# ![@sam_d_1995 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::188103539.png) @sam_d_1995 sam

sam posts on X about new york city, money, york city, jersey the most. They currently have [------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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[new york city](/topic/new-york-city), [money](/topic/money), [york city](/topic/york-city), [jersey](/topic/jersey), [york](/topic/york), [inflation](/topic/inflation), [rfk](/topic/rfk), [maga](/topic/maga), [zohran](/topic/zohran), [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump)

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Theres a poll on Nextdoor San Francisco for the [----] primary @ewarren is winning and its not even close"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1169685241348280320)  2019-09-05T18:54Z 50.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Los Angeles edition: How it started: How its going:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1315658329511940096)  2020-10-12T14:19Z 50.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@AlexThomp @natashakorecki @theodoricmeyer remember when politico reported that rahm was probably gonna be DoT secretary lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1364729201727709188)  2021-02-25T00:09Z 57.1K followers, [--] engagements


"with all of this talk around wealth taxes it's important to note that california actually has a wealth subsidy: prop [--] the more your home appreciates in value the lower tax rate you pay. it's an absurd legacy from the Reagan years and should be abolished During pandemic US billionaires grew $1.1 trillion in wealth- enough to pay for ENTIRE federal relief package for working people. Californias billionaire wealth increased $503B- 44% of US billionaire pandemic wealth increase Today @VoteAlexLee2020 is introducing CA Wealth tax During pandemic US billionaires grew $1.1 trillion in wealth-"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1371612562098253825)  2021-03-16T00:01Z 50.2K followers, [---] engagements


"private equity firms like blackstone actually love low vacancy rates don't believe me read their annual report WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE FOREIGN PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS AND MONEY LAUNDERERS PLEASE WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE FOREIGN PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS AND MONEY LAUNDERERS PLEASE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1384221508533317633)  2021-04-19T19:04Z 50K followers, [---] engagements


"over the past decades most physical products have gotten cheaper. a flatscreen TV now costs a fraction of what it did [--] years ago. which is what makes it so frustrating that transit costs have soared making it prohibitively expensive to build new transit infrastructure With construction expected to begin in the Fall Metro has upped the budget for the Airport Metro Connector rail station to $900 million https://t.co/fVoifJGjcD https://t.co/928sipehCS With construction expected to begin in the Fall Metro has upped the budget for the Airport Metro Connector rail station to $900 million"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1386726453765492736)  2021-04-26T16:58Z 57.1K followers, [---] engagements


"One plane crash is a tragedy 40k automobile deaths every year is a statistic why is our risk tolerance for cars so much higher than our risk tolerance for well everything else from plane crashes to peloton injuries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1390356252300128262)  2021-05-06T17:22Z 50.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Private Equity firms: we shouldnt build more housing Landlords: we shouldnt build more housing San Francisco politicians: we shouldnt build more housing ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1392537581145972739)  2021-05-12T17:50Z 50.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@ajlamesa it wouldn't be if we built enough housing there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1416141532768374797)  2021-07-16T21:03Z 50.6K followers, [--] engagements


"The whole internet loves Nick Cho a lovely dad who makes wholesome tik toks *5 tweets later* We regret to inform you the dad is a car-loving NIMBY It takes a certain sort of cultural perspective to demand that the city make a choice that you *enjoy* at the expense of people living in the neighborhoods that are negatively affected by that choice daily. As with everything its complicated but still. 🙄 It takes a certain sort of cultural perspective to demand that the city make a choice that you *enjoy* at the expense of people living in the neighborhoods that are negatively affected by that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1423416214848778242)  2021-08-05T22:50Z 50.2K followers, [---] engagements


"heres nick defending Rick Hall a retired multi-millionaire oil and gas executive who leads Livable California a segregationist anti-housing organization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1423416662976614400)  2021-08-05T22:52Z 50.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@ne0liberal i really do not understand the land use valuation that could lead to a [--] story building and a surface parking lot being the most valuable uses of land on the same street"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1438946434485719046)  2021-09-17T19:22Z 57.6K followers, [---] engagements


"With news that the "AIDS Healthcare Foundation" (AHF) is teaming up with segregationist homeowner orgs to fight housing here's a mega-thread on all the reasons AHF is horrible: 1) The founder Michael Weinstein is a NIMBY who wants to preserve his view of the Hollywood sign The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has given $50k to the Livable California and United Neighbors-backed PAC gathering signatures for an initiative to roll back state housing law in favor of "local control." https://t.co/DGVrFQF1Ii The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has given $50k to the Livable California and United"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1447668698584649729)  2021-10-11T21:01Z 50.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Los Angeles: why does our city have such bad traffic so much pollution and such expensive housing also Los Angeles: has subway stops surrounded by surface parking for more than [--] decades"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1448442304755380226)  2021-10-14T00:15Z 50K followers, [---] engagements


"in the past days joe manchin has 1) asked for work requirements for paid leave 2) got mad at progressives for not passing BIF just hours after they said they would pass BIF starting to think this guy just is both 1) not very smart 2) a malignant narcissist If Joe Manchin had sat in his office all day and played Angry Birds on his phone the House was on a path to pass both his infrastructure bill and send the BBB bill to the Senate where he could continue to influence it. After that press conference Who know what happens next. If Joe Manchin had sat in his office all day and played Angry Birds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1455251999906205697)  2021-11-01T19:14Z 50.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@axedmax notorious antifa stronghold Tampa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1476998913643225089)  2021-12-31T19:29Z 53.9K followers, [---] engagements


"The Korean lefts presidential candidate apologized for NIMBY policies driving up housing prices and is now pledging to upzone the city to bring prices down Just trying to imagine a Bay Area NIMBY politician like @AaronPeskin or @DavidCamposSF doing this lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1486398664297885700)  2022-01-26T18:00Z 49.8K followers, [---] engagements


