Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether the Historic Preservation Review Board should be prevented from stopping projects for height and mass reasons. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):
Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether there are not enough historic districts, enough historic districts, or too many historic districts. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):
Map of DC historic preservation districts for the next two questions
Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether they support removing parking and travel lanes to build protected bike lanes. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):
Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether they support removing parking and travel lanes to build dedicated bus lanes. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):
Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether they support removing the Height Act entirely, only in certain cases, or not at all. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):
Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on how many more homes the District should build in the next 5 years: about as many as the last 5 years, twice as many, or three times as many. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):
Candidates for DC Mayor and Council on whether apartments should be legal in all parts of the District. (Answers taken from the @ggwash questionnaire ggwash.org/elections/2026):
Good rundown from @jbhenchman.bsky.social on where things stand now.
Gorsuch to Barrett: what's your deal, I can't figure you out
Roasted everyone but the Chief Justice
Gorsuch to Kagan, Sotomayor, Jackson: In every Biden executive order case, you voted to uphold what the President did. However vague the statute, however unprecedented the action, however attenuated the causation, you voted yes. So why are you in the majority with me in this case? Why?
Gorsuch to Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh: In every Biden executive order case, you voted to strike down what the President did. You said vague statutes, unprecedented actions, attenuated causation, that those are all fatal. So why are you in the dissent in this case? Why?
"Put not your trust in princes"
Psalm 146:3-5
Many of them live in DC and said they were voting for Oliver, but Oliver wasn't on the DC ballot...
"We have National Park Service-run spaces, from parks to small triangles, where clearing depends on federal choices and timelines rather than local needs.... The transit system clears train stops but not bus stops"
www.commonplace.org/p/joe-bishop...
Looking like the President will miss today's deadline to submit a budget: "On or after the first Monday in January but not later than the first Monday in February of each year, the President shall submit a budget of the United States Government for the following fiscal year." 31 U.S.C. § 1105(a)
"six seven"
-nephew
Almost every Safeway in San Francisco is planning a total rebuild into "housing over grocery." At least three recent proposals. Meanwhile, zero proposals from Safeway in the East Bay. sfyimby.com/2025/11/prel... sfyimby.com/2025/11/perm... sfyimby.com/2025/11/bern...
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Watson v. RNC. It appeals a 5th Circuit decision holding that federal law requires election ballots be received by officials no later than election day. Mississippi, like 30 states and DC, counts mailed ballots to come in after election day.
continuing resolution, keeping the current spending levels from the last passed budget
The Supreme Court today declined to hear an appeal asking to overturn the Obergefell same-sex marriage decision, without comment and without dissent.
The case involved former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis and damages she owes to a couple she denied a marriage license to.
This is a Senate deal, House not on board. Most Dems will oppose but it will need only 10 Senate Dems to support. The thinking is that the House will be pressured to pass what Senate passes.
Rumored deal to end the government shutdown.
-CR and ban on reductions in force of fed govt employees through 1/30/26
-Minibus: Adoption of military construction/veterans, agricultural, and leg branch portions of budget
-Promise of vote in Dec on enhanced ACA subsidies.
Sauer, in his final argument, sticks with his position that the tariffs are not an exercise of the power to tax, but of the power to regulate commerce.
In response to a question by Jackson, Oregon's Gutman says the tariffs do not address fentanyl because they are too indirect and aren't on traffickers. Jackson points out that embargoes and sanctions often are indirect, and a pressure points.
There’s an obvious reason that Congress hasn’t authorized imposing a 1% tariff to respond to an international emergency: what emergency would be addressed by such an action?
Justice Kavanaugh says the challengers think the President could do embargoes and quotas but not a 1% tariff, leaving a donut hole, and asks how that makes sense. Justice Jackson jumps in to say Congress wanting to allow a halt to trade in an international emergency makes more sense than a tariff.
Katyal's 20 minute argument was about an hour.
