Adam Goodman

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

when you win a small concession you just get to keep yelling btw. one time a local official said to me "you people are never happy" and like: correct! it is not our job to be happy with compromise! it's our job to be annoying forever actually

I have to know, did Peter actually realize that "I don't think it's an (e)l" was the perfect comeback in an argument about heavy rail metro systems?

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"

Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Anyway I got the engineering drawings out of MDOT's bid-letting system if you want to try to scrutinize them: drive.google.com/file/d/1o3Cq...

I believe the proposed design is almost exactly the same as the current design, except that they'll stick in some flexposts where there's currently only a painted buffer.

Some big changes might be coming soon, just not as part of this project. UM wants to make that block of Madison bus-only and make it a major transit stop, along with some other changes.

See a2gov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=... and/or www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLdn...

So you're saying that supply and demand is actually real? #a2council

Nextdoor post from [redacted]: “four bedroom house for rent. $700 a room available for august 2026 with a 12 month lease. Looking for University of Michigan students. House located at [address redacted], one block from Main St. and three blocks from the student union. Utilities included in rent, free parking and free laundry.”

Chaser (same person):

Nextdoor post by [redacted]: “I think we are over building these things. I understand rents have come down significantly in many of them. We own student rents and charge affordable rents that are now competing with those high rises so that we as independent landlords are having trouble getting tenants in our houses. We have enough high rises, please.”

You love to see it #A2Council.

Michigan's Housing Reform Bills Are the Real Deal Michigan is short 119,000 homes. A bipartisan package of nine bills would actually fix that. Here's why they matter, why they're under attack, and how to fight back.

This is a *really* excellent explanation / discussion on the housing bill package currently being discussed in Lansing www.nathanbiller.com/blog/housing...

My eleven-year-old was sitting in our living room when she asked me gravely, "daddy, why did Big Gretch let someone build a duplex five feet from our property line?" When I told her "because she believes in supply and demand," she started crying. #a2council

Fact Check: Jesse Singal Lies About Trans Care At The New York Times The New York Times spreads misinformation about transgender people yet again.

Here's a fact check of something they just published a couple weeks ago. Jesus Christ, Jill. Read it. There are wild distortions and factual errors in the NYT piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check...

Also this crap only ever applies one way. The idea that it’s anti-democratic or insulting to voters to criticize a president only holds when we’re talking about delicate Republican snowflakes. I heard this exactly never about attacks on Biden or Obama.

As someone who pays a lot of attention to #a2council politics and knows many of the people involved to varying degrees, the “Mayor Taylor machine” narrative has always been a strong signal of either ignorance or bad faith. These data show this clearly.

As the election season ramps up, listen for the candidates who are centering their campaigns on the “Taylor machine” fallacy and consider what else they might be ignorant of or mischaracterizing.

We ought to be able to build like this in Ann Arbor bsky.app/profile/holz...

Every political discussion in Ann Arbor feels like this. #a2council

🧵 Living in Michigan, if a political issue seems frustratingly impossible to advance, you can almost always find the roots in policies motivated by racial and economic segregation. When you scrape back the "housing theory of everything" you find racism and classism under the hood.

Residential protectionism reigns, only "major streets" will get upzoned. Sadly the unwashed masses won't get gas fireplaces either.

Tho I do low-key love the idea that #a2council might protect Burns Park from upzoning only for the state to do an end-around and eliminate lot size restrictions.

end the witch hunt

The most recent Epstein cancellation was a few hours ago of the influential medical doctor Peter Attia

While many might view the behavior and comments of those individuals as ugly, nothing has yet emerged to suggest they did anything sufficiently wrong or criminal to merit losing their jobs. There is no clear evidence to conclude that any of them were complicit in Epstein’s crimes.

Get in loser, we're doing the cancel culture panic again
www.public.news/p/end-the-wi...

kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain on a stage . ALT: kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain on a stage .

I CAN BARELY CONTAIN MY EXCITEMENT

Ann Arbor AF - Get informed, then get involved. It's your city! Get informed, then get involved. It's your city!

Ann Arbor AF, the podcast helping folks in and around Ann Arbor get informed about local politics and then get involved on issues like housing, transportation, and community safety, is back for 2026! Find us wherever you get your podcasts, or on our website, annarboraf.com #a2council

Chicago Just Named A Snowplow ‘Abolish ICE’— Here Are The Other Winners The city received a record number of entries and votes for its fourth annual snowplow-naming contest.

As a city with named plows, we should definitely also do this #a2council

blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/23/c...

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

@ryanbforward3.bsky.social I met you a couple times in Lansing to advocate for public transit / bike stuff. I think you impressed me the most out of the legislative staffers I talked to. You seemed to have clear command of facts and policy.

So this is disappointing, and I hope it's a fluke.

This. There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about Arbor South. I'm still deeply ambivalent about it, and I respect CMs Cornell, Akmon, and Briggs' reasons for opposing it. But saying it will "cost us over $300 million" is a gross mischaracterization of how a TIF works.

Sure your local library is great but does it have a Kigurumi groundhog named Akako G Shins

Can't fuckin' believe I'm doing this but here goes: Twitter is a mind prison, a true jail of career advancement. I stopped posting on there and within months I became the CEO of The Onion and I'm not kidding. Went back on last year, felt worse, then left again.