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@MichaelMcGough3 @mattyglesias I think most high IQ kids figure out reading regardless of the method. I know many who taught themselves how to read.

@mattyglesias Anything to the idea that “whole language” is a good way to teach reading to high-IQ kids while phonics better suits average kids?

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@realEstateTrent Recently spent a week in Mill Valley. It's nice but the restaurant scene is terrible unless you go into SF.

Hands down one of the best areas to live in the world

The aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death makes it clear: we can fight harder and slide toward war or seek understanding and reconcile. Both sides chase political wins, but what’s the point if we remain a nation defined by rage, mistrust, and hostility? Nobody wins.

@houmanhemmati @emissionite Speak for yourself. I live in a single family home and my SFH neighbors and I are thrilled about SB 79 bringing change to our neighborhood. If we wanted to live in a quiet suburb we would have bought there.

In many areas, there are middle class and emerging middle class, many of them minorities, who have saved and worked hard and bought single family homes. They want them. They want the safety and privacy and lifestyle enabled by them. Many are in city centers close to their work and to places where they need to be. That’s not ok because it’s near mass transit?? Your argument doesn’t hold water unfortunately.

🚨🔥🚨 ABSOLUTE OUTRAGE: California Democrats just rammed through SB79, the "Destroy Single-Family Zoning Act," paving the way to bulldoze our quiet neighborhoods and force everyone but the ultra-rich into cramped rental apartments! This is a direct assault on the American Dream—homeownership that low-income, middle-class, and minority families have fought tooth and nail to achieve. As a dad who treasures privacy, safety, a peaceful backyard where my kids can play without dodging drug needles or homeless attacks, I would NEVER live in one of these cookie cutter rentals. And neither should you be forced to! @GavinNewsom, VETO THIS BILL THE SECOND IT HITS YOUR DESK! Don't let @Scott_Wiener and his developer cronies turn our communities into overcrowded slums. My Assemblyman @RickChavezZbur nailed it: low-income neighborhoods will suffer the MOST—cheaper land means developers swarm in, demolishing hard-earned single-family homes and replacing them with towering apartments that displace families and jack up prices. Generational wealth? Gone. Safe, stable communities? Eradicated. Only the filthy rich like Newsom in their gated enclaves will enjoy what's left of single-family living. This scam ONLY benefits greedy developers drooling over prime land, building luxury units under the guise of "affordability" and "homelessness prevention"—while ignoring REAL solutions like cracking down on crime and addiction. No regard for what people WANT: single-family homes in safe, quiet areas, not forced into vertical ghettos! And the transit fantasy? SB79 assumes we'll all magically ditch cars for public buses and trains—after endless horror stories of stabbings, shootings, rapes, and sharing seats with reeking homeless? NO WAY! It's unsafe, unreliable, and a recipe for more chaos in already strained cities like LA and San Diego. Californians, RISE UP! This is state overreach at its worst—eroding local control, gentrifying vulnerable areas, and selling out residents to big-money interests. @GavinNewsom, prove you're for the people, not the payoffs—VETO SB79 NOW! Or face the backlash from families you've betrayed. @KarenBassLA @lanegretesm @GloriaJRomero @spencerpratt @ScottPresler @JustineBateman @SteveHiltonx @jenvanlaar @LindseyPHorvath @

@GDCAndrew Can you please feed one into Google NotebookLM and post the AI podcast? 🙃

Most plan check comments I get these days treat contractors like they’re the dumbest people on Earth. There’s zero field experience behind the redlines, and the corrections almost never have anything to do with the actual construction of the unit. Just endless textual vomit—pages of it—designed to make someone feel important, not to improve the work. It’s a mess. And it’s infuriating how much time I waste translating these comments into something that remotely helps us move forward. We need plan checkers who understand building, not just bureaucratic muscle memory, or just fire the cities from the process.

@garrytan Just run for governor and veto silly bills please 😊

Once again the hard left in San Francisco can’t win on any actual policy so they attack the messenger I’m not running for office Though if I could clone myself I would definitely get Jackie Fielder or Connie Chan out of office

@SonnyP @mattyglesias @ezraklein @DKThomp My theory is that they hit middle adulthood and realized that they couldn't afford to buy a home. This is my theory for most of the YIMBY movement.

@mattyglesias @ezraklein @DKThomp Ask what the turning point was that made them change their view points from the past 5 to 10 years to what they published in the book.

@mattyglesias @ezraklein @DKThomp Why do they focus so much on the supply side of CA housing, yet they sidestep the demand side, especially immigration, which feels disingenuous when the goal is to address CA housing prices honestly. Need to discuss both together.

