Mikhail Gorbaechev
mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social
Mikhail Gorbaechev
@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social
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Once a Reverend of the Avocado kind. The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary.
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"Make the LIHTC much larger and streamlined" feels like a gimme.
My pet idea has been to give the Fed authority to create money and hand it directly to regional multifamily housing development agencies, to keep the housing construction market from falling through the floor in recessions, but IDK if there's appetite for that kind of reform.
Given that 1) the Feds have relatively little power over local land use and 2) housing costs are eating our coalition alive, what do we think we can reasonably get passed in let's say a 53 D Senate/D+30 House?
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Yes, the fact that so many people are closing ranks around a guy with a Nazi tattoo is in fact preoccupying me. Not sure why, must just be my (((neuroses))).
This is 100% living rent-free in your head.
DSA, particularly the mass politics caucuses, are good because they're actually social democratic radicals (in the traditional not the colloquial sense) who fundamentally want to accomplish reforms people can grasp in their lifetimes.
Your comrades suck shit and don't want to do anything, they just want to bitch and moan.
I know a lot of my comrades think by supporting Mandani “I’m selling out” but I just want to see the Zionists and the right wing lose one Mayorship.
That’s all.
C’mon. 🤷‍♂️ cut me some slack.
We just went through 700 plus days of genocide. I never missed a day, and people complained about that too.
It's not that the city is full, but most of the readily developable space has been developed. Meanwhile Long Island and Westchester towns are mostly tracts of single family bullshit.
Fundamentally the problem is less underdevelopment in NYC and more that the rail suburbs don't resemble Brooklyn in density.
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Progressive politicians and advocates are often not great in this issue. But the ethnic machines of Jeffries and the Homevoter/chamber coalitions that define California urban politics gave us decades of supply shortages.
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This is one of my biggest beefs with “Abundance” advocates at least so much as it defines a certain genre of punditry. Constant prog/ left NIMBY punching but they won’t address the elephant in the room: mainstream, centrist, establishment democrats are responsible for urban housing shortages.
This is why Hakeem Jeffries and his intransigent coalition is so toxic. Calling Mamdani’s supports “Team Gentrification” gives the whole game away.

Their shitty machine politics gave us these shortages and they lost many of their own voters because of it! www.newsweek.com/hakeem-jeffr...
Hakeem Jeffries reacts to reported primary threat from Mamdani allies
House minority leader brushed off recent CNN report that said allies of Zohran Mamdani are looking to primary him in New York.
www.newsweek.com
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This is why Hakeem Jeffries and his intransigent coalition is so toxic. Calling Mamdani’s supports “Team Gentrification” gives the whole game away.

Their shitty machine politics gave us these shortages and they lost many of their own voters because of it! www.newsweek.com/hakeem-jeffr...
Hakeem Jeffries reacts to reported primary threat from Mamdani allies
House minority leader brushed off recent CNN report that said allies of Zohran Mamdani are looking to primary him in New York.
www.newsweek.com
"Working class people facing housing pressures and inflation saw migrants getting extremely limited stuff from the government and it turned them into Nazis" definitely fits the facts, and importantly counsels alleviating shortages that cause such intense competition.
This is straightforwardly a significant part of why major cities swung hard to the right.
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This is basically antithetical to Mamdani’s entire electoral pitch.
Moving to New York and pulling the ladder up behind myself, but wokely
We need some sort of committee. To maintain the safety of the public.
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I think we should give Douthat more credit. He’s plenty bright, he’s just a liar and a propagandist.
Whether Donald Trump can demolish wings of the White House without following any legal process has no necessary logical connection to whether the housing market should be deregulated or public infrastructure processes streamlined. Claiming it does reveals yourself to be not very bright.
Wow that's really rooted in white ways of knowing
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Moving to New York and pulling the ladder up behind myself, but wokely
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That's no ballroom
A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
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imo the insecurity around AOC really comes down to a question of industrialism vs post-industrialism and you see it in the tensions between someone like Platner vs AOC.
There's a lot to unpack, digest and consider here, though some of the solutions they suggest seem unworkable.

But it's striking to me that they dismiss @aoc.bsky.social as "AOC at the Met gala," when she is actually an example of a working-class candidate with great communication skills who wins.
Opinion | Can Economic Populism Save the Democratic Party?
www.nytimes.com
Never seen a shul parking lot with more than a couple shiny new pickups is all I'll say.
This is maybe stupid but I feel like Jewish men are weathering this marginally better than non-Jews, in part because there's a different (and healthier, although I wouldn't say healthy necessarily) model of masculinity among Diaspora Jews.
A whole subcultural pathology because a generation of well-to-do boys were not put in the scouts or shop class by their dads and they’re really anxious about it. Sadly they’re gonna make it all of our problem.
i mean i don't think you can separate any of this discussion from the fact that so many of the participants are men who clearly have hang-ups about their inability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity