How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App
https://twitter.com/hamiltonnolan/status/1637061740172136455To read a lot of writing about cities, the gentrification era that began in the '80s is really just an extension of the Master Builder era of the '20s-'60s. Rather than what it really was, which was a rejection of that era...
https://twitter.com/PTBwrites/status/1636739747031703552like, the FAA could also reduce maintenance standards to lower ticket costs and *probably* the slightly higher number of plane crashes would still save lives on net by discouraging driving, but we don't do that because it's not the FAA's job to game alternate realities
https://twitter.com/_johnsonator/status/1636522240417120258Like, I would love it from a policy perspective if Harvard Square parking were scarce and expensive, but it isn't, so I drive to Harvard Square a lot more than I'd like because the value proposition is undeniable.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1611344950410575875The other thing I will say is the Boston MSA is not that large, but punches above its weight in the cultural imagination because of the industries that are here and its location within the NE Corridor. Is Boston's food scene really that much worse than Phoenix? Minneapolis?
https://twitter.com/opinonhaver/status/1531022460346216448The weird thing is how Bernie sort of picked up this idea rhetorically, when in 2016 he was actually doing what Obama had been doing all along—talking about issues in ways that appealed to cross-pressured voters
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1530245544743952384"The oldest child grows up to run the family business" theory
https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/1491129740442361863You lift the mask mandate, not the vaccine mandate jesus christ
https://twitter.com/paulmromer/status/1490814358590476290Like, this was sort of a reasonable take given what we knew at the time but what we also knew was the booster posed virtually no risk, efficacy was waning, and variants with evasive potential were almost certainly going to pop up. Perpetual inability to think ahead of the curve.