Timothy Conway

@_NotA_Bot_ It could certainly be more than what I suggested and you'd hear no complaints from me. I picked those numbers because I think they'd be easily agreed to and would make adding a floor much easier.

@ShadyTim215 A serious TOD bonus would allow 7 stories next to a heavy metro line at the very least. Vancouver is allowing 20 stories and zero parking minimums within 650ft of skytrain stations

Can we talk about how minuscule these TOD bonuses are outside of CMX-3? Who decided “7 extra feet is enough of an incentive” and decided to call it a day? If the Mayor’s office was serious about TOD, you’d expect an opening proposal that was ambitious, not pre-watered down

@PAWorkFamilies Chris Rabb has accomplished incredibly little in Harrisburg. Exactly one bill he was the prime sponsor for became law and its not in anyway oppressive. Krajewski got really progressive legislation passed in his second term.

Rep. Rabb is one of the longest serving progressives in Harrisburg where he has taken on Republicans and the billionaire class to improve the lives of working people. He has always advocated for a people-first agenda, and that’s exactly the type of experience we need right now.

PA WFP, @kendraforphilly, and @NicForPhilly are proud to join @justicedems to endorse @chrisrabb for Congress in Philadelphia’s 3rd Congressional District. It’s time we have one of our own in the squad.

@DPearsonPHL @fifimcfae Gauthier is objectively far less corrupt. She's not perfect but is a huge improvement over Blackwell.

@fifimcfae I think it says a lot about the institutional culture on City Council. When Gauthier first arrived a lot of people were very unkind to her, in part because Jannie Blackwell was so popular. Now she's popular, in part because she's embraced prerogative and outsiders criticize her.

it's kind of crazy how i campaigned for JG because she expressly stated that she wouldn't abuse councilmanic prerogative, but now she's embraced it, and surprise, it sucks! every politician making me lose hope in the electoral process.

@harrisonfinberg @DPearsonPHL If Gauthier really wanted to keep these schools open she'd be advocating for higher taxes to fund them. This is just so she can pretend to have do something about the closures.

@ShadyTim215 @DPearsonPHL Yeah for sure. I think the motivating factor here is moreso ongoing operating costs then a one time check from selling real estate. And I think official narrative from psd is the city gets the deed? In that case as the cm I think she’d get some level of prerogative over a sale

This effort can actually be circumvented pretty easily as long as the developers are comfortable with historic designation.

@harrisonfinberg @DPearsonPHL She thinks the School District wants to close the schools to sell the land so she's trying to lower the value of the land to stop them.

@DPearsonPHL I thought the plan was to revert ownership to the city? So the idea is do spot zoning to limit the value of city property? I guess this gives gauthier maybe a bit of leverage she didn’t have prior?

@Geniustechw Play stupid games and get stupid prizes.

Do drivers have the right to plow through protesters when roads are blocked and their cars are being attacked? 🤔

@mr_saltz Its a good price but the PHA buying up units like this is keeping market rates artificially high.

This feels....good?

@LeFrenchFella That's a very crude copy of the Boeing waverider with a few fins deleted.

Ukraine has allocated $5 million to develop the NIKA, a cutting-edge hypersonic cruise missile system. Powered by a combined engine and hydrogen fuel, the NIKA is designed to maneuver at altitudes of 20–50 km and reach speeds of up to 8,680 km/h. inventure.com.ua/en/news/world/…

@harrisonfinberg As the race is now I think Streets going to win. If Rabb drops out Stanford could win but if Stanford drops out Streets got the win.

@ShadyTim215 Yeah he’ll get votes there. I’m not sure he has the downtown progressives locked up fully, but that should be his strongest base.. Rue Landau backed Street so I figure that indicates a bit of a progressive split. Not to mention the standard liberal types..

So dr Stanford has a well funded campaign, is on tv. My read is Rabb is screwed, can’t sweep NW with Stanford in and where’s the rest of the votes coming from? Seems like it’s 2 person race Stanford and Street

@rambaldi_fabio @IAPonomarenko Which you know won't happen. You can keep trying to engage in linguistic gymnastics to pretend you're promoting peace while advocating for war but its just making you look like an idiot.

@ShadyTim215 @IAPonomarenko I'm advocating for Russia to stop the war and leave occupied territories. That is peace. You are instead supporting the consequences of the invasion. You want the territories to be occupied. If you were for peace, you'd want the aggressor to fuck off. You are pro-war

I’ll say this for the trillionth time: no, this will not work. Trying to force illegal and illegitimate “elections” on Ukraine during wartime in order to “get rid of Zelensky” and replace him with someone more “flexible” who would conveniently capitulate to Putin is not going to achieve anything. Ukraine is fighting and rejecting your reckless, suicidal “deals” not because some evil Zelensky is preventing it, but exactly the opposite. Let me give you a simple, universal indicator. If you do not see a million people marching down Khreshchatyk Street, if there are no barricades on Maidan Square with people fighting in smoke and fire, followed by a storming of the Rada and the presidential administration on Bankova Street -- then Ukrainians consider what Zelensky is doing at least acceptable and do not believe he needs to go right now. Another indicator is that, in 2026, around a million Ukrainians are still holding the front line against the full force of Russia, counterattacking and steadily degrading its war machine every night. Everything else is just demagoguery and empty talk from people who, like Putin, stubbornly refuse to understand what comes first, cause or effect, and what kind of country they are dealing with.

