Josh Mann

@PlanningAutumn Yes. Yes I am.

@jmaxmann You're having too much fun with AI.

New Senator Warren publicity photo just dropped:

Oh my.

If you believe calling women “fat broads” and “horse-faced lesbians” disqualifies you from being elected to office, then so should engaging in racist and bigoted tropes, blaming women for sexual assault, and having an anti-Semitic tattoo.

When Pete Hegseth was going through is confirmation hearing, Elizabeth Warren wrote an entire letter about how his "Deus Vult" tattoo made him "a right wing extremist" unfit for service. She just endorsed the guy with the Nazi tattoo.

This is less about Iran than to forestall the next conflict by replenishing weapons stocks (and rebuilding defenses industrial base capacity) through long-term purchase orders, especially for precision strike missiles and interceptors. (1/2)

Imagine the Jews being persecuted throughout the entire Middle East and Europe so an idea was birthed to go to a centralized place in the pursuit of safety that had a religious and historical connection to Judaism. Then Jews legally buy 7% of the land from Arabs for decades who sell it to them at way over market prices, and then the Arabs decide to slaughter Jews in 1920, 1921, and 1929 so the Jews say maybe we should create self defense organizations so we don’t get slaughtered again despite most of us being pretty woke lefties that just want to farm and be safe, so much so that despite killing us and losing our trust, we still want to be good neighbors and split the land with you into two countries where one didn’t exist before. Imagine the local Arabs saying no repeatedly after multiple offers were made for a state and launching a war to attack Jews and verbatim drive them into the sea, and then getting their asses kicked by a bunch of Auschwitz survivors. Then they tried again twice, and lost both times. Then the Israelis offered them a state again, and they said no and launched suicide bombing campaigns while the Israelis kept building their country. And now here we are - they keep trying to destroy, the Israelis keep trying to build, and the axis of resistance is in literal shambles and all of the top guys have fucked their people over for no other reason than militant religiously fueled radicalism. Palestinian leadership has consistently prioritized a struggle over a state and they’ve gotten it. The Israelis will continue to build, and the funny thing is, they just want those around them to do the same. But you’re too ideologically captured to recognize that.

This is called Filtering or the Migration Chain Theory. This post is correct in terms of what the studies are finding… and this remains the most inconvenient finding for left-NIMBY’s when they argue against market rate housing development.

Embarrassing for my Alma mater.

"There is now unambiguous, solid economic evidence, not just abstract economic theory, that rent control would make the affordability problems facing [Massachusetts] worse, not better." - Jon Gruber, Chairman of the Economics Department at MIT

@harrisonfinberg Awesome!

Hancock lofts wins preservation alliance grand jury award 👍

@BetterBlocksNJ PILOTs are the main funder/subsidizer of IZO in suburban NJ.

@jmaxmann .@jmaxmann - You are too kind. Our next article we will look at the benefits and risks of PILOT usage as a means to offset the implicit tax of an IZO and fund affordable housing.

This is one of the best papers on PILOTs in New Jersey I have read, and I will be distributing it to my class. I would STRONGLY urge everyone with an interest in New Jersey real estate to read this.

Bill to refund application fees for delayed permits advances in Senate roi-nj.com/2026/03/17/pol… via @ROINJNews

NCTC director Kent resigns over war in Iran, and as with some prominent MAGA commentators blames the whole thing on Israel, all but absolving the president of the decision. It's notable how little agency certain folks give the most powerful elected official in the world.

@AnthonyDiComo Start him opening day!

Carson Benge has now reached base safely in all four of his plate appearances tonight. This was one of his better struck hits all spring, 108 mph off the bat. Benge's Grapefruit League batting average is up to .406.

Just so people understand what happened here: These women claimed asylum because they were likely to be tortured and killed for a gesture standing up to the regime. The regime then started kidnapping their families instead to force them to come home and face likely execution.

@Snowball_Dev Go get em!

If all goes according to plan, we have 3 closings tee’d up this week - money flying in from everywhere. Combined with mid tax season mania, wish the whole Snowball team luck!

dear apple, the iPod needs to come back. not for nostalgia. for the parents who want their kids to love music and audiobooks without a browser, social media, and the whole internet attached to it

@Truth_n_facts1 I would be stunned if there were not whole life insurance policies that did not generate cash to pay the estate tax. Then again, I suppose the auction could be happening to raise cash for that very purpose.

@jmaxmann You are correct that the kids would receive the money tax-free but they're not receiving $93 million. Federal estate tax is ~40% of anything in the estate over $15mm. If they haven't used the exemption elsewhere (and they probably have) they owe $31.2mm (+ state tax).

Depending on the appraisal when Jim Irsay passed, that’s likely mostly tax free money to the kids.