Trey Gordner
@ggordn3r.bsky.social
Hawaii policy wonk. 2 great kids. Reading as fast as I can.
Abundance Democrat + tax the rich
Urban planner/GIS/data sci.
Fmr USDC Fellow, HI Zoning Atlas, civic tech entrepreneur. All views my own.
Abundance Democrat + tax the rich
Urban planner/GIS/data sci.
Fmr USDC Fellow, HI Zoning Atlas, civic tech entrepreneur. All views my own.
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Trey Gordner
@ggordn3r.bsky.social
· Apr 27
Ka Pewa Episode 4: UHERO
YouTube video by Ka Pewa
youtu.be
Mahalo to @hawaiicommunityfdn.bsky.social for having me on Ka Pewa to talk about UHERO and our latest research on the Maui wildfire recovery:
youtu.be/fY3Ddzziigc?...
youtu.be/fY3Ddzziigc?...
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Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption.
Breathtaking. Heartbreaking.
We cannot let this stand.
Breathtaking. Heartbreaking.
We cannot let this stand.
May 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption.
Breathtaking. Heartbreaking.
We cannot let this stand.
Breathtaking. Heartbreaking.
We cannot let this stand.
Encourage your family and friends to remove as much of their online information as they can with a tool like this. AI makes sophisticated scamming as easy as robo-calls:
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April 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Encourage your family and friends to remove as much of their online information as they can with a tool like this. AI makes sophisticated scamming as easy as robo-calls:
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Former federal employee here. My 2 years working for the Chief Data Officer of HHS were mainly spent figuring out how to share data legally and responsibly between agencies to advance medical research and respond capably to a future pandemic.
Everything described here is flagrantly illegal.
Everything described here is flagrantly illegal.
The chaos of Trump + DOGE may have made the administration's efforts to storm individual agencies seem isolated (if also extremely bad).
As Charlie and I dug into the question this article poses—What can they do with all that data?—we quickly realized how much worse the situation is in aggregate.
As Charlie and I dug into the question this article poses—What can they do with all that data?—we quickly realized how much worse the situation is in aggregate.
American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
www.theatlantic.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Former federal employee here. My 2 years working for the Chief Data Officer of HHS were mainly spent figuring out how to share data legally and responsibly between agencies to advance medical research and respond capably to a future pandemic.
Everything described here is flagrantly illegal.
Everything described here is flagrantly illegal.
Mahalo to @hawaiicommunityfdn.bsky.social for having me on Ka Pewa to talk about UHERO and our latest research on the Maui wildfire recovery:
youtu.be/fY3Ddzziigc?...
youtu.be/fY3Ddzziigc?...
Ka Pewa Episode 4: UHERO
YouTube video by Ka Pewa
youtu.be
April 27, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Mahalo to @hawaiicommunityfdn.bsky.social for having me on Ka Pewa to talk about UHERO and our latest research on the Maui wildfire recovery:
youtu.be/fY3Ddzziigc?...
youtu.be/fY3Ddzziigc?...
So much hand-wringing about Democratic messaging...
"Trump is a bad man with bad ideas that are making us poorer, sicker, and less safe."
What is so hard about that?
"Trump is a bad man with bad ideas that are making us poorer, sicker, and less safe."
What is so hard about that?
April 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
So much hand-wringing about Democratic messaging...
"Trump is a bad man with bad ideas that are making us poorer, sicker, and less safe."
What is so hard about that?
"Trump is a bad man with bad ideas that are making us poorer, sicker, and less safe."
What is so hard about that?
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One more rant before I go walk the dogs. 🧵
There is a certain Type of Guy (person, I guess technically, but almost always a guy).
You ask this type of guy about politics & they'll tell you they're independent, an iconoclast, & that "both sides" are silly & blinkered & don't see the big picture.
There is a certain Type of Guy (person, I guess technically, but almost always a guy).
You ask this type of guy about politics & they'll tell you they're independent, an iconoclast, & that "both sides" are silly & blinkered & don't see the big picture.
April 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
One more rant before I go walk the dogs. 🧵
There is a certain Type of Guy (person, I guess technically, but almost always a guy).
You ask this type of guy about politics & they'll tell you they're independent, an iconoclast, & that "both sides" are silly & blinkered & don't see the big picture.
There is a certain Type of Guy (person, I guess technically, but almost always a guy).
You ask this type of guy about politics & they'll tell you they're independent, an iconoclast, & that "both sides" are silly & blinkered & don't see the big picture.
My grandkids will never believe it was this bad. "Sure, grandpa." Half the time I cannot believe what I am seeing and I am living through it.
With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.
April 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
My grandkids will never believe it was this bad. "Sure, grandpa." Half the time I cannot believe what I am seeing and I am living through it.
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NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The 30 year mortgage
Rural electrification
Social Security
Medicare
Medicaid
Unemployment Insurance
Minimum wage
Overtime pay for hourly workers
Child labor laws
Deposit insurance (a stable banking system)
What passes for our social safety net
The ACA
All came from liberal Democrats
Rural electrification
Social Security
Medicare
Medicaid
Unemployment Insurance
Minimum wage
Overtime pay for hourly workers
Child labor laws
Deposit insurance (a stable banking system)
What passes for our social safety net
The ACA
All came from liberal Democrats
April 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The 30 year mortgage
Rural electrification
Social Security
Medicare
Medicaid
Unemployment Insurance
Minimum wage
Overtime pay for hourly workers
Child labor laws
Deposit insurance (a stable banking system)
What passes for our social safety net
The ACA
All came from liberal Democrats
Rural electrification
Social Security
Medicare
Medicaid
Unemployment Insurance
Minimum wage
Overtime pay for hourly workers
Child labor laws
Deposit insurance (a stable banking system)
What passes for our social safety net
The ACA
All came from liberal Democrats
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
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I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do
April 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do
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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
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1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
The Mystery of Food Deserts
They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:06 PM
1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
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by and large, the people who fetishize the return to factories and manual labor are people who've never done that. my dad delivered beer and his back was so shot by age 35 that when he finished work, he'd come home and lay flat on his back until supper because it hurt too much to stand.