"the rich boomers in the berkeley hills want the inflated real estate prices that come with being close to the university but hate the actual students who go there if CEQA can be abused like this to dismantle the UC system then CEQA itself needs to be dismantled New: UC Berkeley may slash its fall [----] freshman class by one-third or [----] seats under a recent court order to halt growth the university announced Monday. https://t.co/aPZiLqZcPP New: UC Berkeley may slash its fall [----] freshman class by one-third or [----] seats under a recent court order to halt growth the university announced"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1493414731067101184)  2022-02-15T02:39Z 50.2K followers, [---] engagements


"what is in the water at the New York Times offices"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1502666226463563779)  2022-03-12T15:22Z 49.9K followers, [----] engagements


"we need to normalize not owning cars lots of people in cities or dense suburbs think they need to own cars for weekend trips or Costco runs but if you actually do the math an occasional zipcar or weekend rental is usually much cheaper"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1506319707250606086)  2022-03-22T17:19Z 50.2K followers, [----] engagements


"19) if bernie was president right now almost everything would be the exact same. maybe he would have forgiven student loan debt a bit sooner and he might not have has a senate majority meaning no judges and no ARP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1520067347624701952)  2022-04-29T15:47Z 49K followers, [---] engagements


"20) people need to pay more attention to belarus. they've been led by an insane dictator for decades that was almost overthrown in [----] until putin stepped in to support him. if putin is weakened after ukraine belarus could be the next country to embrace democracy and the EU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1520067772138627072)  2022-04-29T15:49Z 49K followers, [---] engagements


"whenever americans say that they *need* a massive pickup truck that gets 12mpg just show them the Subaru Sambar utility vs. ego"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1524526520760418305)  2022-05-11T23:07Z 50.2K followers, 12.6K engagements


"my hot take is that it's literally imperialist (and incredibly patronizing) for an american organization like DSA to tell the people of finland and sweden that they're wrong for wanting to be protected from potential russian agression DSA extends our solidarity to comrades in Sweden and Finland faced with a coordinated attack on their countries' neutrality. The leader of the Left Party of Sweden (@vansterpartiet) outlines their opposition: "The Left Party has chosen we say no to NATO." https://t.co/wXKFTMXsJj DSA extends our solidarity to comrades in Sweden and Finland faced with a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1525530130042470401)  2022-05-14T17:35Z 50.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Mary Miller is literally a Nazi. that is not an exaggeration. she is a straight-up nazi. Miller: President Trump I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday https://t.co/RqxmbT8jx5 Miller: President Trump I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday https://t.co/RqxmbT8jx5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1540854857288093697)  2022-06-26T00:30Z 55.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Manchin fights for his constituents even when that means supporting conservative coal miners. I dont agree with many of his stances but I at least understand it. Sinemas desire to fight for private equity though is just completely absurd. She should be primaried. Im told that Sinema is feeling positive about a Thune amendment that would carve out private equity subsidiaries from the 15% corporate minimum tax. Manchin doesnt want it in the bill kicking off discussions between him Thune and Sinema on changes Im told that Sinema is feeling positive about a Thune amendment that would carve out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1556445872334032897)  2022-08-08T01:03Z 50.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@rafaelshimunov @honestdaave scarcity is quite literally manufactured by the exclusionary zoning laws that YIMBYs want to get rid of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1569375405953646593)  2022-09-12T17:20Z 49.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@Tesho13 @MLS with you and @kingjebo that makes [--] MLS YIMBYs other leagues need to catch up tbh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1579984387285823488)  2022-10-11T23:56Z 49.5K followers, [--] engagements


"everything Kyrsten Sinema does make sense when you realize that she used to be a member of the Green Party now shes doing exactly what a Green Party member perceives a moderate democrat to be: ignoring her base defending private equity and just leaving the party In a natural extension of my service since I was first elected to Congress I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington and formally registering as an Arizona Independent. 1/3 https://t.co/jUQHAeuxym In a natural extension of my"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1601228011755704320)  2022-12-09T14:51Z 49.5K followers, [---] engagements


"its funny how basically every megacity realized that mass transit is the only way to efficiently move millions of people every day but Los Angeles tried to delude itself into thinking highways would work and now the traffic just looks like this every day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1618022287697149958)  2023-01-24T23:05Z 50.6K followers, 535.4K engagements


"@Brian_J77 I lived in the valley and further north near the [---] in the Sepulveda pass usually had traffic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1618418701023457283)  2023-01-26T01:21Z 50.6K followers, [---] engagements


"its pretty remarkable how switching from beef to pork/chicken reduces carbon emissions far more than going from pork/chicken to vegetarian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1620110069961752582)  2023-01-30T17:21Z 49.7K followers, 575.4K engagements


"@TJAltimore Ive dealt with both too and would take the 4/5/6 any day of the week. the Sepulveda pass is my personal hell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1633204738404634625)  2023-03-07T20:35Z 50.6K followers, [----] engagements


"its honestly absurd that you can go to almost any midsize city in Europe and find dense walkable mixed-use urbanism but if you want that in america there are only [--] cities you can choose from and [--] of them are super expensive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1635341040139014145)  2023-03-13T18:04Z 50.2K followers, 2.2M engagements


"its honestly pretty sad that Americas one high speed rail line is literally only [--] minutes faster than the regular train but almost twice as expensive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1645088971649679360)  2023-04-09T15:39Z 57.5K followers, 233.2K engagements


"its pretty weird being in japan and seeing incredible public transit safe streets high speed rail and almost zero gun violence and then remembering that the US has almost double the GDP/capita. our bad outcomes (like [--] year shorter life spans) are entirely a policy choice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1657558074402668545)  2023-05-14T01:26Z 49.5K followers, 1.2M engagements


"its funny how Americans will delude themselves into thinking they need a massive pickup truck when contractors in Japan who actually haul stuff every day use trucks a fraction the size"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1659291433168171030)  2023-05-18T20:14Z 49.6K followers, 6.5M engagements


"fighting against affordable housing in atherton really screams social justice to me Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) named 2022-23 #SocialJusticeChampion receiving the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Trophy for his work to foster equity create access to opportunity drive voter engagement and build community safety. $100000 to be donated to https://t.co/OrUgn6dI5X Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) named 2022-23 #SocialJusticeChampion receiving the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Trophy for his work to foster equity create access to opportunity drive voter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1661162590586667008)  2023-05-24T00:09Z 56.7K followers, 136.6K engagements


