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Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage

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Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.

Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Milwaukee one hundred years ago today at 1pm and and Milwaukee today at 1pm Water & Wisconsin — Milwaukee’s first & oldest intersection

Black and white aerial view a crowd of people crossing the street at water and Wisconsin in 1926

Aerial black and white view of the intersection at water and Wisconsin

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Who’s ready for No Kings? We’re getting an early start on making signs! ✊💚

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we got another batch of signs! Dm me your address if you’d like our little te to come drop one off in your yard (first come first serve — while supplies last)

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Milwaukee’s North Point Water Tower started operating 152 years ago, in the fall of 1874. It houses a standpipe that served as part of an innovative system that brought 16 million gallons of clean water every day from Lake Michigan to 100,000s of homes over the next century.

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The pipe organ at Carma Labs is viscerally thrilling. It really is. Theater tours are usually great, this year the Pabst, Miller, and Next Act are open for tours. Pink Umbrella too, I'll have to check it out. And hotels - Pfister is amazing as is Hilton Garden with its crazy old safes

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Kate @skatie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My favorites so far: Jones Island, Federal Courthouse, Basilica of St. Josephat, Grohmann Museum, Milwaukee Public Library - Central Branch, Tripoli Shrine

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What do folks think?? I’ll share mine too but curious about others’ thoughts as well

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🗓️ One weekend. 🏛️ 190+ buildings. 🫣 Exclusive views & tours of Milwaukee’s architectural gems. 🚪Don’t miss it! doorsopenmilwaukee.org HT @historicmilwaukee.bsky.social @doorsopenmilwaukee.bsky.social 🫡

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

shoutout to my kids who have helped me deliver 60+ signs to homes across the Milwaukee metro over the past few weeks

Two kids on a sidewalk with one of them holding a “Crowley Godlewski” yard sign

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fox Point, WI — 60 years ago today Students sitting by the sign of Cardinal Stritch College. Founded in 1937 as St. Clare College, Stritch closed in 2023. Today its campus is St. Augustine Prep's North Campus, a K-12 school that opened in August. 📸 by Ned Vespa Source: MPL

Black and white photo of four women sitting on the ground with books in front of a sign for Cardinal Stritch College

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Answer: The one and only Venture Brewing on 55th & North Ave Winner: @ajaywagner.bsky.social Bonus points to @lerual.bsky.social for correctly stating the name of Venture’s mascot, Sugar (who is incredibly sweet 😽)

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Frederick Law Olmsted's 1892 design still shapes how Milwaukee moves through Lake Park's 138 acres of ravines, bluffs and lakefront. Today it holds a golf course, a baseball field, tennis courts, trails, an historic lighthouse, and more — all with lovely views of Lake Michigan.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

honored to have worked for @davidccrowley.bsky.social for the past 6 years, & this may be the best description yet of how resilient, thoughtful & brave he is looking forward to more people learning who he is, what he has accomplished, & what he is capable of wapo.st/4xrNJHt

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This candidate won a stunning upset. His life before that is even less likely.

David Crowley had a surprising path to becoming his party’s nominee for governor of Wisconsin. His life before that was even more unlikely.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just off the shores of Lake Geneva, the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, WI, holds the largest refracting telescope ever built (40-inch lens, 1897). Known as the birthplace of modern astrophysics, Einstein visited in 1921 and called it “wunderschön” [absolutely beautiful].

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Milwaukee, 55 years ago today “A group of people walk down the middle of the street. They are carrying a sign with a photo of Chairman Mao. On September 6, 1971 Vietnam Veterans Against War (VVAW) sponsered a Peace Parade down Wisconsin Avenue.” — Milwaukee Public Library

A group of people walk down the middle of the street. They are carrying a sign with a photo of Chairman Mao. On September 6, 1971 Vietnam Veterans Against War (VVAW) sponsered a Peace Parade down Wisconsin Avenue.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

attention “AI artists”: you are not artists, you are grifters who feed off the theft of real artists work

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wauwatosa’s name comes from a Potawatomi word for “firefly” and Chief Wauwautaesie, though historians debate the exact origin. It was previously known as Hart’s Mills, after Charles Hart built mills along the Menomonee River beginning in 1835. Today’s population is almost 50,000.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

waiting to pick up my lunch at a restaurant watching this godawful AI slop wondering how many aerial photographers and videographers had their work stolen to make this garbage

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thank you @wibeerbaron.bsky.social and @milwaukeemag.bsky.social for including my photo in your latest issue! Love this city to the end of the Earth and it’s an honor to have my work featured in a magazine devoted to exploring, celebrating and improving it 🫡

Photo of Milwaukee’s downtown from the NE. Photo is on a somewhat smoky summer day and spread across two pages. Text is too small to read but included in alt text in next photo.

