The YIMBY free-market agenda can’t solve the housing crisis. But there are solutions that provide the homes we need without ceding power to the profiteers who rigged the system. I wrote for The New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/179147…

this is the exhibit Google shared in court to prove it wasn't a monopoly

Hell Gate has the UNSEALED INDICTMENT against Mayor Eric Adams. We're sharing it here. Bribes from foreign nationals, straw donations, and defrauding the city's public matching funds program. WILD. We've dropped the paywall. hellgatenyc.com/read-the-eric-…

I spent the last year reporting on the most interesting effort in a generation to transform American prisons — by giving prisoners more say over their environments. The story begins with a deadly riot in a prison named for Robert E. Lee. 🧵 themarshallproject.org/2024/09/26/sou…

I called the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office to see if they were moving people at the jail, who are in a mandatory evacuation zone for the hurricane heading to Tampa, Florida. The answers are vague. (1/)

I am looking for people with loved ones in jails or prisons in Hurricane Milton's path. If that's you, and you are willing to talk, reach out at [email protected] Info I have so far is below.

NEW: Two years ago, New York legislators gave the state's power authority the ability to build enough renewable energy for the state to hit its legally-mandated climate goals. But instead of doing just that, it hired McKinsey to help it NOT do it. hellgatenyc.com/mckinsey-busin…

“Illegal aliens coming into our country under Biden are treated better than our vets.” ⬆️ Trump has made this or similar claims at least 270 times. ilica fact-checks it: themarshallproject.org/2024/10/21/fac…

Our New York Times Tech Guild has every entrance covered with picket lines

Reminder: the world’s richest person, 50 other billionaire donors, the whole of the Republican Party, tech oligarchs, the US chamber of commerce, oil and gas interests, a sprawling network of corporate-backed think tanks are NOT “the elite” but associate editors at Teen Vogue are

Did anyone watch “don’t look up”?

ouch.

Production Assistants are the backbone of NBC News NOW, but many of us struggle to afford basic necessities like food, rent, and transportation. We’re issuing a clear demand to NBC News management today: pay us a fair wage NOW! (1/3)

I'm teaching databases this semester at Berkeley. My students all seem unusually brilliant. Not many go to office hours, and not too many folks post on the course forum asking project questions. Weirdly, the exam had the lowest recorded average in my 10 semesters teaching it.

today, media, cycling, talking, prepping. tomorrow, drivingggggggg ❤️

one of my best friends just built and released this very cool "gap map" outlining R&D gaps holding back science (including social science) ! gap-map.org An extremely interesting database of problems humanity is facing. Convergent Research doing awesome work!

Lost my AirPods at jfk. If anyone finds Ilica’s AirPods lemme know lol

F1 track around the colosseum

Today, we issued a letter — signed by 70% of our unit — to Stephen Engelberg and Robin Sparkman asking them to uphold ProPublica’s values of fairness, transparency and accountability at the bargaining table.

The Chicago Pope implies the existence of a New Keynesian Pope and a Behavioral Pope