Alex
@alxlndomountain.bsky.social
San Francisco based planner
construction industry knower
organizer
labor bureaucrat building the high road
dad & hubby
bike enjoyer
trolleybus evangelist
PHIMBY stan
co-editor @derspekter.bsky.social
speaking only for myself
construction industry knower
organizer
labor bureaucrat building the high road
dad & hubby
bike enjoyer
trolleybus evangelist
PHIMBY stan
co-editor @derspekter.bsky.social
speaking only for myself
Will @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's housing transition team accept this fundamental reality? I guess we'll have to see
There is absolutely a place for realigning regs with the outcomes we want but it's not fundamentally the regs per se' that are the obstacle as an overall system designed to only work under particular conditions of scarcity
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Will @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's housing transition team accept this fundamental reality? I guess we'll have to see
What if we're into ritual humiliation?
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
What if we're into ritual humiliation?
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
The Rosetta Stone of modern politics
The press corps can make a scandal when it wants to.
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Rosetta Stone of modern politics
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The big story should have been that Elon Musk incentivized people in other countries to sell racism to North Americans.
And eventually turned on locations which resulted in hyper-nationalism of its users.
Guy does everything he can to push poor people into hating each other rather than him
And eventually turned on locations which resulted in hyper-nationalism of its users.
Guy does everything he can to push poor people into hating each other rather than him
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The big story should have been that Elon Musk incentivized people in other countries to sell racism to North Americans.
And eventually turned on locations which resulted in hyper-nationalism of its users.
Guy does everything he can to push poor people into hating each other rather than him
And eventually turned on locations which resulted in hyper-nationalism of its users.
Guy does everything he can to push poor people into hating each other rather than him
Are we sure their names weren't Waffen & Goebbels?
President Donald Trump plans to bestow ceremonial pardons on Tuesday on two turkeys named Waddle and Gobble. He will then fly to his private Florida resort on Tuesday to celebrate Thanksgiving. https://to.pbs.org/4ohuCva
WATCH LIVE: Trump pardons turkeys Gobble and Waddle for Thanksgiving
Waddle and Gobble, the two birds that will be spared from the dinner table, enjoyed luxury hotel accommodations ahead of their White House visit.
to.pbs.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Are we sure their names weren't Waffen & Goebbels?
I realize the NYC Building Trades stepped on their own dicks by siding with Cuomo but not having construction labor leaders on the housing transition team while putting on GCs & the FPI s a big mistake.
Zohran Mamdani argues that “freeze the rent” is not just a way of delivering relief from exorbitant housing costs—it is the only way to get enough voters on board with a growth agenda. Rogé Karma spoke with Mamdani to see if he has a point.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I realize the NYC Building Trades stepped on their own dicks by siding with Cuomo but not having construction labor leaders on the housing transition team while putting on GCs & the FPI s a big mistake.
Great minds think alike...for the past few days I've been saying that @scottwiener.bsky.social would rather spend American money to destroy Palestinian homes than build American ones
Zohran Mamdani just made history by saying on live television beside the President of the United States that instead of housing their own children they're spending money supporting Israel's genocide of Palestinians
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Great minds think alike...for the past few days I've been saying that @scottwiener.bsky.social would rather spend American money to destroy Palestinian homes than build American ones
David, we are so coming to your house to collect
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
David, we are so coming to your house to collect
Capitalists on track to destroy capitalism.
“Flooded homes lose value. Overheated cities become uninhabitable. Entire asset classes are degrading in real time, which translates to loss of value, business interruption, & market devaluation on a systemic level"- Günther Thallinger
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Capitalists on track to destroy capitalism.
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Hot take: dark mode being easier on the eyes is a fiction invented by tech companies to distract us from the negative health effects of staying addicted to our devices and consuming.
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Hot take: dark mode being easier on the eyes is a fiction invented by tech companies to distract us from the negative health effects of staying addicted to our devices and consuming.
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It's a lot easier to cover the soap opera of the Trump attacks on Comey & James than the destruction of NASA, the Department of Education, EPA, NOAA, the IRS, etc
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
It's a lot easier to cover the soap opera of the Trump attacks on Comey & James than the destruction of NASA, the Department of Education, EPA, NOAA, the IRS, etc
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Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
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A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
My "We're not at all like Enron" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt
it's happening dot gif
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
My "We're not at all like Enron" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt
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"Our guy has the leather jacket. The comparison is preposterous and quite frankly offensive."
it's happening dot gif
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
"Our guy has the leather jacket. The comparison is preposterous and quite frankly offensive."
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cases like Ms. Mendoza's are why I have no confidence in the amerikan judiciary system
A mother of 8 was sexually abused by an ICE officer.
She went public with the abuse, and was deported the very next day.
Her lawyer says she had a stay on her deportation order
They disappeared her so she couldn’t speak out.
Silvia Reyna Mendoza deserves justice.
ICE should be abolished.
She went public with the abuse, and was deported the very next day.
