Evan Frasz
@frazroc.bsky.social
Living in Denver, pushing for more urbanism
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One thing 2025 made clear: Durable progress on climate in the US will require structural reform to our corrupted political systems. Otherwise, steps forward will always be vulnerable to the bloody clawbacks we saw this year. A political strategy that doesn't center system reform is not "pragmatic."
December 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
One thing 2025 made clear: Durable progress on climate in the US will require structural reform to our corrupted political systems. Otherwise, steps forward will always be vulnerable to the bloody clawbacks we saw this year. A political strategy that doesn't center system reform is not "pragmatic."
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"The real question for Mayor Johnston is this: How many lives is Denver willing to sacrifice to preserve driver convenience?
So far in 2025, we have lost 87 people — and counting."
www.westword.com/opinion/sacr...
So far in 2025, we have lost 87 people — and counting."
www.westword.com/opinion/sacr...
Sacrificing Convenience for Safety Is the Right Thing to Do
So far in 2025, Denver has lost 87 people to traffic accidents...and counting.
www.westword.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"The real question for Mayor Johnston is this: How many lives is Denver willing to sacrifice to preserve driver convenience?
So far in 2025, we have lost 87 people — and counting."
www.westword.com/opinion/sacr...
So far in 2025, we have lost 87 people — and counting."
www.westword.com/opinion/sacr...
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“...at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the paramount challenge facing American cities is how to add density to the 50’-wide lots of single-family homes nestled in greenery.”
- @maxpodemski.bsky.social in "A Paradise of Small Houses"
When we're ready to take the leap beyond duplexes...
- @maxpodemski.bsky.social in "A Paradise of Small Houses"
When we're ready to take the leap beyond duplexes...
December 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“...at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the paramount challenge facing American cities is how to add density to the 50’-wide lots of single-family homes nestled in greenery.”
- @maxpodemski.bsky.social in "A Paradise of Small Houses"
When we're ready to take the leap beyond duplexes...
- @maxpodemski.bsky.social in "A Paradise of Small Houses"
When we're ready to take the leap beyond duplexes...
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One big takeaway from Mamdani bringing YIMBYs into his transition is that advocates can often gain a lot of power by
1.) having useful answers to questions and accurate information
2.) being reasonably polite and pleasant to elected officials
3.) understanding the actual mechanics of government
1.) having useful answers to questions and accurate information
2.) being reasonably polite and pleasant to elected officials
3.) understanding the actual mechanics of government
December 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
One big takeaway from Mamdani bringing YIMBYs into his transition is that advocates can often gain a lot of power by
1.) having useful answers to questions and accurate information
2.) being reasonably polite and pleasant to elected officials
3.) understanding the actual mechanics of government
1.) having useful answers to questions and accurate information
2.) being reasonably polite and pleasant to elected officials
3.) understanding the actual mechanics of government
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A paper in Nature Communications maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines and finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-23 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston. 🧪
The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom - Nature Communications
The paper maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines. It finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-2023 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston.
go.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A paper in Nature Communications maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines and finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-23 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston. 🧪
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Mayor Johnston inherited a well assembled transportation plan that was in the infancy of being great. It was a gift from the previous administration. He could have continued and strengthened their policies. Instead he's decided to dismantle. This isn't leadership.
www.denverpost.com/2025/12/17/d...
www.denverpost.com/2025/12/17/d...
Mayor Johnston, bowing to business interests and wealthy families, is moving Denver’s road safety backwards (Opinion)
During this latest budget crunch, when DOTI staff members were being laid off and safety projects went unfunded, the city found nearly $100,000 to replace a thoroughly vetted design to accommodate …
www.denverpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Mayor Johnston inherited a well assembled transportation plan that was in the infancy of being great. It was a gift from the previous administration. He could have continued and strengthened their policies. Instead he's decided to dismantle. This isn't leadership.
www.denverpost.com/2025/12/17/d...
www.denverpost.com/2025/12/17/d...
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“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
December 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
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“During its regular meeting tonight, Spokane City Council voted yes to impose a 12% tax on commercial parking lots across the city.”
If you want more of something, subsidize it. If you want less of something, tax it. #Spokane clearly wants less asphalt, which will also result in…
If you want more of something, subsidize it. If you want less of something, tax it. #Spokane clearly wants less asphalt, which will also result in…
https://www.fox28spokane.com/spokane-city-council-approves-12-parking-tax/…
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
“During its regular meeting tonight, Spokane City Council voted yes to impose a 12% tax on commercial parking lots across the city.”
If you want more of something, subsidize it. If you want less of something, tax it. #Spokane clearly wants less asphalt, which will also result in…
If you want more of something, subsidize it. If you want less of something, tax it. #Spokane clearly wants less asphalt, which will also result in…
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Happy Spider-Man Rimming Uncle Sam Day to all who celebrate
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Happy Spider-Man Rimming Uncle Sam Day to all who celebrate
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Floor Area Ratio (FAR) is the stupidest thing to regulate housing with.
