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Jake Anbinder

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Author of NIMBY NATION: The War on Growth That Created Our Housing Crisis and Remade American Politics (Bloomsbury, 2027). American historian and Klarman Fellow @Cornell. Learn more: JacobAnbinder.com

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · Dec 9

Thrilled to announce that my book NIMBY NATION: The War on Growth That Created Our Housing Crisis and Remade American Politics, is under contract with Bloomsbury and slated for publication in fall 2027.

Please spread the news to anyone and everyone!

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 1d

This one is better than most but living in Ithaca has made me conclude that there is a distinct Great Lakes vibe that unites upstate New York and parts of the upper Midwest and separates them from the rest of their regions

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 7d

I like both of them

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 8d

What's your favorite Bluesky account that primarily posts about something other than current events/politics?

Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 7d

The synthesis I think is that good comedy comes from a place of the comedian inviting the audience to partake in self-hatred whereas moral superiority is humorless

Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 7d

The ones who don’t lean on their Good Politics too much in their comedy which makes them unfunny

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 7d

The Riyadh comedy thing is validating in that ”comedians actually seem to have pretty bad politics” has long been a minor take of mine

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 7d

The dramatization of the Klein-Coates interview is a perfect example of the internet’s effect on discourse. You listen to it and you’re like “seems like these guys mostly agree with each other” but on here you’d think it was Buckley/Vidal II.

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 9d

An interesting throughline from Obama to Bernie is both tapped into this style of progressive politics (‘08 and ‘16) and benefited massively from it then promptly forgot what they learned

Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 9d

Tim Shenk great as always www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.

www.nytimes.com

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 9d

Death, taxes, and funky Nordic airline with suspiciously cheap transatlantic flights

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 12d

I will grant that Ithaca might appear to be a rich enclave if your point of reference is, say, Binghamton

Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 12d

Look Ithaca might not be as cheap as it used to be but it doesn’t even have a Gap

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 12d

more and more people are saying

Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 12d

I am skeptical of this premise, above all because becoming mayor mostly shows you are good at winning a primary

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 13d

I don’t usually get hung up on people not calling me “Dr.“ but when it’s the school that gave me the damn degree…

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 15d

YES

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 15d

Way ahead of you

Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 15d

Cooking in your parent’s kitchen is always a fun guessing game of which common cooking item do they inexplicably not own

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 15d

I will go along with all the other RFK crap if he cracks down on ”less sugar!” meaning “we added some stevia”

Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 28d

You, wise: I can’t believe they put William F. Buckley on a stamp

Me, a philatelist: yes but now he’ll get canceled

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 28d

yes it is

Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 28d

you might say it didn't even make the papers in El Paso

Reuters @reuters.com · 28d

The CIA has been waging a secret fight against drug lords south of the border, working hand-in-glove with elite units inside Mexico’s military. That effort has gone largely unreported — until now reut.rs/3VIkzTS

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 28d

Based and Mirabelpilled

Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 28d

in theory yes. in practice....¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 28d

Twitter is Italy: colorful, disputatious, led by possibly a fascist.

Bluesky is the Upper Midwest: excessive dissent is quietly discouraged, people mostly talk about the same things, but no one seems actively mad at you

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 28d

Spent a day back on Twitter to promote my Atlantic piece and there is no doubt that it’s the more interesting website, but also no doubt that the default tone people use to engage with each other is much more adversarial.

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