"the online leftist impulse to blame everything on evil corporations is honestly beyond parody your boomer neighbors that show up at community meetings to complain shadows and parking are the reason we have a housing crisis not some evil corporation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1661474028639637505)  2023-06-30T01:36Z 42.8K followers, 125.4K engagements


"@CornelWest when you are a real leftist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1666151855640936458)  2023-06-06T18:35Z 41.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Barcelona and Atlanta are comparable cities with a population of [--] million and similar subway length. however Barcelona is much denser and has 80% lower transportation carbon emissions and 12x as much metro ridership. housing policy is transportation policy is climate policy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1672391970738647040)  2023-06-23T23:51Z 49K followers, 62.4K engagements


"@ArmandDoma or an early 2010s call of duty game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1672446081777520642)  2023-06-24T03:28Z 42.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@eean @ArmandDoma yeah the fees are what really get you. also with the high risk free interest rates right now the value prop of a high fee VC investment is even lower. Im going to email Illinois CIO and ask him why hes giving Sacks so much money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1672842842337583105)  2023-06-25T05:43Z 42.8K followers, [--] engagements


"people are extremely bad at understanding tradeoffs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1674532441241927682)  2023-06-29T22:46Z 42.8K followers, 60.2K engagements


"@cityboi340 you cant just drop stupid political takes and justify them with some weird allusion to the working class. thats not how it works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1674534215465967617)  2023-06-29T21:44Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@greetinghimeros how many affordable homes did the Autozone have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1674604967024373764)  2023-06-30T02:25Z 42.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@alanthefisher long Manhattan is my favorite one of these"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1677785666703462402)  2023-07-09T17:46Z 42.8K followers, 1.3M engagements


"Tylers entire argument is basically congestion pricing might be good economics but I oppose it because the vibes are off conservative economists are such a joke"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1677820580605874176)  2023-07-12T22:38Z 41.8K followers, 186.6K engagements


"@tylercowen its hilarious to see you a conservative economist adopt incorrect pseudo progressive talking points about gentrification to oppose a good policy. beyond parody lmao"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1677821175232335872)  2023-07-09T03:07Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"also just a hilarious argument when restaurants have happy hours comedy clubs have covers and movie theaters have matinee pricing. Tyler is just incorrect in so many ways at once its making my head spin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1677825572242878464)  2023-07-08T23:45Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@CapMetroCEO 1) this looks like a downgrade with less shade and a less comfortable bench 2) it feels like its common sense to build shelters and stops with no shelters rather than replace existing functional shelters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1677826739702218752)  2023-07-09T00:39Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@deapthoughts @MarketUrbanism dude Ive been all over the world and the New York City subway is pretty incredible still. I get being frustrated with *the rate of improvement* relative to other countries but pretending NYC particularly lower Manhattan doesnt have good transit is just laughable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1678078665425575937)  2023-07-09T16:34Z 42.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@ChristoSilvia @MarketUrbanism might as well milk those zero-common sense drivers for all they got and use that money to make transit better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1678085223387660288)  2023-07-09T16:54Z 42.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@MrChristianDiaz I dont think theres anything oppressive about turning a parking lot or single family home into apartments for hundreds of people. Sure some developers demolish affordable homes and should be regulated but we need more housing at the end of the day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1678143168158773249)  2023-07-10T17:25Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Its been almost two years since this tweet and inflation is down to 4% lol Hyperinflation is going to change everything. Its happening. Hyperinflation is going to change everything. Its happening"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1678208915517890562)  2023-07-10T01:05Z 50.3K followers, 329.1K engagements


"@tylercowen doubling down on your bad take classic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1678298460930605056)  2023-07-10T07:04Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"$30 billion for a new subway line. absurd. America's inability to build transit at reasonable costs is the number one thing stopping us from getting new subway lines and it's incredibly depressing that so few politicians even care"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1678453528426328064)  2023-07-10T17:29Z 42.8K followers, 37K engagements


"it turns out that when you artificially limit the supply of something in high demand prices will skyrocket the exact same thing is what is causing rents to rise in many cities across the country and yet many politicians still refuse to legalize more housing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1678520409069703174)  2023-07-10T23:28Z 42.8K followers, 40.8K engagements


"the fact that Los Angeles has more than 10x as many homeless people than Houston despite spending billions more on homelessness programs shows that the most effective policy to tackle homelessness is simply legalizing housing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1678913048021725185)  2023-07-19T01:50Z 42.8K followers, 211.6K engagements


"@rev_avocado DSA could be so much more powerful if they were simply more normal and less petty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1678929916929376256)  2023-07-12T05:31Z 42K followers, [----] engagements


"but all of the bluechecks told me hyperinflation was imminent Doing the exact math CPI increased 2.9691777% over the last year That's a 2-handle in my book baby Doing the exact math CPI increased 2.9691777% over the last year That's a 2-handle in my book baby"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1679156414072389633)  2023-07-12T15:51Z 50.2K followers, 13.6K engagements


"New York should absolutely do this. Its common sense: SUVs impose massive costs on society in terms of needing more road space polluting more being more dangerous for pedestrians and causing more wear and tear on roads"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1679166879565500416)  2023-07-12T16:37Z 42.8K followers, 73K engagements


"congestion pricing is the moderate position when a case could be made for banning all personal cars in lower Manhattan the city would be so much safer and more pleasant with just emergency vehicles transit paratransit and deliveries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1679260725309767681)  2023-07-13T01:12Z 42.8K followers, 37.4K engagements


"Cities objectively are far better for the environment due to efficient infrastructure usage and environmentally friendly transportation moreso dense cities prevents exurban sprawl from eating up rural farms and open nature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1679878036722688000)  2023-07-15T06:34Z 42.8K followers, 139.4K engagements


"gentrification is when people who bike dont want to be killed by cars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1679949606359056390)  2023-07-14T20:35Z 42.8K followers, 58.9K engagements


