The American Century of Humiliation is here baby. We're gonna be driving old cars breaking down like Cuba while the rest of the world has EVs and gets car check ups like once every 5 years.

Some of the new stuff getting built now will someday be viewed as iconic. Some will be seen as ugly and will get replaced over time. This is just how it goes and is fine. I do agree that overengineering the aesthetics in the code constrains creativity and has unintended consequences.

Yeah, this does not hold up. There’s a long history of people hating new architectural styles or specific buildings we now view as iconic and beloved when they first appeared. NIMBYs might point to style when justifying their opposition, but it’s an excuse like any other. Also, beauty is subjective!

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And in SF, we get the Working Families Party endorsing Lori Brooke

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The $580 million short oil bet was the smaller of the two insider trades. The larger one, placed at the exact same time (6:49-6:50am), was between $1.4-$1.9 billion to go long S&P 500 e-Mini futures.

Over $2 billion in Trump traitor trades, all wildly profitable 15 minutes later after Trump's post.

2/ false claims of the President of the United States that there's a totally new plan and things are about to become awesome again. Whatever the intent, it's practically an ATM machine now for market gaming.

As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...

the left nimby program in a nutshell

1: "decommodify housing"
2: sadly, no new housing is built
3: i inherit my parents' house

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

San Francisco from the Dolores Park fruit shelf

San Francisco is a lovely place to live and we should build more homes so that people can make their lives here.

Roberts Courts legacy is to make it harder for ordinary people to engage in the most basic form of participation (voting), for that participation to matter (letting gerrymandering stand), while removing any constraints from billionaire influence on politics

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago

www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

I feel like just using the word “warfighters” like a stupid child is grounds for impeachment

This is at best a distraction from policies that would actually help bring down the cost of housing, and at worst will keep single-family neighborhoods income-segregated by locking out more renters.

I’m at my office in downtown SF and definitely felt that one!

How To Delay Affordable Senior Housing in SF, Despite a Law That Blocks Appeals Bernal Heights neighbors demanded and got a smaller building. Now they say it shouldn’t cut a private park in half. This wasn’t meant to happen.

Thanks to @thefrisc.bsky.social for featuring us in today's article on "How To Delay Affordable Senior Housing in SF, Despite a Law That Blocks Appeals" thefrisc.com/how-to-delay...

The groups and individuals in California that are fighting to block more housing production—many of whom claim to be fighting for progressive values—seem intent on delivering the White House to JD Vance.

Defend markets, ignore everything else Alex Pretti and the one true omnicause

From @jerusalem.bsky.social: “The problem for elites who wish to silo their politics in the realm of pure economics is that it is not actually possible to cleave the “rule of law when it comes to dealing with protesters” away from the “rule of law that enforces contracts.”

an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars

Picture of the a plaque at the German Resistance Memorial in Berlin.

You did not bear the shame.
You resisted.
You bestowed the eternally vigilant symbol of change by sacrificing your impassioned lives for freedom, justice and honour.

— The German Resistance Memorial in Berlin

Lessons from YIMBYism: Taking “Abundance” Back to Its Fundamentals Lessons from YIMBYism examines how supply-side reforms, public investment, and state capacity can make progressive social policy work as intended.

First: Supply matters. To decarbonize, you need green energy infrastructure. For universal health care, you need a lot of doctors. And you can't buy your way out of supply constraints solely through subsidies. You need subsidy *and* increased supply. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.

Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty is the final nail in the coffin of left-NIMBYism.

progressive pro-housing politics is the future

Fantastic choice by Mayor Lurie! Ruth is smart, earnest, tireless, and dedicated to building bridges in the wild world of SF politics.

Simply getting the state to socialize all that risk is not an alternative to substantially reducing the risk. If you do the former without the latter, you're basically hamstringing the state and penalizing low-income Californians who live outside the WUI.

The 86 affordable units provided in this project that Supervisor Chan claims "aren't enough" are 6x what has been built in the Marina in the last 2 decades.

D9 Neighbors for Housing Holiday Social Come help us celebrate all D9 Neighbors for Housing has accomplished this year, and also raise money to support the great work Mission Food Hub does in the neighborhood. We'll enjoy beverages and ligh...

Come help us celebrate all D9 Neighbors for Housing has accomplished this year, and also raise money to support the great work Mission Food Hub does in the neighborhood! RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/d9-ne...

Be Right Back - Wikipedia

Black Mirror saw it coming back in 2013 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Righ...