Every couple of months or so, someone puts out a piece of bad social science meant to undermine the case for more housing. For Roosevelt Institute, I wrote a blog post responding to the two most recent specimens. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/there-i...
Jasmine Crockett is a star and I can guarantee she's not done fighting! Congratulations to James Talarico! Lets turn Texas blue!!!
Cornyn and Paxton both stink.
Need Table Flippers for Talarico merch for my Christian Dem friends
LET’S FLIP TABLES, TEXAS!
How does a city's "hum" affect the neighbors we don’t see? 🦉🦊
From disrupted bird songs to survival challenges, noise is an ecological issue. Watch our latest deep dive here:
https://youtu.be/YpnXQFjxR88?si=v1FsAbB67gokVt3Z
Building cities of urban calm.
#UrbanCalm #NoMoreNoise #Ecology #Toro
Attacking people makes them far less defensive, hostile, and reactionary, duh, it's just human psychology.
*checks PSY101 notes* Wait.
if nothing else I am glad non-Texan discourse about TX-Sen primaries will be over
Transpo folks! 🚲
I'm studying changes in non-automobile street infrastructure that have gradually hardened over time (ex: bike lanes developing from nothing ➡️ paint ➡️ flexposts ➡️ physical barriers).
Do you have any examples? Pedestrian plazas, bike lanes, bus lanes, other projects done or in dev?
Jesus Christ. (Literally.)
That’s my fear.
Clarifying: I understand the regime does not fall immediately after the death of the leader. But what happens next here to ensure a new government is formed in its place and how does the violence get us there?
Question for those smarter on international relations than I am:
If the U.S. has killed the supreme leader in Iran, among other top officials, what is the continued bombing campaign for? And why no declaration of support for the revolutionary leader?
Pessimistic reasons notwithstanding.
About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.
A view across train tracks showing a family approaching a stadium on bikes
If you’re wondering about the city we’re building here in Austin:
Here’s a view out of the packed-to-capacity TRAIN we rode from downtown to the Austin FC match, with families (including precious littles!!) arriving safely via BIKE. Plus free bike valet to park around the corner!
💚🖤💚🖤💚
Not military action, illegal act of war.
Fun fact: the US has been at continual war since 1945 and *not a single one of these wars*, from the Korean War to Vietnam to Iraq to Iraq again, was ever declared war by Congress.
The last time the US Congress declared war was 1942. 83 years ago.
“We’re entitled to it.” Huh
![announcing our next read
SOLIDARITY CITIES
by Safri, Pavlovskaya, Healy, and Borowiak
[book cover]
PICK UP AT THIS WEEK'S MEETING
27 February 2026 • 6:30 PM • Walter's Tavern
DISCUSSIONS START NEXT WEEK • INTRO
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announcing our next read SOLIDARITY CITIES by Safri, Pavlovskaya, Healy, and Borowiak [book cover] PICK UP AT THIS WEEK'S MEETING 27 February 2026 • 6:30 PM • Walter's Tavern DISCUSSIONS START NEXT WEEK • INTRO 6 March 2026 • 6:30 PM • Location TBD
NEXT: Solidarity Cities! Learn how cities are actively resisting & repairing from racial capitalism with solidarity-based community development.
Order while supplies last: thelittlegayshop.com/collections/...
Pick-up available Friday at our regular meeting or in-store at The Little Gay Shop after!
Really enjoyed this. More than a history of NYC econ devt, it fundamentally questions the "growth-is-always-good" paradigm that still dominates urban policy & planning. As a teaser, here are some brief excerpts from the book that I think are highly relevant for urban policy and planning folks today.
Shocking to none
Hi, I work in housing. This is a number they simply made up! Don’t believe them. Thanks.
"you look happier"
thanks i took the bus here
Three folks standing in front of a screen, James Talarico in the center
Loving Texas means fighting for all of Texas. @jamestalarico.bsky.social knows that, speaks on that, acts on that. He’s a fighter who stands on strong ground.
Early voting is happening NOW; Election Day is 3/3. Let’s send Talarico to the U.S. Senate.
He’s a Texas legend in the making.
My grandfather helped liberate the concentration camps. I was brought up to recognize institutionalized evil. This is institutionalized evil.
Ayn Rand, Famous Christian
Leftist voting discourse is a great example of online discourse polarization. A bunch of liberals did sincere Get Out The Vote posts and now there’s a subset of the online population that sneer at voting reflexively and have to come up with a moral justification for it.
A book I highly recommend on electronic slot machines—which fully convinced me they should be illegal for how they systematically mislead our brains—is Natasha Dow Schüll‘s ADDICTION BY DESIGN
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
And for those looking to correct this insanity, some wisdom on how to advocate for change: rss.com/podcasts/the...
