They want demonstrations of white dominance - saying crime is low is giving POC a pass - they need to be harried whether actual crime is happening or not
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They want demonstrations of white dominance - saying crime is low is giving POC a pass - they need to be harried whether actual crime is happening or not
DHS/Border Patrol getting trained on mortar for "law enforcement"
Plz Noem/Homan/Vought/Don Junior/Hegseth and BobbyJr too…
The tweets are obviously not him so…
If it’s between them that would be alright? A Borgias kind of thing?
Pedophiliacs unite!
That’s encouraging! If the money bags are drifting our way we must be winning
It’s not his language at all: “every possibility “. Nope. Miller natbe
Music is about cultivating your ear and your mind and your feelings. It’s about learning to communicate. It’s not about the product. Same distinction as between producing porn and loving other people
Just about every denocracy dumped the party in power after the emergency wore off. There’s no useful lesson to take away other than not to be there when the smoke clears.
This seems… unsustainable?
“Crime” means controlling Black people.
Gambling addicts are not usually positive influences in their communities
And the th in GitHub is like “thus”
What a fraud
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the fuck
It’s an issue that the word “genocide” was coined to capture the novelty of the Nazi extermination campaign against Jews.
The election is a lifetime away - no need to endorse anyone. We do need to support the redistricting in CA though and that’s very much tied to Newsom so everybody take a beat and feel free to trash him *after* the special election in November.
Black beans- put a bay leaf (or a sprig of epazote), water and rinsed beans in a pot and boil for a loong time… thassit!!
But per Pritzker today there won’t be a vote if Trump is allowed to deploy in blue states. We need Schumer and Jeffries joining Pritzker is loudly condemning the use of the military in DC and elsewhere. Glad Schumer is doing good work on the appointments, just want him to do some politics too
And someone in Los Angeles
Sorry Merced but this is obviously what’s best: a high speed rail backbone through the Central Valley, connecting to Caltrain and Metrolink at Gilroy and Palmdale respectively.
CHICAGO…
Instagram influencer Adventorin goes viral after demonstrating how simple it is to climb over the U.S. Border Wall.
Yikes! Time for a mental-health break…
We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.
Thank you!
I feel you, and full disclosure I’m a homeowner… but I don’t think it works for big cities ! You just end up with insane traffic and car dependency.
We abandoned the idea in the 80s I think. Probably worth a second look
Almost all the the housing we have was built by ppl trying to make a buck! It’s a pretty risky business
I think that we need to allow more density - so ppl in houses might get renters for neighbors. They are very organized against building housing. I think their fears are misplaced
I think they are mostly right- although I think we may also need social housing to complete the picture
My daughter lives down the street and she is also a pedestrian/transit user. We are embedded in the community here. The young people need housing.
The graphs are from FRED - that’s where you go to find any kind of data It’s a service of the St Louis Fed. Check out the price of corn over the decade…. I wasn’t radicalized by CA YIMBY - I spent some time in Valencia Spain - came home and gave away my car. Working for safe streets and density
Ah I see - precious homeowners… got it
I’m a city dweller who lives in LA without a car and want a livable city fuck
Zoom out to see like the 1980s - we’re nowhere near!! It’s 100 percent a supply problem due to exclusionary zoning.
No!!! fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CABPP...
nope. Write offs are losses- there is no way that private equity benefits from writing off losses. I think that PE owns maybe 10% of rentals in US / much lower here in LA - do you have a cite?
Also there’s literally no building in the vast majority of neighborhood s which are just single family homes for rich homeowners
Look at the number of units per year - we have never gotten back to the level of 2008 and we build like a tenth of what we built in the 1940s
This is an urban myth - vacancy rates are historically low in CA - landlords have no incentive to keep places empty, they are not fools.
I called paramedics for two young ppl who had passed out in their vomit and crapped themselves this week. Contact with the state is sometimes necessary
That isn’t how it has to go! People’s shit can be stored or retained - and that is what is required here. Sometimes this doesn’t happen and that is fucked up. But some ppl also just create pointless crap and are making life harder for their neighbors on the street and off.
today’s fancy housing is tomorrow’s affordable housing. After 20 yrs of building nothing we don’t have enough of either. We may indeed need to build social housing - but we should also build a ton of market rate shit stat
Here in LA ppl whose encampments are cleared are regularly offered shelter - belongings are required to be stored. Some ppl I know have been housed or sort of bullied into shelters. The problem is lack of beds / homes / psych care. Some mentally ill folks make *a lot* of pointless mess so…
Easier to manage as I think they are working with mounds- no container or shipping - was just in hacker news…
There’s summer interesting work using dirt in this vein as well…
Or a break for dialysis perhaps?
OT but couldn’t resist youtu.be/ApAdUCe9WiA
They may uphold this opinion in an effort to save Trump from himself. They know a lot of people with a lot of stock…
Called Jessica Caloza today…
If you live in California and believe in building more housing, please call your assembly member and ask them to vote "yes" on SB 79! I did it on Friday and it takes < 1 minute Enter your address here to get their phone number: streetsforall.org/sb79
Ban guns.
