It's very funny to declare USPS's losses as some sort of failure when for the last decade of weird tech start ups, the public has basically been trained to shrug off massive cash burns as "good, actually"

Wow! Wealthy homeowner groups in San Francisco suing under the California Environmental Quality Act to try to stop a major citywide rezoning to create new multifamily housing? Who could have seen this coming?!

TF was that. Am I high? #WorldCup2026

Ah yes a peace prize from the it’s-fine-to-build-stadiums-with-slave-labor organization. The world is actually a joke

I am not a big sports fan. But have been a WORLD CUP fanatic since a teen. After today’s events I will be skipping this world cup. I cannot support them after what they did today.

I think FIFA might be corrupt.

Politics aside, LA28's silence is so perplexing from a strategic perspective. The refusal to guarantee the safety of LA's immigrant community could end up seriously impacting the organizing committee's ability to deliver the games. Even the Dodgers eventually said something. What is going on?

SF progressives sometimes claim to be upset that wealthy, low density areas don't get built up in SF, instead of areas full of rent controlled housing. if that was in good faith, this would be an excellent opportunity to call the moderates' bluff on housing. they won't, of course! but they should.

Bring Back Innovation That Empowers, Rather Than Extracts: The Resonant Computing Manifesto Everyone's pissed at the tech industry. And for good reason. The term enshittification is super popular for many valid reasons. Companies that used to provide real value, are now focused on extracting more…

ABC & NBC & CNN: actively collaborating with Trump CBS & FNC & WaPo & LAT: owned/operated by hardcore Trump supporters NYT: anti-Democratic MSNow: pretty good for a few hours each day?

If money were no barrier and political crosswinds didn’t exist, wise public policy steps would include stopping development in risky places like the Jersey Shore, helping people gradually move out of harm’s way. That's not on the table. Story: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Any Democrat who isn't on board with adding new justices to SCOTUS can count on me to fiercely campaign against them

The South Bay COG (in Los Angeles) may try to delay the start of construction of the Metro C/K to Torrance. If you want more transit in the South Bay, please take action with the link below

Urge LA Metro and South Bay COG to Advance the C Line Extension to Torrance actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco, California

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Pastor Eddie Anderson condemns Casey Wasserman’s butt-kissing Trump visit and the creation of the LA28 White House task force that includes ICE architects Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem. He also calls out LA28’s silence as immigration raids terrorized the region

The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week - something very strange is happening with Apple Podcasts - someone changed a map of Ukraine seemingly related to a Polymarket bet - subscribers: half the US now requires face/ID scans to watch porn Subscribe on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4QC...

“Maybe we’re onto something.” “How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”

This is too much.

when Michael Phelps was dominating US swimming there was endless coverage of all his genetic advantages. His wingspan, the way his body processed lactic acid, on and on and on. Nobody, not one person, floated the idea of kicking him out of the sport for genetic advantages

My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law. Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it. No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors. That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.

Trump is literally everything @jaketapper.bsky.social spent first half of 2025 warning US about in regard to Biden, but real & way worse, and he remains silent because Corporate Media is collaborating against US.

An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage. www.wired.com/story/flock-...

Downzoning was used by cities around the world to preserve neighborhood aesthetics & protect property values. New evidence from Chicago in @findingspress.org ⏬ shows downzoning's effects over several decades: —Massive drop in housing construction —Higher home prices —Increased racial segregation

Fuck Aaron Rodgers.

The episodes with agribusiness guys are always like this lol They had a cattle rancher on a week or two ago who blamed “market manipulation” for growing beef prices. The manipulation in question? Beef imports from other countries.

We are 10 years into this and NYT editors are still surprised? No, they are hurting US on purpose.

The “we can’t possibly build more homes because our infrastructure isn’t perfect” argument is ubiquitous in San Francisco housing debates. It’s effectively saying “sorry, no home for you until all infrastructure is perfect — go live 100 miles away.” The argument is also factually baseless:

someone attended the Bari Weiss School of Having Principles

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

Sure seems just a little bit suspect that the gutted Consumer Product Safety Commission's highest profile action this administration is going after e-bikes.

When I say Waymo "doesn't scale," this is what I mean.

This is for the “nobody rides the bus anymore” & “the buses are always empty” folks: RIPTA on a Sunday!!

At the YIMBY Legislative Town Hall 2025 with @cayimby.bsky.social and @abundanthousingla.bsky.social #yimby #losangeles

So Trump's whole "punishable by death" comment is really just gonna wash away in the span of a 24 hour news cycle, huh? We really are broken as a society.

Wow, this article published by @npr.org in August 2024, they accused Harris of lying about: Trump wanting to jail is enemies, Trump enacting Project2025, Trump cutting healthcare & social welfare programs, Trump cutting taxes for rich, Trump raising taxes for working families with tariffs ...

In a city full of NIMBYs, Connie Chan is one of the biggest. she’s also super anti-transit and opposed measure RR that saved Caltrain during the pandemic. Meanwhile, Scott has led the cause for almost every pro-housing and transit bill Scott vs. Connie is the definition of good governance vs. bad

The Washington Post, everyone!

Note that Metro pleads poverty in not funding open streets but has money for much more costly freeway widening through wetlands

i find it so off-putting when you watch journalists interviewing politicians and you can tell they’re friendly, all in a big club that doesn’t serve the public’s interests. access journalism is the opposite of accountability journalism.

Starbucks can end this today: bargain in good faith, resolve unfair labor practices, and stop the union-busting. Until then, workers are holding the line! #NoCoffeeNoContract

Reminder: Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads. TODAY would be a great day to cancel Spotify and delete your account. #CancelSpotify #Cancel #Spotify #ICE

Trump is determined to provide sensitive American technology to the Saudis, ranging from AI to military. It seems so linked to his own economic interests: real estate deals, Saudi investments, perhaps his scam meme coin bribe scheme. He doesn’t care about our country. He only cares about himself.

I will not be buying any World Cup tickets or merchandise due to FIFA’s collaboration with the Trump regime. Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.

Remember how local media completely wiffed initial coverage of the 2022 fight btwn Proud Boys & the Rose City Nationalists - a viral event that had huge national ripple effects? They're doing it again w Tarrio & the Proud Boy's appearance at the PDX ICE protests last weekend. Zero coverage.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading

The Epstein emails didn't expose a nostalgic "lost New York" so much as the utter moral rot of a U.S. ruling patriarchy that could never get enough money...or teenaged girls My new column on the midnight of elites, how #MeToo didn't go far enough...and pitchforks www.inquirer.com/opinion/epst...

Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey