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[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

The future will be socialist.

[mat o 🚲 @42morzo]

@chris_stritzel Yes, you're right. And I'm all in on the growth and making the neighborhood better! What I don't like is overpaying and feeling like my rent is funding new stuff while our place falls apart. Mac has a lot of power, I just want them to be a better neighbor is all.

[mat o 🚲 @42morzo]

@chris_stritzel I have a long long list of grievances, but the worst are:
- Toilet above leaked into our bathroom ceiling. 2 weeks of calling and emails, Mac wanted to just paint over it, had to escalat to mgmt.
- Smoke detector expired in 2012
- AC fails every year. Currently 80° inside

[mat o 🚲 @42morzo]

@chris_stritzel Ok but Mac is bad though. We live in one of their older buildings and they struggle to do the bare minimum maintenance. It absolutely seems like they're pinching pennies on us to fund their new builds.

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

Office-to-rental conversions may create valuable housing, but the market is signaling that the finished asset can be worth FAR less than the cost of producing it.

So, conversions likely will not be a simple private-market fix for downtown office vacancy. They often require a DEEPLY discounted acquisition basis, public subsidy, regulatory flexibility, or all three.

This means that many cities will not be able to afford office-to-rental conversions.
It also means that cities going forward should incentivize building forms (dense, fine-grained, mid-rise, flexible floor plates) that are proven to have long-term economic stability. (ie, we should not be defaulting to high-cost, high-maintenance high rises; missing middle is also the path of long-term stability and economic resilience)

[mat o 🚲 @42morzo]

@2024dion https://t.co/xLyb3XRSuV

[mat o 🚲 @42morzo]

@2024dion Bike lanes are car infrastructure. Like sidewalks, they separate non-car travel so the cars can go fast, safely. They're not needed on neighborhood streets where drivers are going <20mph

[mat o 🚲 @42morzo]

@GovMikeKehoe No.

[Krown City King @KrownCityKing]

While the super majority Republican state legislature of Kansas enacted a horrific law, harassing its trans citizens for no reason but the current popularity of performative cruelty, I’m proud to live in a city that openly defies that kind of fascist lunacy.

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

There is one country in the Middle East that has an illegal covert nuclear weapons program and it’s not Iran.

[mat o 🚲 @42morzo]

@QuintonLucasKC I live next to this Costco. We have a membership, but only because there are no other options. Their massive parking lot means we have to walk a mile to go anywhere, and our "backyard" is just their water retention pond. Make them build apartments, or kick them to the burbs.

[Jaz Hays @JazHays]

It really shows that capitalism, despite its proponents' claims, has never been "natural" or "hands off". It's exists because of carefully crafted rules that are selectively enforced to maximize capital accumulation at the expense of everything else.

[Alex @KCUrbanist]

Every empty lot along the KC Streetcar should look like this, we already have the hard part done...

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

The three things this country most desperately needs:
- Clean energy
- Housing
- Transportation

have had innovation and progress deliberately thwarted at every turn. We need faster, better, safer, cleaner, more frequent housing and transit. Everywhere.

[KateIllustrate @BarsottiKlb]

This highway is awful. It needs to be a priority for reconnecting the grid and dedicated transit lanes.

We could land trust the whole thing.

[Silas P. Silas @KennySpenceNBA]

You’re not getting my vote if your stance on ICE is anything but abolishing AND prosecuting

[mat o 🚲 @42morzo]

@UnionStationKC Bring back the benches!!!

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

@mulcs85 i think some people fear that 15 min cities will turn into a physical prison where you're not allowed to leave. but it seems like if that's the objection, they should oppose companies like palantir

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

every US state official across the world is now a legitimate target to arrest and imprison for being part of a criminal terrorist pedophile drug trafficking cartel. Venezuela should take as many as they can to secure the release of their president from their clutches

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

Trump’s illegal and unprovoked bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping of its president are grave violations of international law and the U.S. Constitution. These are the actions of a rogue state.

The American people do not want another regime change war abroad.