Swann Marcus Blue state NIMBYism will destroy the Democratic Party if left unchecked

He's telling us all what he plans on doing.

if you’re caught with one of these, your car should be sold at auction, your license suspended indefinitely, and you should have to pay a fine equal to 20% of your income over ten years.

A 5-4, unsigned, good-for-this-case-only decision handed down by justices who owed their jobs directly, or indirectly to the father of the guy they handed the presidency to. THAT is when the modern Supreme Court decided 'fuck it, we're just gonna do what we want, screw democracy'

I will personally max out to any NY state legislative candidate who makes strict enforcement of license plate violations their number one priority, and wages a nonstop battle to make it happen. I bet there are at least 100 other urbanist posters on here who would also max out.

It runs like shit, it's full of bots that post pornography in your replies, all the advertisers have left, and there are more Nazis than ever

How can anyone pretend that the Supreme Court isn’t a judicial arm of the Republican Party, when congressional Republicans are openly celebrating the fact that it is a judicial arm of the Republican Party?

Giving Supreme Court justices life tenure was supposed to make them immune from corruption.

Turns out it’s emboldening corruption.

Time for term limits.

Hear me out: we fuck these predatory investors over by radically increasing the housing supply thereby causing the value of their real estate holdings to crash.

People like wagyu steak but that doesn’t mean hamburgers should be illegal.

Let's be clear:

To make streets safer for bicyclists and pedestrians you *have* to make places less hospitable to cars.

This is not a side effect of traffic calming - it's the very point of it.

there is literally one city in America with a meaningful amount of tall buildings and people still get very mad about tall buildings there

In addition to being loud, polluting, the primary source of microplastics and GHG emissions, expensive, land devouring, dangerous eyesores, cars are just so damn inefficient at their only job. Trains for the win.

The man who killed Henry was protected fiercely by the DA, who was concerned about ‘infringing on his liberties.’ He went on to DUI, continuing to be a danger. Our family was considered a nuisance for trying to understand. Henry was not considered a victim. Attorney General Josh Kaul

Ok, random interesting experience yesterday that I want to share:

Playing in the backyard with my son, when I notice some bees flying around a tree.

Take my son inside and get closer to investigate.

Here's what I saw (and what I learned):

100%. The single most impactful thing an individual can do to combat climate change is to vote for candidates that will do something about it.

One more point about the pardon of Perry. What Gov. Abbott has done in TX is what Trump promises to do as president: Encourage vigilante violence, pardon its perpetrators, and then try to get rid of those in the legal system who seek to enforce the law. thebulwark.com/p/daniel-perry…

Republicans want to encourage vigilante violence against progressives & progressive causes. It could not be more plain or stark. Perhaps Dems should say something about it. texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…