“That’s NIMBY, we count those”

If anything, the conservative legal movement has been far too indulgent of Trump and his constitutional arson. His turning on it should be a lesson.

Colin Fraser Printers never just worked. Everything is printers now.

Democrats will use massive executive power like never before once they are back in power. It's the natural consequence of ever-greater deference to the executive branch. Congress must reclaim its proper constitutional role before it's too late.

One of MAGA's worst cons is redefining strength as weakness and weakness as strength. Capitulate to Trump and cater to his every whim? You're strong! You know what time it is! Hold fast to your principles? You're weak. You're soft. That's the critique of judges in a nutshell.

I also find it very funny the idea that grocery stores are lording over us with some intolerably high level of profit. Their net profit margins are paper thin.

Housing politics are so strange. Texas Republicans put housing reforms at the top of their priority list this year… meanwhile Connecticut republicans voted unanimously against any changes. Don’t listen to people who try to tell you YIMBY is a partisan issue. It’s not.

I think you shouldn't accuse others of lying with data when you literally don't understand the concept of dependent events and thus gave Biden a 99.5% chance of victory.

rent control is government seizure of privately owned assets without compensation

This is spot on. "The real problem with these econ critics — both the lefty writers in The Guardian and the new crop of MAGA defenders — is that their project is fundamentally political. The lefty writers think that if everyone accepts that econ isn’t a science, and that the econ

Zuckerburg's worth is 226 billion. The NY Subway builds tunnels at $4 bil. per mile. SF's BART builds subways at $2 bil. per mile. It's crazy that all of Zuckerberg's wealth would build just 8% of the current NYC subway network. Meanwhile in Paris cost $250 mil. per mile.

Such a funny critique, almost every YIMBY I know who has managed to buy a home in California has added an ADU, or is planning to add an ADU or do an SB 9 lot split.

I think the first time an AI model did something for me that would have been very difficult to get a computer to do prior was: I needed to read a German newspaper article from 1895. I took a screenshot, uploaded it to ChatGPT, and it gave a (correct) translation near-instantly.

Prop 13 isn't great, but raising property taxes won't increase housing supply. Higher property taxes make the cost of housing rise, which reduces investment.

Someone who bought a nice home for $300,000 twenty years ago in their 30s, shouldn’t be forced out of it in their 50s because their neighborhood takes off, and they have no real direct benefit until they sell, and the state has no increased cost as a result of their appreciating

Aisha Wahab fought tooth and nail against SB 79, a bill that would help public transit systems in California by making it so that more people live near the stations there Wahab is likely to run for reelection in 2026. Time to primary her.