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Listened to this @volts.wtf banger this last night and it's wild just how incredible the rate of return is for improving indoor air quality in schools.
Where is California at with this? Do we have policy levers we can pull at the state level?
Where is California at with this? Do we have policy levers we can pull at the state level?
Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.
What's the deal with indoor air quality?
From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.
www.volts.wtf
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Listened to this @volts.wtf banger this last night and it's wild just how incredible the rate of return is for improving indoor air quality in schools.
Where is California at with this? Do we have policy levers we can pull at the state level?
Where is California at with this? Do we have policy levers we can pull at the state level?
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Big warning from Vanguard's bonds boss Sara Devereux: the market is pricing in way too many Fed cuts www.ft.com/content/22b5...
Wall Street is banking on too many Federal Reserve rate cuts, Vanguard warns
Asset management giant’s bond chief says ‘massive’ spending on AI will bolster the US economy
www.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Big warning from Vanguard's bonds boss Sara Devereux: the market is pricing in way too many Fed cuts www.ft.com/content/22b5...
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SCOOP: A federal grand jury in Maryland is investigating whether FHFA director Bill Pulte and Justice Department prosecutor Ed Martin improperly appointed unauthorized people to help in mortgage fraud investigations of President Trump's critics. With @carolleonnig.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
SCOOP: A federal grand jury in Maryland is investigating whether FHFA director Bill Pulte and Justice Department prosecutor Ed Martin improperly appointed unauthorized people to help in mortgage fraud investigations of President Trump's critics. With @carolleonnig.bsky.social
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Finally got round to setting up a Substack! And I've published the piece I shared with a few of you last month - on the intellectual crisis within Labour's liberal wing.
thenewsocialdemocrat.substack.com/p/intellectu...
thenewsocialdemocrat.substack.com/p/intellectu...
Intellectually adrift, where does Labour’s liberal wing go from here?
The tradition of Gaitskell, Crosland, Jenkins, Blair and Brown stands at a crossroads.
thenewsocialdemocrat.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Finally got round to setting up a Substack! And I've published the piece I shared with a few of you last month - on the intellectual crisis within Labour's liberal wing.
thenewsocialdemocrat.substack.com/p/intellectu...
thenewsocialdemocrat.substack.com/p/intellectu...
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This is one for @djinnandtonic.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is one for @djinnandtonic.bsky.social
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Abolish minimum parking requirements: citywide, all uses.
parking mandates are ridiculous, incl. in Chicago
assume a "-3" zoning district, and ignore transit-related rules that eliminate parking requirements:
- theater with 149 seats: no parking required
- indoor pickleball w/space for 149 people: 15 spaces
do infinitely more people drive to pickleball?
assume a "-3" zoning district, and ignore transit-related rules that eliminate parking requirements:
- theater with 149 seats: no parking required
- indoor pickleball w/space for 149 people: 15 spaces
do infinitely more people drive to pickleball?
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Abolish minimum parking requirements: citywide, all uses.
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one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
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I honestly didn't even know this was a mistake you could make. Impressive!
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I honestly didn't even know this was a mistake you could make. Impressive!
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sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a poli sci class and the professor is writing like “natural spheres of influence” on the board and everyone is taking notes like its real school
November 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a poli sci class and the professor is writing like “natural spheres of influence” on the board and everyone is taking notes like its real school
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Climate change is a kitchen table issue. For most people a home is their largest investment, when climate change depresses their property values or makes their home uninsurable, it's a huge economic hit.
Rising Home Insurance Premiums Are Eating Into Home Values in Disaster-Prone Areas
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Climate change is a kitchen table issue. For most people a home is their largest investment, when climate change depresses their property values or makes their home uninsurable, it's a huge economic hit.
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"Democracy is dying in the West because it has been overtaken by a caste of professionals, politicians and technocrats, for whom democracy is a slogan, a contest, a source of legitimacy in an instrumental sense, but not an idea or ideal they respect or aspire to."
Running on democracy hasn't been tried
drafts @ interfluidity
drafts.interfluidity.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"Democracy is dying in the West because it has been overtaken by a caste of professionals, politicians and technocrats, for whom democracy is a slogan, a contest, a source of legitimacy in an instrumental sense, but not an idea or ideal they respect or aspire to."
