The way "double tap" is used in the context of the Russia/Ukraine conflict is that Russia will often send a strike to the same location about half an hour later, designed to kill emergency responders.

It's the annoying kid who always has their hand up so they can hear themselves talk, only instead of the professor they're trying to get the attention of Twitter

I know the guy and he's not even a good VC

We're so powerful because we can see a million white, male, cis Santas and not flinch, but they see just one outside that category and they crumble into dust

"Dude's rock" with the stone Jesus rolled away

The guard against anthropomorphism set us back centuries and continues to slow down biology

It's not too late. We just have to remind the Missouri legislature that Thomas Jefferson was the woke founding father

"Kansas City, Missouri" is a copout that caused us to lose "Missourass"

On some occasions, tri-state areas get their own names. Depending on what corner you are, Southern Arkansas/Northern Louisiana is the "ArkLaTex" or the "ArkLaMiss"

In that context, the difference between Dems and Reps is pretty noticeable

It's like everyone forgot that these people are also incredibly incompetent.

I still think about how the only person taken down from an FBI bust of a high-end prostitution ring was Eliot Spitzer

"abundance" is branding for this solution, coming along when it feels like center-left Dems are out of ideas, so it both catches fire and catches heat. Zohran likes it because more housing makes cities more affordable, and since it's a brand, he can choose the ideas he markets under that framework.

Personally, I think there's a lot of reflexive backlash because people hate Ezra, and also because it is inherently critical of blue states/cities, and also environmental regulations. But blue cities are way too expensive and we need to build green energy fast, and...

But in recent years conservative groups have gotten wise to the strategy and are using it to block solar panels, public transportation, and new apartment buildings. So cutting down on excessive reviews and regulations will help us solve the housing and energy crises, which are more pressing.

And you do this by slashing regulations. This causes a backlash because the modern environmental movement is built on using regulations to stop things from being built, preserving natural habitats or stopping polluting factories or carbon energy infrastructure from being built.

The idea is that the best way to solve the housing crisis is to make it easier to build more houses where people want to live. Help solve the climate crisis by making it easier to build trains, solar/wind power, and transmission lines.

Abundance gets a lot of shit because it's become a brand that anyone can cram their ideas and ideologies into, but at its heart the Ezra Klein premise is that blue cities and states have made building things very hard (objectively true) and this has resulted in things being way too expensive.

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