David J. Faber (🧦)
@davidjfaber.bsky.social
Mayor of the City of Port Townsend, WA. Personal account.
Carly Rae XCX
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Carly Rae XCX
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YIMBY is progressive, populist and antitrust. Not centrist. Not Reaganite.
The Atlantic published my piece and I’ve included a gift link.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Atlantic published my piece and I’ve included a gift link.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Biggest Myth About the YIMBY Movement
There’s nothing centrist or conservative about the push to lower housing costs.
www.theatlantic.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
YIMBY is progressive, populist and antitrust. Not centrist. Not Reaganite.
The Atlantic published my piece and I’ve included a gift link.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Atlantic published my piece and I’ve included a gift link.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Minimum parking space requirements are fucking stupid.
April 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Minimum parking space requirements are fucking stupid.
My family's health insurance premiums are more than $20,000 per year (my wife, my daughter, and me). This system is insane.
April 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My family's health insurance premiums are more than $20,000 per year (my wife, my daughter, and me). This system is insane.
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A small tariff that is paired with a robust industrial policy, including subsidies, as well as government support for unions (again: what Biden was doing) works. Jacking up tariffs by itself, especially to these levels, is suicide for the country and its working class.
April 21, 2025 at 4:47 AM
A small tariff that is paired with a robust industrial policy, including subsidies, as well as government support for unions (again: what Biden was doing) works. Jacking up tariffs by itself, especially to these levels, is suicide for the country and its working class.
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It’s funny how the Wine Mom Analysis, that Trump is an insane con man, fascist, and possible Russian plant who has seized the US government as a kind of invader, is dramatically better and more accurate than the Very Serious Person Analysis that he’s a clear continuation of long-running trends
April 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It’s funny how the Wine Mom Analysis, that Trump is an insane con man, fascist, and possible Russian plant who has seized the US government as a kind of invader, is dramatically better and more accurate than the Very Serious Person Analysis that he’s a clear continuation of long-running trends
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This is of course the hard and immutable reason why you cannot compromise with transphobes on trans participation in sports: there is absolutely no way to do so that doesn't end in sexual assault.
not remotely an exaggeration btw. these freaks will assault your children amp.sacbee.com/news/nation-...
Adults interrupt track meet to accuse 9-year-old girl of being transgender, parents say
“This has destroyed our beautiful daughter’s confidence and she was inconsolably crying,” the girl’s mother said of the incident in Canada.
amp.sacbee.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is of course the hard and immutable reason why you cannot compromise with transphobes on trans participation in sports: there is absolutely no way to do so that doesn't end in sexual assault.
And that ambitious bill has now passed both chambers! Rep. Bateman is a superstar legislator!
ICYMI: Senator-elect Jessica Bateman has dropped an ambitious bill that takes direct aim at Washington's costly parking mandates.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/01/10/b...
www.theurbanist.org/2025/01/10/b...
Bateman Takes Aim at Washington’s Parking Mandates - The Urbanist
# A new bill introduced at the state legislature by longtime housing advocate Jessica Bateman would represent a sea change, limiting the ability of cities and counties to mandate high amounts of parki...
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April 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
And that ambitious bill has now passed both chambers! Rep. Bateman is a superstar legislator!
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Bill McKibben keynoting YIMBYtown this year really cements something I've been saying for a while: housing policy is climate policy, and the YIMBY movement is a green movement.
April 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Bill McKibben keynoting YIMBYtown this year really cements something I've been saying for a while: housing policy is climate policy, and the YIMBY movement is a green movement.
Safeway currently has an option while checking out to "donate $1 to end hunger forever". I can only think of one way to end hunger forever...
April 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Safeway currently has an option while checking out to "donate $1 to end hunger forever". I can only think of one way to end hunger forever...
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A large swath of small medium businesses literally cannot exist under the tariff regime.
I didn’t say “struggle”, “downsize”, “sell off”, or “merge”
I am saying that there is a swath of the American economy that, a-priori, cannot exist under the tariffs.
They will become insolvent and liquidate.
I didn’t say “struggle”, “downsize”, “sell off”, or “merge”
I am saying that there is a swath of the American economy that, a-priori, cannot exist under the tariffs.
They will become insolvent and liquidate.
What’s even crazier is I don’t think the markets fully grasp the severity of the current situation.
The market is freaking out and has yet to confront the hard economic data that will likely reveal just how fragile conditions truly are—a reckoning that will come with second-quarter earnings.…
The market is freaking out and has yet to confront the hard economic data that will likely reveal just how fragile conditions truly are—a reckoning that will come with second-quarter earnings.…
April 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A large swath of small medium businesses literally cannot exist under the tariff regime.