Isaac Rowlett has a distinct perspective on Milwaukee - "the highest-opportunity place in America, he says - and this photograph has one, too. On a day in 2023 when faraway wildfires were creating unusual haze and light effects, Rowlett pulled over, bribed his kids with ice cream from Gift of Wings and took photos from his drone for 10-15 minutes.
" aimed the lens southwest and intentionally excluded the art museum, US Bank building and other buildings to create a different and tapered view of the skyline," he says, the scene fading to a "gauzy solarpunk effect" in the background.
This is a city that sparkles even when the lake isn't visible. - CHRIS DROSNER

Cover of the September 2026 issue of the Milwaukee Magazine

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Milwaukee, WI — 59 years ago 200 Milwaukeeans joined the NAACP Youth Council and Father Groppi to march south across the 16th street viaduct to protest discriminatory housing policies. 5000+ white south siders harassed the marchers by hurling bricks, bottles and death threats. 📸 Source: MJS

A boy with a big smile holding a sign that reads “WE DEMAND FAIR HOUSING NOW NAACP YOUTH COUNCIL”

Predominantly Black protesters marching across the viaduct toward the South Side of Milwaukee

Black and white photo of protesters and police ie with signs in the air that read “White Power” and “Polish Power Fights Back the JIG is up”

White teenagers and boys hold an effigy of Father Groppi and have signs that read “white power” and “a good Groppi is a dead Groppi”

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

fun fact: the Milwaukee Mile is the oldest continuously operating motor speedway in the *WORLD* it’s hosted racing every year since 1903 (minus a WWII gap) on a track built in 1876 as a horse-racing venue

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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Watching others perform career acquired skills is humbling.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

These sea caves at the northernmost tip of mainland Wisconsin were carved into billion-year-old sandstone by Gichigami’s (Lake Superior) waves. This land has been the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) homeland for centuries.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Lac La Belle — “beautiful lake” in French — sits where two glacial lobes met ~20,000 yrs ago, shaping this lake-studded stretch of Wisconsin. It’s located in Oconomowoc, which is Potawatomi for “waterfall” or “where the waters meet” & became a Gilded Age resort by the late 1800s.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Aztalan, Wisconsin — 2026 Once the site of a community of around 500 people between 1000 and 1300 CE, Aztalan spanned 35 acres and was well-fortified by stockade walls. Its name comes from a European settler who mistakenly attributed the pyramids to the Aztecs.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Milwaukee, 41 years ago today "Jason Moore gets a drink of water with a little help from his brother, Mustafus, in Washington Park."— Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 📸 Richard Wood Source: www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

Black and white photo of an older brother lifting up his younger brother (both aged 3-6) so that he can drink from a bubbler

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Paul Schmitz @paulschmitz1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It’s ironic that Tom Tiffany’s first ads are attacking David Crowley for making tough choices to balance the budget when Tiffany has voted for Donald Trump to run the biggest budget deficits in US history… @davidcrowley4wi.bsky.social @davidccrowley.bsky.social @isaacrowlett.bsky.social

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

iPhone photos from walks I took today in Milwaukee’s Washington and Estabrook parks amazing how we have these gems right in the middle of urban neighborhoods 🫡 @CountyParks 🌳

A river with a sun almost setting behind it

A building labeled “urban Ecology Center” with its reflection in a body of water in the foreground

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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Return to the Future Past

1984 Metro Milwaukee Light Rail System Plan

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Hey Milwaukee County property tax payers (yes that includes you, renters): heads up that you’ll pay more in property taxes next year because Trump denied us FEMA public assistance funding after the worst flood in Wisconsin’s history last August. He uses these funds as a weapon ⬇️

Chart showing how Trump approves fewer disaster requests from states with Democratic leadership than those with Republican leadership

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Anyone who stands in the way of this unity will be shamed into either getting on board or keeping their mouths shut

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

as someone with decades of experience in Wisconsin politics & close friends in both the Crowley & Hong camps, I wanna share a reality check to counter the right-wing propaganda & lazy national narratives: on Wednesday 99% of us will unite and defeat Tom Tiffany in November 🌊🌊🌊

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Milwaukee’s second skyline — 2026

Photo of Milwaukee’s second skyline (north of downtown) on a mostly sunny day with the McKinley marina in the foreground

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