"China can build over ten thousand miles of high speed rail in the same amount of time it took Americas capital to build one single bike lane what are we even doing here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1680630961975832576)  2023-07-19T03:16Z 42.8K followers, 692.3K engagements


"@JosephPolitano dont forget the German government shutting down all the nuclear powerplants and Angela merkel spending a decade focusing on how to get more Russian gas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1680784053971156992)  2023-07-17T03:55Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"build. the. map"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1680941370951753728)  2023-07-17T18:18Z 42.8K followers, 409.8K engagements


"A truly developed country would spend this $1.24 billion on building a train to LaGuardia instead of building [----] parking spaces at JFK Also I love how they highlight the eco conscious timber facade as if that suddenly makes a massive parking lot environmentally friendly lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1681665979237924880)  2023-07-19T15:31Z 42.9K followers, 91.8K engagements


"this is the Bronx VA center. its right next to multiple transit lines. Its insane that its surrounded by surface parking instead of dense housing for homeless veterans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1681729597916758038)  2023-07-20T00:02Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"this is a problem with American bureaucracy in a nutshell. Seattle voters already overwhelmingly voted for the Ballard link in [----]. They dont want sparsely-attended community meetings. They want the train built. You dont need to ask for permission [---] times just build it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1682081124325924865)  2023-07-20T19:54Z 41.8K followers, 261.5K engagements


"this basically explains the Varsity Blues scandal: parents in the 90th-98th% of income who want their kids getting into top schools but cant afford to drop $5M on donating a building so they pay a sketchy admissions counselor $200k to help their kid get on the rowing team"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1683576298197725187)  2023-07-25T00:25Z 42.8K followers, 130.6K engagements


"This New York Times article is journalistic malpractice. The e-bike riders were killed by SUVs. Cars cause [-----] deaths every single year thats the problem here. Weve become so normalized to the death caused by cars that journalists are blaming the victims"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1685317200406593536)  2023-07-29T15:51Z 42.8K followers, 247.6K engagements


"@IDoTheThinking @gspeng Cars are the number one cause of death for teenagers. Its incredible how this article completely ignores that fact and instead blames the kids"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1685322260171661313)  2023-07-29T16:28Z 42.8K followers, 10.3K engagements


"this is the future that Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives want"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1685767185061347328)  2023-07-31T20:44Z 41.8K followers, 142.7K engagements


"@TheStalwart I mean its because California is more densely populated and the cities are bounded by water and mountains preventing suburban sprawl forever like you have in Texas and Florida which keeps home prices low (at least on the periphery) but makes transportation unbearable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1686016034333995008)  2023-07-31T14:11Z 41.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Hey genius the train is far safer than driving in Long Island"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1686385133379792898)  2023-08-02T08:54Z 42.8K followers, 131K engagements


"honestly refusing to take the subway in New York City is such a massive red flag"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1686739362434736128)  2023-08-02T14:02Z 41.9K followers, 915K engagements


"@ZerzarBukhari San Francisco in bio. But honestly your take is far worse if you live in New York City. You are so out of touch with the city its remarkable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1686800077514305551)  2023-08-02T18:04Z 41.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@opinonhaver theyre just mad that Biden hurt their patreon revenue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1686849202557517825)  2023-08-02T21:19Z 55K followers, [----] engagements


"it always cracks me up how republicans simultaneously think that 1) liberals are all sensitive snowflakes who cant handle the real world 2) cities are post-apocalyptic wastelands that are far too dangerous to ever visit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1687163690104078353)  2023-08-03T18:09Z 41.3K followers, 180.2K engagements


"environmental groups that oppose dense housing are so insane to me. like I cant get over it. its the equivalent of a biologist who believes in creationism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1687227550316044290)  2023-08-03T22:22Z 42.8K followers, 58.6K engagements


"@AlecStapp theyve made a ton of progress and SF-LA is still an extremely valuable high speed rail corridor. the focus should be on improving state law like CEQA to streamline construction and build connecting transit and housing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1687236337190014976)  2023-08-04T01:24Z 42.8K followers, 17.4K engagements


"this highway can carry about [-----] people per hour in each direction at full capacity a single subway line can carry [-----] people per hour in each direction all without tearing a neighborhood in half. cars are just fundamentally super inefficient. its basic geometry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1687462465599086598)  2023-08-04T13:56Z 42.8K followers, 1.2M engagements


"its incredible how some people are simply incapable of even imagining a better future with fewer people dying on our roads"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1687654786819129344)  2023-08-05T02:40Z 42K followers, 24.2K engagements


"people who complain that YIMBYs arent civil enough on twitter need to go to a neighborhood council meeting in their own backyard and see just how vicious the NIMBYs are when affordable housing is proposed in their neighborhood"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1687951807987728384)  2023-08-05T22:20Z 42.8K followers, 66K engagements


"a subway ride costs only $2.75 just saying It is the least affordable to buy a car ever per CNBC: https://t.co/l2OgboKARm It is the least affordable to buy a car ever per CNBC: https://t.co/l2OgboKARm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1688008515930005504)  2023-08-06T02:06Z 50.2K followers, 194.3K engagements


"its honestly kind of insane that people who buy an electric SUV can get over $25k in taxpayer money while people who bike or take transit get nothing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1688202502108266496)  2023-08-06T14:56Z 41.3K followers, 690.7K engagements


"@mrlevine you literally dont even sell sedans anymore. this is why america has a traffic death crisis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1688274721593303041)  2023-08-06T19:43Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"its remarkable how Fords communication director is having a meltdown in response to (accurate) criticism stemming from the fact that Ford has discontinued all sedans and only sells trucks now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1688276494466883585)  2023-08-06T19:50Z 42.8K followers, 596.5K engagements


"have the cars gotten too big no the problem is the darkness is a very convenient take from a guy who works at a company that only makes big cars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1688279096881471488)  2023-08-06T20:01Z 42.8K followers, 42.1K engagements


"the same report that @mrlevine is citing here literally blames the proliferation of large SUVs and trucks for increasing pedestrian deaths"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1688281760054833152)  2023-08-06T20:11Z 42.8K followers, 23.3K engagements


