James Hedrick (he/him)
@housingjames.bsky.social
Local housing and transit activist. Dad to Things 1, 2, & 3. He/him/his. Commissioner, Montgomery County Planning Board. Posts are my own and do not represent those of the MoCo Planning Board.
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Got a memory today of when I took Thing 3 to Drag Queen story time 2 yrs ago. Great event! Unfortunately, the next DQ Story time, a bunch of brown-shirt bootlickers who call themselves “Proud” boys assaulted several people. Took Parks months but we brought DQ Story time back. Don’t let fascists win.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Johnson: If we lose the majority… They will try to end the Trump administration. He won't have 4 years. He'll have only 2, because they will move to impeach him, probably on the first day of the new Congress in January 2027 and try to systematically unwind all the important reforms that we've done."
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
And the man who made the website that rejects my 4-figure grant reimbursement requests for student stipends and staff salary. A trillionaire made a cute little DOGE website called “Defend the Spend.” We’re trying to give construction skills and safety training to kids.
The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
And the man who made the website that rejects my 4-figure grant reimbursement requests for student stipends and staff salary. A trillionaire made a cute little DOGE website called “Defend the Spend.” We’re trying to give construction skills and safety training to kids.
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Come and take it
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Come and take it
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Ultimately I think the critical line here is “do you support Trump’s attempts to destroy the US constitution” and Mamdani is unequivocally “no”, Cuomo is unequivocally “please I’ll do anything to be relevant again”, and sliwa is “listen I was shot 5 times in the back of a cab and I hate all of you”
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Ultimately I think the critical line here is “do you support Trump’s attempts to destroy the US constitution” and Mamdani is unequivocally “no”, Cuomo is unequivocally “please I’ll do anything to be relevant again”, and sliwa is “listen I was shot 5 times in the back of a cab and I hate all of you”
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It looks like New Yorkers just passed all three pro-housing charter amendments on the ballot. The mandate is clear: it's time to build more housing.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It looks like New Yorkers just passed all three pro-housing charter amendments on the ballot. The mandate is clear: it's time to build more housing.
Excited for this one. “Proud Mary” is a great track and on my playlist of ‘Covers that Stole the Song,’ along with Johnny Cash’s version of Hurt, Whiskey River by Willie Nelson, and Ring Them Bells by Sarah Jarosz. Tina Turner sings the hell out of this song.
The new episode of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is now up! Racial slurs! Tolkien! West Coast jazz! Dancing pigs! Lawsuits! So many lawsuits! It can only be the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival and "Proud Mary".
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
This episode, we look at the song “Proud Mary” and the brief but productive career of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, a…
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November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Excited for this one. “Proud Mary” is a great track and on my playlist of ‘Covers that Stole the Song,’ along with Johnny Cash’s version of Hurt, Whiskey River by Willie Nelson, and Ring Them Bells by Sarah Jarosz. Tina Turner sings the hell out of this song.
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Democrats say this constantly, but when front pages of The NY Times and everyone else refuses to acknowledge it, or thinks stating it is is being a Dem partisan, how do you break through?
“every time theres a republican president the economy collapses” feels like pretty easy messaging on the economy
Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess).
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Democrats say this constantly, but when front pages of The NY Times and everyone else refuses to acknowledge it, or thinks stating it is is being a Dem partisan, how do you break through?
A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.
November 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.
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It's literally just a bad product that people rich enough to seed their marketing into culture want us to use. This whole debate is like if they were insisting that space-hopper usage in university exams was inevitable
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
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November 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
It's literally just a bad product that people rich enough to seed their marketing into culture want us to use. This whole debate is like if they were insisting that space-hopper usage in university exams was inevitable
This is systematic throughout the US Federalist system (multiple veto points, gridlock, etc), but our theoretical assumptions about how this works (eg, the Senate being the saucer that cools the hot tea of the populist House) just aren’t empirically true and are based on the writings of English 1/2
There's this common wisdom that all the veto points in the US system blocks wild policy swings, when it actually has the opposite effect: parties stew for years over everything they'll rapidly ram through by any means possible in their brief window of full power before it's gridlock for years again.
personally I think we should encourage parties doing things publicly with their majorities over trying to hide it with the courts and obscure executive action
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is systematic throughout the US Federalist system (multiple veto points, gridlock, etc), but our theoretical assumptions about how this works (eg, the Senate being the saucer that cools the hot tea of the populist House) just aren’t empirically true and are based on the writings of English 1/2
Do you want another housing crash? Because that’s how you get another housing crash.
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Do you want another housing crash? Because that’s how you get another housing crash.
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Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
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It's amazing that housing supply deniers will say "new housing doesn't lower rents" and meanwhile real estate investors openly write stuff like "thanks to low housing production, there's less competition and we can raise rents!"
October 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
It's amazing that housing supply deniers will say "new housing doesn't lower rents" and meanwhile real estate investors openly write stuff like "thanks to low housing production, there's less competition and we can raise rents!"
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A regular reminder that congressional Republicans can put country over party anytime they want but choose not to.
🚨 The Senate votes 52-48 to overturn President Trump's 50 percent tariffs on Brazil. 5 GOP Senators break ranks to vote against Trump: Collins ME, McConnell KY, Murkowski AK, Paul KY, and Tillis NC.
October 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A regular reminder that congressional Republicans can put country over party anytime they want but choose not to.
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Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.
October 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
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“If you live in a 15 minute city but your barista can’t afford to live there too, you don’t live in a 15 minute city, you live in a theme park.“
who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
October 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
“If you live in a 15 minute city but your barista can’t afford to live there too, you don’t live in a 15 minute city, you live in a theme park.“
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I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.
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October 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.
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I spend all this time trying to figure out what the master plan is, and it always hits me: nothing. Just conspiracy brain worms all the way down. And the most smug self-righteousness as Kennedy and cronies destroy over a century of concerted scientific effort and hard work.
October 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I spend all this time trying to figure out what the master plan is, and it always hits me: nothing. Just conspiracy brain worms all the way down. And the most smug self-righteousness as Kennedy and cronies destroy over a century of concerted scientific effort and hard work.
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The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
October 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
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Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
October 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...