Her lawyer says she had a stay on her deportation order
They disappeared her so she couldn’t speak out.
Silvia Reyna Mendoza deserves justice.
ICE should be abolished.
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
cases like Ms. Mendoza's are why I have no confidence in the amerikan judiciary system
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if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
Here's Scott sitting with Isaac Her(t)zog who has said some nasty things over the course of the genocidal eruption of the past two years and praises the "Trump Plan" for Gaza. @scottwiener.bsky.social says he disapproves of the CURRENT Israeli government but I'm sure he'd be fine with this one.
![Unfortunately underneath Shifa [hospital] there is a huge, huge terror base. Actually the headquarters, the headquarters, of Hamas-ISIS operations is underneath Shifa!
Logo for Zionism Observer, the letters Z and O designed to look like a corrupted Star of David, symbolic of how Zionism corrupts JudaismIsaac Herzog
President of Israel
Date: 2 years ago (12 November, 2023)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ff5lj24wltyh3atzwyl52nh3/bafkreihip37jo5dszj6xgkqetzxl76oypf4pcrygvh7xv6522hjfdmh6oy@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Here's Scott sitting with Isaac Her(t)zog who has said some nasty things over the course of the genocidal eruption of the past two years and praises the "Trump Plan" for Gaza. @scottwiener.bsky.social says he disapproves of the CURRENT Israeli government but I'm sure he'd be fine with this one.
I saw somewhere that he may have gone wacky in the past few years but I recall Myron Orfield was doing great work on regional inequality and tax sharing that animated a lot of Urban Habitat's advocacy around the turn of the century (yes i really wanted to use that term).
Exciting new research that demonstrates how localities in the same metropolitan area have wildly varying tax bases—which go on to have a huge impact on the ability to provide services. Rich towns can collect more taxes, give themselves better services, and reinforce inequality.
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I saw somewhere that he may have gone wacky in the past few years but I recall Myron Orfield was doing great work on regional inequality and tax sharing that animated a lot of Urban Habitat's advocacy around the turn of the century (yes i really wanted to use that term).
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Not clear to me whether these rules are designed by the fossil fuel industry, tech industry, Russia/Saudi Arabia, "Abundance" centrists, DC consultants, or virtually all Republicans & far too many Democrats.
But they are this moment's conventional wisdom.
And they are a doomed, reckless farce.
But they are this moment's conventional wisdom.
And they are a doomed, reckless farce.
1. Do not speak of climate change.
2. Do not antagonize fossil fuels. Embrace fossil fuels via "all of the above" & "technology neutral."
3. Fixate on energy & economics to exclusion of ecology & equity.
4. Speak often of reducing costs. Sometimes emissions.
5. Hobble bedrock environmental laws.
2. Do not antagonize fossil fuels. Embrace fossil fuels via "all of the above" & "technology neutral."
3. Fixate on energy & economics to exclusion of ecology & equity.
4. Speak often of reducing costs. Sometimes emissions.
5. Hobble bedrock environmental laws.
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Not clear to me whether these rules are designed by the fossil fuel industry, tech industry, Russia/Saudi Arabia, "Abundance" centrists, DC consultants, or virtually all Republicans & far too many Democrats.
But they are this moment's conventional wisdom.
And they are a doomed, reckless farce.
But they are this moment's conventional wisdom.
And they are a doomed, reckless farce.
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But he said “shit” so that means he’s not like those other Democrats. He’s a hip cool Democrat.
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
But he said “shit” so that means he’s not like those other Democrats. He’s a hip cool Democrat.
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Not kidding when I say they should fund the free buses by actually enforcing driving and parking rules. Walk around any neighborhood of NYC for an hour and you will witness ~30 ticketable offenses. Everyone will get around faster if people follow the rules. Iron-fist it. Cameras on every stoplight.
Hochul has said she would neither support a plan that would deprive the MTA of a key revenue stream — fares — nor would she raise taxes to make up for the missing swipes.
Gov. Hochul Vague on Free Bus Plans As Her Open Budget Salvo Nears - Streetsblog New York City
Hochul has said she would neither support a plan that would deprive the MTA of a key revenue stream — fares — nor would she raise taxes to make up for the missing swipes.
buff.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Not kidding when I say they should fund the free buses by actually enforcing driving and parking rules. Walk around any neighborhood of NYC for an hour and you will witness ~30 ticketable offenses. Everyone will get around faster if people follow the rules. Iron-fist it. Cameras on every stoplight.
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republicans: we want the gestapo to terrorize racial minorities
democrats: MAKE👏 THE👏 GESTAPO👏 WEAR👏 UNIFORMS👏
democrats: MAKE👏 THE👏 GESTAPO👏 WEAR👏 UNIFORMS👏
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
republicans: we want the gestapo to terrorize racial minorities
democrats: MAKE👏 THE👏 GESTAPO👏 WEAR👏 UNIFORMS👏
democrats: MAKE👏 THE👏 GESTAPO👏 WEAR👏 UNIFORMS👏
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eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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