Logan Bowers
@loganb.bsky.social
Toots on housing policy, economics, computing.
The hilarious thing is that Europe compared favorably to the US in the 2000s but then had 20 years of zero growth, so Europe worship today literally means “lower living standards.”
Nobody who spouts this position on European politics has had a single solitary conversation with a center left European about immigration.
November 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The hilarious thing is that Europe compared favorably to the US in the 2000s but then had 20 years of zero growth, so Europe worship today literally means “lower living standards.”
Exec Zahilay will be great and I wish him the best.
Note, however that CM Balducci has been a transit+housing stalwart and more policy engaged than any other county elected. Seattle progressive voters did not reward that. Without judgement, revealed preferences about relative priorities.
Note, however that CM Balducci has been a transit+housing stalwart and more policy engaged than any other county elected. Seattle progressive voters did not reward that. Without judgement, revealed preferences about relative priorities.
November 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Exec Zahilay will be great and I wish him the best.
Note, however that CM Balducci has been a transit+housing stalwart and more policy engaged than any other county elected. Seattle progressive voters did not reward that. Without judgement, revealed preferences about relative priorities.
Note, however that CM Balducci has been a transit+housing stalwart and more policy engaged than any other county elected. Seattle progressive voters did not reward that. Without judgement, revealed preferences about relative priorities.
Welp all of CD, Mt Baker, and parts of Beacon Hill lost power. Looks like the reclosers tried. That portends poorly!
November 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Welp all of CD, Mt Baker, and parts of Beacon Hill lost power. Looks like the reclosers tried. That portends poorly!
Incredible respect for the boomer (and older) women, especially, who have the fighting spirit of street activists.
My mom got me a Banksy t-shirt with the resistance fighter throwing a sandwich instead of flowers 🥖🤣
She's pretty awesome (at 87!) 😍🤩😍🤩
She's pretty awesome (at 87!) 😍🤩😍🤩
Get this journalist a Pulitzer
November 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Incredible respect for the boomer (and older) women, especially, who have the fighting spirit of street activists.
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“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
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@reuters.com #Chicago
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November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
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@reuters.com #Chicago
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BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Get this journalist a Pulitzer
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Get this journalist a Pulitzer
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One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed
Mamdani’s campaign focused relentlessly on items that fall in the red section of this table.
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Mamdani’s campaign focused relentlessly on items that fall in the red section of this table.
I think the moderate position is "allow immigration that benefits America and Americans." Empirically, I think that means lots of immigration, but regardless voters aren't policy wonks and if they think you have their interests at heart, they'll trust you on the details.
my genuinely moderate position is that legal grey areas are very bad and we should minimize the number of people in them. you shouldn't be here for literal years while your status is determined, laying down roots and making a life it's traumatic to uproot you from. need quick, definitive decisions.
i do think Dems should moderate on immigration in the sense that Dems should redesign our immigration policy to work like people think it works: you wait for a while (but not forever) to get into the country and then you wait for a while (but not forever) to become a citizen.
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I think the moderate position is "allow immigration that benefits America and Americans." Empirically, I think that means lots of immigration, but regardless voters aren't policy wonks and if they think you have their interests at heart, they'll trust you on the details.
Walmart has 2.1 million employees, so if Walmart paid its CEO $0, each employee would see, on average, a $0.006/hr raise—less than a single penny per hour.
So…what's the argument here other than just resentment?
So…what's the argument here other than just resentment?
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
November 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Walmart has 2.1 million employees, so if Walmart paid its CEO $0, each employee would see, on average, a $0.006/hr raise—less than a single penny per hour.
So…what's the argument here other than just resentment?
So…what's the argument here other than just resentment?
I remember when a business associate of my father started to suffer from dementia. They kept him engaged and out of trouble by setting up a model train for him to maintain and tinker with.
When the job is run the free world, the model train is a banquet hall remodel.
When the job is run the free world, the model train is a banquet hall remodel.
O'Donnell: "And to people that say they're struggling with the cost of living expenses, what could you do about that?"
Trump: "Well, let me just say, cashless bail is a disaster. It's gotta be changed. Sanctuary cities really have to be changed."
Trump: "Well, let me just say, cashless bail is a disaster. It's gotta be changed. Sanctuary cities really have to be changed."
November 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I remember when a business associate of my father started to suffer from dementia. They kept him engaged and out of trouble by setting up a model train for him to maintain and tinker with.
When the job is run the free world, the model train is a banquet hall remodel.
When the job is run the free world, the model train is a banquet hall remodel.
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Senile. Incompetent. Incapable
O'Donnell: "And to people that say they're struggling with the cost of living expenses, what could you do about that?"
Trump: "Well, let me just say, cashless bail is a disaster. It's gotta be changed. Sanctuary cities really have to be changed."
Trump: "Well, let me just say, cashless bail is a disaster. It's gotta be changed. Sanctuary cities really have to be changed."
November 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Senile. Incompetent. Incapable
A great example of this was when CP Sara Nelson pushed through residential upzone with union support near the stadiums, a lot of nominal housing and labor advocates swerved out of the way to talk about how bad it was. She had the wrong vibe to get the W from them.
HOW VOTERS PICK A CANDIDATE:
-they observe the social environment (largely through media)
-they decide what role they want to play in that environment (respected? savvy? oppositional?)
-they pick the candidate they think fulfills that role
-they reverse-engineer an explanation for their pick
-they observe the social environment (largely through media)
-they decide what role they want to play in that environment (respected? savvy? oppositional?)
-they pick the candidate they think fulfills that role
-they reverse-engineer an explanation for their pick
Feeling like that chimpanzee that hanged himself rn
October 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
A great example of this was when CP Sara Nelson pushed through residential upzone with union support near the stadiums, a lot of nominal housing and labor advocates swerved out of the way to talk about how bad it was. She had the wrong vibe to get the W from them.
There is a “reopen McNeil Island” faction in Seattle. It’s important to deliver tangible results that don’t involve fantasy levels of taxation and spending because as we’ve seen in other parts of the country, they will eventually take hold if no one does anything.
If you have ever talked to a normie about homeless people, they say shit that would make Hitler shift uncomfortably in their chair. The Dems half measures may not have satisfied the lust to hurt the homeless, but it absolutely didn't create it.
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
There is a “reopen McNeil Island” faction in Seattle. It’s important to deliver tangible results that don’t involve fantasy levels of taxation and spending because as we’ve seen in other parts of the country, they will eventually take hold if no one does anything.
While I am incredibly loathe to defend Platner, I’ll defend that owing a (successful) restaurant is working class. It’s a hard business where you’re buying yourself a daily, grinding job where you can never take your foot off the gas and you’re scraping every penny.
While it's perfectly possible to be working class even if your grandparents were wealthy elites, I don't think that this is the case when his grandfather's designs and products are still in continuous production and his mom owns two restaurants.
October 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
While I am incredibly loathe to defend Platner, I’ll defend that owing a (successful) restaurant is working class. It’s a hard business where you’re buying yourself a daily, grinding job where you can never take your foot off the gas and you’re scraping every penny.
Your periodic reminder that if you don’t have speed pipes in your exercise playlist, you are missing out. spotify.link/Az13P6jtBXb
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October 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Your periodic reminder that if you don’t have speed pipes in your exercise playlist, you are missing out. spotify.link/Az13P6jtBXb
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
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October 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Wut
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Can the Times et al actually explain their coverage priorities, even internally? How is it that any hint of denigration of Americans by a Dem is front-page news, but the president publishing video in which he calls himself "King Trump" and flies a plane dumping sewage on Americans' heads NOT news?
October 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Can the Times et al actually explain their coverage priorities, even internally? How is it that any hint of denigration of Americans by a Dem is front-page news, but the president publishing video in which he calls himself "King Trump" and flies a plane dumping sewage on Americans' heads NOT news?
Seattle approved a muni water supply in the late 1800s by a vote of 1200-50. The difference is that in the ~pre-1970s era, people mostly wanted large public works and construction projects.
Today, public works are a source of patronage and voters are mostly apathetic.
Today, public works are a source of patronage and voters are mostly apathetic.
I'm reading a government report on Yugoslav Railways from 1960. It's a fascinating read. The report shows that JŽ significantly lagged behind other European railways on virtually every metric. On the other hand, 1300km of newly built railroads between '47 -'56 sounds surreal in 2025.
October 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Seattle approved a muni water supply in the late 1800s by a vote of 1200-50. The difference is that in the ~pre-1970s era, people mostly wanted large public works and construction projects.
Today, public works are a source of patronage and voters are mostly apathetic.
Today, public works are a source of patronage and voters are mostly apathetic.
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The new Reuters/Ipsos poll is absolutely brutal for Trump in every single way, but I want to take a moment and reflect on this little note about the party of Jade Helm.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The new Reuters/Ipsos poll is absolutely brutal for Trump in every single way, but I want to take a moment and reflect on this little note about the party of Jade Helm.
www.reuters.com/world/us/mos...
www.reuters.com/world/us/mos...
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my most millennial internet complaint is that I find it contemptible when people post deliberately provocative shit and then get upset when people are provoked. back in my day being a troll used to mean something goddamnit. you didn't do this "whoooaa hey just a joke" shit, you accepted the risk
October 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
my most millennial internet complaint is that I find it contemptible when people post deliberately provocative shit and then get upset when people are provoked. back in my day being a troll used to mean something goddamnit. you didn't do this "whoooaa hey just a joke" shit, you accepted the risk
For someone in the White House, this guy has such loser energy.
His next ICE order will be that they have to arrest every kid from his elementary school unless they come to his 40th birthday party and gift him a TMNT action figure.
His next ICE order will be that they have to arrest every kid from his elementary school unless they come to his 40th birthday party and gift him a TMNT action figure.
Stephen Miller: "If you can't see that since we've taken office, there's been an organized, systemitized campaign to delegitimatize, dehumanize, threaten, impede, obstruct, and physically assault ICE officers in their duties, then I can't persuade you of it."
October 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
For someone in the White House, this guy has such loser energy.
His next ICE order will be that they have to arrest every kid from his elementary school unless they come to his 40th birthday party and gift him a TMNT action figure.
His next ICE order will be that they have to arrest every kid from his elementary school unless they come to his 40th birthday party and gift him a TMNT action figure.
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Imagine being subject to a campaign of dehumanization! What kind of people would do such a thing!?!?
Stephen Miller: "If you can't see that since we've taken office, there's been an organized, systemitized campaign to delegitimatize, dehumanize, threaten, impede, obstruct, and physically assault ICE officers in their duties, then I can't persuade you of it."
October 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Imagine being subject to a campaign of dehumanization! What kind of people would do such a thing!?!?