Ideas We Should Steal: Citizens’ Assemblies A growing body of research suggests that the leadership we need right now could—quite literally—be all around us thephiladelphiacitizen.org/citizens-ass...

Are Border Czar, Tom Homan’s, announcements today on ICE and Border Patrol changes a win? Memo breaks it down. @eltragon.bsky.social

Aaron Peterson "refused to give a direct answer on whether Trump can run for president in 2028. ... refused to give a direct answer to the question of whether Trump lost the 2020 election." thealaskacurrent.com/2025/12/15/s...

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

The CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away. Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data. www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

You’ll never guess but the solution to people not having money is to give them money.

It's true it seems, with no warning or explanation CIA simply discontinued and removed the World Factbook this week. I imagine they'd say we have wikipedia now wo who needs it, but check the footnotes and see how many wiki entries get their data from the CIA factbook. Lots.

A new study from conservative economists shows immigrants benefit our economy significantly. White paper is here: www.cato.org/white-paper/...

If you want to know who is calling for Casey Wasserman to resign from LA28 (and who isn’t), be following @awalkerinla.bsky.social Calling for resignations: Supervisors Hahn and Horvath, Controller Mejia, CMs Soto-Martinez, Hernandez, Raman, Rodriguez, Padilla.

🚨I’ve been saying this 2+ years now: We don’t know WHY WaPo was suddenly hugely unprofitable and started this downturn in 2023, because Jeff Bezos’s friend Patty Stonesifer barred investigation.🚨 It is becoming more and more obvious this was a premeditated murder, long before he cut the editorial.

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

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On a right-wing podcast today, ACIP member Robert Malone, who has a history of spreading medical misinformation online, claimed that COVID "boosters didn't make sense" & "you might speculate that those things might come up at the February meeting" for ACIP.

ONE DAY LATER Larry Summers fleshed out his complaints in a Washington Post column

Convert deadly HF/MHF to a safer alternative @ the Torrance & Wilmington Valero refineries www.change.org/p/convert-de...

I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...

"LA28 cannot claim to represent the values of this city without addressing these concerns head-on. Casey Wasserman must resign." Another call to step down from LA City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez

Where are the conservative deficit hawks on this issue? Oh whoops they don’t give a fuck since it’s conservatives in rural/ exurban locales who stand to get bailed out by this unsustainable largesse from the state.

For some additional context, FAIR plan liability is about 3x as much as the state’s unfunded pension liability.

I don't think the average Californian fully appreciates how bad this situation has become. We're essentially sitting on a ticking time bomb.

The EVs that are cleaning my air in Redondo Beach, California are the unsubsidized ebikes that make up 20+% of our peak hour traffic. If you see me on my ebike, wave (but don't honk). Give me space because I slow down to admire flowers, dogs and babies

Not to mention the fact that, like, we're still perpetuating this. We still allow the construction of new homes in areas where the only insurance you're going to be able to get is the FAIR plan. Seems bad!

No, no, no. The NYT assured me this very morning that this is a legitimate "fraud crackdown" that has sadly gotten slightly tainted by politics. (Worth noting the NYT itself was the first to resurrect the years-old Minnesota fraud story in November with zero news hook. TikTokers followed the NYT)

Bass just announced these three conventions as evidence the expanded convention center is drawing more visitors to LA. These numbers are so absolutely minuscule compared to the convention business we used to book. 55,000 people in ten years?

The state of the environmental movement in California is...bleak

There is exactly *one* big city mayor in the Bay Area who supported SB79, the holy grail of YIMBY housing reforms. It was Barbara Lee. No other big city mayor in the Bay Area chose to do so. Do with that information what you will.

San Diego installed bike lanes on a busy commercial street in North Park in 2021. Ridership jumped 67% the next year. Now, 4 years later, bike and scooter trips on 30th Street have hit another record high. Foot traffic and business activity is also booming. www.kpbs.org/news/quality...

The leader of this organization was at the Planning and Conservation League's annual conference this weekend and make some absurd assertions about the RHNA numbers being too high. Environmentalists need to stop letting these people in our spaces.

"The bill, HB246 ... instructs the director of vehicles of Kansas to identify every license issued to a trans person and send written notice that the license must be surrendered and reissued. Driving with a license that has been canceled, suspended, or revoked is a misdemeanor in Kansas."

This protest was my most fun protest so far.

Anti-ice march from Manhattan Beach Pier to Hermosa Beach Pier in the south bay of Los Angeles, California

We have more seniors than kids in my area. The thought of seniors driving SUVs (especially EVs w/ fast acceleration) at night keeps me from bicycling after dark

If only there were other places the city of Los Angeles could zone for additional housing that would have less concern over gentrification. If only, oh, if only! www.latimes.com/california/s...

Looks like an amazing turnout at SLC’s ride in unity event for Alex Pretti today. Wish I was there. The GOP hates the empathy and community that bikes bring www.instagram.com/reel/DUM5gBj...

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Among many other protests against ICE today, sit-ins at Target stores were held nationwide this afternoon, calling on the corporation to "stop collaborating with ICE." Protesters with signs sang songs & chanted softly as customers passed by. This video is from the downtown Target in Minneapolis.

Happening now. Chair Ortega will be speaking about imported water this morning

What the world can learn from Paris’s cycling revolution. momentummag.com/what-the-wor...

A few images from the protest in downtown LA

remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened

You know how it’s absurd for us to think the government can afford big ticket items like trains and childcare and healthcare but the instant a republican is president we have 95 trillion dollars to spend on 16 wars and ethnic cleansing and a special big boy job for every pedophile in the country and

Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.

Our statement on the Jan 22nd Metro Board vote for the C Line Extension to Torrance. Thank you to all who joined to support certification of the Final EIR for Hybrid LPA. We did not expect the Hawthorne motion. It will pose significant delay but there is still hope for rail to the South Bay (1/3)

Anyway @shaylamyers.bsky.social was correct in 2024 and she's also correct now. "Nothing about LA’s history suggests they will stop using criminalization to erase the signs of visible homelessness from the eyes of the international press. But the city does this on any given Tuesday"

lol good job LA www.latimes.com/california/s...

Here are a few of the emails from Casey Wasserman, current chair of LA28, to Ghislaine Maxwell in the latest Epstein files drop

(ANNOUNCER "It seems that she does not, in fact, have control of the LAPD") LAPD won’t enforce ban on federal law enforcement officers wearing masks, chief says – Daily News www.dailynews.com/2026/01/29/l...

Right now outside in Minneapolis outside the Whipple ICE facility, hundreds of people gathered to protest against ICE in their city and state. Today is National shutdown day.