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its interesting how in 2024 trump didn't really like to use "woke" and now he's using it all the time
Trump on AI: "You can't go through 50 states. You have to get one approval. 50 is a disaster. Because you'll have one woke state and you'll have to do all woke. You'll be back in the woke business. We don't have woke anymore in this country. It's virtually illegal. You'll have a couple of wokesters"
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
its interesting how in 2024 trump didn't really like to use "woke" and now he's using it all the time
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This was published in '24, "95.80 percent of total residential land area in California is zoned as single-family-only."
Single-Family Zoning in California: A Statewide Analysis | Othering & Belonging Institute share.google/tkSh5H0mxOex...
Single-Family Zoning in California: A Statewide Analysis | Othering & Belonging Institute share.google/tkSh5H0mxOex...
Single-Family Zoning in California: A Statewide Analysis
This report culminates a six-year investigation into restrictive land-use policies in California — namely single-family residential zoning — and their ramifications for racial residential segregation,...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This was published in '24, "95.80 percent of total residential land area in California is zoned as single-family-only."
Single-Family Zoning in California: A Statewide Analysis | Othering & Belonging Institute share.google/tkSh5H0mxOex...
Single-Family Zoning in California: A Statewide Analysis | Othering & Belonging Institute share.google/tkSh5H0mxOex...
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According to the CBO, America's population will start to decline around 2040 at the current birth rate. The only way you save your country from annihilation after that is by letting millions immigrate. You think our politics can sustain something like that? www.cbo.gov/publication/...
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
According to the CBO, America's population will start to decline around 2040 at the current birth rate. The only way you save your country from annihilation after that is by letting millions immigrate. You think our politics can sustain something like that? www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
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“What do you think about American foreign policy?”
“It would be a good idea.”
“It would be a good idea.”
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
“What do you think about American foreign policy?”
“It would be a good idea.”
“It would be a good idea.”
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I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
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A new analysis from Moody's Analytics reveals the United States economy is experiencing uneven growth patterns, with nearly half of all states either at risk of recession or already experiencing economic downturns.
REPORT: Nearly half of US states are at-risk or in recession
A new analysis reveals the US economy is experiencing uneven growth patterns, with nearly half of all states either at risk of recession or already experiencing economic downturns.
www.abc15.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A new analysis from Moody's Analytics reveals the United States economy is experiencing uneven growth patterns, with nearly half of all states either at risk of recession or already experiencing economic downturns.
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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i’m just a humble “woke” lib but it seems to me that this is a conclusion you could have picked up by skimming a quick history of 20th century american politics
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
i’m just a humble “woke” lib but it seems to me that this is a conclusion you could have picked up by skimming a quick history of 20th century american politics
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yes. this is sort of what i mean when i say that i think the popularist tendency is anti-politics. it seems to reject the possibility of political leadership and treats the field of play as entirely static. which, to me, is the exact opposite lesson of the last decade.
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
yes. this is sort of what i mean when i say that i think the popularist tendency is anti-politics. it seems to reject the possibility of political leadership and treats the field of play as entirely static. which, to me, is the exact opposite lesson of the last decade.
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to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.
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I'm not saying the solutions are easy, but they would be a helluva lot nearer if you started with "What is the actual proplem?" and then moved to "What actions will in fact remedy it?"
'Is that true?' is an important question for governments to answer for many reasons, but from a 'actually getting re-elected' perspective, 'will this fix the problem we need it to?' is, you know, mission critical.
November 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I'm not saying the solutions are easy, but they would be a helluva lot nearer if you started with "What is the actual proplem?" and then moved to "What actions will in fact remedy it?"
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This is why I talk about sheriffs a lot when it to comes to immigration: they decide (in most states) on whether to hold people for ICE at all!
ICE abducted Leticia Jacobo and tried to deport her, she is Native American.
Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’.
Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared.
www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’.
Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared.
www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
Native American woman nearly deported after Polk County Jail issues ICE detainer by mistake
A Native American woman from Arizona was nearly deported by federal immigration officials after a clerical error at the Polk County Jail. The woman's family had to scramble to prove she was Indigenous...
www.iowapublicradio.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This is why I talk about sheriffs a lot when it to comes to immigration: they decide (in most states) on whether to hold people for ICE at all!
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this tawdry Olivia Nuzzi stuff highlights why I’m turning into a small-c conservative with regards to “it is unseemly and shameful for people in positions of power and influence to subject the public to their messy-ass sex nonsense on a constant basis”
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
this tawdry Olivia Nuzzi stuff highlights why I’m turning into a small-c conservative with regards to “it is unseemly and shameful for people in positions of power and influence to subject the public to their messy-ass sex nonsense on a constant basis”