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[MaineJumbo🌲🦞 @MassJumbo]

The median voter is only now only 1 month away from googling who their representative is

[Graham @goldengrahams89]

@StatisticUrban Interesting where can i read more about this?

[Annemarie Gray @annemariegray]

Incredible example of SEQRA reform already getting results: nuns in an Albany suburb are redeveloping part of their campus to build 238 new homes, and their lawyer writes the town citing the new state law to walk thru every way it clearly meets the criteria and must be approved.

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

We have to improve the building code for infill multistory housing. We’ve reached the point where the places people want to live can only grow by pivoting from sprawl to middle-housing density. And you can’t get the quality of life people want until building code accomodates it.

-Single stair as a norm
-Right-sized elevators
-Fed & states putting the ICC and NFPA on short leashes and demanding that code includes a holistic view of impacts.
-End of setbacks, other anti-housing development and zoning ordinances designed to force waste and loss of space for people and green space in favor of asphalt and vetocracy.

[Innovation Council @innovationcncl]

🚨 Even 60 Minutes admits it: Data centers don’t use nearly as much water as critics would have you believe.

CBS News found that golf courses nationwide use more than twice as much water as data centers.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

My favorite piece on this wrote that Tokyo "has remained affordable by becoming the world's largest city. It has become the world's largest city by remaining affordable."

Tokyo shows a vision of inclusive building others can pursue and does so while eschewing traditional means.

[Anthony Close ☀️ @AnthonyClose]

I don't know who will win this race, but I certainly feel for Josie Tomkow.

With gas prices nearing record levels, her commute from Polk County to SD-14 must cost a pretty penny.

My advice: run in the district you actually live in.

[The Last Democrat 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @AGlavkoverkh]

I legitimately dont think its possible for any parody to come closer to representing how much of an insane narcissist this loser is than this photo

[Clark Packard @clark_packard]

For 10 years Congress has shrugged its collective shoulders as the executive branch levied unilateral tax increases on American families and firms. This week Congress affirmatively blessed the Trump administration’s ridiculous tariff policies. It owns what comes next. W/@AlfredCObregon
and Eli DeLuca. https://t.co/HVbyQm2Eox via
@CatoInstitute

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

Amazing snippet from the WSJ article about flock

[Holly Bullard @HollyBullardFL]

Florida Association of Realtors: sink $10 m to pass Amendment 3.

Meanwhile, National Association of Realtors:

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

Thank your local teachers union

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

I'm constantly reminded that the narrative we heard for years—that the Supreme Court was made up of Trump stooges—was always absurd. Not only do the justices often agree, but Trump's own appointees are constantly bucking him. That's a much more interesting story.

[Tahra Hoops @TahraHoops]

Wow. These people know that Trump's tariffs were only going to harm their local manufacturers/consumers and still decided to agree to support his agenda in public.

I hope the people, even those on the left, who refused to break from this incessant protectionism have learned their lesson.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

The US has essentially stopped building small/starter homes.

[Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @Car_Free_USA]

Unpopular opinion: City and transportation planning only needs about 10% of the public meetings it currently holds.

Asking an entire neighborhood their opinion about how tall a building should be or if a speed bump should be installed does more harm than good.

The Hyper-Public-Meeting-Era of planning was an understandable response to urban renewal demolitions and Robert Moses style highway building, but it's been taken way too far and needs to stop.

[stepfanie tyler @stepfanie]

I’m sorry but America did not spend 250 years turning “what’s over there?” into the most powerful civilization on earth just to finally arrive at the most consequential technological frontier in generations and decide actually we’re scared of frontiers now. We ARE the fucking frontier. We cross oceans. We build railroads across continents. We split atoms. We put men on the moon. We turn sand into computers and computers into a global nervous system.

Of COURSE AI is terrifying. The frontier is SUPPOSED to scare the shit out of you. That’s how you know you have, in fact, located the fucking frontier.

The answer is not recklessness, but it sure as fuck isn’t paralysis either. America’s comparative advantage is an unusually high national tolerance for ambitious weirdos staring at impossible things and saying “Yeah... I think I can build it.” That trait is rarer than oil, harder to manufacture than semiconductors, and responsible for a frankly preposterous amount of the modern world.

And you absolutely will not fucking regulate it out of us.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

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[Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn]

This is the Republican nominee for statewide office. Are other Republican elected officials going to condemn the intolerance and racism, or look the other way while it becomes normalized. This is how great political parties self-destruct. Sad.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Fantastic piece from @Chris_arnade on what tolerating anti-social behavior does to our public spaces:

"It’s a primary reason why we shy away from dense walkable spaces and instead move towards suburban sprawl.

People in the U.S. don’t respect, trust, or want to be around other random citizens, out of fear and disgust.

Japanese/European style urbanism—density, fantastic public transport, mixed-use zoning, that so many American tourists admire—can't happen here because there is a fine line between vibrant streets and squalid ones, and that line is public trust.

The U.S. is on the wrong side of it.

Simply put, nobody wants to be accosted by a stranger, no matter how infrequent, and until that risk is close to nil, people will continue edging towards isolated living.

It is why we “can’t have nice things” because we have to construct our infrastructure to be asshole-proof, and so we don’t build anything or build with a fortress mentality, stripping our public spaces down to the austere and utilitarian, emptying them of anything that can be vandalized."