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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 2h

Kansas. Marshall has never had a truly tough race and it's sprinting left.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 7h

"how are yimbys winning"

> It’s also about being willing to just keep posting.

hell yeah

open.substack.com/pub/theargum...

Have you heard the good news on housing?

How YIMBYs kept winning in 2025.

open.substack.com

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 7h

I made a lamb, fennel and leek risotto and it may be one of the best things I've ever cooked.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 8h

It is deeply funny how, between this and Douthat, the abundance platform was immediately cashed in by a bunch of right wing chuds whose friends should have never been allowed to associate with the abundance people in the first place. Almost as if this was transparently obvious and predictable lol.

AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 8h

Can't believe this is real

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

I think his big advantage is that he can fund a full campaign without fundraising, so he can get a machine up and running without already being known

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

Jeffries has never advanced a housing initiative or proposal in his career.

vy @vjy1.bsky.social · 12h

Total horseshit - the usual output of you bozo leftists.
Of course you haven't bothered to look at any of Jeffries housing initiatives and proposals because you actually don't give a damn about housing, just about attacking Democrats.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

Lmao if they're winning men by 2, they are *incredibly* cooked

Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 9h

Generic Ballot Polling Among Men:

🔴 Republicans: 45%
🔵 Democrats: 43%

Quinnipiac / Oct 20, 2025

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

He's comically high at all times, it's honestly amazing

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

Fundamentally it's just hard under our constitutional system to compel wealthy suburbs to do what we want on this issue, and it's impossible to incentivize them to do it. Not unless Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence changes a whole bunch, and we can pass a legislative national Mount Laurel.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

I think #2 is great but also may strangle transit investment in some of the places that need it most.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

Fundamentally housing production is just another productive capitalist-controlled sector. We don't get specifically mad that people make money manufacturing steel or toys, or growing tomatoes, or making movies, we shouldn't get specifically mad that people are making money from building apartments.

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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 8h

The conflation of making money from providing vital goods and services with making money by manipulation and rent seeking—in both the positive and negative sense—might actually be the defining economic issue of our time.

Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 9h

People becoming rich off building affordable housing are creating affordable housing.

Sarah @bluefromboston.bsky.social · 19h

Voting to ease regulations for more affordable housing is NOT the answer, and is not effective. What we should be aiming for are ways to take the million dollar profit off the table. Anyone becoming rich on “affordable housing” is not creating affordable housing. It’s an oxymoron.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 10h

"no one should make a profit building necessary housing" is one of those things that sounds based and radical... for like half a second, before you finish thinking it through

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

Being the successful governor of the largest state in the country is a better platform than "most recent loser to Donald Trump"!

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

Should have run for Governor.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14h

Former Vice President Kamala Harris said that her time in politics has not come to an end, offering her strongest indication to date that she would consider a third presidential run.

Kamala Harris Suggests She Is Considering Another Presidential Run

Ms. Harris, in an interview with the BBC, gave her strongest indication yet that she was thinking about making another bid for the Oval Office.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 9h

I'd be interested to hear about them! Using federal land (and maybe using eminent domain more aggressively) feels obvious, as well as conditioning federal money on land-use reforms, but what are others?

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 9h

Gordon Canada.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 9h

"People becoming rich off growing tomatoes aren't feeding anybody!" yeah IDK about that

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 9h

People becoming rich off building affordable housing are creating affordable housing.

Sarah @bluefromboston.bsky.social · 19h

Voting to ease regulations for more affordable housing is NOT the answer, and is not effective. What we should be aiming for are ways to take the million dollar profit off the table. Anyone becoming rich on “affordable housing” is not creating affordable housing. It’s an oxymoron.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 10h

Portland resists with improv, Chicago resists with yelling, Philly will resist with stuff that will require a Wikipedia battle summary infobox.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 10h

I feel like there's a reason they haven't gone for Philly as much yet.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 12h

I think my favorite thing about "every city reveals its inner character" era of ice protests is that people keep saying portland is weird or cute or nice or silly when one of the most common chants at the ice building is people looking up at feds on the roof and yelling "jump! jump! jump!" in unison

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 12h

Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 12h

left wing intellectuals on having kids: wow look at all these little joys, i am gonna make a special scrap book of why the family matters...omg is this conservativism?

right wing intellectuals on having kids: look we have to start getting teens pregnant if we're gonna outbreed all the undesireables

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 10h

You first motherfucker

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 10h

This is one reason the "oooooh I'm so naughty" dirtbag shit was always so bad

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12h

Their most powerful tool is the social pressure to conform, not in a "comply or be punished" way, but a "come on, chill out a little, you don't want people to think you're shrill and obsessed, do you? get in on the joke" way

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah something like that is what I'm thinking. You'd probably want to route it through the regional Feds to assess local market conditions.

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