Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇
@jarjoh.bsky.social
Lefty #YIMBY & board member
@AbundantHomesMA. Both enthralled by & disdainful of pop culture. @TransitMatters
ED & 🚋 geek. Rooting for (almost) everybody black
@AbundantHomesMA. Both enthralled by & disdainful of pop culture. @TransitMatters
ED & 🚋 geek. Rooting for (almost) everybody black
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Translating the state of American politics into the terms of the framework: since Trump took over the Republican Party, the game of politics on the right has been in the friend-enemy mode.
Meanwhile Democrats have continued to do politics mostly in the pluralist mode, with some technocratic pockets
Meanwhile Democrats have continued to do politics mostly in the pluralist mode, with some technocratic pockets
![A table with three headings at the top which read: Friend-Enemy Politics, Pluralist Politics, and Technocratic Politics. The first row is titled "social ontology of politics (what is the political world made of?), the second is titled "task of politics (what do we think we're doing in politics?), the third is titled "goal of politics (what does politics generate?):"
The social ontology of politics in friend-enemy politics is a "world made up of friends and enemies. No neutrality or fairness. Identity overriding," in pluralist politics it is a "world made up of innumerable groups who must find ways to live together. Identity is central," in technocratic politics, the "world [is] composed of individuals who experience common problems. No groups, no identity."
The task of politics in the friend-enemy mode is "for the virtuous 'Us' to defeat the evil 'Them,'" in pluralist politics it is "conciliation of different groups and their competing interests," in technocratic politics it is "solving social problems."
The goal of politics in friend-enemy politics is "public tokens of 'our' domination or of enemy's defeat;" in pluralist politics it is "fair compromise;" in technocratic politics it is "effective policy."
A red arrow points to the column titled "friend-enemy politics" with text above it reading "Politics as practiced by the Republican Party in the age of Trump."
A blue arrow points to the column titled "pluralist politics" with text above it reading "Politics as practiced by the Democratic Party."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2c4hmyxdfk4aky3jeoulhog5/bafkreibtasvtpfmmnyqv7wx7sssuivkxhr2o7tsyptnathn66h7ks337xq@jpeg)
July 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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The reason the conservative intelligentsia has spent decades pretending that societal shifts in cultural attitudes are the same as state coercion is to justify the use of state coercion against the elements of society they disapprove of.
Here's one of the many clarifying passages in the White House (notionally GSA) letter. It demands Harvard set up a system of political commissars who will enforce hiring and admissions set asides for MAGA luminaries and high school red hats.
April 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The reason the conservative intelligentsia has spent decades pretending that societal shifts in cultural attitudes are the same as state coercion is to justify the use of state coercion against the elements of society they disapprove of.
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Electrification is bearing fruit in California - the electrification of Caltrain service has resulted in 50% increase in weekday ridership and doubling weekend. The report shows the complementary benefits of level boarding which will make service faster and more reliable.
The NYU-Marron report on electrification is out: It pairs electrification and other components to develop a high-throughput infrastructure design framework, which slashes time off of existing commuter and inter-city passenger rail services. We call it Momentum -- transitcosts.com/wp-content/u...
April 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Electrification is bearing fruit in California - the electrification of Caltrain service has resulted in 50% increase in weekday ridership and doubling weekend. The report shows the complementary benefits of level boarding which will make service faster and more reliable.
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MARTA recently used a parking deck (on a car-sewer road) as its cover photo on Facebook. It's disappointing, but not surprising.
Too many people in Atlanta's leadership have a windshield perspective on the city, viewing even transit through a skewed, car-oriented lens.
Act like it's a city, y'all.
Too many people in Atlanta's leadership have a windshield perspective on the city, viewing even transit through a skewed, car-oriented lens.
Act like it's a city, y'all.
April 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
MARTA recently used a parking deck (on a car-sewer road) as its cover photo on Facebook. It's disappointing, but not surprising.
Too many people in Atlanta's leadership have a windshield perspective on the city, viewing even transit through a skewed, car-oriented lens.
Act like it's a city, y'all.
Too many people in Atlanta's leadership have a windshield perspective on the city, viewing even transit through a skewed, car-oriented lens.
Act like it's a city, y'all.
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But I am, we told you so.
