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Berkeley, CA: About to be the YIMBYest city in California.
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Democrats try too hard to win the argument, and not hard enough to win the fight. Arguments are about reason and evidence, fights are about money, power, and emotion
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
looking so good, king! keep it up!
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
Congestion pricing is actually the perfect example here. Trump declared that “congestion pricing is dead” (and that he is the king) Hochul and the MTA told him to fuck off, and now, more than 6 months later, congestion pricing is still alive and working exactly as planned
Why is reactionary politics equally or more prominent in the UK, France, Germany, Brazil, etc, though
The LGML case came very close to being JGG redux. But just before the hearing began, the judge decided not to wait. She entered a TRO barring removal of all the children. That made all the difference: DHS already had the kids loaded on planes. One plane even took off (then turned around).
Has the driver who killed him been arrested?
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
EPSTEIN Epstein Epstein Epstein CDC and FBI hollowed out of experienced servants to make way for pliant toadies. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein January 6 Traitor Ashli Babbit receiving military honors. Epstein Epstein Epstein EPSTEIN
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
This is a funny tweet because she's actually right, this the story of Berkeley. An Americanized Chinese food restaurant that appealed to WASPs happily sold out after the owners reached their elderly age and the new business serves the booming Asian population downtown. And the WASPs think its bad
It's also very, very hard to ever admit YIMBYs might have a point after spending a better part of your adult life tweeting about how terrible they are.
The Zoom webinar your landlord unironically joined before sending you a rent increase "to cover increased costs."
Sure thing: darrellowens.substack.com/p/vacant-nua...
The person you're responding to wrote a whole article on why that's a misguided take
All landlords everywhere are greedy. It's just that with so much demand in LA relative to supply, they can jack up rents and still fill their units.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
People responding to this with "Not worth speculating about" are driving me a little insane, because I lived through the last year of the Biden presidency and read thousands of people speculating he maybe had dementia, Parkinson's, was a vegetable, including in the most elite newsrooms in the US
The smart Boomers will keep the monthly HOA low so those sucker Millennials can pay the special assessments to fix major issues after they all die.
They're going to buy well located, single-floor condos that are much easier to maintain than their empty-nest single-family homes and live even nicer retirements free of self-reflection.
BIG news: The California Democratic Party just endorsed @scottwiener.bsky.social’s landmark housing bill #SB79, which legalizes multifamily homes near major public transit statewide! This marks a major shift in state politics: California Dems are *finally* embracing a party that builds!
hey if Trump’s in ill health IT SUDDENLY BECOMES VERY IMPORTANT THAT JD VANCE FOLLOWS HALF OF TWITTER’S BIGGEST NAZI ACCOUNTS
The choice should be: refuse to follow an illegal order and be fired vs. follow an illegal order, get fired later anyway, and lose your pension.
it will take years to undo the damage from this lawless, criminal conduct. business as usual once Democrats reclaim executive power will unacceptable. no turning the page without repairing the damage
A lot of the most toxic young left NIMBYs in SF are downwardly mobile gentrifiers: grew up upper middle class, now work a non-profit or community organizing job, and use hating on YIMBYs to prove they aren't a hypocrite.
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego has been RELEASED from prison and is headed home to Maryland to be with his family. Judge Xinis has an order in place requiring a 72 hour notice if ICE decides to detain and deport him to a third country. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
lol NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
Its the most powerful and effective when average citizens dressed like average citizens are running masked bandits out of their neighborhood.
Just punch him in the face over and over and over and over, as hard as you can, and don't apologize for it a single time. Jesus.
Also, as @danahoule.bsky.social points out, one clear theme of ICE's little reign of terror is that they are EXTREMELY sensitive to murals, signs, and other displays criticizing ICE. Which means that one of the most effective ways to attack the agency is to produce those things in great numbers
@markhumbert.bsky.social Please make this happen! At least coffee and snacks.
Friendly Mt. Pleasant neighbor greets members of the Big Balls Goon Show loitering this evening, wondering if they knew anything about the ICE sex pests who left their sex toy in the park across the street. #freedc
This article is an excellent guide to what you can and should be doing right now. Many people seem to think that fascism is a switch that gets flipped, but it's really a machine that the government needs to keep feeding quarters into. Your job is to exhaust the state until they quit.
Yeah, that's my point: landlord says the rent is $12k for whatever reason (mortgage? investors?) but gives a $4k concession in Year 1 and turnover is 100% for Year 2, since no one will pay above market rents.
If they gave huge discounts on the first year's rent, would that be reflected in your data?
I think he ought to be VP. It's a job with zero responsibilities but that commands a lot of attention. Send Gavin around the country to be the MC for Reconstruction Vol. II.
the thing about Trump and Putin meeting is that Russiagate was basically entirely correct and the fact that the media bought Bill Barr's Mueller Report cover letter saying "he didn't do it" hook line and sinker remains a national disgrace
BREAKING: LOS ANGELES (AP) - California Gov. Newsom calls for Nov. 4 special election on redistricting plan aimed at adding Democratic US House seats.
Weird, another one.
#ReleaseTheCuomoList
the thing about confusing “they don’t fight” with “pass more bills” is it incorrectly assumes you can’t do anything meaningful in a losing battle. this is why eg they refused to go on the offensive about thomas & alito’s corruption: “we can’t make them resign or impeach them so what’s the point?”
Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.
I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.
DC statehood must be a Day 1 priority for the next Dem trifecta
On any home improvement topic, the best first stop is always This Old House videos on YouTube. If they don't cover something (rare), then yeah, dive into the slop.
