Josh Feit
@joshfeit.bsky.social
Author of 2 indie-press poetry books (Shops Close Too Early & The Night of Electric Bikes) https://www.joshfeitpoetry.com/. City planning columnist & cofounder (w/ @ericacbarnett.bsky.social) at https://publicola.com.
"Our columnist writes" is clunky and undercuts the impact of the headline, I post on Bluesky.
January 21, 2026 at 1:36 PM
"Our columnist writes" is clunky and undercuts the impact of the headline, I post on Bluesky.
Reposted by Josh Feit
Fun Fact: The last person to invade Denmark was Adolf Hitler.
January 20, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Fun Fact: The last person to invade Denmark was Adolf Hitler.
Oh my. The lead from a post this time last year: "Their conversational sonics ended in a feedback crescendo when they crawled toward one another and pressed their Fisher-Price handhelds together in a musical kiss."
Great matches in Melbourne; anti-housing in Seattle; the vegan menu at 19th & Jackson — Josh Feit's Poetry
Asking Metro to run bus lines to a currently sparse street as a prerequisite for future density would be a comically inefficient use of Metro dollars.
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January 20, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Oh my. The lead from a post this time last year: "Their conversational sonics ended in a feedback crescendo when they crawled toward one another and pressed their Fisher-Price handhelds together in a musical kiss."
Loved how light rail gate crashed the TV shot during the Australian Open coverage yesterday....
January 20, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Loved how light rail gate crashed the TV shot during the Australian Open coverage yesterday....
Urban infrastructure is often reimagined as rebar for resistance. Buses of Montgomery. Hi-jinxed street signs of Prague vs Soviet tanks. A gay bar rope-a-doping cops on Christopher St. Today, Kyiv’s subway as bomb shelters. “‘The streetcar sympathized with us,’” Wilson quotes one Warsaw memoir.
January 19, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Urban infrastructure is often reimagined as rebar for resistance. Buses of Montgomery. Hi-jinxed street signs of Prague vs Soviet tanks. A gay bar rope-a-doping cops on Christopher St. Today, Kyiv’s subway as bomb shelters. “‘The streetcar sympathized with us,’” Wilson quotes one Warsaw memoir.
This week's obsessions roundup LINK IN BIO also comes with an X > Y (x is greater than y) report. Three of them: Allowing Housing in Residential Zones > Allowing Housing in Commercial Zones; Woke History > Trump’s Fake History; and The # 8 > The L8.
I’m All Lost In, #118: Private Symbolism; Protest Urbanism; Coffee Oriented Development. — Josh Feit's Poetry
Reimagined as rebar for resistance.
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January 19, 2026 at 5:09 PM
This week's obsessions roundup LINK IN BIO also comes with an X > Y (x is greater than y) report. Three of them: Allowing Housing in Residential Zones > Allowing Housing in Commercial Zones; Woke History > Trump’s Fake History; and The # 8 > The L8.
I'm All Lost In. The 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.
I’m All Lost In, #118: Private Symbolism; Protest Urbanism; Coffee Oriented Development. — Josh Feit's Poetry
Reimagined as rebar for resistance.
www.joshfeitpoetry.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:19 AM
I'm All Lost In. The 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.
“Who on earth is Luciano Darderi ? and how is he 22nd in the world?” —Catherine Whitaker, the Tennis Podcast, 1/15/26 @thetennispodcast.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 12:24 AM
“Who on earth is Luciano Darderi ? and how is he 22nd in the world?” —Catherine Whitaker, the Tennis Podcast, 1/15/26 @thetennispodcast.bsky.social
Anti-urbanism will be their undoing. Warsaw. Leningrad. Hitler's generals warned him. I point you to Ch. 12 in Ben Wilson's history of cities, Metropolis. They will ultimately lose in Minneapolis. They already are. www.instagram.com/p/DThCdVkjK3...
Vote In Or Out 🇺🇸 on Instagram: "Historian #HeatherCoxRichardson points to Minneapolis as a turning point. After ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Nicole Good, the Trump administration surged more fe...
46K likes, 578 comments - voteinorout on January 14, 2026: "Historian #HeatherCoxRichardson points to Minneapolis as a turning point. After ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Nicole Good, the Trump ad...
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January 15, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Anti-urbanism will be their undoing. Warsaw. Leningrad. Hitler's generals warned him. I point you to Ch. 12 in Ben Wilson's history of cities, Metropolis. They will ultimately lose in Minneapolis. They already are. www.instagram.com/p/DThCdVkjK3...
You'd think they'd won a Pulitzer. You guys. Interviewing the president is what you do. It's your job. This fawning over yourselves (and the president) is not classy. Save the navel gazing for your therapist.
January 12, 2026 at 1:55 AM
You'd think they'd won a Pulitzer. You guys. Interviewing the president is what you do. It's your job. This fawning over yourselves (and the president) is not classy. Save the navel gazing for your therapist.
