gop in power economy down repeat

Don’t buy a cow, or a car, and expect your city to give you someplace to park it. #UrbanTruth

A zoning mistake in Barrio Logan means land that was supposed to become much-needed park space may instead become a Soapy Joe’s Car Wash. voiceofsandiego.org/2026/03/16/h...

oh hell yes, had kalshi getting charged before april on polymarket at +2500

FEDWATCH: A “global fertilizer shock is underway as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped 30–35% of global nitrogen exports .. The transmission mechanism is fast .. because fertilizer is one of the highest variable costs in crop production. Farmers face sharply rising input costs ..”

Sometimes I cry at how effective conservative propaganda is

The "shrimp treadmill" really is a perfect microcosm - Conservative media reports the cost as $600,000 for a "shrimp treadmill", shows absurd video - Actual cost: $50, part of grant to measure & improve shrimp health, to embiggen & improve fishing yields bsky.app/profile/mega...

Narrator voice: “the shrimp treadmill study at LSU helped shrimpers in the Gulf of Mexico keep the stocks from crashing and saved hundreds of small businesses that serve the restaurant industry”

But we didn't have economic stagnation for the working class. We had a period of unusually *high* wage growth for low income workers.

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff

For the record this is called a “chilling effect” and it’s what all the campus free speech guys said they were worried about when conservatives were getting yelled at for citing anti-trans hate groups as though they were impartial researchers and bringing disgraceful race science cranks to campus

City of San Diego missing out on a major source of revenue during a historic budget crisis.

How is she paying $830/month for sub-$30k car ? Is she on like a 16 month loan ?

Missing middle housing is the hottest new club in Oakland and it has *everything* -3bed/2bath -single stair -balconies! -beautiful Spanish-style facade -no “break up the massing” bs

This NACTO/USDOT report addresses how to downsize fire trucks in cities. nacto.org/wp-content/u...

It's so silly. Yeah, people should be queer, but subway lines should be straight.

Maybe instead of networks we should just build one subway line that starts in the city center and spirals outward, looping through every POI in one go. One seat ride

If some little kid can’t ride to school or a grandma can’t pick up bread at the store then the roads aren’t safe enough and need to be changed.

Excellent and informative piece

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

ICE is trafficking people who aren’t from there to a tiny landlocked absolute monarchy on the borders of South Africa and Mozambique.

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment. Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off. The 25th is never happening.

it’s unreal how iran is the most rational actor involved in this whole thing

iran: we are willing to engage in talks to promote denuclearization contingent on some security guarantees and sanctions relief israel: skulls for the skull throne usa: blood for the blood god

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood. trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️ republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️ “sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️ naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️ villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️ powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️ list goes on

y'all should familiarize yourself with what the Average American is consuming entertainment-wise!

damn i wish i gave a shit about the millionaire podcaster’s fake buyer’s remorse

Fun fact, state colleges and universities are exempt from local zoning and land use rules, and could be playing a much more active role in relieving the housing shortage if they wanted to.

$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year: -1.4 million people on Medicaid -19 million kids getting free school lunches -1.4 million people getting affordable housing -1.1 million hungry seniors fed -0.8 million children given free child care

The fact that the only way to meaningfully lower housing costs requires letting capitalists make a lot of money building expensive new homes kind of breaks a lot of people’s brains.

as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

NEW: Before the Iran War, Trump ignored warnings that Iran could retaliate across the region and stop oil shipments. Now, with energy markets in chaos, some aides are pessimistic about the lack of a strategy to end the war. But they haven't told Trump. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

This you, JD? 👀

discourse on bluesky dot app

I have infinitely more leisure time than my grandparents did. We all do. Social media wouldn’t exist otherwise. Nobody had time to poast before washing machines.

I do not regret to inform yall that Bluesky has the juice

the anti smoking campaign was so successful that people forgot how bad smoking was. seems like a metaphor for most things in society these days.

Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list. My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

If this is real, Trump might actually get impeached over $10/gallon gasoline lasting into the summer.

Yes, exactly! Building code reform is what really enables the small-scale fine-grained urbanism that planners have spent the past 30 years using façade modulation, stepback, and materials requirements to force developers to fake!

Without single stair, this would be a block-length 5-over-1 (on a parking podium) with an ugly “break up the massing” facade

This is because hating the Democrats is a way to build social currency with other Democrats in a way that the Republicans don't do

I think the reason this works is that it manages to deflect from trans issues without conceding Republican framing. It's not advocacy in itself but it's head and shoulders above Newsom and his ilk.

Councilmember Raul Campillo seeks to introduce a ballot measure to permanently enshrine free car storage at beaches and bays, guaranteeing congestion, cruising, and land waste that make those beaches harder to reach for people who can't drive there anyway. obrag.org/2026/03/hot-...

I guarantee that someone on El Cerrito NextDoor is posting "Why can't we just AUDIT the books and cut the WASTE and FRAUD?" (while paying $2500 per year on a $1.2M market value home)