[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

I really don’t know how a Russian plant in the White House would act differently.

whoa— - Congressional Ds raised WAY more money than Rs: $2.6 billion vs $1.7 billion. that's 53% more! - small donors (those giving $200 or less) gave 29% of D cash vs 25% of R cash didn't realize how dependent Rs are on Prez Musk data from @opensecrets.org www.opensecrets.org/elections-ov...

to contextualize yesterday's news— a) go-arounds are very common, especially at DCA. 1 in 300 flights during FY22–3 aborted landing! b) runway incursions are also somewhat common. there's on average one per day across the top 30 U.S. airports www.faa.gov/air_traffic/...

On the heels of multiple airplane disasters, including one less than a month ago that killed 67 people, and after years of warnings about our understaffed air traffic control system, Trump has begun firing hundreds of FAA air traffic control workers. apnews.com/article/doge...

this is unironically one of the American constitutional system’s greater flaws deliberately making it hard to pass laws is a lot more sensible in 1787 (citizens have ZERO expectations of central govt) than in 2025 (modern administrative state)

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

when a Scalia clerk, FedSoc member, and *Trump’s own appointee to the interim U.S. Attorney role* quits, you know it’s bad the Trump Administration is corruptly buying the mayor of America’s largest city and making no effort to hide it it’s WELL past time for impeachment

the Russian Federation created its infamous oligarch class by selling off state-owned assets in the 90s in addition to intentionally demoralizing govt employees, this seems like a ploy to enrich cronies by dumping CRE on the market at depressed prices

The best way to fight back against Musk: Don’t buy a Tesla. (And if you own one, sell it.) The company was already in a precarious position before Musk launched his assault on democracy. A Tesla boycott would be devastating – and richly deserved. Me, in Slate 🧵

what the actual fuck is going on really hard to do my job when the CENSUS WEBSITE is down

will JD Vance cuck out and submit to the authority of the Holy Father, as Catholic doctrine demands? or will he lead his MAGA flock into schism and wilderness? can't wait to find out more: www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

lmfao Eric Adams sold out NYC to Trump / ICE / mass deportation… …but his charges are dropped without prejudice (they can be reinstated), so he’ll be under Il Duce’s thumb what an embarrassment of a nation we’ve become. corruption out in the open for all to see

"police car chases make us safer" 🙄 prop E's supporters should explain why it's OK to seriously injure 6 innocent bystanders so SFPD can nab a burglary suspect a little bit faster missionlocal.org/2025/02/car-...

the Republican Party recently we’re careering towards electoral authoritarian regime / an elected executive despot and the GOP delegation in Congress refuses to do anything about it

Rest in peace, Professor Shoup (1938-2025) We will keep up the good work. Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup

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