A new RAND study of impact fees finds that a 25% reduction in such fees would increase the number of feasible housing developments by 20%, and pay for itself via increased taxed revenue. www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

That friend that's too woke.

TBH I feel like Mamdani has bent over backwards to demonstrate that he's not remotely antisemitic, and guys like Frum who will call him an antisemite anyway on the basis of his religion and anti-Zionism are doing the work of bona fide antisemites

I haven't commented on the CA Governor primary because it's depressing and I'm already struggling to find motivation to vote in the general election.

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IMO, hosting this MMA event at the WH is part of a larger project to rebrand the GOP as a populist party, shedding the Alex P Keaton stereotype it once carried. And in doing so, make them seem like the right party for working class people, even as they cut taxes for the rich & slash social services

Mamdani becoming mayor and immediately seeing Arsenal and Knicks winning makes him the best embodiment of the phrase "Throughout Heaven and Earth, I Alone Am The Honored One."

This is great news for Los Angeles, a city that no one in the world has never heard of.

Insane Game 4 from the Knicks, legendary game to come back from down 27 points at half time.

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

gatekeeping who can and cannot be a “real New Yorker” is some absolute loser behavior and goes against the very ethos of New York City. and the cherry on top is that JLo lives in LA now

The funniest thing about Elon Musk is how he got a bunch of his customers to apologize for buying his products "before he went crazy."

oppo research on Talarico: he is in a loving relationship with his beautiful girlfriend oppo research on Paxton: he literally freed a pedophile and his wife divorced him on “biblical grounds”

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An excerpt from Pope Leo XIV's encyclical this morning. The full text can be read here: www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

There's a reason AOC does not fw him since they parted ways.

BREAKING FIFA World Cup hotel cancellations are surging as global fans ditch the U.S. Main reasons are soaring costs, visa bonds, and Tr*mp’s dictatorial behavior.

AOC goes beast mode by invoking Northern supremacy over the South.

“I’m a union man always and period, but give me a break” is the only correct reaction to the LIRR strike. LIRR workers are already the highest paid railroad workers in the world and make $136k on average, over $200K when factoring in benefits!

What percentage of America's financial woes come down to the inability to make wise spending decisions? I don't mean to be callous but like, how many people are in a perfectly fine financial situation if they would just not make dumb car purchases, order food delivery, gamble, etc?

Not even Top 5 Braindead Caltrans decisions.

i can’t get over how there’s an incredible plan in Chelsea (my neighborhood!) to rebuild NYCHA housing much denser, using the revenue from new mixed income housing to give every single existing NYCHA tenant a brand new, permanently affordable home… and of course rich NIMBYs are trying to stop it

I was right!

I want to talk about Metro’s elephant-in-the-room project, the E Line’s Eastside Extension. I offhandedly opine in videos a lot that I don’t know how they expect this thing to get funded and built, but I want to explain a little bit more about why. The TL;DR is essentially - this is a bad project-

Tom Steyer locked in:

The wheels on the bus go boom because LA streets suck.

What's the likelihood of this actually happening, let alone passing?

They think you're stupid.

This also happens if you switch to transit. Most of the people driving through an arterial intersection probably haven't tried to cross it as a pedestrian before.

Here’s a more-detailed overview of LA’s SB 79 proposal TLDR: It’s actually pretty close to being a workable ordnance, but there are two major issues (height & 100% affordable projects) that need to be addressed

New study: Families who leave California are much more likely to have financial problems than those who stay. But seven years later, those who leave are much more likely to be homeowners than those who stay. Revive the California Dream: build more housing! www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

FBI Director Kash Patel is also a drunkard, news at 11.

It's pretty dispiriting that the California legislature won't even advance narrow coastal act exemptions for multimodal transit (bike lanes) and infill housing in cities with high quality transit access. What the hell are we doing here, guys?

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment. /1

Eric Swalwell just resigned.

Why are we allied with these people?

Tom Steyer this week:

I do not listen to any streamers because streamers are dumb

As much as I feel that Tom Steyer is probably the best candidate in this race to win, I really doubt he could actually get single payer healthcare passed in CA like some are hoping.

Can the CA Governor's race get even uglier? The answer is yes, yes it can.

easily one of the funniest guys america has had in decades

After reading the full people mover grand jury report, I have drawn two conclusions. 1. It should be illegal for aspiring screenwriters to write a grand jury report, and 2. The contractors need to be fired into the fucking sun

If Sam Altman had died anytime before the board tried to fire him in 2023, he would have died a hero and all his sins at YC and OpenAI would have been washed away. But now he's lived long enough to become the villain, turning OpenAI into the "profit-seeking mega-corporation" he feared years ago.

TLDR everyone says "we trust you to make the right decision President Trump" and then Trump proceeds to make the wrong decision.

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

How does the US extricate itself from the Iran conflict without immediately ceding authority over the Strait of Hormuz to Iran. While I hate all aspects of this conflict, the US also can't just give them free reign over the region, or let the region fall into chaos and war.

my first reaction is that there's some very good stuff in here. I'd like city council to be even bigger than 25, but it's an improvement. ranked choice voting, council oversight over police, director of public works, 10 year charter review cycles... i think the commission did a fair job

Tom Steyer these few weeks:

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

Basically everything people like to criticize about CAHSR is caused by funding. Central Valley start? mandated by federal funding Slow progress? most of the budget has never been funded Current value engineering of IOS? Motivated by quest for private funding