A major housing bill that would discourage building rental homes “reflects a peculiar type of American populism that combines a right-wing fetish for suburbia’s homeowner society with a left-wing distrust of investment capital,” Henry Grabar argues.
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The housing bill now in Congress may seek to increase the housing supply—but not for renters.
The ability to imagine other people's perspectives, the strongest case for "why humanities?".
Christopher Deutsch
I just assume all you bros are the same bro, a timeless, ubiquitous every-bro to end all bros forever.
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These people will put absolutely everything into an inter-office memo.
I’ve heard lawyers saying that the best part of their jobs is reading all the office gossip that gets turned over in discovery emails and I’m just like, you don’t have to go to law school to get that experience, come be a historian, they put the drama in organized acid-free folders for you.
I’m knee-deep in multi-decade office politics with back channel letters and notes and warring publications and meeting minutes. These people are “Industry” but with three-digit budgets and carbon paper.
“Yeah, you tell him, Phyllis,” I whisper in the reading room.
everyone out here comparing Senator John Fetterman to minor Universal monsters, but of course I do need to point out that he is actually Detective Vernon Holley, partner of Detective Ed Norris, played by Brian Anthony Williams on 19 episodes of The Wire (2002-2008).