Conor Sen@conorsen
Encouraging update here. Conditions slowly normalizing.
A mind-blowing YoY rent comparison:
New York City +33.5%
Oakland +0.5%
Carl Gershenson 🏘️ @cgershenson
Rent growth is cooling down in recent months, but year-over-year growth is still at a record 17.8%.
vacancy rates started inching up in the summer, and month-over-month rent growth began declining thereafter
(from @robnock_ et al)
https://t.co/ZK2XRkFr0v https://t.co/LXnAubMonC
7:29 PM · Jan 28, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Do it and be legends
pedestrianobservations.com/2021/01/27/kwc…
10:18 PM · Jan 28, 2022
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City Journal@CityJournal
Though NYC’s sidewalk sheds might give the impression of a city perpetually under construction, most exist thanks to the city’s unique, unusually costly requirements for inspecting and maintaining building façades. cityjourn.al/3rOTFdx via @cmhrrs
cityjourn.al
Why Do New York’s Sidewalk Sheds Exist? |
1:30 AM · Jan 29, 2022
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Beto O'Rourke@BetoORourke
Abbott is a corrupt socialist.
He encouraged his corporate buddies to make obscene profits during the grid failure and forced us to pay for their windfall in higher utility bills.
He privatized the gains to a few and socialized the losses to every single ratepayer in Texas.
3:46 PM · Jan 28, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
Do people really think we're going to be able to reshore our supply chains with an education system that's relentlessly focused on not teaching anyone anything difficult?
garrytan.eth 陈嘉兴 🥑🌐🦇🔊🍌🔺(∞, ∞) @garrytan
People are legit arguing against AP classes on this hellsite https://t.co/eZsmrxtMAQ
7:52 AM · Jan 29, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This is what makes him the hero we need — there are tons of “non-twitter” Dem electeds, but few who aggressively play the role on Twitter where it’s valuable.
Ben Smith @benyt
Eric Adams, a bit of an anti-twitter Dem, sure spends a lot of time posting things on twitter for a fairly small audience/the media https://t.co/dFlUmkxBt8
2:43 PM · Jan 29, 2022
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Dan Federman@TheFederman
In shock that @CaltransHQ is calling hydrogen power the most environmentally friendly option for powering intercity trains given how hydrogen is produced 🤯
4:33 PM · Jan 29, 2022
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Matt Grossmann@MattGrossmann
Democratic partisanship increases with Republican extremism but decreases as Democrats move leftward, especially among Southern Whites. Simulations for 2020 suggest these strong negative effects of an aggressive leftward move
From Dynamic Partisanship:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
4:09 PM · Jan 29, 2022
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LesserHat*@Popehat
Me in 1990: I bet by the time I’m really old, like 2022 or something, we’ll have flying cars and space colonies and a cure for cancer, because we’re so devoted to scientific progress as a nation
Actual 2022:
7:36 PM · Jan 29, 2022
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
The strongest argument for mandating vaccines is that they prevent transmission to others. That seemed like a very strong argument back in June. Now I dunno.
10:51 PM · Jan 29, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
If enforcing gun control is racist, then gun control is just a dead letter, and progressives should stop pushing it.
Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos
Good: Philly City Council Committee came up with a violence plan!
Bad: "Almost none of which came with concrete price tags or plans for implementation."
Worse: DA says arresting people for gun possession "not viable" "inequitable and obviously racist."
I'm not making this up. https://t.co/b0SLxZ0eLi
11:44 PM · Jan 29, 2022
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LesserHat*@Popehat
I’m really surprised cable companies haven’t found a way to charge for performatively removing a Chanel from your package. “I spend $1.50 a month not to get Fox/CNN but it is so worth it not to have that in my house.”
12:39 AM · Jan 30, 2022
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Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀@aceckhouse
need an audit of all NYPD officers' vaccination cards & anyone with a fake vax card needs to be FIRED, immediately
Daniel Bergstresser @dbergstresser
😮
LI nurse, NYPD husband probed in $900K fake vaccine card sales - New York Daily News https://t.co/T7QGKuoJfS
12:59 AM · Jan 30, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I like that no matter how many times “build a mega-weapon that can destroy whole planets” fails as a governance strategy, Palpatine goes back to the well.
Maybe try appealing to the median voter’s policy preferences!
3:09 AM · Jan 30, 2022
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