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The Stinkfoot @thestinkfoot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is Last Days of Hitler level lunacy. The president of the United States, a man with zero military or engineering experience, is ordering design changes to our fleet in order to fit his ascetic preferences.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The NIH just released a proposal that will apparently hide peer reviewers’ impact scores and percentiles from the research team, their institution, and NIH program officers. All the better to obscure how funding decisions will be made primarily via political review, I’m guessing.

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NOT-OD-26-088: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review NOT-OD-26-088. NIH

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Ossoff: The president has been humiliated on the world stage. Many Americans are increasingly concerned about his stability and his capacity for the office. It’s deeply distressing to Americans to see a president so incompetent attempting and failing to represent the nation.

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UCLA Lewis Center @uclalewiscenter.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A little BTS of tomorrow's Road Scholars episode with some familiar faces. @mbrozen.bsky.social @redbaaron.bsky.social @jacoblwasserman.bsky.social Tune in tomorrow to learn everything there is to know about "major transit stops" and why it matters in California.

Screenshot of Lewis Center researchers Madeline Brozen, Aaron Barrall, Jacob Wasserman and Juan Matute recording a Road Scholars podcast episode about the complexities, and importance, of defining a major transit stop for California housing development.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 23/10/2025

California should pass a law to clean up #AB2097, which removed most minimum parking mandates near transit. UCLA's Amy Lee, A. Millard-Ball and M. Manville have given us a road map for how to do that. Basically, put the "expansive interpretations" in this table into law.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/10/2025

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Russ Vought isn’t really a bureaucrat, he’s an anti-constitutional criminal seizing a bunch of unlawful powers to conduct economic warfare against hundreds of millions of Americans because they live in states that voted against his patron.

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Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

In part 2 of our series on misaligned incentives in housing policy, the UCLA Housing Voice Podcast speaks with @stephenjacobsmith.com about the high cost of elevators in North America, and the negative consequences for affordability and accessibility. www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/09/24/9...

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Episode 98: Elevators with Stephen Smith (Incentives Series pt. 2)

Elevators in the U.S. and Canada cost 3–5x as much as in other high-income countries. Stephen Smith explains how our well-intentioned standards make cities less safe and accessible.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Other networks have fired people, including very recently, for saying things that don’t come anywhere close to this level of violence and inhumanity. But this is Fox News. So it’s entirely possible he was told to say it, to test the reaction and continue the normalization of the monstrous.

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Happy that the paper by @tomdavidoff.bsky.social @lausterna.bsky.social Tsur Somerville and I on the outcomes of the multiplex upzonings in Kelowna and Coquitlam is out. While the two zoning reforms look similar on paper, we detail how their real world outcomes differ. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

Upzoning and redevelopment: The details matter

Facing worsening housing affordability, policymakers in a growing number of jurisdictions have heeded
economists’ calls for increases in supply through relaxing land use restrictions, particularly on maximum
allowed density and increases in the number of units allowed on a single lot. While floor space or floor area
ratios (FSR or FAR) and unit count per lot are indicators of the potential for density, local governments have
many levers to control the volume, type, and pace of new construction. In this paper, we compare changes in
land prices and the pace of redevelopment following two similar, moderate density upzonings (up to four units
per lot) of single family neighborhoods in the province of British Columbia (Canada). The upzoning in the City
of Kelowna resulted in considerable new construction of higher density residential units as well as a significant
increase in lot prices in the upzoned area relative to nearby areas with status quo zoning. In contrast, though
the changes in allowed density were nearly identical, in Coquitlam there has been minimal uptake of new
multiplex options and no discernible land lift in response to upzoning. We highlight the importance of other
regulatory levers that are easy for analysts to miss in contributing to these different outcomes. The Kelowna
upzoning was matched with an expedited development permit process for as-of-right fourplexes. In contrast,
the Coquitlam rezoning did not alter the city’s lengthy development permit process required to build beyond
the baseline duplex. Kelowna’s upzoning also required less parking than Coquitlam’s. An assessment of the
regulatory environment relying on the presence of the upzoning alone would miss the alteration to process (or
absence thereof) that appear to have had a significant effect across the two municipalities in whether zoning
changes led to actual new construction.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 19/08/2025

yes, slavery was bad and we should talk about that

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Streets For All @streetsforall.org · 11/07/2025

