Bob Specht

@notthefakeSVP @TGL @espn

So… Jupiter is down 1-0 to LA heading into Tuesday’s finals here at @TGL Tomorrow, Tiger Woods isn’t just cheering the boys on…. he’s playing. Giddy up. See you at 7 on @espn

Just a reminder that DOGE failed at every possible level: * At the micro level, they misread, misled and straight up lied about many of the 'savings'. They'd announce '500m saved!' and it would be some contract where the money was 98% already spent and already wasn't being renewed. * At the macro level, they didn't impact spending at all. The government spent more in 2025 than 2024. * At the institutional level, they didn't even convince the GOP that deficits are a problem worth caring about. The GOP only signature bill in 2025 exploded the deficit by trillions of dollars. * At a personal level, Elon got run out of town with his tail between his legs. The most notable public facts about the Cracked Coders are that one of them was a mini-Hitler, one was called 'big balls', and none of them bothered to learn how the government actually works before they set it on fire. They gutted a bunch of important institutions, fired whole departments at random, decimated medical research funding, killed millions of people dependent on USAID, and still failed at every possible level.

@PeterMallouk Eh, it’s a mixed bag. x.com/residentialclu…

Rents dropping across the country…

the corruption is the most structurally significant part of the administration. drain. the. swamp.

chat is this good

America has rediscovered housing supply—but without height, its most productive cities will keep choking off growth fasterplease.substack.com/p/higher-love-…

Labeling every American of the opposition political party as an enemy to the country may be the most un-American thing any president has ever said. Dangerous.

@DCCelebrity Unless you know what you’re talking about (you don’t), stand down

Who is gonna pay for it? Unless you have a real plan, stand down

THAT'S A GRAND BAND, BABES #Gr8ness | @Venture_Global

Incredible. @OPinDC missed the mark by so far that nearly every DC ward “change areas” board had more comments than dot ratings. The people want actual world-class vision for our 2050, not capitulation to the status quo.

@trevoracorn In this house, we stan 56 Leonard 😤

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Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

A medical convoy arriving from Joint Base Andrews to Walter Reed tonight following a medevac flight from Germany today. It is unclear if this medevac mission contained casualites from the Iran mission, though this is at least the third flight since operations began.

This is shaping up as the most consistent finding in housing studies: Building lots of luxury housing can reduce rents at the top of the market—but the people it helps most are renters struggling to afford even the least desirable units

We're taking action. Join us for a Rally for Housing - Saturday, 11 AM at MLK Library! After the rally, we'll attend the OP workshop and tell them a map that locks in rising home prices, displacement, and exclusion isn't acceptable. RSVP below.

@2024dion Pass, far too low density.

Someone needs to convince the Hall family to finance Culdesac Kansas City on their streetcar-adjacent surface parking lots south of Crown Center

DC has settled into a housing affordability crisis despite only being built to 73% of existing zoned capacity. To fix this, we will raise zoned capacity by 3%.

The surest path to lower rents for everyone? Building enough homes so landlords have to compete for tenants—rather than the other way around.