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Huzzah
@huzzahmpls.bsky.social
· Nov 15
If you were a villain, who would you be?
"Listen to me Marty, it's a mistake to stick your thumbs in the eyes of the most powerful people in the city."
"Listen to me Marty, it's a mistake to stick your thumbs in the eyes of the most powerful people in the city."
The key to understanding NIMBY logic is you start with the conclusion of not changing the rules to build new housing and then work backwards to come up with a reason to justify this depending on what audience you're pitching to.
See also "no new housing to save our urban forests" etc
See also "no new housing to save our urban forests" etc
I see Lyman Stone of the Institute for Family Studies may or may not have helped blow up the bipartisan Road To Housing Act by telling GOP members it was an Anti-Family bill.
ifstudies.org/blog/congres...
ifstudies.org/blog/congres...
Congress Is Quietly Passing an Anti-Family Housing Bill
While the “ROAD to Housing Act” has much to commend it, it would benefit from some improvements.
ifstudies.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
The key to understanding NIMBY logic is you start with the conclusion of not changing the rules to build new housing and then work backwards to come up with a reason to justify this depending on what audience you're pitching to.
See also "no new housing to save our urban forests" etc
See also "no new housing to save our urban forests" etc
Important update: Like Kai Winn, at the end Boomers finally saw the light and did the "My God, what have I done!" thing.
The real reckoning we need in 2029 is a National Conversation (TM) about Gen X nihilism.
The real reckoning we need in 2029 is a National Conversation (TM) about Gen X nihilism.
December 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Important update: Like Kai Winn, at the end Boomers finally saw the light and did the "My God, what have I done!" thing.
The real reckoning we need in 2029 is a National Conversation (TM) about Gen X nihilism.
The real reckoning we need in 2029 is a National Conversation (TM) about Gen X nihilism.
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The first rule of low-turnout special elections is you do NOT talk about low-turnout special elections.
December 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The first rule of low-turnout special elections is you do NOT talk about low-turnout special elections.
As an Old Millennial I'm also kind of annoyed to see Trump just phoning it in, Dubya was giving speeches every week in the run up! It was a big deal!
Really wild to see Trump march toward war with Venezuela without even going through the motions of manufacturing consent … he’s just like going to do it.
November 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
As an Old Millennial I'm also kind of annoyed to see Trump just phoning it in, Dubya was giving speeches every week in the run up! It was a big deal!
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Still thinking about this article. It’s always been a sore spot in YIMBY circles that so many progressive foundations pour money into NIMBYism, and I’m glad it’s finally being aired in public. Keep talking about it. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
Philanthropy Needs to Pick a Side on the Housing Construction Debate
Despite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes.
www.insidephilanthropy.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Still thinking about this article. It’s always been a sore spot in YIMBY circles that so many progressive foundations pour money into NIMBYism, and I’m glad it’s finally being aired in public. Keep talking about it. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
Let us never forget the greatest Thanksgiving media moment of all time: The Sarah Palin Thanksgiving Turkey Massacre www.adn.com/features/art...
Palin's turkey slaughter interview remembered
A look back at our favorite holiday moment from Sarah Palin's real-life Alaska: the 2008 Thanksgiving turkey pardoning and slaughter at Triple D Farm and Hatchery.
www.adn.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Let us never forget the greatest Thanksgiving media moment of all time: The Sarah Palin Thanksgiving Turkey Massacre www.adn.com/features/art...
There's a whole "heating with coal" online community, they make YouTube videos about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycUc...
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
There's a whole "heating with coal" online community, they make YouTube videos about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycUc...
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<labour post election meeting>
-ok guys we won and the economy is a basket case but we promised not to raise taxes and that puts us in a real bind with a low growth medium inflation economy
-what if we just keep coming up with stupider and stupider ideas until we're not in charge anymore
-ok guys we won and the economy is a basket case but we promised not to raise taxes and that puts us in a real bind with a low growth medium inflation economy
-what if we just keep coming up with stupider and stupider ideas until we're not in charge anymore
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
<labour post election meeting>
-ok guys we won and the economy is a basket case but we promised not to raise taxes and that puts us in a real bind with a low growth medium inflation economy
-what if we just keep coming up with stupider and stupider ideas until we're not in charge anymore
-ok guys we won and the economy is a basket case but we promised not to raise taxes and that puts us in a real bind with a low growth medium inflation economy
-what if we just keep coming up with stupider and stupider ideas until we're not in charge anymore
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I don't think they'd get any more votes for this, but I'd vote for a candidate who promises to get rid of the stupid "turkey pardon."
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I don't think they'd get any more votes for this, but I'd vote for a candidate who promises to get rid of the stupid "turkey pardon."
