@SeanTrende He's much more Napoleon III than Louis XV anyway
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Joe Sierputowski
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Joe Sierputowski
@JoeSierputowski
Columbia Heights defender
Washington, DC Beigetreten Nisan 2013
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Asked for comment, Donald Trump reportedly said: "apres moi le deluge." (note Donald Trump did not actually say this)
Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER)@speechboy71
Democrats in Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Maryland, New York, Oregon, and Washington will soon find themselves under enormous pressure to draw new maps in 2008 ... the gerrymandering arms race is actually going to get worse.
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@conorsen There's a discipline that pols in non-competitive states lack. It helps explain why Rs in OH have acted so much more normally than those in AZ, despite OH trending hard red and AZ doing the opposite. The past perception of dominance creates a permission structure for kookiness
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The biggest shift in Georgia between 2022 and 2026 is Warnock had to run on his own personal brand to overcome the partisan environment, whereas this year running as a DEMOCRAT is seen as a winning approach.
Greg Bluestein@bluestein
Former President Barack Obama endorses Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin, the Democratic-backed challengers seeking to oust Georgia Supreme Court justices Charlie Bethel and Sarah Warren in the May 19 vote. Former VP Kamala Harris earlier endorsed Jordan and Rankin, too. #gapol
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@TylerDinucci I didn't know that. My favorite sea-related etymology is the ark, the Hebrew word for which derives from Assyrian for a rectangular box. That's been argued to show that the Noah story was imported from Mesopotamia: the Judeans as seafarers would've known a box doesn't float.
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@dilanesper I'm not that worried about The Game in particular, even format changes cannot quell sectarian conflict
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The reality is you can either have a regular season that means everything (English Premier League) or a meaningful postseason tournament (NCAA basketball).
You can't have both.
Seth Berry@berry_seth14
In this format, Michigan and Ohio State will just be able to rest their starters in The Game knowing they will both already have clinched spots in a 24-team playoff. This would be the complete and utter ruining of a once sacred regular season.
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@conorsen @TylerDinucci Presidentialism: not even once
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@TylerDinucci It’s kind of crazy how we rely on random presidential nominees (and I suppose Events) to shake the etch-a-sketch on coalitions.
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@daveweigel @ChazNuttycombe The former reached its apotheosis with a riff about crucial Waukesheux Département during I think the first Macron race
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@ChazNuttycombe @JoeSierputowski I believe so, yes. I definitely coined Waukesha County, my turnout joke was one of my clowns on political reporter/candidate cliches
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Do I have the lore correctly on "It all comes down to turnout" being attributed to the 2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court election when folks also came up with "Crucial Waukeshea County?" What's the etymology of the phrase
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@jmhorp A lot of that is changing political geography since 2016
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@TheStalwart @tracyalloway @MayorBMScott There's a good book called the Divided City from a while ago that discusses how neighborhood displacement from falling property values is much more common than displacement from rising values. amazon.com/Divided-City-P….
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NEW ODD LOTS:
How Baltimore's mayor is fighting the city's vacant housing crisis
@tracyalloway and I talk to @MayorBMScott a very different type of real estate problem than many cities have, and what it takes to bring in investment and population open.spotify.com/episode/7MX26c…
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yes, nat'l Dem fave Brian Poindexter's main opponent is THAT Ed FitzGerald, former Cuyahoga County executive and disastrous 2014 Dem governor nominee
umichvoter@umichvoter
Bernie endorsed candidate Brian Poindexter in a close primary for #OH07 held by Republican Max Miller Trump +11 district in 2024
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@TylerDinucci There's a great podcast called the History of English that starts at Proto-Indo European, and it's striking how many roots go that far back. Many germanic words are slightly altered from PIE roots: lots of "P" words became "F" words in Germanic (Pater vs Father, Ped vs Foot)
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@rwlesq @RtrnSanity @dilanesper I agree with you that on pragmatic grounds that's a more fruitful approach, especially in suburbs. Places like my home, DC, should be more ambitious in allowing high density housing everywhere.
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Realistically, you're probably not getting a 40-floor tower in a SFO neighborhood. However, a lot of YIMBY rhetoric is about how someone should be allowed to build that tower if they want to. And like I said, that is both bad politics and bad policy.
You'll make a lot more headway if you say "we need more housing here, and that's why we should allow people to split their 2-acre lots into 1/2 acre lots" than you will if you say "...and that's why we need to get rid of zoning entirely." Particularly if all you expect anyone to do is divide some 2-acre lots into 1/2-acre or 1-acre lots.
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Southern California IS the best place on Earth and we don't need people who don't live here and don't like the way we live to say arrogant stuff like this.
Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU@CompletedStreet
If it were walkable and managed properly, Southern California would be the best place on earth.
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@rwlesq @RtrnSanity @dilanesper I'm OK with modulation for political reasons, but it'll never be the case in the majority of suburban neighborhoods that a 40-floor tower would pencil. Liberalization would lead some areas to densify a lot and others more gently, but most areas would still be thoroughly suburban
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The thing is, because the neighborhood depends on everyone's property staying within a range, some degree of regulation can be necessary to keep it. If you move into a quiet single family neighborhood and put up a 40-syory apartment building, you're kind of the asshole, not the people who are telling you you can't, at least setting aside other considerations.
I'm less sympathetic to this in urban areas, since 10 story apartments and 40 story apartments seem about the same to me, but I'm open to this just being personal preference.
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@rwlesq @RtrnSanity @dilanesper Well, I mean the idea is just to stop legally imposing a very certain ideal of neighborhood type over the vast majority of urban land area. I think people should be able to choose whether to sell up to a developer etc etc.
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There's a slightly broader version of this. YIMBYs don't acknowledge that people actually have preferences about the types of neighborhoods they want to live in. They do, and we try to set up a society where people who want to live in a particular type of neighborhood gather together and live in that type of neighborhood without having to worry that, tomorrow, it could all change. Particularly since there are a lot of real costs associated with moving.
There are countervailing factors that mean we can't always do it - housing shortages in places are a real problem that weigh against this and really should be addressed - but YIMBYs, or at least the loud ones, refuse to even allow this to be one goal among many we should consider. That's both bad politics and bad policy.
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@dilanesper The Loop is also imo the best name for a downtown in America
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i have always liked the architecture in Chicago and this is a nice example of it
David Burge@iowahawkblog
Marina Towers/ Marina City (designed by Bertram Goldberg) is great. The apartments radiate out from central core like daisy petals. I almost bought a 1-br apt there as a pied a terre after the 2008 crash, when they were selling for $60k
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@tracewoodgrains Wilson High still today has a zone stretching across Rock Creek to Mt Pleasant, the neighborhood in uptown where racial housing covenants were most militantly preserved.
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@tracewoodgrains It's tragic. The long term practice of two separate school systems with separate school boards, and black people paying special tax for "their schools", probably explains some of the allergy to tracking, especially when Home Rule returned in the late 60s.
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I have had to bite my tongue for EIGHT MONTHS before properly talking about this article, but it's one of the stories I'm proudest to have told and I'm delighted to finally be able to shove fascinating and maddening bits in it at everyone and tell them to read it
Jack@tracewoodgrains
In 1968, Washington, D.C. had a problem: one of its elementary schools was good. After diligent work, they solved the problem in award-winning fashion, combining the school with its two neighboring schools, two years per school. And it worked! Soon, they had three bad schools.
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