Ned Resnikoff

One more blurb for my forthcoming book, BUILD OR DIE. And here's that pre-order link again! bookshop.org/p/books/buil...

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

I know there’s a lot of other stuff going on in the news, but this is honestly so important

looked at in longer perspective, it's striking how much this resembles the premodern system of exclusion, rents, and personalist connections, which was--and this part's important--radically worse than the modern system of impersonal rules and general taxation

Yes the Cenk Uygur ad is antisemitic, yes it is transphobic, but it’s the *interaction effect* between the antisemitism and the transphobia that causes it to give off so many Hitler particles

From the outside, a lot of DSA internal politics these days looks like a clash between people who are becoming increasingly successful at democratic politics and people who want to act like authoritarians despite having no actual authority

My Q&A with @resnikoff.bsky.social about his new book, BUILD OR DIE: share.inquirer.com/oO0V6n

*Sagely* Taking Roko’s Basilisk seriously means buying Anthropic stock in order to avoid summary execution

I spoke to @jblumgart.bsky.social about my forthcoming book, BUILD OR DIE www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Boston’s chief planner is a true believer in the San Francisco model, in which you make it impossible to profitably build apartments by-right so developers are forced into a politicized discretionary negotiation with the city, which relaxes the rules in exchange for below-market units.

Making disparaging remarks about Saddam Hussein just shows how out of touch you are with Middle America’s Ba’athist working class

we must not idealize the cheesecake factory. even with cheesecake automation, it's brutal physical labor with no rest ever since the advent of cheesecake taylorism

Cheesecake tariffs are bringing the factories back to the US

”The not-so-subtle implication behind Vance’s persistent demands for their gratitude is that they only belong in this country insofar as their social betters condescend to keep them around.” publiccomment.blog/p/jd-vance-w...

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

Everyone sees the ship is sinking and they're knifing each other in the back while trying to reach the life boats

Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcxkt

The Ramaswamy campaign actually had a little plausible deniability when it came to this ad, but they decided that instead of exercising that deniability they’d rather make absolutely clear that they’re on the side of protecting child rapists.

no better demonstration of the fact that the GOP is an objectively pro-child molestation party than the fact that paid professional operatives thought this ad would be a good idea

Same genre of thread from last month.

I basically think any political candidate who signs off on an ad like this should be exiled from polite society for the rest of his life. Same goes for the campaign staffers who were involved.

Worse: The Looking Glass War

This thread is a pretty sobering look into how the building code sausage gets made in the US. We really need the public sector to impose some actual rigor and cost benefit analysis on this process.

This ad effectively allies with a child rapist to smear an opponent. But then Trump is still president despite suppressing reports of HIS alliance with a child rapist. I suppose you could just assume that is fine with a lot of people

A lot of the discourse in Europe is focused on short-term rentals, speculation, and immigration (!) Ironically, the EU Housing Task Force has made the shortage a key part of their platform, with great research on the 4.5 million unit shortage in the EU! publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

when critics of bari weiss say that she is not a journalist, we mean that literally. she does not respect or even appear to understand the values of the profession. everything for her is propaganda. www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

I'm excited to share that I'll be giving a talk on Euclid v. Ambler at 100 at YIMBYtown. A century into zoning, what do we have to show for it? And where do we go from here? Come to YIMBYtown and find out!

I'm in the West Bank this week as part of the “Protect the Harvest” coalition along with Israelis for Peace, Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine & Protect the Harvest.

Jeremy Peters is being wasted at the New York Times. He would be much happier working for CBS.

”The not-so-subtle implication behind Vance’s persistent demands for their gratitude is that they only belong in this country insofar as their social betters condescend to keep them around.” publiccomment.blog/p/jd-vance-w...

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"What Vance is really asserting with his demands for gratitude is the right to deference and a certain degree of submission from nonwhite Americans, and in particular nonwhite immigrants. He is, in other words, asserting that their citizenship is permission-based rather than respect-based."

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Great piece by @resnikoff.bsky.social. "The current vice president of the United States doesn’t have much of an official portfolio, but he does appear to have at least one significant passion project: demanding that other people make elaborate displays of gratitude toward the United States."

I've been pretty immersed in Spanish and Catalan media for the last few months and it's really wild that despite the scale of the crisis, no one even mentions housing supply or the rules governing new construction.

This is a really good example of taking the critical assumptions of synthetic controls seriously. These models only work* if one thing changes at the break point. Here, there were two, but balled into one: reducing penalties for drugs (1) makes drug cheaper but (2) keeps ppl out of jail.

The way the housing shortage and hostility to immigration work together is the blackest of pills

On JD Vance, Abdul El-Sayed, showing gratitude, and citizenship: publiccomment.blog/p/jd-vance-w...

This piece, which fails to even gesture at the possibility that high cost European cities might have a shortage of housing, is inadvertently in object lesson in why the global housing crisis is hitting Europe so hard www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ned Resnikoff argues that housing advocates can't skip political fights. Local rules that make developers add community benefits already exist, and opponents use them to stack costs until projects fail. Austin and Sacramento show zoning reform works. publiccomment.blog/p/sometimes-...

ah we are going to get some nice reverse disparate impact where having too many black people is evidence of anti-white discrimination

On JD Vance, Abdul El-Sayed, showing gratitude, and citizenship: publiccomment.blog/p/jd-vance-w...

I decided to blog about this publiccomment.blog/p/jd-vance-w...