Abundant Delusion Sep 8
I snuck into the atlantic, home of the "abundance" movement, and argued the entire thing was doomed to fail
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Florida Has High Speed Rail and California Never Will
the high speed brightline train now connects miami and orlando, but california still has not laid a single mile of rail. what's the difference between these two projects?
River Page
Sep 27, 2023
I recently took Florida’s Brightline rail from Miami to Palm Beach, and was shocked at the overall functionality of the thing. Then, last week, the line finally connected Miami to Orlando, marking an important moment for reflection. Having spent the last twelve years in California, it’s long seemed to me America is no longer capable of building vital infrastructure. This, while generally true, is perhaps just especially true in “California,” a crippling ideology as much as a state, and while the ideology is spreading it does now have at least one, important, American exception: Florida is building. The Brightline isn’t perfect, but it does exist. That’s worth looking at.
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-Solana
Abundant Delusion
Ezra Klein Doesn't Understand How Immigration WorksSep 3
ezra klein, radley balko, and the new york times claim ice is "eviscerating" due process, but a close look at immigration law reveals they're wrong
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Is the 'Right-Wing Dark Money' in the Room With Us Right Now?Aug 29
taylor lorenz claims republicans spent decades engineering a "powerful media ecosystem" to steal our attention. in reality, democrats just coasted until they lost
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