They are talking like traffic engineers haven't been trying - and failing - to fix traffic congestion for the last 70+ years

It's the wrong question to ask

And a good part of the reason we're in the mess that we're in

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

I’m so excited about this. I hope people keep starting newsrooms. There’s appetite for the truth.

1. New evidence shows Amazon compelling specific sellers to hike their prices on other shopping sites. This is from depositions in the California antitrust case obtained by The Guardian. Expect a lot more to come out at trial. This drives prices up & is why Amazon has an iron grip.

the one part of IRA that Trump didn’t repeal!

Neighborhood scale upzonings increased housing production in many NYC neighborhoods

Upzoned block faces saw significant increases in housing unit permits in Philadelphia

How do upzonings impact housing supply?

In brand-new research published today @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, we show that big upzonings in New York City & Philadelphia had large, statistically significant effects on supply & permitting with several years of reforms.

www.urban.org/research/pub...

This organization is doing great things

Airbnb Hosts Don't Want to Talk to Guests Anymore, Are Outsourcing Messages to AI An entire industry of companies offers Airbnb hosts AI to speak to guests on their behalf. 404 Media poked around the industry after one AI tool offered a guest a recipe for French toast.

New: an entire industry now exists for Airbnb hosts to use AI to speak to their guests. I looked into it when one guest tricked the AI into providing a French toast recipe. I found companies that analyze guest message sentiment. Guests not pleased, obviously
www.404media.co/airbnb-hosts...

Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs UC Berkeley study finds employment held steady — and only pennies were added to menu prices.

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much.

Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment.

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The kind of audacious, economy-changing infrastructure that we should be known for www.latimes.com/environment/...

NEW US electricity data ⚡️🇺🇸

In March, renewables produced more than a third of US electricity for the first time ever, even overtaking gas generation!

Wind and solar combined reached over a quarter (26%) for the first time.

'Playing Catch-Up': Rising Backlash Forces Data Center Developers To Rethink Community Strategy Roughly 40% of data center projects that faced local opposition didn't go forward in 2025.

With data center referendums on the ballot—and passing—across the country, even the comms pros working for data center developers say the industry needs to sharpen its collective messaging. New for @bisnow www.bisnow.com/national/new...

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

Ravenous Is a New Worker-Owned Food Culture Media Company For too long, food media has felt toothless. Help us take a bite out of it.

Today, my fellow founding worker-owners and I are launching a subscription drive to @feedravenous.bsky.social. We are a group of experienced and award-winning food journalists here to publish thoughtful writing and incisive reporting from around the food world.
www.weareravenous.com

The World Cup could be a breakout moment for drone defense tech As the U.S. ramps up training and funding to counter aerial threats, companies are using this summer’s events to prove their systems and pitch them at scale.

This summer’s World Cup will showcase a number of big performer; defense investors see drone defense tech, recipient of millions on federal funds, as a potential breakout star. my latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91521314/the...

He closes by gifting the birthday girl a pink hat that reads “Make Quinceañeras Great Again,” signing it and posing for photos with her and her parents.

The Nonprofit Group Disrupting the Homeless Services Sector San Francisco-based Urban Alchemy runs shelters and patrols streets in several cities, armed with a salty slogan, a controversial model and a reputation for moving fast.

Weekend #longread —> my deep dive into Urban Alchemy, the controversial national homeless services nonprofit with a complicated track record, for @bloomberg.com and how it symbolizes the way cities are searching for a solution to a growing problem www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Ann Arbor, Michigan, prepares to launch its own clean energy utility Investor-owned utilities have been slow to ditch fossil fuels. The city of Ann Arbor plans to boost access to renewables with a unique model rolling out…

I'm so excited by & curious about this experiment -- basically Ann Arbor is standing up a second, municipal power utility, devoted to clean energy, to operate alongside its IOU. Unique in the world, far as I know:

‘While state and federal prosecutors have sent record numbers of people to prison for violent crimes and property- and drug-related offenses, the US retreated from prosecuting and punishing white-collar crime, despite a tsunami of elite-level wrongdoing.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Benin is one of the places where Chinese solar is absolutely exploding (not literally, of course—only fossil energy does that).

