Conor Dougherty
@conordougherty.bsky.social
NYT Reporter, #SkateTwitter enthusiast and @candacej superfan.
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1/ If you're interested in housing and the debates within the Democratic party about how much is needed and how to get it built, you need to read this profile of CA NIMBY slayer @scottwiener.bsky.social by @jetjocko.bsky.social.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Scott Wiener Defeated California’s NIMBYs. Can He Fix America’s Housing Crisis?
By running for Nancy Pelosi's seat, he's putting the "Abundance" theory to the test.
www.motherjones.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
1/ If you're interested in housing and the debates within the Democratic party about how much is needed and how to get it built, you need to read this profile of CA NIMBY slayer @scottwiener.bsky.social by @jetjocko.bsky.social.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Predator: Badlands was so freaking great.
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Predator: Badlands was so freaking great.
I don't watch Reality TV, but life takes weird turns. My story: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
Reality TV’s Bad Boyfriend Is Angry Again. This Time, He’s Yelling at Gavin Newsom.
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I don't watch Reality TV, but life takes weird turns. My story: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
Dear #SkateTwitter: Years ago Mike Carroll ollied this massive double hubba at the entrance to UCLA. It's one of those "way gnarlier in person" spots. I know there was an ad with a still shot and footage of it in some video, probably a Transworld thing, but cannot seem to find. Anyone know it?
July 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Dear #SkateTwitter: Years ago Mike Carroll ollied this massive double hubba at the entrance to UCLA. It's one of those "way gnarlier in person" spots. I know there was an ad with a still shot and footage of it in some video, probably a Transworld thing, but cannot seem to find. Anyone know it?
I need #SkateTwitter to discuss: www.wired.com/story/dhs-te...
Skateboards and Livestreams: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’
DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.
www.wired.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I need #SkateTwitter to discuss: www.wired.com/story/dhs-te...
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I don’t schedule vacations around the trade deadline because that’s ridiculous. What if the Giants make a big trade? It’s better to schedule vacations for mid-June, when nothing happens.
June 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I don’t schedule vacations around the trade deadline because that’s ridiculous. What if the Giants make a big trade? It’s better to schedule vacations for mid-June, when nothing happens.
The mix of Padilla and immigration politics is giving this old school Californian huge 187 vibes.
June 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The mix of Padilla and immigration politics is giving this old school Californian huge 187 vibes.
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Really sucks that Manny's was hit by vandals. The targeting of him and his business—which does more to promote and support progressive causes and authors and educate the public than just about anything in SF—is a fringe and poisonous disinformation campaign. missionlocal.org/2025/06/mann...
‘The only good settler is a dead 1’: Manny’s cafe hit with vandalism during anti-ICE protest
'The only good settler is a dead 1' -- spray-painted slogans outside Mission café target Jewish owner and generate community support
missionlocal.org
June 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Really sucks that Manny's was hit by vandals. The targeting of him and his business—which does more to promote and support progressive causes and authors and educate the public than just about anything in SF—is a fringe and poisonous disinformation campaign. missionlocal.org/2025/06/mann...
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Ted...sorry, Dr. Barrow is up in the Times today circling around that famous Ocean Howell point re: skateboards as brooms of gentrification
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...
A San Francisco Plaza Was Down and Out. Then Skaters Moved In.
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Ted...sorry, Dr. Barrow is up in the Times today circling around that famous Ocean Howell point re: skateboards as brooms of gentrification
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...
Skateboarding? Check.
Urban Planning? Check.
Referring to not one but TWO skaters as "Dr."? Check.
Aside from video games and Bosch, this story I wrote, on how skateboarding revived an urban plaza in San Francisco, hits all my buttons.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...
Urban Planning? Check.
Referring to not one but TWO skaters as "Dr."? Check.
Aside from video games and Bosch, this story I wrote, on how skateboarding revived an urban plaza in San Francisco, hits all my buttons.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...
A San Francisco Plaza Was Down and Out. Then Skaters Moved In.
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Skateboarding? Check.
Urban Planning? Check.
Referring to not one but TWO skaters as "Dr."? Check.
Aside from video games and Bosch, this story I wrote, on how skateboarding revived an urban plaza in San Francisco, hits all my buttons.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...
Urban Planning? Check.
Referring to not one but TWO skaters as "Dr."? Check.
Aside from video games and Bosch, this story I wrote, on how skateboarding revived an urban plaza in San Francisco, hits all my buttons.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...
The more I play with AI the more I'm convinced that the best and most legally defensible way to make money in the future will be to buy valuable land and do nothing with it. Oh, wait.
May 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The more I play with AI the more I'm convinced that the best and most legally defensible way to make money in the future will be to buy valuable land and do nothing with it. Oh, wait.
Good times with Bret Anthony Johnston, my skate homie and acclaimed novelist. Growing up, I thought writers and skaters were the two coolest kinds of people on all of planet earth. Now I'm 47 getting a doubles clip with an author I admire. An ordinary day is extraordinary when you appreciate it.
May 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Good times with Bret Anthony Johnston, my skate homie and acclaimed novelist. Growing up, I thought writers and skaters were the two coolest kinds of people on all of planet earth. Now I'm 47 getting a doubles clip with an author I admire. An ordinary day is extraordinary when you appreciate it.
