This is the context: youtu.be/dobFRbJ076I?... “We get to decide how big we want to be.” That is textbook NIMBYism, making decisions for people who aren’t here yet.

We've had plenty of career politicians serve as Chief Justice -- former senators and governors, even a former president -- and yet none was such a nakedly partisan political figure in their role as Chief as John Roberts. He is a political hack and I'm glad hearing that simple truth makes him sad.

The runoff will be Karen Bass vs Nithya Raman, and I think Karen Bass will win if she continues to run on funding the LAPD. Social media people don’t like cops, or don’t like funding them, but the normie voter is at best indifferent or actually wants more of them.

Making the last question about transgender people in high school sports was an odd choice Conan Nolan.

This 60 minute debate format is not serving anyone so that we can go to the new episode of Chicago Med.

15 minutes into tonight's California gubernatorial debate: it's clear Becerra is totally unprepared to handle the state's two biggest challenges. Freezing insurance rates will destroy the market. Downpayment assistance (subsidizing demand) will never solve the housing crisis.

Xavier Becerra wants to create a hukou system? How weird. People should be allowed to move wherever, not be determined by government fiat.

Will really does need to log off. Somebody pointing out that he blocks almost nobody made me realize that he is kind of the problem. If you block people, it stops. It’s a pain to use alts and share screenshots…they eventually get tired and move on.

Why does California have 123,974 people sleeping on the street? I hate to break this to you, but it's not because of billionaires, private equity, or venture capital. It's because of your neighbor Frank -- who is big mad at a 5 story apartment for low income senior farmers.

The more I learn about candidates the more I regrettably feel like I should vote for steyer. I do not say that happily.

genuinely this is why It Happening *will* be momentous - Vance and whatever other lickspittles take power cannot hypnotize people who know better in the same way. Vance isn't a an accomplished carnival barker

Steyer’s one slopulist plank, that he will cut electricity prices by 25%, is at least fairly benign if he doesn’t succeed.

Good on YIMBY Action. This was clearly the right call. Steyer has shown a decades long commitment to climate action and has been a strong voice for housing growth. Steyer also the only serious candidate in the race given the pie in the sky nonsense Porter and Becerra have been pitching to voters

I don’t agree much with Curtis Sliwa politically but there is no denying he is a real New Yorker.

Freezing home insurance premiums will destroy the insurance industry in California. The few remaining home insurers will exit the state entirely, making it impossible to get a mortgage and forcing more people onto the FAIR plan. This will eventually bankrupt the state. Do NOT vote for Becerra.

It's such a breath of fresh air to see @aoc.bsky.social stand against gutting our tax base.

This message on this clearly AI landscape is gold. Dearzilla back there is going to trample its own electrical lifeblood.

A bipartisan group of seven members of Congress wrote a letter to the International Code Council (organization which writes the model building codes used in the US), asking for more consideration of affordability and harmonization with international standards scottpeters.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

My name is Xavier Becerra and this…is jackass *Guitar riff from Corona by the Minutemen starts playing*

After they made a big deal out of going to 97.1 FM too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXNW...

You have to walk west to East Rutherford. On a game day there will be hundreds of other people doing this. It’s going to be miserable, but traffic is going at 15 mph anyway so it won’t be unsafe.

Really enjoyed attending this event – to my knowledge, it was the first time Justice Gorsuch has ever spoken publicly on Indian law. Here's audio of his full remarks, for anyone who's interested: drive.google.com/file/d/13rHG...

Disney has no choice but to keep Kimmel, since the last time they tried to cancel him the phone lines to end subscriptions lit up.

What did you think “Mass Deportation Now” meant?

Credit where credit's due alert: hiring a longtime Democratic-aligned pollster to do a focus group about how a bunch of Trump voters think Trump sucks ass now is the kind of thing a newspaper that doesn't like Trump and wanted him to lose would do www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

And yet no one is willing to option my screenplay about someone rushing to get a project entitled on the one day a year when zoning doesn’t exist

A funny thing to realize, because of how Trump has conditioned the news cycle, the events at the WHCD will be forgotten by the end of the week.

Why on earth would this be "a big challenge" for him? The Trump administration tried to take Jimmy Kimmel down last year and it completely blew up in their faces. They're in a much weaker position now and only a complete clown would give them an inch.

This sucks. She deserves a lot of credit for being the first to go public with the accusations.

In US media, questioning why there are 400M+ guns in this country is Extremist & Out Of Bounds, but demanding airport-level security on yet another formerly mundane task to accommodate guns everywhere is Sensible Centrism www.thedailybeast.com/i-slept-next...

OTOH at least for government, more jurisdictions need to have strong tort limits like Nevada, with a maximum $200k in liability per person even on bodily injury or death. No deep pockets there.

We have crossed the Rubicon, y’all.

There are probably a non zero number of GOP voters are independents who like their Congress person but don’t want someone else, even of the same party, and may vote for the other guy out of spite or not vote at all.

That no one in the press is protesting the idea of having it at the ballroom WITH THIS ARGUMENT is going to drive me crazy. It’s an inappropriate venue. It not a solution. And it’s an admission that total safety for the president would mean he never leaves the WH.

I don’t think the White House Correspondents Association Dinner is a ritual that defines democracy

Gerald R. Ford would get mad at Gerald J. Ford for ruining college athletics.

Well done sir, they're calling it your best interview yet

All the details of this story back up my quick morning analysis: The security system worked exactly as designed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-quick-an...

OG Trump shooter was a reactionary Luigi was a podcast bro radical centrist The Israeli embassy shooter was a dirtbag left guy The Kirk shooter was apparently just an irony-poisoned nihilist The correspondents dinner shooter was a Bluesky radlib All the “online young man” tendencies represented

“The Years of Lead” but there’s no party organizations, because everyone’s Bowling Alone, so there’s no like org you can bust or ring leaders to arrest or splinter groups that can die in gun fights because every shooting is just perpetrated by lone wolves with posters madness.

It’s a serious issue that they’re predisposed to see an attack on the president as an attack on all of them, this particular attack plays into this perfectly, and the new media environment is very supportive of this narrative

running to the Nazi website to complain that people were being mean to you for hitting the red carpet at Nazi Prom

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent.

Apparently my gambling has reached the Demi Lovato/Norah Jones level. Which one of these shows should I see?

AI hallucinations come for the NIMBYs

Data centers are the foundation of modern life and we need more of them

She vetoed the bill because a struggling mill town that *wants the data center* would've been impacted.

This copy is so frustrating to read. It should be "an American born in Argentina" and "an American born in Nigeria."

“Glonzonomics” just popped into my head as a term to describe this style of policymaking.