A huge reason for this are the rapid price declines: in Agbon a 180 watt panel cost the equivalent of $75 three years ago but now costs only about $45

Big batteries are the newest answer to Big Tech’s big energy needs America’s booming energy demand is creating a powerful case for large-scale energy storage....

Sharing my latest for @sherwood.news about the boom in large-scale energy storage and batteries—one iron-air battery in Minnesota might be as big as 100+ football fields— and because I liked the story, and the alternative headline, I Like Big Batts (and I Cannot Lie) sherwood.news/tech/big-bat...

Just really struck by the contrast today between the optimism and joyfulness of the lead up to the possible Artemis launch, and everything else taking up headline space today

Oceanwide Bidder Has History as Colorful as L.A.'s Graffiti Towers KPC’s track record includes an international healthcare empire and multiple megaprojects.

With news the bid deadline for LA’s Oceanwide Plaza has been extended to mid-May, I looked at the colorful history of Kali Chaudhuri, the surgeon/healthcare entrepreneur/SoCal real estate player leading the KPC bid. My latest for Commercial Observer commercialobserver.com/2026/03/la-o...

BYD hails windfall as Iran oil crisis supercharges Chinese EV outlook Wang Chuanfu predicts 'another level' of overseas sales, lifting goal by 15%: sources

*Demand destruction watch*
BYD is now doing a fortnight's worth of sales each day, in several Asian countries.
"Wang singled out markets such as Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines, where he said daily sales volumes are now as high as what the carmaker could previously sell in two weeks."

MEMORANDUM OPINION March 11_, 2026 [Dkt. #51] The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner! President Trump ("the President") claims that Congress has given him authority in existing statutes to construct his East Wing ballroom project and to do it with private funds. The plaintiff, the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States ("National Trust"), claims the President has no such authority under existing statutes and that a preliminary injunction is necessary to avoid irreparable harm. I have concluded that the National Trust is likely to succeed on the merits because no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have. As such, I must therefore GRANT the National Trust's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, and the ballroom construction project must stop until Congress authorizes its completion.

BREAKING: Judge Richard Leon enjoins Trump ballroom construction in suit by National Trust for Historic Preservations. Order stayed for 14 days to allow for appeal.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump’s Tax Cut Delivers at Least $65 Billion Windfall to Corporations Some of the country’s wealthiest corporations are calculating they owe far less to the Internal Revenue Service as a result of President Donald Trump’s overhauled tax code, underscoring how a law bill...

Corporate tax revenues tumbled following the GOP tax law. I dug through filings and earnings calls of the 50 biggest US-listed companies to figure out where those tax savings went. Nearly a dozen credited the law for a drop in their 2025 taxes with some paying billions less than the year before.

The Nonprofit Group Disrupting the Homeless Services Sector San Francisco-based Urban Alchemy runs shelters and patrols streets in several cities, armed with a salty slogan, a controversial model and a reputation for moving fast.

Urban Alchemy, with its all-seeing eye logo and ’no fuckery’ slogan, seeks to disrupt the calcified homeless services sector across the country. For @bloomberg.com I looked at the group’s rapid growth and the cost of disruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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As intrigued about the future of delivery, urban curb management, and the fate of food delivery robots as I am? I’m moderating a panel covering that and more at Curbivore in LA on April 16 & 17. Click to register—> curbivore.co

Why the Real Oil Crisis Hasn’t Started Yet If the Strait of Hormuz remains closed much longer, things will get really bad, really fast.

The oil market bought a month reprieve thanks to strategic reserves, sanctioned oil, and the actual time it takes for tankers to reach their destinations. Now the shortages (and high prices) may really begin.

heatmap.news/energy/hormu...

Anyone Can Now Buy an Eames House—Sort Of A new kit of officially produced parts lets you build structures in the style of Ray and Charles Eames starting at $325 a square foot.

For @dwell.bsky.social I looked at a new launch from the Eames Office — a new prefab system for building your own Eames-inspired pavilion and living space. Is it curation or commercialization to update a storied design legacy into something akin to branded space? www.dwell.com/article/eame...