Reposted by #1 Shoup Fanpaul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“‘Choosin’ Texas’? Ha, no pardner, I’m Choosin’ TAXES. Howdy, I’m Big Jim Medlock and I’m here to tell you how the social democratic welf 446954
Reposted by #1 Shoup FanCalifornians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 30/09/2026Frustrated with the slow progress on CAHSR? Apparently the California legislature isn't, given all bills to speed up progress died this year. Why isn't California's signature infrastructure project a priority? calmatters.org/politics/202...calmatters.orgCalifornia’s high-speed rail authority made a legislative wishlist. It mostly stalled outCalifornia’s bullet train agency said timely construction of the rail line depended on these reforms. They mostly failed. 510632
Reposted by #1 Shoup FanAlon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Unfortunately Northern Europe no longer has these costs, Stockholm just announced a new overrun and is now a bit more expensive than Germany. Yes, this makes Germany potentially the lowest-construction cost country in Northern Europe. I am unhappy that we're somehow good. 291
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I can’t believe trans exclusionary transhumanism is a political ideology with power. This is so dumb. Those 70s SF authors lost their minds using drugs for nothing 0101
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026”There is a simple solution to most problems” was one of the poll opinions most correlated with Brexit support IIRC. Up there with pro corporal punishment 2436
Reposted by #1 Shoup Fanlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is my favourite Borges story. 721848
Reposted by #1 Shoup FanAdrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Writing a report about exclusionary zoning in Mexico City; so I made this cute map of the existing stock vs. the permitted. No surprise this city barely builds anything. 1477
Reposted by #1 Shoup FanAdrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Crazy the debacle of housing production in Mexico City: 2006: 18,000 units 2016: 13,000 units 2025: 2,000 units 1644
Reposted by #1 Shoup FanJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Love to see Medicare for Kids back on the menu, such an underrated path to M4A 790399
Reposted by #1 Shoup FanMichael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The United States and Canada have way too few elevators - by far the fewest in the rich world. This is true even after you account for our higher shares of detached homes - but if you've ever lived in a walk-up, you know it's also part of the REASON we have so many fewer attached homes. 1584
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A huge success of the post Cold-War era is that most of the world dismantled the Death Machine. We can't mobilize 5% of the population of every major European country in 2 weeks; that's just not something we can do anymore. Obviously this has also had some downsides. 040
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Encyclopedia Iranica is a treasure, and I love this article. If you're aware of the Greco-Persian wars, it's really fascinating to ready why we don't have the Persian side and a general understanding of what later Persians knew about Persian history 041
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Time for Inland Empire 2: Inlander Empire? (also this is crazy, let's build housing in LA www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comThe Inland Empire was once a bargain. Now, rising home prices, coastal invasion bring anxietyFor generations, the Inland Empire was considered one of Southern California’s best real estate deals. Not anymore. 290
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We are rebuilding this but slightly worse. I wish we were working on reusing the interurban RoW to make Sounder faster! 100
Reposted by #1 Shoup Fansnilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social · 25/09/2026some political scientist said the only countries that follow the law are ghana and the us 031
Reposted by #1 Shoup Fanalistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i think somaliland does a similar thing with three parties except they phrase it as 'only three parties can legally exist at any time' and the results of the primary is binding for a decade at a time instead of every term (five years in bhutan) and also they're not FPTP 131
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026American LibDems. It can happen. Uh they can't call themselves that. Maybe uh "Independent Moderates"? 160
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think district level polling has been bad for some time and going back to 2020 really misled Wasserman. Throw it in the average etc., but you're better off looking at the Generic Ballot. Rs were thrown into absolute panic in 20 from district polling www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou... 160
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026That’s right, it’s time to make the internet from ENDER’S GAME real. Ranked discourse only, do not even log on to diamond tier shit without grinding it out in your local bronze silver and gold circuits 191
Reposted by #1 Shoup FanSol Feggio @wtdore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026car free day? No, car expensive. 072
Reposted by #1 Shoup FanGlonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The Maine subreddit having more of a "all politicians are like that" reaction to the Susan Collins story is why Platner style politics really isn't healthy for a democratic society. 1617
Reposted by #1 Shoup Fanpete @ptmoria.com · 22/09/2026Off the current polling averages, a 3-point miss would mean Dems lose not just Texas, Iowa, Alaska, Kansas, and Nebraska but also Michigan and Minnesota 2103
Reposted by #1 Shoup FanMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026" Im inclined to say that this was “expressing dissatisfaction with nominally high prices even though wages rose to match them,” I think this is definitely it; the interesting question is "why were people more upset about high prices than previous high inflation eras?". 3532
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 22/09/2026@moultano.bsky.social Thinking about this tweet you made. I think being odd at a group level and having right ideas is orthogonal. COVID was initially worried about mostly by epidemiologists who are, as far as I can tell, about as odd as any group of professionals. It just depends. 1160
