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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 29/09/2026

I really did not expect them to give me the keys to California housing law this soon out of grad school.

GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The NIMBYs of Bainbridge Island are currently apoplectic that the City is thinking of applying for state funds to support an affordable housing project. Getting money from the state for affordable housing, the horror!

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Jefferson: "That unequal division of property which occasions the numberless instances of wretchedness... The earth is given as common stock for man to labor and live on. If... we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that employment be furnished to those excluded from the appropriation."

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 18/09/2026

I’m an “abundance type” and I absolutely and enthusiastically embrace Zohran’s approach. He is the State Capacity Progressive we desperately need right now.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 17/09/2026

Expanding unfunded inclusionary zoning taxes to cover middle housing across the entirety of Seattle would render HB1110 functionally inoperative. Perversely, it would also be a dramatic step backward for housing equity, since it would make high-resource neighborhoods even more exclusive.

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Something that gets overlooked about the Auckland Upzoning is that it occurred right after 7 pre-existing district councils were amalgamated into a single unitary authority. The plan which did all the upzoning was literally called the Auckland Unitary Plan. Localism empowers NIMBYs.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 16/09/2026

still insane that he didn't go to prison for this

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My cat keeps looking at me like I'm chopped liver. (She adores me and would happily eat me if she could.)

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you pull the thread of "why isn't your home equity real wealth", most homeowners will offer an explanation that implies that today's 18 year-olds leave home with around $1 million in debt. Which has some... fairly consequential Georgist implications.

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If we don't depose the Trump Regime soon, your Google Maps is gonna be telling you "continue on America Ave past Lake America and then turn right at America Drive"

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tonight the Bainbridge Island City Council needs to adopt an interim zoning ordinance in order to get into compliance with the Growth Management Act and avoid triggering the Builder's Remedy for the first time in state history. Let's see how it goes! www.theurbanist.org/state-extens...

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State Extension Denied, Bainbridge Island Pivots on Growth Plan

After the state's Commerce Department signaled it won't give the city any more leeway, the Bainbridge Council voted 6-1 to advance interim development regulations that will modestly upzone Winslow wit...

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Contributing to my "The Quakers are on the right side of history 90% of the time" theory is the fact that the Quaker Oats Company produced Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971).

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I quietly love it when a government refers to itself as "the Commonwealth". I think that's a really lovely way to describe our agreement that having a representative government makes us all better off.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 19/08/2026

Real liberalism has been tried. First it created the Constitution. Then it abolished slavery. Then it ended segregation. Then it created the greatest surge of prosperity in history. Our problems today are not because liberalism failed. They are because we failed liberalism.

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Notoriously-NIMBY Bainbridge Island is set to adopt the following interim zoning in our mixed use zones! We were pressured into this significant (but albeit temporary) upzoning by Washington state requirements which threatened the Builder's Remedy if we remained out of compliance after August 24.

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

God Thomas Paine is just an absolutely S-tier Founding Father.

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

YIMBY Front's drone strikes on the Bad Takes Factory were an overwhelming success

Screenshot from IsItDownRightNow.com showing that Nextdoor.com is unavailable

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Fun Fact: Chappell Roan's "My Kink is Karma" is actually about her Reddit addiction

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Just now learning that Jim Jones' cult was a form of "apostolic socialism" and that he was appointed Chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority (by George Moscone, who was later assassinated in the same attack as Harvey Milk).

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

NIMBYism would be a fascinating psychology to study if it weren't so damn prevalent and destructive.

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Forrest Gump is ultimately a film about a situationship.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bainbridge has asked for an extension despite already being more than a year and a half late in adopting its Comp Plan. But as @georgiststeve.bsky.social notes in this story, the city had already been on track to adopt a compliant plan and then reversed course just this month.

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

me watching Bainbridge Island become subject to the Builder's Remedy

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson backs LVT

Quote graphic featuring Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson supporting a land value tax to encourage housing development.

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Trump has officially killed more Americans in his needless war of aggression with Iran than Biden did while withdrawing from Afghanistan. The latter absolutely tanked Biden's approval, whereas the former is barely hurting Trump at all. Republicans are violent unprincipled fascists.

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工an Monroe 🚰 @eean.dev · 17/07/2026

Important new term of art

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

TIL that despite wanting to ethnically cleanse Latinos, Americans will still wholeheartedly support Mexico if it means getting to see England lose again.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 03/07/2026

For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

There's an entire Substack piece in "New York City is the opposite of fascism"

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My guilty pleasure? Sometimes when I see something, I choose not to say something.

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I want a Democratic candidate for President who will look directly into the camera and say "we are going to Federalize zoning" and then I want them to win.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 30/05/2026

“There is a larger principle here. States should not outsource their housing policy to local governments that tend to have a bias toward the status quo. States should assert more control over lot sizes, multifamily zoning, permitting processes and more.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/o...

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Opinion | How to Stop the Affluent from Rigging the Housing Market

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Counterpoint: it's actually ideal if my love of cats helps to filter-out women who enforce toxic masculinity.

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Russell Richie 🔰🌐🏗🚲♿🏳️‍🌈 @drussellmrichie.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Another big week for @pandpinst.bsky.social! I'm off to @strongtowns.org National Gathering to talk to everyone and anyone about land value tax! And @georgiststeve.bsky.social is in Maine to share analysis of the state's property taxes with a state legislature committee!

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Russell Richie 🔰🌐🏗🚲♿🏳️‍🌈 @drussellmrichie.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I see there is growth vs degrowth discourse happening again, and I'd like to again suggest that Georgism cuts that Gordian Knot. Georgism recognizes the finitude of natural resources and says, "You may use them IF you compensate current and future generations for their loss"

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