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Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social |
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Policy Director, California YIMBY (@cayimby.bsky.social)
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Ned Resnikoff
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The collapse of the Tories is obviously the big story of this election, but it's tough to argue that Labour had their worst electoral performance in a decade when they have been out of power for that entire decade and now have nearly a 2/3rds parliamentary majority.
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Ned Resnikoff
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Perhaps the actual biggest obstacle is that traffic engineering is an entirely broken profession.
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Ned Resnikoff
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"What words did pollsters report were associated with Starmer? 'Nothing,' 'Labour,' 'not sure,' and 'don’t know.'" www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Ned Resnikoff
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Especially true as cars get larger and larger while transporting the same number of people
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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the other thing is that people have no sense of how much space cars and so they imagine that a road full of cars must be a lot of people when it very often is not. a well-used bike lane transports like twice as many people during a given time as does a road
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Ned Resnikoff
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It's a truism in US poll analysis that even if a generic Democrat polls well against Trump, there's no such thing as a generic Democrat and every actually existing candidate comes with baggage. But in the UK they somehow found the world's most generic Labour PM candidate and absolutely cleaned up.
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Ned Resnikoff
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To a millionaire idiot in a nice car, everyone not in a car is an NPC
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Ned Resnikoff
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[Zizek voice] Itsh pure ideology
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Ned Resnikoff
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I've become convinced that one of the biggest obstacles to better road design in commercial areas is well-off business owners who drive their BMW to work every day and find it impossible to imagine a customer who uses any other mode of conveyance to arrive at the shop.
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Ned Resnikoff
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This is tough. Because on the one hand, giving more of the road over to pedestrians is great for the climate, air quality, noise impacts, public safety, and local businesses. But on the other hand, there are few good transportation options other than driving in [checks notes] Midtown Manhattan.
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Ned Resnikoff
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As you watch the UK results come in, remember that Tooting is the real bellwether here. It all comes down to Tooting. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Pwnallthethings
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occurs to me that bribing the president is now /always/ legal, since in every case the only way to distinguish gratuity from bribe is via evidence that could never be admissible
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Ned Resnikoff
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The End of History and the Last Momala
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Ned Resnikoff
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If I were a self-described liberal or leftist beating the drum over local control of zoning, I would take a moment to consider who my bedfellows are on this issue.
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Ned Resnikoff
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Biden administration resuscitated AFFH
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Ned Resnikoff
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There are a lot of conservatives who support zoning reform for good-faith reasons but it appears the MAGA crew at Heritage cares more about maintaining segregation than they do about property rights or functional markets.
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Ned Resnikoff
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"Localities rather than the federal government must have the
final say in zoning laws and regulations, and a conservative Administration should oppose any efforts to weaken single-family zoning." static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...
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Ned Resnikoff
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Very far down the list of things that are bad about Project 2025, but since it's in my wheelhouse I do feel obliged to note that a second Trump term would be a gift to NIMBYs. They're promising AFFH repeal + aggressive defense of single-family zoning. static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...
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Dan Murphy
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Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.
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Ned Resnikoff
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Last point: we won't have a second American Revolution because the second revolution already happened. The defeat of Davis and Lee, the pulverization of the slaveocracy and the passage of the Reconstruction amendments -- THAT was the second revolution.
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Ned Resnikoff
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Reminder that while it took some doing, the republic did ultimately squash Davis's treason attempt and came out better on the other side.
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Ned Resnikoff
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These guys are traitors to the republic just like their heroes Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee
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Ned Resnikoff
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New newsletter post with some additional notes on my exchange with Steve Randy Waldman resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/yimbyism-f...
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Ned Resnikoff
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Hear me out. Top of the ticket: Kamala Harris Running mate: The guy who plays Reacher in the REACHER streaming show.
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Ned Resnikoff
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Here's the map for the Bay Area. I for one would love to have some large affordable housing developments at those four sites in prime Marin County. Too bad Caltrans just flat-out refuses to do it!
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Ned Resnikoff
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(The actual reason is that Caltrans hews to a tendentious, untested reading of Article XIX of the California Constitution, under which they supposed can't relinquish any of this unused property to be used for non-transportation purposes.)
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Ned Resnikoff
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What's this? Oh, just a map of un-utilized sites, owned by Caltrans, that the department could convert into dense infill housing through the state's excess sites program. Why won't they? Dunno, ask them! experience.arcgis.com/experience/f...
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Ned Resnikoff
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Longtermism and e/acc are just extremely rickety, sophistic justifications for stuff like this.
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Ned Resnikoff
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Shades of www.theonion.com/this-war-wil...
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Ned Resnikoff
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You have to almost envy the bland obliviousness that would lead someone to write this after yesterday's immunity ruling www.bangordailynews.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Ned Resnikoff
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I'm not sure if it's transphobia per se so much as it is being a famous billionaire poster that causes this specific type of brain rot.
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Ned Resnikoff
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I don't care for it
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Ned Resnikoff
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@jerusalem.bsky.social nails it on Grants Pass: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Ned Resnikoff
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It rules that after inventing a completely arbitrary and selective "deeply rooted in our traditions" test, the Court completely abandoned it for the Trump immunity case so they wouldn't have to deal with how a bunch of 18th century dudes who worshipped Cicero would think about literal Caesarism.
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United Farm Workers
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Today, the federal government put itself on the right side of history by seeking, for the 1st time, to establish the precedent that every worker in America has the right to shade, water & rest while working in temps that could kill them. -UFW President Teresa Romero
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Michael Podhorzer
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Brett Kavanaugh told the Senate: “No one’s above the law in the United States, that’s a foundational principle…. We’re all equal before the law…. The foundation of our Constitution was that…the presidency would not be a monarchy…. [T]he president is not above the law, no one is above the law.”
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Michael Podhorzer
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Samuel Alito said: “There is nothing that is more important for our republic than the rule of law. No person in this country, no matter how high or powerful, is above the law.”
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Michael Podhorzer
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In their confirmation hearings… John Roberts said: “I believe that no one is above the law under our system and that includes the president. The president is fully bound by the law, the Constitution, and statutes.”
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i think we should see the Trump v. United States ruling as a group of Republican apparatchiks taking their opportunity to vindicate Nixon and write the unitary executive into the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Ned Resnikoff
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It's a reminder that the form of government now being imposed by the Supreme Court — the counter-majoritarianism, the unbound executive, the sanctioned corruption, the stripping of women's bodily autonomy — has deep roots in American history.
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Ned Resnikoff
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Been reading Ganz's WHEN THE CLOCK BROKE and the chapter on David Duke's political career feels especially salient this week. Not just for the obvious reasons but for the capsule history of Louisiana as a corrupt authoritarian state ruling a fractious multiethnic society.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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Many Black Americans are one generation away from formal authoritarianism. That's not how we often talk about policies like Jim Crow but that's what it was.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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A lot of Americans do know what it's like to live under an authoritarian regime. My parents do. Many immigrants ended up in the US because they were fleeing authoritarianism (sometimes US backed). Offhand Haitians, Dominicans, Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, Koreans all know.
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Jason O. Gilbert
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In awe of this tweet, which truly captures everything bad about mainstream journalism in 2024
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Max Kennerly
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Correct. A prudent, law-abiding President who appoints qualified agency personnel to enact thoughtful regulations is going to see their agenda inevitably fail. A malicious, arbitrary President who runs around barking illegal commands at people will be rewarded.
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Guggenheim Collection
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