We’re not clear as to the specific member of the Bishop-Henchman libertarian power couple, but safe to assume it’s a man

Maryland legislature last night passed @govwesmoore.bsky.social's Transit Oriented Development bill with amendment proposed by @actfortransit.bsky.social.
The ACT amendment exempts mixed-use development on @wmata.com station parking lots from all local zoning rules that limit density & use. 1/2

Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether the Historic Preservation Review Board should be prevented from stopping projects for height and mass reasons. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):

Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether there are not enough historic districts, enough historic districts, or too many historic districts. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):

Map of DC historic preservation districts for the next two questions

Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether they support removing parking and travel lanes to build protected bike lanes. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):

Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether they support removing parking and travel lanes to build dedicated bus lanes. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):

Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether they support removing the Height Act entirely, only in certain cases, or not at all. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):

Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on how many more homes the District should build in the next 5 years: about as many as the last 5 years, twice as many, or three times as many. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):

Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether apartments should be legal in all parts of the District. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):

Trump Has Other Means to Make Tariff Mischief Unless Congress takes back its tariff power, there will be no ‘liberation day’ for America

Good rundown from @jbhenchman.bsky.social on where things stand now.

Gorsuch to Barrett: what's your deal, I can't figure you out

Roasted everyone but the Chief Justice

Gorsuch to Kagan, Sotomayor, Jackson: In every Biden executive order case, you voted to uphold what the President did. However vague the statute, however unprecedented the action, however attenuated the causation, you voted yes. So why are you in the majority with me in this case? Why?

Gorsuch to Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh: In every Biden executive order case, you voted to strike down what the President did. You said vague statutes, unprecedented actions, attenuated causation, that those are all fatal. So why are you in the dissent in this case? Why?

"Put not your trust in princes"

Psalm 146:3-5

Many of them live in DC and said they were voting for Oliver, but Oliver wasn't on the DC ballot...

Why Can’t D.C.—Or Anywhere Else—Remove Snow? The response to a non-exceptional snow storm undercuts public confidence in the nation’s capital and beyond.

"We have National Park Service-run spaces, from parks to small triangles, where clearing depends on federal choices and timelines rather than local needs.... The transit system clears train stops but not bus stops"

www.commonplace.org/p/joe-bishop...

Looking like the President will miss today's deadline to submit a budget: "On or after the first Monday in January but not later than the first Monday in February of each year, the President shall submit a budget of the United States Government for the following fiscal year." 31 U.S.C. § 1105(a)

"six seven"
-nephew

Preliminary Plans Filed For Safeway in Outer Richmond, San Francisco - San Francisco YIMBY Preliminary plans have been filed for an eight-story apartment complex at 850 La Playa Street in San Francisco’s Richmond District. The project will...

Almost every Safeway in San Francisco is planning a total rebuild into "housing over grocery." At least three recent proposals. Meanwhile, zero proposals from Safeway in the East Bay. sfyimby.com/2025/11/prel... sfyimby.com/2025/11/perm... sfyimby.com/2025/11/bern...

@scotusblog.com coverage: www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Watson v. RNC. It appeals a 5th Circuit decision holding that federal law requires election ballots be received by officials no later than election day. Mississippi, like 30 states and DC, counts mailed ballots to come in after election day.

continuing resolution, keeping the current spending levels from the last passed budget

The Supreme Court today declined to hear an appeal asking to overturn the Obergefell same-sex marriage decision, without comment and without dissent.

The case involved former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis and damages she owes to a couple she denied a marriage license to.

This is a Senate deal, House not on board. Most Dems will oppose but it will need only 10 Senate Dems to support. The thinking is that the House will be pressured to pass what Senate passes.

Rumored deal to end the government shutdown.

-CR and ban on reductions in force of fed govt employees through 1/30/26

-Minibus: Adoption of military construction/veterans, agricultural, and leg branch portions of budget

-Promise of vote in Dec on enhanced ACA subsidies.

Sauer, in his final argument, sticks with his position that the tariffs are not an exercise of the power to tax, but of the power to regulate commerce.

In response to a question by Jackson, Oregon's Gutman says the tariffs do not address fentanyl because they are too indirect and aren't on traffickers. Jackson points out that embargoes and sanctions often are indirect, and a pressure points.

There’s an obvious reason that Congress hasn’t authorized imposing a 1% tariff to respond to an international emergency: what emergency would be addressed by such an action?