Ian Christian Myers

I think we should hear them out on this.

Yesterday, 7 million people gathered to make it clear: America has no kings. 🇺🇸

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

Great work by the Aaron Peskins of the world driving people out of California and into disenfranchisement by not just refusing to build housing but actively blocking it.

It’s past time we built more homes in California. We are all paying the price for NIMBYism

A leader who blames everyone else is a coward.

When I search Matt Yglesias’s feed on X I see several tweets in support of congestion pricing going back several years.

The price of housing is set by supply and demand.

In high-demand areas, the ONLY way to stabilize or reduce housing prices is by building a lot of new homes, including privately-built homes for sale or rent on the open market.

Anyone who tells you otherwise has an agenda.

I don’t think this is how elected leaders should treat their constituents.

The part of the left that believes that the housing crisis is unrelated to supply is no different than MAGA types who refuse to believe in climate change.

I’m not allowed to accept gifts worth more than $200 at my job as a middle manager at a medium-sized tech company with very little influence over any budget.

Drone photo of Ocean Beach in San Francisco with a group of people gathered in a circle, forming the words "impeach + remove" inside. An upside-down American flag is inside the circle as well.

Drone photo of Ocean Beach in San Francisco with a group of people gathered in a circle, forming the words "impeach + remove" inside. An upside-down American flag is inside the circle as well.

Protesters in San Francisco formed an “Impeach & Remove” human banner on Ocean Beach during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday.

📸: Stephen Lam

yes

The book Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

I’m only about 20 pages in, but I’m curious if this book is on your radar.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

I knew I shouldn’t have used that @!*$# AI!

I think the questions of how we achieve abundance and for whom is where we see stronger left/moderate/right divides rather than abundance vs. scarcity.

With YIMBY often being free market-oriented, there’s a leftist strain of anti-YIMBYism that is concerned with the gentrification that market-based housing solutions might create. I suppose these folks are still pro-abundance, but prefer non-market based solutions.

I agree with that as well, but the left/moderate framing still gives me pause. YIMBYism (housing abundance) in SF is moderate coded and anti-YIMBY is left coded. I think hiding in there at least in this issue is a question of whether free markets are right path to housing abundance.

I agree that we should be pursuing an abundance agenda over maintaining scarcity. I’m curious who and what you have in mind when you bring in the moderate vs left framing here.

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13.

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.

Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.

It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

I.R.S. to Begin Laying Off Roughly 6,000 Employees on Thursday The terminations will target relatively recent hires at the I.R.S., which the Biden administration had attempted to revitalize.

This seems like a good year to cheat on your taxes, if it’s something you’re inclined to do. Probably the best year in decades, really.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.

There’s not.

San Francisco is back, baby!

i’ll be honest, i think equating land use reform with neoliberal deregulation and building code reform with tenements is a clear indication that the anti-YIMBYs are not particularly interested in solving the problem of high housing costs

Evidence has demonstrated this effect in numerous cities now.

I understand why it sounds weird to say, 'building a bunch of fancy new townhouses and skyscrapers will make housing more affordable!' but it simply appears to be true.

So are we pronouncing it “Blue Sky,” “Blew-ski,” or “Blues, Kentucky?”