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Having finished it, I would like to nominate Brand's "How Buildings Learn" as one of the most California Ideology books of all time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Bui...en.wikipedia.orgHow Buildings Learn - Wikipedia 110
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I’m going to be honest I think this is the main website for kalecki-heads 0122
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You can cover the earth in a Dyson sphere and be ruled by a super AI trapped in time warp, but a Sci-Fi writer can never imagine the ag sector of California giving up a single drop 030
Reposted by #1 Shoup FanBabad🎃🎃kakis @ryanwu2438.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This got published this morning in the LA Times. 5 point lead for Raman according to an internal. 172
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Thank you @weisenthal.bsky.social for speaking up for the real oppressed class in US tax policy: W-2 people 160
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is actually so important and something we miss in the world where media discussion is led by fans. I want to know what someone who has read every Horus Heresy book and doesn't like them thinks! It's very rare to get this take! (Nicholson's VAMPIRE DIARIES review is a treasure for this reason) 040
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In 22 and 24, the polls had this pattern where they were too close in very Red states, while still showing competitive states as competitive. Remember the "maybe we'll beat Graham 👀" stuff? We are probably getting fooled again in the same way 020
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In hindsight, we would've been better off if the Soleimani assassination had kicked off the Iran war then. The US voter would've figured out that Trump is, fundamentally, a warmonger* *he loves starting wars, hates fighting them 140
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Crazy that we're getting articles like this with 0 polls. No one has anything better than "uh, feels like Nithya" www.politico.com/news/2026/09...politico.comKaren Bass’ allies are starting to worry: ‘The energy is with Nithya’Some of the mayor’s supporters say her only shot is to pivot to a mercilessly negative campaign. 1131
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Need the @joeposting.bsky.social take on the real election upset to watch out for this fall: the Russian legislative election. Will Yabloko get an underdog win?* It's surging in independent polls now. Extremely real wikipedia graph *no en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion... 130
Reposted by #1 Shoup FanSleepingAristocrat @feudaldozing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Ultimate proof that not a single XXth century intellectual ever read the General Theory. Governments worldwide giving up their power to the central bank wasn’t predictable, but something like the Volcker shock was always totally plausible if you had some basic knowledge of how macro works 021
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The more dangerous your job, the more order you want, so you vote for the party that makes your job less safe? hard to fully get, but interesting paper 030
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Well you have to give the rats credit for one thing [boos from one side] However giving them credit for everything just for one thing is something I’ve taken to calling “low decoupling”. Now a real “high decoupler”, a term I invented, would [everyone is booing now] 000
Reposted by #1 Shoup FanJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is my personal 9/11 534031
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’s interesting to me that no one ever predicted the biggest political technology change of the 80s and 90s: the power of central banks to manage the economy Even people interested in central planning or managed economics never came up with that 240
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This is very clear of you read old utopian lit. E.g. on the other side, Bellamy’s LOOKING BACKWARDS has tons of stuff that we have today in the distant utopian future: old age pensions, healthcare, etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking...en.wikipedia.orgLooking Backward - Wikipedia 230
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Gelman & Ghitza suggest that growing up with unpopular D presidents like Carter and popular R presidents like Reagan pushed Gen-Xers to the right. You see this too in the UK! 1100
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Unfortunately, we have made the substance Ice-9 from the Vonnegut book "Do not make Ice-9". Unfortunately, it turns out to be impossible to pre-ban stuff that will kill all life on Earth without a demo. Now to demonstrate it's dangers, I will add but a single crystal to the Atlantic Ocean... 020
Reposted by #1 Shoup FanGust23 @gust2319.bsky.social · 14/09/2026For the polling miss, I think it's arguably not even a miss, as much as it was just the fact that the decisive voter movement towards M happened in the very last few days of the election, whereas most polls were published on Friday, two days before the election. 111
Reposted by #1 Shoup FanGust23 @gust2319.bsky.social · 14/09/2026That's probably not the cause of the polling miss. The reason my own projection was like that is because it's based on the 2022 election result, not taking into account relative geographic swings. 211
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Looking back at this we can see the polling miss where the North swung harder to the right than expected (which was slightly balanced out by left movement in the cities) @lappypercival.bsky.social @isaiahbishop.bsky.social thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... 241
Reposted by #1 Shoup FanJoost @almodozo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026On Stockholm's political segregation 142
#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Every day I wake up and fuel subsidies are causing a crisis to state budgets somewhere. Never do them! www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...aljazeera.comProtests break out across Syria over fuel price increasesDemonstrators burn tyres and block highways as protests over increased fuel prices grip Syrian cities. 030
Reposted by #1 Shoup Fan#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I’m reading Brand’s HOW BUILDINGS LEARN (1995). It’s interesting for having a proto YIMBY section where he criticizes land use controls. Note 1. This is mostly an aesthetic critique, it lacks the YIMBY focus on costs 2. His good example is a patch of Sausalito LMAO 131
