Big news, Kansas City! The #kcstreetcar Riverfront Extension officially opens for passenger service on Monday, May 18 & you’re invited to celebrate with us at 11 a.m. on the riverfront! More details soon.

just like a fe more lanes bro, just like a couple more interstates, just like an extra lane here and there, just one more bro

Cities can and do negotiate to get affordable units included in new projects and this is fine and good but too often this includes giving property tax relief of some kind which is bad! Welfare through tax policy is bad! just keep the taxes and spend them dircetly on units we know will be affordable!

Unfunded Inclusionary Zoning is a dumb idea! We want public goods, lets make public services for them and build public capacity to deliver! For-profit firms seek to make profit and instead of trying to make capitalist institutions into something they're not, just build non-capitalist alterantives!!!

I believe that for-profit developers are capitalist institutions seeking to make money. Logically, limiting their ability to make profit from some units would cause them to raise rents on other units to make up the difference. Alternatively, spend tax money to subsidize the units and avoid this mess

if you wanted to tax while also spurring development, levy an LVT or a simpler tax on vacant lots. Tucson has like a million of these within a mile of downtown and its mind boggling, Phoenix is fucking insane in how much infill potential it has

So Portland introduced this exact thing in 2017, it seemed to work out until the big hike in interest rates completely changed the finances of house building, now it’s completely killed house building in Portland.

this bureaucratic nonsense has real implications, people will continue choosing between $3000 in rent and driving 2 hours to get to work, it means forcing people who would other take transit to spend $1000 a month to pollute unecessarily. Killing dreams and people over a dislike of tall buildings

its an imperative that we empower the urban service sector and office industries in the western US to have group self preservation against ye old agriculture and resource extraction

yeah I don't know where I'm going in a few years but I get to spend the next year or so (maybe longer?) working in policy and advocacy that's becoming increasingly serious and noticed so I might as well pursue this for a bit

this might've literally been the hardest decision of my life so far to make, *transitioning* was easier because at least I knew what I wanted

yeah, I'm just venting because I am feeling conflicted about the whole decision and I feel like there's a slightly different version of me from just like a year ago that decides to go elsewhere and Im not sure how I feel about my mind changing that quickly

its an issue more broadly but Phoenix in particular is a metro area that was completely redesigned in the 50s around the idealized suburban reality of completely obliterating social density and nothing has emerged since to cater to young people trying to hang out on a regular basis

I have a chance to get foot in the door to work in policy but I don’t know how far this could actually lead, for all I know this ends next year and goes nowhere. On the other hand I’m hosting lunches for state legislators and they’re asking me my thoughts on things I’m passionate about

leaving for New Jersey is reasonable, it is probably the safest career and life wise, why do I like living here, Ive trying to run all my life and now I can but for once I want to stay

An earlier version me says fuck in get me out of this place and high tails it to Rutgers or UVA, but now I’ve bled myself to get in and I’m looking at my stupid little projects in Arizona and not wanting to leave

I’m going to make the wrong decision tonight and I hate myself for it. no matter what I pick I’ll hate myself in ten years , I don’t want to restart again and again I dont want to trap myself here. I never thought I’d be alive this long and now you’re asking me to picture myself 50 years from now

very especially eric fucking swalwell does not fall into this nonexistent category, throw the whole man out

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

the two other local bookstores I have gone to ethier carry more queer romance than cishet stuff or sells used books only

idk I went to a local communist cafe bookstore and while there a lot of stuff from haymarket press there weren't many romance options (though I figure this may be a unique situation)

I think this helped but I don't think this was the cause per se. Liberals over 50 are pretty normie news consumers (though this is changing) and despite the whitewashing language its basically impossible to read about famine and repeated Israeli attacks on medics and not draw reasonable conlcusions

ofc you can't forget the looming shadow of the military industrial complex, nor the puesdo old west menatility, but those sunset mountain views make it worth it

this describes Tucson quite aptly (Phoenix less so)

its all gender confirmation:2463649976

The American Interdict Crisis of 2026

See related events:
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- Third Vatican Council
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- 2nd Siege of Waco

Tocqueville, who I am sure Americans have read

Our ten point plan, which I am sure the president of the United States read and understood before agreeing to...

"The problem with being a populist yourself is that once you accept populism’s essential premise—that the essence of politics is the struggle between a homogeneous cadre of elites and a homogeneous mass of the people—you become relatively defenseless against other, more poisonous populist factions."

Citizenship is a rent and like all rentiers citizens have developed an acute sense of entitlement

Every day damns us as a people. A healthy country wouldn’t have elected and then re-elected Trump.

But even today, hours have passed since Trump’s statement and nothing has been done to ensure he can’t follow through.

No process for removal has started. Nothing has been done.