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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...
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you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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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
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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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
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
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...
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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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
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...
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
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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
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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.
yeah here it comes
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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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
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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
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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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!🤟
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
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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...
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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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-...
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Micro-mobility is an anti-fascist tool, you heard it here first.
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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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
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Philadelphia had 134 traffic deaths last year, 59 of which involved pedestrians hit by vehicles.
‘They don’t return home’: Cities across U.S. fail to curb traffic deaths
Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Houston reported more traffic fatalities than homicides last year. Despite initiatives, traffic deaths across the U.S. are higher than a decade ago.
www.inquirer.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I just left a voicemail for the Scranton mayor's office suggesting they reconsider elimination of the city's split-rate tax, as elimination would slow growth, embolden speculators, and encourage blight.

Encourage y'all to do the same.

(570) 348-4101
"over the past century most of the vacant property in the city has been developed, the budget says"
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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This is particularly disappointing because it’s happening just a few years before rail service returns to Scranton.

Would have been a great case study in the power of a land value tax to spur TOD.
Scranton is trying to scrap their land value tax, while they also express concerns about their longterm fiscal health. This is awful policy.

archive.md/hhCRM
archive.md
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Scranton is trying to scrap their land value tax, while they also express concerns about their longterm fiscal health. This is awful policy.

archive.md/hhCRM
archive.md
November 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.

Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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BEST DAY EVER!!! The award is called the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications & is run by @nationalacademies.org & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social #scicomm #phdstudent
November 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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there is not a single Republican legislator who is a worse person than Trump is and whatever remains of each of their consciences has been sublimated to his whims for a decade now
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM