Nicholas Bagley
@nicholas_bagley
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Professor at @UMichLaw, former Chief Legal Counsel to @GovWhitmer
Ann Arbor, MI
Joined November 2013
“What Bagley shows is that liberals too have been complicit in that project — to the detriment of many of the very causes they hope to advance.” This was a great conversation with @ezraklein. https://t.co/hv9XzIw8OV
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The legal scholar Nicholas Bagley argues that the liberal “procedural fetish” makes it difficult for government to accomplish anything bold.
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Failure of CA teachers’ unions to go hard Yimby in Sacramento is a great illustration of elite supply skepticism.
I would love to see organizations like UTLA organizing to support housing abundance as a key strategy to support school funding and, consequently, their membership.
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No Code Needed! Just add 'em to your cart and race to the checkout 🏎️
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Meanwhile, China's power grid "eats load growth for breakfast," as my co-host @robinsonmeyer put it on this week's SHIFT KEY.
Generation from coal, hydro & nuclear will stay roughly flat through the 2020s, which means all growth has to come from gas, solar & wind. Gas has very tight supply chains. Wind and solar are increasingly difficult to permit. I'm increasingly worried we're headed for the cliff.
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The Network will bring together researchers across disciplines and connect them w/ policymakers to find better ways of expanding access to housing, clean energy, and transportation. Mentoring, grants, research-to-policy workshops, and more. 2/3
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Mark those calendars! 🗓️ Which match in Season 2 are you most looking forward to?!
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Exciting job opportunity, courtesy of @ssrc_org & @Arnold_Ventures: Come build the "Abundance Academic Network" (name is still a work in progress) as the inaugural Program Director!
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Generation from coal, hydro & nuclear will stay roughly flat through the 2020s, which means all growth has to come from gas, solar & wind. Gas has very tight supply chains. Wind and solar are increasingly difficult to permit. I'm increasingly worried we're headed for the cliff.
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It seems incumbent on reporters to explain to readers what is a true “slash” of prices and what is just a relabeling …
New: President Donald Trump inked an agreement with AstraZeneca to slash prices on the company’s drugs, in the second major deal between the White House and a pharmaceutical company https://t.co/esni2jhfLP?
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Governor Newsom just signed every single one of California YIMBY’s sponsored and endorsed bills.
Man abundance flopped HARD huh
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Is AOC a brilliant social media tactician, or just masking empty policy with viral spectacle? Her latest Instagram livestreams and viral “dunks” rack up engagement—but do they move real issues or just deepen divides? Are we watching a policymaker... or an influencer in Congress?
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BIG NEWS: Our ROAD to Housing Act passed the Senate last night! After the first housing committee markup in nearly TWO DECADES and months of bipartisan work – we’re finally moving to tackle the housing crisis. It cuts red tape, builds more homes, and makes government part of the
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America is not building enough housing and Americans are facing sky-high housing costs as a result. Today, the Senate took a historic step to change that. The ROAD to Housing Act will help communities – urban, suburban, and rural – build more housing and bring down costs.
The Senate just passed this bipartisan housing bill as part of the NDAA
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energy dominance is cancelling a project worth 3 Hoover Dams 🙃 https://t.co/HfP8pVbkty
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It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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And we’re not slowing down.
BREAKING: @GavinNewsom SIGNS #SB79, allowing denser housing near transit. From upzoning to streamlining to CEQA exempting, the biggest housing year I've seen in 10+ years covering Sacramento https://t.co/hx3rBFBfJu
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Ivy League schools rediscover, sometimes as if for the first time, that standardized tests predict success in college: 1. Dartmouth (Feb 5, 2024): “Several key findings guided our decision: First, standardized test scores are an important predictor of a student's success in
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This is how we lose the AI/energy arms race with China. Our country needs an all-of-the-above approach to energy (like Utah). We should be all in on nuclear/natural gas/geothermal and keeping our coal plants open for as long as possible. However, there are
This just in: The Esmeralda 7 Solar Project — which would have generated a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power — has been canceled, the BLM says. https://t.co/ENvOz54ypK
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today we're releasing our iOS app. all the power of Krea now in your pocket. download it for free 👇
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Transformative CEQA reform + SB 79 = what a legacy for @GavinNewsom! Before he leaves office, he & @California_HCD will also make ground-shaping decisions on SB 79 implementation, https://t.co/yWuSwTCpSh
I wrote a long 🧵 yesterday on my puzzlement about the chatter that @GavinNewsom or his advisors might think it'd be politically prudent to veto SB 79. Today I'll explain why I don't think he'll cave. tl,dr: he's a bold idealist and fundamentally good on housing! 1/🧵
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By signing SB 79, @GavinNewsom pleased the sky god, who will now bless California with life-giving rain.
California's first significant storm of the year is arriving early next week that could end fire season for much of the state and deliver 1-2+ feet of snow along the Sierra Crest above 7,000 feet. 0.5–2 inches of rain is expected across much of Central and Northern California
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The Trump admin will soon propose testing the use of Most Favored Nation drug pricing in Medicare. In a new piece w/ @nicholas_bagley & @C_Garthwaite we explore how courts will likely constrain these "demonstrations" and what it means for future regulatory efforts
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Forgetting an item at the Store is like fumbling the football avoid this with Grocie!
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