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it’s a normal sized mustache!!

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saw this notification out of context and thought it was directed at me

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consider the case of keith wilson, who campaigned on high speed rail in his pdx mayoral campaign (????) but has basically never mentioned it since and is totally checked out from other transit and rail funding discussions

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it is a weird issue politically where the high speed rail coalition is off in its own world, disconnected from any actual policy advocacy or expertise and nobody in the DOTs is interested in putting real effort into making the cascades better

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 14h

you should donate it to talarico

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this is true + when people disagree I think less of them

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 14h

I alternate between optimism about the possibility of this process and being crushed by the complexity of actually getting involved

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we should get it into the transportation system plan

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the OMSI and lloyd redevelopments seem promising from this perspective?

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property values is such a funny shibboleth in urban policy. so rarely has any relation to actual property values

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yes he has decided to fix his reputation by becoming worse

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in portland, the greatest allies of capitalist free enterprise are the socialists

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 16h

this one seems to be a mix of human and AI that’s been inartfully spliced together

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huge win for the nascent DSA presence in SW washington

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 17h

corrupt big developer is mad about neighborhood rezonings that will enable more affordable housing development and more small builders to enter the market. tremendous messaging gift

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 17h

this is just not true for the record lol

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 23h

seems questionable just from a messaging perspective — does anyone actually self consciously identify as a normie?

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 23h

we have 700-800/month micro studios here that are affordable on a minimum wage ($16.80) income. filtering + very small dwellings can absolutely make this doable specifically for one person households working full time at minimum wage — households with kids or other nonworkers are arguably harder

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germany should send some representatives to portland to study what a real high performing railroad looks like

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well he is right that the US has big open spaces without the population density to support HSR. but we have lots of densely populated corridors as well!

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to me this is describing bad institutions, not a lack of political will

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but california did decide they wanted high speed rail and they wanted to pay for it!

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I called a high speed rail expert, who told me that the shinkensen has higher ridership than the acela. this means the US probably isn't ready for high speed rail KILL ME

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silver bulletin is holding strong

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in 2030 they’re gonna run andy chandler

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tkl is the stronger fundraiser of the two so I think it roughly balances out. I don’t think order matters that much in this case but in general I do think it’s right to say you should rank the weaker candidate first

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fwiw you probably should also be worried about bad actors using open source models for hacking

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I basically agree with the argument that it's frustrating how many details the ballot measure leaves up to council, but it's also somewhat comforting to me that council is going to get to put guardrails on the program

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have you gotten radicalized about the accursed "20s" greenway in southeast yet?

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parks has $8 million for facilities maintenance and spends quite a bit more on various kinds of programming. it's probably the latter group that gets put under the PB umbrella

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think participatory budgeting will be a relatively normal program that will mostly change the public outreach process for some parks and transportation programs

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I’m old enough to remember the Obama “stimulus” years. My top takeaway from then and now is that agencies need to be proactively getting as many projects “shovel-ready” as possible because the federal government can actually move very, very quickly when they want to. Fortune favors the prepared!

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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Unfunded inclusionary zoning mandates are ineffective, part 999: Philly's mandatory overlay zones haven't produced meaningfully more affordable units than the rest of the city, while decimating what should be a development hotspot and largely directing to outer areas www.phila.gov/media/202608...

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yeah 100%. the endorsement + green light combo that orgs like DSA do is much smarter than this

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I want to figure out how to do a wins above replacement calculation for endorsements for this reason

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I think maduro's vice president basically scammed him into doing a coup on her behalf

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should have bailed out blue state public sector pensions instead

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implementing his bus and bike infrastructure agenda without getting derailed by business group objections is solidly in the realm of of left politics in a US city

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a bad scenario (for them) that this opens up the possibility of is arnold finishing ahead of zimmerman only for zimmerman’s votes to disappear because all of his voters exhausted their ballots. not likely, but it is what they’re explicitly endorsing

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