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Russell Richie 🔰🌐🏗🚲🏳️‍🌈

@drussellmrichie.bsky.social

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Associate Director of Cognitive Science @PennMindCORE. Treasurer @5thsq, Board Vice-President @pandpinst. he/him. Cancer survivor and ADHD haver. I sell land value tax, and land value tax accessories.

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Russell Richie 🔰🌐🏗🚲🏳️‍🌈 @drussellmrichie.bsky.social · Mar 12

Interested in why assessment, maybe the biggest objection to Land Value Tax – the least bad tax – might not be such a problem?

Check out my new working paper: Land values can be estimated more accurately than property values in parameter recovery simulations.

Thread!
github.com/drussellmric...

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Title: Land values can be estimated more accurately than property values in parameter recovery simulations.
Author: Russell Richie.
Abstract: Land value taxation is favored by economists (Clark Center Forum, 2025), yet rare in practice. This is commonly attributed to land being harder to value than total property values, because unimproved land transacts infrequently in urbanized areas where the vast majority of land value lies. Here I show with parameter recovery simulations of a simple, banal city that land values can actually be estimated more accurately than total values. I discuss how this model can be extended to more realistic settings.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 3h

I have frogs everywhere

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 9h

This is what Democratic mayors should be doing to the streets in front of ICE facilities. Can't have a facility if no one can bring a car into it!

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 1d

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Progress & Poverty @pandpinst.bsky.social · 2d

YIMBYs are winning on housing, and Georgists should be taking notes.

What can we learn from YIMBY's success at turning policy dreams into political wins?

Read Russell Richie's new piece reflecting on YIMBYtown 2025 and how we can bring land value tax into the next wave of housing reform.

progressandpovertyinstitute.org

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

Bring back inscrutable security posters

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Russell Richie 🔰🌐🏗🚲🏳️‍🌈 @drussellmrichie.bsky.social · 2d

When I hear the Trump admin's demands on universities were inspired in part by Marc Rowan

www.inquirer.com/education/up...

"If I say what I think I'll be suspended six months" meme. It contains that quote and a photo of a soccer player.

Russell Richie 🔰🌐🏗🚲🏳️‍🌈 @drussellmrichie.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! We will be sure to share our results far and wide when they are ready. :-)

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Progress & Poverty @pandpinst.bsky.social · 3d

New video drop: LVT Landscape Live!

Learn how to follow this roadmap for LVT advocacy:

- Current legal landscape for LVT policy
- Data modelling & storytelling
- Candidates with LVT on their platforms

#LandValueTax #TaxJustice #LVT #PropertyTax

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf9Z...

LVT Landscape Live - a roadmap for local land value tax advocacy

YouTube video by Progress & Poverty Institute

www.youtube.com

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Chris Elmendorf @cselmendorf.bsky.social · 2d

Cross-posting at @volts.wtf's request, threadreaderapp.com/thread/19748...

Thread by @CSElmendorf on Thread Reader App

@CSElmendorf: 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 thin...

threadreaderapp.com

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 5d

If your city isn't installing speed cameras and isn't installing monitors for excessively loud engines, you are letting criminals ruin your quality of life while leaving money on the table.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 5d

The fact that SF cameras have already caught thousands of people going more than 15 miles over the speed limit is a perfect illustration of why these cameras were needed in the first place. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...

S.F. speed cameras are generating mountains of tickets and fines. Here are the totals so far

August was the first month that San Francisco’s automated speed cameras generated citations with a fine. One camera accounted for a quarter of all the tickets, according to data.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 5d

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social on #SB79 just now in his Twitch conversation with @connoreatspants.bsky.social: "It’s on my desk & I will be reviewing it on its merits. It’s really important housing legislation, and I recognize how important it is."

Folks: keep calling + urging him to sign! (916) 445-2841

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 5d

Update: had a friend just call and said there was zero wait time to talk to a live person and the whole call only took 30 seconds.

Call 916-445-2841 NOW to support SB79 and building more housing near transit

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 5d

one little thing you can do to make a difference this Friday is calling @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and telling him to vote yes on SB79

916-445-2841 is his number, call now or use the link below

Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 5d

We are not out of the woods on SB 79.

Los Angeles NIMBYs have lost their minds over the prospect of more homes being built near taxpayer-funded transit stations.

Sadly, the Governor might be listening to them.

Please make the call: cayimby.org/call-sb-79/

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 5d

Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social could really start the weekend off right by signing SB 79 today.

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Russell Richie 🔰🌐🏗🚲🏳️‍🌈 @drussellmrichie.bsky.social · 5d

Montreal is just quebecois philly.

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Annemarie Bridy @annemariebridy.bsky.social · 6d

A rarely-seen-in-the-wild collective action solution. Not one news org signed on to the Pentagon’s new restrictions on journalists. Now, the policy is being ‘revised.’

Let’s see if any elite universities are watching…

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 7d

If you are following the story of The Pentagon's new policy, nicknamed, "you must check with us before you dream of doing any journalism," you may enjoy this update from @status.news

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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 6d

I may have solved the municipal speed cameras issue. We can pull the speed cameras and instead install speed regulators in all vehicles. It slows down our streets without 'punishing' drivers with a so-called cash grab.

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Kerry is Now Just Crabby (and Inclusive) 🚲 @airbornegeek.com · 7d

Wheel of Fortune, welcome to the War on Cars

Wheel puzzle solved, showing "riding my bike everywhere"

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 7d

Update: today is a great day to take 3 minutes to call Gavin Newsom and tell him to sign SB79 so California can build more housing near transit

Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social · 8d

Please call the Governor and ask him to sign SB 79!

(916) 445-2841

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Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 7d

There's great coverage of the exclusionary history of building codes in Stuck!, the book I cannot shut up about

Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 7d

That was the very raison d’etre of the “residential” building code from the beginning: to make multifamily dwellings more difficult to construct than single-family houses and duplexes, an idea from Lawrence Veiller.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7d

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 7d

my hatred for the modern Republican Party burns brighter than a thousand suns

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 7d

OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 8d

We’re hiring for two machine learning roles. A chance to do cutting edge things with ML to make this place a lot more personalized.

jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

Bluesky Jobs

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Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · 8d

I'm baffled that the governor could be considering a veto. If it isn't signed then there's no chance we turn around the state's housing crisis. If we don't fix the crisis then higher office is out of the question. The only path to the White House requires doing the right thing and signing it.

Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 8d

Three months ago, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social correctly warned us that failing to address our housing crisis would cost us people’s trust, and that the entire reputation of the State of California was on the line.

Call him now and urge him to follow through by signing #SB79! ☎️ (916) 445-2841

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