Adrian
@adrianconrad.bsky.social
Defender of the em dash. Tell me about your favorite map painting game.
This is a legitimate feeling, but I think it gets the causality backwards. Landlords can extract huge rents because we have made it so hard to build! Increase supply, drive prices down, and you’re shifting bargaining power back in favor of the renters.
As of late this is what's becoming apparent to me. If the success of the private market is so contingent on instability for current renters, then maybe we shouldn't be relying so much on the private market to build.
Right, but if you do rent control you can’t count on the private sector building the housing for you. So any rent control policy that isn’t paired with an enormous public housing investment is going to be counterproductive.
November 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is a legitimate feeling, but I think it gets the causality backwards. Landlords can extract huge rents because we have made it so hard to build! Increase supply, drive prices down, and you’re shifting bargaining power back in favor of the renters.
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My wokest opinion is that there shouldn’t be any private high schools or elementary schools.
Education is a matter of the common public good and everyone at the K-12 level should have an equal opportunity with the same resources to attain a common educational baseline.
Education is a matter of the common public good and everyone at the K-12 level should have an equal opportunity with the same resources to attain a common educational baseline.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
My wokest opinion is that there shouldn’t be any private high schools or elementary schools.
Education is a matter of the common public good and everyone at the K-12 level should have an equal opportunity with the same resources to attain a common educational baseline.
Education is a matter of the common public good and everyone at the K-12 level should have an equal opportunity with the same resources to attain a common educational baseline.
Uhh holy shit
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Uhh holy shit
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There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
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this is absolutely true and this should not strike fear, it should strike righteous fucking fury in you, are you going to let them break you, or are you going to make them break upon us?
serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 AM
this is absolutely true and this should not strike fear, it should strike righteous fucking fury in you, are you going to let them break you, or are you going to make them break upon us?
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What's happening is that these commentators adopt Republican talking points about the Democratic agenda. That's it, that's the whole story. Their source of information about Democrats and Democratic priorities is Republicans and Republican-aligned media
👇🎯
These candidates actually existed.
The Democratic Party actually had a platform. Ezra Douthglesias could still go read it. They choose not to, or to pretend it didn't exist: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/20....
Just have the courage of your convictions, please: bsky.app/profile/will...
These candidates actually existed.
The Democratic Party actually had a platform. Ezra Douthglesias could still go read it. They choose not to, or to pretend it didn't exist: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/20....
Just have the courage of your convictions, please: bsky.app/profile/will...
November 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
What's happening is that these commentators adopt Republican talking points about the Democratic agenda. That's it, that's the whole story. Their source of information about Democrats and Democratic priorities is Republicans and Republican-aligned media
Preregistering a take: within a month, right-wing media will pivot to talking about how the government has been shut down for X days and yet the world still spins, ergo the federal government isn’t needed anyways.
November 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Preregistering a take: within a month, right-wing media will pivot to talking about how the government has been shut down for X days and yet the world still spins, ergo the federal government isn’t needed anyways.
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It's insane that this even needs to be said.
“A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
“A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
A retired policeman posted a Charlie Kirk meme. He spent a month in jail.
The 61-year-old Tennessee man plans to sue after authorities dropped charges over a political Facebook post. Free-speech advocates say it’s a symptom of a wider crackdown.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It's insane that this even needs to be said.
“A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
“A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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The primary sins of bad analysis like this are imo:
1. A refusal to engage with issue salience
2. A refusal to engage with how issues can become salient or unsalient
3. A refusal to engage with how leaders can shape issue salience and public opinion
It treats all issues as frozen in amber.
1. A refusal to engage with issue salience
2. A refusal to engage with how issues can become salient or unsalient
3. A refusal to engage with how leaders can shape issue salience and public opinion
It treats all issues as frozen in amber.
according to matty's reading of this we should uh, drop opposition to offshore drilling, ban urbanism and anything dense, fund the military and police more, and restore the death penalty?
October 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The primary sins of bad analysis like this are imo:
1. A refusal to engage with issue salience
2. A refusal to engage with how issues can become salient or unsalient
3. A refusal to engage with how leaders can shape issue salience and public opinion
It treats all issues as frozen in amber.
