Evan
@proxyadvo.bsky.social
♥️ Bluegrass State ❤️ Parishioner - Husband - Abundant Housing & Transit Advocate. 🏘🚎🚲🚉 Lefty - YIMBY Louisville. Opinions mine.
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the high point of my being denounced as a neoliberal shill on tiktok is when i insisted that gentrification is downstream of housing supply constraints, and isn’t a quality inherently possessed by people you don’t like
maybe I’ll get pilloried for like “not getting the joke” or whatever, but this is absolutely how, like, a comfortable percentage of Cool People think the dynamics of housing costs work and it fucking sucks
July 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
the high point of my being denounced as a neoliberal shill on tiktok is when i insisted that gentrification is downstream of housing supply constraints, and isn’t a quality inherently possessed by people you don’t like
The amount of people who cannot type correctly is alarming
July 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The amount of people who cannot type correctly is alarming
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It's "estimated that the world is now installing one gigawatt worth of solar energy infrastructure every 15 hours — or about the output of a new coal plant"
The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable
Solar power has become the fastest growing source of energy throughout the globe, with one gigawatt of capacity installed every 15 hours.
futurism.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
It's "estimated that the world is now installing one gigawatt worth of solar energy infrastructure every 15 hours — or about the output of a new coal plant"
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BREAKING: Justice Department fires SDNY federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who played key role prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, per @eorden www.politico.com/news/2025/07/16/maurene-comey-fired-doj-00458921
Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey, is fired from her job as a federal prosecutor
Comey, who had worked in the U.S. attorney’s office for nearly a decade, prosecuted both Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
www.politico.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
BREAKING: Justice Department fires SDNY federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who played key role prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, per @eorden www.politico.com/news/2025/07/16/maurene-comey-fired-doj-00458921
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New in PN: Pam Bondi is breaking the DOJ
"The Department of Justice is no longer in the business of justice at all, and has squandered the presumption of regularity it once enjoyed with judges. One of the bulwarks of American civil society is functionally MIA — a massive blow to state capacity."
"The Department of Justice is no longer in the business of justice at all, and has squandered the presumption of regularity it once enjoyed with judges. One of the bulwarks of American civil society is functionally MIA — a massive blow to state capacity."
Pam Bondi is breaking the DOJ
And will take generations to put it back together.
www.publicnotice.co
July 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
New in PN: Pam Bondi is breaking the DOJ
"The Department of Justice is no longer in the business of justice at all, and has squandered the presumption of regularity it once enjoyed with judges. One of the bulwarks of American civil society is functionally MIA — a massive blow to state capacity."
"The Department of Justice is no longer in the business of justice at all, and has squandered the presumption of regularity it once enjoyed with judges. One of the bulwarks of American civil society is functionally MIA — a massive blow to state capacity."
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At an estimated cost of $57 Billion the deduction for auto loans will amount to ~three times the amount spent on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure by the federal government in the last 35 years www.crfb.org/blogs/breaki...
Instead of Safe Routes to School, we get new trucks in the pick up line
Instead of Safe Routes to School, we get new trucks in the pick up line
Breaking Down the One Big Beautiful Bill | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
2025-06-04-Note: (06/23/2025) Some categorizations and numbers in the Ways and Means' section of the table below have been updated to more accurately reflect the bill's potential impact.
www.crfb.org
July 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
At an estimated cost of $57 Billion the deduction for auto loans will amount to ~three times the amount spent on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure by the federal government in the last 35 years www.crfb.org/blogs/breaki...
Instead of Safe Routes to School, we get new trucks in the pick up line
Instead of Safe Routes to School, we get new trucks in the pick up line
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Yes, they are all just lying all the time
July 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Yes, they are all just lying all the time
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Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
July 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
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45 billion dollars is enough to build a brand new, permanently affordable apartment for every single one of the 75,000 homeless people in Los Angeles County.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
45 billion dollars is enough to build a brand new, permanently affordable apartment for every single one of the 75,000 homeless people in Los Angeles County.
