Angelenos should not be kettled, arrested, or punished for exercising their First Amendment rights — including the right to document what they see. If you were detained or arrested for bearing witness or for “unlawful assembly” after you were already being contained, that demands accountability.

If you struggle sometimes with self-doubt, I unironically recommend following and reading people like Ezra Klein and Matty Yglesias. They’re wrong on almost every consequential issue nearly 100% of the time. It’s like an anti-compass that gets you back pointing due North.

republicans are reaching “alaska senate is lean D” levels of cooked

Next time I’m in Manhattan (June) also gonna take a selfie with the congestion pricing cameras tbh. They’re celebs!

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

Ok step one is to make them look less delicious

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

who was earl grey

Really liking these artist highlights that @metrolosangeles.bsky.social is putting out for the new D Line stations, and I love the entrance art featured here at what will become my closest rail station!

Something I missed in the last LA Times poll is that Nithya's favorability is +3 with 51% no opinion (tons of room to introduce her to voters) and Karen Bass is -25 with only 13% no opinion (even if every one of those voters decided they liked her she'd still be -12 lol). This is why I think Nithya

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.

In our experience with EIFD modeling a small increase to turnover rates has a much larger impact to funding than even moderate upzoning. I wouldn’t worry about this substantially impacting the bottom line especially over a 75 year timeline

OK I'm back home from Metro HQ. Reception in there was absolutely horrible so sorry I wasn't able to post more from in there. Phone could barely load bluesky. Here's my take on the motion:

Passes unanimously

Najarian casting doubt on WeHo’s EIFD contribution capability. Butts trying to insist he was always for the project. And now sticking up for Bass lol.

Welp because I walked out for the press conference I didn’t make the cut for comments. Alas

They might actually run out of time for comments before I can comment. Alas

Am I high or is barger loving it every time someone yells at bass lol

And yes I heard bass accused me of siccing the trump admin on them (luckily it’s rob bonta, as I think it’s state law!)

Been struggling to post because reception in here is awful but my god one of the NIMBYs just said she worries about RADIATION FROM THE WIFI ON THE TRAINS

Presentation on staff rec is over. I expect the motion to come next

JDW is confirming the tunnel under her house. And insisting her recusal is not required. (Worth a challenge!)

Barger was delighted by the constant non-comments

Seems like they’re going out of order to not lose time for other things

Will try to live post this but reception is spotty

Was outside for the press conference in the sign holding crowd. Deal reached, I don’t have the text yet, but I again expect southern alignment selection will be delayed but with guardrails on it and a timer on it, and that the mayoral election will ultimately determine the alignment. Nithya gets

Outside for the press conference

Should be at metro just after 8:30

I don't want to get too far ahead of myself, but I think (or at least hope) we won

She took out the motion part @nickandert.bsky.social 👀

At the end of the day, I am feeling *very* good about tomorrow, and I can't wait to get the K Line fully approved so I can go back into my cocoon of working on my truly-unhinged-level-of-detail Venice/Pico line white paper. See you tomorrow!

🚓LAPD working with ICE 🎯Deploying teargas and foam bullets on peaceful protestors 🚫Pretextual traffic stops targeting Black & brown communities City Council doesn’t currently have the power to set LAPD policy, but that could soon change thanks to a decision last night from the Charter Commission.🧵

I again want to stress how effective the call ins to the metro board were. You guys all did a fantastic job. Seems to have made a giant difference in the political calculus.

My man clearly had to fight with Cigna over an MRI

First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of.

I'm still just kinda shocked at how badly Bass overplayed her hand and just bad she's gonna look coming out of this. It is WILD that someone this bad at politics got so far in politics.

if barger holds to this, we now have the votes for the staff rec!

Oh by the way, we're two hours from the written public comment deadline. I'd been waiting to write mine until we knew if a compromise motion was going to come out, but seems like that's a nope. Get yours in!

just checked and bass's 'deliberate misinformation' post is still up lol. when weho just proved that it was in fact bass putting out deliberate misinformation.

Looks like livestream of the board meeting will still be down due to Metro's cyber attack, but you can listen at least on the phone. I did that for the planning and programming committee meeting last week and it went smoothly.

negotiations may have stalled out because WeHo just took the nuclear option

Nithya's housing platform is so good. Hard to overstate how rare it is to get the exact right person up for the exact right job at the exact right time. She actually knows what she's doing, which is something that we haven't experienced in the mayor's office in AWHILE

I wrote the law that unlocked billions in financing for the K Line extension without raising taxes. Now, LA is one vote away from either building the transit we need, or stalling yet again. Choose the best route forward now. Choose the San Vicente-Fairfax route.

NIMBYs in Del Mar are trying to slow down the US's #2 train corridor. Thread on why their arguments don't hold water. Speak out at 9 am on Friday in support of the Del Mar Tunnel and the Crest Canyon alignment! 🧵 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Negotiations are ongoing on a possible compromise motion. One thing I should point out that I had misunderstood is that the LA County EIFD will only be in a geographical overlay with WeHo. Did not realize they need LA City's sign off to overlay with LA City. So that means functionally there is no

The Metro Board:

how well are things going? things are going “a democrat is now representing mar-a-lago in the florida state house” well

Oh boy I’ve now got a couple years of eligibility left to die in the strait of Hormuz!

Ok folks things may have take a turn in the last hour and I am feeling better about this…. It is VERY important that the turnout on Thursday is absolutely bonkers

Oh great, on top of all this too city council voted option 1 for SB79. (Raman tried valiantly for 2). Our local politics are absolute dogshit.