Chris Calton

Historian, Research Fellow in Housing and Homelessness @IndependentInst.

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

@californiapost “Breaks silence”

It’s been like 10 minutes.

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

@SocDem_Erika They can only sell to willing buyers, which is why landlords in rent control areas have often just neglected or abandoned their buildings or even set them on fire for the insurance money. This was all common in NY in the 70s, and none of it made life better for tenants.

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

@sarahtexe I didn’t vote for Trump, but it may be the only good thing to come out of his administration. The DoE has objectively been a failure by every measure, this shouldn’t even be controversial if you actually care about the quality of education.

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

Not entirely related, but a great piece of historical trivia is that you could find camels in the wilds of Texas until around the 1950s.

Jefferson Davis imported camels to use for cavalry during the civil war. They never ended up being used, but they survived for about a century in Texas before finally dying out.

[Mack @kenzietuff]

There’s been a giraffe just roaming the Texas hill country for two weeks and they FOUND her just hanging out, living her best life. People were spotting her on game cameras, can you imagine?

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

Because the United States is the only developed country to reject a national incorporation law, leaving incorporation instead to the states, which faced jurisdictional competition that compelled them to adopt business friendly incorporation laws (or alternatively, to lose capital to other states, as Delaware is now experiencing).

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

This is *precisely* why big businesses allied with progressive intellectuals in the early twentieth century to create the federal regulatory state.

Bureaucratic regulation was introduced, in part, to undermine the regulatory mechanism of the tort system by providing legal liability protections from damage their activities cause, so long as they are operating within the confines of the regulatory code.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

In a 7-2 decision, SCOTUS said Bayer can’t be held liable under state law for failing to warn about the alleged cancer risk since a federal regulator (the Environmental Protection Agency) didn’t require RoundUp to carry a warning label.

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

The real news is that Democrats increase from a combined total of 101% in 2010 to 108% in 2025.

[Adam Singer @AdamSinger]

The hour is later than you think

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

I suppose with less demand for housing, there’d be fewer homes built, so we’d have, if anything, less housing supply than we currently have.

But if you’re trying to suggest that housing supply would *increase*, then that would be like saying “imagine how many more Wal-Marts we would have if fewer people shopped there.”

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

@anishgiri It’s normal for online journalism, the lowest form of writing.

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

Politicians literally have people believing that multi-million dollar rental properties have always been mom-n-pop operations until just recently, when private equity firms suddenly started buying them up.

[tues 💘 @housing_bae]

Sorry babe, private equity is beating you to it as we speak.

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

@_kaboosky @moseskagan You understand that most of the 27 EU countries are smaller and less developed than Poland, right?

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

@_kaboosky @moseskagan Funny how other EU countries are not experiencing the same growth, huh?

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

@VinnysCorner1 Chipper Jones. One of six hall of famers from the 1990s Braves.

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

A lot of Conservatives sounding like communists in the comments.

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

“They’re building an entire city — with no permits.”

Greg Abbott says the developers don’t have approval to do any of the construction they’re talking about.

No permits. No authorization.

You don’t get to build a city outside the rules everyone else follows.

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

The 40-hour workweek is indeed unnatural. It was introduced by Henry Ford about a century ago when he was the largest employer in the world, forcing other companies to adopt similar schedules to compete for labor.

[RTSG @RTSG_Main]

The 40-hour work week is not "natural."

It is the political outcome of a society driven not by human needs, but by the wants of capital—by what is "profitable."

We do not work for ourselves, but rather for an alien social relationship that cares only about surplus value.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Happy Father’s Day

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

@KeithNHumphreys My 4-yo just farted on me and said “Happy Farter’s Day!” I’m not sure how to feel about it.

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

@JonahDispatch @Kasparov63 This is a remarkably dumb take. Semantic nonsense in lieu of a real argument.

[Chris Calton @ChrisCalto91066]

Cops kill about 10,000 dogs a year. We don’t hear about this enough.

[California Post @californiapost]

Horrific bodycam video reveals moment beloved dog is shot 4 times by LAPD officer https://t.co/62JWCEbcgJ