Mark Davis

Spent 9 wonderful years in Japan.

[Mark Davis @davis_kertwang]

@mnolangray Hawaii eliminated single-family zoning in 1981 —and the housing crisis in Hawaii is worse now than it was in 1981. Maybe the elimination of single family zoning is not the panacea that progressives claim it to be.

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

The Jason Arday episode is a perfect microcosm of a Western system rotting under the weight of human deadwood. Not just academia, wokeness, welfare bureaucracies, “learing” centers, or the laptop manager class exposed during Covid, but an entire civilization in which millions contribute nothing, produce nothing, and solve nothing while participating in an elaborate theater of fake productivity designed to conceal their complete uselessness. The real work is left to a shrinking productive minority forced to carry everyone else.

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

https://t.co/x8LXtXlz5x
El-Sayed’s victory tells us something that’s been obvious for some time in Britain, crystallised in America with the election of the Islamist Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York City, and can no longer be ignored.

This is that — astoundingly — hatred of Israel and the Jews has become the driver of progressive politics in America, Britain and elsewhere in the West. It’s become an organising worldview, the prism through which everything is perceived.

Its significance goes far beyond the Middle East or the Jews, about which most people know little and care less. The issue of Israel and “Palestine” is a Trojan horse for the real agenda: the Islamisation and destruction of the West through the “red green alliance” between the far-left and the Islamic world.
@dansenor

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

This is the most important aspect: Jason Arday committed scientific fraud. He must go.

And so must the leaders at Cambridge who support him after it is revealed that he has committed fraud.

This includes among others Sonita Alleyne, the Master of the college at U. of Cambridge in which Jason Arday is employed. She stands in "unwavering solidarity" of Jason Arday.

We obviously cannot accept a situation in which members of the leadership of a university stand in unwavering solidarity with academics who commit scientific fraud.

One can hope that eventually even the media will pick up on this, and start seeing more of the picture.

[Mark Davis @davis_kertwang]

@nicknactax @cLoe307 How often do u practice or take lessons using a simulator?

[Mark Davis @davis_kertwang]

@carney Can we start with the scientists who proposed this?

[Mark Davis @davis_kertwang]

Disappointing that people feel that have to wait 9 days for a callback—that’s no way to operate a business or to treat customers. I have employed many tradespeople over the last 20 years. The best ones callback within 48 hours or earlier if it’s a legitimate emergency. Sometimes I will have to schedule the work far in advance but when the work is scheduled vs the wait time for a callback are completely different things.

[Mark Davis @davis_kertwang]

@somethng_clev3r @AGHamilton29 That’s a pretty easy choice

[Mark Davis @davis_kertwang]

DEI has destroyed academia…..

[Sebastian Milbank @SebMilbank]

This tweet is an example of what's wrong with academia. In a word: sophistry. You are describing the Arday case as a single data point, when you must know this is deeply disingenuous.

He openly lied and committed plagiarism, and even when this was publicly demonstrated, much of Cambridge's academic leadership not only defended him but denounced his critics in the most vicious and slanderous terms.

Like a nuclear meltdown, so much more than one thing had to go wrong to get ust to this point. It bears repeating: a pathological liar and plagiarist, one whose plagiarised work was in any case of a very low standard, was allowed to pass his PhD, get jobs at Roehampton, Durham and Cambridge. At every stage there were committees, examiners, supervisors and administrators who should have notice something or said something. Not a single one did, until a blacklisted rightwing academic, with no official role in all this, blew the whistle on him.

We are not, by and large, producing rigorous, critical scholars in academia. There is too much politics, too much bureaucracy, too much careerism, and too much subject specialisation. It's not just a problem of wooly minds, but of wooly characters - fearful, timid and overly agreeable people make for bad thinkers.

[Mark Davis @davis_kertwang]

@neeratanden @daveweigel The “smarts” of Bernie Sanders…..How about, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then ……

[Mark Davis @davis_kertwang]

@NedLamont @senatorduff U forgot to mention state mandated housing quotas which are scheduled for release on Dec 1st 2026.

[Mark Davis @davis_kertwang]

@mashagessen your op-Ed today, included an out of context Trump quote: “there were very fine people on both sides”. Trump explicitly stated that he was excluding Neo-Nazis and white nationalists which he strongly condemned. Trump’s quote: "I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally."

The inclusion of this Democrat “out of context” political ad invalidated the premise of your op-Ed.

[Mark Davis @davis_kertwang]

@BigSwingTempo Isometrics.

[Mark Davis @davis_kertwang]

@senatorduff @NedLamont Duff & Lamont spending other people’s money. Great video by Duff explaining why CT taxes are so high.

[Mark Davis @davis_kertwang]

@carney I wonder if a DSA party member card is valid identification.

[Timur Kuran @timurkuran]

Arday joins Kendi and Gay as a symbol of DEI’s obsession with race over merit. He’s been lionized despite clear intellectual mediocrity. That’s why the backlash is so fierce. Cases this blatant embolden people who stay silent on smaller DEI abuses and inefficiencies.

[John Carney @carney]

Not everything is about political gain. Fauci was a villain and villainy needs to be met with justice.

[Mark Davis @davis_kertwang]

https://t.co/kplEcUlgUQ

[Mark Davis @davis_kertwang]

@ggreenwald Glenn highlights another reason why attacking Iraq now was the correct action to take.

[Handre @Handre]

$17 billion for 3.4 miles of subway tunnel. That works out to roughly $5 billion per mile, making the Second Avenue Subway the most expensive transit construction project in human history, per mile, by a significant margin. Madrid built its entire metro expansion in the early 2000s at under $100 million per mile. You are not misreading those numbers.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority spent 86 years planning Phase 1 (the stretch from 96th Street to 63rd Street, opened in January 2017) before finally breaking ground in 2007. Decades of studies, committees, environmental reviews, and public hearings. Nobody personally paid for those delays. Nobody got fired. No executive absorbed the cost of a decade's worth of inflation, redesigns, and contractor overruns. When you insulate decision-makers from financial consequences, you get exactly this: paralysis followed by extravagance.

Free market economists have a term for what drives this: the calculation problem. Without real prices generated by voluntary exchange, planners cannot rationally allocate resources. The MTA doesn't discover the most efficient tunnel route through competition. It negotiates with unions whose contracts prohibit obvious efficiencies, hires consultants paid by the hour with zero incentive to finish, and answers to politicians who measure success in ribbon-cutting photos rather than cost per passenger mile.

The deeper issue is who pays. New York State taxpayers, federal taxpayers, and future riders through fare revenue all absorb the tab. The people who made the decisions that produced $5 billion-per-mile costs face no personal liability. A private developer whose budget overruns sees his equity evaporate. He has skin in the game. The MTA's leadership has a salary and a pension.

Phase 2 (96th Street to 125th Street, 1.5 miles) carries a projected price tag above $7.7 billion and has just broken ground. The political class will tell you this is what world-class infrastructure costs. What they won't tell you is that Tokyo, a city with arguably the most sophisticated rail network on earth, builds subway lines at roughly $250 million per mile, using private operators who survive only if they perform.

[Mark Davis @davis_kertwang]

@Financewisdom01 @MsMelChen Inclusivity is overrated.