@rambaldi_fabio @IAPonomarenko You're literally advocating for continuing the war. You don't get to pretend that is peace.

@ShadyTim215 @IAPonomarenko I want the war to end. You want Russia to continue the occupation (with everything it entails). Me peace, you war. Ukraine should also be accepted into both NATO and EU as soon as the war ends, no matter what Russia thinks about it.

@rambaldi_fabio @IAPonomarenko You advocate for never ending war while I'm advocating for peace. The smart thing to do would be to end the war, rebuild and work towards integrating what's left of Ukraine into the EU and NATO. The longer the war goes on the less likely it is any of those things will ever happen

@ShadyTim215 @IAPonomarenko Who doesn't care how many people die is putin, or he wouldn't have started the invasion in the first place. Not even in 2014. I advocate for democracy and peace, which means Russia has to go. You advocate for war and occupation. You also forget Russia is an actual dictatorship.

@rambaldi_fabio @IAPonomarenko Which is why Zelensky won't end the war. Its amazing to watch people like you advocate for a military dictatorship and never ending war. Just like Zelensky you don't care how many people on both sides die.

@ShadyTim215 @IAPonomarenko Their term ends with Zelensky's, when the war ends. A democracy needs its parliament. If Ukraine could end the war tomorrow, they would, but it's not possible to get to Crimea in such a short time. Russia can leave anytime and force Ukraine to have elections, tho

@ChazNuttycombe The people are supposed to pick the politicians that represent them, not the other way around. Everyone involved in designing and promoting this redistricting should be tried for treason.

A lot of the anti-DEM gerrymander folks keep saying that the proposed VA congressional map would be the most extreme gerrymander in the country. So let's put that to the test using actual political science. The efficiency gap was the standard developed by political scientists during Rucho v. Common Cause (2019). It's not an entirely perfect measurement, as noted in Keena et al., "Gerrymandering the States," because it would technically rate the 2010s Maryland gerrymander as a fair map, for example (though it does show the 2010s Wisconsin gerrymander as an egregious gerrymander!). Keena et al. argue that the mean/median difference is sometimes a better practice; however, for example, it shows the VA gerrymander as a fair map. My standard for measuring how extreme a gerrymander is, or whether a map is gerrymandered at all, is pretty much one standard or the other, depending on which makes sense. In this case, the efficiency gap is the best standard. Using the 2024 presidential results, we can see in DRA 2020 what the efficiency gap is in the enacted/proposed congressional gerrymanders across the country. The closer to 0, the fairer the map using efficiency gaps. Negative favors DEMs, positive favors GOP. Let's take a look. VA: -24.02% NC: 22.55% MO: 17.65% OH: 15.34% CA: -14.92% IL: -14.60% TX: 14.05% NM: -13.98% FL: 11.79% So yes, the proposed VA DEM gerrymander would be the most extreme gerrymander in the country. In fact, it would be more extreme than the 2010s WI Gerrymander that Rucho was all about, which has a 19-point efficiency gap. Only North Carolina comes close to being an egregious gerrymander.

@rambaldi_fabio @IAPonomarenko Your boy has threatened to send members of their parliament to the front lines if they don't stick around past the end of their term to provide window dressing for his dictatorship. Intentionally prolonging the war to avoid elections is what makes it a dictotarship.

@ShadyTim215 @IAPonomarenko If it was a military dictatorship, the war ending wouldn't spark any new elections. There would be no parliament. The "constitution" would be changed depending on what Zelensky wants, with no real vote needed. It's a democracy under martial law due to foreign aggression.

@rambaldi_fabio @IAPonomarenko No, its a military dictatorship under martial law. Lie to yourself all you want but that's not Democracy. The leaders there are INTENTIONALLY prolonging the war to cling to power.

@ShadyTim215 @IAPonomarenko "In the elections he would then have to hold" So you admit it's a democracy. If it was a dictatorship, war or not war, Zelensky would stay in power. There would be no elections in peace time either. But since it IS a democracy, the elections are just suspended until it's safe

@rambaldi_fabio @IAPonomarenko Democracy requires elections, so they're no longer a Democracy. Zelensky won't end the war BECAUSE he fears losing power in the election he would then have to hold. Zelensky enjoys being a dictator and he's not going to give it up until forced to do so.

@ShadyTim215 @IAPonomarenko Zelensky CAN'T have elections. It's the constitution that imposes that. It's still a democracy on the account of them still following their constitution (without changing it like putin)

@rambaldi_fabio @IAPonomarenko Zelensky doesn't want to have elections because he knows he'll get voted out so he keeps that war going. IF they wait until "Russia pulls out" there will never be an election in Ukraine again. Ukraine is no longer a Democracy and that's a fact.

@ShadyTim215 @IAPonomarenko Their constitution doesn't allow elections during wartime for obvious reasons. It's not like it's zelensky that doesn't want to. Doing it would be violating the constitution and would put millions of Ukrainians at risk. When Russia pulls out, everything automatically goes back