Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
Newsletter: http://publiccomment.blog/
Urban policy consultant: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Roosevelt Institute Fellow, CA FWD Fellow
Working on a book about cities for Island Press.
ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com
Urban policy consultant: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Roosevelt Institute Fellow, CA FWD Fellow
Working on a book about cities for Island Press.
ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com
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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
· Dec 11
I can't tell you how excited I am to work with Heather Boyer and the Island Press team, which really gets what I'm trying to do with this projects and has published more than a few of my favorite books on urbanism.
Moving the "Trump Just Flat Out Says the N-Word in Public" clock one minute closer to midnight
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Moving the "Trump Just Flat Out Says the N-Word in Public" clock one minute closer to midnight
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I would argue pretty strenuously that overreliance on nonprofits for social services is, in fact, a centrist position at best. NGO world cloaks itself in progressivism by adhering to cultural signifiers of social justice. Endless land acknowledgements as they take public jobs from union workers.
you ran on a right wing stance as one of your major planks?
no wonder you lost so badly
no wonder you lost so badly
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I would argue pretty strenuously that overreliance on nonprofits for social services is, in fact, a centrist position at best. NGO world cloaks itself in progressivism by adhering to cultural signifiers of social justice. Endless land acknowledgements as they take public jobs from union workers.
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Elon Musk is a Nazi and if you drive a Tesla you're inside a Hitler mobile
December 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Elon Musk is a Nazi and if you drive a Tesla you're inside a Hitler mobile
Here's a (slightly out of focus) action shot I managed to grab of Claude in February 2024. What a legend.
December 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Here's a (slightly out of focus) action shot I managed to grab of Claude in February 2024. What a legend.
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It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍
Laura K. Field is somehow on every podcast that I listen to, so I guess I'm going to need to read her book
December 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Laura K. Field is somehow on every podcast that I listen to, so I guess I'm going to need to read her book
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Yesterday we teased The Reconstruction Papers, a project we will work on if we met our funding goal. Why do we think this project is necessary? www.liberalcurrents.com/a-preview-of...
December 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Yesterday we teased The Reconstruction Papers, a project we will work on if we met our funding goal. Why do we think this project is necessary? www.liberalcurrents.com/a-preview-of...
Short thread with three organizations you might consider giving to on this giving Tuesday.
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Short thread with three organizations you might consider giving to on this giving Tuesday.
The Nuzzi story isn't about an affair, it's about the extraordinary corruption, moral stupidity, and cliquishness of elite media. (From the Feed Me Substack.)
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The Nuzzi story isn't about an affair, it's about the extraordinary corruption, moral stupidity, and cliquishness of elite media. (From the Feed Me Substack.)
In California politics, this is Prop 98
The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three people in Europe have ever understood it. One who is dead. The second was a German professor who went mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it.
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
In California politics, this is Prop 98
Going to have a legendary Bluesky crashout over the Schleswig-Holstein question
*getting too confident bc of the Falklands discourse* let’s talk Südtirol
December 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Going to have a legendary Bluesky crashout over the Schleswig-Holstein question
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Relatedly, everyone should read @resnikoff.bsky.social’s recent article on nonprofits funding orgs that push regressive housing policy
www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
Philanthropy Needs to Pick a Side on the Housing Construction Debate
Despite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes.
www.insidephilanthropy.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Relatedly, everyone should read @resnikoff.bsky.social’s recent article on nonprofits funding orgs that push regressive housing policy
www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
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HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
This is like the guys in France who still think they can put an heir to the House of Orléans on the throne
December 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This is like the guys in France who still think they can put an heir to the House of Orléans on the throne
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I guess I just imagined the bunch of times people massacred us for being Jewish in last couple decades
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I guess I just imagined the bunch of times people massacred us for being Jewish in last couple decades
I don't know what the role of journalism is if not to "referee the news." Your whole job is exercising your professional judgment to determine what people need to know and why it matters!
The NYT’s Patrick Healy asks a ridiculously both-sides question in which he tars critics as partisans who want the Times to “referee the news.” How about telling readers clearly that Trump is dismantling democracy? You offer the evidence. You’re just afraid to draw the conclusion. 🧵 2/4
December 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I don't know what the role of journalism is if not to "referee the news." Your whole job is exercising your professional judgment to determine what people need to know and why it matters!
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Going on any other social media site makes me realize that bluesky isn’t so bad
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Going on any other social media site makes me realize that bluesky isn’t so bad
Late Brezhnev ass administration
I’m sorry to share this fucknut’s fuckery but… is he just dropped in using Photoshop?
December 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Late Brezhnev ass administration
It's usually not an explicit question. More likely someone immediately starts telling me about why they don't want more housing in *their* neighborhood or unloading their contempt for homeless people, with the implicit question being, "But you still think I'm still a good person, right? Right??"
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
It's usually not an explicit question. More likely someone immediately starts telling me about why they don't want more housing in *their* neighborhood or unloading their contempt for homeless people, with the implicit question being, "But you still think I'm still a good person, right? Right??"
Has anyone said Toshiro Mifune yet?
This is a Bill Simmons game, but you’re stranded on a desert island. You can only have one actor’s filmography. You get it all, including cameos. But just the one performer.
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
December 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Has anyone said Toshiro Mifune yet?
I can't wait for the scene where Moses (Matthew Rhys), disillusioned by the failure of progressive civil service reform, looks directly into the camera and says, "I'm going to become the power broker."
I never do this, but I really want to be involved. @elliottkalan.bsky.social should write on it. I'll laugh and unroll maps.
deadline.com/2025/12/matt...
deadline.com/2025/12/matt...
Matthew Rhys Is In Talks With Netflix Over Adaptation Of Robert Caro’s ‘The Power Broker’
Matthew Rhys is in talks with the streamer over the adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
deadline.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I can't wait for the scene where Moses (Matthew Rhys), disillusioned by the failure of progressive civil service reform, looks directly into the camera and says, "I'm going to become the power broker."
Building codes in most states prohibit floor plans that include a combined bedroom/full bsth43. This is the next frontier after single-stair reform.
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Building codes in most states prohibit floor plans that include a combined bedroom/full bsth43. This is the next frontier after single-stair reform.
Also, I'd throw text-based microblogging platforms like this one into the "post-literate media" bucket. IMO communication on this site has more in common with orality than it does with books, essays, or any letter longer than a postcard.
Not sure I'd cosign every claim made in this essay, but I think the overall message is correct, urgent, and very well put. Functional illiteracy is one of the most dangerous social contagions we face today. jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
jmarriott.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Also, I'd throw text-based microblogging platforms like this one into the "post-literate media" bucket. IMO communication on this site has more in common with orality than it does with books, essays, or any letter longer than a postcard.
Not sure I'd cosign every claim made in this essay, but I think the overall message is correct, urgent, and very well put. Functional illiteracy is one of the most dangerous social contagions we face today. jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
jmarriott.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Not sure I'd cosign every claim made in this essay, but I think the overall message is correct, urgent, and very well put. Functional illiteracy is one of the most dangerous social contagions we face today. jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
Tiberius at Capri
Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Tiberius at Capri