Let me be clear: I'm not saying Mr. Mamdani should *curb his boldness* I'm only saying that $1B/year of fares, every year forever, is enough to service the debt on a new $15B subway line every 30 years With that cash + new land tax districts, he can build 3 new subway lines

I get why Senators enjoy the 60 vote rule, but it's genuinely bad for the country and net-net more of both sides' stuff passing would be better. slowboring.com/p/13-thoughts…

The housing crisis has caused a "51% of the total fertility rate decline between the 2000s and 2010s, and 7 percentage points fewer young families in the 2010s." This is insane.

Today is the first day Ive really doubted whether we will survive the Trump era The lesson he will take away is that he can inflict harm to win our support The Quisling wing has shown that they will not fight back even when the public supports us What does this add up to?

I am so done with these blue MAGA cope accounts Why would even one House R vote against this? They got everything they wanted while giving up nothing

I suspect the real reason for the cave is they dont want to force the GOP to scrap the filibuster because they dont want us to govern with any ambition when back in power Thats where this was headed and they did not like it, so they handed Trump a huge victory to derail that

I feel like you don't really understand how much people in the American South are huge crybabies until you see a Northern Civil War Monument. Now, that's the type of thing you build a huge monument for

Ezra Klein: “If I were in the Senate, I wouldn’t vote for this compromise. Shutdowns are an opportunity to make your arguments, and the country was just starting to pay attention. If Trump wanted to cancel flights over Thanksgiving rather than keep health care costs down, I don’t see why Democrats should save him from making his priorities so exquisitely clear. And I worry that Democrats have just taught Trump that they will fold under pressure. That’s the kind of lesson he remembers.” nytimes.com/2025/11/10/opini…

I hate to hand it to Richard Hanania, but he's completely correct that the Right's biggest problem is a human capital problem, aka they're just all very stupid.

Here is the @boringcompany Las Vegas Loop going just as hard as it can. After an hour, it’s moved a little over 1000 people, a tiny fraction of what real public transit can do with this kind of infrastructure.

This attitude is why we keep losing The voters will reward Trump and the GOP, not us, and we will betray the millions of people who will now face unaffordable healthcare costs

So Dems, at a high-point of leverage, are folding without even getting their one priority?

Malta latter tried to join UK as a county; our lack of romantic imagination meant the request was not honoured.

Building this many data centers while doing almost nothing to increase electricity generation is suicidal

This is simultaneously cringe Boomer Facebook slop and also pretty deranged stuff for a government agency to post.

this is what 100% of your hustle grindset striver posts sound like to me

Electricity unit prices 4.4x those of gas = very few heat pumps...

"As Utah’s housing crisis deepens, Gov. Spencer Cox (R) is floating a bold solution: take zoning power away from cities & use state authority to allow higher-density housing." “I don’t want to go the preemption route, but I would be lying if I said it wasn’t on the table.” nypost.com/2025/11/06/real-e…

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

I think Gallego is narrowly correct that the infrastructure bill was never going to be a huge political win, but that wasn't supposed to be the point, right? The substantive problem is that we deliver the infrastructure too slowly at too high a cost.