"@mrlevine did you know that new hybrid sedans get better gas mileage than new hybrid trucks AND are less likely to kill pedestrians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1688295031503810560)  2023-08-06T21:04Z 42.8K followers, 11.8K engagements


"@TheWarOnCars meanwhile Mike refuses to answer whether or not SUVs are more dangerous for pedestrians than sedans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1688296107510546432)  2023-08-06T21:08Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@dachesney @mrlevine no my point is obvious: despite trucks and SUVs recently overtaking sedans in annual sales. cars usually last a couple decades so it will be a while before there are more SUV/trucks on the road overall"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1688374724194172928)  2023-08-07T02:21Z 42.8K followers, [---] engagements


"housing is a human right and it should be illegal to build more of it perfectly encapsulates how incoherent left-NIMBYism is nobody who thinks healthcare is a human right is out here arguing for fewer doctors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1688614225164300288)  2023-08-07T18:12Z 42.8K followers, 73.6K engagements


"update: the left NIMBYs are now also arguing for fewer doctors. Incredible how supply and demand is simply fake in their minds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1688614617566609408)  2023-08-07T18:14Z 41.6K followers, 10.4K engagements


"Fords communications director is continuing his multi-day meltdown because Ford stopped making any sedans and he keeps tagging me but refuses to admit that SUVs are more dangerous for pedestrians than sedans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1688900447480815616)  2023-08-08T13:10Z 42.8K followers, 31.5K engagements


"@uckema you think I dont know that the grid is extensive and almost every place that an ice cream truck would stop is connected to the grid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1688900840721915904)  2023-08-08T13:11Z 42.8K followers, [---] engagements


"*ebike parked on the sidewalk* media: WE MUST BAN THE EBIKE MENACE *driver yeets car onto a roof* media: wow what a close call cars are so silly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1688946862831677442)  2023-08-08T16:14Z 42.8K followers, 179.9K engagements


"the best way that Gavin Newsom could own Ron DeSantis is by building a ton of housing in California all he would have to do is exempt housing from CEQA and pass a transit oriented development bill. do that instead of the twitter fights"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1689062552485888000)  2023-08-08T23:54Z 42.8K followers, 109.8K engagements


"@JosephPolitano @nilocobau Berlin doesnt have super high wages although cost of living isnt that high either. Oslo and Zurich have wages almost as high as the US but cost of living is crazy expensive. Copenhagen and Stockholm are slightly lower wages and slightly lower cost of living"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1689116750510542849)  2023-08-09T03:29Z 42.8K followers, [---] engagements


"one of the absurd things about housing policy is that places like Spokane are legalizing 6plexes that are illegal in Seattle And Lexington KY is getting rid of mandatory parking mandates that exist in New York City our biggest cities are often the ones with the worst policies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1689294724455161857)  2023-08-09T15:17Z 42.8K followers, 52K engagements


"@cayimby YIMBY policies are the true Inflation Reduction Act"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1689334409982275584)  2023-08-09T17:54Z 50.3K followers, 11.3K engagements


"Georgia Population: [----] million Georgia traffic fatalities (2020): [----] Sweden Population: [----] million Sweden traffic fatalities (2020): [---] instead of asking pedestrians to wear bright clothing Georgia DOT should be building safer roads"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1689339626232631296)  2023-08-09T18:15Z 42.8K followers, 113.3K engagements


"speed cameras save lives its as simple as that you can avoid the fines by not speeding or taking the subway. seems easy enough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1689631911176458240)  2023-08-10T13:36Z 42.8K followers, 20.7K engagements


"@JoeBorelliNYC your NIMBYism and refusal to support more housing is part of the problem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1689635498460106752)  2023-08-10T13:51Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"The congestion tax can easily be avoided by simply taking the train josh its really not that difficult"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1689662544183480320)  2023-08-10T15:38Z 42.8K followers, 104.5K engagements


"speeding may kill a lot of people but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time so its impossible to say if its bad or not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1689734395769274368)  2023-08-10T20:24Z 42.8K followers, 48.8K engagements


"also for a slightly more technical analysis: yes cars have gotten safer for people inside the car. pedestrian deaths have skyrocketed because cars keep getting bigger and American roads prioritize car speeds over pedestrian safety"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1689735611299610624)  2023-08-10T20:28Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@evolve_ca its funny how non profits always use vague abstract notions of community justify their nimby stances"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1689772607229276160)  2023-08-10T22:55Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Manhattan literally approved *zero* new homes last month. We have a self-inflicted housing crisis because of ridiculous outdated laws that make it illegal to build dense housing. And rents are just going to keep going up until we fix it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1690088385732304896)  2023-08-11T19:50Z 42.8K followers, 72.8K engagements


"@MarxMidwest its wild how many illiterate people completely fail to understand how government works and that a single congressperson cannot magically pass a law unilaterally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1690406371399774208)  2023-08-12T16:54Z 42.8K followers, 11.8K engagements


"we need an Inflation Reduction Act [---] thats just YIMBY policies like legalizing dense housing and getting rid of mandatory parking mandates"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1690417581033705472)  2023-08-12T17:38Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@alanthefisher @allgarbled the best part is the community note calls it the subway of San Francisco nobody calls it that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1690439288255623168)  2023-08-12T19:05Z 42.8K followers, 13.9K engagements


"I think the reason that left-NIMBYs frustrate me so much is that having grown up in the Bush era conservatives were the primary obstacle to good policy but now Im seeing people I thought were my allies fight against building housing & clean energy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1690743043354234880)  2023-08-13T15:12Z 42.8K followers, 116.1K engagements


"@JacUnderATree please read about the safety features of modern nuclear powerplants and the negative health impacts of the coal plants Illinois is still running"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1690795506673315840)  2023-08-13T18:40Z 41.6K followers, [---] engagements


"its wild how Silicon Valley is one of the wealthiest parts of the planet and yet is less pleasant to walk around than Eastern European cities with like 5% the GDP per capita"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1690797962983575552)  2023-08-13T18:50Z 42.8K followers, 863.5K engagements