@jiratickets San Gabriel Valley

here in chicago, tech people talk about moving to SF. had a tech friend move to SF. he says in SF, people talk about moving to NYC. where do people in NYC talk about moving to? where does this chain end? when does the grass finally stop getting greener??

@ArmandDoma CA lawmakers like Darrell Steinberg and Susan Eggman have been trying move towards this compassionately (conservatorship laws, Prop 1), but groups like ACLU and abolitionists shut it down. Local law enforcement can easily tell you which MI are at highest risk

we discuss putting people who are so mentally ill they are a threat to others in a facility every single time someone is shoved in front of a subway but nothing ever happens and ultimately I don’t know why. what state laws prevent that? federal laws?

Neoliberal, left-coded, housing abundance—these are terms I’ve never heard come up in actual development conversations. Developers, builders, GCs, and land-use specialists don’t spend time debating ideological frameworks; we focus on the practicalities of building housing. It’s crazy how often policymakers seem completely out of touch with the realities of getting projects approved and built.

@garrytan Parenting as a former child of immigrant Asian parents is a trip. The competing impulses we have to constantly negotiate: TikTok.com/t/ZP8LEQDsL/

One of the principle difficulties I struggled and struggle with is hitting the right note of authoritative (not self abandoning and not authoritarian) This passage about French parenting is an unusual but enlightening one As a parent I can certainly say yes more 👀

@garrytan Everything, ultimately, boils down to community and loving your neighbor.

The world needs to give people many more ways to find your particular tribe.

@ezraklein I would never vote for Trump but I very reluctantly voted for wacko Trump-supporting Republican state reps. Count me as one of the enraged. I’m so frustrated with CA politics that I’m ready to tear the whole system down because incremental change is not going to happen.

I think about abundance/SSP as where to go next rather than a key explanation of 2020-2024 vote shifts. But the anger that has built over decades in blue states and cities over housing costs, homelessness, crappy infrastructure, expensive energy, etc was real and waiting to express itself. Against a stronger Republican Party, I don't think Dems are anywhere near their bottom in the states and cities they govern. I know so many people in Los Angeles and SF who've gone from mainline, Pod-Save-Democrats, to truly disaffected, even enraged. But the CA Republican Party has become a Trumpist carnival that they'll never support. What if it hadn't? Dem losses in CA are held down by GOP dysfunction. And then there's the problems that need to get solved: We have to build millions of new homes in the next decade. We have to build far more clean energy and transmission lines. It's be nice to be able to get big public infrastructure jobs done fast and affordably. You need a vision that solves the problems you actually have.

@JMGregorchuk What group is this? These groups need to be named. Maybe their public comments should be made into short video clips to be shared.

Young progressives hopped on the zoom and claimed building housing on an industrial site in Downtown Los Angeles is equivalent to putting Japanese in internment camps.

@minilek Thanks for sharing. Have you heard about the Math Academy program? Curious to know your thoughts. washingtonpost.com/education/2022…

“We study a targeted multi-year accelerated curriculum that enables students to finish Algebra I and Geometry before high school. Entry to the program is based on 5th-grade scores in the statewide math test, with a cutoff at the 80th percentile, enabling a highly credible regression discontinuity analysis of the impacts of the program. Following students for 13 years after entry, we show that the accelerated curriculum has significant positive effects on the probabilities that marginally eligible girls enter selective colleges, complete a bachelor’s degree within 5 years, and graduate in STEM or business/economics. The share of girls with a degree in STEM nearly doubles (from 6% to 11%), with a comparable effect on degrees in business and economics. In contrast, we find negligible effects on boys, implying that the accelerated program brings girls up to the level of similar-scoring boys in completion of degrees in the most highly-paid fields.” Preprint link: conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f2… 2/2

Presentation yesterday at an NBER meeting in Cambridge, MA: a new preprint on targeted acceleration in middle school math. 1/2

@AnnieLowrey Maybe local and state politics is different. I quit my CA job but I couldn’t handle the bureaucratic bloat and pervasive checked-out culture. Too bad because I loved that job and the potential for meaningful change.

@AnnieLowrey Sigh. Dems are good at diagnosing social problems but bad at solving them. We should be talking more about the governing failures in our major cities and blue states. Over 80% of Americans live in major metropolitan cities and the poverty in these cities is just inescapable.

@ezraklein I need this for myself. I don’t know where I belong in the Democratic Party.

I really think it’s important to stop using “the party” this way. Hakeem Jeffries is not trying to push Seth Moulton out! I’m 75% serious here: Dems need to name their factions so people could describe which faction is doing what. (And often, in these cases. we’re not even describing anything as organized as a faction, much less a whole party!)