Armand Domalewski
@armanddomalewski.bsky.social
Cohost of @everybodygetspie, a podcast from the team that brought you YIMBYs for Harris
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Remember when NIMBYs on Seattle’s Eastside sued multiple times to try to stop an innocuous transmission improvement that would have upgraded 1950s-era equipment to modern standards because they thought they knew better than the local utility what electricity demand looked like?
the planet will boil over if we do not fix the insane regulatory mess that makes it take A DECADE to build a SINGLE POWER LINE
After 10 years of controversy, lawsuits, and even a ballot referendum, the New England Clean Energy Connect is up and running 🔌
With a capacity of 1,200 megawatts, the new line can satisfy 20% of Massachusetts' electricity needs. www.wbur.org/news/2026/01... @wbur.org #energysky
With a capacity of 1,200 megawatts, the new line can satisfy 20% of Massachusetts' electricity needs. www.wbur.org/news/2026/01... @wbur.org #energysky
January 16, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Remember when NIMBYs on Seattle’s Eastside sued multiple times to try to stop an innocuous transmission improvement that would have upgraded 1950s-era equipment to modern standards because they thought they knew better than the local utility what electricity demand looked like?
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This is a bigger self-own for US automakers than building gas guzzlers and low quality cars in the '70s.
Trump’s plan is that the entire world uses Chinese EVs while America’s auto industry sells gas powered cars literally only to Americans
January 16, 2026 at 4:45 PM
This is a bigger self-own for US automakers than building gas guzzlers and low quality cars in the '70s.
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And less and less of them.
Trump’s plan is that the entire world uses Chinese EVs while America’s auto industry sells gas powered cars literally only to Americans
January 16, 2026 at 4:43 PM
And less and less of them.
Trump’s plan is that the entire world uses Chinese EVs while America’s auto industry sells gas powered cars literally only to Americans
January 16, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Trump’s plan is that the entire world uses Chinese EVs while America’s auto industry sells gas powered cars literally only to Americans
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Trump has imposed a ban on clean energy on public land, with 22 new gigawatts stranded as he himself says we're in an electricity affordability crisis. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
22GW of renewables thwarted or in limbo under Trump ‘blockade’
An Interior Department memo is hampering wind and solar on public lands. It’s one of many federal actions slowing the build-out of cheap, clean energy.
www.canarymedia.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Trump has imposed a ban on clean energy on public land, with 22 new gigawatts stranded as he himself says we're in an electricity affordability crisis. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
the planet will boil over if we do not fix the insane regulatory mess that makes it take A DECADE to build a SINGLE POWER LINE
After 10 years of controversy, lawsuits, and even a ballot referendum, the New England Clean Energy Connect is up and running 🔌
With a capacity of 1,200 megawatts, the new line can satisfy 20% of Massachusetts' electricity needs. www.wbur.org/news/2026/01... @wbur.org #energysky
With a capacity of 1,200 megawatts, the new line can satisfy 20% of Massachusetts' electricity needs. www.wbur.org/news/2026/01... @wbur.org #energysky
A decade in the making, clean energy power line for Mass. is up and running
A major new transmission line that can bring renewable electricity from Quebec to Massachusetts is finally, after a whole lot of controversy and delay, starting to deliver power.
www.wbur.org
January 16, 2026 at 4:36 PM
the planet will boil over if we do not fix the insane regulatory mess that makes it take A DECADE to build a SINGLE POWER LINE
Trump’s like a Bizarro Pigouvian in that he subsidizes things with negative externalities and taxes things with positive externalities 🙃
"Consumers Energy spent $164M from May to September to keep its coal plant running. During that time, the plant earned only $84M in revenue.
Preventing the nation’s coal plants from retiring over the next three years could cost consumers at least $3B per year"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/c...
Preventing the nation’s coal plants from retiring over the next three years could cost consumers at least $3B per year"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/c...
Trump Wants to Halt Almost All Coal Plant Shutdowns. It Could Get Messy.
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Trump’s like a Bizarro Pigouvian in that he subsidizes things with negative externalities and taxes things with positive externalities 🙃
As much as I am a fan of innovative medical technology, the easiest way to solve the “no OBGYNs in many rural counties” is to allow foreign OBGYNs to move to those counties and be allowed to practice when they do
Dr Oz: "Alabama has no OBGYNs in many of their counties, so they're doing something pretty cool. They're actually having robots do ultrasounds on these pregnant moms."
January 16, 2026 at 4:14 PM
As much as I am a fan of innovative medical technology, the easiest way to solve the “no OBGYNs in many rural counties” is to allow foreign OBGYNs to move to those counties and be allowed to practice when they do
This was a really great episode of ours and I strongly urge folks to check it out!!!
In a supply-constrained market, 50-year mortgages won't solve the issue. In fact, they might make things worse. For an average of $100 in savings, assuming you have the same interest rate (and you very well might not!), you lose out on building equity. Michael Negron's verdict: gimmick.
50-Year Mortgages: Gimmick or Solution?
