David Hyde

@bluecitypodcast @realseattlenice Formerly, politics reporter NPR affiliate @KUOW

[David Hyde @hyded]

The newish Blue City Blues podcast I'm working on with @skaushik100 features smart guests talking about the problems facing urban America and how to fix them. Recent guests include @fakedansavage @RepMGP @pescami @celindalake @MattMahanSJ @petersgoodman and other luminaries.

[David Hyde @hyded]

@cruickshank At least we’re not Portland.

[David Hyde @hyded]

Fun while it lasted

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

We're entering our gladiatorial era now?

[David Hyde @hyded]

FIFA: no more free water for you!

[David Hyde @hyded]

Wonder what the conversations are like on this contracting crew in Seattle.

[David Hyde @hyded]

@seattletimes Tough call because concerns about surveillance are valid. But @MayorofSeattle told us on @RealSeattleNice she's a big soccer fan so I'll be a little surprised if she doesn't authorize these cameras temporarily since it's kind of de rigueur for the World Cup.

[David Hyde @hyded]

Thanks @skaushik100 it’s one of my favorite podcasts: deep dives into history and total esoterica, that somehow feels like you’re eating a big bowl of ice cream. Hoping to hear you on @omnibusproject soon!

[Sandeep Kaushik @skaushik100]

This is a very fun listen: my podcasting partner in crime @hyded joined host John Roderick on John's excellent @omnibusproject pod (which John created with Jeopardy host @KenJennings) to tell the improbable story of the Astor Place Riot in NYC in 1849.

It's an amazing tale of class and cultural conflict as hard-bitten Gangs of New York Bowery Boys engaged in violent rioting (at least 22 people died) over... Shakespearean theater and acting styles. Really! It's a very strange-but-true, undeservedly obscure slice of American history, entertainingly told.

https://t.co/ghVfgURDcl

[David Hyde @hyded]

Worth reading on why you can't trust Maine polls. But here's the thing bugging me: now if Platner loses, do we learn anything about populist left candidates? Was it the sexts? The tattoo? Some weird Maine thing?

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

There's been lots of people pointing to the polls to allay concerns about Platner. But polls have underestimated Republicans by an average of 4 points in Maine since 2014.

[David Hyde @hyded]

@Jim_Brunner @geekwire Is it called, “This Doesn’t Zuck”? With the bumper sticker, “If you are close enough to read this, AI will be taking your job”

[David Hyde @hyded]

@Jessecooksfood Cool. Was wandering around there today and it sounds like we need to pay more attention next time.

[Sandeep Kaushik @skaushik100]

The latest BCB episode (link to follow) primarily consists of three aging Gen Xers yelling, “get off my lawn!”

But in between our “kids today don’t know how rough we had it!” nostalgia trip with John Roderick, front man for legendary Seattle indie rock band The Long Winters and now host of the excellent (and omnivorous) @omnibusproject podcast (which John founded with Ken Jennings), we discuss what makes a city authentically cool.

And we dissect how the cultural and economic conditions in America 30 plus years ago that made blue cities like Seattle, Portland and New York cool have shifted, and why Gen Z, rebelling against the simultaneously censorious and affirming culture of the Millennials, may be about to invent their own version of urban cool.

[David Hyde @hyded]

When did this awful trend of attacking news orgs for using the word "allegedly" become prevalent?

[Valintina @TGEE21]

@SteveTVNews @TyCunningtonTV Allegedly throws a rock??!! We watched it on video do better Komo!

[David Hyde @hyded]

@MenInBlazers England ahead of France for the first time since the Seven Years War

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

We just launched PELE, our new soccer model! It is kind of insanely detailed. But we think you'll really like it and hope you'll check it out. Argentina *just* edges out Spain in the initial rankings. The US is ... much further down the list.

[David Hyde @hyded]

@Timodc Dangerous but is it a political liability? Not clear to me that it is. So perhaps that’s why partisans on both sides don’t do much to dispel.

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@KeithNHumphreys Mostly consumed in state or exported?

[David Hyde @hyded]

@mattyglesias Correction. It was the pesto of cities. Now it’s the vegan donut.

[David Hyde @hyded]

Super fun conversation about "Solid B cities" and world class city snobs with reporter @halbennet of https://t.co/UpJLZodurL on our latest @bluecitypodcast

[David Hyde @hyded]

Unfortunately the same thing can be said for some news organizations that changed their approach unevenly and without announcing it. But I would quibble and call it the pursuit of objectivity.

[Keith Humphreys @KeithNHumphreys]

Some academics who denounced the idea of objectivity and declared themselves activists are for some reason shocked that policymakers and the public now view them not as trusted, objective scientists but as...activists.

[David Hyde @hyded]

Some reasons to be optimistic about the future of Blue Cities

[Sandeep Kaushik @skaushik100]

Five years ago blue cities, particularly on the West Coast, were embracing a progressive-libertarian approach to addiction, decriminalizing hard drug use and leaning into the supposed personal “autonomy” of the addicted. Which flopped, badly,

Now some blue city mayors are innovating on drug policy in a very different direction, advocating more proactive interventions to push the addicted towards recovery. So we had Stanford’s @KeithNHumphreys, onto Blue City Blues to talk about the shifting tides on drug policy in cities like Philadelphia, San Francisco, and San Jose (link in the next tweet).

These efforts are nascent and experimental, Keith tells @hyded and I, but also promising and perhaps the leading edge of a broader reset in blue urban America.

[Nicholas Bagley @nicholas_bagley]

This was a great discussion with @robertmgordon and the hosts for Blue City Blues about public sector unions, Democratic politics, and the future of our cities.

[Seattle Nice @RealSeattleNice]

Early Access: Bigger and Bolder on Density: New CM Eddie Lin Says It's Time (link in comments)