"@mnolangray more new housing = more people signing up for The Movement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1690798207222071297)  2023-08-13T18:51Z 41.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@JacUnderATree its not a false choice when the choice for energy in Illinois is literally nuclear or coal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1690801220162658304)  2023-08-13T19:03Z 41.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@ab_foglia Lmao is Palo Alto your baseline for density"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1690831083187601408)  2023-08-13T21:01Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@opinonhaver @AlexanderMcCoy4 plus in divided government getting republicans to sign on to sunscreen regulation reform is actually a political possibility while Medicare for all is not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1690834360377683969)  2023-08-13T21:15Z 42.8K followers, 82.2K engagements


"fun fact: the quickest way to get from Anthonys congressional district to midtown Manhattan is the train. and its not even close"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1691185192679964672)  2023-08-14T20:29Z 42.8K followers, 163.3K engagements


"@numble the person in his LinkedIn replies saying not in my backyard to oppose transit literally works for the South Coast Air Quality District I am going to become the joker"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1691314340593303552)  2023-08-15T05:02Z 42.8K followers, 14.4K engagements


"San Francisco is hilarious because Fox News portrays it as the most progressive city in the country meanwhile business owners and local government officials are staging a funeral to protest a bus lane that will take away a few parking spots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1691459447166767107)  2023-08-15T14:38Z 42.8K followers, 169K engagements


"new NIMBY final boss just dropped"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1691555689456394267)  2023-08-15T21:01Z 42.8K followers, 249.1K engagements


"its hilarious how the reporter doesnt care about the massive pickup truck running the stop sign only the e-bikes a perfect illustration of how poorly the media covers our traffic safety crisis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1691632386449006713)  2023-08-16T02:06Z 42.8K followers, 376.3K engagements


"sure no source of energy is 100% perfect without any tradeoffs but give me solar panels in the desert or windmills in the ocean or nuclear plants any day over coal mines that poison the ground and air"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1691932999581933700)  2023-08-16T22:00Z 42.8K followers, 65.2K engagements


"yes its bad that college students are homeless but have you considered that if we built more student housing then millionaire berkeley homeowners might have to look at an apartment building"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1691974104243413079)  2023-08-17T00:43Z 42.8K followers, 170.9K engagements


"we already figured out how to solve this issue: its not tunnels for cars. its tunnels for trains. in New York a single subway line moves 3x as many people every day as the 12-lane [---] freeway in LA one more lane but underground isnt the answer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1692175562176082258)  2023-08-17T14:04Z 41.9K followers, 115.4K engagements


"it honestly blows my mind that so many New York City politicians are so out of touch that they think most people drive to midtown Manhattan almost everyone takes the train parking and traffic is already a nightmare"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1692232822944096450)  2023-08-17T17:51Z 42.8K followers, 140.9K engagements


"@yoonknowthevibe @spurs @WashWizards @Lakers @warriors @trailblazers elon musk is a genius"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1692295489650053318)  2023-08-17T22:01Z 42.8K followers, [---] engagements


"the wild thing about berkeley is that socialist millionaire homeowners who are fine with student homelessness because kids are too noisy is an actual voting demographic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1692526559763001698)  2023-08-18T13:19Z 42.8K followers, 162.4K engagements


"today I learned that despite voting for democrats my entire life supporting bernie in the primary and working for one of the most progressive democrats in the Senate I am actually a secret Republican because I think that we should build housing and clean energy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1692575527264043381)  2023-08-18T16:33Z 49.9K followers, 181.7K engagements


"old school train advertisements are such a vibe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1692612016559542697)  2023-08-18T18:58Z 42.9K followers, 76.9K engagements


"really sucks when conservatives weaponize environmental review laws to stop environmentally friendly policies like congestion pricing or offshore wind construction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1692923014998839523)  2023-08-19T15:34Z 42.8K followers, 27.5K engagements


"its funny how some politicians said containerized trash in New York was impossible and now that its happening the sanitation department even admits its not that hard lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1692983365580755151)  2023-08-19T19:34Z 42.8K followers, 169.8K engagements


"make Park Avenue a park again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1693050690271121903)  2023-08-20T00:01Z 42.8K followers, 73.7K engagements


"@ArmandDoma I really dont get that account. like catturd I get. A window into the brainless MAGA. its deranged but I understand how it appeals to other deranged people but eigens weird edgy smug vibes are so uniquely off-putting. basically the twitter version of Ron DeSantis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1693100026917003523)  2023-08-20T03:17Z 42.8K followers, 25.9K engagements


"people who oppose homeless housing are wild to me because its like you realize that once they live in the new housing they are no longer homeless right thats literally the whole point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1693262983990821106)  2023-08-20T14:05Z 41.4K followers, 329.1K engagements


"single family only zoning mandates that make it illegal to build more housing and force people to live in car-oriented sprawl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1693319814561792084)  2023-08-20T17:51Z 42.8K followers, 60.6K engagements


"@briebriejoy if your goal is electing trump then voting for cornel west does make sense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1693327953071845556)  2023-08-20T18:23Z 42.8K followers, 21.3K engagements


"a perfect encapsulation of the NIMBY mindset right here just absurd to let these type of misanthropes dictate housing policy for the rest of us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1693386549394632985)  2023-08-20T22:16Z 42.8K followers, 320.4K engagements


"@roddreher unlike you I actually care about this little thing called the United States Constitution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1693396535151653343)  2023-08-20T22:56Z 50.2K followers, 21.4K engagements


"@thepit2121 @HeerJeet I think that the US defending rule of law by supporting justice for left wing parties in Latin America is good actually"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1693618250213363887)  2023-08-21T13:37Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"whenever people say America cant be built around transit its worth reminding them that it already was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1693626104873886027)  2023-08-21T14:08Z 41.3K followers, 277.7K engagements


"to help staten islanders get to manhattan without a car they should run a free ferry back and forth 24/7 oh. wait. this already exists Staten Island's elected officials from both parties stand together against congestion pricing https://t.co/jsiRbN8EOC Staten Island's elected officials from both parties stand together against congestion pricing https://t.co/jsiRbN8EOC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1693668897239503004)  2023-08-21T16:58Z 50.2K followers, 47.1K engagements


