“America has the greatest road network in the world … [and] includes 10 of the 25 most congested cities.“ Someone in Sean Duffy’s office is both so close and so far from getting it.

Midnight, if you don't mind cutting it sort of close.

I said this one recently, but I don't think Pope John Paul I died of natural causes.

Also because spending $35 at the airport is like eating McDonald’s at the airport. It doesn’t count. It’s not real.

I always check a bag because I neurotically insist on arriving at the airport very early and I don’t want to shlep my luggage around for the 2-3 hours before my flight takes off.

I am once again asking LA residents to vote @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social, the candidate who is actually serious about making LA affordable and sustainable.

The fact that Karen Bass dropped her “climate plan” for Los Angeles days before she reaffirmed her commitment to killing local transit oriented development is a sick joke.

Once again need to remind everyone that the supposedly crime-infested hellhole of New York is one of the safest cities in the country in no small part because most people in the central area don’t drive. America has a much bigger car problem than a violent crime problem.

Unfunded IZ presupposes a permenant housing shortage: the moment rents fall too low to cross-subsidize the unfunded mandate, development stops until rents rise again. It's housing policy pseudoscience.

No newsletter this week, I have to turn in the final final version of the Build or Die manuscript on Thursday, and I’m eyeball deep in edits.

That’s not true

Anyway vote @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social

“We’re going to electrify the bus fleet that will remain at chronically low ridership and service levels because we don’t have the density to sustain high quality transit.“ okay cool thanks

Mayor Bass has a new plan for addressing climate change in Los Angeles Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has released a new climate change plan for Los Angeles, setting goals for solar energy, EV chargers and water recycling.

Any climate plan from the LA mayor should be considered a joke as long as the city remains unwilling to do anything about the fact that most of its residential land is in single-family-only areas where people will inevitably be forced to rely on cars to get around. www.latimes.com/environment/...

do NOT call me a NIMBY. I FULLY support new housing if it is AFFORDABLE, passes my personal VIBE check, will not be lived in by people I consider UNCOOL and is constructed only when the MOON is waxing, upon the APPROPRIATE ley lines

Post from me re Platner: "Still hasn't sat down with any Jewish leaders in Maine, acknowledged lying about his tattoo, or explained any of his suggestive allusions to cosmopolitan elites conspiring to take him down"

Deleted this because I had missed the news that Platner had hosted a seder a couple weeks ago. (Points 2 and 3 in the post still stand.) www.jta.org/2026/03/31/p...

I’ll correct if you send me a citation

Note also that the former is often a consequence of not building any new housing in the area, while the latter is often a consequence of building new housing in the area, and yet they both get treated like the same phenomenon.

Donate to Help Rohingya Refugee Families with Basic Needs, organized by Carolina S The Rohingya community in South Asia has been devastated by the withdrawal … Carolina S needs your support for Help Rohingya Refugee Families with Basic Needs

A PhD student in my department is doing fieldwork with Rohingya refugees in Delhi. She is raising money for families who have been severely impacted by massive cuts to foreign aid and by attacks by the state. She will distribute this directly as these folks have no access to banking or wage labor.

Gina Milan standing with the Pope over Trump

lol

This is the most succinct summary you’ll see on the Hopkins bike lane saga, yet it still fills a thread.

Thanks to everyone who continues to fight for a safe Hopkins. A full win is in sight!

And after we win let’s fix the process so we never again have to battle for 10 years to make a street safe.

Trump administration plans to release money for Second Avenue Subway after MTA lawsuit President Donald Trump has for months bottled up promised money for the project.

if Sean Duffy hates public transit so much, why does he always take the L? www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Mamdami’s pied a terre tax is just going to further squeeze working class commuters who had to buy a Greenwich Village row house to avoid paying the congestion charge every day.

Build or Die: How America Is Suffocating Its Cities and What to Do about It How America Is Suffocating Its Cities and What to Do about It

And as a reminder, my forthcoming book is also available for preorder! bookshop.org/p/books/buil...

Fixed! bsky.app/profile/resn...

The Odyssey: An Illustrated Guide: A Character-by-Character Guide to the Story of Odysseus A Character-by-Character Guide to the Story of Odysseus

Very excited to see that the host of @lahpodcast.bsky.social—one of the best history podcasts out there on literature *or* history—has a book coming out. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

“If you live in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, consider driving [to World Cup matches] so the out-of-town visitors can utilize the transit system,” said MPO program manager in north central Texas.

Meanwhile, Boston’s MBTA & NJ Transit are charging attendees up to $100 to ride trains.

What a joke.

let's just say you're going to end up making some unsavory pals, whether you realize it or not.

If you're trying to build a popular political tendency around the idea that there are no legitimate political conflicts between the true American folk, and all their problems are being caused by a shadowy elite that engages in financial speculation and media manipulation ... well ...