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Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature
June 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature
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This is from Israel's oldest paper. This is Israeli media reporting these war crimes and genocide in broad daylight.
You won't see this in American corporate media. They've continued to ignore this, enable this, even justify and cheer it on.
Do not look away. This is genocide. This cannot stand.
You won't see this in American corporate media. They've continued to ignore this, enable this, even justify and cheer it on.
Do not look away. This is genocide. This cannot stand.
June 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is from Israel's oldest paper. This is Israeli media reporting these war crimes and genocide in broad daylight.
You won't see this in American corporate media. They've continued to ignore this, enable this, even justify and cheer it on.
Do not look away. This is genocide. This cannot stand.
You won't see this in American corporate media. They've continued to ignore this, enable this, even justify and cheer it on.
Do not look away. This is genocide. This cannot stand.
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this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
June 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
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this is just an observation but one way to think of the civil war is that it WAS about states rights, but the right in question was the right of free states to stay free
[whispers provocatively] the 1850 fugitive slave act is the model: reactionaries have the right to extend their authority across state lines, and their opponents have to actively assist them
June 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
this is just an observation but one way to think of the civil war is that it WAS about states rights, but the right in question was the right of free states to stay free
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i can’t express how much i stan rick steves
I’m a hardworking, taxpaying, churchgoing, grandkid-raising American citizen. And if I work all day long and want to go home, smoke a joint & just stare at the fireplace for 3 hours…that’s my civil liberty.
@sarapayan.bsky.social reports on my mission to end America's prohibition on marijuana:
@sarapayan.bsky.social reports on my mission to end America's prohibition on marijuana:
Rick Steves Talks Travel, Cannabis and Freedom
The celebrated PBS television host’s plant advocacy is legendary as is his take on the current state of international cannabis.
cannabisnow.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
i can’t express how much i stan rick steves
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An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.
June 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.
People keep attributing issues not being resolved as a "liberals are just capitalists who dont want to actually solve our problems if it harms them", when really it's mostly "everyone drives a car & lives in a suburban home & don't want to actually solve our problems if it harms them"
June 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
People keep attributing issues not being resolved as a "liberals are just capitalists who dont want to actually solve our problems if it harms them", when really it's mostly "everyone drives a car & lives in a suburban home & don't want to actually solve our problems if it harms them"
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just watched a guy speed through and make a right turn through a pedestrian crossing while staring directly at his phone
June 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
just watched a guy speed through and make a right turn through a pedestrian crossing while staring directly at his phone
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The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight
June 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight
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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."
My report:
My report:
State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’
The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."
My report:
My report:
It's just true at this point that home ownership is not a middle-class indicator anymore but rather solidly an upper-middle class indicator
ownership.is
May 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It's just true at this point that home ownership is not a middle-class indicator anymore but rather solidly an upper-middle class indicator
Straight out of Southern Baptist Seminary Ethics courses
this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."
amazingly fucked up that the NYT is uncritically publishing the claim, “Race has some biological reality.”
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
May 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Straight out of Southern Baptist Seminary Ethics courses
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this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."
amazingly fucked up that the NYT is uncritically publishing the claim, “Race has some biological reality.”
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
May 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."
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housing.
healthcare.
infrastructure.
daycare.
everything is so much more expensive - and the quality/outcomes are so so so much worse.
healthcare.
infrastructure.
daycare.
everything is so much more expensive - and the quality/outcomes are so so so much worse.
As a European who now lives in North America I just can’t get over how many apartments here are of significantly lower quality despite having significantly higher construction costs compared to what we see in Europe.
In terms of public perception: light wood frame looks like shit, and it performs like shit. It gives “living on top of each other” a bad name.
May 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
housing.
healthcare.
infrastructure.
daycare.
everything is so much more expensive - and the quality/outcomes are so so so much worse.
healthcare.
infrastructure.
daycare.
everything is so much more expensive - and the quality/outcomes are so so so much worse.