Blake Neff

@patrickc The NYT did an analysis of New York a decade ago that estimated about 40 percent, with a full map of Manhattan's buildings and the specific reason they couldn't go up now. It has some grim specific examples of how a newly-built city would be uglier. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

I'm interested in "trapped buildings": those that couldn't be built today (because of zoning and code changes) but also can't be substantially modified or demolished (because of historic protection rules). One of those phenomena that really makes one wonder what exactly we're trying to do. Has anyone ever estimated what fraction of buildings in major cities fall into this category? When I asked Claude about San Francisco, it concluded: "If forced to give a single number with a single confidence rating: roughly 100,000 buildings — about two-thirds of San Francisco's physical structures — sit in the trap as a practical matter. Confidence: moderate. The number could be 70,000 or 130,000 depending on how strictly you operationalize "can't be substantially modified.""

Honestly some of the stuff from our haters is pretty great.

Generally, when right-wingers don't like democracy or liberalism, they will say "democracy and liberalism are bad." When left-wingers don't, they just redefine 'democracy' and 'liberalism' to mean something completely different, and coordinate on lying about it. And this works!

@swampratwatch @captive_dreamer Not a hot take at all. Historically arson was considered on par with murder precisely because the scale of destruction it unleashes is so uncontrollable.

@captive_dreamer Hot take: Arson on this scale should be a capital punishment offense.

How many tens of thousands of peoples lives were impacted by this, the billions and billions in damage - one of the most beautiful parts of the country, totally destroyed because some antifa freak lit a fire. Unbelievable.

Spent this morning doing some flyer distribution with the South Mountain-area GOP. Charlie always emphasized the importance of grassroots local involvement for picking up wins. Become a precinct captain. Know your local party apparatus. Get the people you know registered. Win in November by working now.

Stinks that they weren’t able to use Jim Caviezel. But on the other hand, it does say in the Gospels that none of the apostles could initially recognize the risen Christ.

Extremely detailed, high-quality post about the SPLC fraud case. Explains why the SPLC is almost certainly in deep trouble, but even more importantly, it describes at length how the SPLC became a de facto bank regulator, exercising quasi-governmental power over who was given access to the financial system. SPLC delenda est.

Really fun to think how far we've come from 2018, when Trump complained about "sh*thole countries" in private and it was treated as one of the most apocalyptic stories of all time. That was one instance where Trump's blunt, sometimes crass communication style really was immensely valuable. The polite norm against calling a sh*thole a sh*thole was hugely harmful to America and needed to be destroyed.

@thejjalvarez @AndrewCFollett We've never said that. What we said is that we won't release every random internal video or piece of information at the demands of malignant psychopaths who are obviously just going to call it fake anyway and then demand more. It's not good to negotiate with bad-faith actors!

@BlakeSNeff @AndrewCFollett Is it true that neither you guys or Erika will release the supposed video of Charlie saying he wanted Erika as CEO?

We got a question during the AMA today about Candace which was cathartic to respond to.

@RealCandaceO Not a single one? Are you sure? You've made a lot of claims, Candace!

I have not retracted a single claim I have made about Erika Kirk. Stop with the b.s Twitter trends. I stand by every single statement I have made and have not edited any of my past statements in light of Brian Harpole’s lawsuit. I look forward to the power of subpoena.

🚨 Georgia tells the 11th Circuit that Callais requires "prompt reversal" of the order that struck down its congressional and legislative maps under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

ANDREW KOLVET HITS BACK AT CANDACE OWENS: "I AM SICK OF IT" "If you're going to come for Erika Kirk you're gonna start having to come through me...I am sick of Charlie's widow getting attacked senselessly." @AndrewKolvet @MrsErikaKirk @BlakeSNeff

@moonstar24689 @RealAmVoice @AndrewKolvet @MrsErikaKirk

@RealAmVoice @AndrewKolvet @MrsErikaKirk @BlakeSNeff I’m sure this is a real email 🤣🤣🤣 Too afraid to take actual calls and real emails fellas? No one is afraid of Andrew and Blake 😭😭 embarrassing stuff team!

I wrote for the @spectator about the SPLC indictment. The worst thing about the SPLC has never been that it was a fraud, or that it exaggerated the danger of the far right. It's that its primary purpose, for decades, has been to use that fake threat to roll back freedom in America, and justify a new American caste system discriminating against white, male, and Christian Americans. spectator.com/article/the-po…

Westminster is a Vietnamese city for people not familiar

Fun question from @tylerbowyer on tonight's Thoughtcrime: If the Red/Blue button test happened, and Red won, how many members of Congress would we lose?

Remarkable Times article about how Democrats' good government instincts backfired and hamstrung their ability to gerrymander. Only problem? Basically the entire history included in the article is wrong. Dems ~never willingly gave up gerrymandering. 🧵