Car dealership owners are among the richest people in America and there are dealership lobbying organizations in all 50 states. What tech company owners have only just started doing to influence politics, car dealership owners have been doing for a century.

Americans have a tendency to believe that accidental deaths (whether from cars, guns, or disease) are the result of individual failures rather than systemic failures. So it's not surprising that many Americans do not believe in systemic solutions like vaccines, gun control, or traffic calming.

New York needs more homes, because more people deserve to experience New York. (and it would lower rents!)

I had this same experience last year when I visited Manhattan for the first time since 2014. And that’s why I live in New York, now.

“These are questions about who this city works for,” said @annemariegray.bsky.social. "Are we going to let NYC’s richest continue to block affordable housing, or are we going to build a city that’s affordable for everyone?"

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Los Angeles was affordable when it had zoning capacity for about 4-5x its population. The city slashed zoning capacity in the 70s. We’ve had persistent homelessness since the early 80s. This is not that complicated.

I thought the Covid vaccine was going to be widely available in NY, but apparently that’s not the case? Just got initially denied for one due to not having a health condition, so I was like “uhhhh I used to smoke sometimes?” And that worked.

It’s probably not good for progressive permitting reform advocacy that I just heard an ad from the American Petroleum Institute in which they said ‘permitting reform’ no less than 5 times.

i think how we got here is that the right's favorite move is working the ref and the radical centrist's favorite move is self flattery that they could never be worked

we're on the precipice of a universal antiviral medication, mRNA technology is out here curing cancers every other month, HIV is cureable AND preventable, renewables generate more energy now than fossil fuels worldwide and and more cost-effective, coral reefs are growing back all over the world rn

This should make NYC extremely embarrassed to still have single-family zoning within walking distance of subway stations.

Good things are still possible !!!

This is the ultimate demonstration of the pathetic liberal self-hatred that valorizes sucking up to people who want to kill you and deems conservatives the only source of authenticity and only people worthy of giving and receiving respect.

“He was known for delighting in a diversity of ideas” is how CBS Morning News just described Charlie Kirk. Losing my fucking mind.

America must follow the lead of Portugal. Overthrow the fascists, give up your empire, git gud at making wine and building transit for cheap

WE WON!!!! @BOENYC just voted UNANIMOUSLY to approve the 4 housing ballot questions!!! Thanks to hundreds of calls and emails from Open New York members, these historic housing questions will be put to voters—and they’re going to pass.

This is not true. Blackstone owns 0.06% of the single family homes in America. There is no market where they own more than 1% of the homes. Nobody has a monopoly on housing. 2/3 of American households own their homes and rental housing is a VERY diversified and competitive industry.

LA doesn't even make a 5 over 1 any more we only make a 5 over 1 GIANT TRANSFORMER PAD This is on a major boulevard! Who can stop LADWP from destroying our city

To put this loan amount in perspective: California is spending $500 million to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 37 in the northern Bay Area (through a wetland, no less). But $750 million to save the *entire* Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.

Am I allowed to say that the Democrats should not give them votes to pass a new farm bill or is are we treating agribusiness as blameless victims because they don't live in cities

Governor Newsom is setting Bay Area transit, our economy, and our way of life on fire. This will lead to severe BART service cuts, up to 80-90%. Traffic will skyrocket. Businesses will leave. People will suffer. It’s unconscionable & short sighted especially given he agreed to the loan months ago.

underrated reason to Never Vote For Gavin Newsom

You've got groups like Open NY endorsing Good Cause Eviction and working on social housing proposals, planning for a holy alliance, and then you've got the chucklefuck brigade asking if Lebensraum is just land abundance.

Republicans on NYC's Board of Elections think they can illegally overrule ballot questions—or at least delay for long enough that the questions can't be printed on ballots. Signal boost, send emails, and help us stop them:

herrenvolk abundance is a no for me if "abundance" doesn't include welcoming more immigrants, wtf is it?

I think it's unfortunate that "abundance" got claimed by centrists because the top two in this graphic are great - but that's the problem, there's some reactionary shit further down, especially the "moderate" and "dark" ones. We should not be shopping this around outside the liberal-left coalition.

Before vs after NYC’s 1961 downzoning

Obama tried to give Ohio the money for a high-speed rail line from Cincinnati to Cleveland, but the Republican governor didn’t want the “choo choo train” money so it went to California instead.

For more than a decade, Andrew Cuomo pretended he had nothing to do with deteriorating subways and endless delays — even as he siphoned off funding from the MTA he controlled.

Cuomo is Trump's preferred candidate and yet a whole lotta big Democrats can't bring themselves to endorse Mamdani. The party needs to be cleaned out, starting with Schumer and Jeffries.

The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.

ACT-LA wants SB 79 to only apply in high income neighborhoods. In other words, they believe that only homeowners in white, wealthy neighborhoods should be given millions of additional home equity. Redlining, but from the left.

Time to tap the “supply shortages (real or perceived) make reactionaries of us all” sign

High-income neighborhoods think that low-income people moving in will lower property values. Low-income neighborhoods think that high-income people moving in will raise rents. We have a class segregation consensus.

In response to my rant yesterday, I was asked how we can make better parks and other public places for teenage girls? What do they want? I have answers to this, so now a positive 🧵. Starting in Sweden, where this was co-designed by teenage girls.

For some people it’s very important that we build less affordable housing lest it offend the delicate sensibilities of the homeowner class

The LA Tenants Union really said “Housing for cars, not for people” but unironically.

I think there should be more coverage of the fact that the LA city attorney is a right-wing lunatic and that Karen Bass seems to be yielding to that lunatic on major policy matters.

I think that people in this country really need to push themselves to be more social and to combat this avoidance culture that has arisen over the past 2 decades and has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Should I go to this dinner with friends? Nah, I should just stay home to play video games.

LA city government remains one big HOA, more concerned with protecting wealthy elites from apartments than solving homelessness, overcrowding, and rent burden. Glad to (mostly) see socialists in office vote against the city's opposition to SB 79 and support apartments near transit.

Me every time I learn something new about CA governance

Jackson, Mississippi, has the nation's highest homicide rate, more than 3 times the rate in DC

Los Angeles, home to the least affordable housing in the United States and the largest homeless population in the Western Hemisphere, will vote to formally oppose state legislation that would make it easier to build apartments near mass transit on Tuesday. This city should be disincorporated.

this particular strain of self loathing infects liberals too. it’s basically a combination of masculinity shame (men who think it’s gay to work an email job in the city and have a wife who likes you as a person) and class shame (people who think working a professional class job is elitist)

One of the most important stories currently taking place in CA politics is how SoCal MAGA types are working themselves into a fury over YIMBY policies. Their likely gubernatorial candidate, Steve Hilton, is helping stoke it with his "war on suburbs" language.

This morning I went to a smoothie place by my parents’ house and thought, “This place is giving Christian anti-vaxxer vibes.” Lo and behold, I find out from the NYT that there’s a MAHA commune of McMansions a mile away! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

I guess I don't see the difference between corporations owning rental single-family homes and corporations owning rental multifamily homes. From a fair housing perspective, more rental opportunities in single-family neighborhoods makes them more accessible to working class households.

Is there any way to hold a chiropractor accountable for false claims? My senior mom’s chiropractors, who prey on her anxiety, claim to treat everything from autism to endometriosis. These people treat *infants* for colic. I think they belong in prison but any form of accountability will do.