I spent way too long reading up on the organizations funding the abundance conference, and the connections between the biggest abundists, abundance groups and wealthy funders. Turns out, there's some real evil people involved with this. Give it a read!

Dear Wisconsin: Mark Pocan Rep. Gwen Moore Have signed the discharge petition. Rep. Tom Tiffany Derrick Van Orden Rep. Glenn Grothman Rep. Scott Fitzgerald Rep. Tony Wied Bryan Steil Have not. The Wisconsin Republican Party supports, and covers for, a pedophile. Fucking sickening.

Well intentioned affordable housing mandates brought housing development to a halt in Portland (skyrocketing prices). I'm not opposed to trying these policies, but we also need to be able to concede defeat if they don't work. Empty storefronts is the end result

this argument works a lot better when we are talking about leaders who's views on homosexuality are a generation or so behind ours, not 75 years.

This is why I'll always be a jane jacobs urbanist, not an abundance one

we’re going to have to throw a lot of people in jail after all this is over

Confirmed that the suburban lifestyle is the most wasteful

Abundance people the moment that the topic comes to anything other than housing

According to data from the FBI, Chicago and Boston have lower crime rates than cities in red states, including Memphis and Tennessee. The data shows that Chicago has 17.5 murders per 100K people and Boston has 3.6, while Memphis and St. Louis have crime rates of 40.6 and 54.1,

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RIP abundance, 2025-2025 There's a lot id do to bring down the cost of housing, but cultural conservatism isn't one of them

I don’t understand why this neurotic “anti crime”hysteria is happening when we have all time lows

This is incredibly rare, while car accidents killed almost 40,000 Americans in 2024, nearly double *all* the 23,000 homicides reported in 2023, virtually none of which occur on public transit between strangers. But we just don’t care about vehicle deaths

Today looked up how much it would cost to buy decent coverage for a 3 person family in New York State through the ACA marketplace, well above $3000. Imagine explaining to someone in Europe that you can spend $3k/month on healthcare w/o visiting one doctor.

The interesting thing about the Taylor Lorenz article is that I don’t think anyone was particularly surprised at Dem creators taking Dem dark money for favorable content, but their reaction really makes it seem like there’s something much bigger going on in the background.

Think for a second about how weird this all is. A book comes out called Abundance. It *immediately* becomes a "movement." W/in 6 months there are Abundance conferences, campus groups, think tanks. All from one book. It is so obviously not organic lol. It's funded. It's capital.

40,000 people killed in car crashes in the u.s. per year (almost twice the amount of homicides in the country): *crickets* an incident on public transit caught on camera: WE MUST ROLL BACK PROGRESSIVISM AND GET RID OF LABOR UNIONS

WHY THE FUCK WERE THEY CLOSE TO AGREEMENT

I do not appreciate everything Susan Collins has been doing.

Yimbyism was mostly invented by urbanist dorks who read jane jacobs I get the leftist opposition to broader abundance stuff. I'm with them on that. But opposition to the housing portions of it makes no sense Looser housing regulations will make supportive housing easier