is there an inverse tesla and spacex ETF? i've gotta think there's an appetite for a cheap and easy way to neutralize the musk in your index funds

lol lmao lmaooooooooo *breaks down sobbing*

What is Trumpism if not Maoism with American Characteristics?

(guy who has been a dad for less than a month): childcare is really hard and also taking care of my child is fucking awesome I know one of my own dad’s biggest regrets in life is the time he was unable to spend with his children when we were young

putting state money into supporting inclusionary zoning and union labor for high rises? interesting concept!

This is a brilliant way to think about infrastructure: “for every obstacle encountered: is this a rock, or is this a person?”

am I hallucinating that the first decision the Roberts court handed down gutting the VRA referred to its at-the-time recent reauthorization by Congress as "perpetuation of a racial entitlement"?

What do conservatives always say when liberals criticize a Supreme Court decision? "Get Congress to pass a law," right? That is EXACTLY what happened here. In 1982, Congress explicitly overruled a Court case that narrowly interpreted the VRA. Today, Sam Alito said, nope, we were right all along.

My actual take on these NYT ‘here’s some morons’ things is that people are basically calling out for mediating insitutions to make politics comprehensible to them, because most people are not weird freaks like you probably are if you’re reading this, that like paying attention to this shit.

yeah my thought when i hear that is "tell this to the president and his goons"

couple thoughts from the first five days of fatherhood: cluster feeding got hands I am very grateful for modern advances in swaddle technology I have developed an impulsive sway in my hips any time I stand still, last night I caught myself doing it while brushing my teeth

I want us to be a nation of immigrants, not a nation of indentured servants

I would like to see some moderate, sensible Democrat adopt "police who lie in reports or on the stand should go to jail and never again work in law enforcement in their lives" as a position. Nothing vague about reforming the police, nothing radical about defunding. Just this simple, obvious thing.

They sometimes have priority, they sometimes have preemption, they sometimes have neither. But we're running a campaign to implement preemption everywhere! DM me your email if you want to join!

some people want to believe homelessness is about the moral failing of homeless people some people want to believe that it's about the moral failing of capitalism but the reason we see the *specific problem* of homelessness, people not having a home, really is mostly about housing!

The S-trap shown in this public messaging banner is illegal in Canada. The requirements making it illegal are literally costing Vancouver alone millions in new construction!

If leaders abuse the rule of law to make themselves immune to it, so that they can undermine the rights of others with impunity, by what moral or philosophical argument are they entitled to its protections, once they lose power? By what grace should they be sorted by law instead of by other means?

this is 1) a great pro-housing message and 2) how I feel about Oakland ONE MILLION OAKLANDERS

sic semper traitors & slavers

This means we're paying a lot for: 1-More material (bigger pipes) 2-More labor (harder to work with bigger pipes) 3-Bigger connections (cities charge by connection size) These costs are hidden even from builders and plumbers who just follow what code says without knowing it's overkill.

Indiana Jones voice: "NYC doesn't belong in a museum!"

I do think that at some point, a system that can't deliver accountability for this isn't really a system of liberal governance. And that has to be grappled with. A perceived breakdown in even the semblance of fair justice is something Locke keyed in on as the trigger for revolution.

Some further backstory on this: when the State Fire Marshall released new fire hazard maps that more narrowly drew Very High Fire Hazard coverage within urban areas (redesignating some of it to High or Moderate Hazard), SD Fire Department said "no, we don't like that, everything should be VHFHSZ"

Second Sunday Ciclovia around Lake Merritt would put up NUMBERS

You shouldn’t even be trying to live in your own past - let alone trying to force other people to live there.

In Los Angeles, it is easier to stop housing than to build it. That has to change. We must create a culture of yes to new housing: affordable housing, market-rate housing, social housing, and shelters. You can see the full plan on my website.  Here are some highlights:

This is the dawning of the Age of New Clarity

dinner tonight: scarlet runner beans cooked with star anise, guajillo, garlic, onion, and a splash of fish sauce chard with green garlic, a little pancetta, soy sauce, and cider vinegar

single strait (is this anything?)

designing our planning & legal system around accommodation of the loudest cranks is a choice we should make better choices

Anyway, "Kill someone with your car and you'll never drive again" is a message that would have immense benefit to society.

Another case in which the “unknown side effect” of a vaccine turns out to be “it actually saves *even more* lives” sickness is bad for you, and the magic shots that prevent it are good!

My top 3 list of people who need to go to prison are Miller, Hegseth and Vought. One fucking asshole holding the US government hostage just has to be punished.

since I moved a bit deeper into East Oakland, I’ve been using the bus more AC Transit could use some stop consolidation, default spacing seems to be ~0.15 miles and there are places where it’s inexplicably even shorter also, bus bulbouts plz

Extremely bullish about Berkeley Middle Housing + SHRA (especially if we can fix the minimum density rule)

I guess I should appreciate that Katie Porter removed herself from consideration for my vote

It's a real shortcoming of speed cameras that the law precludes them from being used to hold repeated scofflaws accountable We should take these people's keys away! www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti...

Oakland skeeps: my highest food rec for Tasty Bowl next to Lake Merritt get the oxtail pho w/ oxtail as the only meat (my wife's order) or the vermicelli bowl w/ vegetarian egg rolls (mine) Tasty Bowl >>>>> Pho King (next door) imho

The Return of Dingbat Urbanism, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Townhome

this doesn't really make sense to me; isn't a core purpose of habeas to force the government to physically present the detained person? www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Radical idea: if someone racks up 76 speeding violations in a year, maybe they shouldn’t be allowed to keep driving.

commuting in on the 14, and despite @dereksagehorn.bsky.social’s effort to cancel it the bus is *full*

always a treat to see legislation I worked on being used to get more housing built, faster

Yes In My Back Yard

The converse is that a things like unfunded inclusionary zoning mandates hurt low-income tenants who aren't lucky enough to win lotteries by reducing supply.

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

anybody know if Alysa Liu has made any comments about Lake Merritt?