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Newsletter: http://publiccomment.blog/ Urban policy consultant: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/ Roosevelt Institute Fellow, CA FWD Fellow Working on a book about cities for Island Press. ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · Dec 11

I can't tell you how excited I am to work with Heather Boyer and the Island Press team, which really gets what I'm trying to do with this projects and has published more than a few of my favorite books on urbanism.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · Dec 11

Some news: I'm writing a book!

Publishers Marketplace announcement:

California YIMBY policy director and urban policy journalist Ned Resnikoff's CITIES FOR THE PEOPLE, tackling the dysfunctional housing, transportation, and urban governance systems ailing American cities, arguing that if we are going to secure democracy for future generations, we need to do everything we can to ensure that our great cities flourish, to Heather Boyer at Island Press, for publication in fall 2026, by Diana Finch at Diana Finch Literary Agency (world).

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17h

Maybe I’ll get back to it eventually but I’ve got to finish this other book first!

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 19h

His SF based employees should, every last one of them, walk out. If he's asking for violence to be directed against the people of the city, the people of the city shouldn't advance his economic interests.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19h

Area billionaire has wet brain www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

Marc Benioff says Trump should send National Guard to San Francisco

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that President Trump should deploy the National Guard to San Francisco to combat crime: “We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it.”

www.sfchronicle.com

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19h

Area billionaire has wet brain www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

Marc Benioff says Trump should send National Guard to San Francisco

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that President Trump should deploy the National Guard to San Francisco to combat crime: “We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it.”

www.sfchronicle.com

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 20h

Pretty bittersweet to watch from a distance!

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21h

Philip K Dick ass reality

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22h

The decision to publish this one three days after 10/7 is going to live rent-free in my head forever. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

A Hole in the Limits of the World | Ismail Ibrahim

I talked to a man wearing a sweatsuit with the Palestinian flag on it. He told me that his father came here in 1976. It’s ethnic cleansing, it’s an illegal occupation of Palestinian land, and what you...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 23h

Important to remember that not only did we pass #SB79, the biggest transit-oriented upzoning bill ever, we also passed a clean CEQA exemption for new multifamily infill housing.

This is, bar none, the biggest year in state action on housing policy reform in California history. Not even close.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23h

Close: International Business Times, the sister publication of Newsweek. We shared an office, which was raided by the FBI about a year after I was laid off.

James @15c3po.bsky.social · 23h

Newsweek?

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23h

Okay enough story time, I should stop procrastinating.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23h

Mind you, AJAM was probably the best full-time journalism gig I ever had. The one before that was MSNBC when they were trying to spin up msnbc.com, somehow combining the worst of startup and mega-corporation office culture. The one after that was at essentially a money laundering front for a cult.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23h

During our time in the hotel — which also had various other, sometimes quite disgusting, code violations — we kept being told we would eventually move up to a spacious office around Columbus Circle. AJAM shut down before that office opened. They paid tens of millions to get out of the lease lol.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23h

The ballroom in that section of the New Yorker Hotel was where Hillary Clinton delivered her 2016 concession speech, just 10 months after the head of AJAM stood on the same stage and announced that we had all been laid off.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23h

Then we got moved to the New Yorker Hotel, where there was not enough desk space for everyone. One of the fire exits was also illegally sealed shut until our unofficial shop steward called up the Fire Department to let themselves into the newsroom in the middle of the day and force it open.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23h

Just one: AJ bought the shell of Current TV instead of starting up their own thing. Literally didn't even get rid of the old Current TV mugs in the break room. I would drink my morning coffee out of a THE GAVIN NEWSOM SHOW mug.

Now I very much live in The Gavin Newsom Show. Time is a flat etc.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23h

I've attempted and abandoned a memoir about living through the digital media bubble a few times, but man do I have stories about AJAM.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Actually just occurred to me that those of us who worked at Al Jazeera America — a hugely expensive boondoggle backed by an authoritarian regime that thought it could have it both ways — are uniquely well positioned to predict the future of CBS News.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23h

Ahh, so it was YOU.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

We've got the top minds in philosophy trying to figure out whether Mike Johnson possesses subjectivity, and so far it's not looking good

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

My takeaway is that the people who sold us addictive attention-fracking tools are getting dangerously high on their own supply. "Greta Thunberg might be the antichrist" is an extremely "grandpa got his brain cooked by too much Facebook" sentiment. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 1d

That feeling when the Governor signs your bill allowing more homes near public transit & you then walk from your 39-unit apartment building to get on the subway.

Housing + transit = perfect combo

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Actually just occurred to me that those of us who worked at Al Jazeera America — a hugely expensive boondoggle backed by an authoritarian regime that thought it could have it both ways — are uniquely well positioned to predict the future of CBS News.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Kendall telling the CEO of Vaulter "because my dad told me to" after laying off the entire newsroom.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Every journalist who worked at a flailing and rapidly decaying digital news startup in the mid-2010s knows exactly what is going to happen at CBS News.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think either is going to have *that* kind of impact. SB 50 (SB 79's predecessor) might have. SB 79 and City of Yes are steps in the right direction and huge wins, but there's a ton of work left to be done.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of excitement over SB 79—understandably. I would add, every single bill California YIMBY sent to the governor was signed today. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/10/g...

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

Not exaggerating when I say that SB 79, a bill making it easier to build housing near mass transit, is the most consequential piece of legislation that the Democratic Party has passed all year. Saying no to the worst people in our coalition proves we're serious about the future.

Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 1d

WE DID IT!!!