Me looking at the Gavin Newsom scandal hut

Max pulled up what I was too lazy to go dig up but absolutely everyone should understand that Supervisors predicted the outcomes of downzoning in 1978, on the record, cast dissenting votes, and were proven right. We’ve known the whole time that we need to build homes, don’t pretend otherwise

Not enough attention in LA Politics and the mayor's race on the terribly embarrassing situation of our zoo. It's unacceptable. www.latimes.com/california/s...

It's almost dirty enough for RFK Jr to go swimming in it

good post and article

The UK: after 300+ years, still too scared of itself to have a proper national soccer team

THAT’S TWO BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP GOALS IN THE FIRST HALF FOR TEAM USA

A Dem populist could campaign on canceling all SpaceX contracts

Just saw an anti AB 1903 ad on Youtube. The plaintiff lawyers are going to go all out on this one.

People tell me I'm insane for this but literally the thing we are worried about, the thing that will cause Social Security to be insolvent- is that we are worried that the government will no longer owe money to itself. So just loan yourself more money!

I hope Dems have a plan how to tax Musk into oblivion in 2028

As I've said before, The US Treasury could lend $1 trillion to itself, then place the bond holdings in the Trust Fund. The Trust Fund is solvent again! But sure do away with the senior tax break from the Big Beautiful Bill. But increase payroll taxes? God no. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...

LET THE SOMALI REF IN do we actually need to fucking exert social media pressure to do this? Waste of everybody's time and energy but I guess we do. Fuck.

So I'm seeing this German tourist guy going to Alabama show up a lot in feed but is he in fact real?

This analysis is better than anything that's been in the LATimes but it still misses the boat by trying to smash the local dynamics into a national left/right binary. People in cities are mad that they don't have housing options that suit their economic status. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/o...

LATimes continues to disservice local politics coverage. Bass and Nithya are NOT aligned on many policies, at least the ones that the Mayor actually has control over. That's why she's running in the first place!!! www.latimes.com/california/s...

The fantasy of one party rule is that there’s nothing stopping you from affirming your commitments. The reality of one party rule is that there’s nothing making you do it either.

Since we're about to make a con artist our first trillionaire, here's one of my favorite SpaceX predictions www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Social Security Trust Fund is entirely invested in US Government Debt (by statute). If it's really such a giant problem that it might reach zero US debt, why doesn't the government just issue $1 trillion in new debt to itself and then place that debt in the Trust Fund. This is a fake problem

And Gustavo Arellano was right there for it

Yooooo remember a couple years ago when those three LA city council members were caught on tape saying a ton of insanely racist stuff and conspiring to gerrymander another council member’s district? That other council member was Nithya Raman. The voting bloc they were trying to split? Renters.

LATimes: After knocking Spencer Pratt out of his spectacular mayoral race runoff spot, Nithya Raman remains in a disappointing second place.

This whole analysis of the Nithya / Bass dynamic in the mayor's race doesn't mention the Streets For All or YIMBY backing of Raman at all, or really any of the reasons I am upset with Bass. Just feels like I live in a completely different local political universe from the Times coverage.

Just got a message from LA County TODAY that my ballot was received and will be counted. So it looks like my ballot hasn't even been counted yet.

Nithya should take the lead in tomorrow's ballot drop

I don't think I've ever made a Platner / Maine take do not make me do it social media

So if there are 600,000 ballots still outstanding it's over. It will be Nithya / Bass

as I was saying yesterday

So Raman has gained a percentage point on Pratt each day since the election. The last LATimes poll had Huang at 9% but she is not going anywhere and seems stuck at <3%. There were 10% undecided in that poll seems a fair amount broke for Bass. If you need hope this is it.

Trump appears to be completely passed out asleep during his 3pm Oval Office announcement

California can, and should, count votes even slower. Hand counting only. Tallies sent by pony courier. The certification ritual performed under the pale light of a full moon.

LATimes calling Bass into the runnoff

I will admit I voted today and not electronically

IMO if you're looking for a reason to be optimistic this is it. Anecdotal, but I also know a LOT of people that were waiting late to vote because of gov, and these are gonna break overwhelmingly for steyer, and obviously way more for nithya over pratt too

Quick somebody run the math if this is still plausible

in drop 4 nithya netted about 1.5X the votes spencer got. in drop 5, 1.68X. trendline is good.

I'm trying to stay calm but not easy. Rae Huang being this low seems like it should be a good sign.

LA's continuing budget crisis can be felt in every essential city service. This evening, my 6 year old & I sat through the summer camp orientation at the Rose Hill Rec Center. The presentation was full of apologies for all the cutbacks -a deafening reminder of @mayor.lacity.gov broken promises.

I promised last year to never vote for Durazo again and she's up for supervisor and everybody else also seems to suck so I'm just picking one of them randomly.

At least the Greatest Nation Ever to Exist's 250th birthday party still has Vanilla Ice booked

Yeah I'm moving closer and closer to Becerra outright sucks

AMEN

People call me crazy but just heard an extremely preeminent Harvard economist say that we don't know if r* is rising in the "good" way or the "bad" way (r* being a variable which is unmeasurable and which actually doesn't exist) but either way the result will be that we need to raise interest rates.

Karen Bass has (publicly) tried to stay out of this and gestured weakly to council member prerogative (a bogus principle) but it's exactly this sort of non-leadership why she must go.

the reason to be against AI is religious and faith based, we just haven't invented the religion yet

rn Bass is at abt 30%, so if you vote Raman in the primary, we can ass Pratt out of the run-off. Do it. Also, Raman is far and away the best candidate w/any chance of winning. Rae is cool, but vote Raman.

I guess I'm probably going to vote for Steyer. Governor Hilton incoming.

Still waiting for somebody to convince me who to vote for for governor

2000 Margaux

this is garbage