Adam Bianco

@Selene_Mariposa Touting parking lots and non-local product and meat is not the flex you think it is. Plus, much of America is a food desert.

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world. And they are not handling it well. In the best possible way. Here is what they are discovering: Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time. Free water at every restaurant. Just appears. Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited. Free chips and salsa before you even order. Free warm bread with dinner. Ice in drinks like civilized people. Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact. Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going. Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it. Ranch dressing by the gallon. Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced. Dental care that actually works. Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s. Then they found the grocery stores. Five of them within one mile. Each one the size of an aircraft hangar. Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday. The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes. In silence. Processing. They finally understand why we do not have trains. We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive. Parking lots the size of small European countries. Airports in every city worth visiting. Why would we need trains. The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle. The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak. The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre. The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas. Welcome to America. Everything is free, enormous, air conditioned, comes with chips, and has five grocery stores within a mile that will sell you any cut of any animal you have ever imagined. Write that down. 🦋

@Fischwick @JoshJunker2 I love how the bridge is running parallel to the river and connecting two other bridges.

@hyper_imagine @emosarereal What was the lore drop?

@emosarereal And it drops one of the craziest Zelda lore drops since Ocarina of Time.

I feel like everyone just forgot this Zelda game. I feel like it's an almost perfect harmony between old and new gameplay styles. And it was the latest main entry as well.

@cryptojourneyrs @Ikenene2 Oh no, I’m upsetting the bots. 😅 Anyway, touch grass, be an adult, make the world a better place. Good day.

@cryptojourneyrs @Ikenene2 Ah man. I appreciate your fact-based breakdown but now you lost all credibility with the r word. Let’s do better.

The TRUTH about the Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf murder case. No bias, no race baiting, just facts. Ignore what you’ve heard. Watch this video and then make your decision. 👇🏾

@MrsDrees_SES2 @MarvelTeacher2 Working outside of the typical 9-5 is pretty standard across multiple industries. When you’re in meetings all day, the only time you do have to get your own work done is after 5pm

My husband once told me to just work my contract hours (because I was venting about something else) and we got into an argument. I could NEVER get anything done if I just worked my contract hours. A 40 minute plan does not help when planning and prepping for 3 grade levels and a reading group. I cannot do things when kids are in the room. I am too busy keeping kids from arguing and playing around. Too busy TEACHING. When you see these ⬇️ they are speaking the truth.

Things #Teachers don’t talk about: That unpaid hour before school where you’re setting up the room, printing papers, and trying to mentally prepare for the day.

@AdamJardy @DispatchAlerts Part of it depends on your brand. Do you want to be tied to dispatch or just you personally? Or is the account owned by the Dispatch and therefore passed to the next person in 5-50 years?

It's time to change the name for my @DispatchAlerts Instagram page, #OhioState #Buckeyes fans. hoops_and_scoops is too unwieldy. What do I change it to?

@LAMillennialMom @ray_barrera @YIMBYLAND And dads

@ray_barrera @YIMBYLAND Drive throughs are key for moms with young children.

Unironically, adding a walkable coffee shop and a pub to a suburban neighborhood would make them 10x more enjoyable and dynamic. Imagine the run-ins you’d have every morning on your walk for coffee, or spontaneous games you watch with the dads at the pub. Sounds kinda awesome.

@mattjjacob @aaron_renn Hard to make an argument that the city isn’t growing because we don’t have a bigger bridge. But I am for a regional rail network!

The Cincinnati region is NOT slow growing and that's probably their best argument FOR this new bridge The BSB was originally designed for half of the traffic volume it carries today. Traffic growth has been flat, but you could argue that's cuz the current bridge/lanes hit their capacity limiting city growth & squeezing it to the suburbs Adding the new capacity of the 2nd bridge (while keeping/slightly shrinking the current BSB capacity) positions Cincy to capture more of the induced demand that the limited capacity has displaced (at least for a while until that induced demand refills it with new traffic) Worst case, it's creating excess capacity that can be used far into the future. The real opportunity cost is that for the same $$$$ we could have added an entire regional rail network

Here's a road project that is NOT needed: a $4 billion expansion of the Brent Spence Bridge in Cincinnati. Traffic on the existing bridge is flat. The region is slow growing. Big disruptions, huge opportunity cost. Negative for urban fabric. fox19.com/2026/05/08/liv…

@RealBrittHughes You can make that same argument about almost everything. Taxes to fire department? Put out your own fire. 99% of the time, your house won’t catch on fire anyway. Taxes for school? Educate your kids yourself or have everything be private. This is a positive & a good start

This sounds cool. But wait. 400 diapers will last a family with a newborn approximately five weeks. The program will cost the state approx. $12.4 million this year alone. That money will be funneled through a company called Baby2Baby, which will then provide their branded diapers to 400 participating in hospitals (California has over 500 hospitals in total.) Meaning that instead of lowering taxes and letting families keep their own money to buy essentials like diapers, California takes their money, pumps it through a “nonprofit” that has overhead and whose CEO made $240,000 in 2024, to provide a “free” service available only in certain locations, and that you could have bought yourself for much cheaper.

