John
@rieth.dev
Los Angeles. Trying to cut red tape with redtape.la. Writing about improving LA County at lacounty.build.
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Some of America’s best starting salaries are at sea, with graduates straight out of the country’s maritime academies able to earn more than $200,000. And they aren’t luring enough workers. on.wsj.com/4as0utL
December 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Some of America’s best starting salaries are at sea, with graduates straight out of the country’s maritime academies able to earn more than $200,000. And they aren’t luring enough workers. on.wsj.com/4as0utL
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Me: would you mind saying this thing on the record that you probably shouldn't?
DHS: Buddy, we would love to say the thing.
DHS: Buddy, we would love to say the thing.
December 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Me: would you mind saying this thing on the record that you probably shouldn't?
DHS: Buddy, we would love to say the thing.
DHS: Buddy, we would love to say the thing.
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"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
YOU CANNOT TAME A TIGER INTO A KITTEN BY STROKING. YOU CANNOT NEGOTIATE WITH AN INCENDIARY BOMB
i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight
December 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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here's plan of 3-bedroom unit
daylight on 3 sides.
1,240 s.f. w/ 150 sf loggia (likely higher, these are normally counted at 50%)
also note in a pinch, the living room (wohnen) could become a 4th bedroom by adding walls and door intersecting at floating column
and that plumbing wall is 👀
daylight on 3 sides.
1,240 s.f. w/ 150 sf loggia (likely higher, these are normally counted at 50%)
also note in a pinch, the living room (wohnen) could become a 4th bedroom by adding walls and door intersecting at floating column
and that plumbing wall is 👀
December 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
here's plan of 3-bedroom unit
daylight on 3 sides.
1,240 s.f. w/ 150 sf loggia (likely higher, these are normally counted at 50%)
also note in a pinch, the living room (wohnen) could become a 4th bedroom by adding walls and door intersecting at floating column
and that plumbing wall is 👀
daylight on 3 sides.
1,240 s.f. w/ 150 sf loggia (likely higher, these are normally counted at 50%)
also note in a pinch, the living room (wohnen) could become a 4th bedroom by adding walls and door intersecting at floating column
and that plumbing wall is 👀
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Perfect stocking stuffer: a retrospective forum on Richard Bensel’s Political Economy of American Industrialization, just in time for the holidays. Give your loved ones the gift of political economy!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56143
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56143
Project MUSE - Reviews in American History-Volume 53, Number 4, December 2025
muse.jhu.edu
December 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Perfect stocking stuffer: a retrospective forum on Richard Bensel’s Political Economy of American Industrialization, just in time for the holidays. Give your loved ones the gift of political economy!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56143
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56143
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2025 will be remembered as a year when BART transformed the rider experience through a series of innovations focused on safety and convenience.
These are BART's top accomplishments of 2025
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These are BART's top accomplishments of 2025
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December 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
2025 will be remembered as a year when BART transformed the rider experience through a series of innovations focused on safety and convenience.
These are BART's top accomplishments of 2025
Thread ⬇️
These are BART's top accomplishments of 2025
Thread ⬇️
It was a big, bold year in housing policy changes. Here's what that means for SoCal
laist.com/news/housing...
laist.com/news/housing...
It was a big, bold year in housing policy changes. Here's what that means for SoCal
2025 turned out to be a milestone year for housing policy in California.
laist.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
It was a big, bold year in housing policy changes. Here's what that means for SoCal
laist.com/news/housing...
laist.com/news/housing...
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My take on Gordon Wood's recent speech emphasizing America's role as a "creedal nation," pushing back on those who claim we should be an ethno-nationalist state. Wood is leading living historian of the Founding: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Gordon Wood on America as a "Creedal Nation" Open to all Races and Ethnicities
Wood is the leading living historian of the American Founding. He pushes back here against those who claim America should be an ethno-nationalist polity.
reason.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
My take on Gordon Wood's recent speech emphasizing America's role as a "creedal nation," pushing back on those who claim we should be an ethno-nationalist state. Wood is leading living historian of the Founding: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
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Genuinely think Dan Osborn might win next year
Tyson Foods is closing its beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, laying off 3,200 workers next month in a town of just 11,000.
