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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So much criticism of Democrats is just willful delusion about the degeneracy of the median American voters we are faced with.

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Dan Bertolet @danbertolet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Note to Seattle policymakers who want to expand MHA: The most rigorous study ever done on IZ found that the typical program in CA reduces homebuilding by nearly one third. And all renters pay the price in higher rents caused by the worsened shortage. Unfunded IZ is a regressive policy.

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BikinginLA @bikinginla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm too damn tired to express my anger right now. But this man's blood is on Cedillo's hands.

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know exactly what channel you are talking about and have had the same realization.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

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Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering

These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 19/09/2026

Edward Drinker Cope, a man with the right name for our era, born too early en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_...

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Edward Drinker Cope - Wikipedia

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is such a delightful and unexpected digression from your MENA analysis. The people demand a top 10 of your fave romcoms

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I would not put this down to any cultural emphasis/obsession; but rather that the printing press (& other things) kicked off widespread and then mass-literacy in Europe centuries before most other regions, so there is a massive head-start generating scholarship, writing, & formal study of war.

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes generally had to wait in both Canada and UK Also very hard to even get a pediatrician in Canada

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m not entirely sure how to communicate this to you all, but like, the vast majority of the country is to your right. On probably most issues, and definitely on most social issues. The only ways of dealing with that outside blue areas are: 1. Moderating. 2. Pretending to moderate. 3. Losing.

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Payton Chung @westnorth.com · 05/09/2026

In which I calculate that NIMBYs fighting a single DC apartment building thwart CO2 savings equal to fighting a solar array covering a large shopping mall parking lot, switching 2,384 houses to clean energy, or switching 3,620 ICE cars to EVs.

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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 29/08/2026

What share of architecture programs require students to pass an economics class to graduate? I ask because this story profiles the architect who just persuaded the ICC to ban windowless bedrooms in its model building code. It offers zero consideration of how this will affect building costs or rents

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Lolol. The same day this came out I was at a LADBS hearing where one of the burned out properties the AHF has been sitting on for two years was finally declared a public nuisance. AHF did not bother to send a rep to the hearing.

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You’d be surprised at the streets that are part of the NHS. Your state DOT probably has a map, better go check, be aghast, and then start calling your reps

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Payton Chung @westnorth.com · 27/08/2026

Indeed, immigrants' share of the US population bottomed out in the 1970 census at 4.7%, vs. ~13% in both 1920 and 2010 www.migrationpolicy.org/data-tool/us... Something to note for Boomer NIMBYs nostalgic for the dangerous, underpopulated, cheap cities of their youths

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Number of Immigrants and Their Share of the Total U.S. Population, 1850-2024

This chart displays both the number of immigrants residing in the United States and their share of the total U.S. population.

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Michael Schneider @michaelschneider.com · 27/08/2026

LADOT’s second Toronto barrier installation and the first outside DTLA on Imperial Highway. These will also be used on the Spring/Alameda project, and likely on Ohio. Great option for true Class IV protection. Bravo LADOT — let’s replace all K71’s citywide!

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What are the repair issues you’re running into?

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Wot? Aren’t you in socal? I find with the climate the required amount of bike maintenance here is basically zero compared to everywhere else I’ve lived. Or are you mountain biking?

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Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Anyone know what's going on with LIHTC development in Colorado? This report got a lot of attention for high costs in CA and high LIHTC costs relative to market-rate in CA and TX, but I don't recall anyone talking about how CO is building LIHTC cheaper than market-rate. www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

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3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New academic study: Inclusionary zoning costs renters $800k per affordable unit created. This is more than the per-unit cost for the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program. While LIHTC which is largely funded by the rich via income taxes, IZOs are regressive because they place the burden on renters.

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hasegawa walked back the central claim of Racing the enemy in an subseuqnt academic round table, basically conceded most of the points Asada made in their dueling articles after it was initially published. Now says it’s unknowable to what extent the atomic bombs or Soviet entry motivated surrender

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 14/08/2026

The entities that engage in building code development get their interests met. In the US, the government and multifamily developers don’t engage much, and the biggest engagers are single-family homebuilders, the timber industry, and the sprinkler industry.

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Pakistan did ethnically cleanse 2.5 million afghan refugees in the last 3 years, some who have been there 40 years, but go off I guess

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Fantasy: Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake Sci fi: A fire upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge cowboy poems as novella: Collected works of Billy the Kid, Michael Ondaatje historical fiction: Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

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Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem @burhanazeem.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Over the last decade, Austin rents went up 93%. It was one of the worst rent spikes of any major American city. Then Austin changed its rules.

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

need an advisory ruling, is a donation to a pro-housing YIMBY lobbying/advocacy group a "housing charity"?

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Lolol choose ur innumerate fighter

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

No immediate military value, just bringing the war home to the Russians, causing economic damage, making Putins regime look weak, etc

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Imagine a world in which the public treated traffic violence w/ the same import and urgency they treat violent deaths from terrorism

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jimmybot @jimmybot.com · 31/07/2026

There is a problem in the Vision Zero community of repeating a disproven and tired line of discounting traffic enforcement. Turning off traffic enforcement created a disaster. Road design didn't get worse yet crash deaths skyrocketed. NYCDOT found 2 cell phone violations / year = 40X KSI crash risk!

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Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Mini-thread on the Vancouver vacancy tax (and resulting study). The tax is Vancouver's 2017 empty homes tax; the study from CD Howe looks at its impact. The study claims the tax had large impacts on vacancies and minimal impacts on prices. As I'll discuss, I think there are problems with the study.

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Ripple Effects: The Impact of an Empty-Homes Tax on the Housing Market

The Canadian housing market is experiencing an unprecedented crisis. One solution being explored is the adoption of demand-side measures like Vancouver’s 2017 empty-homes tax. This E-Brief evaluates t...

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

But isn’t it there to a lesser degree? They’ve already left the Eden analogue in the Silmarillion, they’ve brought sin into the world with the kinslaying, they will never see the light of the two trees again. The “long defeat” begins around when the Silmarils are stolen and never stops for the elves

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is not a priority for anyone who actually rides metro, every year the transit rider survey shows the same thing: Angelenos want transit that is safer, cleaner, and more frequent. Your proposal is slopulist nonsense.

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John Boo! 🏳️‍🌈 @jsoo.refl.club · 22/07/2026

Campism is only one of many red-brown vectors. Others include: - labor protectionism leading to anti-immigrant hatred - woo-to-conspiracism - related but different, anti-empiricism - authoritarianisms - related but different, accelerationism - GENDER, interacting with every other item

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 21/07/2026

yeah that's right. here's my national service take. we're not gonna be conscripting eighteen year olds. we're gonna conscript the olds. when you retire you gotta do two years washing windows

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Based on the article’s description it sounds like the city is paying for the subsidy and maybe providing the land for free or heavily discounted rather than developer paying IZ fee

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17/07/2026

We need a term for the rhetorical practice of inventing a theoretical marginalized person who would be harmed by a broadly-beneficial policy that you dislike because it would inconvenience you.

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

But often adding a lot of “community participation” at the expense of things like officer training and due process

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MF @michael-fraser.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I still think about his pigeon tweets at regular intervals

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I looked into this a bit for my book, and while AAA's methodology is proprietary and not publicly available, I think they might actually be underestimating the total cost by excluding second-order expenses like parking.

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Joe Linton @lintonjoe.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The city's rendering of the Wilshire street closure west of MacArthur Park

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Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

housing charts are my coping mechanism

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