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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 19/07/2026

Thunderous boos in this Madison bar when the President appeared on the screen for the World Cup

Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 16/07/2026

I occasionally get asked by my coastal friends if Wisco's alcohol culture really is as different as its reputation suggests, and an example I give is that the default assumption in any commercial retail establishment is that alcohol will be availble. Case in point: (via @citycastmadison.bsky.social)

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 06/07/2026

Stated concerns over emergency vehicle access are used to block any number of densification and pedestrian improvement proposals. If those are actually made in good faith, one would hope that they’ll be voiced with similar fervor in support of congestion pricing

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 06/07/2026

Free journalism idea: find and interview the people that set off fireworks in random residential neighborhoods for up to a week after July 4th

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 24/06/2026

Very cool unexpected outcome from Baltimore's vacant home demolition effort (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 21/06/2026

Shout out to the guy at the club wearing a shirt that says ART SCHOOL DROPOUT 1996 and shout out to him only

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 21/05/2026

I’ll never forgive the travel demands of the past year for giving me such pointlessly intense feelings about specific airports. Why am I upset when my flight out of O’Hare is in concourse L

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 20/04/2026

🚨🚨CRITICAL MADISON UPDATE🚨🚨 Trudy, the livestreaming peregrine falcon that nests in the MG&E station on Blount Street, is nesting again www.mge.com/sustainabili...

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Falcons - Madison Gas and Electric

Learn about MGE's peregrine falcon program and check out our livestream falcon cam!

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 12/04/2026

Three out of five men on this professional panel have beards. We’re so back

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 27/03/2026

It's officially spring in Madison: the end of the Tenney Pier has been annexed by a nesting goose and her aggressively vigilant gander

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 06/03/2026

Historic preservation has its place and I think brutalism, despite deserving plenty of hate, gets more than it deserves, but... come on

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 12/02/2026

I feel much safer without all of these dangerous small business owners with legal status running around (via @citycastmadison.bsky.social)

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 10/02/2026

This is a good time to remember that the original B line BRT plans included lane and parking reductions on S Park, but the city caved to reactionary pushback in favor of maintaining high speeds and throughput. The carnage will continue for as long as the city decides motorist convenience is worth it

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 10/02/2026

I'm too busy to be so shaken by the mixed doubles curling final

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 02/02/2026

Novel set of arguments against infill apartment development

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 11/12/2025

Madison's Common Council continues to stay focused on sensible, well-aligned transit and housing policy. It's hard to even keep track of everything they've done in just the past few years

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 10/10/2025

Shoutout to the indie diva that controls the aux cord in Bandit Coffee in Madison, WI

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 12/09/2025

They're playing early 2010's alt radio in this coffee shop, and it's making me wistful for when I had a car in college with no ability to play my own music. I don't think I've heard a single song in here that was released before 2007 or after 2013

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Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Parenthood and the gender gap in commuting" By Aline Bütikofer, René Karadakic, & Alexander Willén www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics #gendergap

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 22/07/2025

The problem with trying to regulate building aesthetics to ensure “good design” is that you have 3 bad choices of how to do it: - prescriptive design rules that kill creativity - subjective design review that empowers NIMBYs - an appointed individual with authority that can be wielded capriciously

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 22/07/2025

Local policy is ground zero for the housing crisis (shared closely with state policy). I'm glad to see Madison continuing to take action, year after year, to ensure that this city has enough room for everybody www.cityofmadison.com/news/2025-07...

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Madison Common Council Approves Housing Proposals

Immediate Release July 15, 2025 Tonight, the Madison Common Council unanimously approved three proposals designed to make it easier to build a range of homes, increase flexibility for homeownership, a...

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 21/07/2025

anytime I enter a prescription on glasses websites, I get called a weirdo

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

E-scooters are remarkably safe: Seattle had fewer than 300 injuries in more than 4 million rides. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Using data from UW Medicine facilities, including Harborview Medical Center, the study counted 282 injuries from e-scooter use between 2018-23. The people injured tended to be younger and more likely to be women, and the vast majority of injuries were from falling.

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Daryl Fairweather ⛅ @fairweatherphd.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Politics and the Federal Reserve do not mix! It's not just bad for the Fed's reputation, it's also bad for the economy. Investors will be less willing to buy US assets if they can't trust the Federal Reserve to do its job without political interference.

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Abdullah Abdelaziz @abduaziz.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

It's probably an unpopular opinion, but the more I do research, the more I realize that it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to do transparent and reproducible research without strong programming skills.

