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New pod: HOW ABUNDANCE WON IN CALIFORNIA I talked to Senator Scott Wiener and Buffy Wicks about - this week's enormous housing/building breakthrough in CA - CEQA vs. real environmentalism - persuasion & the politics of YIMBYism - natl lessons for abundance podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how…

Mayor Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉, excluding 3+ bedroom units from FAR calculation s wills be an excellent pro-family addition to your Family Zoning plan!

The Trump administration’s new definition of “transshipping” in the Vietnam trade deal may be an attempt to fundamentally redefine the way customs law works in ways that will make global trade compliance endlessly more complicated (and expensive). 🧵

happy fourth of july! I love the United States of America, consider myself really lucky to have been born here, and hope to raise kids who will treasure and fight for their freedom and the freedom of all people.

It is not true that Americans have experienced "continual cuts" to public benefits since Reagan, as the lede of this piece suggests. Rather, wage subsidies, food assistance, and public health insurance were all expanded between 1980 and 2020. Tho tide obviously just reversed

Excellent article by German Lopez for the The New York Times about a big, important problem in the US: Most crimes aren’t solved. If you murder someone, it’s essentially a coin flip whether you’ll be arrested for it. If you steal a car, you’ll almost certainly get away with it.

Reading about Javier Milei — paragraphs like this should be internalized by every public policymaker in the west

The past was unimaginably bleak.

what happens when academics study parental perception of ability grouping? they lament that parents of students at all levels favor it even though it's BAD

One thing that's distinctly different about messaging in American life in this era (and similarly, messaging by Civil Rights movement organizers reflects this too) is a blunt, straightforward desire to appeal to common interest. Not the indirect way we talk about things today.

Baby wants to be a lizard today, and me to be a mama lizard, but she gets really upset when I explain that lizards are actually very low parental investment and do not nurse their young

Blog: The Ongoing Crisis in US Foreign Assistance Delivery. Both USAID and State have seen crashing new obligations, suggesting FY25 spending shortfalls far beyond announced cuts unless contracting ramps up fast.

yeah no kidding workers prefer partnership to automation, but that does not remotely answer the question of which one is going to actually happen

I heard we're talking about air conditioning again... One year ago from Works in Progress

Listened to a book recently about 1960s-70s era serial killers and it’s so wild how most of the time it’s like “they left mountains of physical/circumstantial evidence but crossed a single state or county line so might as well have been invisible to law enforcement.”