God bless @NYTPitchbot for routinely saving me from becoming the wild-eyed crank in the famous “I’m mad as hell” scene in Network. But if you'll allow me, I’d like to become the wild-eyed crank in the famous scene from Network for a second ...
I’m All Lost In, #117: The NYT loses the plot; congestion pricing wins; and I’m still on vacation. — Josh Feit's Poetry
If you’ll allow me, I’d like to become that wild-eyed social critic from the famous scene in Network for just a second.
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January 11, 2026 at 6:31 PM
God bless @NYTPitchbot for routinely saving me from becoming the wild-eyed crank in the famous “I’m mad as hell” scene in Network. But if you'll allow me, I’d like to become the wild-eyed crank in the famous scene from Network for a second ...
I'm All Lost In... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.
I’m All Lost In, #117: The NYT loses the plot; congestion pricing wins; and I’m still on vacation. — Josh Feit's Poetry
If you’ll allow me, I’d like to become that wild-eyed social critic from the famous scene in Network for just a second.
www.joshfeitpoetry.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:43 AM
I'm All Lost In... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.
First tournament of the year winding down. You'll notice: No Anisimova, no Rybakina, no Andreeva in the late round. But one player always seems to be there. : )
January 9, 2026 at 6:13 PM
First tournament of the year winding down. You'll notice: No Anisimova, no Rybakina, no Andreeva in the late round. But one player always seems to be there. : )
The next time a Trump mob storms the Capitol to overturn an election it will be ICE. : (
January 9, 2026 at 4:52 AM
The next time a Trump mob storms the Capitol to overturn an election it will be ICE. : (
I can imagine the Stephen Millers of the world feeling righteous about the Good murder, thinking: "Burn on the woke left. They're always complaining 'This wouldn't have happened if she was white. Well, see, we're not racists. We can gun down whites too if we want.'" ....
January 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM
I can imagine the Stephen Millers of the world feeling righteous about the Good murder, thinking: "Burn on the woke left. They're always complaining 'This wouldn't have happened if she was white. Well, see, we're not racists. We can gun down whites too if we want.'" ....
Armed Federal agents gunned down a woman during a show of force in a U.S. city. Isn't this the milita-right wing's longstanding nightmare scenario. What say you children of Randy Weaver?
January 8, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Armed Federal agents gunned down a woman during a show of force in a U.S. city. Isn't this the milita-right wing's longstanding nightmare scenario. What say you children of Randy Weaver?
Inevitably, Trump's ICE clampdown was going to result in either a Reichstag Fire moment or a Boston Massacre moment. Boston Massacre it is.
January 7, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Inevitably, Trump's ICE clampdown was going to result in either a Reichstag Fire moment or a Boston Massacre moment. Boston Massacre it is.
The way A.I. writing strains to awkwardly adhere to the rule of three has murdered the rule of three.
January 6, 2026 at 8:23 PM
The way A.I. writing strains to awkwardly adhere to the rule of three has murdered the rule of three.
Reposted by Josh Feit
A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.
January 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.
Love it. But how about putting some of the money toward affordable, dense housing in the burbs where people are trekking in from. Share the density.
Congestion pricing's first year was massively successful, so what's next? We shared some ideas with the New York Times:
January 6, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Love it. But how about putting some of the money toward affordable, dense housing in the burbs where people are trekking in from. Share the density.
Transit Miracle: The conductor on the Amtrak train from Providence to Moynihan Hall at Penn Station pronounced Moynihan as 1 syllable.
January 5, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Transit Miracle: The conductor on the Amtrak train from Providence to Moynihan Hall at Penn Station pronounced Moynihan as 1 syllable.
The 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.
I’m All Lost In, #116: If Orpheus had a hit single in 1958; the antisemitic lady in the hotel lobby; the International Tennis Hall of Fame. — Josh Feit's Poetry
Robin Luke’s echo-drenched vocal pleads: “I stood a-cryin' all night long/I stood a-cryin' all night long/Cryin' and wishin' you'd come back to me…” You get the idea.
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January 4, 2026 at 7:18 PM
The 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.
I'm All Lost In... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.
I’m All Lost In, #116: If Orpheus had a hit single in 1958; the antisemitic lady in the hotel lobby; the International Tennis Hall of Fame. — Josh Feit's Poetry
Robin Luke’s echo-drenched vocal pleads: “I stood a-cryin' all night long/I stood a-cryin' all night long/Cryin' and wishin' you'd come back to me…” You get the idea.
www.joshfeitpoetry.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:00 AM
I'm All Lost In... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.
I think what websites don’t understand is you don’t want to “earn a fan badge.” And when they send you a “congratulations,” it’s mortifying and you immediately stop going to the site.
December 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I think what websites don’t understand is you don’t want to “earn a fan badge.” And when they send you a “congratulations,” it’s mortifying and you immediately stop going to the site.
I'm All Lost In... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.
I’m All Lost In, #115: Aries Spears on reels; Paisely Rekdal on poetry; live jazz in Seattle. — Josh Feit's Poetry
How a poem works as opposed to what it means…
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December 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I'm All Lost In... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.