"for all of the talk about crime in cities the thing that worries me the most is being a victim of a reckless driver on a day to day basis i see far more dangerous behavior committed by drivers than anyone else in New York"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1693687283751248310)  2023-08-21T18:11Z 42.8K followers, 79.7K engagements


"the funniest part is that the top answer is a historian explaining why carriages were banned in the city. these debates have literally been going on for millennia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1693786788861514167)  2023-08-22T00:46Z 42.8K followers, 269.7K engagements


"@JusticeTransit absolutely not. just an unnecessary policy that will further erode frequency. One person train operation works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1693980018190270486)  2023-08-22T13:34Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"incredible how many people believe this when [-----] Americans are killed by cars every year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1694000282840297837)  2023-08-22T14:55Z 42.8K followers, 726.5K engagements


"@jdcmedlock the cool thing about YIMBYism is that the conservatives think youre a Marxist and the marxists think youre a conservative when all you want is to stop making it illegal to build apartments"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1694080122003866106)  2023-08-22T20:12Z 42.8K followers, 30K engagements


"@NYCSpeakerAdams @NYCPlanning Its absurd that New York City still has parking mandates that reduce the amount of housing built and hurt transit ridership"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1694348599776149812)  2023-08-23T13:59Z 42.8K followers, [---] engagements


"true I think it should be legal to build affordable housing throughout the country including in my neighborhood so funny seeing bluechecks try and fail to understand basic YIMBY policies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1694385644598951947)  2023-08-23T16:26Z 42.8K followers, 120.2K engagements


"what @TxDOTAustin wants to do is so absurd that it reminds me of this old school British rail ad. theyre literally going to spend billions to destroy the city by expanding the highway when building transit would be far more efficient"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1694432638285558047)  2023-08-23T19:33Z 42.8K followers, 46.6K engagements


"always thank the bus driver"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1694511123989471489)  2023-08-24T00:45Z 42.8K followers, 156.2K engagements


"@AaronGuhreen @GavinNewsom Gavin Newsom should learn a thing or two from Hawaiis Governor who is actually serious about housing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1694526765455007991)  2023-08-24T01:47Z 42.8K followers, [---] engagements


"it would improve the community if this was torn down and replaced with housing and parks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1694723742717633006)  2023-08-24T14:50Z [--] followers, 40.8K engagements


"this is an incredible take when Blackstone itself literally advertises how they profit off the housing supply shortage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1694862208432218517)  2023-08-25T00:00Z 42.8K followers, 23.9K engagements


"@maxbergmann Same one of the best sporting events Ive ever witnessed in person up there with storming the field at a USC football game when we upset Stanford"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1694867625124184256)  2023-08-25T00:21Z 41.7K followers, [---] engagements


"me looking at all the trump mugshot memes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1694880692071518251)  2023-08-25T01:13Z 41.6K followers, 16.3K engagements


"its cool how america built a ton of automated light metro systems with great frequency but they only exist inside airports meanwhile Vancouver built one that goes all across the city and gets more ridership than the Chicago L or DC Metro"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1695078636586520982)  2023-08-25T14:20Z 42.8K followers, 70.3K engagements


"@mattyglesias the three branches of government not four sounds like a weird overly online reference that most people (including myself) will not understand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1695104314144911664)  2023-08-25T16:02Z 41.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@KevinMKruse I stand for our brave tow truck drivers who keep the roads safe against illegal parking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1695156214957519129)  2023-08-25T19:28Z 50.3K followers, 62.7K engagements


"its hilarious how conservative operatives think that people selling churros and fruit is a bad thing this is what a thriving city looks like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1695218919001248021)  2023-08-25T23:37Z 42.8K followers, 482.5K engagements


"I dont own a car and when I needed to pick up a queen sized bed frame in New York city I simply rented a U-Haul for $50. Its way cheaper than the cost of owning a truck"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1695469489784054128)  2023-08-26T16:13Z 42.8K followers, 119.2K engagements


"@uckema I admire your dedication to bringing completely unrelated posts back to New Jersey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1695508083630289366)  2023-08-26T18:46Z 49.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@EricaJSandberg @IDoTheThinking youre a journalist why dont you look into the ABAG modeling that resulted in an 82k home projection If anything 82k is too conservative. SF needs so much more housing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1695509225420591126)  2023-08-26T18:51Z 42.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@SwannMarcus89 the funniest part of Vivek is that the people falling for him are disproportionately rich highly educated VC bros"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1695548931998892248)  2023-08-26T21:29Z 42.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@nycsouthpaw yeah my only thoughts on Hungary are 1) Budapest is a beautiful city with great food and good public transit 2) its sad that Orban seems to be a wanna-be dictator 3) its weird how alt-right folks are obsessed with it 4) my ancestors fled the country bc they were Jewish"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1695648474350436363)  2023-08-27T04:04Z 41.7K followers, [----] engagements


"hopping the turnstile if you can afford to pay for the subway is honestly a deranged move In the past week Ive seen a finance bro decked out in Patagonia and Bushwick hipsters in designer clothes hop the turnstile and imo they deserve to get hit with a big fine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1695799520620061052)  2023-08-27T14:04Z [--] followers, 317.7K engagements


"@LorenaSGonzalez in a housing shortage higher wages are largely gobbled up by landlords"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1695850911011070075)  2023-08-27T17:28Z 42.8K followers, 19.3K engagements


"@mnolangray this should happen at every single parking lot near transit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1695979004715487649)  2023-08-28T01:57Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"this is elon musks dream: futuristic electric vehicles in underground tunnels moving millions of people all over the city without any traffic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1696246164016742902)  2023-08-28T19:39Z 42.8K followers, 55.2K engagements


"This is everything wrong with American transportation planning: transit agencies need to stop doing biased expensive community engagement meetings that get taken over by rich NIMBYs. just build the transit. every day you delay is a day people need to drive on the 405"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1696535004862697823)  2023-08-29T14:47Z 42K followers, [----] engagements


