Russell Richie 🔰🌐🏗🚲♿🏳️🌈
@drussellmrichie.bsky.social
Associate Director of Cognitive Science @PennMindCORE. Treasurer @5thsq, Board Vice-President @pandpinst. he/him. Cancer survivor and ADHD haver. I sell land value tax, and land value tax accessories.
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Interested in why assessment, maybe the biggest objection to Land Value Tax – the least bad tax – might not be such a problem?
Check out my new working paper: Land values can be estimated more accurately than property values in parameter recovery simulations.
Thread!
github.com/drussellmric...
Check out my new working paper: Land values can be estimated more accurately than property values in parameter recovery simulations.
Thread!
github.com/drussellmric...
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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Honestly to improve people’s lives in American cities you will have to piss off: merchant associations, some labor unions, neighborhood associations and some liberal nonprofits.
If you’re unwilling to piss all of these people off at different junctures you’re not fit for public office imo
If you’re unwilling to piss all of these people off at different junctures you’re not fit for public office imo
November 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Honestly to improve people’s lives in American cities you will have to piss off: merchant associations, some labor unions, neighborhood associations and some liberal nonprofits.
If you’re unwilling to piss all of these people off at different junctures you’re not fit for public office imo
If you’re unwilling to piss all of these people off at different junctures you’re not fit for public office imo
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I feel like the two dimensional political compass for local elected democrats are:
1. Mod or Prog
2. Interested in solving any local problems whatsoever vs deferring to local gatekeeper assholes.
1. Mod or Prog
2. Interested in solving any local problems whatsoever vs deferring to local gatekeeper assholes.
It’s incredibly funny people flipped out about a guy running the most standard ass municipal government policy playbook imaginable.
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I feel like the two dimensional political compass for local elected democrats are:
1. Mod or Prog
2. Interested in solving any local problems whatsoever vs deferring to local gatekeeper assholes.
1. Mod or Prog
2. Interested in solving any local problems whatsoever vs deferring to local gatekeeper assholes.
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Thanks to the @nypost.com for letting me check an item off my bucket list (“be the target of a meaty hit piece by a world-class NYC tabloid”) and for highlighting @transalt.org proposals for better walking, biking, & transit!
More nice ideas here:
transalt.org/road-to-affo...
More nice ideas here:
transalt.org/road-to-affo...
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thanks to the @nypost.com for letting me check an item off my bucket list (“be the target of a meaty hit piece by a world-class NYC tabloid”) and for highlighting @transalt.org proposals for better walking, biking, & transit!
More nice ideas here:
transalt.org/road-to-affo...
More nice ideas here:
transalt.org/road-to-affo...
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The Atlantic is perceived nationally as being a liberal publication. But the below is hardly out of character for them. @liberalcurrents.com will never pull stunts like this. But we need your help for that commitment to matter, in terms of who it reaches. Help us meet our goal gofund.me/9a6239587
November 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The Atlantic is perceived nationally as being a liberal publication. But the below is hardly out of character for them. @liberalcurrents.com will never pull stunts like this. But we need your help for that commitment to matter, in terms of who it reaches. Help us meet our goal gofund.me/9a6239587
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The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
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Minimum parking requirements create financially insolvent land use patterns.
The two apartment buildings on the right generate six times more in property taxes than the big box store on the left, while occupying almost half the space!
#BlackFridayParking
The two apartment buildings on the right generate six times more in property taxes than the big box store on the left, while occupying almost half the space!
#BlackFridayParking
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Minimum parking requirements create financially insolvent land use patterns.
The two apartment buildings on the right generate six times more in property taxes than the big box store on the left, while occupying almost half the space!
#BlackFridayParking
The two apartment buildings on the right generate six times more in property taxes than the big box store on the left, while occupying almost half the space!
#BlackFridayParking
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When the new bike lane is protected:
November 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
When the new bike lane is protected:
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you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
you should support liberal currents!
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While NY is considering mandating two-person trains, the DC Metro not only already operates with one person, but recently reactivated its automatic train operation system.
Now, continuing to follow best practices, Metro has announced plans to move towards driverless trains.
tinyurl.com/yft73mru
Now, continuing to follow best practices, Metro has announced plans to move towards driverless trains.
tinyurl.com/yft73mru
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
While NY is considering mandating two-person trains, the DC Metro not only already operates with one person, but recently reactivated its automatic train operation system.
Now, continuing to follow best practices, Metro has announced plans to move towards driverless trains.
tinyurl.com/yft73mru
Now, continuing to follow best practices, Metro has announced plans to move towards driverless trains.
tinyurl.com/yft73mru
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when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
Op-ed: Waymo May Finally Teach Americans the Speed Limit - sf.streetsblog.org/2025/11/24/o...