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 27/06/2025

What I love most about studying urban housing development is that this counts as data validation (Whittier Heights, Seattle, 1 home in 2011 ➡️ 4 homes in 2017)

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 26/06/2025

"Yes, change can be uncomfortable. But equity was never about comfort—it’s about a city willing to realign its practices toward shared access, stability and dignity." isthmus.com/opinion/opin...

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Why Madison’s housing gatekeepers are getting uncomfortable

The argument that neighborhood preservation is a civic virtue treats structural exclusion as an unfortunate but immovable byproduct of planning. That narrative deserves scrutiny.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

We're so close to fixing key drivers of California's housing crisis: ✅️ SB 79 would legalize apartments near transit. ✅️ AB 130 would end frivolous litigation against infill. ✅️ AB 253 + AB 1308 would prevent permitting/inspection delays. ➡️ Here's how you can help.

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Welcoming Neighbors Network @welcomingneighbors.us · 26/06/2025

This afternoon, every Republican and every Democrat in the North Carolina House of Representatives voted to end costly bureaucratic parking mandates & give property owners full flexibility over how to handle parking. What a stunning bipartisan awakening there has been on parking in 2025.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

If you come across a beautiful pedestrian street in Europe, chances are it was a mundane street for cars until recently.

Mundane street for cars from Google 2011

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 13/06/2025

I feel like every year, Madison's mayor proposes (and usually passes) a new spate of housing reforms aimed at expanding supply. Local elections matter (from the Madison Minutes Newsletter: link.citycast.fm/view/63d1b18...

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 08/06/2025

La rebelión contra instituciones vinculadas a las élites no es exclusiva de Estados Unidos. En América Latina, la proporción de ciudadanos que dice preferir la democracia a cualquier otra forma de gobierno ha caído desde el 65% de 1998 hasta un 52% en 2024

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Estas son las nuevas élites que dominan el mundo: más poderosas e intervencionistas que nunca

La percepción de las personas más privilegiadas por el resto de la sociedad se deteriora a gran velocidad debido a su creciente influencia y riqueza, y pone a prueba el sistema

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Justin Fenton @justinfenton.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Through May, Baltimore has recorded 54 homicides, the fewest through the first 5 months of a year on record. The previous low: 65 homicides, in 1977. At this point in 2022, just three years ago, there had been 138 killings, and in 2017 there had been 146 people killed.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Actually yes my post was offensive in the exact same way you thought. When I didn't mention that other thing that's kind of similar it's because I'm evil and oppose it. And when I said that a thing was good it was because I think the people who can't do it are bad and dumb

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 22/05/2025

Today was a great day to scroll the feed looking for accounts to mute

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I see these girls (herons) every day and every day I'm like 'ooh a heron'

A great blue heron standing on some rocks in False Creek

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 22/05/2025

1960 was a great middle name election. We’ll never again reach the dizzying heights of Fitzgerald vs Milhaus

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

my lil piece about the DC accent and my complicated love for my hometown is now free to read without a flaming hydra subscription! flaminghydra.com/issue-288/#t...

When I was growing up, the president, whoever he was, was mainly a guy who made me late for school with big showy motorcades. Wolf Blitzer was a pretty decent customer at the Starbucks where I once worked, other famous political reporters less so. Washington suits were arrogant, unbearable pestilences in the strip clubs and restaurants where I had no choice but to serve them. Government, defense, and other downstream industries formed a shadow layer that cast the occasional pall over my daily life, but did not otherwise color it: that was a commonly-held view taken by D.C. natives of the professions that lord it over our city. When you’re living in such close quarters with the monsters who both make and abuse our national laws, living in a city that was essentially built for them but from which you know they’ll flee at the earliest opportunity, you cling to any defiance you can dig up out of yourself. You serve them, but maybe not with a smile.

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 16/05/2025

Did we ever get a clear answer on why Pope Benedict resigned?

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Danny Gold @danny-gold.com · 14/05/2025

Improving public service provision increases the use of public services? Wow. I didn’t know that. You’re telling me now for the first time (From Madison Minutes newsletter: link.citycast.fm/view/63d1b18...)

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

A few facts everyone knows about 1890s cinema is that the viewers were prudes shocked at a glimpse of ankle and films like THE KISS (1896) caused a scandal with the open smooching-- What's that? THE KISS wasn't offensive at all? It was actually a comedy & was even screened at church fundraisers?

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