Joseph Lawler
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Out from behind the paywall at @tnajournal: My home state of Massachusetts has long prided itself as progressive model, boasting levels of income and education comparable to Denmark. But, increasingly, it works by exclusion, not inclusion, because it is not building housing.
Lee's public land sales under fire in part because of the ambiguity of the term "affordable housing." - The bill is meant to boost housing affordability, by increasing supply - but there's nothing about "affordable housing," a nebulous term meaning housing that is subsidized by…
I'm totally against selling this land. Nobody is going to build "affordable housing" deep in the Olympic Peninsula, which is one of the most beautiful places in the country. I want my kids hiking, fishing, and camping on those lands, not selling them for some tax-credit scam.
China is building a $167B dam in Tibet that will provide more power than all of Poland. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Alcatraz being turned back into a prison = Dept. of Interior land being used for low-cost housing. Mike Lee can claim the W after all
Yellen on why should does't speak to Bessent: "He has succeeded in undoing everything that was a priority of mine at Treasury." Bessent response: "I couldn’t even tell you what Secretary Yellen’s China policy was, aside from consuming beer and mushrooms." thewirechina.com/2025/07/18/jan…
The Big Beautiful Bill defunds Planned Parenthood for one year, but the original plan was 10. Why the switch? I did a deep dive for @dcexaminer on the possible reasons, but the silence from key players is deafening. washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthc…
NEW for @dcexaminer: The Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office has not finalized a single loan agreement since Trump took over & a former senior official with the agency is now turning to Congress to help finalize commitments announced under Biden. washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy-…
NEW from @naomitlim : @RahmEmanuel sees his rough and tumble persona as what’s needed in the 2028 field @dcexaminer washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns…
Our side loses because we just lack backbone <-- perennial low-effort partisan analysis, now embraced by Obama as he approaches a decade in retirement thehill.com/homenews/campa…
U.S. more feared than North Korea in Japan
Who do people consider their country’s top threat?
New story with @GoelzAlly -Chili's et al get boost from "No Taxes on Tips" in One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Full-service restaurants get a leg up in hiring over competition, such as fast food or retail And hosts/servers advantaged vs kitchen washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy…
Interesting. Not sure how this fits in, but when I visited Ukraine, I spoke to some guys who spoke basically flawless English but said they nonetheless preferred watching US films with Ukrainian dubbing because the dubbing is extremely high quality
❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French? ➡️New Working Paper: Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek nber.org/papers/w33984 A🧵1/12
There's still time to amend the bill to add benefits for survivors of 2010s stomp-clap-hey folk-pop
Fed chairman Powell not an AI skeptic. Says it's "transformational technology," unknowable effects on labor market. "There's certainly a possibility that, at least in the beginning, that AI will replace a lot of jobs, rather than just augmenting people’s labor.”
On Sunday I traveled to the middle of the desert to capture this: The ISS against our sun. What I didn't expect: the sun producing a magnificent flare at the same time A once-in-a-lifetime shot I'm thrilled to share with you. See the uncropped shot or get the print in the reply
What a huge coincidence. I was just mentioning his plan to remodel the National Mall (by flooding half of it and building neighborhoods on the rest) to @Graeme_rj
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of legendary architect and urban planner, Lèon Krier, one of our founding research fellows. He deeply cared about the plight of classical music and remarked that he had more piano sheet music than books about architecture.
As Zuckerberg has transformed himself to be MAGA friendly, Meta ethos has "gone from 'lean in' to 'fuck off,'" former executive tells FT ft.com/content/a86f5c…
Ron Johnson's new deficit report, released this AM, is in many ways a rebuke of GOP leadership and the WH, questioning key claims about BBB's fiscal impact Full story here: washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/34…