The good thing about this is that these people are lazy and stupid, and while many of them will get away with all this, many will not.

We need a complete and total ban on anyone who was involved in national Democratic Party in 1993.

My landmarking reform proposal: exempt the hills from any reform. They’re not gonna build any housing anyway so let ‘em go nuts landmarking each others houses all day long

Cc all fire departments everywhere

This is the funniest shit I have ever seen in my life

At the Corridor Zoning worksession, seeing a lot of folks who won't be able to make this observation

Feds couldn’t snap their fingers and fix all of transit, but they could fix a lot of it.

Hey building nerds, when do double stair requirements kick in? I thought it was above three floors, but maybe it's actually anything above two units?

Real reason Sisko went to go be with the Prophets is that he was going to be hit with war crimes charges after Dominion War

I absolutely love the @berkeleyscanner.com, we are beyond lucky to have that kind of knowledgable, detailed reporting on public safety in our community. Most places don't have that. But man that comment section...there are some wild things that happen in that comment section...

You really don’t have to hand it to him but the plus side here is that the building was probably rotting and in desperate need for major renovation anyway, and once we return to constitutional government they’ll be able to rebuild it with modern wiring and insulation and stuff.

At a certain point policy makers need to say “this is for us to decide, not you. It goes into effect in thee years. Figure out a code you can live with but single stair is not negotiable.”

Such an just and beautiful way to end Cuomo's political career. May all corrupt creepy scumbags face similar ends.

i do firmly believe in the end, we will win, but the dread and the loss of watching this nightmare unfold is really something. These assholes are undermining everything we've taken for granted as a democratic and open society (however imperfect) with such vile hubris

I appreciate that Medicare is a better deal in a lot of ways, but there’s a reason people choose MA, and that’s because it’s a lot easier to fight with your insurance company X years down the road than it is to come up with $500 or whatever dollars a month you need for traditional Medicare today.

What I don’t get is, I mean yes it seems like there is sketchy and dangerous financing here, but aren’t we getting data centers out of it? Like when the bubble pops we’ll be left with massive compute and networking and energy infrastructure that will be getting sold at dirt cheap prices.

4 year old saw a version of this meme so I had to explain it to her, so I made up an example she could relate to, and it was, to put it mildly, a hit and so now you all get to share in it too

Ok so set aside this dumbass tacky BS and take a look at what Deuteronomy 21 actually says and wow it is still pretty messed up!

If we get to impeach him in ‘27, we should do dozens if not hundreds of individual articles - make Senate Republicans ratify every single specific piece of corruption and abuse of power.

I sympathize with people's complaints in this article, but folks don't understand that the homelessness problem is far beyond the city's capacity to address - the whole thing is propped up by federal money, and it is very likely going to get a lot worse. www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/10/07/c...

MAGA is a national suicide cult

Nobody could have predicted this

Cannot effing wait to fill this one out (mostly because it’s only going to have one ballot measure and not thirty)

A one year extension is probably the stupidest policy democrats could possibly support. Absolutely ridiculous.

Sorry for the spam! I'm turning this fella off until I can figure out why that happened.

Next Democratic president needs to turn that thing into a horse stable.

IIRC there are 1600 households using Section 8 vouchers in Berkeley. Many long-term residents, many elderly and disabled.

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Guess the year

One reason we need DEI in journalism and media - and I mean that in a broad sense, including economic and genuine cultural diversity - is that we have this elite monoculture that is so deeply insecure and ashamed of themselves that they’re selling out the country just to make themselves feel better.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

This is going to be a good one! A worksession on the Berkeley’s Social Housing Study, which is very thoughtful thorough and everyone should read!

One of the big reasons to axe the filibuster.

this is why you READ THEORY

Jeffries and Schumer are more or less demanding to keep a dozen or so House seats and zero to two Senate seats in the Republican column by lessening economic pain that will inevitably be blamed on the party in power and Trump is mad?? okay. sure.

Yeah this sucks, can’t have any private conversations anymore. Of course it doesn’t help that back then we had our own secret language and now we’re mostly stuck with English

This is neat stuff coming up!

It’s the same situation here, where there are obvious solutions that can help to save the country - proportional representation for them, eliminating the filibuster for us - and at the same time, no hope that feckless political parties will do what they can when they have the power to do it

Reading through the correspondence for last night's planning commission meeting, there's some good stuff. Jury's out on this one, frankly.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Tbh, no better way for them to honor his legacy. He would have been proud.

Apropos of nothing, the entire length of golden park, stretching from the park about a half mile into sunset, is about to have allow 9 story buildings (with density bonus). Pretty cool.

They will scream bloody murder like nothing you’ve ever seen, but if we’re ever in a position to pass laws again we’ve gotta bring back media consolidation laws. Also, major social media platforms need ownership caps. No more than 20% for anyone.

Best revenge is going to be a minimum wage tax hike, universal sick leave, paid family leave, mandatory vacation time, etc etc.

Statewide transit upzoning only took a few months longer than Berkeley’s missing middle upzoning 😬

San Diego coming in surprisingly strong 💪

evergreen

This idea of pushing Obamacare cuts out past the midterms is…boy I don’t know

It is not a coincidence that some of the best communicators in the Democratic Party right now - Mallory McMorrow, James Talarico, Chi Osse, Nithya Raman, Anna Eskamani, Sarah McBride, and others - are @runforsomething.net alum.

I hate that the conversation is “should Dems vote to shut down the government?” It is stupid that everyone accepts that frame. The questions are “should democratic senators vote for a partisan Republican bill” and “why won’t republicans use their constitutional power to fund the government?”