Kamala Harris: There were many things that we knew would happen.. I’m not here to say I told you so
April 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
But I am, we told you so.
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“I’d like to give the MTA credit for pushing forward on a cleaner, modern map,” Vanmaps designer (and transit map aficionado) Andrew Lynch told The Groove. “The MTA gets a lot of flack for everything they do, so it’s important to credit a win.”
“Get to know the MTA’s first new subway map since 1979” via @nygroove.nyc @vksmith.bsky.social nygroove.nyc/new-subway-m...
Get to know the MTA's first new subway map since 1979
Let's celebrate a complete and unequivocal win for the MTA, shall we?
nygroove.nyc
April 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“I’d like to give the MTA credit for pushing forward on a cleaner, modern map,” Vanmaps designer (and transit map aficionado) Andrew Lynch told The Groove. “The MTA gets a lot of flack for everything they do, so it’s important to credit a win.”
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“Some voters” believe literally every possible conspiracy that supports their worldview you cannot act based on the ludicrous beliefs of ‘some voters’
A naked attempt to undermine the rule of law in France and support Far Right embezzlement. The article cites not one shred of evidence to suggest the judgment is "a leftist plot".
April 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“Some voters” believe literally every possible conspiracy that supports their worldview you cannot act based on the ludicrous beliefs of ‘some voters’
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1975: Vanity Fair writer making $175k spends 8 weeks with unfettered access to a celebrity for a profile piece
2025: A 10-minute Zoom call with Kenan Thompson contingent on explicit mention of his pharmaceutical sponsor in the first 50 words
ew.com/kenan-thomps...
2025: A 10-minute Zoom call with Kenan Thompson contingent on explicit mention of his pharmaceutical sponsor in the first 50 words
ew.com/kenan-thomps...
March 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
1975: Vanity Fair writer making $175k spends 8 weeks with unfettered access to a celebrity for a profile piece
2025: A 10-minute Zoom call with Kenan Thompson contingent on explicit mention of his pharmaceutical sponsor in the first 50 words
ew.com/kenan-thomps...
2025: A 10-minute Zoom call with Kenan Thompson contingent on explicit mention of his pharmaceutical sponsor in the first 50 words
ew.com/kenan-thomps...
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Waiting for MBTA to start implementing night owl service like….
24-hour service on the Silver Line 1 (SL1) to Logan Airport when?! 🚌
24-hour service on the Silver Line 1 (SL1) to Logan Airport when?! 🚌
a cartoon of a pikachu sitting at a table with a cup of coffee
ALT: a cartoon of a pikachu sitting at a table with a cup of coffee
media.tenor.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Waiting for MBTA to start implementing night owl service like….
24-hour service on the Silver Line 1 (SL1) to Logan Airport when?! 🚌
24-hour service on the Silver Line 1 (SL1) to Logan Airport when?! 🚌
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Ooh @capmetroatx.bsky.social is proposing to extend their Route 483 night owl service to the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in August! 🦉✈️
capmetro.org/servicechange
capmetro.org/servicechange
April 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Ooh @capmetroatx.bsky.social is proposing to extend their Route 483 night owl service to the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in August! 🦉✈️
capmetro.org/servicechange
capmetro.org/servicechange
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Go Cory! Still going after 13 hours! Looking quite tired but he's still going!
April 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Go Cory! Still going after 13 hours! Looking quite tired but he's still going!
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very excited for the communities over highways summit next month
We're working with @americawalks.bsky.social to help organize the next freeway fighters summit hosted in minneapolis by our friends @ourstreetsmn.org.
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March 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
very excited for the communities over highways summit next month
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On August 15, 1974, Seoul opened South Korea’s first subway line. But its opening was chaotic and funereal, and even briefly canceled. What happened? I explore how events from that day would not only reshape Seoul Metro, but Seoul and South Korea itself forever www.substack-bahn.net/p/one-bullet...
March 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
On August 15, 1974, Seoul opened South Korea’s first subway line. But its opening was chaotic and funereal, and even briefly canceled. What happened? I explore how events from that day would not only reshape Seoul Metro, but Seoul and South Korea itself forever www.substack-bahn.net/p/one-bullet...
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The American Planning Association session on “Saying No to NIMBY” is PACKED, with dozens of people sitting on the floor.