An American Dream at risk: What happens to a small Nebraska town when 3,200 workers lose their jobs
Tyson Foods is closing its beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, laying off 3,200 workers next month in a town of just 11,000.
bit.ly
December 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Genuinely think Dan Osborn might win next year
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Bronk: "Despite having the largest and most advanced drone industry in the world, China has actually been prioritizing crewed military hardware...If the US focuses too heavily on drone development and acquisition, it risks losing its slim remaining edge" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
America’s Drone Delusion
Why the lessons of Ukraine don’t apply to a conflict with China.
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Bronk: "Despite having the largest and most advanced drone industry in the world, China has actually been prioritizing crewed military hardware...If the US focuses too heavily on drone development and acquisition, it risks losing its slim remaining edge" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
A tale of two Ralphs — Lauren and the supermarket — shows the reality of a K-shaped economy
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
A tale of two Ralphs — Lauren and the supermarket — shows the reality of a K-shaped economy
This holiday season, experts are using a K-shaped model to describe an economy in which the gap between the highest and lowest earners is growing.
www.latimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
A tale of two Ralphs — Lauren and the supermarket — shows the reality of a K-shaped economy
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
After a rocky start, rebuilding in the Palisades and Altadena is gaining momentum
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
After a rocky start, rebuilding in the Palisades and Altadena is gaining momentum
The pace of permitting in Pacific Palisades and Altadena has been slower than it was in Santa Rosa after the Tubbs fire, and faster than Paradise after the Camp fire, according to an preliminary analy...
www.latimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
After a rocky start, rebuilding in the Palisades and Altadena is gaining momentum
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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oh my god its literally Long Beach's wario
December 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
oh my god its literally Long Beach's wario
These South L.A. women built a child-care haven on their block. It’s a lifeline for families
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
These South L.A. women built a child-care haven on their block. It’s a lifeline for families
On a block in South L.A., four child-care providers lean on one another as they navigate the challenges of the industry, including competition with transitional kindergarten and the high cost of care.
www.latimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
These South L.A. women built a child-care haven on their block. It’s a lifeline for families
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
How to implement a ring-and-access traffic circulation plan in Georgetown: ggwash.org/view/101768/...
How to implement a ring-and-access traffic circulation plan in Georgetown
Opinion: What if we could solve traffic in Georgetown with six steps? This path to a ring-and-access traffic circulation plan could do it.
ggwash.org
December 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
How to implement a ring-and-access traffic circulation plan in Georgetown: ggwash.org/view/101768/...
A ring-and-access plan can save Georgetown from traffic: ggwash.org/view/101767/...
A ring-and-access plan can save Georgetown from traffic
Opinion: The ring-and-access concept offers a promising way forward for every neighborhood suffering from traffic nuisance. Here’s how it could help in Georgetown.
ggwash.org
December 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A ring-and-access plan can save Georgetown from traffic: ggwash.org/view/101767/...
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this is one of the cool things happening is just taking kind of empty and sad commercial and slapping down like 1000 units and its awesome
In the new issue of Azure Magazine I wrote about how Canadian malls are urbanizing. Filling in parking lots with housing & more is just part of it. The experience of being in public is part of the draw, but can the mall transformations actually be urban? What about grit? What about mall walkers?
The City Comes to the Mall
The mall of the future is becoming more urban as densification and redevelopment signal our enduring love for these retail meccas.
www.azuremagazine.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
this is one of the cool things happening is just taking kind of empty and sad commercial and slapping down like 1000 units and its awesome
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In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is:
“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is:
“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
L.A. restaurants thought it couldn’t get any worse. Then 2025 happened
www.latimes.com/food/story/2...
www.latimes.com/food/story/2...
L.A. restaurants thought it couldn't get any worse. Then 2025 happened
Chefs, restaurateurs and others in the industry sound off on a tumultuous 2025 but show some optimism for the years ahead.
www.latimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
L.A. restaurants thought it couldn’t get any worse. Then 2025 happened
www.latimes.com/food/story/2...
www.latimes.com/food/story/2...