"@mrlevine Hi Mike why wont you admit that increasing car sizes are a contributing factor to the recent surge in pedestrian deaths"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1696602164439765089)  2023-08-29T19:14Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Very bizarre to see Fords spokesperson pin the blame on e-bikes when cars are responsible for over [-----] deaths every year in America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1696602476454007191)  2023-08-29T19:15Z 42.8K followers, 40K engagements


"I honestly dont understand how people like this function how does a guy whose brain is so broken that he thinks wildfires are a global conspiracy to build bike lanes have a job how does he file his taxes how does he pay his bills"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1696878176553598984)  2023-08-30T13:30Z 42.8K followers, 147.1K engagements


"@AlexFungali sounds like a prime grift opportunity. tell him you made a new crypto currency thats safe from the Davos bankers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1696884549429448892)  2023-08-30T13:56Z 41.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@uckema yeah I have interacted with conspiracy theorists of all backgrounds irl and it constantly amazes me how they function thats my point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1696885206924316726)  2023-08-30T13:58Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@ArmandDoma I actually blame Rockstar for this. Its been [--] years since the last GTA. Kids these days dont have a video game outlet to live out their fantasies of stealing cars so they have to do it IRL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1696916898363896118)  2023-08-30T16:04Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"it's pretty remarkable how india is fully electrifying their entire rail network while america has just spent the last ten years arguing about hydrogen and batteries even though neither of them are actually feasible at scale"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1696960989931999560)  2023-08-30T19:00Z 42.8K followers, 105.8K engagements


"@opinonhaver it honestly feels like they arent even trying with the new ones"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1696989233385251072)  2023-08-30T20:52Z 42.8K followers, [---] engagements


"it's so cool that the status quo of highways giving kids asthma can continue indefinitely but transit agencies are subject to years and years of paperwork before they can build light rail real great regulatory incentives we have here. we're totally gonna stop climate change"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1697267484733083885)  2023-08-31T15:17Z 41.3K followers, 140.2K engagements


"@CohenSite LA voted on a development moratorium in [----]. It failed 71-29%. What on earth is @kdeleon doing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1697319714324685197)  2023-08-31T18:45Z 50K followers, [---] engagements


"its honestly pretty baffling that some leftist politicians have made developers the big evil boogeyman when in reality homeowners and landlords are profiting far more off the housing shortage. at least developers build homes landlords do nothing other than collect rents"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1697337910813429915)  2023-08-31T19:57Z 42.8K followers, 303.3K engagements


"when the Eiffel Tower was built it received tons of criticism from artists who called it useless and monstrous now its one of the most iconic buildings on the planet. NIMBYs will always get mad about silly things and good leaders need to learn to just ignore them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1697617759973380576)  2023-09-01T14:29Z 42.8K followers, 413.7K engagements


"its so infuriating that Amtrak tried to fix this by straightening out the slow curvy track in Connecticut but NIMBYs protested and nothing was built. why are we letting a few hundred angry rich boomers stop infrastructure that will benefit millions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1698006530212381139)  2023-09-02T16:14Z 42.8K followers, 389.9K engagements


"we should legalize dense housing in neighborhoods with existing transit and build more transit. duh. this isnt complicated lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1698134646758965566)  2023-09-03T00:43Z 42.8K followers, 25.2K engagements


"whats most frustrating is that we know how to fix this but refuse to take action: 1) lower speed limits 2) building protected pedestrian/bike infrastructure 3) get people to drive less with better transit and land use 4) more automated enforcement 5) regulate massive trucks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1698390248718516648)  2023-09-03T17:39Z 42.8K followers, 93.4K engagements


"Its so cursed that some countries are looking at all of the horrible urban planning decisions america has made and are like we should do the exact same thing surely another lane will fix traffic in Mumbai"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1698720595914203644)  2023-09-04T15:32Z 41.3K followers, 37.6K engagements


"Transportation is a simple geometry problem: moving large numbers of people is far more efficient in trains than individual 3-ton metal boxes thats exactly why Tesla built a train to move their own employees around lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1698803212927861001)  2023-09-04T21:00Z 42.8K followers, 57.2K engagements


"this person was killed in a car crash fascinating how right wing conspiracy theorists will manufacture fake stories about life-saving vaccines while completely ignoring the fact that cars are one of the most common causes of death for young people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1699079313990295835)  2023-09-05T15:17Z 42.8K followers, 51.5K engagements


"this framing of subsidized housing and market rate housing as being in opposition to one another is so frustrating when the reality is that NIMBY policies make it harder to build both types of housing we need more subsidized housing AND more market rate housing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1699106519999209624)  2023-09-05T17:05Z 41.3K followers, 28.7K engagements


"@maunciple @malthusian_trap @NYWFP @DataProgress market rate is going up in Long Island because they build almost no housing. if you were starving and had one saltine cracker you wouldnt blame the starvation on the cracker. youd blame it on the lack of food"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1699113227404337437)  2023-09-05T17:32Z 42.8K followers, [---] engagements


"an under-discussed YIMBY argument is that blue states really need to build more housing so families arent priced out to fascist mini-theocracies like Oklahoma"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1699166920044609982)  2023-09-05T21:05Z 42.8K followers, 72.8K engagements


"it makes me extremely angry that environmental protection laws are being used to stop walkable transit-oriented housing what are we even doing here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1699435681267826859)  2023-09-06T14:53Z 42.8K followers, 56.8K engagements


"@davidcgudeman @RigelRobinson yes. Rigel knows ball"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1699482372155269539)  2023-09-06T17:59Z 42.8K followers, [---] engagements


"not gonna lie Im not sure Id trust a guy who doesnt believe in supply & demand to run a planned economy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1699486616681865238)  2023-09-06T18:15Z 42.8K followers, 79.8K engagements


"hey Josh did you know that theres one simple trick to avoid the congestion charge literally just take the train"  
[X Link](https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1699803991180214524)  2023-09-07T15:17Z 42.8K followers, 46.7K engagements

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