April 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
by and large, the people who fetishize the return to factories and manual labor are people who've never done that. my dad delivered beer and his back was so shot by age 35 that when he finished work, he'd come home and lay flat on his back until supper because it hurt too much to stand.
You love to see it.
April 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
You love to see it.
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"Hi Senator I am a voter in [your home zip code] and I saw what Sen. Booker did for others and I want that for me. Good day". A phone call like this is worth 10,000 quote posts.
Call your senators and tell them you saw it and like it, too. Maybe someone else will do this again.
To put in another way: this is Cory Booker turning a big dial that says "opposition" on it, and he's looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right. make sure he knows we're happier the more he turns it up.
April 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"Hi Senator I am a voter in [your home zip code] and I saw what Sen. Booker did for others and I want that for me. Good day". A phone call like this is worth 10,000 quote posts.
Good god.
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Good god.
"Some people have the naive opinion that in other countries despotism was established in the name of despotism, that dictators who were in the process of destroying freedom made clear to the people that they were doing just that."
~ James Burnham, The New Machiavellians
~ James Burnham, The New Machiavellians
March 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Some people have the naive opinion that in other countries despotism was established in the name of despotism, that dictators who were in the process of destroying freedom made clear to the people that they were doing just that."
~ James Burnham, The New Machiavellians
~ James Burnham, The New Machiavellians
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A groundbreaking new study found that the surge in SUVs from 1995 to 2019 reduced Minnesota's highway lane capacity by 9.5%.
Less lane capacity --> More congestion
Me, in CityLab 🧵
Less lane capacity --> More congestion
Me, in CityLab 🧵
How SUVs Are Making Traffic Worse
As larger, taller sport utility vehicles took over US roads, they also aggravated highway congestion, according to a new study. It’s yet another ill effect of “car bloat.”
www.bloomberg.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A groundbreaking new study found that the surge in SUVs from 1995 to 2019 reduced Minnesota's highway lane capacity by 9.5%.
Less lane capacity --> More congestion
Me, in CityLab 🧵
Less lane capacity --> More congestion
Me, in CityLab 🧵
"The freest country is the country where the rights of the governed are best protected against arbitrary caprice and tyranny on the part of rulers."
~ Gaetano Mosca
America is becoming less free with every petty, punitive executive order. That's why we're angry, that's why we're fighting.
~ Gaetano Mosca
America is becoming less free with every petty, punitive executive order. That's why we're angry, that's why we're fighting.
March 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"The freest country is the country where the rights of the governed are best protected against arbitrary caprice and tyranny on the part of rulers."
~ Gaetano Mosca
America is becoming less free with every petty, punitive executive order. That's why we're angry, that's why we're fighting.
~ Gaetano Mosca
America is becoming less free with every petty, punitive executive order. That's why we're angry, that's why we're fighting.
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GOP: First break it.
Then point out that it doesn’t work.
Then insist your donors in the private sector are the ONLY ones who can truly save it and make it work properly… at a profit, of course.
Then point out that it doesn’t work.
Then insist your donors in the private sector are the ONLY ones who can truly save it and make it work properly… at a profit, of course.
March 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
GOP: First break it.
Then point out that it doesn’t work.
Then insist your donors in the private sector are the ONLY ones who can truly save it and make it work properly… at a profit, of course.
Then point out that it doesn’t work.
Then insist your donors in the private sector are the ONLY ones who can truly save it and make it work properly… at a profit, of course.
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The crisis isn’t Trump. It’s the law firms, the universities, the Congress, the governors that aren’t fighting back. It started with the Democrats responding to Trump’s victory by announcing how they were eager to work with him and metastasized into a societal collapse of resolve. Pure insanity
March 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The crisis isn’t Trump. It’s the law firms, the universities, the Congress, the governors that aren’t fighting back. It started with the Democrats responding to Trump’s victory by announcing how they were eager to work with him and metastasized into a societal collapse of resolve. Pure insanity
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“The MTA as a whole is averaging 448K more public transit riders per day this year…The MTA ridership growth since congestion pricing went into effect is almost 50% larger than the total ridership of America’s next-largest subway system.” bettercities.substack.com/p/congestion...
Congestion Pricing is a Policy Miracle
Which is exactly why Trump wants to get rid of it
bettercities.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
“The MTA as a whole is averaging 448K more public transit riders per day this year…The MTA ridership growth since congestion pricing went into effect is almost 50% larger than the total ridership of America’s next-largest subway system.” bettercities.substack.com/p/congestion...
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"Last week, Vance said foreign students at elite U.S. universities are 'not just bad for national security,' but also 'bad for the American dream, for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student.'"
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Universities are caving to Trump with a stunning speed and scope
Some of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest institutions are swiftly bending to President Donald Trump, who is acting on longstanding conservative criticisms of universities as elitist and progressive.
www.politico.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"Last week, Vance said foreign students at elite U.S. universities are 'not just bad for national security,' but also 'bad for the American dream, for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student.'"
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...