Sarah K

architect, etc.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

There was only one thing that surprised me about the Jubilee with MAGA die-hards.

It wasn't that some people scream and refuse to stop talking. It wasn't that these were mostly young people cheering and finding purpose in wars but never fighting in them. It wasn't that their politics is more of a cult of personality. All expected and found in all factions.

It was that, despite being political junkies, they had no idea about Trump's enormous corruption scandals because the corporate and independent media they consume doesn't mention it. They had no idea it existed:

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

One of the biggest problems with the sanitized way far too many Americans understand history is that we do not believe our country has ever done anything wrong. So we never even arrive at considering how we have directly harmed those who see us as enemies today.

[Jen Rice @jen_rice_]

It is truly staggering to witness just how much devastation the American public is willing to shrug off with total indifference as long as their Amazon packages are delivered and their own families are safe

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

The problem with statements like these is that they get their history fundamentally wrong. Hayden is assuming that minimum setbacks, minimum lot sizes, and single-use zoning came about beause little design committees came together in every city in America and independently decided that these were the essential design features they wanted. Newsflash: Local desires had nothing to do with any of these zoning rules.

These zoning rules originated in model codes promoted by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the secondary mortgage securities market they facilitated. To make the houses within a jurisidiction eligible for federally insured/securitized mortgages, they said, a municipality had to adopt these zoning restrictions. Why? Because that's how the brainiac central planners on Wall Street thought they could make a house hold its value for the life of a 30-year mortgage. That's how these restrictions spread across the country and became so pervasive –– by the dictates of distant financiers with too much power over who gets bank loans and what they need to do to get it.

So, while I appreciate the project of YIMBYs like Hayden and the fact that we really do need to reform zoning laws, it would behoove all of us, I think, to be areful about this idea that the "free market" will just build these beautiful buildings for us if only our pesky government and its pesky laws would get out of the way. It was, after all, out-of-control reliance on the benevelonce of "free [financial] markets" that got us here in the first place.

[Laura Elliott @TinyWriterLaura]

all i’m saying is this is a really weird time in history to be a person who’s never been impressed by wealth or found rich people aspirational. watching people bootlicking bad men just because they’re rich gives me so much second hand embarrassment istg it makes no sense to me

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Masked ICE agents, it seems, are now killing American citizens on American streets.

Any Democrat who doesn’t support abolishing ICE should be instantly primaried and run out of the party.

This is non negotiable. You cannot support the existence of this fascist secret police.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

[ProPublica @propublica]

Hi @DHSgov,

We’re the folks who reported the facts you’re now dismissing.

So just a reminder:

We found 170+ cases of immigration agents detaining U.S. citizens this year. In dozens of cases, charges have never been filed or the cases were dismissed.

Among the detained: nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
https://t.co/earUjOP2bC

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

Happy Thanksgiving. A better world is possible.

[Carter Donnick @CDonnick1]

This is so funny because the first thing you learn in literally any stats class is that the interpretation of data is inherently subjective

[@DrBritWilliams on 🦋sky @DrBritWilliams]

I'm currently reading a comparison of health systems globally. There are about 4 sentences that really sum it up.

1/4: “The United States is the only developed country that lets insurance companies profit from basic health coverage”

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

The Nazis did this

[Nicensteiner @Nicensteiner]

Read this as many times as you need.

https://t.co/v6kRt8rvQw

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump’s EO designating ANTIFA as a domestic terrorist org is worded so that anyone protesting ICE agents, filming or asking them for ID, or informing people of their rights, can be charged as a domestic terrorist.

This isn’t an attack on ANTIFA.
It’s an attack on our rights.

[yung agamben @YAgamben]

Nietzsche on the futile idiocy of the conservative project

[Dylan (Baseball Historian on Youtube) @BaseballHstrn]

It’s probably nothing

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

Oh man.