some day “articulating the facade” will be just the joke phrase it was always meant to be

pretty remarkable the difference in quality between Chai Thai Oakland (elite) and Chai Thai Berkeley (deeply mid)

are there jets flying above Oakland right now? what’s going on?

a liberalism that builds, yes, and also a liberalism that FIGHTS

Happy Berkeley Middle Housing Day! I think Berkeley’s middle housing code is quite good and am optimistic it will lead to lots of new homes

war of southern aggression

Shohei Ohtani should advance one additional base each time they intentionally walk him, to punish cowardice

this is why social insurance is so important!

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do more Californians live on the North American or the Pacific plate?

the part where he turns & walks away… 👨‍🍳👌

vaccines: double plus good

Each county in the Bay Area has its own hotline for reporting and verifying ICE activity. In Alameda County, it's ACILEP at (510) 241-4011, in San Francisco, it's Rapid Response at 415-200-1548. For other counties see immigrants.sf.gov/help/rapid-r...

That’s just for Alameda County. For Contra Costa it’s Stand Together Contra Costa, which provides rapid-response deportation defense services, a 24-hour hotline, and training and education for families in need of immediate immigration legal assistance. standtogethercontracosta.org

my response to the news that the Trump-Miller secret police are coming to harass & kidnap my neighbors

“visual impacts”

As a general rule, anyone comparing NYC housing production numbers to Jersey City and Tokyo is a housing nerd who’s thinking seriously about our housing shortage.

More message discipline needed on this point. Circulation has costs on transit users, not just construction costs.

"striking down the voter initiative because the environmental review paperwork wasn't in order" honestly reads like an anti-CEQA parody

WE ARE COMING, FATHER ABRAHAM, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE, FROM MISSISSIPPI'S WINDING STREAM AND FROM NEW ENGLAND'S SHORE. WE DARE NOT LOOK BEHIND US BUT STEADFASTLY BEFORE. WE ARE COMING, FATHER ABRAHAM, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE!

#NoKings Talkeetna, Alaska : population, 1,000. Attendance - 111 !!! ❤️

I love this- both a symbolic show of people power and using it to get people to take a tangible action against fascism by voting #YesOn50

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

Two things I love: Lake Merritt & American democracy

I would love to see you at the Oakland no kings march Saturday, starting at lake Merritt Bart at noon, marching to the lake

Working on my sign tonight, my dad is going to be a peacekeeper, hope to see y’all out there!

By some estimates we could replace every lead pipe in the United States with this money

reading about Washington's Multifamliy Tax Exemption (abatement) & how their property tax cap differs from California, and wondering how much of their greater housing growth vs California comes down to differences in tax policy

smol quake

I am flying Freddy Mamani to the US to build townhomes & apartments

Lake Merritt was exceptionally lovely today

the California constitutions is a never ending cabinet of horrors, Exhibit H

need polls here so I can rerun the "greatest crop of the Americas" poll (contestants were tomatoes, chile peppers, potatoes, and chocolate)

this man's name is written in the book of life

current mood 😎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXC...

wild parcel, Long Beach

I would really like if American Jewish institutions acted like they see this as a problem!

“I live my life without a transit schedule, and I like it.” That’s a great, succinct statement about the benefits of frequent service.

Something deeply satisfying to see (grand) juries emerging as an anti-authoritarian bulwark There’s a reason the “jury of peers” is one of the oldest, most foundational rights!

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

even setting aside whatever it means for the vote on the release of the epstein files, we're at a very grim place if the republicans are straight up refusing to seat people democratically elected to congress

Disempowering NIMBYs makes for better public process, and it’s always an available choice

Who benefits from kicking people like this out of our country? Nobody The whole community is poorer for it

These guys are often in plainclothes but at least they usually have visible badges. I did not see a single badge visible among any of these guys. They are literally indistinguishable from any random guy off the street

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Yeah defund and dismantle ICE. We can have some sort of border enforcement agency but this institution needs to be completely dismantled. No one working there should be working in government.

have you called Governor Newsom yet for SB 79?

a republic, if we can keep it 🇺🇸