Payton Chung
Card-carrying urbanist since 1998; housing developer, author, museum docent, board member, single-issue #climate voter. Opine solely for myself. Ex-CHI, BOS, RDU 🚄🚋🚴♂️🌇🏗️🚰🏳️🌈
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- Reposted by Payton Chung🎉 It’s officially time for #TranspoBINGO 2026! Let's play our way through the city! 🎉 We’re playing from Feb 5–12, rewarding non-car travel—buses, Metro, biking, walking, and rolling. Take different kinds of trips, explore our city (and region!), and support public and active transportation.
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- It's really telling that nobody on the pro-regime side has any additional details or justifications. All they have is just regurgitated (and grammatically cleaned up) from Dear Leader. Even the chair seemed to have learned about it from social. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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- Reposted by Payton ChungSo, I am not quite sure what this is, but it’s hard to believe Pirro is talking with Main Justice here. DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is suing over DC’s semiautomatic gun ban and the head of the Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon, backs a national reciprocity law.
- Pirro: "You bring a gun into the District, you mark my words, you're going to jail. I don't care if you have a license in another district and I don't care if you're a law abiding law owner somewhere else. You bring a gun into this District, count on going to jail. And that makes all the difference"
- Conglomerate discount? What's that? www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/t... + this is somehow about orbiting data centers, ugh
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- Reposted by Payton ChungArctic in Disarry!! It’s been the story of the winter so far. Warm-Blocky Arctic displacing cold airmasses southward. It’s how a rapidly warming Arctic - at a rate 4X the global average - and record low Arctic sea ice - helps enhance the patterns that lead to mid-latitude cold air outbreaks… 1/
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- Reposted by Payton Chunghousing researchers observing that home prices correlate with income in the US:
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- Reposted by Payton Chung“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.
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- Reposted by Payton ChungI feel very strongly that now is the time for NIMBY’s to shine. Every regulatory and procedural lever should be tested. Slow them down.
- NEW: ICE has spent at least $172 million this month on warehouses that it plans to convert into immigration jails www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... W/ @sooophie.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Payton ChungI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- Here's your waste, fraud, and abuse: ' “Is this the best use of our tax dollars?” he said about his unit’s highly trained military pilots picking up trash.' washingtonian.com/2026/01/21/a...
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- Reminder that if you're complaining about cold in North America today, it is indeed a complaint about global warming: it's hot in the Arctic, so their cold got displaced here. Map of Sun temperature anomaly www.severe-weather.eu/global-weath...
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- @shanedphillips.bsky.social Your "renting with an equity stake" riff reminds me of two projects that I wrote about which had equity stakes for retail tenants casestudies.uli.org/deal-profile... casestudies.uli.org/deal-profile...
- Testimony: One Front Door Act of 2025 [DC Council Committee of the Whole testimony] Gladstone Cooperative, Washington DC Thank you for providing the opportunity to testify regarding Bill 26-227, the One Front Door Act of 2025. My name is Payton Chung; I am a Ward 6 resident, an infill residential…
- I missed that one justification for adding Donald's name to the Kennedy Center was that "it gave America’s unofficial national arts center a 'bipartisan' moniker". Does that mean that everything named after a Republican should also get a Democratic hyphenated name? Obviously not.
- "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... They don't understand the power of social capital.
- Reposted by Payton ChungDownfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
- Reposted by Payton ChungWho else remembers that in 1995 the entire apparatus of American conservatism, including almost every prominent elected Republican, came to G Gordon Liddy’s defense when he used his radio show to describe how to, and encourage, his audience to kill federal law enforcement. Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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- Reposted by Payton ChungCan’t believe I‘m saying this, but Bill Clinton put out a pretty powerful statement about the killings in Minneapolis.
- Reposted by Payton Chungit really is government by a bunch of bull connors. basically walking into traps set for them by their opposition. connor also did not understand that beating the hell out of demonstrators was *what they wanted*
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- Reposted by Payton ChungMan, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun. Any second now, I'm sure. He was a white guy, if that helps? Hello? NRA?
- Reposted by Payton ChungJust staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.
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- Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves is retiring from the stage after a last performance as Maria in the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera, and looking ahead to directing and mentoring. n.pr/4aanwDN
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- *Operating costs* per unit (even in fairly new buildings) are $872/month for a local social housing provider. truegroundhousing.org/newsroom/how... Even assuming free land AND free buildings, "To lower rents to 50% or 30% AMI, rents don’t cover operating expenses, so more subsidies are needed."
- Of course, buildings aren't free -- their total development cost per unit, even with often-donated land, averages to over $500,000 per unit truegroundhousing.org/newsroom/how...
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- The gall of @opindc.bsky.social to recommend "Stuck" (mostly about how zoning was invented for racial segregation) while also carrying exclusionary zoning forward in the 2050 comp plan www.instagram.com/p/DTxoOTrko8f/
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- Reposted by Payton ChungThe disconnect between management and employee on AI usage is big. At the same time, CEOs are reporting they aren't seeing any revenue growth from AI. 🤷 www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...
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