Speaking of gays in Washington, G-Man, by Berverly Gage, is an excellent biography of J. Edgar Hoover. The book deals with Hoover’s contradictions: a masculine archetype and a closeted gay man, a committed public servant and a ruthless authoritarian.

They've also approved bills to reduce hurdles to convert vacant office buildings into residences, make it illegal for cities to disallow manufactured homes and relax local rules in college towns that say how many unrelated adults can live in a home.

I would love to see John Bel Edwards run for Senate in LA. And Doug Jones again in AL. I’d be happy to see them run as Dems, but maybe they’d fair better as Independents if the state party decided to stand down?

Yeah, I’d really love to learn more about it.

It kinda strikes me as similar to the polykatoikias in Athens, but designed to be more upscale.

@holz-bau.bsky.social single-stair keeps keeps winning, even in the Americas.

I took this last week as I was heading to the airport.

Dallas needs a big, brutalist metro.

Of course, as soon as I post this, it appears that I may have spoken too soon. The BSW is just at the cusp of entering the Bundestag.

I also think that we should encourage more explicit factions within our existing parties. Democrats seem to have this, somewhat, already with the New Dems, Blue Dogs, and Progressives. Could be interesting to focus more as a precursor to multi-party system.