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Omar Wasow | @owasow@bsky.social Profile picture
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Jul 27, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
“People with disabilities are the largest minority group in the US but remain mostly invisible, partly because so few of us are in leadership positions. We are rarely in boardrooms, featured on TV or in movies, or occupying positions of political power.” nytimes.com/2020/07/26/opi…
“Randomly look at any 50 print advertisements. You will find racial & ethnic diversity; women & men of different sexual orientations; gender fluidity & people of all ages. What you won’t see (or see very little of) are representations of disabled persons.” nytimes.com/2020/07/26/opi…
For a lively and moving way to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the ADA, go stream #CripCamp on Netflix. I can’t recommend it enough. Bob Mondello on NPR called it “A Raucous Celebration Of A World-Changing Place.” netflix.com/title/81001496

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May 30, 2023
New study finds “strong evidence that BLM protests were associated with an increased likelihood of voting for the 2020 Democratic candidate.” Further, this effect was “concentrated among less contentious protest events (with arrests, injury, or violence).” tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… ImageImageImage
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At both county- and individual-level, study finds “strong support for hypothesis BLM protest intensity was associated with greater support for Biden. Evidence on contentious protest is mixed, with a significant negative effect in county analysis but no relationship in survey.” Image
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Feb 27, 2023
A strange and ahistorical op-ed on SF's ills that spends a precious paragraph on dangers of ranked choice voting but has nothing to say about what policy changes are needed to build more housing, an issue that long precedes current “one party rule.” nytimes.com/2023/02/26/opi…
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California’s housing crisis is the result of bad policy over decades on both left and right but counter-mobilization against integrated neighborhoods and fair housing laws was not championed by liberals.
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Omar Wasow | @owasow@bsky.social Profile picture
Feb 2, 2023
Has any region offered a Pay-to-NIMBY option? Like a surtax for non-development?

“The privilege of vetoing virtually any housing in rich neighborhoods is so ingrained in American culture that many people believe it is one of their inalienable rights.” sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…
Idea is to shift NIMBYism debates from “rights” to privileges. Imagine upzoning a whole city but with option for any neighborhood to pay an ongoing lower-upzone surtax. Wealthier neighborhoods then pay price for NIMBYism in a way that might also subsidize more affordable housing.
Shifting from property taxes to land value tax would be simpler and more efficient than “NIMBYism surtax” but I’m trying to imagine what might reduce conflict within current system and between city-level pushes to upzone and neighborhood-level opposition. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_valu…
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Also, if you liked this piece, I recommend following @DavidEpstein.
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Just successfully converted a pdf and OCR’d two paper book chapters to machine readable plain text. Then fed text to Amazon’s Polly service and now have good-enough “audiobooks.” Did it for myself but realize one day could be offered to class like podcast with weekly “episodes.”
Listen to Narrative in Political Science by Molly Patterson and Kristen Renwick Monroe as read by one of Amazon Polly’s British female voices (I’m not sure if British voices are actually better than US or if foreign dialectic just seems less robotic). dropbox.com/s/uwpikkyzz3cg…
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