Nicholas Bagley
@nicholas_bagley
Professor at @UMichLaw, former Chief Legal Counsel to @GovWhitmer
“What Bagley shows is that liberals too have been complicit in that project — to the detriment of many of the very causes they hope to advance.” This was a great conversation with @ezraklein. nytimes.com/2023/02/07/opi…
you wonder why there’s a housing shortage and then you see elected officials like this who see every new proposed housing unit as an opportunity to fund a dozen other social goals
That’s not the point. I support new housing in my district - but we also negotiate deeper affordability, union jobs, & significant investments in Parks and other infrastructure to meet needs of growing communities. This Commission has decided that shouldn’t happen any more.
Totally unhinged. It's wild to watch him slide from "Obama wanted to do a coup with Hillary Clinton" to "Biden used an autopen," as if they were sins of roughly equal gravity.
Would Americans be better off without Costco? Zephyr Teachout says yes. I say no. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
The distinction matters! Best evidence we have suggests work requirements largely screen people out of coverage because they don't know about them — you can't comply with reporting requirements you don't know about — or don't adequately report their qualifying activity/exemption
"CBO never said that 4.8 million people were out of compliance with the proposed work requirements; they said that 4.8 million people would lose coverage because of the work requirements" @onceuponA kffhealthnews.org/MjA2MTMyNQ via @kffhealthnews
Legalize it
A 44 foot wide 6-plex. Can fit in any neighborhood lot ... and it's pretty! 1BR+Den, 740sf
Weakening city council members ability to veto land use changes is the best argument *for* the charter revisions. The reforms will lead to much more meaningful democratic input and responsiveness to a broader public.
The Charter Commission’s Final Report significantly weakens the City Council’s role in land use decisions. This shift toward executive control undermines democratic oversight and meaningful public engagement. I stand with my colleagues who are fighting back. Our statement below:
truly Trump is the anti-abundance president
On the Trump admin requiring Secretary-level approval of renewable project permits, via @JasonGrumet on @politico energy pod:
Super disturbing. Banana republic stuff right here.
It's a big story that Trump and/or strategically placed loyalists inside the administration are now actively manipulating the bureaucracy to generate sets of "facts" that are clearly designed to serve as the pretext for criminal prosecution.
These reports are absolutely horrifying. If we had a functioning Congress and DOJ there should be an immediate investigation to determine the veracity of the claims and to hold people accountable.
"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs" according to a {Human Rights Watch} report." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
Love this.
Everyone seems to have a ready answer for why Michigan's schools are underperforming, and most of them are wrong. Fact check: What’s true, false, misleading about Michigan’s education slide bridgemi.com/talent-educati… via @BridgeMichigan
It’s good! (also features an official blurb by matt yglesias that is a little more eloquent)
For my money, @MikeGrunwald's We Are Eating the Earth is the most eye-opening, most convincing, and most-likely-to-spark controversy book of the year. You should all read it ! amazon.com/We-Are-Eating-…
Peter Thiel: "If you add more people to the mix and you're not allowed to build more houses because of zoning laws, then prices go up a lot, and it's this incredible wealth transfer from the young and the lower middle class to the upper middle class and the landlords."
This under-construction 7-bedroom, $14mm mansion did not have to pay any affordable housing fee. If you built a five-unit apartment of the same size, it'd need to pay a $360,000 affordable housing fee. How do five small homes neg. impact affordability more than one mansion?
I also feel this way about @YAppelbaum’s Stuck.
For my money, @MikeGrunwald's We Are Eating the Earth is the most eye-opening, most convincing, and most-likely-to-spark controversy book of the year. You should all read it ! amazon.com/We-Are-Eating-…