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Floor Area Ratio (FAR) is the stupidest thing to regulate housing with.
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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Plenty of vote outstanding, but the most eye-catching early CO election results may be in Aurora, where two D-affiliated candidates lead their R-affiliated opponents, including Danielle "Complete Gang Takeover" Jurinsky.
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Plenty of vote outstanding, but the most eye-catching early CO election results may be in Aurora, where two D-affiliated candidates lead their R-affiliated opponents, including Danielle "Complete Gang Takeover" Jurinsky.
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if we elect a muslim socialist as mayor of new york city on the same day dick cheney died i’ll never take another note from a development exec telling me a plot point was “too on the nose”
November 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
if we elect a muslim socialist as mayor of new york city on the same day dick cheney died i’ll never take another note from a development exec telling me a plot point was “too on the nose”
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GOP makes outlandish mischaracterizations of Dem position (immigration, abortion, trans issues) Dems clarify their position – media gleefully amplifies back & forth- low info voters thinks that’s all the Dems care about because that’s all the reporting – rinse repeat
October 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
GOP makes outlandish mischaracterizations of Dem position (immigration, abortion, trans issues) Dems clarify their position – media gleefully amplifies back & forth- low info voters thinks that’s all the Dems care about because that’s all the reporting – rinse repeat
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if you think the problem is that the democratic party is too extreme rather than our current media environment privileges right wing bull shit then you have no real business discussing politics in public
October 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
if you think the problem is that the democratic party is too extreme rather than our current media environment privileges right wing bull shit then you have no real business discussing politics in public
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RTD bans ads covering windows of metro Denver buses and trains trib.al/0hBXXvH
RTD bans ads covering windows of metro Denver buses and trains
The prohibition means losing revenue at a time when agency officials are grappling with financial constraints.
trib.al
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
RTD bans ads covering windows of metro Denver buses and trains trib.al/0hBXXvH
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It's astonishing -- almost every single sentence uttered by Mettler in this pod made me want to scream. This is every bit of reheated reactionary-centrist conventional wisdom, distilled to its essence, delivered under the guise of "political science." So utterly, disastrously wrong, all of it.
The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 10/21/2025 · 1h 4m
podcasts.apple.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It's astonishing -- almost every single sentence uttered by Mettler in this pod made me want to scream. This is every bit of reheated reactionary-centrist conventional wisdom, distilled to its essence, delivered under the guise of "political science." So utterly, disastrously wrong, all of it.
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I am deeply, deeply disappointed in our senator from Colorado.
October 18, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I am deeply, deeply disappointed in our senator from Colorado.
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when all is said and done it looks reasonably likely that bin laden will have taken down not just the us but the entire west
October 16, 2025 at 4:28 AM
when all is said and done it looks reasonably likely that bin laden will have taken down not just the us but the entire west
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🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober)
- When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over
- Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay
Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over
- Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay
Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
September 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober)
- When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over
- Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay
Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over
- Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay
Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
September 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
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4 and 6 storey single-stair co-ops mixed among single fam houses, in a neighbourhood with 50' lots.
September 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
4 and 6 storey single-stair co-ops mixed among single fam houses, in a neighbourhood with 50' lots.
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The only buildings over 3 stories allowed in 90% of America.
-Corporate chain hotel
-Suburban office tower
-Self storage
-Parking garage
-Corporate chain hotel
-Suburban office tower
-Self storage
-Parking garage
August 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The only buildings over 3 stories allowed in 90% of America.
-Corporate chain hotel
-Suburban office tower
-Self storage
-Parking garage
-Corporate chain hotel
-Suburban office tower
-Self storage
-Parking garage
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Did you know that the Founders were so vehemently against having a standing army that might do what Comer is calling for that they explicitly wrote into the Constitution that Congress has to reauthorize the existence of the Army every two years or the entire thing has to disband?
![ArtI.S8.C12.1 Overview of the Army Clause
Article I, Section 8, Clause 12:
[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; . . .
The Army Clause1 provides Congress with authority to raise and support armies—an essential element of the federal government’s suite of war powers.2 The Clause’s structure reflects the Framers’ efforts to balance two competing concerns in the Founding era: a widespread mistrust of peacetime standing armies and the new nation’s desire to ensure security through military protection.3 The Framers sought to address both issues by authorizing Congress to raise and maintain armies, while requiring renewal of appropriations for that purpose every two years to ensure democratically elected representatives continued to support the army.4 Although congressional power to raise and support armies has sometimes come into tension with other constitutional rights and principles,5 the Supreme Court has described this power as broad and sweeping,6 and it has rejected some claimed limits on Congress’s authority under the Army Clause.7](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreicixd3f7kjyqpqfpdq5dqvkwbypf5l2prdpiist2px7rreyva65y4@jpeg)
August 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Did you know that the Founders were so vehemently against having a standing army that might do what Comer is calling for that they explicitly wrote into the Constitution that Congress has to reauthorize the existence of the Army every two years or the entire thing has to disband?