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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it is quite confusing that “inclusionary zoning” is not the opposite of “exclusionary zoning”, but actually functions as a tool of exclusionary zoning

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 10h

Absolutely this. Also the bizarre implication that Democrats could have just designed Trump-proof or SCOTUS-proof laws or institutions, like if they had "codified Roe v Wade". It doesn't work like that! If you can build it, someone else can tear it down!

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 9h

Cancel me for this but I think that politicians should pursue policies that improve the material circumstances of their constituents.

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re-read.bsky.social @re-read.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, yeah.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10h

Left-NIMBYs love to pit welfare state expansion against land use reform, but the latter can 1) can achieve significant poverty reductions 2) without means testing or administrative burdens, and 3) at a net gain for the public budget, which can then be used to expand the welfare state.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

also, the answer, as always, is for congress to do their fucking jobs

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 11h

What we tax and how we tax it matters. If we think developers are making too much money, we should tax their incomes, not the badly needed new housing they build.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 11h

People mistakenly believe that unfunded inclusionary zoning is a way to tax developers and rich people to fund subsidized housing for the poor. It is not. In reality, it’s a tax on working and middle class renters. Actual rich people, who overwhelmingly own single family homes, pay nothing at all.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh my fucking god they're just doing Austrian Economics For Everything

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you hate women enough pedophile gangsters will be able to trick you into putting them in charge of everyone’s tax money.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New Proposition 65 just dropped. Reminder that bread is “ultra processed”

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026

we are going to have to smash the ownership structure of all of these companies when we have the power to do so

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026

“the person who is CEO at the time a company goes public will, until their death, have sole power over company decisions, regardless of how much investment they have taken from the public” was just never how any of this was intended to work and it is a catastrophe for corporate governance

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hypoallergenic bobcat alternative @noghiri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

actually i suspect the security guards with carbines and full plate at middle class shopping establishments is doing an underappreciated amount of work convincing people crime is high during the safest 20 year period in American history

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

again, the “yudkowsky is a pedophile” allegations would be the least surprising truth in all of this

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ryan grim and matt stoller are single-issue pro-sexual violence voters

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

right, yes. the thing about tradwife culture is that the only responsibility the patriarch has is to properly dominate his wife. note that the tradwife content is frequently the household's primary source of income -- in reality, the husband is something more like a pimp.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think this video of Stephen Miller calling torture "a celebration of life and human dignity" is the ur-text of Trumpism www.youtube.com/shorts/pqD3j...

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YouTube video by NowThis Impact

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Unearthed post reveals Texas Republican candidate Bo French, who made a racist post about UT Austin students last week, calling for the lynching of Barack Obama: “The penalty for treason used to be death. Even for a former president. #HangEmHigh.”

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jensen is probably the most Jobs-like CEO left in the industry, in that he has a completely monomaniacal focus on producing and selling more GPUs no matter what. Things which are not relevant to that goal, such as knowing where you live, are discarded to fit more GPU sales ideas in his brain.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Marin NIMBYs explaining that they oppose an affordable housing project in Mill Valley because of their sincere commitment to desgregation

Elizabeth Holmes in the trailer for You Can See Everything

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The entire state government of California is a parable about how giving people more opportunities to vote on something is not, in fact, the same thing as making your political system more democratic.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026

The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bernie making pisspoor personnel choices?? Bernie listening to cranks????

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

so much of what's wrong with right now is rebranding things which were always understood as vice as being a type of virtue

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hippie libs 🤝 tax revolt conservatives🤝 nazis 🤝 communists 🤝 moderate democrats “We should all live in a little peasant village where everything costs 1 million dollars”

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every kind of crank moron has the same opinion on residential land use and urban density.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It fucking ruled how Kevin Kiley went from gleeful MAGA to Reasonable Bipartisan going on NPR when it became clear Gavin was gonna delete him, and is like the clearest possible indicator that hardball works.

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the thing about “use AI to make healthcare more expensive” is that it was a very popular notion for insurance companies at the time of the Thompson shooting, but here’s an example of an insurance company reporting the *provider* doing that

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

if we stopped growing alfalfa in deserts to feed cows in saudi arabia basically all of the west's water problems would be solved without anything else having to change (And denver is on the wrong side of the continental divide for that discussion)

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 27/09/2026

A lot of these dudes need to stop worrying about AGI paper clipping all of humanity and start worrying about California employment law because this industry has the most obviously hostile work environment I have ever seen.

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ceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026

the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I want to make another point here, that I think Faine does an excellent job of highlighting: there isn't anything particularly wrong with putting on sex parties with consenting adults A big issue here is that women are being pressured to attend in order to network *professionally*

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet

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Alex Contreras 🍉 @alexbikes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As I've been hosting workshops on housing, a point I regularly bring up is desegregation was once a goal, but now its largely forgotten or ignored. Reactions to this have been surprising, but has reaffirmed my belief that desegregation has to be the goal again for housing advocates.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So much of the business of the past few years is silicon valley radicalized because for a brief moment there was social pressure that they couldn't be non-stop sexpests.

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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 27/09/2026

Shoutout to @bostonglobe.com for following up on our Life Surge reporting with this news about Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/26/s...

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is now the 6th electoral cycle of the Trump era. We know both what midterm electorates look like & what presidential ones look like in this era. We know what it looks like when he's on the ballot & off. A lot of the convo on bsky is just ppl finding ways to rationalize centering their PTSD.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 26/09/2026

the second trump admin is fine but its communications are a bit iff. it would have been way better if during a press engagement, trump turned to the camera and said, "i want your gas prices to go higher", and then specified he's solely responsible for your gas prices being at record highs

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this is especially egregious because the housing project being debated will house hundreds of people my rule of thumb is that if the NIMBYs can’t even match the capacity of a new apartment building, their protests should be summarily rejected

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

why is the water thing the only thing anyone cares about when it's the only argument against this stuff which isn't real

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026

a tremendously large de facto carbon tax on the entire planet and he’s also eating the resulting political backlash AND with him being a drill baby drill guy the obvious and natural reaction is to double down on renewable deployment. it’s almost perfect lmao

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Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So many problems, in so many states, are downstream of our unwillingness to tax real estate at its market value, and more generally of our unwillingness to acknowledge that housing wealth is, in fact, wealth.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Were finding evidence that Trump voters may not be enthusiastic to vote and that's how we know all polling is wrong and we're all doomed. Ffs- do you people even hear yourselves? Shut up.

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The okayest poster there is @ok-post-guy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No, the only thing we're "done with" is giving a shit what underemployed Bush-era teenage Republicans say as they approach 40 and cast about for a personality

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I haven't heard of her. I don't think even the politics hobbyists on Bluesky dot app have even heard of her. I see this as one of many signs that the media lives in a professional bubble.

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