I didn’t say “struggle”, “downsize”, “sell off”, or “merge”
I am saying that there is a swath of the American economy that, a-priori, cannot exist under the tariffs.
They will become insolvent and liquidate.
I didn’t say “struggle”, “downsize”, “sell off”, or “merge”
I am saying that there is a swath of the American economy that, a-priori, cannot exist under the tariffs.
They will become insolvent and liquidate.
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Once again: reject McKinley, embrace George
April 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Once again: reject McKinley, embrace George
I am a Tesla owner and I derive joy from that. Drive this POS out of the company.
RT if you derive joy from that
Musk: I mean, have you Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price.. What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like who derives joy from that?
March 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I am a Tesla owner and I derive joy from that. Drive this POS out of the company.
Love this article, @andersem.bsky.social. It's inspiring a core part of my thinking at this particular moment in the history of zoning/land-use in Port Townsend.
Five Reasons Four-Story Apartment Buildings Are Good www.sightline.org/2024/08/19/f...
Five Reasons Four-Story Apartment Buildings Are Good www.sightline.org/2024/08/19/f...
Five Reasons Four-Story Apartment Buildings Are Good | Sightline Institute
Takeaways Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, and Apple. They’re naturally inexpensive. They’re often islands of physical a...
www.sightline.org
March 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Love this article, @andersem.bsky.social. It's inspiring a core part of my thinking at this particular moment in the history of zoning/land-use in Port Townsend.
Five Reasons Four-Story Apartment Buildings Are Good www.sightline.org/2024/08/19/f...
Five Reasons Four-Story Apartment Buildings Are Good www.sightline.org/2024/08/19/f...
That robot is thicc
The thing about robots is that the humanoid form is not optimized for just about any task. The robots are going to look like this laser weeder, not like you
March 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
That robot is thicc
There are more kids with measles in Texas than there are trans people on college sports teams, and yet this administration thinks trans athletes are the bigger risk. What a fucking horrible joke.
March 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
There are more kids with measles in Texas than there are trans people on college sports teams, and yet this administration thinks trans athletes are the bigger risk. What a fucking horrible joke.
Reading their new book 'Abundance' has really cemented in me the belief that Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are two of keenest minds in modern liberal discourse. I am loving every word. It's fantastic.
March 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Reading their new book 'Abundance' has really cemented in me the belief that Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are two of keenest minds in modern liberal discourse. I am loving every word. It's fantastic.
Bari Weiss is one of those insufferable, highly educated people who would be liberal but for her thinking trans people are yucky and that Israel can do no wrong, so now she's reflexively dumb about most stuff AND shockingly arrogant about it
March 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Bari Weiss is one of those insufferable, highly educated people who would be liberal but for her thinking trans people are yucky and that Israel can do no wrong, so now she's reflexively dumb about most stuff AND shockingly arrogant about it
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
I love this so much. We need to stop segregating basic commercial (restaurants, shops) and residential uses in cities, and we need to stop requiring vehicle access and parking as a condition of use. Allow for alternatives! Otherwise we'll never build a future that doesn't depend on cars.
Recipe for Low Pollution Neighborhood: miniaturize everything, legalize small-scale retail and restaurant, zero curbside parking, emphasis on walking and biking
Nazakakicho neighborhood in Osaka has been revitalized with this mini mixed use approach
Nazakakicho neighborhood in Osaka has been revitalized with this mini mixed use approach
March 12, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I love this so much. We need to stop segregating basic commercial (restaurants, shops) and residential uses in cities, and we need to stop requiring vehicle access and parking as a condition of use. Allow for alternatives! Otherwise we'll never build a future that doesn't depend on cars.
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In retrospect we should have reacted much more strongly to people being like “you’re just virtue signaling, you’re just saying you have virtue, you’re just treating virtue like it’s a good thing for an adult human being to have, you just want to run around everywhere having morality and being good”
March 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
In retrospect we should have reacted much more strongly to people being like “you’re just virtue signaling, you’re just saying you have virtue, you’re just treating virtue like it’s a good thing for an adult human being to have, you just want to run around everywhere having morality and being good”
Today's events in the Oval Office were a disaster for anyone who would defend democracy, the rule of law, and sovereignty against an imperialist power (Russia). I'm deeply saddened about what this says about the current state of America's international relations.
February 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Today's events in the Oval Office were a disaster for anyone who would defend democracy, the rule of law, and sovereignty against an imperialist power (Russia). I'm deeply saddened about what this says about the current state of America's international relations.