Jean says to remind you that if your local police department is pretending to “escort Santa Claus” you should learn about civil forfeiture

it absolutely rips that every single one of us has in our possession at least one (often TWO) little flat boxes containing the sum total of human knowledge & we just like. drop them in the toilet. or use the bigger one to rest our bagel plate on

every day i explain my life and actions to the tiny medieval serf who lives in my skull and every day she goes ʜᴡæᴛ ʜᴡá?? and i say Keep Up Hildewald It's A Fucking Iphone

Things Everybody Should Know #127: Duck Consent x.com/jonslater37/st…

Whole thread. Not every pet is a fit for every household.

But it's worse than that because we don't even discuss these tradeoffs. We don't talk about the tradeoff between more spending with military contractors and universal pre-K. We just always go with more military spending, no matter what.

yes, please do enlighten me. email me at [email protected]

This victory is part of Ivy Vann's legacy. She quietly built support over multiple sessions and engaged a growing, diverse circle of stakeholders and experts. An election loss meant she had to hand it off, but this advance still belongs to her. Congrats, Ivy!

What is the 15-minute city? It's every city ever built by humans on this planet until a century ago, but with a catchy new name. And if the old parts haven't been destroyed in the last century, it's where the tourists go. And people travel across oceans to see the best of them.

"All current zoning legislation owes its existence to a racially biased model of land-use planning." Read more in this piece from the Quarterly by @AtqLab and co. southernurbanism.org/blog/winter-20…

Many zoning laws are classist government regulations enacted by local governments. I support some zoning of course, but many regulations can be thrown out with great effect.

Rick Wilson Dems: We should accept minorities and treat them better Repubs: *screaming at Jews with a megaphone telling them to go back to Isreal* Why are Dems so divisive?

Today, a critical pro-housing bill was voted down. Many who voted against this bill claim to care about our housing crisis. It’s time to walk the walk. What we are doing in NH now is not working. You cannot claim to care about this issue, but say not-in-my-backyard. #NHPolitics

Still pretty wild a House Democrat actually complained about the equity of her house being somehow impacted by having a rental property next door. It’s giving ‘The American Dream for me, not for thee’ vibes #NHPolitics

If we allow small footprints, streamline permits for small entrepreneurs, reduce requirements for small stores, then more creative, quirky, niche businesses can exist in our downtown. If we arbitrarily reduce the reach they can have, we may kill specialization and innovation.

Whole thread!

@danlehnermusic Come on, there's only one

The plurality view is now clearly in favor of Ivy Vann 's fourplex bill, which has repeatedly failed in #NHHouse. Rep. Joe Alexander 🇺🇸🐘 NH State Rep Josh Yokela Charlotte DiLorenzo Mary Jane Wallner Susan Almy Joe Sweeney