@LafayetteMom04 @YIMBYman Looks like Death Valley National Park

@YIMBYman What is the one in the upper left corner? It's stunning. I've been to the other three, and they are even better in person.

Yeah, because I wanted to represent the country from coast to coast. This is California alone. I swear, Americans are the most European cucks in the world.

@kylegeorg @still_hustling People complain about 3CDC all the time.

@still_hustling Funny when the Democrats never complain about how 3CDC gentrifies neighborhoods like OTR with higher cost renovations… But yeah, you’re the bad guy for tearing down a decrepit building.

Nine years ago I bought this blighted crackhouse on Vine Street in Cincinnati that was a magnet for crime. Paid over $30k of my own money on the whole process just to have it torn down. It's an empty lot right now. The response from useless Democrats was that I was a bad person for getting rid of "affordable housing" for their crackhead friends, while they did nothing. Absolutely nothing. My only conclusion is that they actually want this nonsense to persist.

@U_arctos I personally live in Loveland. Many of us live in the burbs and are in the Cincy metro. We work in the city, are there 5+ times per week, spend money there, etc. Just because we are (temporarily) living outside city limits doesn’t mean we aren’t invested in the city.

@sportsrapport @FOS Can you please stop with the “glass break”? It’s getting very overused.

Glass Break: Joe Buck is closing in on a deal to host ESPN Jeopardy. Details at @FOS frontofficesports.com/joe-buck-expec…

@FrankMa95166924 @aaron_renn Pittsburgh is the model of the comeback. It’s doing great

@aaron_renn Absolutely correct. Pittsburgh is a one party town and governs only to placate its far left wing and the public sector unions. No interest in reducing taxes, streamlining regulations, cutting spending, espousing business growth, etc. Tough to grow in that type of environment.

St Louis is a river city like Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville. All of these cities are similar dynamics and weird underperformance on conventional growth metrics relative to their urban assets. A possible culprit: very parochial and insular cultures.

@jeffreysms @JoshJunker2 This is great. A park is much more valuable than 8 Sundays per year of tailgating

The new Banks plan unveiled this week shows progress of reclaiming some of our riverfront from surface parking lots. The below Lot E is a great case in point. It is about 5 acres. Today it looks like the below. 1/4

@tysonhutchins_ You can have an extremely competitive role AND pay them the market rate for the area. It’s not always about penny pinching. You can take care of your employees with a halfway decent wage.

Allow me to provide a swift dose of reality to this discourse... The Chargers social job isn't underpaying anyone. A thousand people probably applied for this role. It's a calculated bet and it's asking if the right person will bet on themselves. 12 to 24 months. That's how long the person will be in this role. Go in get reps inside one of the best operations in the league, and come out the other side as a director-level candidate with a resume line that carries weight in every room. I want everyone in this industry to make as much money as possible. But salaries are decided by the market. Entry level at a pro sports team in a high-demand creative role has always been competitive for a reason. A harsh reality... It's market rate for what the role actually is... a starting point to launch a career. Show up, absorb everything, and leave better than you came. Whoever gets the job could likely be a Director of Social in professional sports in less than 5 years and much of that would've been accelerated by getting this role.

@dogwoodblooms 1 person = 1 vote. Time to change the constitution so everyone’s vote is equal. The electoral college hurts more than it helps. It discourages voting from dems in SC and repubs in California. Plus it weighs states like Vermont and Wyoming too heavily.

Our country was set up to avoid exactly this. We are NOT a pure democracy. And we are not a pure democracy so that those who live in the urban areas can’t lord over those in distant rural areas. I’m beyond disgusted. What is the GOP doing to counter this BS and save our constitutional republic?

@esasenora17 @froggytonic By definition, USA is a first world country

@froggytonic TBF, the USA is technically a 3rd world country in many levels

You're right, here's a white woman from a northern western 3rd world country treating the locals in Japan like they're cattle.

@aaron_renn @ReformedPolemic @wil_da_beast630 As a resident of Cincinnati. I would disagree quite a bit. Add Columbus to that mix. If they were to add fast rail travel, this would be amplified a lot. The idea of a day trip would be much more common. A weekend in Chicago would also be pretty normal.

@ReformedPolemic @wil_da_beast630 Indy, Louisville, and Cincinnati are very close, but they don’t seem connected that much at all.

Random reminder that the Great Lakes Metroplex is far bigger than the Bos-NY-Wash. It takes a few of our cites to match NYC/Manhattan and her suburbs, but people from Chicago or Toronto are always a bit bemused when residents of Boston and similar chilly villages start critiquing "flyover land."