YouTube video by Everybody Gets Pie
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January 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM
This was a really great episode of ours and I strongly urge folks to check it out!!!
degrowth Donald strikes again
Great story by @mariagallucci.bsky.social on how Trump forcing all Department of Interior reviews of clean energy projects to get personal approval from DOI Secretary Doug Burgum has stifled 22GW of development in the midst of an energy crisis:
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
#energysky
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
#energysky
22GW of renewables thwarted or in limbo under Trump ‘blockade’
An Interior Department memo is hampering wind and solar on public lands. It’s one of many federal actions slowing the build-out of cheap, clean energy.
www.canarymedia.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:05 PM
degrowth Donald strikes again
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Hot dogs aren’t made of dogs. Girl Scout cookies aren’t made of Girl Scouts. But in Europe and several states, you can’t call products “meat” unless they’re made of dead animals. Are bear claws next?
January 16, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Hot dogs aren’t made of dogs. Girl Scout cookies aren’t made of Girl Scouts. But in Europe and several states, you can’t call products “meat” unless they’re made of dead animals. Are bear claws next?
people always think of media as this top down thing imposed on people, but in practice it’s always a dynamic between what media producers supply and what media consumers demand. a lot of RW anti-woke media surged precisely because people reacted against the era of woke overreach
It's odd, isn't it, how the supposed "woke overreach" that we are told has repulsed all of America & sent Dems into the wilderness coincided, almost perfectly, with final collapse of media gatekeepers & the rise of unrestrained RW media & social media dominance.
January 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM
people always think of media as this top down thing imposed on people, but in practice it’s always a dynamic between what media producers supply and what media consumers demand. a lot of RW anti-woke media surged precisely because people reacted against the era of woke overreach
It’s always funny to see people who fight tooth and nail against any effort to make it easier to get clean energy permitted in the US praise China, a country where lawsuits by NGOs against energy projects are basically illegal and “community input” is nonexistent
Can’t dominante in science if you’re run by climate deniers, the original anti-science meatheads.
January 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
It’s always funny to see people who fight tooth and nail against any effort to make it easier to get clean energy permitted in the US praise China, a country where lawsuits by NGOs against energy projects are basically illegal and “community input” is nonexistent
Oh hell yeah
[BILL ALERT] AB 1406, which reforms new home deposits to make for-sale apartment construction more feasible, has passed the Assembly Judiciary Committee and is headed to the floor.
Learn more: cayimby.org/legislation/...
Learn more: cayimby.org/legislation/...
AB 1406: New Home Deposit Reform
AB 1406 will give more Californians a pathway to affordable homeownership by allowing them to make deposits to reserve homes in new housing developments. By providing a new source of low-cost capital ...
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January 13, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Oh hell yeah
As the prophecy foretold
January 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
As the prophecy foretold
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If people like a policy, it sticks around. If people don't know about it, it expires. We need to account for popularity when designing public policy to ensure it keeps working like it's supposed to.
January 9, 2026 at 10:30 PM
If people like a policy, it sticks around. If people don't know about it, it expires. We need to account for popularity when designing public policy to ensure it keeps working like it's supposed to.
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Full episode out now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtFG...
Why Zoning Alone Isn’t Nearly Enough to Build 5 Million Homes
YouTube video by Everybody Gets Pie
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January 12, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Full episode out now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtFG...
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Why Up-Zoning Isn’t Nearly Enough w/ CAP's Michael Negron
Podcast Episode · Everybody Gets Pie's Podcast · 01/12/2026 · 41m
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January 12, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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Why Up-Zoning Isn’t Nearly Enough w/ CAP's Michael Negron
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January 12, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Spotify link here: open.spotify.com/episode/5CDn...
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Let's get rid of red tape around affordable housing, starting with the requirement for a steel chassis at the bottom of a manufactured home. This outdated HUD rule allows a home to be moved, but most homes are not moved these days. Michael Negron discusses this and more on our new episode, out now!
January 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Let's get rid of red tape around affordable housing, starting with the requirement for a steel chassis at the bottom of a manufactured home. This outdated HUD rule allows a home to be moved, but most homes are not moved these days. Michael Negron discusses this and more on our new episode, out now!
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The Quiet Big Bill That Could Reshape Housing w/ Rep. Josh Harder
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December 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Almost every state is facing a housing crisis due to the failure to build more housing fast enough, driving up affordability and costs. Rep. Josh Harder dives into the bipartisan effort aimed at solving this problem.
December 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Almost every state is facing a housing crisis due to the failure to build more housing fast enough, driving up affordability and costs. Rep. Josh Harder dives into the bipartisan effort aimed at solving this problem.
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Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/ak3nRMIQnms
How the US Went from World's Best to Transit FAILURE (with Jake Berman)
YouTube video by Everybody Gets Pie
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December 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/ak3nRMIQnms
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From World Leader to Transit Failure: How the U.S. Lost Its Edge with Jake Burman
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December 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Fixed budgets. Public buy-in. Clear plans. Infrastructure works better when the order is right. Jake Berman discusses the difference between Europe and America's transit systems and more on our newest episode, out now!
December 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Fixed budgets. Public buy-in. Clear plans. Infrastructure works better when the order is right. Jake Berman discusses the difference between Europe and America's transit systems and more on our newest episode, out now!