Jack

Future City Sketches on Substack/Insta. For a better designed government. Human, ecological, and institutional flourishing. Opinions are my own.

[Jack @jack_7196]

@slooterman as a gay guy whos about to read the power broker, i disagree. if it was the infinite jest though…

[OG's Scarf @OGsHeadband1]

“Congrats, Bacon. Well deserved” 🥺 🐈‍⬛ ❤️

[Daniel Golliher 🗽 @danielgolliher]

Cohort 16, baby! Application are now open. We start September 14.

https://t.co/0k4lrctqFf

[Jack @jack_7196]

@emhuntersmith ^

[Jack @jack_7196]

@TweetBenMax @DMLeilaBozorg fun one. appreciated you asking about the nitty grittty of being a DM.

[Jack @jack_7196]

@danielgolliher ^

[Tom Flaschen @sharpie_eraser]

What the Pied-a-Terre Tax Roll Is and Isn't, Or why the 31,000 number floating around is wrong https://t.co/KM2CLLqrlZ

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism?

AOC: I mean, no. I think that’s very silly. We can’t even raise the minimum wage. Do they really think communism is going to happen? No. They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care.

So they want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here, they’re going to realize they deserve better and that health care as a right isn’t crazy. They want to call this stuff communist because they don’t want us to realize that the rest of the developed world has guaranteed health care. They want to call it communist because they don’t want you to know that Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada—everybody else—has it better than us, and we spend the most money for the worst care in the developed world.

[Jack @jack_7196]

@TweetBenMax @Wright4Harlem brunson levels of PR trained answers

[Jack @jack_7196]

@danielgolliher @emhuntersmith captions, lots of ppl scroll without audio

[Jack @jack_7196]

@TweetBenMax @nycDSA @unionGustavo I respected their openness a lot

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Pope Leo XIV says that the Catholic Church’s teaching on sexual ethics must be less prioritized over “greater, more important issues.”

“We tend to think that when the Church is talking about morality, that the only issue of morality is sexual. And in reality, I believe there are much greater, more important issues, such as justice, equality, freedom of men and women, freedom of religion, that would all take priority before that particular issue.”

[Jack @jack_7196]

@KnicksFanTv @CPTheFanchise crazy crossover

[Aflaha 🛐 @afl4ha]

Happy for him but too many people finding out how funny handsome etc OG is please #stepback

[Jack @jack_7196]

@PreciousAchiuwa @NBA_NewYork come to the parade

[Jack @jack_7196]

Full writeup here! https://t.co/gW5hCbShZD

[Jack @jack_7196]

At the first hearing of NYC's new Charter on Government Efficiency (COGE) Commission, an exchange about the School Construction Authority raised a much bigger question:
Are public authorities solutions to public problems or solutions to governmental constraints? 🧵

[Jack @jack_7196]

The interesting question for charter reform is whether New York still needs so many paths around government or whether it's time to rethink the obstacles that made them necessary in the first place. (Much of which is out of scope for just a CRC)