Logan Bowers ๐๏ธ ๐๏ธ
@loganb
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Seattle, WA, USA
Joined May 2007
I want a brighter and more abundant future (than I had) for my son and others of his generation. That means building a lot more stuff in the highest opportunity places in the country.
This thread is such a perfect encapsulation of the "lead paint caucus" mindset: "When I was young, I had to choose between living in a lead paint filled shithole, moving to a sprawlburg, or uprooting my life and relocating to another city. And so should you!"
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Mayoralship is almost always a terminal position. Itโs political poison and they come out looking like clowns. No politician with prospects should run for it and other politicians certainly shouldnโt spend political capital on it.
They won't support Mamdani because there's a really high chance he is a toxic figure in the party in 2-3 years, as the previous three Democratic NYC mayors have been, and they don't want to be associated with him.
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RT @Noahpinion: The U.S. was only the undisputed global superpower once, and that was in the 1990s, when immigration was at a record high.
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As the Cold War retreats into the rear view mirror, it gets more and more comical to say anything other than liberal capitalist democracy provides the greatest gains to human welfare. Itโs not even close and it keeps getting more not closer. They imagine this counterfactual.
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RT @Noahpinion: The base of the Trump movement is deeply anti-Asian, even if the Trump administration officially claims to fight for Asiansโฆ.
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RT @buildhomez: Texas doesn't have IZ, but progressive cities like Austin have recreated it in the form of density bonuses that are effectiโฆ.
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RT @StatisticUrban: Manchin was about a million times better than the Republican rubber stamp that replaced him. The hate he got never madeโฆ.
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Dems had been going after tech for more tax revenue for decades and the tech sector was largely okay with it. Then the Democratic base started saying, โtech is ontologically evil,โ and the party made concrete moves to potentially regulate startups out of existence. Thatโs.
Lina Khan deciding if you should be permitted to sell your startup or be forced to deliver additional shareholder value.
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RT @NickyFrank30: Seriously thought the thing that might finally make me snap is Lina Khan going around complaining Democrats donโt do enouโฆ.
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How I feel about these DSA events that keep popping into the discourse
๐จ The Family Must Go: DSA Panel Pushes Full-Scale Cultural Revolution. โI want to perform abortions at a church before itโs all said and done.โ. โThe only real difference between marriage and prostitution is the price and the duration of the contract.โ. โSex work and marriage
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Housing is genocide sign seen at a NIMBY protest today against a mixed income high rise. The new homes are less than a few blocks to a trolley stop. And the neighborhood is majority white and middle to upper income.
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This should absolutely be a taking.
Illustration of how we make it hard to build for-sale housing in CA:. Two four-unit projects but around the same time:. Right is for-sale, and as a condition of subdivision approval, it had to widen the street. Left is rental and by-right, so it didn't have to widen the street.
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Itโs actually incredibly based when public works, industry, and other triumphs of modern society are on display for all to see.
The only thing jaw-dropping is how jarring and ugly it is. Did you really have to level mountains and ruin the landscape to build highways? Why not just build tunnels instead?.
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Yup. Part of the reason things like housing, industry, and the built environment have stagnated in the US while the tech sector flourishes is because for the last 50 years you could do whatever you wanted with software, while everything in the real world was increasingly saddled.
the american startup ecosystem is the greatest in the world not just despite of our dysfunctional government and regulatory system, but in part because of it. the government, which gets in its own way regulating everything else, simply cannot do so quickly in startups that.
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RT @ReubenR80027912: Thus when schizo ppl online (who arenโt even Ds b/c they think Bernie is a moderate) say โSydney Sweeny is a Naziโ pplโฆ.
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RT @Sara4Council: Big news for Seattleโs future! Mayor Bruce Harrell and I just unveiled proposals to streamline small business permitting,โฆ.
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lol, UK makes policy on jobs vibes. Incredible stuff.
Omg the complete table is insane. Roofers and hotel manager and IT engineer in the same category? Graphic designer and taxi driver? Nurse above them all? What is going on???
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This isnโt an all red or all blue thing. Texas really stands out. What this is, is the result of a competitive and open market where regulation was used to facilitate delivering as much electricity as possible. Meanwhile, blue states like CA run their social policy through.
ERCOT putting up preposterous numbers right now . Trailing 5yr Jan - July load already at a compound annual growth rate of 5.4% (and up 7.3% yoyโฆ). Wholesale prices have completely broken traditional correlations in the last 18mo
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