LFG. I want 1 million NYC bureaucrats.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.” www.transition2025.com/apply

Listen to Mamdani last night. "We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about." Fuck yes. That is the democratic socialism I believe in.

This is my precinct, where easily 95% of the population lives in brand-new market rate apartment buildings, i.e. “luxury housing.”

zohran is going to build so much goddamn housing, Props 2-4 all passing by at least 8 points

*taps sign*

the time for using karen and wine mom as insults has passed. the time for embracing the karen is now

The right has correctly identified the professional-managerial class as the class with the most revolutionary potential in the current period and have directed all their energies to destroy it before it becomes aware of itself and its own power

YIMBY reforms should be celebrated by anti-monopolists for creating opportunities uniquely suited to small developers. archive.strongtowns.org/journal/2021... Saying otherwise is as absurd as saying legalizing corner stores benefits Walmart. We play in different leagues.

ICE shoots 24-year-old U.S. Citizen in Ontario, CA Reporting By @eltragon.bsky.social and Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Zoning reform measures have divided tenant advocates in New York. Yet loosening the city’s anti-housing regime is essential if we ever want to build social housing at scale.

Some neighborhoods, like the Upper East Side, not only contribute zero new affordable units, but also have fewer existing units than they did in 2010 due to the rich converting multifamily units into a single mansion unit.

the Ron Paul -> left politics trajectory has been a disaster for the human race

It should probably be a bigger news story that Adrienne Adams (the city council speaker) is illegally taking our taxpayer $ and corruptly using it to run a NIMBY propaganda campaign against pro-housing ballot measures

This project was going to replace a parking lot filled with abandoned vehicles, in an industrial zone. If we can't build renewable infrastructure there, then where?

NYC: Vote YES on ballot props 2-4. We at DSA' Social Housing campaign @housethefuture.bsky.social support them to move affordable and social housing along at the city AND state levels.

the american mind cannot conceive of building

right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.

now could a broke city do this

L.A. can’t build more than ten feet of the L.A. River Trail at a time, can’t implement Measure HLA, Metro can’t get the NoHo-Pasadena busway or the D line done anywhere close to on schedule — but new freeway lanes need to be slapped into a bottleneck? C’mon, f–– this.

Dense cities empower dissent

Today, as ever, is a good day to encourage friends, family and colleagues to stop using twitter. One benefit is you won't find yourself wondering aloud whether the site you use might possibly be suppressing information about certain topics.

Chat, is it cringe lib to organize people via a specified time? (Posted by a friend on ig)

In a car-dependent city, the other people you are living in a city with are just ... drivers, competing with you for road & parking space. They are theoretical, abstract, mere impediments. When you're walking in & around plazas, they are real, concrete, with faces, with real lives.

Injuries FROM WHAT

“I’m going to make it easier for the private sector to build housing in this city, because what we see today is that it’s not labor, it’s not materials, it’s the weight that’s often costing so many, so much to actually build the housing we need." The Left YIMBY candidate we need!

Mamdani’s full-throated defense of the most vulnerable members of our society is something Democrats elsewhere would do well to emulate

my favorite part of this project was realizing a short 24/7 bus lane though the Los Angeles Country Club qualifies and the 1/2 mile catchment will upzone a ton of mansions in Holmby Hills (falling just short of the Playboy Mansion)

This is utter nonsense. The status quo gives MAGA nimby councilmembers disproportionate power to block housing that benefits the entire city. I trust Zohran with the power to approve housing far more than Vickie Paladino. Vote YES on the pro-housing ballot initiatives

People who say this sort of thing are either disingenuous or just unaware that modern cars have more surveillance tech than even smart phones and collect 5x as much data, which car companies are very willing to share with police. A speed camera merely takes a picture of your license plate.

If you want to really feel the housing crisis, browse the Census microdata for LA households with lots of people in them. About 16,000 houses in LA County have three bedrooms and 8+ people.

Mansion tax applying to apartments: ✅ Mansion tax applying to mansions: ❌

As a 19 year-old intern for the LA Conservancy, I was tasked with giving Diane Keaton a personal tour of a Lautner house in Malibu Colony. I was a nervous wreck at first, but she was just as sweet as can be with such a warm and nonjudgmental presence that put me at ease. RIP 💜💜

SB 79 was signed into law and god shined a brilliant rainbow over the construction of an eight story apartment building

Immensely grateful for the privilege of working with @cafedujord.bsky.social and the rest of the SB 79 team, all of whom relentlessly believed that better things are possible beyond the status quo. Sickos for hope.

That's my mayor!

“You can’t tell me a parking space at the corner of a street is worth a life.” Advocates are in front of the district office of @galeabrewer.bsky.social this morning to ask her why she changed her mind and no longer supports universal daylighting in NYC.

wow there's a lot more zoning stuff in here than you'd expect

i think an interesting cultural experiment would be if we started enforcing traffic law

At the rate our electric rates are rising, it wouldn't take much to push gas costs per mile, for most popular vehicle, lower than EV. And if you select an efficient car, use the cheapest rates that exist, it's already cheaper to use gas. Not good.

I grew up with several kids whose parents wouldn’t allow them to go trick or treating (or read Harry Potter) because of the “satanic imagery,” and yet there’s a 99% chance those same parents voted for the person who posted *this.*

NEW YORK: After you vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on the front, don't forget to flip your ballot and vote for measures 2-5 on the back

Add Newport News, VA to the list of cities that have broadly ended parking requirements before NEW YORK CITY.

A student from my alma mater faces criminal charges for documenting a protest for the local paper, i.e. for being a journalist. Professors are publicly defending him, but the university has been silent. And, I'm no lawyer, but this seems like egregiously unethical behavior by the prosector.

Even if for no other reason than to prevent Spencer fucking Pratt from dictating state policy, please call (916) 445-2841 and urge Newsom to sign SB 79.

With both the Bengals and Reds floundering on primetime this week, I think my hometown could use some love. So I’m gonna talk about how Cincinnati's humble bus system has achieved ~120% of pre-Covid ridership—the best ridership recovery in the nation.

If you live in California, stop what you’re doing and take 2 minutes to call Newsom’s office in support of SB79. Building more housing near transit is good.

Gavin, please don’t let yourself be bullied into a veto by Spencer Pratt. Sign the bill!

The five California trans rights bills passed by the Legislature and waiting for the Governor to sign are: AB82, AB1084 SB59, SB418, SB497 Send written comment at www.gov.ca.gov/contact/ or call (916) 445-2841