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Eric Cova

@eicova.bsky.social
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Comms Director @ Smart Growth America LGBTQ+ | Climate | Cities | Travel | MPA, NYU Wagner

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Eric Cova @eicova.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Crossing my fingers for a Texas Tala-reckoning 😅
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 12/05/2026
As suspending the federal gas tax gains traction in Washington, a prescient reminder from our Senior Fellow @pkrugman.bsky.social: gas tax holidays are largely a windfall for producers that barely move prices at the pump for the consumers suffering from inflation.
"Now suppose that we were to cut gasoline taxes. If the price of gas at the pump were to fall, motorists would buy more gas. But there isn't any more gas, so the price at the pump, inclusive of the lowered tax, would quickly be bid right back up to the pre-tax-cut level. And that means that any cut in taxes would show up not in a lower price at the pump, but in a higher price paid to distributors. In other words, the benefits of the tax cut would flow not to consumers but to other parties, mainly the domestic oil refining industry. (As the textbooks will tell you, reducing the tax rate on an inelastically supplied good benefits the sellers, not the buyers.)" — Quote from Paul Krugman.
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Streetsblog L.A. @streetsblogla.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New #shoupista UCLA report on parking construction costs. Did you know: 👉 avg cost to build underground parking = $73,000 per space ( excluding land cost) 👉 avg cost to build aboveground parking = $52,000 per space 👉 For apartments, required parking adds roughly $50,000-$100,000 per unit
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I think it's maybe both true that Ellison is engaged in a classic "overpay for a movie studio because it would be fun to own a movie studio" and also that the consolidation of more and more media in the hands of regime-aligned billionaires is disturbing.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 26/02/2026
Netflix won't counter Ellison's offer. Ladies and gentleman, the full right wing power grab is here and will now be beamed into every home on CBS, CNN, HBO, movies from Warner and Paramount. about.netflix.com/en/news/netf...
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Netflix Declines to Raise Offer for Warner Bros. - About Netflix
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."
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Eric Cova @eicova.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
As extreme weather events become more frequent and severe, communities across the US are already seeing population shifts. @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social report offers an actionable framework for building places where everyone can thrive. See the report ⤵️ www.smartgrowthamerica.org/knowledge-hu...
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Eric Cova @eicova.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
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Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
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Eric Cova @eicova.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
LGBTQ people are again treated as second-class citizens in health science and research. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/h...
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Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health
Nearly half of the N.I.H. grants canceled through early May — together worth more than $800 million — addressed the health of sexual and gender minority groups, The Times found.
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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
"In 2020, [Portland, OR] approved building [middle housing] on lots zoned for single family homes... A new report from the City says, it's working. 1,400 new units built in just a few years and each one is $300,000 less expensive than a typical single family home." @nbcnews.com
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Eric Cova @eicova.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A couple weeks ago, I saw Fault Lines, a powerful new doc on the housing crisis. It’s a reminder that while the causes may seem complex, the solution is clear: we need to build more housing—and remove the barriers that stand in the way. Everyone should check it out! youtu.be/VpvIISyaRLA
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Fault Lines: Inside the Housing Crisis [Trailer]
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Eric Cova @eicova.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Growing up gay in America is literal satire. What a great piece in @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
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Opinion | How Hooters Became a Refuge for Young Gay Men
Many fathers and grandfathers take their gay sons to the bar. It’s become a place of refuge — and how that happened is a curious story.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
To End Car Dependency, We Must Change Who Has A Seat At the Table In a guest post, @nondriver.bsky.social says our transit systems should be shaped by people who actually use them. publicola.com/2025/03/14/t...
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To End Car Dependency, We Must Change Who Has A Seat At the Table - PubliCola
By Anna Zivarts “If you could change one thing to make our communities less car-dependent, what would it be?” That’s…
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Eric Cova @eicova.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I find it hard to believe that regular Americans see govt agencies like the EPA as the boogey man. Removing protections for public health has to be broadly concerning and unpopular, no? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/c...
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Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm
More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.
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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Minimum parking requirements destroy our communities. 🖼️ @parkingreform.org
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 12/03/2025
EPA wants to: —Overturn limits on soot from smokestacks & restrictions on emissions of mercury —Eliminate protection of poor, minority communities —No longer consider costs to society from wildfires, droughts, storms that might be made worse by pollution —Erase authority to regulate greenhouse gases
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E.P.A. Declares ‘Greatest Day of Deregulation Our Nation Has Seen’
Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said he would revise or repeal dozens of air, water and climate protections to help industries.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
the EPA wants to poison you HUD wants to make you homeless the department of education wants you to be dumb what in the everloving f*ck is going on right now
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Eric Cova @eicova.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“When you see important societal actors — be it university presidents, media outlets, C.E.O.s, mayors, governors — changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government, that’s a sign that we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
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Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves
People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.
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Eric Cova @eicova.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I attended a crisis communications training yesterday. One of the speakers left me with a nugget that has been playing in my head since I heard it, and seems particularly important to the moment we're in: To change the narrative, you have to narrate the change.
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Eric Cova @eicova.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“Over the past month Mr. Trump and his allies have embarked on an expansive crackdown on free expression and disfavored speakers that should be decried not just as hypocritical but also as un-American and unconstitutional.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
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Opinion | The MAGA War on Speech
If only the powerful are free to speak their minds, it’s not free speech.
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Eric Cova @eicova.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I would love my morning new TikTok style. Give me the top 10 headlines accompanied by a minute or two of content each. 👌
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Eric Cova @eicova.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It feels like too many people/orgs are paralyzed by fear and not willing to push back. A commitment to racial equity is ok.
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Eric Cova @eicova.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Only one in five people view DEIA as a negative. Are we really just taking it on the chin that it's ok for millions of dollars in federal grants and contracts to be cancelled because they reference racial equity or something similar?
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Eric Cova @eicova.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
It’s McCarthyism 2.0. Creating a culture of fear and accusations is what this is all about www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/u...
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Trump’s Moves to Upend Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off Fear and Confusion
Agencies are gripped with uncertainty about how to implement the blizzard of new policies as workers frantically try to assess the impact on their lives.
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