literal sewer socialism let's fucking go

SoCal stroad jump scare

"We [country] are full" - awful, racist, a ruling class social construction. "We [neighbourhood] are full" - based, authentic, simply grounded in empirical reality.

The US was a racial dictatorship until 1965 and a not small measure of US politics since then has been an attempt, or resistance against the attempt, to return us to being one

A certain kind of person just likes to position themselves in opposition to everyone in power, no matter who the people in power are. Mamdani is actually giving himself the task of proving that municipal sewer socialism can work, which means he has to actually govern. Some people hate that.

Buried in here is another data point for an obsession of mine: kids sports “travel teams” are insane, a huge drian on financial resources, and the free time of particulalry moms. And for what? The dream of athletic scholarships? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/u...

Leftists opposing urban apartments is the most self-defeating shit imaginable. Who do they think votes for socialists if not urban tenants? It’s way more predictive than the supposedly all-superseding status of union membership.

Legislative term limits are a goddamn disaster and will ruin your state

The book I’m reading right now describes a speech that Trump gave in *1988* about his desire for America to invade Iran.

Not mentioned: the requirement to analyze shadow impacts. In Manhattan.

Miriam Yarimi, had received 90 tickets in her Audi before she struck and killed a mother and her two children (pictured below) on Ocean Parkway in NYC last year. Super Speeders like Yarimi can be stopped before they kill. #StopSuperSpeeders transalt.org/press-releas...

The idea that (white) American farmers and ranchers are the "true volk" while cities are a sore on the body politic, filled with greedy merchants and mobs of laborers, is the foundational, racist blood-and-soil myth of America that still pervades all of society including mainstream media.

NYT quoting AOC when she says “um”: This dumb girl can’t talk NYT quoting Trump after sticking a fork up his nose into his brain and rambling about sharpie pens: Doth thine lion howl with instincts known not learned by man, or sound his sonorous roar as prophecy to gaze back upon history itself?

Cities do not really have democratic control over their own police departments and Dem politicians nervously pretend like they don’t notice this.

God I am so sick of being seen as a lesser American because I don't have a yard to take care of

(Derogatory)

Senators really say "renters" with a hard R

Socialism is the ideology of the leading edge of wage earners: the most integrated into global capital flows, the most politically developed, the most socially liberal. Today, that is the mass intelligentsia. Stop fighting against your own material interests and embrace progressive abundance.

It‘s me, I’m The One of the staff. And I am stoked to be getting 300+ new neighbors on my block in place of these trucks!

watching @nickandert.bsky.social videos and coming to the conclusion that we need to just put LA county under a YIMBY-Stalin conservatorship

The federal gas tax is 18 cents per gallon.

Policymakers really need to let go of this idea that rental housing is intrinsically inferior and homeownership needs to be considered the normative default for everyone. The policies that flow from this view inevitably end up screwing over actually existing renters.

Foregoing placing the blame on the real culprits (tax cuts for the rich / Medicaid cuts) because only “Big ______” can be the boogeyman.

Graham Platner has an ad tying Maine hospitals closing to "Big Pharma." As a person who follows health policy closely, I have no clue why and how he thinks Big Pharma is related to hospitals closing. No one with health policy expertise would say that's the cause of hospital closures. 1/ #mepolitics

In a world where many democrats have embraced pie-in-the-sky middle class tax cuts, leave it to a democratic socialist like Mamdani to seriously engage with budgeting tradeoffs and embrace an efficient broad based property tax increase

Instead of selecting one of the twelve — 12! — routes studied at the behest of Bass when Metro staff was last ready to recommend a route, 18 mos. ago, the motion calls for staff to again "propose alignment options" after "meaningful engagement" and "minimization of residential subsurface impacts."

The boundaries of the special district can be clearly seen in this aerial photo (a few years old now, but nothing's really changed). The cost of this law shows up in the sharp edge where low-rise reigns supreme. All that missing floor space could be housing people instead of wasted airspace.

Not only does this video detail Jackie Dupont-Walker's *extreme* conflict of interest that is driving this whole crisis, but I've also obtained Bass's motion, which she claims will 'not delay,' but which - fun fact! - will cause a huge delay. Full-on doublespeak territory.

One of the things my 4 year-old says she misses about LA is “the slow train,” by which she means the A Line between Highland Park and South Pas.

30% of the disabled community cannot drive due to their disability. Compared to less than 2% of all driver aged population being unable to drive

"The housing policy conversation in the U.S. always seems to focus on expanding homeownership. I think we need to recognize that many families cannot afford to, or do not want to, be homeowners." news.vt.edu/articles/202...

This is pretty exemplary of how electeds fetishize hyper-localism. The more localized and smaller the group, the more authentic and virtuous. A dozen homeowners from a single neighborhood are valorized as "community voices," worthy of sabotaging a regional transit project.

All these fights about cars and parking and traffic are distractions from the fact that nearly half of *all* homes built in U.S. since 1990 were built in harm's way -- and essentially all of them built in suburban sprawl with driving mandates. not great www.scientificamerican.com/article/wild...

Death by community consensus and input.

"Consensus" only ever works in one direction, and that direction favors cars and parking.

There is one place left in the city that can have a new heavy rail line without tunneling, mass demolition, or building a new elevated structure. If the city does not change course now, it will be gone forever by the end of this year. Destruction of a priceless resource, paid for by cuts to parks.

As Paris elected a new mayor today who literally biked to his victory speech on the city’s bike infrastructure network, it’s hard not to feel like things are going in the opposite direction in the US capital

🚨 THURSDAY: Show up to save the K Line Northern Extension! 🚨 Mayor Bass and her allies on the board may once again try to delay it over NON issues. NIMBYism is putting the whole project at risk. SHOW UP, TAKE ACTION: mailchi.mp/streetsforal...

I gotta say the coordinated motions on tax cuts from Dems are more blackpilling for me than anything I've seen in a while. Politicians across the intra-party spectrum lining up to say "Better things aren't possible" and "We're fine with DOGE"

It would seem that LA Metro’s plan is to widen the freeways so much that there’s no land left to upzone. Checkmate, yimbys.

Maddening how we are in a dual climate crisis and energy crisis and old rich people around SoCal devote their final days to making transit as slow to ride and to build as possible. Rail advocates need to get organized.

Cincinnati responded to the 70s oil crisis by creating a citywide plan for bike infrastructure that was immediately shelved once oil prices fell.

Laws like SEQRA, and it's sibling CEQA, were rooted in a distrust of the government and presume that individuals (i.e. the homeowners who show up to public meetings) are more likely to act in the public's, and the environment's, best interest. I think we can safely put that presumption to rest.

Fun fact the Sierra club was against transit expansion in NJ and mount laurels dense housing requirements

this morning anya taylor-joy was hit with a question that has never been asked before in the history of the universe

I feel like this attitude was baked into 60’s environmentalism in ways that are hard to wrap our mind around now. Niche example, but Ian McHarg called cities “God’s junkyard.” He founded the Landscape Architecture program at Penn!

The sierra club is an organization for people who think that parking is a priceless environmental resource