Applied economist interested in economic mobility and history. In fact prefer movies to politics: https://xitter.cf/t.co/6fUuUUvudW
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While I have managed to ascribe to a variety of hoe-scaring extremism anyway (Dsa radical centrism) , I do regret not spending more time on literature as an undergraduate
I kinda got my start through initiatives but I kinda think I’m done voting for initiatives, this is a dumb way to do politics.
More news from DCBOE meeting: @DCaffordability attorney asked @Vote4DC Board to defer I-88 (two-year rent freeze) to later, likely the general election of 2028. I-88 treasurer @aeidinger says criticizing initiatives passed during off-cycle elections makes no sense. @CityCast_DC
Look when the geese agree with me they’re good when they don’t they’re bad, just like everybody else
Like most of this faction’s tactics, all this will accomplish is further marginalizing the left, while doing nothing to hinder Israel’s genocide.
I want to quadruple them instead, and I vote! I’ve never gotten one this is not a real problem.
Councilmember @RobertWhite_DC said this morning he wants to HALVE parking fines in D.C. (Will propose as an amendment to @BrianneKNadeau's strategic parking enforcement bill. But @ChmnMendelson says it isn't germane.)
White: “Inflation is kicking our butts at the grocery store.”
Ngl I’m still sad makan and especially thirsty crow closed, but I’m happy something else is coming, maybe there’ll be a good place to watch football other than midlands in the area…
EXCLUSIVE: The Porch & Pebbles from the owners of Nanny O’Briens, Franklin Hall (and MANY Others) coming to old Meridian Pint space in Columbia Heights!! - See the full scoop: popville.com/2026/10/the-por…
What if the world was made of pudding
Did a single major left channel show any curiosity about Vega's race?
I know that I interviewed him as did Sabby Sabs. It's a shame to think it might have made a difference in a race against one of the most outspoken Zionists in congress.
Anyway, @samhusseini is currently running for congress and available for interviews.
Rare bonds w, paying public executives like executives is good (I will never ever be a mayor)
Interesting: @AnitaBondsDC has introduced a bill that would increase the mayor's salary to $290,000 a year, up from the $250,000 that @MayorBowser has been making since 2023. The change would take effect on Jan. 2, 2027, when @Janeese4DC is expected to become mayor.
I think the title ix revocation is much more consequential, and much worse, than the student loan change, which will mostly affect very marginal programs that probably shouldn’t exist (average hs grad wage is a very easy bar to clear)
The way leftists sneak in mean dismissals of macklemores music in praise of his good politics bums me out. It’d be one thing if he himself were cynical about his art, but he seems totally sincere, so I bet it makes him sad.
Yeah we probably have to put the sportsbook companies in jail sorry
New: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled. propub.li/4dGHrwr
Elite conservatives turning into baby brained aesthetic relativists about the awful taste of the average American always strikes me as bizarre. You people are supposed to believe in the good, the true, and the beautiful — it’s the only piece of my conservative upbringing I kept!!
My second most conservative belief is that evaluations of good and bad art are basically useful in a lot of ways. Sure they’re contingent contested etc but we should be doing that contesting rigorously! I’m reminded of this piece by Irving Howe: scribd.com/doc/25352244/The-…
Andor, deadwood, 30 rock, veep, girls, the wire, the leftovers, the Americans, Silicon Valley, mad men for me fyi