My Switch 2 experience: 45 minutes of pressing "Place your order" on the Target website and having it not go through. Then my card got canceled, it got removed from my cart, and now my daughter will be crying in the AM.
April 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
My Switch 2 experience: 45 minutes of pressing "Place your order" on the Target website and having it not go through. Then my card got canceled, it got removed from my cart, and now my daughter will be crying in the AM.
You should be watching Dark Winds. Tonight's episode is indeed my favorite episode of television this year. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
'Dark Winds' Season 3 May Deliver the Year's Best Episode of TV
Navajo reservation-set series digs deeper as its hero cop Joe Leaphorn, played by an outstanding Zahn McClarnon, grapples with an emotional crisis.
www.rollingstone.com
April 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
You should be watching Dark Winds. Tonight's episode is indeed my favorite episode of television this year. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
I wrote about how we need more sprawl and the word itself is sorely misunderstood. It took me a while to get here, but I got here. Find your hate-read here: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/m...
America Needs More Sprawl to Fix Its Housing Crisis
The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I wrote about how we need more sprawl and the word itself is sorely misunderstood. It took me a while to get here, but I got here. Find your hate-read here: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/m...
I know I'm a broken record here but this newest and final season of Bosch is why TV was invented as a medium. Like a Miller Lite on a hot day. Perfection.
April 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I know I'm a broken record here but this newest and final season of Bosch is why TV was invented as a medium. Like a Miller Lite on a hot day. Perfection.
Still processing that this is the final season of Bosch. I thought they had at least 12 more.
March 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Still processing that this is the final season of Bosch. I thought they had at least 12 more.
I'm not sure whether to be flattered or outraged. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
March 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I'm not sure whether to be flattered or outraged. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
My five years memory: On March 9, 2020, I accomplished my life's goal of writing a book and getting my name on the marquee at Powell's. The next day, March 10, I flew home as the world shut down. Down to the wire!
March 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
My five years memory: On March 9, 2020, I accomplished my life's goal of writing a book and getting my name on the marquee at Powell's. The next day, March 10, I flew home as the world shut down. Down to the wire!
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Earlier today the LA Times had AI-generated counterpoints to a column from @gustavoarellano.bsky.social. His piece argued that Anaheim, the city he grew up in, should not forget its KKK past.
The AI "well, actually"-ed the KKK. It has since been taken off the piece.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
The AI "well, actually"-ed the KKK. It has since been taken off the piece.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
March 4, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Earlier today the LA Times had AI-generated counterpoints to a column from @gustavoarellano.bsky.social. His piece argued that Anaheim, the city he grew up in, should not forget its KKK past.
The AI "well, actually"-ed the KKK. It has since been taken off the piece.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
The AI "well, actually"-ed the KKK. It has since been taken off the piece.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Silo is a show about living in an underground apartment complex. Paradise is a show about living in an underground suburb. Because I am a housing nerd, I called creators of the two works to ask them about density versus sprawl in a post-apocalyptic world. My story: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/b...
How ‘Silo’ and ‘Paradise’ Envision Housing After the Apocalypse
“Paradise” and “Silo” have opposing takes on the future of urban organization, echoing the debate over America’s housing shortage today.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Silo is a show about living in an underground apartment complex. Paradise is a show about living in an underground suburb. Because I am a housing nerd, I called creators of the two works to ask them about density versus sprawl in a post-apocalyptic world. My story: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/b...
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To go along with our piece today, we published an extensive list of folks associated with DOGE. It builds off and adds to the strong work that Wired, WaPo, ProPublica and other pubs have been doing.
The public has a right to know who is dismantling the government.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The public has a right to know who is dismantling the government.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Who Is in DOGE? Tracking Its Staffers and Allies in the Federal Government
The Times identified 49 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few weeks has radically upended federal agencies.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
To go along with our piece today, we published an extensive list of folks associated with DOGE. It builds off and adds to the strong work that Wired, WaPo, ProPublica and other pubs have been doing.
The public has a right to know who is dismantling the government.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The public has a right to know who is dismantling the government.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I think of this Onion article from a decade ago each time I get a thumbs up emoji. theonion.com/stone-hearte...
Stone-Hearted Ice Witch Forgoes Exclamation Point
BETHESDA, MD—In a diabolical omission of the utmost cruelty, stone-hearted ice witch Leslie Schiller sent her friend a callous thank-you email devoid of even a single exclamation point, sources confir...
theonion.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I think of this Onion article from a decade ago each time I get a thumbs up emoji. theonion.com/stone-hearte...
I just went to FB for the first time in years and was delivered an ad about a jet that goes "the speed of light."
February 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I just went to FB for the first time in years and was delivered an ad about a jet that goes "the speed of light."
Dear #SkateTwitter: I have been having horrible ankle and tibia tendonitis. It doesn't flare after skating (weirdly) but after long walks (hills esp). I got nerd shoes and insoles. In physio. Need to stretch/get a routine. But does anyone use an ankle brace while skating and if so which one?
February 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Dear #SkateTwitter: I have been having horrible ankle and tibia tendonitis. It doesn't flare after skating (weirdly) but after long walks (hills esp). I got nerd shoes and insoles. In physio. Need to stretch/get a routine. But does anyone use an ankle brace while skating and if so which one?