"Guardians Of the Pedophiles" More catchy as it resembles guardians of the galaxy, clear in meaning, and unmanipulable.
A Democratic leader mentioning the Epstein files on television? Is this... "hope" I feel?
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
Are you sure publishing this story was a good idea? What if you lose access to a White House source who gets mad?
We're gonna need a LOT of people to audit financial crimes come 2028...
I appreciate that dem leadership is, 10 years late, finally figuring out that they need to pursue gerrymandering themselves even if they want to maintain a platform that includes anti-gerrymandering measures. however, I do not think we can continue with a leadership that is always 10 years too late
All that shade from the very tall buildings on a hot summer day looks real nice.
I'll never stop being amazed (and infuriated) by how lenient we are on drivers who kill pedestrians, particularly if the drivers have money. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
I not only think we should tear down Confederate monuments, but we should replace them monuments to the Union Army with the explicit mention of how virtuous it was to wage war against traitors and slavers. I will melt down your Stonewall Jackson statue and fashion him into Philip Sheridan.
Again, if you just keep an eye out for breaking stories about Republicans being convicted for pedophilia or, in this case, doing work to cover up for their pedophile friends and relatives, it quickly becomes an everyday thing.
Mario was a bigot too. "Vote for Cuomo, not the homo."
I think the missing factor is that the dudes who do this are also extremely manipulative and threatening. If not signing the contract immediately meant he would fly into a rage destroying the house and potentially hurting you, I understand why someone would just give in.
Hochul: "I will put saving democracy as my top priority at any cost. Bc it's under siege. Just like those who put on uniforms to fight battles across the ages. For centuries we stood up & fought. Blood has been shed. This is our moment in to stand up for all we hold dear & not let it be destroyed."
Finally, a united nation.
The authoritarian President being almost certainly a pedophile will probably make the dam breaking easier.
Hochul: "This is a war. We are at war. And that's why the gloves are off and I say, bring it on."
NEW. U Mass Poll. Trump approve/disapprove: 38%/58% (cf. April, 44/53). How much have you read, seen, or heard about Jeffrey Epstein? A lot 36% Some 41% Not much 19% Nothing 4%. Trump administration hiding important information on Epstein? Agree 63%. Disagree 15%. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zgf7d...
"It's wrong to use fire in a fight!" he said, as everything and everyone he has ever loved was burned to death in the fire set by his enemies
I guess she’d aged out. But still seems to fit a certain pattern.
Putting these criminals in The Hague. We can figure everything else out after that.
Seems to me the thread running through all of American history is we could've avoided a lot of problems by being harsher on evil sooner
One of these newspapers is doing straight reporting of the facts with appropriate context. The other is editorializing in its news coverage to normalize authoritarianism
going to keep saying: important for a society that would like to keep functioning to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
I don't feel like folks fully appreciate how many different FLAVORS of grifter there are in the White House and its orbit. Like yes, these are all incompetent people ultimately hoping to cash out for personal gain, but that doesn't mean they don't have different agendas and beliefs and strategies
When I suggested Democrats hold daily press conferences to share stories of Republican pedophiles, I meant they could bring up all the old stories. I didn’t think that we’d get new stories about a GOP pedophile every day, but whatever works I guess
People say they want compromise, but they vote for fighters. This has caused immense confusion in the Democratic Party. Consultants do polling and report that voters say they want compromise. So candidates play to the center and lose. Biggest problem in the party today.
They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
Go in winter. It's livable, but not dealing with winter is a huge upside of California. Avoiding summer humidity is also really nice.* *NYC humidity meaning it's 75 degrees when hitting bars at 1 am is a positive when one is young enough to still goes out, though
my beef with so many centrist democrats is honestly less their ideology than their total lack of political instincts. the actual public is going wild with epstein speculation and this anonymous idiot is skeptical that it is playing outside of washington www.axios.com/2025/07/24/j...
BREAKING: We just subpoenaed the Epstein files. As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry. This subpoena is a massive victory for every survivor who has ever been silenced, dismissed, or harmed. Bondi must release the files immediately. We demand accountability.
They SHUT DOWN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
Noem let those girls die with search and rescue teams sitting on their hands waiting for authorization
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
for what it’s worth - the public’s descent into insanity, i believe, is because the stagnate legislature has prevented the democratic mechanism’s primary function, which is trial and error, from informing the voters of the consequences of their choices. the solution is still democracy
I guess I should have put all sizes of apartments on the same graph a long ago?
On the extreme end, there are definitely plenty of Americans whose liquid consumption is primarily soda.
Yiiiiiikes
Disgraceful. It must be miserable to live in those homes.
Some have floated Stephen A. Smith for similar celebrity reasons, but Smith is apparently a huge asshole in real life and nobody talks that way about Colbert. Example for Smith: youtube.com/shorts/yVEkb...
yeah okay let’s talk him into running for President
The constitutionality of a self-pardon is unclear. The constitutionality of a president pardoning a former president is well established. At a bare minimum, Trump will resign before his last day in office and let Vance pardon him.
"It begs the question: why would Donald Trump, of all people, give a damn what the public speculates about photos of his swollen ankles and bruised hands? Normally, he and his people would just ignore it. They’d probably slam the media for even asking." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/trump-may-...
A full pardon from Vance could do it
SB 79 — our legislation to zone for more housing near high quality public transit — just passed the Assembly Local Government Committee, its final policy committee. We need more housing & we need more housing near transit. Thank you to my colleagues & to our amazing coalition.
BREAKING: Justice Department fires SDNY federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who played key role prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, per @eorden www.politico.com/news/2025/07/16/maurene-comey-fired-doj-00458921