Op-ed: Waymo May Finally Teach Americans the Speed Limit - Streetsblog San Francisco
Do Americans even understand that posted speed limits aren't advisory?
sf.streetsblog.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Op-ed: Waymo May Finally Teach Americans the Speed Limit - sf.streetsblog.org/2025/11/24/o...
Liberalism is good, actually.
Larger media outlets have wavered since the first Trump term, but we've remained steadfast in our categorical rejection of MAGA in all its aspects and our affirmation of liberal democracy and the principles that it rests on.
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Liberalism is good, actually.
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Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!
How can you not love a website that includes Land Value Tax in its survey of reader policy preferences?
Today we are launching what we hope will be a transformative fundraising push.
We are determined to increase our reach so we can compete with voices who are less than fully committed to, or who outright oppose, liberal values.
Help us do it: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
We are determined to increase our reach so we can compete with voices who are less than fully committed to, or who outright oppose, liberal values.
Help us do it: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help… Adam Gurri needs your support for The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
www.gofundme.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
How can you not love a website that includes Land Value Tax in its survey of reader policy preferences?
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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The funny thing about this meeting is that Mamdani didn't back down on a single policy point or anything he's said about Trump.
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The funny thing about this meeting is that Mamdani didn't back down on a single policy point or anything he's said about Trump.
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As mayor of New York Mamdani controls access to the one thing Trump values above all else: tickets to CATS.
November 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
As mayor of New York Mamdani controls access to the one thing Trump values above all else: tickets to CATS.
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THE POPE HAS THROWN A RAVE
I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave
god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH
I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave
god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
THE POPE HAS THROWN A RAVE
I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave
god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH
I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave
god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH
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My Lab @unlv.edu is recruiting motivated students interested in human memory and brain research! Learn #EEG, #fMRI, and data analysis while exploring how we remember 🧠
📧 DM me or check out #PhD program www.unlv.edu/degree/phd-n... & www.unlv.edu/psychology/g...
Plus, Vegas is a fun place to live!🤟
📧 DM me or check out #PhD program www.unlv.edu/degree/phd-n... & www.unlv.edu/psychology/g...
Plus, Vegas is a fun place to live!🤟
Doctor of Philosophy - Neuroscience
This interdisciplinary Ph.D. program provides coursework and research training in neuroscience, with research mentoring spanning a range of different dimensions (basic to applied/clinical neuroscience...
www.unlv.edu
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
My Lab @unlv.edu is recruiting motivated students interested in human memory and brain research! Learn #EEG, #fMRI, and data analysis while exploring how we remember 🧠
📧 DM me or check out #PhD program www.unlv.edu/degree/phd-n... & www.unlv.edu/psychology/g...
Plus, Vegas is a fun place to live!🤟
📧 DM me or check out #PhD program www.unlv.edu/degree/phd-n... & www.unlv.edu/psychology/g...
Plus, Vegas is a fun place to live!🤟
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In an effort to remain one of the worst Councilmembers, Cindy Bass is filing an appeal to prevent the replacement of this non-historic 1940s airlite into 13 new homes, which is even by-right legal under zoning. This is why we have a housing crisis Mayor Parker!
phila.legistar.com/LegislationD...
phila.legistar.com/LegislationD...
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
In an effort to remain one of the worst Councilmembers, Cindy Bass is filing an appeal to prevent the replacement of this non-historic 1940s airlite into 13 new homes, which is even by-right legal under zoning. This is why we have a housing crisis Mayor Parker!
phila.legistar.com/LegislationD...
phila.legistar.com/LegislationD...
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Congestion pricing will be a popular issue in 10 years.
Almost half the Waymos on California streets are driving around empty. They're either waiting for the next customer or en route for a pickup.
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Congestion pricing will be a popular issue in 10 years.
Micro-mobility is an anti-fascist tool, you heard it here first.
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Micro-mobility is an anti-fascist tool, you heard it here first.
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the fact that nobody cares when a driver kills a human, but people light Waymo on fire when one kills a cat is an opportunity.
the reactions to Waymo accidents are way closer to how we should react when drivers kill people
the reactions to Waymo accidents are way closer to how we should react when drivers kill people
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
the fact that nobody cares when a driver kills a human, but people light Waymo on fire when one kills a cat is an opportunity.
the reactions to Waymo accidents are way closer to how we should react when drivers kill people
the reactions to Waymo accidents are way closer to how we should react when drivers kill people
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One thing that's neat is that disabled people have very normal voting habits in comparison to the able bodied population, in fact, to the extent there's any lean at all, its very mildly right wing
November 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
One thing that's neat is that disabled people have very normal voting habits in comparison to the able bodied population, in fact, to the extent there's any lean at all, its very mildly right wing