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Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD

@mroddc.bsky.social

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Director of Research @ Smart Growth America / @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social . Economist & urban planner. Passion for cities, data, real estate, & transpo. 🚉 DC area's journeyman adjunct professor of planning and policy. 🎓. 🐶 are the best.

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Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 14h

Letters to the editor made a great point about the Post's reporting on V.A. disability fraud: it is sensational, and it erodes trust of the system and millions of veterans, like me, who honestly claim benefits.

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Opinion | I’m a veteran on disability. This reporting hurt me.

Readers respond to a recent Post series about fraud in the VA disability benefits system.

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Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 1d

Ever find a feature layer on ESRI you cannot download? Well, there is a geojson export end around using the url endpoint where you can have it report it to you as a raw data, then effectively use that data to bring the layers into R. So cool! (esp for a lot of fed gov data that is being greyed out)

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 2d

a close up of a woman 's face with the word busta on the bottom right

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with the word busta on the bottom right

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Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 2d

No scrubs?

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 3d

This. Also “antifa” sounds vaguely Latinate (ie, maybe Spanish?) as a word.

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 5d

This year, the Blue Jays are America’s team.

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 6d

When you think of a lot of the services that the rich pay for, especially for dumb things like "sorority consultants", you find there are two things they pay through the nose for: to buy time (buy themselves out of burden), and to buy certainty so as to live with less uncertainty that others do.

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 6d

This is just going to create a crop of consultants, possibly also using AI, to learn how to game the AI

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 6d

As a gift article, an interesting perspective from Bouie
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | The Second Trump Administration Is a Museum of America’s Worst Moments

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Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 9d

FM Davout rocks

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 12d

Like, my Nicaraguan family had the unique distinction of wanting the US government to stick it to Somoza, but then also, the Sandinistas.

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 12d

Many Hispanic diasporas opposing the regime in power in their own nation?

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 12d

When you can’t get it up anymore you need this type of thing

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 12d

Wonder if views have changed on stock options market trading, too.

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 14d

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 15d

What the guy said about man city. But imagine she’s running for Mayor of Manchester and picks a City vs United side

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 15d

Literally. BLS indicates roughly 41k people work in coal, while over 51.2k work at vineyards alone. One study estimates the total impact of wine production on the US (direct) is 972k when you account for the warehousing, distribution, and retailing of wine.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 16d

New paper uses national zoning & housing metrics to test associations between zoning, housing supply & demographics, finds:
—Increasing max. allowed density is not associated with more housing.
—But increases in housing are associated with a higher Black resident share & lower white resident share.

Testing the chain of inclusion: Examining if upzoning changes the housing supply and demographics of places using national data

Zoning policies have contributed to segregation in the United States, and recent government initiatives have aimed to reform these policies through upzoning—increasing allowable housing density. In...

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Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 18d

Nah.

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 20d

I have been listening to Duke while reading Teachout’s great biography of him. It’s awesome to sort of follow along with the book to be able to hear. FYI Webster’s sax on Cottontail is my jam.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20d

The full 28-minute Jimmy Kimmel monologue. Please share.

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 20d

Coffee inflation (monthly year-over-year) is at a 10-year high and accelerating since January.

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Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 21d

CVS in northern Virginia did not inquire *why* I was eligible for my Covid booster shot today. The app makes you simply say that you are, yes or no. After that I faced no questions.

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 22d

I thought you were writing new lyrics to We didn’t start the fire

Michael A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 23d

I just want a music AI that can tell me the chord progression of a song to do that faster than I can by ear.

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