Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
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Urban policy consultant: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Roosevelt Institute Fellow, CA FWD Fellow
Working on a book about cities for Island Press.
ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com
Urban policy consultant: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Roosevelt Institute Fellow, CA FWD Fellow
Working on a book about cities for Island Press.
ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com
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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
· Dec 11
I can't tell you how excited I am to work with Heather Boyer and the Island Press team, which really gets what I'm trying to do with this projects and has published more than a few of my favorite books on urbanism.
Recently picked up WAGES OF DESTRUCTION and it's ofc brilliant, but also Tooze recently said on his podcast that Mamdani is an "east coast answer to Newsom" because they're both vocally anti-Trump. So I'm just trying to keep in mind that he's really good on his actual academic discipline.
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Recently picked up WAGES OF DESTRUCTION and it's ofc brilliant, but also Tooze recently said on his podcast that Mamdani is an "east coast answer to Newsom" because they're both vocally anti-Trump. So I'm just trying to keep in mind that he's really good on his actual academic discipline.
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I wrote about what I see as the real lesson of Mamdani's victory: not that Democrats needs to move left (or right, for that matter), but that they should try to build real-world relationships with normal voters. publiccomment.blog/p/mamdani-th...
Mamdani the Party Builder
Partyism in action
publiccomment.blog
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I wrote about what I see as the real lesson of Mamdani's victory: not that Democrats needs to move left (or right, for that matter), but that they should try to build real-world relationships with normal voters. publiccomment.blog/p/mamdani-th...
This is one reason why said representatives should spend more time talking to their constituents and less time talking to the same rotating cast of 20-50 Beltway wise men.
I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This is one reason why said representatives should spend more time talking to their constituents and less time talking to the same rotating cast of 20-50 Beltway wise men.
Reposted by Ned Resnikoff
I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
I wrote about what I see as the real lesson of Mamdani's victory: not that Democrats needs to move left (or right, for that matter), but that they should try to build real-world relationships with normal voters. publiccomment.blog/p/mamdani-th...
Mamdani the Party Builder
Partyism in action
publiccomment.blog
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I wrote about what I see as the real lesson of Mamdani's victory: not that Democrats needs to move left (or right, for that matter), but that they should try to build real-world relationships with normal voters. publiccomment.blog/p/mamdani-th...
Here is the requested take: publiccomment.blog/p/mamdani-th...
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Here is the requested take: publiccomment.blog/p/mamdani-th...
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Good write up. Honestly as someone who reviewed housing elements at HCD, I found that time and again local planners and consultants used sneaky tactics to reduce the feasibility of multifamily housing. I find the insistence on local bottom-up reform to solve the housing crisis hopelessly naive.
I wrote about state-level ADU reform and the differences between @strongtowns.org and YIMBYism. www.maxdubler.com/blog/2025/11...
On The Tension Between YIMBYism and Strong Towns — Max Dubler
Special thanks to those who gave their thoughtful feedback on this piece. The past couple of months have seen quite a bit of Discourse about the differences between Strong Towns and YIMB...
www.maxdubler.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Good write up. Honestly as someone who reviewed housing elements at HCD, I found that time and again local planners and consultants used sneaky tactics to reduce the feasibility of multifamily housing. I find the insistence on local bottom-up reform to solve the housing crisis hopelessly naive.
Via Adam Shatz's most recent piece in NYRB, today I learned that Alice Coltrane started her recording career by appearing on, essentially, a vibraphone klezmer album. And you know what? It's great.
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Via Adam Shatz's most recent piece in NYRB, today I learned that Alice Coltrane started her recording career by appearing on, essentially, a vibraphone klezmer album. And you know what? It's great.
Reposted by Ned Resnikoff
I wrote about state-level ADU reform and the differences between @strongtowns.org and YIMBYism. www.maxdubler.com/blog/2025/11...
On The Tension Between YIMBYism and Strong Towns — Max Dubler
Special thanks to those who gave their thoughtful feedback on this piece. The past couple of months have seen quite a bit of Discourse about the differences between Strong Towns and YIMB...
www.maxdubler.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I wrote about state-level ADU reform and the differences between @strongtowns.org and YIMBYism. www.maxdubler.com/blog/2025/11...
FedSoc not beating the allegations that it's essentially a conspiracy against the republic.
“The Constitution is not a suicide pact,” someone just said at a Federalist Society event.
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
FedSoc not beating the allegations that it's essentially a conspiracy against the republic.
There's definitely a sociological element to this where a lot of the lower-to-mid-level staff at these orgs are young urbanites and the senior staff + donors are more likely to be habitual drivers who live in single-family neighborhoods.
imo a lot of it comes down to leadership and donors basically treating environmental stuff as "freeze stuff as they are" instead of "how do we build a post-carbon world" from what i've heard from friends in enviro orgs
This aligns with my experience talking to a lot of staff at environmental organizations who understand the necessity for land use and permitting reform but can't bring along senior leadership or donors. bsky.app/profile/robi...
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
There's definitely a sociological element to this where a lot of the lower-to-mid-level staff at these orgs are young urbanites and the senior staff + donors are more likely to be habitual drivers who live in single-family neighborhoods.
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imo a lot of it comes down to leadership and donors basically treating environmental stuff as "freeze stuff as they are" instead of "how do we build a post-carbon world" from what i've heard from friends in enviro orgs
This aligns with my experience talking to a lot of staff at environmental organizations who understand the necessity for land use and permitting reform but can't bring along senior leadership or donors. bsky.app/profile/robi...
Interesting to see @meganwachspress.bsky.social observe that the Sierra Club’s staff were clear-eyed about the need for clean energy development while the *members/small-dollar donor base* were more resistant to it.
November 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
imo a lot of it comes down to leadership and donors basically treating environmental stuff as "freeze stuff as they are" instead of "how do we build a post-carbon world" from what i've heard from friends in enviro orgs
This aligns with my experience talking to a lot of staff at environmental organizations who understand the necessity for land use and permitting reform but can't bring along senior leadership or donors. bsky.app/profile/robi...
Interesting to see @meganwachspress.bsky.social observe that the Sierra Club’s staff were clear-eyed about the need for clean energy development while the *members/small-dollar donor base* were more resistant to it.
I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This aligns with my experience talking to a lot of staff at environmental organizations who understand the necessity for land use and permitting reform but can't bring along senior leadership or donors. bsky.app/profile/robi...
Had a great time chatting with Marina Rubin about ADUs, condos, and happy hours for her podcast "Who Killed the Starter Home?" thepodcastcollaborative.com/view/podcast...
Who Killed the Starter Home?
The show concentrates on topics related to housing policy, urban development, and affordable housing challenges, featuring episodes examining zoning laws, taxation impacts on homeownership, and innova...
thepodcastcollaborative.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Had a great time chatting with Marina Rubin about ADUs, condos, and happy hours for her podcast "Who Killed the Starter Home?" thepodcastcollaborative.com/view/podcast...
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Marina Rubina's excellent "Who Killed The Starter Home" podcast has an interview this week with @resnikoff.bsky.social! He says the key thing for YIMBYs to do is to "start a happy hour" and that's what we're doing in Princeton! Monday, 9 p.m., Ivy Inn!! thepodcastcollaborative.com/view/podcast...
Who Killed the Starter Home?
The show concentrates on topics related to housing policy, urban development, and affordable housing challenges, featuring episodes examining zoning laws, taxation impacts on homeownership, and innova...
thepodcastcollaborative.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Marina Rubina's excellent "Who Killed The Starter Home" podcast has an interview this week with @resnikoff.bsky.social! He says the key thing for YIMBYs to do is to "start a happy hour" and that's what we're doing in Princeton! Monday, 9 p.m., Ivy Inn!! thepodcastcollaborative.com/view/podcast...
They are being paranoid about the wrong thing
It would be better if it were cynical; it is unfortunately deeply sincere, and emblematic of what I can only describe as a paranoid nervous breakdown encompassing most of the institutional leadership of the American Jewish community.
A large faction of institutional New York Jews — seemingly as part of their effort to torpedo Mamdani over insufficient deference to Israel — worked themselves into a frothing panic over the prospect of him winning, and are now in full screaming meltdown about it
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
They are being paranoid about the wrong thing
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to be clear: the government's claim - validated by the Court - is that it would *irreparably harm* the president to not misgender trans people
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
to be clear: the government's claim - validated by the Court - is that it would *irreparably harm* the president to not misgender trans people
I dislike the phrase "late stage capitalism," but I do think this sort of thing indicates that we are at least in a different stage of capitalism from the pre-2016 one.
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I dislike the phrase "late stage capitalism," but I do think this sort of thing indicates that we are at least in a different stage of capitalism from the pre-2016 one.
Striking contrast with the seemingly endless supply of op-eds, cable news appearances and Substack posts where eminent pundits inform us that normies don't care about airy abstractions like authoritarianism and the rule of law.
The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Striking contrast with the seemingly endless supply of op-eds, cable news appearances and Substack posts where eminent pundits inform us that normies don't care about airy abstractions like authoritarianism and the rule of law.
Well, I knew you had this business here, Davey. It's my nature. "Frog on a scorpion" you know?
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Well, I knew you had this business here, Davey. It's my nature. "Frog on a scorpion" you know?
The hero we need
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The hero we need
I'm at the part of Tanenhaus's superb Buckley bio where he talks about Buckley's relationship with Robert Welch, and it's amazing how much of the Bircher stuff that bothered other conservatives seems extremely tame by today's standards.
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I'm at the part of Tanenhaus's superb Buckley bio where he talks about Buckley's relationship with Robert Welch, and it's amazing how much of the Bircher stuff that bothered other conservatives seems extremely tame by today's standards.
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We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.