March 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The American Planning Association session on “Saying No to NIMBY” is PACKED, with dozens of people sitting on the floor.
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American planning in a nutshell. Shove all the housing next to the interstate and taper away from it with low density housing. Is Paris designed like that? New York? London? Tokyo?
I thought zoning gave planners the ability to keep housing from noxious noise and pollution?
I thought zoning gave planners the ability to keep housing from noxious noise and pollution?
March 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
American planning in a nutshell. Shove all the housing next to the interstate and taper away from it with low density housing. Is Paris designed like that? New York? London? Tokyo?
I thought zoning gave planners the ability to keep housing from noxious noise and pollution?
I thought zoning gave planners the ability to keep housing from noxious noise and pollution?
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March 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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"The next two years for Democrats should be about costs, specifically for housing and health care. Who is raising those costs, and who has plans to lower them?"
Some of us have been on this beat for a long time, but it's nice to see it hitting the mainstream... www.nj.com/opinion/2025...
Some of us have been on this beat for a long time, but it's nice to see it hitting the mainstream... www.nj.com/opinion/2025...
Hey, Dems, my generation is struggling. ‘It’s unaffordable, stupid!’ | Opinion
For Democrats, the objective is simple: Fight to lower the cost of living
www.nj.com
March 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"The next two years for Democrats should be about costs, specifically for housing and health care. Who is raising those costs, and who has plans to lower them?"
Some of us have been on this beat for a long time, but it's nice to see it hitting the mainstream... www.nj.com/opinion/2025...
Some of us have been on this beat for a long time, but it's nice to see it hitting the mainstream... www.nj.com/opinion/2025...
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Unfortunately, that's the one thing both the left and the right agree on: our neighborhoods are already too full as evidence by the lack of parking and traffic jams
Importantly though, Democrats can't just SAY that they want to lower the cost-of-living. They also have to DO THINGS that lower costs. If you want lower costs on housing, at some point you have to build much more housing.
March 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Unfortunately, that's the one thing both the left and the right agree on: our neighborhoods are already too full as evidence by the lack of parking and traffic jams
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Not new! In The Political Beliefs of Americans (1967) Cantril & Free found that Americans were "ideological conservatives" opposed to abstract "big government", but "operational liberals" for lots of specific spending. It doesn't help that they have no clue re distribution of spending.
March 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Not new! In The Political Beliefs of Americans (1967) Cantril & Free found that Americans were "ideological conservatives" opposed to abstract "big government", but "operational liberals" for lots of specific spending. It doesn't help that they have no clue re distribution of spending.
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Confusing traditional cultural touchpoints for current median American culture is a great way to lose the zeitgeist. Every medium size town in this country is obsessed with bubble tea, or with thrifting as a fashion practice. These things aren't left-coded; they're burgeoning mass culture. Go there.
March 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Confusing traditional cultural touchpoints for current median American culture is a great way to lose the zeitgeist. Every medium size town in this country is obsessed with bubble tea, or with thrifting as a fashion practice. These things aren't left-coded; they're burgeoning mass culture. Go there.
Limited growth has its consequences.
Duxbury residents face a critical decision in March as town officials present a $5.8 million budget override proposal aimed at addressing a $1.7 million structural deficit and maintaining current service levels across town departments.
www.southshore.news/p/duxbury-fa...
#mapoli #duxbury
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#mapoli #duxbury
Duxbury Faces Critical Vote on $5.8M Budget Override
Residents to decide on tax increase to prevent cuts to police, fire, schools and other town services
www.southshore.news
March 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Limited growth has its consequences.
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A fundamental problem is the Democrats are utterly committed to the fallacy that public opinion polls are politics. This has destroyed their ability to actually do politics. 1/
The Democratic Party has no idea how angry its base is. Lead, right now, or get out of the way.
March 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A fundamental problem is the Democrats are utterly committed to the fallacy that public opinion polls are politics. This has destroyed their ability to actually do politics. 1/
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Andrew Cuomo teamed up with RFK Jr. to shut down a safe nuclear plant, which was almost entirely replaced by fossil fuels. his policies are genuinely awful
March 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Andrew Cuomo teamed up with RFK Jr. to shut down a safe nuclear plant, which was almost entirely replaced by fossil fuels. his policies are genuinely awful