I'll let you know that our pottery is not rustic

A fun game I play is to search California left-NIMBY posts for any mention of Article 34, the provision in the CA constitution that gives NIMBY homeowners a veto vote over any social housing projects. So far it's like searching for cryptids.

Trump loves NYC. Mamdani loves NYC. I am not terribly surprised.

WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.” Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Even that headline, as bad as it is, minimizes how bad this is. They were also charged with possession of child porn and were planning on raping children.

I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke. IG bscomedian

LA City Charter Reform Commission just voted to recommend expanding the Los Angeles City Council from 15 to 23-31 seats!! This will be HUGE for reducing the influence of money in our local politics.

Lol YIMBYs literally talk about our incrementalist approach especially wrt beach head legislation.

It is so funny to watch Stancil argue that political narratives drive public opinion on one hand and then argue that public opinion is mostly immutable for housing on the other.

hahahahahah LFG apnews.com/article/redi...

That is literally the lesson of the Holocaust

I'm no Harris fan but I'm pretty sure she would mop the floor with both Biden and Trump

Taking away world cup football from Latino fans in blue cities is bound to work out great in the midterms

Zoning started with the goals of encouraging segregation and car dependence a century ago. It is a moral imperative to abolish it.

Urbanism—the notion that cities are good, that we should build housing in the dense walkable neighborhoods where people want to live, and that urban governance should prioritize city residents’ quality of life over suburban drivers’ convenience—remains a radical political program in America.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

Oh great. Air travel is already so unreliable that I would rather take a long haul HSR that doesn't exist in the US. It's gonna be lit now 🤦‍♂️

It's a rainy day here in LA, so you know what that means.....

I think I'm starting to understand why techbros believe there is a masculinity crisis

My most woke opinion is that property tax rates should increase the further from the town center you are and agriculture tax rates should be incredibly difficult to qualify for

This is just a public request for bribes

In fact, much of the SoCal coastal plain could see 2-4+ inches between Thu & Mon. That is pretty impressive for a Nov storm in this part of the state! In fact, at least localized flash flooding (esp. near recent wildfire zones & in other susceptible spots) is certainly possible.

I see all the graphic designers were sacked a long time ago

Any LA YIMBYs going to the District 1 candidate forum tomorrow in Lincoln Heights?

The better world of my youth? My youth involved leaded gasoline, a violence epidemic, the constant threat of nuclear annihilation, and fucking AIDS. People can just fuck off with the nostalgia horseshit.

(1 of 3) I used to negotiate for a living, and I'm trying to determine how many basic rules of negotiation these eight schmucks who somehow stumbled into becoming United States Senators violated. The list seems endless. For instance, if your negotiating partner is fucking crazy sociopathic ghoul...

Fuck them collaborators

Rare good news these days

Gavin Newsom going to Texas for a Prop 50 victory lap is 👨‍🍳 💋

You're goddamn right we are.

LA county putting up Assad numbers for Prop 50 with about 25% of the Yes votes in the whole state.

I can fix her *upzones Staten Island so every parcel can build 10 stories by right*

Peaceful protesters rejoice! "We riot harder for the Dodgers" remains undefeated.

Hernandez just can't help but be anything but an idiot NIMBY

Is DC power the next front in the urban density war? cleantechnica.com/2025/10/28/t...

I got to drink for free at the Tottenham bar in LA, so Go Spurs

Mother Nature throwing a curve ball in the World Series

This is a planning failure

Really sucks we spent the 2010s zero interest rate decade debating "Housing for Whom?" with the dumbest people on Earth and now that we've finally begun to change some important laws, interest rates are high, there's a tariff on every building material and construction labor is getting deported.

Oh boo hoo. The cheapest tickets are like $900 a piece.

This is completely unhinged considering Mamdani's main opponent is the son of Mario Cuomo who is married to a fucking Kennedy

Absolute horseshit. No architect is going to make a windowless bedroom when a windowed one is feasible.

It strikes me as weird that the anti-vaxers are sort if obsessed with mercury in vaccines but don't seem to care about the effects of lead on kids

It's that time of year again.

the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.

Ftg.

I will vote for the first Democrat that promises to destroy the Epstein Ballroom on day one.

My dog doesn't understand the television. She thinks it's a window. She saw a bear on TV, barked at it, and then went looking out all the windows next to the TV for the bear she was convinced was right outside.

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives were freaking out about the high teen pregnancy rate.