Ned Resnikoff

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Perhaps the actual biggest obstacle is that traffic engineering is an entirely broken profession.

I've become convinced that one of the biggest obstacles to better road design in commercial areas is well-off business owners who drive their BMW to work every day and find it impossible to imagine a customer who uses any other mode of conveyance to arrive at the shop.

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the other thing is that people have no sense of how much space cars and so they imagine that a road full of cars must be a lot of people when it very often is not. a well-used bike lane transports like twice as many people during a given time as does a road

It's a truism in US poll analysis that even if a generic Democrat polls well against Trump, there's no such thing as a generic Democrat and every actually existing candidate comes with baggage. But in the UK they somehow found the world's most generic Labour PM candidate and absolutely cleaned up.

To a millionaire idiot in a nice car, everyone not in a car is an NPC

all these guys drive themselves and assume that's what everyone does, even though you can look out the window and see 1000 people walking and 10 cars

This is tough. Because on the one hand, giving more of the road over to pedestrians is great for the climate, air quality, noise impacts, public safety, and local businesses. But on the other hand, there are few good transportation options other than driving in [checks notes] Midtown Manhattan.

"The roadway once carried between four and six lanes for motor vehicles, despite 88 percent of people in the area traveling on foot and squeezing into 30 percent of the space." And now Adams wants to give it back to cars?

Mayor Adams May Nix Sidewalk Expansions on Bustling Eighth Ave. - Streetsblog New York Citynyc.streetsblog.org Mayor Eric Adams cast doubt on years of city efforts to give pedestrians more space to walk on overcrowded Eighth Avenue.

As you watch the UK results come in, remember that Tooting is the real bellwether here. It all comes down to Tooting. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Tooting - U.K. General Election Resultswww.bloomberg.com Follow the UK election results with live maps, charts and analysis

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occurs to me that bribing the president is now /always/ legal, since in every case the only way to distinguish gratuity from bribe is via evidence that could never be admissible

The End of History and the Last Momala

people are going to hate this but Kamala Harris is the most dialectical candidate in 2024

If I were a self-described liberal or leftist beating the drum over local control of zoning, I would take a moment to consider who my bedfellows are on this issue.

"Localities rather than the federal government must have the final say in zoning laws and regulations, and a conservative Administration should oppose any efforts to weaken single-family zoning." static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...

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Very far down the list of things that are bad about Project 2025, but since it's in my wheelhouse I do feel obliged to note that a second Trump term would be a gift to NIMBYs. They're promising AFFH repeal + aggressive defense of single-family zoning. static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...

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Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.

These guys are traitors to the republic just like their heroes Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

New newsletter post with some additional notes on my exchange with Steve Randy Waldman resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/yimbyism-f...

YIMBYism and Fatalism, cont.resnikoff.beehiiv.com

Hear me out. Top of the ticket: Kamala Harris Running mate: The guy who plays Reacher in the REACHER streaming show.

What's this? Oh, just a map of un-utilized sites, owned by Caltrans, that the department could convert into dense infill housing through the state's excess sites program. Why won't they? Dunno, ask them! experience.arcgis.com/experience/f...

Longtermism and e/acc are just extremely rickety, sophistic justifications for stuff like this.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI.

You have to almost envy the bland obliviousness that would lead someone to write this after yesterday's immunity ruling www.bangordailynews.com/2024/07/02/o...

Donald Trump is going to win the election and democracy will be just finewww.bangordailynews.com “Democrats’ post-debate hand-wringing is based on the idea that a Trump victory is not just a political loss, but a unique threat to our democracy. I reject the premise.”

@jerusalem.bsky.social nails it on Grants Pass: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What the Supreme Court Doesn’t Get About Homelessnesswww.theatlantic.com Communities turn to police instead of fixing their housing shortage.

It rules that after inventing a completely arbitrary and selective "deeply rooted in our traditions" test, the Court completely abandoned it for the Trump immunity case so they wouldn't have to deal with how a bunch of 18th century dudes who worshipped Cicero would think about literal Caesarism.

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Today, the federal government put itself on the right side of history by seeking, for the 1st time, to establish the precedent that every worker in America has the right to shade, water & rest while working in temps that could kill them. -UFW President Teresa Romero www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

Biden to announce heat rules as climate-related deaths risewww.politico.com If finalized, they would be the first U.S. regulations to protect workers from dangerous temperatures.

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Brett Kavanaugh told the Senate: “No one’s above the law in the United States, that’s a foundational principle…. We’re all equal before the law…. The foundation of our Constitution was that…the presidency would not be a monarchy…. [T]he president is not above the law, no one is above the law.”

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Samuel Alito said: “There is nothing that is more important for our republic than the rule of law. No person in this country, no matter how high or powerful, is above the law.”

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In their confirmation hearings… John Roberts said: “I believe that no one is above the law under our system and that includes the president. The president is fully bound by the law, the Constitution, and statutes.”

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i think we should see the Trump v. United States ruling as a group of Republican apparatchiks taking their opportunity to vindicate Nixon and write the unitary executive into the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...

Opinion | Your Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card Is Ready, Sirwww.nytimes.com The Nixonian theory of presidential power is now enshrined as constitutional law.

Been reading Ganz's WHEN THE CLOCK BROKE and the chapter on David Duke's political career feels especially salient this week. Not just for the obvious reasons but for the capsule history of Louisiana as a corrupt authoritarian state ruling a fractious multiethnic society.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

Many Black Americans are one generation away from formal authoritarianism. That's not how we often talk about policies like Jim Crow but that's what it was.

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A lot of Americans do know what it's like to live under an authoritarian regime. My parents do. Many immigrants ended up in the US because they were fleeing authoritarianism (sometimes US backed). Offhand Haitians, Dominicans, Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, Koreans all know.

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In awe of this tweet, which truly captures everything bad about mainstream journalism in 2024

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Correct. A prudent, law-abiding President who appoints qualified agency personnel to enact thoughtful regulations is going to see their agenda inevitably fail. A malicious, arbitrary President who runs around barking illegal commands at people will be rewarded.

So based on decisions from just this week, the President, as long has he has the gloss of officialdom, can basically do anything without legal restraint, whereas the President, acting via duly appointed agencies authorized by Congress, is more restrained than ever? What a coherent jurisprudence!