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.

Japan has national zoning and the result has been….wonderful. If California did this in a way that actually prioritized human beings over vehicles and cut out the rent seekers, we’d actually get dynamic, growing, flourishing cities.

Well this is an inauspicious start. One of the worst aspects of Cuomo was his petty, resentment-driven governance, bummer it sounds like New Yorkers might not have gotten an alternative to that.

Reminds me of when @jason went on The Bulwark and the listener feedback was, “I’m a never Trump Republican and listening to him made me want to go full socialist.” This tiny group of SV losers is going to ruin the entire sector.

the weird way that trans issues play in our politics now is that while on specific policies most voters now agree with Republicans, whoever is able to convince voters that the other side is too obsessed with trans issues in any given election wins. In 2024, that hurt Kamala, in

@BlakeAshby1 @sunshinedaydre @JakeSherman As a consequence, any real solution to bringing health care costs down has to involve denying a lot of unnecessary care. There are robust systems in place for this in countries with universal health care, but that never really factors into proposals for health care reform here.

I’m happy for Executive Zahilay and think he will be great. Note however, CM Balducci was a stalwart champion of transit and housing and more focused on policy than anyone else in county government. It was not rewarded by the progressive Seattle faction. Without judgement, it

Every Democrat now knows to campaign on affordability — what @KathyHochul is showing here is the tough-mindedness to actually govern on affordability even though she’s going to take misguided shit from green groups over it. https://t.co/xAiO4Equ6W

I sometimes feel like the whole concept of “Big Tech” is just a plot by Meta to obscure the fact that they are outlier bad actors.

This is the best concise list of beliefs that are poisoning our politics that I’ve seen to date. Defeating this belief set is, in my view, more important than anything left-right oriented. List by @AndyMasley

"He built more housing is what he did. He beat the rats when no one else could. And in this house, Eric Adams is a hero"

“It’s just back office” is a bit like saying “iPhone assembly is low value add.” Maybe at first, but when you start on the ladder you can keep going up.

Welp, power is out in all of CD, Mt Baker, and parts of Beacon Hill. Reclosers tried too. That portends poorly.

Fun fact - this beautiful building was originally a NYC fire station. Less fun fact - the entire building’s width is insufficient to even be considered a fire truck access lane. An entire former ~fire station~ is too small for ~passage~ under today’s fire code.

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"For most of them, it was the first time they had seen the snow." Quite a reader comment here on @Fahrenthold's big Sierra Club piece.

In the Seattle mayor's race the current trajectory is not as clear cut as @ronpdavis is making out below. Now, Ron is correct that if Katie Wilson's vote share follows the normal pattern, we should expect the counts today and Monday to push her to a narrow win. But... As my

Anyone else notice that he was slurring words again when announcing the obesity drug "deal?"

I love it. While we're at it, there's tons of talk about "value capturing" an upzone, but what about value capturing stasis? Neighborhoods that chose to stay frozen in amber should pay for the externalities they're foisting on others through a property tax charge.

Yes! Left-of-center politics candidates campaign on, “I’m going to help marginalized person over there,” instead of, “I’m going to solve problems you have in your life,” and the “secret” to Mamdani’s campaign was doing the latter without raising the ire of the left.

The Sierra Club is imploding. Turns out this was a bad strategy: