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abolish prop 13 ABOLISH prop 13 ABOLISH PROP 13 ABOLISH PROP 13!!! ABOLISH PROP 13!!!!!!!! ABOLISH PROP 13!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In general I think shirking is a hugely effective tool in the cops political arsenal and whole progressive elected officials have a workable toolkit for punishing affirmative abuses (abuse of force, etc), there’s less of one for negative abuses (refusing to do the legitimate parts of the job)

Important to note that "consensual, mutually beneficial exchange" is basically "having an economy".

i genuinely fucking hate Luigi (a Elon-musk loving nepo baby) for opening this Pandora’s box of edgy faux-leftists who have never worked a desk job in their life celebrating the murder of anyone with a moderately successful private-sector career

Here's the real reason LA Metro can't go fare-free, no matter how many times we study it.

damn. someone should write about this

kind of funny to look back on. did any of this work? no. were they at least fighting the good fight? absolutely not lol sfstandard.com/2026/08/16/g...

yeah at minimum, don't take data center water shit seriously from anyone who isn't also extremely anti-farmer. they have pumped so much water that the Central Valley is literally sinking. it's not "food on your table 🥺" it's shit like alfalfa. they do this because water is basically free for them.

Starting next week pools are gonna be closed on weekdays in Sac while temps are still in the 100s. One may think “Huh maybe we should raise the tickets above $3-5$ so we can keep the pools open” But user fees are inequitable. So in the spirit of ensuring equal access the pool will be inaccessible.

no! noo!!!

I wish we could shake libs out of the consensus position that the progressiveness of a tax policy can be solely evaluated by looking at one side of the ledger I have had many conversations like this “This tax is regressive” >But the revenue is being spent progressively “Had not considered this”

YIMBYs, a new moment of triumph is upon us! Atherton, the Silicon Valley enclave that prohibits all but single-family homes, one of the most exclusionary towns in the country, has just received its first multifamily housing project (ever!) under @scottwiener.bsky.social’s SB79!

Now out! Part 2 on the Geary metro, discussing its East Bay connection, downtown alignment, and yard location.

I especially love this diagram.

Also this should put to bed the "San Francisco has always been more expensive. Yes, some periods (look at that quake and fire spike!) show it out of step, but it really started to diverge as we stopped building homes, making it impossible to absorb booms and causing people to hope for busts

Despite claims of pedestrian and bike oriented development, which I guess means some bike lanes, Treasue Island SF still feels equally if not more car oriented than other SF neighborhoods. Pleasant, if desolate, but still with much potential.

It’s unreal how bad NYC condo vs. house property tax disparity is. $2.15 million house in Bed-Stuy, taxes are $490/mo.: streeteasy.com/sale/1811884... $1.16 million 2BR/2BA condo in FiDi, taxes are $2,099/mo.: streeteasy.com/sale/1811603...

In frontline regions, passenger trains are forced to run under extreme safety measures—using a flatbed car at the front to trigger potential mines, while drivers are protected by added armor plates and mesh shielding.

It's healthier to wake after sunrise with Standard Time, than to wake in the dark with Daylight Saving Time.

There are many obvious reasons why ICE must be abolished and DHS must be dismantled. But we shouldn't overlook the fact that this bald, fat dork showed up to work with a skull mask and a plate carrier and no one ordered him to go home and change.

leftists love to throw "nonviolence won't protect you!!" at liberals. but they misunderstand. nonviolence isn't about protecting yourself. nonviolence doesn't mean nonconfrontational. nonviolence. is. about. winning. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...

ICE murdered a woman in Minneapolis. ICE is an out of control band of thugs terrorizing America. ICE stands against everything America is for. ICE must be abolished. www.liberalcurrents.com/murder-in-mi...

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Been frustrated - as we all have - with this court, but this seems like a pretty remarkable ruling. I rather suspect the court does not rule this way without the collapsing approval numbers, without No Kings, without the Dems sweeping special elections.

i would like more democrats to start promising to lock these fuckers up

Literal communist economic policy

When I told the genie I wished the EU were even with American GDP per capita, I assumed that we'd get a working tech sector, not that the US would end up run be degrowthers.

I think you should be able to buy a cup of coffee or a bite to eat in America’s urban parks, and that the refusal to allow this is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of what urban parks are, and what purpose they serve.

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Could you imagine the response if a democratic president said they didn’t know if they had to uphold the Constitution? How fast would the articles of impeachment be drawn ? 20 minutes at the most

okay sure so it worked in Denver and in Austin and it worked for downtown Oakland and for Sacramento and yes, it’s worked for decades in Tokyo but how can we be *sure* that building a lot more homes will make California a more affordable place to live??

Never forget that the chief complaint against Biden was “the economy is terrible.” You utter imbeciles

The idea that liberals are incapable of seeking accountability from authoritarians and criminals is so ahistorical. Nuremberg, The Hague, these were the creation of liberals, not leftist radicals

any democrat praising the tariffs is a fucking moron

The testosterone had something to do with it, but if you really want to understand why Elon’s brain broke, it was when his kid came out to him as trans & his supposedly big brain didn’t have the capacity to accept it. So he decided to destroy all trans people. What a sad, wretched human being.

🇺🇸 CNN poll shows just 8% of Americans view Russia positively—on par with those who think the moon landing was fake. 61% see Russia as an enemy, and only 4% as a partner. Only 9% like Putin, with the same percentage believing the Earth is flat. 52% support Ukraine using U.S. weapons in Russia.

At the heart of many of the U.S.’s problems is lack of mobility: In the 19th century 1 in 3 people moved each year. Today 1 in 13 do so. Our reduced mobility flows from our profound failure over the past 50 years to build new homes in areas of economic opportunity. It’s strangling us as a nation.🧵

HEY @washingtonpost.com AND @nytimes.com, DO YOU THINK IT'S NEWSWORTHY THAT THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD IS WALKING AROUND THE GOVERNMENT "DELETING" CHUNKS OF IT AT HIS WHIM? DO YOU THINK THIS MIGHT DESERVE A LITTLE BIT OF ALARM

I don’t like the “people are voting with their feet” line about California and NYC’s population loss/decline. People aren’t voting with their feet, they’re losing the game of musical chairs. To the extent population is falling, it’s due to shrinking household sizes, not vacancy. Demand remains high.

If the owner of a single-family home rented to an immigrant family of six kicks them all out to put the house on the market for sale, and then a rich family of two empty-nesters buys it, the population of that lot has dropped by two-thirds. So clearly it doesn’t need any more housing.

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

Inclusionary zoning is bad policy that creates bad outcomes.

Tsunami evacuation zones in SF

designed and ordered a custom aluminum part so that I can open and close my window with an old standing desk motor. next I'll need a proper windowsill mount