Folks in the replies are giving NBC News shit for this, but it's actually an extremely effective demonstration by Tom Llamas of a classic journalism tactic: Just ask a few basic questions, with no judgment or edge in your tone, and let the interviewee hang themselves with the rope you've given them

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The Community, Economic, and Human Development agenda where this will be heard June 4 has been posted: scag.ca.gov/sites/defaul... They explicitly are using the most limited definitions possible and actively disregarding HCD guidance regarding higher frequency Metrolink stations.

America is an exceptionally wealthy nation in which most households own both a private home and a car

Catering to braindead slobs is unappealing but them's the breaks. Finding a way to rhetorically cater to people like this is essential and the stakes are too high to discard marginal votes.

Just The Most Left™ candidate out here making nice with a psychotic fascist who wants to put the homeless in concentration camps before deleting the tweet

She’s making this up. The median American household has ~$8k in the bank. Sorry but that’s just factual reality

Just the stock market doing ridiculous things again.

I didn’t think I could imagine a more bad-faith, cynical, and out-of-touch use of well-intentioned environmental law than fighting to stop infill housing and transit projects, but here it is: California state employee unions are threatening a CEQA lawsuit to stop a return-to-office mandate.

good lord the pratt campaign is sinking to new lows

Used to think the hot stove touching was necessary. Guess we’re past that and now onto burning the whole village to save it phase.

The lack of Division I (or NCAA sports in general) is another big issue. Sonoma State got a lot of kids off their list because no sports = no school spirit. UCSD and UCR spent a lot of alumni money to get to Division I for them to cheer for something come March.

One of the annoying things about cities posting their public meetings to Granicus rather than YouTube is that I can't listen to the meetings at 1.5x or 2x speed.

I was trying to explain what ChatGPT is to my mom (she thought it was a messaging app) and after my explanation and some thought, she volunteered, “Oh, so it’s the magic mirror in the beginning of Snow White when it only tells the queen what she wants to hear.” Perfect analogy.

BREAKING: CBS ERASED COLBERT ON HIS FINAL DAY by Jim Heath ==========

Since I have been asked to take it to the talk page, here is the discussion: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ch... I can't canvass for votes, but plenty of politicians have their birth name on first reference (and he isn't changing gender and continues to use his legal name for tax purposes).

I wonder if Crimetime After Primetime would have had gotten higher ratings than Comics Unleashed. If I want to watch stale evergreen comedy I’d rather watch a comfortable sitcom rerun.

Yeah I’m pretty pro-panopticon for anything involving cars. Speed governors, automated license plate readers, ignition interlocks for people with more than one DUI. Sorry, your rights to privacy ended when you began operating a multi ton piece of heavy machinery around me!

Fox at least has good ratings. Not only does everyone at CBS News hate Bari Weiss but their ratings continue to freefall as they try to be Fox lite.

For Americans who hold stocks their balances have never been higher, but they still feel like shit because they don’t want to pay more on the front end as they get wealthier on the back end.

The lawsuit by Metro against Burbank for the North Hollywood Pasadena BRT full time bus lanes, which is the locally preferred alternative adopted by the Metro board, was posted to Reddit by @nickandert.bsky.social www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/mci11...

SCAG wants to pull the rug out from under SB 79 in LA. They want to eliminate planned train lines that haven't fully completed the CEQA process, like the K Line north and Sepulveda Line. Some of our best neighborhoods! Boo!

Mitch McConnell had the opportunity to avert this utter madness by voting to convict and remove, but still, good to see...

Carls Jr combos are easily 50% more expensive than equivalent combos at McDonald’s or Wendy’s for a similar quality. $17 for a medium combo of mediocre fast food after tax is absurd.

leftists who oppose gas taxes are genuinely the dumbest people on this site

Swinging by Trader Joe's to pick up a few frozen meals on your way home is a lot cheaper than DoorDash and still pretty tasty but people lose their minds over that suggestion. "So poor people only deserve crappy frozen food" like 4/5 of the shit you order on DoorDash isn't frozen and reheated.

Ken Jennings, welcome to The War on Cars. @kenjennings.bsky.social

Another silly Wikipedia fight, this time adding Chad Bianco's legal first name, which is Johnny, according to his tax returns and Transparent California. People keep deleting it thinking that I am deadnaming him.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Every GOP primary story is like “syphilis loses to pancreatic cancer”

Gen Z is objectively more affluent than any previous generation at its same age. But "You're broke and should be angry at society for screwing you out of the life of leisure everyone before you had!" plays better on the internet. Do you guys not realize this is just unadorned slopulism?

I guess Bob Dylan is doing the casino circuit now that he is in his 80’s.

The algorithm must think I’m a Republican, because I’m getting the “Republican Spencer Pratt” Google ads (and it also thinks I can vote for LA mayor, which I can’t).

Historically Oskis would never reveal themselves. They might obliquely say they were part of the "Oski Committee" but "being Oski" would have been absolutely verboten in my day.

Oh my god, this is unbelievable: the striking LIRR worker complaining that Hochul “has money for everything except our salaries” LITERALLY MADE MORE MONEY THAN HOCHUL DID LAST YEAR

I'm a HS teacher and that graph is one of the many that I trot out when faced with old "the kids these days have gone to hell" douchbags. There are others along a similar theme like this:

On X I am being promoted the alleged Newsom contingency plan if the Republicans lock out Dems in the governor’s race. I think it is more likely that Republicans get locked out, and would expect them to withhold votes and file for recall on the first day if it happens.

The funniest thing about the “fertility debate” is that it has an easy answer as far as America is concerned (let in more immigrants) but people are like that is neither racist nor misogynist enough

So many ridiculous airport trains in the US. Here we wait to go to the building visible at the right a few hundred feet away, which we are not allowed to walk to. Sacramento airport (SMF) but there are many others.

What dark money group is accusing liberal candidates and the secular treasurer of a California city of being Satan worshippers? These city council candidates are anti-data center, if that is a clue to who is funding. (Covina, CA)

New lines for Proposition 50 in California are confusing voters expecting to vote for a particular congressional candidate. Half of Pomona got kicked out of Norma Torres's district and moved into Gil Cisneros's district. www.pomonaca.gov/Home/Compone...

The Brown Act teleconferencing rule can be such a farce. A Pomona city councilwoman is going to call in from Treasure Island in Las Vegas but no idea WHERE in that giant property will she hold the meeting or will any members of the public be invited in as is required by law.

IMO: the longer a society goes without a *slap-in-the-face* crisis, such as WW2 or the Holocaust, the less voters worry about gov't competence. They see gov't as a system that manages the US, and it doesn't matter who is "in charge" of that system. B/c the system "just runs".

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Our car brained LA County Board of Supervisors is going to give free parking downtown for people who say they are going to vote, when there are literally a dozen vote centers within two miles that already have free parking. file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos...

Prop 16 in 2020 showed that no one cares about the Democratic Party's position on racial preferences. People voted them down yet gave the Democrats the same number of votes in California as usual.

I think it's the opposite and a Dem lockout in the governor's race would be an absolute apocalypse for downballot Rs in California bsky.app/profile/tred...

I just got out of GUAC, a one man show by the father of a kid gunned down by an AR-15 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in Florida. Basically a celebration of life with some graphic punctuations, powerful and emotional but the nagging cynicism of the argument for "stricter gun laws now" gets at me.

I regret to say I just heard this ad on KNX and it did not make any disclaimers. Looks like they may milk the 30 day runoff period to the limit.

Maybe it’s just bc I grew up Orthodox Jewish on Long Island but I thought everyone knew this 🫠 Also they have further horrors beyond the Kars4Kids jingle