1. A refusal to engage with issue salience
2. A refusal to engage with how issues can become salient or unsalient
3. A refusal to engage with how leaders can shape issue salience and public opinion
It treats all issues as frozen in amber.
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This really is it. If you live in a metro area with an inelastic housing stock you will see no benefit from low unemployment and higher wages, you'll just see higher housing prices. No progressive economic project can work until housing is fixed.
I am stubborn I still think Bidenomics was correct and it worked! People experienced lifestyle creep and depression, and/or lived in NYC where housing costs genuinely got untethered for completely separate reasons!
October 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This really is it. If you live in a metro area with an inelastic housing stock you will see no benefit from low unemployment and higher wages, you'll just see higher housing prices. No progressive economic project can work until housing is fixed.
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But when it comes to it, if it comes to it, in that awful moment of decision, yes, you will want the old grandmas and grandpas at the front, as many of them as you can get, so those terribly young fellows with the rifles understand what a wicked, awful thing is being asked of them.
October 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
But when it comes to it, if it comes to it, in that awful moment of decision, yes, you will want the old grandmas and grandpas at the front, as many of them as you can get, so those terribly young fellows with the rifles understand what a wicked, awful thing is being asked of them.
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Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule
He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
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we are going to win. these people are fucking losers
October 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
we are going to win. these people are fucking losers
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You have shit like Disney/ABC getting blindsided by the backlash to the Jimmy Kimmel suspension because they thought suspending him would be broadly popular because that's what Twitter was saying
Everyone with power is addicted to fucking Twitter
Everyone with power is addicted to fucking Twitter
September 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
You have shit like Disney/ABC getting blindsided by the backlash to the Jimmy Kimmel suspension because they thought suspending him would be broadly popular because that's what Twitter was saying
Everyone with power is addicted to fucking Twitter
Everyone with power is addicted to fucking Twitter
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our Khan calls for aid
Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.
September 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
our Khan calls for aid
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A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
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Remember when Biden was working on National Plan to End Parkinson's bill, and was consulting with experts, and NYT ran this hit piece?
Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.
Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Months
The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Remember when Biden was working on National Plan to End Parkinson's bill, and was consulting with experts, and NYT ran this hit piece?
Snyder Brunell looking kinda nice out there
August 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Snyder Brunell looking kinda nice out there
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>national guard are carrying guns now
>Trump is planning on deploying the military to even more cities
>the FBI is going after domestic political enemies
>the administration is manufacturing cases against members of the FED
>we’re staging Naval assets near Venezuela
>ICE is rapidly expanding
>Trump is planning on deploying the military to even more cities
>the FBI is going after domestic political enemies
>the administration is manufacturing cases against members of the FED
>we’re staging Naval assets near Venezuela
>ICE is rapidly expanding
August 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
>national guard are carrying guns now
>Trump is planning on deploying the military to even more cities
>the FBI is going after domestic political enemies
>the administration is manufacturing cases against members of the FED
>we’re staging Naval assets near Venezuela
>ICE is rapidly expanding
>Trump is planning on deploying the military to even more cities
>the FBI is going after domestic political enemies
>the administration is manufacturing cases against members of the FED
>we’re staging Naval assets near Venezuela
>ICE is rapidly expanding
Apple TV showing the Lowe’s best assist of the match (tm) during a 0-0 game is peak
August 21, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Apple TV showing the Lowe’s best assist of the match (tm) during a 0-0 game is peak
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The GOP attacks on universities are more popular in the editorial offices of legacy media than among the people...
2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll.....
13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/
13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/
August 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The GOP attacks on universities are more popular in the editorial offices of legacy media than among the people...
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My sense is that we are at an incredibly unstable moment in history--almost no outcome should be written off as impossible. We're in the middle of a tech bubble and democracy failure. Things are looking flakey around the edges, to put it mildly. 3/x
August 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
My sense is that we are at an incredibly unstable moment in history--almost no outcome should be written off as impossible. We're in the middle of a tech bubble and democracy failure. Things are looking flakey around the edges, to put it mildly. 3/x
We’re approaching The Cool Zone at rapid pace
Gavin Newsom is holding a press conference today on redistricting and DHS agents have arrived masked up and in full gear. Many are armed with guns.
August 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
We’re approaching The Cool Zone at rapid pace