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If your city is serious about ending reckless speeding, this is how to do it. Not by wasting money on PSA ads asking people to please drive a little slower.

BERNIE'S REVOLUUSHUN !! When Nina Turner called Joe Biden & Jim Clayburn, "from the same bowl of shit", as Cornell West stood & applauded, it was clear they were stumpin for Trump

Democrats were the first though. "Democrats in Congress first raised and addressed the AIDS epidemic on April 13, 1982, when U.S. Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) convened the first-ever congressional hearing on the outbreak."

The vaccine against Cervical Cancer. A little girl can get a series of 3 shots and Never get cervical cancer.

I hope Democrats are ready to blow up the system with campaign finance and transparency reforms. Trust is already at an all-time low. We don't get out of this mess without rebuilding trust.

Which is all a long-winded way of saying: These debates about Zionism and anti-Zionism are mostly unhelpful right now, and I wish everyone could just drop these terms unless speaking historically and talk about their political vision for the future in other terms.

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke

The way people will just blithely state that the world is collapsing and you're supposed to, like, accept it as this conventional wisdom that all right-thinking people agree with

9/ That cafe meeting, Kao asserted, was just one episode in a sprawling pay-to-play operation in Congress. He and his close associates donated nearly $900K to dozens of politicians, allowing Navatek to establish operations in half a dozen states with $40M+ a year in government funds.

ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.

This story buries the lede, but if you pull out a calculator and do the math, AAA found that the average American spends $15,031 a year for a single car! www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/c...

Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Ive been a broken record about this for days but right wing activists know when republicans are lying to moderate voters about being moderates and left wing activists simply demand ritual suicide from their politicians in R+14 states.

Folks, Trump's $5000 thing is dumb and transparent and whatnot. It's also never going to happen. But it isn't bribery. "Vote us into office and we'll do this policy thing you want" is the core of what political campaigns are. It would be a very bad idea to start criminalizing that.

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

Insurance Commissioner is a hard but important job that demands a serious policy person to deal with a very real crisis that affects nearly every Californian. Do not vote for Jane Kim.

The dumbest part of lefty purity around a figure like Steinem is not grasping that people liberated from authoritarian thinking and families, by liberals like Steinem or liberalism generally, are OPPPRTUNITIES for the left. "You like that? Have you heard about this?" Etc. Not complicated.

yeah because stopping development in venice beach preserved the historic community there.

And pretending otherwise is inaccurate and makes plausible solutions seem impossible, while making impossible solutions seem necessary

Are the comments sections on bluesky getting dumber?

Regarding DSA-LA's non-endorsement of Nithya Raman, I think a lot of people on the left don't get that the way you gain clout with politicians is by proving yourself useful to them, not by threatening to withhold hypothetical future usefulness.

VERY important to read the second sentence (and follow-on tweet) here -->

Traits you can CRISPR into plants: Higher yield Better taste More disease/pest/drought tolerance Longer shelf life If you care about climate, environment, and diet, you should embrace gene editing. @mikegrunwald.bsky.social in @wired.com www.wired.com/story/seedle...

The idealized housing model always seems to be the 1950s postwar suburban boom, which was an unsustainable model depending on rapid expansion of freeways out to cheap land neither of which is happening again. We do have starter homes, they are called condominiums.

A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)

Basic rules of society that we need to re-establish post Covid: - You actually have to stop for red lights and stop signs. - If you want to watch videos or listen to music in a shared public space, you need to use headphones. - Your pet does not need to go everywhere with you. - Don’t litter.

It's wild to me how many people do not understand this. "Luxury housing" is not some ontologically separate category from the rest of the housing market. Nor is "affordable housing." It's all one big fluid market & when you build more, everyone moves up & frees up the bottom end.

Biden admin successfully lowered the wealth gap for the first time during a recovery in a generation and was told that he had the worst economy of all time so....

🚨GLOVES OFF🚨 Tim and his ex duke it out on air. InfoWarriors, it's time to weigh in: who deserves that horse?

Metro June 2026 transit ridership was up +9% from June 2025. Bus up +6.8% and rail up +21.8%.

If you object to the government of Israel, say “Israel.” Don’t use an ambiguous term that is wildly overinclusive and strongly associated with broader Jewish identity. That seems like an effort to draft off ambient antisemitism

One of the reasons the growing usage of “Zionist” as the kind of omni-villain for the left makes me extraordinarily uncomfortable is that it’s a term that seems chosen to sweep in a lot of these people while pretending to stay focused on geopolitics

The goal should be to create a new world we can all live in together, not to restore the world to some lost state of justice and fairness. The latter is a doomed project that burdens endless generations of the future with the crimes of endless generations of the past.

SB79 is the culmination of years and years of hard work by so many dedicated and talented people, including and most importantly @scottwiener.bsky.social and his incredible staff. The conversation around land-use and housing has forever changed in California, and it's largely because of him.

SB 79 is now effective! It’s been a LONG time coming.

In shock news 4 out of 9 US Supreme Court Justices have declared that the US Constitution is not constitutional. 🤪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

A justice over ruling the explicit language of the Constitution ought to be disqualifying. They ought to be escorted from their offices by security and immediately disbarred.

For those that think the 14th amendment might in some way be ambiguous

But here's the important part: Just because ACA 22 got the more dangerous measure off the ballot *doesn't* mean ACA 22 should pass on the ballot. You should vote No on ACA 22.

That's why I'm opposing “my own” measure. The emergency that led to its creation is over. Now, voters have the final say. I'm asking them to vote NO on ACA 22.

Dems don't need a package of policy proposals (yet again), they need a full on AMERICAN RESTORATION, sweeping away every vestige of Trumpism, restoring the prosperous and peaceful country Trump has all but destroyed, and brutally punishing the people who brought America to its knees

The smarter you are, the better your rationalizations can be. Intelligence lets you pick apart other people's arguments. Wisdom leads you to pick apart your own.

Democrats need to make it clear that in light of this Supreme Court decision, every agency appointee made by Trump will be gone on day one

Also perverse is that “gentrification” often refers to a reversal of midcentury white flight from the urban cores. Later generations of less-bigoted white professionals being delighted to live with neighbors of color should have been a good thing.

Not quoting because it's a small account, but I do this exercise in my housing class where I show census data from a South LA neighborhood where a wealthier group of people replaced a poorer group. The students all agree it's gentrification until I reveal it's Latinos replacing African Americans.