4+ years ago, WeHo approved protected bike lanes on Fountain. Current timeline doesn’t have them installed until late 2026. Yesterday, another life was lost in yet another hit & run. We can’t wait until next year to save lives; get it in the ground NOW! wehotimes.com/bicyclist-ki...

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This vote means that every single senator who voted yes is personally responsible for all of the consequences of this bill, because they alone could've stopped it. Let's not forget that.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 28/06/2025

To put it another way, it takes the approach of actively penalizing the technologies of the 21st century and subsidizing the technologies of the 19th century. As solar, batteries, and electrification are rapidly adopted by the rest of the world, we are stepping backwards.

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Good episode talking about how to evaluate zoning reforms. This touches on a lot of concepts, zoned capacity, development potential, and how land use interacts with economics.

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Episode 89: How to Evaluate Zoning Reforms with Aaron Barrall (part 1)

Aaron Barrall shares insights from Los Angeles's zoning reform and what they reveal about upzoning’s effectiveness in cities worldwide.

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Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Last week on the UCLA Housing Voice Podcast we talked to @redbaaron.bsky.social about the Lewis Center's approach to evaluating a citywide zoning reform proposal in Los Angeles, with plenty of lessons for other cities. Stay tuned for part 2 next week! www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/04/09/8...

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Episode 89: How to Evaluate Zoning Reforms with Aaron Barrall (part 1)

Aaron Barrall shares insights from Los Angeles's zoning reform and what they reveal about upzoning’s effectiveness in cities worldwide.

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UCLA Lewis Center @uclalewiscenter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

On our newest #UCLAHousingVoice Podcast, @redbaaron.bsky.social breaks down his research on L.A.'s zoning reforms with @shanedphillips.bsky.social. Listen here! 🎧 www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/04/09/8...

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We are seeing a very clear pattern of banning things that make Trumpists and their kids feel bad: - Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation - Challenging ideas about gender - Protests against genocide - Science generally It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

“As long as the stasi can get you across the border before you can wrangle a lawyer you’re fucked” is a hell of an argument

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 03/04/2025

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 01/04/2025

The @uclalewiscenter.bsky.social’s Housing Voice podcast is an accessible dive into a variety of housing policy research from around the world, it’s great

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UCLA Housing Voice Podcast

A UCLA Lewis Center podcast making sense of housing research to make our cities more affordable, accessible and equitable.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

That obvious reality as much as the fact the decision seems bad is why Democrats have lost all confidence in Schumer and other Dem leaders. Just no sign they are thinking strategically at all instead of just reacting haphazardly, and with cowardice

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UCLA Lewis Center @uclalewiscenter.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Did you miss last week's event with @redbaaron.bsky.social and @shanedphillips.bsky.social on the CHIPing In report? If so, check out our recording on YouTube to go in depth on the city's plan for meeting statewide housing goals. 🔗Link below youtu.be/oBlgmvDZmvQ?...

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CHIPing In: A Spatial Assessment of Los Angeles’ Rezone Program

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)

America hurt itself badly today.

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This is obviously terrible and we’ll all be dealing with the wreckage for the rest of our lives. But I hope Dems remember this the next time they’re in power. The scale, scope, and pace of what we’re witnessing can be about building things, too.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

they want to kill your family

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Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem @burhanazeem.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

Elon Musk tweet: We spent the wekend feeding USAID

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Streetsblog L.A. @streetsblogla.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

CicLAvia schedule for 2025! Mark your calendar now

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