It will be interesting to see if the traditional NY and LA fundraising networks get usurped by Mamdani and Raman supporters.

Scott Wiener for Senate 2030

This would be a bigger concern if it was the woo wing of left NIMBY pro-Russia dead-enders who were getting elected, but it's overwhelmingly charismatic sewer socialists who got into politics post-2016 who are actually seeing the most success. These people are earnest af.

A cool thing about California is that transgender and gender non-conforming people are a protected class. If you stereotype or denigrate a trans colleague at work, you’re going to lose your job. 🐻

This is true of the clickbait media but not the serious (usually financial) press. Different audiences, different revenue models, different takes.

Ok just mail a green card to every human on earth and get it over with.

Cities in blue states have less crime and murders! Higher life expectancy, maternal mortality more Scandinavia (California) than Africa (Texas) Even lower overall tax rates than red states like Texas (which replace wealth income tax with higher taxes and fees on the poor) while subsidizing them!

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It turns out Nithya Raman did win her own 4th City Council District... While one would assume an incumbent ought to be winning their own district, there is something to be said for how hard-earned even that might be for Raman in particular. squawkbox.la/p/la-squawk-...

What if this but for LAUSD

Karen Bass and Nithya Raman both seem like nice people and it’s going to be very awkward watching them perform negativity towards each other.

This is a great list. The spectrum is basically real news for paying professionals <-> clickbait for bored amateurs.

Pete Hegseth has the worst favorability rating of anyone in the administration. He’s speaking to an audience of one.

Los Angeles, there is always hope!! 💙 📍Hope St. in Downtown LA & Esperanza St. in Boyle Heights (La esperanza is the Spanish word for hope) 🥹🙏🏽

Under-discussed in the discourse is the fact that more people live in the San Fernando Valley than in Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire combined.

The capitalist/socialist distinction itself is fundamentally Marxist so this sounds more like a rallying cry for, uh, Marxists.

That’s at least 2/5 mayoral candidates holding their watch parties in Sawtelle (Rae Huang’s is here too).

Anecdotal but I’ve been seeing way more transit ridership on my morning (E Line) and afternoon (R10 bus) commutes since the D Line extension opened.

“In the end, the outcome of L.A.’s mayoral race may not depend so much on Bass’ ability to inspire her traditional Democratic coalition. The question is whether a new generation can find a way to represent a mass of Angelenos with bold new visions and coalitions of their own.”

a pedestrian-friendly, transit-rich, housing-abundant LA would possible be the best city in the world

LA is unbelievably large My uncle has a third favorite Laotian restaurant By population it is the sixth most populous primary Spanish language speakers in the world

The Community, Economic, and Human Development agenda where this will be heard June 4 has been posted: scag.ca.gov/sites/defaul... They explicitly are using the most limited definitions possible and actively disregarding HCD guidance regarding higher frequency Metrolink stations.

Vote for Nithya.

LA Times coverage of the mayor’s race has been solid and reality-based.

All the people who confidently told me that my views on urbanism, car culture and exclusionary school districts would evolve once I had a kid were wrong. Don't project your feelings of bad faith onto other people!

My great aunt used to say “I envy you for all the books you haven’t read yet” and man she was right, there are so many good books to read.

Great piece about Measure ULA. Also this is rich coming from Miguel Santana: "There have been some unintended consequences." Every consequence was intended lol the backers knew exactly what they were doing.

If I were a billionaire this if I were a billionaire that if I were a billionaire I’d buy this 2,500 year old Chinese sword.

Catch-22 The Brothers Karamazov The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Peekaboo

The way this pretty much sums up The Iliad is perfect.

The gravitational pull of the worst rich people in Los Angeles must be like a supernova because Lieu, Horvath, and Zbur all campaigned on the right things and they all de facto kind of suck as electeds (even if Horvath is a little better than Lieu and Zbur) and I think this is why.

The thing about the American economy is that it’s a cheat code. It’s dead simple to make a fortune in this country, and the best and brightest from the rest of the world keep coming here to do so. MAGA types hate this and want to destroy this dynamic forever.

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The Green Knight was so good.

City council is afraid of a Raman mayoralty.

“Hedge funds are buying up all the houses” Yeah hard pass

If CicLAvia had official gear this weekend it would be Ride the D t-shirts those things are everywhere.

This is the way.

LA Metro Board (laudatory) vs. LA Metro Board (derogatory)

Katherine King for LACMA Chair of the Board of Trustees.

The most well-situated geographic town in the state of CT w/beach access and 4 train stations to GCT totally dominated by NIMBY extremists Functionally *zero* population growth in 60 years. The opportunity costs for the state and its residents is massive

“Christianity reduced to a tribal marker, hollowed of theology, remade in the image of political grievance, is not Christianity preserved, but Christianity consumed.”

Adam Schiff and Ted Lieu low key kinda suck.

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This is a cool effort by a school system to leverage publicly owned land to create thousands of housing units, affordable to teachers. School districts own huge amounts of well-located, underutilized land that they could use for such housing projects. But few districts are actually doing so.

You hate to see it.

Ted Lieu’s never had a bad thing to say about his NIMBY constituents so I’d complain less about cost of living issues if I were him.