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"per square foot, affordable housing cost more 1.5 times as much to build in California as market-rate housing"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | America’s Housing Crisis, in One Chart
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"per square foot, affordable housing cost more 1.5 times as much to build in California as market-rate housing"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Hoisted from the archives: @smotus.bsky.social on JFK being an overrated president (fair enough), but still being great in another way: psmag.com/news/revisit...
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hoisted from the archives: @smotus.bsky.social on JFK being an overrated president (fair enough), but still being great in another way: psmag.com/news/revisit...
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Guy who loves the Trump movement except for the conspiracy theories, bigotry, and anti-vax morons
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Guy who loves the Trump movement except for the conspiracy theories, bigotry, and anti-vax morons
The UK seems like a supercharged version of the politics of housing in LA where a lot of electeds will do anything, up to including seances, other than actually build more housing, because that is seen as just something utterly beyond the pale.
this is the core of my Starmer/Labour complaint -- not what's analogous to the US but what isn't
the UK is a country in truly dire straits, an economy that has barely grown for 20 years
Labour needed to take drastic action and they had five years of runway to see it take root
but, instead,,,
the UK is a country in truly dire straits, an economy that has barely grown for 20 years
Labour needed to take drastic action and they had five years of runway to see it take root
but, instead,,,
November 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The UK seems like a supercharged version of the politics of housing in LA where a lot of electeds will do anything, up to including seances, other than actually build more housing, because that is seen as just something utterly beyond the pale.
[Turns to @ringwiss.bsky.social] How do you say "Not great Bob!" in UK slang?
every day I feel like I learn a new insane fact about how David Cameron and George Osborne strangled an entire country's economy to death for no reason
really good @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on the "worst of both worlds" fiscal structure of UK taxation and social spending www.ft.com/content/75ce...
really good @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on the "worst of both worlds" fiscal structure of UK taxation and social spending www.ft.com/content/75ce...
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 AM
[Turns to @ringwiss.bsky.social] How do you say "Not great Bob!" in UK slang?
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this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
We need a AI video of the Senator and Governor doing the "Larry David Stare Down Thing" and then @williamadler78.bsky.social needs to go on TV and say "This is a good start, but Gallego needs to be eating more hot dogs and tortas in the pictures, and drinking like five Goose Islands"
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 AM
We need a AI video of the Senator and Governor doing the "Larry David Stare Down Thing" and then @williamadler78.bsky.social needs to go on TV and say "This is a good start, but Gallego needs to be eating more hot dogs and tortas in the pictures, and drinking like five Goose Islands"
[The episode remains a key text on the perils of the "populist" approach]
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
[The episode remains a key text on the perils of the "populist" approach]
. @princetonyimby.bsky.social "Ah yes, it's all going according to plan, accept for you Sea Girt, you're MAKING US LOOK BAD!"
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
. @princetonyimby.bsky.social "Ah yes, it's all going according to plan, accept for you Sea Girt, you're MAKING US LOOK BAD!"
Counterpoint: the Dems should NOT, I repeat NOT, nominate Andrew Cuomo
I stand by this. Don’t try to handicap the 2028 election. Let’s just get through this first year of the Trump administration!
“There are just so many things that have happened in the last six months in this presidential administration that to think that we know what the issues will be in 2028 and who the players will be—I think it's just asking too much,” says @sgadarian.bsky.social.
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Counterpoint: the Dems should NOT, I repeat NOT, nominate Andrew Cuomo
On this day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address, the initial reviews were not great, some even called it "silly" because of how short it was. Abe should have used a PowerPoint like so: norvig.com/Gettysburg/
The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
norvig.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
On this day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address, the initial reviews were not great, some even called it "silly" because of how short it was. Abe should have used a PowerPoint like so: norvig.com/Gettysburg/
Everyone has a bad take now and again but I do wish prominent media people who freaked out about this would admit they got it wrong, for example on person I'm thinking of who I'll simply call Nate S. no wait that's too obvious, N. Silver: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ_n...
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Everyone has a bad take now and again but I do wish prominent media people who freaked out about this would admit they got it wrong, for example on person I'm thinking of who I'll simply call Nate S. no wait that's too obvious, N. Silver: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ_n...
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The power of Fox News isn’t that they push conservative ideas, it’s that they are willing to set any kind of ideological consideration aside at the drop of a hat to boost Republicans regardless of what they do at any given moment.
November 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The power of Fox News isn’t that they push conservative ideas, it’s that they are willing to set any kind of ideological consideration aside at the drop of a hat to boost Republicans regardless of what they do at any given moment.
Great counterfactual about the GOP 2016 nom and Epstein here from @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/trumpepstein
November 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Great counterfactual about the GOP 2016 nom and Epstein here from @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/trumpepstein
Blueskyiers are like
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Blueskyiers are like
If you read one thing this weekend, read this: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you read one thing this weekend, read this: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...