sits on its board

Joe Bernstein (@bernstein) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The thing that frightens me about this isn't that kids aren't learning to write, per se. It's that learning how to write also teaches you how to think, and the downstream problems presented by a population who can't think are actually scary. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) 's Twitter Profile Photo

When housing researchers asked Seattle fire officials about their unique building code that permits single-stair buildings, they were met with a shrug. "It was this emperor’s no clothes moment," Alex Armlovich said vox.com/housing/410115…

Sara Lind 🖤 (@saraklind) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Cars in cities are a geometry problem: there just isn't enough space for everyone to drive. "The question is: do we keep letting cars hog the road in our cities, or do we start designing cities that actually work for human flourishing?"

Armand Domalewski (@armanddoma) 's Twitter Profile Photo

People think of Abundance as an argument about deregulation vs regulation, but it is more about diffuse vs centralized decision making—in housing, energy, and infrastructure, we, as Marc J. Dunkelman explains, leaned so far into decentralized authority we’ve paralyzed ourselves

Brian Highsmith (@bd_highsmith) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So excited (grateful!) to be part of this. I look forward to sharing more about the work: exploring how populist reformers—antimonopoly farmers, labor unions, progressive intellectuals, and others—used state constitutions to challenge oligarchy in the Gilded Age & Progressive Era

Faiz (@fshakir) 's Twitter Profile Photo

just so we're all on the same page here...when billionaires give huge amounts of money to candidates, they expect something in return and that something is often about prioritizing them in policy decisions over working class people who have far less power

Andy Boenau (@boenau) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"If you’re driving a two-ton SUV at 40 mph, you get a traffic ticket, but if you’re riding an e-bike at 16 mph, you are summoned to criminal court." Ben Furnas nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/06/05/lyf…

Armand Domalewski (@armanddoma) 's Twitter Profile Photo

a 100% affordable housing project in San Francisco is being opposed by PODERSF, a progressive nonprofit because it might cast a bit of shadow on a nearby schoolyard

a 100% affordable housing project in San Francisco is being opposed by <a href="/PODERSF/">PODERSF</a>, a progressive nonprofit because it might cast a bit of shadow on a nearby schoolyard
Brian Highsmith (@bd_highsmith) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I am so grateful to the SLR team for their hard work on this Article, and to everyone else whose feedback shaped it along the way. It's really great to have it out in the world!

I am so grateful to the SLR team for their hard work on this Article, and to everyone else whose feedback shaped it along the way. It's really great to have it out in the world!
Brian Highsmith (@bd_highsmith) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our system of locally-funded public education is a global outlier & directly contributes to spatial disparities in life outcomes that entrench intergenerational disadvantage; it’s a regressive design—to be avoided, not replicated. Think beyond the squabble of the day on this, pls