@kbehroozi.bsky.social
Mostly housing and transportation policy. Local elections matter!
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Conversations about fire safety in the United States should begin by asking, “Why is our fire fatality rate so much higher than in many other nations, including many nations that allow single buildings?”
If our codes are good, why do they deliver bad results?
If our codes are good, why do they deliver bad results?
If I organized conference sessions, webinars and meetings on the following topic, would you want to be part of one?
FIXING AMERICA’S BROKEN CODES: When it comes to safety and affordability, the US isn’t doing well. Our fire and traffic death rates are far higher than in many other nations.🧵
FIXING AMERICA’S BROKEN CODES: When it comes to safety and affordability, the US isn’t doing well. Our fire and traffic death rates are far higher than in many other nations.🧵
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Conversations about fire safety in the United States should begin by asking, “Why is our fire fatality rate so much higher than in many other nations, including many nations that allow single buildings?”
If our codes are good, why do they deliver bad results?
If our codes are good, why do they deliver bad results?
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Where we stand, in long arc of history:
-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.
-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.
I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."
-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.
-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.
I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."
October 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Where we stand, in long arc of history:
-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.
-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.
I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."
-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.
-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.
I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."
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The vice president of the United States is a clownish dipshit, Exhibit 64,532
October 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The vice president of the United States is a clownish dipshit, Exhibit 64,532
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I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]
You don’t have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]
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"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."
September 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."
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It's like sending the Smurfs against Sauron
The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.
Here’s a thought.
Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.
Here’s a thought.
Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.
September 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
It's like sending the Smurfs against Sauron
Bring back the Big Dig?
Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
September 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Bring back the Big Dig?
Pure evil. This is the opposite of Christianity.
September 23, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Pure evil. This is the opposite of Christianity.
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All right, I wrote about it:
The White Civility Council
As the nation reckons with the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, there has been a notable trend from mainstream pundits and press outlets. They have tended to downplay or outright i...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
September 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
All right, I wrote about it:
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Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
September 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
So it's fine to suggest murdering homeless people but not to be honest about Charlie Kirk's legacy? Good lord.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
So it's fine to suggest murdering homeless people but not to be honest about Charlie Kirk's legacy? Good lord.
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Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
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[writing the constitution]
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
August 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
[writing the constitution]
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
This idiot...man, I don't know.
Trump: "Vladimir Putin said something- one of the most interesting things. He said 'your election was rigged because you have mail in voting. It's impossible to have mail in voting & have honest elections.' He said that to me because we talked about 2020. He said, 'you won that election by so much'"
August 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This idiot...man, I don't know.
All of this.
Have a ton of thoughts as a YIMBY who’s also a teacher:
1. I don’t want my housing attached to my job
2. Teachers aren’t “worthier” than a delivery worker/secretary
3. Teachers are median wage earners and when they can’t afford market homes, it’s the canary in the coal mine for your housing market!
1. I don’t want my housing attached to my job
2. Teachers aren’t “worthier” than a delivery worker/secretary
3. Teachers are median wage earners and when they can’t afford market homes, it’s the canary in the coal mine for your housing market!
August 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
All of this.
Starving innocents, assassinating journalists and aid workers...this is not "defense", Israel. These are war crimes, and they are alienating allies and fueling global anti-semitism.
The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right):
-Anas al-Sharif (correspondent)
-Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator)
-Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist)
-Mohammed Noufal (camera operator)
-Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)
-Anas al-Sharif (correspondent)
-Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator)
-Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist)
-Mohammed Noufal (camera operator)
-Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)
August 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Starving innocents, assassinating journalists and aid workers...this is not "defense", Israel. These are war crimes, and they are alienating allies and fueling global anti-semitism.
Thread.
I want to do a 🧵 about the Sidney Sweeney thing, because it's *extremely* revealing & educational.
First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares.
Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.
First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares.
Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.
August 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Thread.
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Beginning in the 1960s, American cities enacted sweeping zoning changes that made it much harder to build new dense housing.
As the white flight era ended and middle class professionals returned to living in cities, these policies have fueled displacement by making housing into a zero sum game.
As the white flight era ended and middle class professionals returned to living in cities, these policies have fueled displacement by making housing into a zero sum game.
maybe I’ll get pilloried for like “not getting the joke” or whatever, but this is absolutely how, like, a comfortable percentage of Cool People think the dynamics of housing costs work and it fucking sucks
July 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Beginning in the 1960s, American cities enacted sweeping zoning changes that made it much harder to build new dense housing.
As the white flight era ended and middle class professionals returned to living in cities, these policies have fueled displacement by making housing into a zero sum game.
As the white flight era ended and middle class professionals returned to living in cities, these policies have fueled displacement by making housing into a zero sum game.
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My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes.
Any questions?
Graphic recently cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath
Any questions?
Graphic recently cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath
July 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes.
Any questions?
Graphic recently cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath
Any questions?
Graphic recently cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath
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I thought the headline was exaggerating but it’s not. This is legitimately insane www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
Texas is about to ban talking on college campuses at night | Opinion
If signed by Gov. Greg Abbott, this bill will ban speech at night — from study groups to newspaper reporting — at the state's public universities.
www.houstonchronicle.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I thought the headline was exaggerating but it’s not. This is legitimately insane www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
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“‘I don’t care how much you love working people. They can’t afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build. And zoning prevents multifamily because of NIMBY,’ [Obama] said…‘I don’t want to know your ideology, because you can’t build anything. It does not matter.’”
Obama’s blunt message for Democrats: ‘Toughen up’ | CNN Politics
Former President Barack Obama issued a call to action for Democrats at a private fundraiser in New Jersey on Friday evening, urging those frustrated by the state of the country under President Donald ...
www.cnn.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“‘I don’t care how much you love working people. They can’t afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build. And zoning prevents multifamily because of NIMBY,’ [Obama] said…‘I don’t want to know your ideology, because you can’t build anything. It does not matter.’”
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A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.
June 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.
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Gen Z/Alpha: the 2000s were cool we should bring some of that back
Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav-
Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos*
Millennials: no wait
The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*
Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav-
Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos*
Millennials: no wait
The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*
June 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Gen Z/Alpha: the 2000s were cool we should bring some of that back
Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav-
Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos*
Millennials: no wait
The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*
Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav-
Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos*
Millennials: no wait
The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.