YIMBYonese Liberation Army

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Amateurs I get on the train in LA before 7am and there’s people sky high

The Democratic Party's official campaign organs are on pedo-con theory, you love to see it.

In other words: this should be a legal place to put a modern electric elevator

The scale of the park is impressive. So many sports fields. Miles of cycling without traffic lights or traffic. Zoom in and it’s even called a Floodway Park.

I haven’t been to this one, but the Tamsui river parks dividing Taipei and New Taipei city is outside the flood walls/gates. Amazing bike paths and bird watching on dry days

Yes, Taiwan plans for huge monsoon and typhoon flows. All of these linear parks are flood plains. We should copy this

my brief voter guide on some of the most important races in the country: -vote for all democrats, obviously -vote YES in the NYC ballot measures -vote for Nithya Raman in LA -vote for Scott Wiener in CA-11 -vote for Ben Allen for CA insurance commish -vote YES on prop H & RTM for Bay Area transit

There is an international, well-connected network of fascists promoting far-right candidates in elections (and coups) across the world. The guy who owns the site Yglesias posted this on is one of their leaders. Be careful of people advocating for their opponents to disarm!

Another data point for the “Yglesias brain is cooked” hypothesis. Imagine thinking that it doesn’t matter for American democracy if other countries are taken over by autocratic regimes. We just saw the result when Orban lost power and a bunch of conservative influencers had their income vaporized.

I have, in different capacities, both volunteering and professional, spoken to hundreds of planners across the state of California about these issues. These views are not unique! There is something deeply wrong with how planning is taught at American universities and practices in planning depts.

I have YIMBY planner friends who swear up and down that these views are anything but hegemonic in planning but they’re not. The planning profession by-and-large believes the San Francisco model works. It’s near a consensus position.

Most people don’t have any knowledge about most things, the very idea of retail investing is quite strange when you think about it.

Bernie Sanders' ability to endorse the most dead end NIMBYs remains unparalleled. Jane Kim used to work for his 2020 campaign; now he's endorsing her for a job that she doesn't even understand. It pains me to urge people to vote for NIMBY Ben Allen, but he actually understands insurance markets.

I’ll admit I didn’t even know we had steelhead this far south. That’s pretty cool. caltrout.org/the-current/...

The LA River could probably pull this off between Sepulveda Basin and Elysian Valley but any LA River plan has to contend with the fact that the natural state of the river in summer is dry and winter is subject to occasional huge flows.

TRUE NORTH

Obrigado, povo brasileiro! 📸 Ricardo Stuckert

ORDEM E PROGRESSO

To the haters and losers currently running this country: you’re next.

More like BolsoNOro

NFL and NFLPA agree to another season of Protocol Theater.

First thought was, “terrible train bunching.” Second thought was, “nice to have 10 minute vs 13 minute headways again.” We need signal priority for transit so buses and trains don’t bunch up like this @streetsblogla.bsky.social @lintonjoe.bsky.social @dingbattitude.bsky.social

Liberal democracy remains a towering achievement of humanity and it is worth fighting for.

The red rainbow, or monochrome rainbow, is less common and only seen when the sun is very close to the horizon.

NWS San Diego has issued new Coastal Flood Warning for near-record/record-breaking tides and possible widespread coastal inundation in SoCal Sun-Thu. And there's no king tides or major storms in the mix yet...just elevated sea levels from extreme El Nino plus long-term warming.

Whenever I am frustrated about land use regulation in California I take a deep breath and remember that England exists.

the reason you issue preemptive mass pardons is to reassure junior staff who are shitting themselves that they’re safe and they don’t have to flip on you. going to be very important to push back on their validity, which is nil, preemptively also

Bruce

LA mayoral candidate Nithya Raman says fewer than 10% of new LA homes are for sale because for-sale projects face higher fees, tougher approvals, easier appeals, and greater liability risk. www.realtor.com/news/real-es...

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Medicine

Evading my filter by pretending to be a time sensitive message: automatic block and report spam.

We’ve allowed Trump et al to normalize this kind of cruelty and misogyny in politics. But now it must stop. This man must be pilloried and trounced on Election Day. Or these animals won’t stop. I still believe the people of Ohio will reject this cartoon villain.

[Yeah, yeah, it gets old to say it but still necessary - this alone is grounds for legitimate impeachment and removal. Adding it to my list].

"Building 10,000 in apartments downtown Sacramento next to jobs, Amtrak, light rail, and every possible amenity will be great for affordability, walkability, and climate goals" vs. No it won't.

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Also — Nithya Raman could immediately dismiss the current LA mayoral appointees to the Metro board, like, say, Imelda Padilla, who has no real interest or expertise in transit, and replace these board seats with people who actually ride transit

TIL that the city of Healdsburg has a growth limit of 30 housing units per year.