"Joe's values are right where they need to be to move this city in the right direction." State Senator @MollyforTexas on why she's supporting my campaign for Houston City Council District C. This is just the start. Let's build the Houston we deserve, together.

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Houston used to be where seventeen railroads met the sea. Over one hundred passenger trains passed through the city on a daily basis. A large part of Houston Ship Channels success is the access to all of these railroads. 🧵 1/5

This is what so much of Dem strategy from 2012-2020 and DSA strategy from 2016-2024 has basically been like. you’re all guilty, and it’s because you’ve made your spaces inhospitable to normal people! crack open some beers, talk about football, talk about movies! BE NORMAL

Great thread. The early 2010s obsession with "tiny homes" as a solution to the housing crisis really missed the mark - it aimed at creating un-urban subdivisions that could never densify and grow incrementally. Was never a solution for cities. We need urban form!!

only places in the country i would even consider living in tbh

“Fire trucks don’t dictate street design” Meanwhile your city’s street requirements are a copy of the spec sheet from a fire truck manufacturer for their largest apparatus.

@White_Janissary Idpol was a total catastrophe. We heightened white racial consciousness and presented a model of white identity oriented around guilt and shame. This opened a Pandora’s box, and the resurgence of white guilt’s antithesis, white pride, was the inevitable result

The moment we lost the culture war is when the left decided to say "it's not my job to educate you"

I have people over to dinner about 15 to 20 times per year. I am invited over to dinner zero to one time per year. People often behave as if a social invitation is an onerous burden. They are in a long-term relationship with themselves.

The most beautiful part of dining at Bob’s Big Boy was our waitress not knowing who died and why everyone was ordering shakes and when we showed her David Lynch’s picture she got so sad and said “Him? He was the nicest customer, came in and ordered the same thing everyday.” (1/2)

@ichthys30 Funny, I’m reading a Sondheim biography and he described how in his 20s living in NYC (the 1950s) nearly every night you went to someone’s apartment for cocktails and/or dinner. Young people wanted to entertain, even in shoebox spaces.

Obviously doing things in person is fun for everyone, but we can’t imagine how deprived of entertainment ppl were before - of course putting on a local play or going to a civic club was better than staying in. Now we have unlimited options at home, can’t deny that impact.

The conclusion of the original edition is that TV is the culprit for loss of social capital (50% of the cause) and suburbanization is 15% of the cause. Seems silly 2 hear some1 blame tv today, but social media/smart phones r just a more aggressive form of private entertainment.

A lot of landlords can’t reprice bc they’d go underwater on their financing at lower rent levels Huge bubble waiting to pop

Looking for a new app after the end of TikTok? Might I recommend subscribing to your local newspaper.

Hating on Sicily

Just takes will and a lax local govt! Most developers are making too much money selling sprawl that they haven't seen the value in trying to make something dense and beautiful.

Starting this next spring is the Amtrak Gulf Coast service. It'll run 2 round trips daily between New Orleans & Mobile. Itll be a semi-return of the old Gulf Coast/Gulf Breeze & Sunset Limited (The sunset used to extend to Orlando) Its a pretty decent service that is much needed