UdeV went on the warpath against Self-help Graphics for some ungodly reason. Picketed the Wierd Wave coffee shop. And even attacked tenants rights lawyers who were competing with their preferred providers. They have received city grants amazingly. To throw rocks through coffee shop windows!
I kind of took a deep dive on the ppl back in 2018. Incredibly frustrating to see how much damage a handful of artists can do - and they are uncritically accepted as “tenants advocates”
They have their Zelle on their webpage of course. They have also gotten actual grants from the city!
They had a sort of “sound art” collective called Ultra-Red. Union de Vecinos also went into I think Bell where they got education grants which they basically stole. They spearheaded a successful campaign to chase art galleries out of Boyle Heights….
Get the rice beans and corn tortillas thing going, you’d be surprised! If you can find a cheap quart of hot sauce too…
You can tax carbon and let the chips fall where they may.
Idea: create a crypto dispensing terminal. But put it on some super sticky paper.
Dude is a happy warrior. Really helps
Yes - let’s see some healthy competition between Dem executives in who can menace the fascists most effectively. Bass has shown zero juice in this regard but it’s never too late
There are more trans ppl than Rotarians in the US (300k rotarians)
Time for the hook
He’s the only one doing it now! And we need this effort to succeed
You don’t have to vote for him - but we need to support *this initiative* and even applaud his leadership here. Let’s get this over the finish line - 28 is a lifetime away
No it’s going to the voters in a Nov referendum with Newsom owning it. We need to give him this w. Hold him accountable later
You’re not wrong… but we need restricting to pass in CA. Great the drum again Nov 5
Good lord armed goons are grabbing people off the streets and we’re upset because we don’t like people saying “unhoused”? Let’s keep the coalition together and fucking tolerate each other ffs. Unhoused, homeless - both are fine. Now let’s defeat fascism
Sorry : *shift the focus
Perhaps the thought is: People have a home in the city - they are neighbors and citizens. But we don’t house everybody here. All these ppl lack is housing. I don’t use the term myself but there’s an effort there to soft the focus and not “other” them. No harm there.
before they were called “homeless” they were called “bums” — people made the shift in an effort to accord some dignity. People want to help the homeless- they might not want to help bums. “Unhoused” may be silly, but it comes from the same place - a place of kindness. We shouldn’t forbid that.
What’s the whip count?
Mexico plz!
Speaking just re:state office! Ppl like Padilla…
Likewise patriarchy - that’s a system in which men have dominion over women- if we want this then we are in favor of “patriarchy” - if we don’t then we don’t! But it’s a useful term surely!
And “food insecurity “? How else should we describe this condition?
“Critical theory” refers to a whole swathe of scholarship growing out of the Frankfort School- that’s what it’s called! Like Pragmatism or Stoicism. We can’t have debates about ideas if we aren’t allowed to refer to the ideas!!!
Idk sometimes I feel like no one votes here other than Dem operatives - seems like anyone with a long (loyal) history in the party wins without breaking a sweat.
He’s not going to be the Dem nominee- maybe he’ll run for senate one day…
Someone get Arnold to start the fuck out of it
Totally agree- I think his trans talk is disqualifying. But if he wants to take leadership in playing constitutional hardball I’m going to cheer.
It will be yes. Its a special election - people are not going to bother to turn out for no.
Accountable humans are killing 30,000 people a year here in US. I think perhaps driving should be outlawed
I was struck and badly injured by a person - and the only accountability I got was from Allstate who gave me his 15k minimum coverage. Waymo wouldn’t have hit me.
The man’s a weasel, sure - don’t vote for him in the primary (I won’t). But he’s also the governor- someone who can use his executive power in a partisan way to beat back the regime. There isn’t anyone better who can do that for us *now. And he’s doing it with the redistricting push. That’s good.
He’s the first to take the plunge into “constitutional hardball” in such a loud way - explicitly using executive power for partisan purposes. Pritzker is good too but needs to kick it up here. Hochul? Not holding my breath
They have 1/10 the accident rate of human drivers over tens of millions of miles driven. Ultimately we should be improving transit instead of jitneys which are a dead end, but if you have to take a car trip Waymo is as safe as you’re gonna get
Metrolink aaagh! The demand is there we just need frequency and speed
Chatterer is in a class by himself- wish he would stay there
Couldn’t an independent instance be spun up for this purpose? That’s the whole idea of Federation no?
These people are doing great work let us know how we can support
The woman filming is a hero
BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.
LATU is a scam btw - they collect “dues” but are *not* a non profit. They grew out of Union de Vecinos - Trotskyite Dodgers heiress Elizabeth Blaneys Boyle Heights shakedown op. Just the worst bad faith actors
We should not have borders to immigration anywhere on the planet, they are fundamentally illegitimate.
Well he sued Trump to stop the use of the National Guard troops assisting ICE - Newsom v Trump - bench trial is done waiting on a ruling. www.courtlistener.com/docket/70496...
If she actually does it I’ll start clapping! She could also remove Adam’s while we’re here…