lower down payments means more money for banks and existing landowners. and a million dollar loan is $8k/month, which is hardly affordable! mainstream CA Democrats will propose anything so long as it doesn’t address the root cause of the housing crisis—grossly inadequate supply

this is so unbelievably cringe

“freeze housing insurance” is not a serious answer. that’s probably the best way to make the insurance crisis even worse I want to like Becerra but his positions on housing, CA’s #1 issue, are just not acceptable

1/ I guess i'm going to loosely blog the CA governor's debate? First Q: whether or not to cut gas tax. Steyer: blames war, windfall oil company tax instead Porter: wants to "move away from it" posits as green measure Mahan: attacks others, "reform tax" Becerra: no, need for infrastructure

✨Schrödinger’s Crosswalk ✨, joint work with a terrific interdisciplinary team, under submission to law reviews now. It’s a bit unconventional (6,600 words, including a table, plus maps) but, we hope, appealing for the right journal.

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration

It didn’t even take 6 hours.

the GOP continues to be the pro-death party

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

this sex pest, who texted with Jeffrey Epstein up to one day before his arrest, is still a University Professor at @harvard.edu what kind of message does this send aspiring young women economists? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."

Out today in HLR, my piece Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny. What happened, what it means for trans rights and sex equality more broadly: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

to be clear: the government's claim - validated by the Court - is that it would *irreparably harm* the president to not misgender trans people

What this order makes clear is that plaintiffs can collect a mountain of animus, the district court can write extensively about the record, and the Supreme Court will just go “nuh uh.”

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

what a photo, days after the largest street mobilization in generations calling for “no kings”, amidst a government shutdown when all non essential govt activities are supposed to stop

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit! Our statement: cayimby.org/news-events/...

massive contrast between real free speech issues in 2025—masked govt goons abducting grad students for politically incorrect op-eds and shooting pastors praying outside govt sites versus the Supreme Court’s pick of a free speech “issue”—wildly popular bans on conversion therapy

this rural Hallingdalsveien segment of Norwegian route 7 has better pedestrian infra than like 99% of US state highway milage lol

880% AMI affordable housing development in Palo Alto $60M project to build 37 studios/SROs, 8 1BDs, and 5 2BDs. that’s $1.1M per bedroom the construction cost crisis is REAL

the normies are winning

further, it looks like the Trump DHS made the Harvard announcement **AFTER** a district court issued a preliminary injunction barring DHS from revoking intl students' SEVIS records storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

if Republicans succeed in taking away CA's power to set auto emissions standards—and poison tens of millions of CA'ns in the process— @governor.ca.gov and the Legislature MUST pursue an aggressive VMT reduction policy. no more freeways, dense infill housing, etc etc

the GOP is overtly and brazenly looting the public fisc. most of this administration needs to be prosecuted and incarcerated for bribery, corruption, and similar. no exceptions; no leniency. this needs to be the cornerstone of the Democratic platform in 2028. www.trains.com/trn/news-rev...

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless

anyone else remember Newsom's first State of the State address? what did he say about CAHSR? www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

wild how Republicans have become the party of autarky

the U.S. spends $223 billion / year on highways, or $700 / person / year user fees only cover half of that cost. the other half, plus all local street spending, is pure subsidy cars owners in America are the biggest, most spoiled babies on the planet

A 🧵 of takeaways, and my lingering questions, from last Thursday's excellent SIEPR program on The Economics of Wildfires. (This is from recollection and my recollection may be faulty, so I've tagged sources where possible.) siepr.stanford.edu/events/polic... 1/24

A relatively large amount of production of housing sunk initial rents from an average of $2800 to $2000 in just 6 years

the new housing chair is…really bad on housing all leftist platitudes, yet she aligned herself with the Realtors, Livable California, “Save Lafayette”, Huntington Beach, Manhattan Beach, Sausalito, and many more housing villains we deserve way better than this

it's crazy that in the year of our lord 2025, the California Senate housing czar believes in forcing builders to provide parking. MANDATORY PARKING = UNAFFORDABLE HOMES given how powerful Senate committee chairs are, I don't think we're going to see any real housing reform this session :/

another victim of Trump v. United States. the president, acting via DOJ or Treasury, has exclusive authority to enforce federal tax law. absolutely immune! I hope Roberts is happy about reading the constitution to ban common-sense good government like not politically weaponizing tax collection

what does “unitary executive” mean if the President is absent golfing and his idiot viziers are firing off crazy policies w/o authority

this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

remember when @gavinnewsom.bsky.social called Abrego Garcia a “distraction” yesterday? 🤮🤮🤮

S&P 500 is down 15% and the real-world effects of tariffs haven’t even begun to hit

I have been saying this forever, and people always freak out when I do, but: We need a new governing document. And we need to pull an Articles of Confederation -> Constitution 1.0 and ignore the amendment procedures listed in the Constitution to get there.

The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.

if you're not a professional, today is a good day to go outside, turn off news notifications, and touch grass

beautiful…Apple’s forever buggy software helped cause signal-gate

hilarious outcome after the GOP & Federalist Society spent the last half century transforming the federal judiciary into a Guardian Council designed to stop Democrats from enacting popular policies at the in federal level they’re too dumb and impulsive to take the huge W they already had

it is crazy watching Santa Clara County building a BART line even as it shoots down every effort to ensure BART stays fiscally solvent babes if you keep it up, there will be no BART to operate your shiny gold-plated gazillion-dollar subway line!!

the MAGA-fication of Kristi Noem, from 2011 to 2025

Boasberg is the kind of no-nonsense judge to pick a contempt fight. not the guy I would want to fk around with!

The funniest thing about all this is Joe Biden built a "bring back US manufacturing" button and Trump could have just kept pressing it but instead he insisted on smashing the "crash the stock market" button

when CAHSR opens from SF to LA, it's going to be like congestion pricing — people will wonder why we didn't do something so obviously beneficial two generations earlier

It’s Massieu v. Reno, 915 F.Supp. 681 (1996). New Jersey district court. Here’s the intro:

it's very weird that Alito is focusing on the district court *judge*. in any other context, he would write "the district court" I would guess he's on board with the regime's demonization of federal judges issuing orders the regime doesn't like